August 30, 2026

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Japan relaxes royal succession rules – but ban on female emperors remain– www.bbc.co.uk

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Japan relaxes royal succession rules – but ban on female emperors remain– www.bbc.co.uk
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The Japanese parliament has approved a bill to relax imperial succession rules, amid concerns over the dwindling size of the imperial family.

The bill, passed by the upper house on Friday, allows the imperial family to adopt distant male relatives over the age of 15 and lets women keep their royal status after marrying outside the family.

But it does not change the law barring women from ascending the throne despite wide public support for a female emperor, meaning Princess Aiko, the only child of the current emperor, is still not eligible to succeed the throne.

The bill cleared the lower house last week, and will move through the final legal procedures before the changes take effect.

Japan has the world’s oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, with a lineage that’s believed span more than 2,600 years.

White House Labels CNN ‘The Enemy of the People’ Over Trump Address Censorship– www.westernjournal.com

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White House Labels CNN ‘The Enemy of the People’ Over Trump Address Censorship– www.westernjournal.com
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The network that bills itself as “The Most Trusted Name in News” thinks that you trust it so much that you don’t even need to see what the president says, just their summary of it.

CNN was alone among cable news outlets in refusing to air President Donald Trump’s prime-time remarks on Thursday night regarding election integrity.

CNN’s John King admitted that they were “not going to take it live” because “this president, sadly, has a history of misleading,” so they would summarize it in their preferred bullet points. I believe this is known as “censorship” in other contexts, particularly if you’re a cable news network and the only real news being made on Thursday night is the president addressing the nation.

The White House shot back with its own assessment of CNN’s position. “FAKE NEWS CNN IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” President Donald Trump’s team wrote on X, along with a shot of all the other cable news networks that let America hear what Trump had to say:

How China Can ‘Hack’ US Elections Without Hackers– thefederalist.com

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How China Can ‘Hack’ US Elections Without Hackers– thefederalist.com
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One of the biggest revelations from President Donald Trump’s declassified election document dump on Thursday night was a report indicating the Chinese Communist Party acquired and exploited American voter data to influence the 2020 election.

One FBI information report released alleged China manufactured tens of thousands of fraudulent drivers’ licenses using data harvested “from millions of TikTok accounts” to ensure noncitizen “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic” to the authoritarian regime could send mail-in votes for Joe Biden in 2020.

The allegation is alarming, but not as alarming as the fact that, over the next few decades, China could hack U.S. elections without ever breaking a law, risking punishment, or even raising the eyebrows of the intelligence community.

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent birthplace citizenship ruling, the CCP doesn’t need to manufacture fake IDs to sway votes in favor of Democrats. All China has to do to take advantage of America’s elections is to use the birth tourism industry to manufacture babies who are entitled to real American IDs as soon as they are born in the U.S.

Mathematicians are closing in on the hidden order inside chaos– www.scientificamerican.com

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Mathematicians are closing in on the hidden order inside chaos– www.scientificamerican.com
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For most of the past century, mathematicians have been exploring the limits of Ramsey theory, the study of order hiding inside chaos—or, more accurately, how much disorder can be packed into a system before order must inevitably emerge. Progress has been frustratingly slow, but now a potential breakthrough result is pointing the way toward more rapid advances—and a clearer view of the still-hazy transition between randomness and structure.

The systems in question are called graphs: mathematical networks made of points connected by lines. These graphs can represent anything interconnected—from friendships to airline routes to molecules. And as any graph grows, sooner or later it will include either a tight-knit group in which everything is connected to everything else—a “clique”—or encompass a large collection of points with no connections between them at all, known as an “independent set.”

In a new proof posted to the preprint server arXiv.org last month, Domagoj Bradač of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has dramatically tightened key constraints on where this transition can take place, toppling a barrier that has bewildered researchers for decades. A few weeks later, an OpenAI reasoning model unexpectedly improved his result, essentially eliminating what little uncertainty remained on Bradač’s constraints to effectively conclude what had been a 90-year search.

Todd Blanche’s chances of becoming attorney general could hinge on John Cornyn– www.politico.com

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Todd Blanche’s chances of becoming attorney general could hinge on John Cornyn– www.politico.com
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Todd Blanche repeatedly told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” he helped launch as acting attorney general was now, in fact, “dead.” But one Republican on the panel isn’t sold.

At his confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department permanently, Todd Blanche had to convince Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas — two GOP senators the president undermined in their election bids — that they no longer had to worry about the fund. Critics in both parties feared was intended to pad the pockets of President Donald Trump’s supporters.

Assuming all Democrats vote in unison against confirming Blanche in committee, a single Republican “no” on the Judiciary panel would be fatal to Blanche’s chances of getting to the floor. Tillis and Cornyn, who are both leaving Congress at the end of the year, have left the door open to defecting.

Tillis, who retired after Trump attacked him over policy disagreements, wouldn’t promise he would vote for Blanche. But he walked away Wednesday saying Blanche did “a good job” and expressed confidence he might be able to persuade his colleagues to approve a measure declaring the fund “legally moot.”

Gov. Greg Abbott calls for Texas Rangers to conduct investigation into deadly ICE shooting– www.yahoo.com

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Gov. Greg Abbott calls for Texas Rangers to conduct investigation into deadly ICE shooting– www.yahoo.com
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On Wednesday, a week after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed in a shooting involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers agreed to conduct an investigation into the incident.

According to a release from DPS, the Texas Rangers, who did not have access to the initial scene, will conduct an investigation alongside the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security.

Salgado Araujo was shot and killed the morning of July 7 after he was pursued by federal agents driving unmarked vehicles while he was taking his crew to their latest job site.

“As previously stated, for decades, it has been the standard, established practice of the Texas Rangers to investigate OIS when requested by an involved law enforcement agency – local, state or federal – or a prosecuting entity,” the statement said.

Scientists discover a ‘remarkable’ new monkey species with orange lips and a froglike roar– www.scientificamerican.com

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Scientists discover a ‘remarkable’ new monkey species with orange lips and a froglike roar– www.scientificamerican.com
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A “remarkable” African monkey with a distinct orange patch around its mouth and a deep, croaky roar, found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is in fact a new species—and possibly already endangered.

The new species, Colobus congoensis, or Likweli, was discovered in Congo’s Lomami National Park and is closely related to its “sister” species, the black colobus. Before now, the monkey was a familiar sight to local communities, but scientists had never formally described it.

Now, in a new paper published on Wednesday in PLOS One, researchers have confirmed with genetic analyses that C. congoensis is a new species. It is just the fifth new African monkey species identified in the past 75 years.