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Trump Announces $1 Million Reward for Vote Fraud Information
Ten noncitizens have been arrested in North Carolina for illegal voting. In California, an appeals court rejected a federal effort to challenge noncitizens on their voter rolls. President Donald Trump is now offering a $1 million dollar bounty for anyone willing to turn in voter fraudsters. And…
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The 9 Patents That Give Us a Glimpse into the Future
We recently saw a commercially viable flying car, in the form of the new Tesla Roadster’s demonstration. It was able to drive upside down, fly up into the air, and land softly. That suction ability that allows it to drive upside down was covered in two separate patents: one from 2025 and one from...
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The 9 Big Takeaways From Trump’s New US–Greenland Deal
After months of back and forth, the United States and Denmark have signed a new agreement regarding Greenland, which in-effect allows President Donald Trump to expand U.S. military presence on the island without having to buy it. Let’s go through what this new deal allows for point by point, as...
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Have Kids? Don't Know What Career to Guide Them Toward? US Demand for Space Industry is Skyrocketing
On Aug. 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. By doing so, he established the United States Space Academy to recruit, train, and retain America’s best and brightest. This, alongside the growing demand in the private sector,...
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For First Time, US Confirmed Use of Laser Weapons in Field
For the first time in history, the U.S. military has confirmed the use of a directed-energy laser system that took out three suspected cartel drones. This was soon followed up by the Department of War announcing the recipient of a half-billion-dollar contract for the Army’s first-ever...
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Did a Cold War Tick Experiment Help Spread Lyme Disease?
Recently, I was playing in the woods with my son when we decided to go the path least taken. Two roads diverged in the wood, and we took the one less traveled—the one that was overgrown, the one that had bushes everywhere. When we came out and got back to the car, I checked my legs, and found…
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Alberta's Vote to Begin Formal Secession Process Scheduled for 2 Weeks From Now-Facts Matter
Right now, our friendly neighbors to the north (in the Canadian Province of Alberta) are in the process of breaking away from Canada. The first major milestone has already been achieved—a referendum will be put to the people later this month. Meaning, on Monday, Oct. 19, of this year, the people…
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Synthetic Food Dyes Get Eliminated by Major Cereal Maker by End of 2026
If you happen to love cereal, then there is something that you should know. Recently, there have been some positive developments within the Make America Healthy Again movement’s effort to improve the safety and quality of American cereals. Specifically, Kellogg’s announced that by the end of this...
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Elon Musk's Nashville Highway Tunneling Project Doubles in Size
The city of Nashville, the global home to country music, is anything but “boring.” That was until Elon Musk’s The Boring Company began to dig tunnels underneath it. The first of these tunnel loops is set to go live in about five months and promises to alleviate congestion and make traveling from...
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iPhone Owners Can Get Payout From Apple’s Settlement
Apple settled a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California for a cool $250 million. And it’s worth mentioning that over half of that money is actually earmarked for customers. Meaning that if you’re like me (and you’ve purchased an iPhone recently)…
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Cuba’s Greatest Weapon Isn’t Missiles, It’s Impressionable American Minds
A few months ago, when President Donald Trump began floating the idea of taking over Cuba using military force, many people were understandably surprised. Since then, however, the State Department has put out reports and statements making the case for why Cuba is such a threat to the United…
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Big Gold Moves: French Central Bank Moves 129 Tons of Gold out of US; Dutch Central Bank Moves 86 Tons
There are some big moves happening in the gold market. Last week, the Central Bank of the Netherlands confirmed that they moved 86 tons of gold out of North America—moving it to London. Earlier this year France did something similar, removing all of their gold reserves from the U.S.—in favor of...
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Anthropic Slapped With Lawsuit Over Alleged Theft of Over 10,000 Songs for AI Training
Anthropic recently settled a $1.5-billion civil suit over the illegal downloading of millions of books used to train its large language model. It was the single largest copyright infringement settlement in U.S. history. This past weekend, over 30 music companies filed a class-action lawsuit...
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Does Filming Yourself Doing Illegal Things for ‘Content’ Make Them Less Illegal?
Let’s delve into the history of the “prank video” format, and how it’s developed to where it is today, where TikTok stars are going into businesses pretending to work there in order to get access to unauthorized staff-only areas.
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The Looming Threat of a Chinese Humanoid Robot Flood into the US Market
Humanoid robots from China—are they taking over, or just falling over? Are they our cute companions? Or, are they watching us in our homes through secret backdoors left open by the China-based manufacturers? Let’s look at these important questions together.
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Fat From Cadavers Now Being Used for Cosmetic Fillers
How badly do you want that perfect beach body? Some are willing to get liposuction and have someone shuffle their own fat around. But how about getting one’s body enhanced by injecting fat from dead people? Is that a bit much? Well, that’s what’s happening in the cosmetics industry. Now, you…
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AI Creates 16 Never-Before-Seen Real-World Viruses
Scientists in the U.S. recently announced that for the very first time, they were able to use AI to create viruses never before seen in nature. Don’t worry, though: these new viruses were designed to target specific strains of E.coli bacteria that have become resistant to natural antibacterials....
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USPS: New Rules for Mail-In Ballots; US Issues Travel Alert for 3 Countries
Today, we do a round up of three stories. First, a former acting U.S. attorney was found dead in his office in a federal building in California. Second, the USPS just issued new rules regarding mail-in ballot envelopes. Last, the State Department has issued travel advisories regarding three...
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Over 30 Minnesota Water Systems Hit with 'Coordinated Cyberattack,' Forced to Go Offline
In just 48 hours, a coordinated cyberattack disrupted the digital controls of water systems across more than 30 Minnesota communities, forcing operators to switch to manual backup to keep pumps, valves, and treatment systems running without any data theft, financial loss, or ransom demands. The...
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CDC Data Shows Leprosy Cases Spiking in Florida, With a Surprising Cause
Leprosy appears to be not only spreading in central Florida, but according to the CDC, it might now be endemic to the region. Let’s explore why that is, as well as what it means for the safety of Americans.
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Apps Marketed to US Veterans Are Coming Equipped With Chinese and Russian Code
A first-of-its-kind study reveals that one out of eight apps marketed to U.S. military service members (and their families) contain foreign code—some from China and Russia—that could be remotely updated to leak sensitive data to adversaries. This alarming finding arrives just as reports confirm...
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Internal Docs Discovered in Lawsuit Exposed Anthropic’s Mass Book Shredding Project
It turns out that Anthropic—the giant AI company behind the Claude chatbot—has been secretly destroying millions of books in the process of feeding them into the AI system. Slicing off the spines. Cutting the pages. Scanning them. And then discarding the remains. All to avoid paying copyright…
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Future of War: China's SAR Satellite in GEO Orbit Versus Air Force Space Robots
China launched the world’s first geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar satellite in 2023, giving it continuous all-weather surveillance over roughly one-third of the planet (including the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean), later pairing it with a high-resolution optical spy satellite. Let's…
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Former CIA Director Dies, Wife Says They Spent His Last Years Looking for Cure to Havana Syndrome
Havana Syndrome refers to a mysterious set of symptoms—headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, and cognitive issues—that has affected more than 1,500 U.S. intelligence and diplomatic personnel since 2016. The latest case, which was the most high-profile to date, is that of the former CIA Director James...
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US Praises Venezuela for Initiating Withdrawal From ICC
Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez has formally begun withdrawing the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The United States, which never ratified the Rome Statute and has long viewed the ICC as a threat to its own sovereignty, publicly praised the move and framed it as...
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Multiple US Embassies Issue Warnings to Americans
Let's go through the most recent spate of warnings, arising primarily from the Iran war, issued by the U.S. State Department and the embassies of several different countries.
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Texas Woman Arrested Over Facebook Post, Goes on Legal Offensive
A woman in Texas was shocked when she opened her front door and found the local police standing there, ready to arrest her over a Facebook post. And the reason she was shocked was because that post wasn’t threatening anyone, nor was it calling for violence. Instead, she was simply commenting on…
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Federal Judge Issues Ruling on Trump IRS Lawsuit
A federal judge on July 13 found that President Donald Trump improperly used a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS to extract personal benefits from the government he oversees, preventing the terms of a settlement agreement from taking legal effect. Miami-based U.S. District Judge...
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Cause of Gravity Hole Underneath Antarctica's Ice Sheet Gets Mapped Out in New Study
The story I’m bringing you today is one that you’ve probably never heard of before. Because, for one, it involves a continent that very few people have been on: Antarctica; and secondly, it involves a concept that very few people are familiar with: gravity holes. And right off the bat, I’ll…
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The Imported Asian Disease That Wiped Out 95 Percent of Florida’s Orange Industry in One Generation
In 2003, Florida harvested 242 million boxes of oranges. This season, they’re expecting 12 million. That’s a 95 percent drop in just over 20 years—in a single generation. Something’s very wrong with Florida’s orange industry, and that something came here from China. Citrus farmers all over the...
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Journals Retract Papers Cited by CDC in Its Updated Vaccine Guidelines; RFK Responds
Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention softened its longstanding position in November 2025, shifting from “vaccines do not cause autism” to stating the evidence isn’t strong enough to...
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Catholic Nuns Sue NY Over State's LGBT Mandate on Pronouns, Bathrooms, and Extramarital Affairs
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne say they have run Rosary Hill Home for 125 years, providing free palliative care to thousands of poor, terminally ill cancer patients without taking taxpayer money. New York’s LGBTQ Long-Term Care Bill of Rights now threatens them with fines, license revocation,...
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Supreme Court Reverses 91-Year-Old Precedent, Allows President to Fire the Heads of 'Independent Agencies'
Aside from the significant losses that were handed to him in a series of Supreme Court decisions, President Donald Trump did score one significant victory. The case in question was called Trump v. Slaughter, and the decision in that case bestowed significantly more power and authority not just to...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down State's Gun Restrictions in Major 2nd Amendment Case
In what amounts to a major win for Second Amendment advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court just struck down one of the most restrictive state-level gun laws—a law that required gun owners to get express permission to carry their weapons in stores and hotels. Let's go through the backstory of this law,...
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Nursing School Owner Pleads Guilty After Issuing Nearly 3,000 Fake Diplomas
A woman named Carleen Noreus ran a massive diploma mill in South Florida, selling nearly 3,000 fake nursing diplomas for around $25 million over seven years to people who never completed the required training. The scam, uncovered as part of the larger federal Operation Nightingale, allowed more...
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Supreme Court Sides With Criminal Defendant in 8–1 Ruling
The US Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a criminal defendant in a case that was rather interesting. It presented a simple question: Are prosecutors allowed to force you to sign away your right to appeal, and then slap you with a—potentially—unconstitutional punishment? Basically, can plea…
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In-Car Surveillance Tech That Can Auto-Kill Your Engine Will be Mandatory Starting in 2027 Under Current Policy
A 2021 federal law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 24220) mandates that all new U.S. passenger vehicles starting in 2027 must include "Advanced Impaired Driving Prevention Technology." These appear to be taking the shape of passive AI systems using infrared cameras, biometric...
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Why a Star Pitcher Turned Down $7 Million to Stay Out of California
So many corporations, wealthy individuals, and middle-class people are leaving California that it’s beginning to affect their tax base in a real way. Let’s go through the details together.
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Scientists Discover 3rd Circulation System in Humans That Could Bridge Eastern, Western Medicines
Scientists have made a new scientific breakthrough in the study of the human body. Researchers in the United States have discovered something amazing: a third circulatory system within the human body. Alongside the previously known cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, this interstitium system…
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Chinese Researcher Who Smuggled E. Coli Into US Gets 4 Months in Prison
Youhuang Xiang, a biology researcher at Indiana University, was arrested for smuggling plasmid DNA derived from E. coli bacteria from China. He concealed the biological material by labeling the shipment as “women’s underwear” on the manifest, admitted during questioning that he did it to evade...
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Google to Release 32 Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes in Florida and California
Google's Debug program is releasing 64 million Wolbachia-infected sterile male mosquitoes into parts of Florida and California over four years to combat disease-spreading mosquitoes. The Sterile Insect Technique works by having these males mate with wild females, causing their eggs to fail to…
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Parents Get Prison Terms After Isolating Their 3 Kids for 4 Years Over COVID Fears
A German-American couple, Christian and Melissa Steffen, kept their three young children—a 10-year-old and 8-year-old twins—locked inside their villa in Spain for nearly four years due to an extreme fear of COVID. The children endured squalid conditions—including a room piled with used...
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Norway Discovers Largest Viking-Era Treasure, With Over 4,000 Silver Coins Unearthed
Every so often, an archeological discovery is made that helps give us a clearer picture of our timeline of human history. In Norway, a still-expanding treasure trove of silver coins has been discovered dating from the Viking Age. Let’s go through the discovery together—in terms of what was found,...
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$1 Billion Industrial-Scale Medicare Fraud Scam Shut Down by FBI
The Department of Justice released a statement, announcing the conviction of a man at the center of a billion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme. Brett Blackman, the CEO and owner of software company HealthSplash was convicted in federal court for his part in the sprawling fraud scheme. The scheme...
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IRS Launches Pilot Program With Palantir AI Tools to Find People Needing Audits
It's been a long time coming: the IRS recently launched a pilot program using Palantir AI-technology to help it figure out who most needs to be audited. This means that, as fun as it was to pay taxes already—and then have a federal bureaucrat decide whether you deserve an audit or not—moving...
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'Thank You Leader': California Mayor Pleads Guilty to Working as CCP Agent
Just earlier this week, the mayor of Arcadia (in Northeast Los Angeles) agreed to plead guilty to illegally acting as an agent of China. She was the mayor of an American city, while actually being an out-and-out agent for the Chinese Communist Party—even going so far as calling a Chinese official...
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115 People Get Sick Aboard Cruise Ship in Norovirus Outbreak: CDC
Just as the hantavirus situation was resolved aboard the MV Hondius, another cruise liner was hit with a massive viral outbreak. The silver lining here, though, is that the virus in question isn’t as bad as hantavirus, which has a mortality rate of 30–50 percent. The new ship, according to the…
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Supreme Court Bans Racial Gerrymandering; Districts to Be Remade Colorblind
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could be one of—if not the—deciding factor in who controls the House moving forward. The ruling is monumental because it struck down an interpretation of the Voting Rights Act that has, for decades now, forced southern states to draw up...
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Chinese Man Arrested, Sentenced to Prison for Trying to Smuggle 2,200 Ants Out of Kenya
In several previous episodes we exposed cases of Chinese nationals being apprehended at U.S. airports trying to smuggle in a variety of suspicious biological material: roundworms, E. coli bacteria samples, as well as a type of fungus that can be used to decimate food crops. Today, we have a new...
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New Bill Would Create 'Dark Skies' Rules in NY, Force State to Go Dark After 11PM
A new piece of legislation working its way through the New York State Assembly is called the "Dark Skies Protection Act." For many years, the people of New York have struggled to see the stars at night. Even if you live in upstate New York—100, or 200 miles away from the city—the glow from the…
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