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A furious and shirtless Alex Jones went on an unhinged rant after The Onion gained the rights to lease his site InfoWars, describing the parody news website as a group of “bodysnatchers.”
“Just because you’re wearing my shirt doesn’t mean you’re me, let’s be 100 percent clear about that,” the conspiracy theorist, naked from the waist up, raged Monday.
He continued: “The whole thing’s about defaming me. You can’t take something over and then act like you’re somebody, even if you say it’s a parody. You could do a parody of somebody, but not if you took something from them… So you guys, keep laughing, just like you did a year and a half ago.”
Jones’ outburst came shortly after The Onion revealed its planned relaunch of InfoWars as a satirical site, though the deal still requires court approval. The outlet’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, has so far gained the rights to lease InfoWars for $81,000 on a month-by-month basis for six months, until potential renewal.
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- Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation The Washington Post
- Mexico’s Sheinbaum demands explanation after US officials die after operation in Chihuahua Politico
- Role of US officials killed in crash in Mexico under scrutiny BBC
- US officials killed in Mexico car crash following drug raid worked for the CIA, sources say CNN
- 2 Americans Killed in Mexico Crash Were C.I.A. Members The New York Times
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Looking at enterprise AI adoption, VentureBeat has anecdotally observed a fairly wide divergence when it comes to specific roles: For those who build—engineers and developers—the arrival of AI has been transformative, moving through the workflow with the speed of tools like Claude Code and Cursor to automate the heavy lifting of syntax and architecture.
Yet, for those who sell, the “revenue stack” has remained a fragmented collection of data silos, manual CRM entries, and anecdotal reporting.
Von, a new AI platform emerging from the team behind process automation startup Rattle, aims to bridge this gap. By positioning itself not as another “point solution” but as a foundational “intelligence layer,” Von seeks to do for Go-To-Market (GTM) teams what the modern IDE has done for the developer: provide a single, reasoning interface that understands the entire business context.
“AI has revolutionized the workflow for people who build things, but there is nothing that has revolutionized the workflow for people who sell those things,” Von CEO Sahil Aggarwal said in a recent video call interview with VentureBeat. “That is what we are trying to build with Von”.
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Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig is sounding the alarm about Canada seeking deeper trade ties with China in the face of growing tensions and uncertainty with the U.S., warning the pivot carries significant risks to Canada’s economic security.
Speaking Tuesday at the Future of Business Summit in Ottawa, Kovrig — a longtime China analyst who was arbitrarily detained by Beijing for more than 1,000 days after Canada detained Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou — said Ottawa’s new China strategy is a “risky play” that will not be viewed kindly by Washington and could threaten trade talks.
He pointed to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s criticism last week of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s deal with China, announced early this year, which included importing a limited number of Chinese electric vehicles.
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Two weeks after unfounded rumors said President Donald Trump suffered a health issue, social media users shared a video they said showed proof he was just taken to a hospital.
In the video, two men appear to assist Trump as he walks unsteadily out of a building. A sign on the building reads “Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.”
“BREAKING: There are some reports Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Hospital,” the captions of multiple Facebook posts sharing the video read. The earliest we found was posted April 19 and the latest was posted April 21.
The footage isn’t real. It contains signs that it was made with artificial intelligence.
We contacted the Walter Reed hospital’s communications office, which said that the logo shown in the video is not the hospital’s official logo, and the signage is inconsistent with that at the hospital.
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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) argued that Republicans “understood that the only way they could possibly maintain a majority in the House of Representatives” “was if they cheated, if they went seeking seats in places like Texas, which is why the president began this effort.”
Host Lawrence O’Donnell asked, “You’ve just come from the House of Representatives, to the governorship, in this last election. In your view, what would it mean if the Republicans were able to conspire with Donald Trump to increase the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives so that they could cling to control of the House of Representatives for two more years?”
Spanberger answered, “Well, I think they very much understood that the only way they could possibly maintain a majority in the House of Representatives — of course, they have a slim, slim majority at the moment — was if they cheated, if they went seeking seats in places like Texas, which is why the president began this effort. Because he knew that, at the midterms, much like, back in 2018, when I was first elected to Congress, that his poor leadership, the chaos that he is creating, the war he’s begun with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, failed promise after failed promise, would be enough to propel yet another blue wave in a midterm, in the 2026 midterm election.”
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With his sensational statements on Truth Social and serial phone chats with individual journalists, President Donald Trump has only added to the confusion surrounding his plans for Iran…
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Yet another medical emergency was spotted this month at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility with a checkered history on patient safety.
Operation Rescue reported that an ambulance was spotted on April 10 arriving at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood, where the EMS radio dispatch reveals that a 19-year-old woman came in a day after her abortion complaining of chest pains that could indicate any number of issues. However, EMS’ use of the code “Charlie Medical” indicated fears that the situation was potentially life-threatening.
Planned Parenthood staffers also indicated the woman had “moderate bleeding,” which they claimed was “normal,” according to the dispatch. However, Operation Rescue opined that it “seems more likely Planned Parenthood staff have no idea of what a ‘normal’ amount of bleeding might be, nor how dangerous it is to the patients they continue to injure” based on the location’s history.
In February 2025, Alexis “Lexi” Arguello came to the facility for an abortion at 22 weeks. She suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a known potential complication of late-term abortions in which amniotic fluid enters the mother’s bloodstream. She was transported to a hospital, where despite the emergency staff’s best efforts she passed away as her grandparents waited helplessly.
AI agent adoption in Asia Pacific outpaces enterprise security controls, Rubrik finds – Tech Edition
AI agent adoption in Asia Pacific outpaces enterprise security controls, Rubrik finds – Tech Edition– news.google.com
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left outfit that disparages conservative organizations by categorizing them as “extremist” alongside actual racist groups, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday night for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the indictment, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million it received from unsuspecting donors toward racist groups by paying “a covert network of informants” who were part of “violent extremist groups.”
One of the SPLC’s chief activities is what it calls “tracking hate,” which includes cataloguing racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan as well as mainstream civil liberties groups like Alliance Defending Freedom. The smear campaign it wages against Christian and conservative organizations by equating them to actually extreme groups threatens not just their reputations but their fundraising prospects and even their physical safety. In 2012, a gunman opened fire at the D.C. office of the Family Research Council, intending to “kill as many as possible” because he didn’t “like what they stand for.” He told law enforcement afterward that he was inspired by the SPLC’s inclusion of the Family Research Council on its list of so-called “hate” groups.
The Federalist has also found itself in the SPLC’s crosshairs. In the summer of 2017, the SPLC posted an article under its “Hatewatch” category attacking The Federalist as a “rabidly partisan” purveyor of “anti-LGBT and specifically anti-trans writings.”
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Fox News Digital exclusively reviewed a report that details how diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices have continued to thrive on hundreds of U.S. campuses through a more deeply rooted ideology, “intersectionality.” The Legal Insurrection Foundation and the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies issued the report.
“Intersectionality’s toxic influence must be confronted head-on,” the report said, emphasizing, “The future of our education system and the safety of our nation depend upon it.”
Despite several executive orders by Trump banning DEI, the report found that progressive school administrators across the country continue to profile students by group identity and to teach students to view America and Western society as global oppressors. The result, the report says, is increasing social discord and even violence spreading across America.
The report’s authors urge the president to take executive action to address intersectionality specifically by name, arguing that doing so will close a loophole that allows DEI practices to continue under the intersectionality banner. The report also calls on the administration to replace this school of thought with education programs that promote traditional American values.
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This discovery is based on an in-depth examination of DNA taken from the Neanderthal tooth discovered in Stajnia Cave. Using highly sophisticated paleogenomic methodology, the scientists have successfully analysed the mitochondrial DNA and came to the conclusion that the Neanderthal was from a branch genetically connected with their contemporaries who lived in the Caucasus area.As reported in the article “First multi-individual Neanderthal mitogenomes from north of the Carpathians,” published by Scientific Reports, this discovery implies significant migration or at least contacts of the populations living over a large territory of Eurasia. As the researchers write:“The genetic affinities of the Stajnia individual imply connections between the populations of Central European and Caucasus Neanderthals.”In other words, there were no isolated communities of Neanderthals in Europe.
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Take them out before they take these girls’ lives.
This is why no deal can be made. They slaughter their own people, the best ,brightest – young women, the future of Iran. The anti-human regime must be obliterated. The time for talk is long, long past.
As the Islamic Republic of Iran prepares to hang eight young women, the silence from the international community is deafening. The very institutions that claim moral authority—governments, global bodies, and prominent rights groups say nothing when the victims don’t fit a totalitarian narrative. Where are the emergency sessions, the urgent condemnations, the coordinated pressure? If human rights are universal, they cannot be selectively defended. This quiet acquiescence doesn’t just ignore injustice, it encoruages it.
BREAKING: The Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women.
Not a word from the international community or so-called human rights organizations. pic.twitter.com/aBKxkjbdym
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Rather than feel discouraged by the tech world’s disinterest in luxury, she decided to seize her company’s opportunity to target a massive, underserved market. The start-up builds custom tools for retailers, like customer-facing shopping assistants and back-end data optimizers, from the grocery store chain Sprouts to the multibrand retailers like Nordstrom. Looking ahead, Mostafazadeh is hoping her company “makes it so that what happened to the neighbor on the north doesn’t happen to the neighbor on the west,” she said, gesturing to Macy’s a few blocks away, lest it suffer the same bankruptcy fate as retailers like Ssense, Matches, and Saks Global.
You can probably think of a couple of pain points that Mostafazadeh’s technology—which she prefers to call “augmented intelligence”—aims to address. Many of these pain points can be found online, where shoppers can waste hours on an endless scroll without making a single purchase. (Natural language searches like “black loafers under $500 with ruching at the toe stitch only” are well within the realm of what’s technologically possible, but far from the reality you’d currently find on most e-commerce sites.)
