The Washington Post reports: Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen, according to a federal court filing issued Thursday. A federal judge in Boston interrupted an Immigration and …
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The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has hit back at Steve Bannon after the longtime MAGA hardliner called on President Donald Trump to “seize” SpaceX. Following this week’s nuclear fall-out between Trump and top campaign donor Musk—who until last week was also one of the president’s most important advisers — Bannon slammed Musk’s government cost-cutting efforts and called for him …
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CNN reports: A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to block international students from coming to Harvard University. The temporary restraining order issued late Thursday by US District Judge Allison Burroughs comes hours after the university urged the judge to step in on an emergency basis to block a proclamation Trump signed a day earlier that suspends …
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“I think what you’re seeing is a battle between the purist and the pragmatist. I don’t like it. I want it to stop. I want to tell them, if they’re both watching, ‘Knock it off.’ We’re done with this. This is an incredible moment for our country. It’s awake, it’s optimistic, it’s on board with the golden age. Don’t sabotage …
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Politico reports: Signs of a truce are emerging in the increasingly bitter clash between two of the world’s most powerful men. President Donald Trump projected an air of nonchalance in an interview Thursday with POLITICO during a day of sparring over social media with Elon Musk. Separately, White House aides, after working to persuade the president to temper his public …
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Variety reports: Tom Cruise was awarded a Guinness World Record during the production of “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” by doing 16 burning parachute jumps while filming the climactic plane sequence. Yes, Cruise jumped to his potential death while his parachute caught fire 16 times during the making of the latest “Mission: Impossible” film. Paramount marked the record with …
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Straight Arrow News reports: A recent study has raised new questions about how artificial intelligence responds to human control. According to findings from Palisade Research, a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as model o3, altered its behavior to avoid being shut down, even after it was instructed to do so. Researchers said the model appeared to change its scripted responses …
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The New York Post reports: Elon Musk went low in his rapidly escalating feud with President Trump Thursday, accusing him of withholding information from the public about the infamous sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein because it would implicate Trump himself. “Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted on X after a multi-hour tirade against the president. “@realDonaldTrump is in …
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The Jewish Insider reports: A new coalition of pro-Israel LGBTQ activists is backing former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as its first choice in a ranked slate of candidate endorsements for New York City mayor, according to a statement shared exclusively with Jewish Insider on Thursday. “Amidst the unprecedented rise in antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment and activity within our city, …
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“Sometimes when you’re angry, you say things you don’t mean. Greg knocked my hair last week, and I said he’s on the Epstein list. I didn’t mean that. No one knows what the list is, he [Musk] doesn’t know, but sometimes guys fight. Guys sometimes will punch you in the face, and the next night you’re having a beer. Sleep …
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