Escape from Alcatraz is one of the oldest triathlons in the country—it’s celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary this year—and involves jumping from the _San Francisco Belle_ near Alcatraz Island into the cold waters of San Francisco Bay for a 2.4 km swim, a 29 km hilly bike ride through the Presidio of San Francisco and Golden Gate Park, and a scenic 12.9 km run through national park land. It’s…
US President Donald Trump’s legal team has refused to hand over financial information sought by _BBC_ lawyers in his $10 billion defamation case against the broadcaster, the Financial Times _(FT)_ said on Friday, citing court filings.
Trump has accused the publicly funded broadcaster of defaming him by splicing together parts of a January 6, 2021, speech to make it appear that he directed…
Colorado Republicans vying to become the state's next governor clashed in their first full televised debate. Candidates Victor Marx, Barbara Kirkmeyer, and Scott Bottoms traded sharp attacks while outlining their visions ahead of the June 30 primary election.
Plus, a New York law targeting “ghost guns.”
Plus, a New York law targeting “ghost guns.”
It would be hard to know from his campaign alone what office exactly Bo French is running for. He’s raged about the supposed “Islamification” of Texas and called for deporting 100 million people, including Native Americans. He’s pledged to take on both DEI and sharia law, which he accused his opponent in the Republican primary of supporting. He’s praised Rhodesia, the former white minority–ruled…
Tina Peters—the Trump-supporting, election-denying former Colorado county election clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines—is now free.
Peters was freed from prison on Monday after Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted her clemency and reduced her sentence just weeks earlier.
Peters was originally sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiring to publicize the voting…
MNA Ali Musa Gilani on Sunday denied reports of his deportation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), terming them “fake news”.
“I was not deported at all, it’s fake news! I travelled as per schedule and returned as per schedule,” Musa, son of Senate Chairperson Yousaf Raza Gilani posted on X in response to a claim of his deportation.
It was made in a post shared by former Pakistan Institute…
Are we close to a deal with Iran? A sentence away from an agreement to end the war, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims? Who knows? But what we do know from credible reporting is that the deal being negotiated looks a whole lot like the deal that Barack Obama’s team struck with Iran in 2014 and 2015.
Donald Trump is a salesman trying to convince us that this used car is actually brand new.…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, _Magnifica Humanitas_ , on Monday. The 42,000-word statement is being described by major media outlets as centering on the rise of artificial intelligence and the moral, spiritual, and social challenges that it poses to modern society. Even the encyclical itself says that its topic is “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial…
Back in January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a call to arms to the world’s middle powers at the World Economic Forum, projecting Canada as a defender of the multilateral global order. But now, at home, a separatist movement threatens to unravel that image – and, if successful, could even fracture Canada itself.
Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith …
A concise guide to Palantir’s NHS role, covering the data platform, procurement history, legal limits, opt-outs, political objections and the contract’s potential break clause.
Abraham Lincoln understood the covenantal nature of America, which he called “the electric cord.” The 16th president articulated the skeletal form of America’s cultural identity in Chicago on July 10, 1858:
We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men. They are men…
The U.S. Treasury’s highest ranking lawyer quit just hours after President Trump announced his Anti-Weaponization Fund—a brazen attempt to dole out $1.8 billion of taxpayer money to his allies, supporters, and himself.
Treasury General Counsel Brian Morrissey resigned shortly after the fund was approved on Monday, according to _The New York Times_. Morrisey has yet to publicly comment. He served…
KARACHI: Alleged drug queenpin Anmol alias Pinky on Monday alleged she was facing pressure “to take names” as she was remanded into police custody for another four days in connection with a murder case.
Anmol was arrested last week from her apartment in Karachi in connection with two cases pertaining to the possession of narcotics and an unlicenced weapon. She was already booked in multiple…
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday extended the physical remand of alleged drug queenpin Anmol alias Pinky by four days in connection with a murder case.
Anmol was arrested last week from her apartment in Karachi in connection with two cases pertaining to the possession of narcotics and an unlicenced weapon. She was already booked in multiple criminal cases prior to her arrest, taking the…
The interior ministry on Friday denied reports about the “targeted deportation” of Pakistanis from the United Arab Emirates, asserting that no “country- or sect-specific” expulsions from any country, including the UAE, were being carried out.
The ministry’s statement contradicts claims on social media that Pakistanis were being deported from the UAE without any reason.
In recent days, several…
Regardless of how one counts the cases, left-wing violence remains a serious problem – undoubtedly the most serious.
When it comes to AI models, size matters.
Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model.
As models grow in size, their capabilities increase. But…
shafran-saffron:
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“Wikipedia is reliable due to the power of Autistic Pedantry tm”
Wikipedia: apparently claims that bolsheviks genocided Borzoi dogs after the revolution.
ALT
source of the claim: NYT from 1991 and an article on National Purebred Dog site (29 March 2018). Neither provide further sources.
If you’re a wikipedia reliability truther that…
When Christian Nationalist firebrand and Reformed Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho, provocatively stated in a 2025 interview with CNN that “Women are people that people come out of,” it commanded attention from both critics and fellow travelers.
Wilson holds steadfastly to a theology of “biblical patriarchy” – the idea that God divinely instituted the rule of male leadership in…
After a downed U.S. pilot was rescued in Iran, a photo began circling on social media that purported to show the Air Force officer surrounded by other troops, a U.S. flag in his lap.
While the rescue was real, the photograph wasn’t, according to fact-checking initiatives. It was, to use one of President Donald Trump’s favorite terms, “fake news.”
But it took a combination of effort and…
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security has been granted a multibillion-dollar slush fund, which it is using to build…
From medical records to liability assessment, building a burn injury claim depends on early, structured steps that establish the full extent of loss and responsibility.
The post Steps to Take for Strengthening Burn Injury Claims appeared first on LUXUO.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly convinced President Donald Trump not to include Lebanon in America’s ceasefire deal with Iran—even though the U.S. agreed to stop the bombing there.
Trump was initially told that the ceasefire would apply to the entire Middle East region, including Lebanon, multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News Thursday.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of…
British columnist Tim Stanley claims in _The Telegraph_ that “Trump’s reckless Iran war is underpinned by bad theology.” And he says a “a strange reading of the Bible by some evangelical Protestants is worryingly influential on this administration’s foreign policy.”
Stanley’s claims repeat a 45-year-old cliché that American evangelicals want Mideast conflict as a perquisite for Christ’s return.…
By now, you may have heard of Trump Accounts: a new individual savings vehicle that President Donald Trump concocted that is currently available to all American citizens under age 18. Regardless of how you feel about the name attached, or under what beautiful bill it was enshrined into law, it’s an idea that has some merit. The accounts could even be a reasonable new retirement option within an…
Roughly 92% of households get no direct help at all.
The Trump administration is once again suing Harvard University, contending that “for several years, Jewish and Israeli students endured a hostile educational environment” at the Ivy League school.
The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts federal court on Friday and first reported by _The Washington Post,_ alleges that students were stopped from entering campus buildings by “antisemitic…
OPINION
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Natalie Sandoval
Patriots Writer
March 12, 20265:01 PM ET
A Quiet Coastal Revolution
“Why only two?”
The question, posed six years ago by J.T. Scott, a member of the city council of Somerville, Massachusetts, is at the heart of the debate concerning government recognition of polyamory.
Scott and his colleague on the city…