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Trump claims Ukraine and Russia have agreed to energy ceasefire

Donald Trumppresident
Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine,
Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident
OK, if they want energy ceasefire, we are open for this,

Trump’s DOJ probes major TV networks over response to White House ban of CNN

The probe, which one leading First Amendment group called nonsensical, concerns the TV pool, a long-standing arrangement that was disrupted last month when President Donald Trump banned CNN from the White House grounds

Members of the television press pool have proudly boycotted covering White House events. Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act,”
The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.”
Trump may view the presidency as a business venture, but news outlets’ standing up for the First Amendment has nothing to do with antitrust law,

After oil increasingly left the Gulf, Iran is trying to regain its stranglehold on shipping

Iran is stepping up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf in an effort to restore its leverage over the critical waterway

The vessels were advised to heave up anchor, exit the area immediately, and transit to Dubai anchorage,
Donald TrumpuS President
We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,

Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution public

Hegseth made the announcement in an interview with far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday, which he’d visited to give a speech to the crew welcoming them home from their deployment to the Middle East

Pete Hegsethdefense Secretary
We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,
Christopher Columbusitalian navigator, explorer, and colonist (1451–1506)
We’re giving a man the death penalty who killed 14 soldiers a couple of years ago. Death penalty through firing squad — and he deserves it,
The Secretary is correct. It will be livestreamed. Details will follow.”
It takes away everything America stands for when we do public executions,
This is a situation where the guy has done a very bad thing and hurt a lot of people, years removed,

Trump is griping he should win the Nobel for settling eight wars, which he hasn’t done

Again, he keeps complaining about his non-victory at length

With Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe, and probably a piece of the United States before we obliterated them.”
Donald Trumppresident
I did eight (wars). No president’s ever done any,
Donald Trumppresident
Israel and Iran — in a sense, because Iran is — we’ve wiped out their nuclear capacity, totally wiped it out.”
Donald Trumppresident
And I also, by the way, got Greenland. I hope you’re happy about that,
We should have had eight Nobel Prizes, for each war.”

Man injured after being struck by ICE vehicle while fleeing on foot during enforcement operation, officials say

A man officials described as an undocumented immigrant from Mexico was injured Saturday after being struck by a vehicle driven by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while being pursued during an enforcement operation near Houston, Texas

AI is among 17 potentially ‘catastrophic threats’ that researchers say require targeted action

Christopher J.L. Murraydr.
Across all 17 catastrophic threats, the decisions made by leaders today will shape the health and wellbeing of the next generation. But delaying action will only serve to shift and increase the costs into the future,
Christopher J.L. Murraydr.
The striking finding is not only the scale of these threats, but that humanity still has the agency to act,
Natalia Kanemcommission Co-Chair Dr.
Recent global events show us just how quickly stability can give way to crisis, and how costly it is to respond only after disaster strikes. And the global threats to health risk amplifying existing inequalities, with the greatest burden falling on the most vulnerable communities. Yet the future is not inevitable,
Public health is full of examples in which potential threats were known, and protection plans were in place, yet effective action failed,

Trump really wants to make ‘super intelligence’ happen. Is it going to happen?

Sam AltmanopenAI CEO
Does superintelligence sound obviously less scary to people than artificial intelligence?”
If the idea is to use the new word superintelligence to cover all of that, it’s a little bit of a stretch, maybe, to call my spam filter a superintelligence,
Superintelligence was reserved for this sort of hypothetical future form of artificial intelligence that not only matched but radically exceeded humans across all cognitive domain,
Donald Trumppresident
The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”
It’s not up to me to decide how English language should be used,

Post-tropical storm lashing southwest with coastal flooding, heavy rain and strong winds

A Level 3 of 4 threat of flooding rainfall has been issued for Saturday night through Sunday from parts of Southern California to southern Nevada, southwest Utah and northwest Arizona, including San Diego and Las Vegas

Major coastal flooding has already been occurring in some areas, with observed water levels running as much as 1.5 feet above predictions,

Voters are connecting the dots — and it’s bad news for Republicans

Presidents always suffer from proximity when Americans are discontented about the economy

I think that all these campaigns that are going to be successful are going to do so by making it a choice, not a referendum,
Tom Davis (Virginia politician)republican member of the United States House of Representatives
I think they wanted to give their president latitude, and they felt rightly or wrongly that their future was tied to his,
Bobby Pulidosouth Texas, Democratic House candidate
While we pay record high diesel and gas prices, and out of control grocery bills, and families in our community are terrorized, Monica de la Cruz is silent… because she voted for this,
Susan Collinsunited States Senator from Maine since 1997
What about everything else?”
Ashley Hinson was supposed to look out for us, but she’s voted 7 times for the war in Iran. Fertilizer costs are out of control. Diesel’s at record highs. It’s never been harder to run a farm.”
This has never been an economic argument that Democrats have been able to make in the last several election cycles: that the Republican (legislator) objectively made your life more expensive,
The problem is because the Republican ownership of higher prices is so stuck to them, voters can’t get past that to listen to the other arguments they are making,
It is the broadest sense we’ve had that a president has failed,