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Cuba has suffered its third nationwide power blackout since the start of the year, as the country’s fuel reserves diminish and its electric grid crumbles due to an energy crisis precipitated by the US fuel blockade.
The blackout in the country of nearly 10 million people was reported on Monday by the state-run Electric Union, which said that the cause is under investigation.
Cuba’s Energy and Mines Minister Vicente de la O Levy said protocols were quickly activated to restore electricity throughout Cuba after the outage.
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President Donald Trump said Monday the United States would either reach a deal with Iran or “finish the job,” renewing his threat of military action as Tehran projects defiance following the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Indirect US-Iran talks ended last week without any public sign of headway toward a lasting peace.”We’re either going to make a deal or we’re going to finish the job. OK. And it won’t be tough to finish the job. I’d rather make a deal, because I don’t want to affect 91 million people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“We can knock down their bridges in one hour, we can knock out their energy supply…. They don’t have any money now. We haven’t given them any money.”Trump spoke after Khamenei’s weekend funeral where, rather than looking weakened by the war, Iranians appeared to be united and determined to shape what comes next.Iranians call for revengeIranians called for revenge Monday during the funeral procession of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and voiced their opposition to negotiations with those behind the supreme leader’s death.
“We don’t want a deal. We want Trump’s head!” they chanted, referring to the US president.His death as a “martyr” has whipped up fervour among Iranians, according to mourner Gholamreza Khanbabai, who was also present in 1989 for the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic.“If I had to compare this ceremony to that one, I’d say… the crowd seems more enthusiastic this time,” said Khanbabai.
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian government’s appeal of the acquittals of Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber on intimidation charges will not be heard until the spring of 2027.
In an X post last week, Lich said that her original 18-month house arrest sentence will be “served January 21, 2027, and then it’ll be back to court to start this process all over again.”
“By the time this is over, if it ever truly is, the Ontario taxpayers will be on the hook for around $15M for the prosecution of our case alone,” she wrote.
World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab Finds Spying Device in His Home– wltreport.com
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This is almost ironic…
Notorious globalist Klaus Schwab, who founded the World Economic Forum, says that a listening device was recently uncovered in his home office.
We don’t know why or how long it was there, or who planted it.
But, Schwab has filed a criminal complaint, and Swiss authorities are currently investigating the matter.
AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood to appear in feature film set in the ‘Tillyverse’ – National– globalnews.ca
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The AI “actor” known as Tilly Norwood will be used in a new feature film entitled Misaligned, its first lead role as a digitally generated persona.
Particle6, the AI production studio that built Norwood, is developing and producing the film, the company told Global News in an email statement. The company is led by comedian and writer Eline Van der Velden.
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Machine learning is giving scientists a powerful new way to search for superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance. An international team has demonstrated that AI can rapidly narrow an almost limitless number of possible material combinations to identify the most promising candidates. According to Aalto University Professor Päivi Törmä, who leads the SuperC consortium, the approach could dramatically speed the discovery of new superconductors.
Superconductors allow electric current to flow without losing energy, but only when cooled to extremely low temperatures where quantum effects emerge. These remarkable materials are already used in technologies ranging from quantum computers and medical neuroimaging systems to fusion reactors and maglev trains.
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Even as leftists denounced all of the patriotism in the air over the weekend, millions of Americans nevertheless celebrated the incredible milestone of America’s 250th anniversary.
And one popular way to do that involved heading to the cinema to watch the latest live-action film from Angel Studios.
As Deadline reported, “Young Washington” opened to such a strong reception that the studio is already pursuing a sequel:
MONDAY AM: Angel Studios overshot its cannon Sunday when it came to the opening for Young Washington: The opening wasn’t $20.8M, rather $19.3Mafter a lower-than-expected Sunday of $4.1M (versus $5.6M). That’s still a debut to be proud about for the Jon Erwin-directed indie historical epic, ahead of its $15M industry opening forecast.
The revised figure makes Young Washington the second-best 3-day for Angel Studios after Sound of Freedom‘s $19.6M in 2023 and the third-best opening for the values-based distributor after David ($22M last year) and Sound of Freedom. All eyes will be watching how this Wonder Project and 2521 Entertainment project legs out. Sound of Freedom was a huge surprise at the 2023 summer box office, posting a 9.3x multiple of its Friday-Sunday take.
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Rutte told an audience at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, that its current fleet is to be replaced by the GlobalEye system, as it is nearing the end of its lifespan.
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When in doubt, leave it to the shrill harpies from “The View” to have the most unintentionally hilarious takes. Today it’s Sunny Hostin, a woman who pre-accused her neighbors of racism before they had the chance to be racist, saying how she spent America’s 250th birthday being made uncomfortable by so many American flags. Yes, in America.
Keep in mind, Sunny’s rant is what passes for news on ABC News. After all, “The View” is a bona fide news program. But don’t take my word for it.
Imagine being this miserable of a life form.
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In the wake of celebrating our nation’s founding, it is harder to imagine a better time to reflect on the life of one preeminent Founding Father. Angel Studio’s Young Washington walks audiences through the lesser-known period of George Washington’s life, focusing on his pre-Revolutionary War experiences.
The movie’s message about the value of strength and endurance has clearly resonated with Americans. Young Washington opened domestically to an exceptional $20.8 million, blowing past its $15 million projections, and grossing more than $7.6 million on July 4 alone. The film was produced for just $20 million, meaning it’s on track to be a hit.
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Progressive California education activists are urging the state to recognize “black English” in preschool classrooms, claiming the approach would strengthen literacy development and affirm the language spoken by many black children.
Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE), a nonprofit advocacy organization, is promoting what it describes as an effort to challenge “harmful language hierarchies and affirm black English as a legitimate, rule-governed language rooted in black history, culture, and community.”
The group also seeks to “address how language bias shows up in early learning spaces–and how it can be dismantled.”
Ashley Williams, a co-founder of BlackECE, said the initiative is intended to ensure children feel their voices are respected regardless of how they speak.
“I don’t want my son to walk into any room and feel like his voice is not valued or his perspective can’t be heard because he’s not saying it one way or the other,” Williams told PBS.
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Dominion Energy spokesperson Craig Carper said that the snake’s contact with the equipment activated an automatic safety shutdown designed to protect the electrical system from more extensive damage.
While the cause may sound unusual, Carper said it was not unheard of.
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Vice President JD Vance intends to run for POTUS in 2028. Vance and other Republicans who seek political office should think twice before discarding Israel in order to appease low life podcasters such as Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, Megyn Kelly, et al.
Related – While the World Turns on Israel, Evangelicals Stand Firm
73% of Republicans are more likely to vote for a Republican who supports a strong U.S.-Israel relationship—as opposed to just 16% who want a Republican opposed to Israel.
69% want a candidate who denounces antisemitism and says it has no place in the conservative movement—vs.… https://t.co/02eVuAlAh0
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) July 6, 2026
NEW: GOP Primary Voters Remain Deeply Supportive o
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According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, smartphone sales in China fell 13% year over year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as major brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs. Between May 26 and June 21, all major Chinese smartphone brands except Huawei posted double-digit sales declines. Promotions were less aggressive than last year, dampening consumer demand. Honor’s sales dropped 33%, while Xiaomi’s fell 24%.
Ivan Lam, Senior Analyst at Counterpoint Research, said: “Some Chinese smartphone brands priced both their new and existing models higher than comparable devices a year ago. Discounts during this year’s 618 shopping festival were also generally less aggressive, both in terms of price reductions and the range of products included in promotions.” [Jiwei, in Chinese]
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Among the many industries that China and the USA are competing in, space is a rising battleground. The two countries that have tried their best to form a bond in trade and truth but remain contentious in spirit. China is rapidly advancing its lunar exploration program and is expected to eventually send taikonauts to the Moon, as per media reports.
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Former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene caught some well-earned heat after she posted — and quickly deleted — a sharp attack on the woman accusing Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner of rape.
In the since-removed post, Greene questioned why the accuser, Jenny Racicot, waited years to go public and suggested she was turning past consensual encounters into “rape for politics.”
The timing is more than a little ironic, coming from the same congresswoman who had spent months positioning herself as the loudest voice for Epstein survivors, pushing hard for a full release of the files, and ripping President Trump for allegedly slow-walking accountability for the elite.
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arXiv:2607.05382v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Visual generators excel at rendering, but they confidently fabricate what they do not know. User requests are unbounded, evolving, and deeply long-tailed: new characters, trending entities, post-cutoff events, and more. This world-knowledge bottleneck is structural: generators are trained on fixed corpora, but the visual world is open-ended. We construct SearchGen-20K and SearchGen-Bench, with 20,839 prompts spanning twelve failure categories and twenty-two domains, paired with a pre-executed multimodal SearchGen-Corpus-1M to support offline, reproducible research. On SearchGen-Bench, frontier open generators score only 21 to 28 out of 100, a 40-point collapse invisible to existing benchmarks.
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Some of us were hoping, or maybe wishing and hoping, that Governor Shapiro would finally stand up to the woke mob. He seemed like a good choice, a successful governor of a purple state who looks like a presidential candidate. Pennsylvania is not pushing taxpayers to Florida or driving moms crazy because they are teaching kids gender philosophy in grade school.
Unfortunately, Governor Shapiro missed a big moment, and he may regret it when the woke mob overwhelms him again. Let’s read this from Jonathan Turley: