U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean. With Friday’s action, the total number of people killed in U.S. counter-narcotics operations since Trump ordered warships deployed to the Caribbean has risen to 17. Trump did not specify the exact location of the strike, the name of the terrorist organization allegedly involved, or which branch of the U.S. military conducted the operation. He cited only Doral-based Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Under both international law and U.S. law, military force is tightly restricted outside of declared war zones. Killing civilians—regardless of alleged criminal ties—may constitute a war crime unless clearly justified by imminent danger.

Google’s request to build on protected wetlands at its Fort Wayne data center has been approved by a state agency. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved Google’s plan to fill more than two acres of wetlands with soil so the company can continue building its Project Zodiac data center campus. They intend to build five buildings and associated infrastructure on land near East Paulding and Adams Center roads. Hatchworks LLC, which filed the request on behalf of the tech giant, outlined plans to offset the wetlands removal by purchasing 2.48 acres of unforested wetland credit and 1.58 acres of forested wetland credit from the Openings Wetland Mitigation Bank.

The big point that I wanted to make, though, is that there's a certain type of person in history, they're called the court favorite. You've got a king or a queen who's taken a shine to some stable boy, or an actor, or some woman that they've decided to sleep with, or some man. And because they're the court favorite they're suddenly made the Secretary of State, and all the other nobles in the kingdom are like, "Why is that guy a secretary? Why is he going to negotiate with the Hapsburgs?" And the guy's an idiot and he's stupid, and he usually winds up either thrown out, or assassinated, or beheaded because they're way over their heads. What our government currently presupposes is, "What if everyone running the government was a court favorite?"

The proposals would have required companies including Tesla to obtain more onerous permits and required companies to keep following more stringent federal waste regulations related to the handling of hazardous materials.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

A Naperville homeowner was left with an unfinished roof and in disbelief after neighbors told his family they believe ICE agents came to his house and detained crew members working on his home. Neighbors told him masked agents, who they believe to be ICE, arrived at his Naperville home around noon and targeted the crew working on his roof. "They had to jump off the roof, because to trap them, the agents knocked down the ladders so they could not leave the roof and basically they said either jump or stay up there," Fischer said. Fischer said five of the six crew members jumped down and ran. He said one of his neighbors told him one of the crew members injured his leg before he was detained. What shocked Fischer the most was how agents allegedly detained another crew member who ran out of fear. "My neighbors witnessed two agents chasing one guy down the street in a residential area, guns drawn," Fischer said. "A roofer running for his life."

The incident during Ottawa's CityFolk music festival underscores present-day challenges of organizing music festivals in Canada. A 26-year-old Ottawa man has been released on bail after allegedly uttering a threat to cause death to the musical artist Morrissey ahead of his appearance at CityFolk last week. Court documents allege Noah Castellano made the threat against the English singer-songwriter via the Bluesky social media service on Sept. 4. A Bluesky post dated Sept. 4 under the account name “guy who gets shot in the head one hundred thousand times a day” matches the description of the post included in the court documents. Referring to the performer by his birth name, it reads: “Steven Patrick Morrissey when you perform at TD Place here in Ottawa next week on the evening of September 12th, 2025 at about 9pm, I will be present at the venue in the audience and I will attempt to shoot you many times and kill you with a very large gun that I own illegally.”

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

President Donald Trump and top administration officials are attending the funeral today of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Arizona. Follow for live updates.

The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump hinted at those discussions publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling reporters that his administration is working to regain control of the base, which lies an hour north of Kabul. The Taliban took it over following the collapse of the Afghan government and the US military withdrawal in 2021. “We gave it to (the Taliban) for nothing,” Trump said during a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer on Thursday. “We’re trying to get it back, by the way.”

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The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”. The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”, Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X, were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names. The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.

“Librarians are reporting this overall atmosphere of confusion and lack of trust they’re experiencing from their patrons,” Macrina told 404. “They’re seeing patrons having seemingly diminished critical thinking and curiosity. They’re definitely running into some of these psychosis and other mental health issues, and certainly seeing the people who are more widely adopting it also being those who have less digital literacy about it and a general sort of loss of retention.”

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

When Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta's latest smart glasses at the company's Connect 2025 keynote, he encountered two glitches that prevented him from properly demonstrating some of the devices' features.

You can be committed to dialogue without pretending the right are reasonable and while aggressively challenging their views.

Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadview