June 24, 2026

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The US Takes the Easy Road on China | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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The Wall Street Journal this month caught up with President Trump’s softness on China, only six years late. The President’s long-standing chase for China deals has pushed the US to avoid hard choices, only to get burned later. The Trump administration hiked tariffs right away, then caved because they didn’t even see vulnerability on rare-earth magnets. There are other glaring blind spots now, starting with land versus pharma.

Somehow Chinese land ownership here may have become the Sino-American issue most discussed outside the beltway. The PRC shouldn’t be allowed to own land near military sites or large amounts of farmland. But it hasn’t, doesn’t, and won’t. Many politicians around the country loudly trumpet solutions to what is currently a minor problem. No harm, no foul? When we simultaneously shy away from much tougher issues, there’s harm.

A mainstay issue being suspiciously soft-played is pharmaceuticals. Our industry is dangerously dependent on China and companies are actively trying to make it worse. Dependence on some Chinese drugs and ingredients for drugs has been recognized since at least 2017. Less recognized is that the leading source of our imports is European nations, now topped by Ireland, which are themselves facing China dependence.

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model– www.wired.com

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OpenAI launched a new image generation AI model on Tuesday, dubbed ChatGPT Images 2.0. This model can generate more than one image from a single prompt, like an entire study booklet, as well as output text, including in non-English languages like Chinese and Hindi. This release is available globally for ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version available for paying subscribers.

When any major AI company releases a new image model, it can revive interest and boost usage, especially if social media users adopt a meme-able trend, transforming images of themselves. Last year, Google’s launch of the Nano Banana model was a major moment for the company, especially when users started posting hyperrealistic figurines of themselves online. Earlier this year, ChatGPT Images made waves on social media as users shared AI-generated caricatures.

Alex Jones is so mad about InfoWars becoming a satire site he loses his shirt and exclaims ‘they’re bodysnatchers’– www.independent.co.uk

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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.

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation – The Washington Post– news.google.com

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  1. Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation  The Washington Post
  2. Mexico’s Sheinbaum demands explanation after US officials die after operation in Chihuahua  Politico
  3. Role of US officials killed in crash in Mexico under scrutiny  BBC
  4. US officials killed in Mexico car crash following drug raid worked for the CIA, sources say  CNN
  5. 2 Americans Killed in Mexico Crash Were C.I.A. Members  The New York Times

What AI model should you use for revenue intelligence? Von says all the big ones, and it will automate mixing and matching for you– venturebeat.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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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”.

‘China is not a solution’ to Canada’s problems with the U.S., Kovrig says – National– globalnews.ca

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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.

Facebook users shared a supposed video of Trump at Walter Reed hospital. It’s AI-generated– www.politifact.com

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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.

GOP Knows Only Way They Could Keep House ‘Was If They Cheated’– www.breitbart.com

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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.”

Another medical emergency uncovered at notorious Colorado Planned Parenthood– www.lifesitenews.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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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.

SPLC Targeted The Federalist For Publishing A Speech– thefederalist.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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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.”