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Florida’s middle and high schools are expanding instruction on communism for students in grades 6 through 12. Last November, Florida’s Board of Education approved new History of Communism standards to be implemented during the 2026-2027 school year.In 2024, the Florida legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law, measures requiring schools to teach about the “evils and dangers of Communism.” DeSantis started this process back in 2021. One goal of the law and new standards is to prepare middle school and high school students to “withstand indoctrination on Communism at colleges and universities.” Every state in the country should...

More than 20 people may be missing or unaccounted for after a powerful flash flood tore through part of Grand Canyon National Park, destroying footbridges, forcing evacuations and prompting officials to ask the public for help locating hikers who may have been in the area. The flooding struck Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday, Aug. 29, around 2:30 p.m., according to the National Park Service. On Sunday, park officials said they were working to account for people who may have been hiking, backpacking or camping in the affected areas when the flood hit. “The National Park...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Award-winning produce, baked goods, textiles and livestock weren't the only items on display at the Kentucky State Fair. Mayday Health, a reproductive health education nonprofit, took to the skies to promote mail access to abortion-inducing drugs. Leo Raisner, who founded Mayday Health and serves as executive director, said the organization goes where the crowds are, and the commonwealth's fair draws more than600,000 people a year. "Mayday shares information about abortion pills in states where clinics are banned or restricted," Raisner said. "We want everyone to know that safe, effective abortion medication exists." Raisner said there's a...

A growing body of evidence reveals that Xavier Becerra, the current frontrunner for California governor, has deep ties to a network of militant activists and foreign agents who have a history of meddling in U.S. elections, mobilizing pro-immigration activism, and undermining American sovereignty.Throughout his career, Becerra has framed himself as an advocate for migrants. What is less apparent is his longtime alliance with radical activist NGOs whose political activity is deeply integrated and carefully coordinated with America’s southern neighbor: Mexico. Mexico has been building political power within the U.S. through its vast network of more than 50 consulates, which collectively...

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series delving into the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within the United States’ comprehensive national defense and security strategy. The authors assess the advantages and limitations of AI as it is employed to enhance, integrate, and potentially supplant human decision-making processes. You can find the first article here and the second article here.Advanced AI seems to tap into some primal human fears.An empowered military AI (EMAI) that independently makes lethal decisions is scary. Ancient mythology is full of stories of creators being destroyed by their creations, as when the Olympian...

For most of human history, the rich were well-fed and rarely worked whereas the poor were often overworked and underfed. Yet in 21st century America, many of our poorest citizens resemble the rich of the past because they rarely work and suffer from the ‘Diseases of Affluence’ — obesity and diabetes (Fig. 1). This unprecedented reversal in the relation between labor, diet, and disease is an unintended consequence of America’s ‘War on Poverty’.When our nation’s poor were overworked and underfed, it was sound public health policy — morally, physiologically, and economically — to provide food and material support. However, as...

WASHINGTON — Top American AI companies are feeding Beijing’s beast and the US military at the same time, a longtime China hawk is warning. Four major providers of data for AI models — which help collate, label and package the vast troves of info for Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and the Pentagon — are also quietly working for China’s AI labs on the side, according to a new report. “America is in an AI race with the Chinese Communist Party,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) told The Post. “We cannot spend billions trying to protect our technological advantage while American companies...

CALAVERAS COUNTY, Calif. — The Calaveras Unified School District is clarifying the timeline of Monday’s chaotic school bus incident, saying its review of bus video shows the situation began escalating within minutes of the bus arriving at its designated stop. “Based on our review of the bus video footage, the bus was stopped for approximately four minutes while the driver addressed concerning student behavior, reviewed bus expectations, and asked students to calm down,” the district said. “During that time, a student exited the bus through a window.” A 12-year-old student who was on the bus told KCRA 3 that students...

Iran attacked US forces in Jordan, a US source familiar with the situation told Fox News on Monday. The source added that nearly all missiles had been intercepted by US air defenses. Explosions were heard near the southern Jordanian city of Aqaba following launches from Iran, local media reported. Iranian state broadcaster Press TV reported that Iran had launched missiles at US ships in the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday morning.

A veteran prosecutor in state Attorney General Letitia James’ office claims he was ordered to dig up dirt on people and groups “affiliated with Donald Trump,” according to a bombshell report. Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who now works in James’ Investor Protection Bureau, said his boss instructed him “to find and pursue crimes” committed by Trump allies, according to a since-deleted email obtained by the Times-Union. Wiesenfeld alleged in his email that Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe specifically directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger)… without having a credible reason for targeting the...

🚨 Recent satellite imagery suggests that the Department of War has conducted a covert dredging operation to open up a never-before-used shipping corridor through the Omani side of the Strait of Hormuz.The corridor in question is an approximately 1,600-foot-wide waterway with a natural depth of about 93 feet, meaning that only a small amount of dredging would have been necessary to make it safe for VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers). Worth noting, ships navigating this corridor remain completely outside the Iranian regime’s line of sight due to the Omani island of Jazirat Musandam and the curvature of the Earth. Follow:...

Russia has said its forces helped to repel Saturday's attempted coup in Niger. Explosions and gunfire rang out across capital, Niamey, early in the morning, including at a key military airbase and the presidential palace. Hours later, Niger's authorities said the rebellion had been contained. Nigerien forces had repelled the attack "with the assistance of servicemen of the African Corps of the Russian Ministry of Defence", the foreign ministry in Moscow said on Sunday. The ministry also said it would continue to support Niger in its fight against "extremists", but that the situation was now under the control of the...

US surveilance picked up underground missile siloh opening to launch, and fired from Jordan down the hole, destroying the launch siloh and missile. Nematalah AlHami went on TV swearing revenge, death, destruction on America, Jooos! and their mangy little dog, too, he got a heart attack and died on live TV.

SNIPPET Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and internationally recognized expert on famine, has remained largely silent as his repeated declarations of mass hunger and death in Gaza have failed to materialize and have been undermined by newly released UNICEF data. In 2024, de Waal became one of the most prominent voices warning that Gaza was heading toward an unprecedented mass-starvation catastrophe. Yet the catastrophic mortality scenario suggested by these warnings did not materialize on the scale implied. In a series of interviews, de Waal asserted that approximately 10,000 people per day would die in Gaza...

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones is creating a four-attorney unit dedicated to challenging actions by the Trump administration that his office says exceed federal authority or threaten the commonwealth’s interests. The Federal Accountability Unit will work across the Office of the Solicitor General and Civil Litigation Division and will be led by Deputy Solicitor General Megan Keenan. Jones’ office said the unit will give the Attorney General’s Office permanent staff dedicated to identifying federal actions, responding to them and pursuing litigation. “I have a fundamental responsibility as Attorney General to defend the Commonwealth and protect Virginians when the federal government...

This video, presented by Robert Gouveia Esq., details a major federal counterstrike against Autistici Inventati (A/I), an Italian tech collective alleged to be a primary digital infrastructure provider for violent Antifa cells and far-left extremist groups worldwide (0:00-0:30). Key highlights include: Federal Sanctions: The U.S. State Department and Department of Treasury have imposed sanctions on the group and identified individuals, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) (0:06-0:12, 8:12-8:20). Infrastructure and Tactics: The video explains how Autistici Inventati provided encrypted communications, web hosting, and anonymity tools to radical groups. These services were reportedly used to dox government employees, incite...

The US military on Sunday struck Iran’s Larak Island, where forces were observed preparing to launch rockets with mines into the Strait of Hormuz, according to a US official, marking the first US strikes in over a month. US forces struck two Iranian launchers on the island, the official said. Residents reported hearing an explosion near Larak Island on Sunday, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. Larak Island is near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping route that has remained at the center of regional tensions and diplomatic efforts. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed retaliation...

This is too funny, but it also makes a point. "Wings of Pegasus" hates AI in music and other creative realms, autotune, fake performances, etc., so he decided to mess with You Tube's algorithm by posting a vid with no title, no vid but a white blank, and then ask all his followers to make comments. The results are pretty good!

Explanation: If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view. Classified as an Sc galaxy, the grand design of M74's graceful spiral arms are traced by bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes. Constructed from archival images, this sharp composite is from the Hubble Space Telescope. Spanning about 30,000 light-years across the face of M74, it includes exposures recording emission from hydrogen atoms, highlighting the reddish glow of...

If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. That is the mantra of the modern Democrat Party, which for decades posed as the champions of "female liberation," but now kowtows to an Islamist ideology that infamously oppresses women. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is the latest to submit to Muslim men, indulging their preference that women cover their heads when going out in society. On Friday, Hochul readily jettisoned her feminist garb and adopted the Muslim one to impress an audience of New York City Zohran Mamdani's friends. This is what Hochul says in the clip: "I want to...