October 2, 2026

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Melanin-inspired nanotechnology might help protect workers from deadly nerve agents– www.techspot.com

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Melanin-inspired nanotechnology might help protect workers from deadly nerve agents– www.techspot.com
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Forward-looking: A team of researchers from Northwestern University set out to put melanin’s many talents to work against nerve agents, a class of dangerous organic chemicals. The newly conceived compound takes its cues from nature and could offer an effective “antidote” to one of the most troublesome legacies of World War II.

The researchers developed a melanin-inspired nanotechnology designed to protect people who work around nerve agents and other hazardous chemicals of the same type. This “allomelanin” compound offers many of the same benefits as natural melanin and should be easy to embed in a variety of fibers as a dye.

The nanotech is described in a study recently published in the journal ACS Nano. The study details a “catalytic porous metallized melanin for the remediation of organophosphorus agents.”

Organophosphorus chemicals form the base of nerve agents and other dangerous compounds. As the CDC explains, nerve agents – or nerve gases – are chemicals designed to disrupt the signals traveling through the nervous system. They act as poisons and can damage a person’s nervous system to the point that they can no longer control the heart’s muscles or their breathing.

Ron DeSantis, Florida Cabinet Declare CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as Terrorist Groups– legalinsurrection.com

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Ron DeSantis, Florida Cabinet Declare CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as Terrorist Groups– legalinsurrection.com
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his cabinet have declared CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as terrorist groups, along with a host of others, under a new law that took effect over the summer.

From CBS News:

DeSantis, Florida Cabinet designate more than 90 groups as terrorist organizations

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday voted to designate more than 90 groups as terrorist organizations, and a legal challenge is already in the works seeking to block the move.

With little comment from the state panel and no public testimony, the Cabinet voted to apply domestic or foreign terrorist designations to a series of groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Brotherhood and antifa.

The designations will also apply to more than 90 organizations already listed as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, two Mexican drug cartels and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Under a new law, HB 1471, that took effect July 1, CAIR filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in Tallahassee, contending that DeSantis is violating the First Amendment and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU National Security Project, said attorneys intend to file a motion Thursday on behalf of CAIR-Florida seeking a preliminary injunction against the designation.

“There is nowhere in that notice any allegation or evidence that CAIR has engaged in any violent or dangerous act in violation of Florida or U.S. law,” Shamsi said Tuesday outside the Cabinet meeting. “And that’s the first requirement for something as serious as this.”

Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?– www.wired.com

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Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?– www.wired.com
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Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a September 23 announcement, Anthropic claimed that its large language model Claude had identified an enzyme system with properties “reminiscent of Crispr,” the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool.

According to Anthropic, about 950 Claude agents running simultaneously found the interesting genetic sequences in 21.5 hours. “I sincerely compliment Anthropic for telling the world about their discovery,” says Fyodor Urnov, a gene-editing expert at the University of California, Berkeley and director for therapeutic R&D at its Innovative Genomics Institute. (IGI is collaborating with Anthropic, but was not involved with the new discovery.)

Other scientists are less enthusiastic about the finding, which is the first to come out of a research group formed by Anthropic earlier this year. “The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says Le Cong, a professor at Stanford University focused on integrating AI into genome engineering research.

Anthropic, which has set up a wet lab for drug discovery, has been clear that the finding isn’t the end of its work. (“We don’t yet understand what this system does,” the company said in an X post, “but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA.”) One physical experiment was included in a technical report, which has not been peer-reviewed. However, a lot more needs to be done to determine the significance of this discovery. It remains unknown whether this enzyme system can be used as a gene-editing tool and, if so, whether it’s a useful gene-editing tool.

Forget the Red Sea: Trump’s next shadow war is happening on a lake– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Forget the Red Sea: Trump’s next shadow war is happening on a lake– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, is fast becoming one of the most important trade arteries on the planet. Covering 143,000 square miles, an area larger than Germany, the Caspian is the salty remnant of an ancient sea, the Paratethys, cut off from the world’s oceans more than 5 million years ago. Today, it carries the Middle Corridor, the rail-and-ferry route that links China and Central Asia to Europe while bypassing both Russia and Iran. With Russia under sanctions, the Strait of Hormuz closed by war, and the Red Sea menaced by the Houthis, the route across the Caspian has become one of the few reliable paths between East and West. Washington should secure it by deepening its partnership with the two countries that anchor the corridor on either shore, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.

The world’s largest economies have noticed. China is building a railway through Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan that will feed its freight into the corridor. The European Union and international lenders committed over $11 billion to the route in 2024. The United States brokered the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, a transit corridor through southern Armenia that secures a crucial link on the route between Azerbaijan and Turkey. The traffic is following the investment: Freight on the corridor rose 22% in the first eight months of this year, and east-west transit jumped 55%. Kazakhstan, which shipped roughly 94% of its oil exports last year through a pipeline to Russia’s Black Sea coast that Ukrainian drones have repeatedly struck, now plans to send more crude across the Caspian to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.

Sen. Ron Johnson Holds a First-Of-Its Kind Exposure of What Happened in Hospitals During COVID-19 – RedState– redstate.com

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Sen. Ron Johnson Holds a First-Of-Its Kind Exposure of What Happened in Hospitals During COVID-19 – RedState– redstate.com
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On Monday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) led a roundtable discussion on COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People.

Johnson was joined by patients, families, doctors, and other medical personnel who gave testimony as to the massive failures by hospitals and hospital systems in treating and caring for patients with COVID-19. Johnson shared that he had gathered 583 testimonies from 46 states, and the panelists represented a mere fraction of these testimonies.

Panelists shared their personal accounts of mistreatment, disregard, cruelty, and the death-dealing experiences that occurred in hospitals across the country. From withholding requested care, administering treatments that were not authorized by the patient or the patient’s advocate, and the cruel and heartless treatment given to people who either were not vaccinated against COVID-19 or who rejected Remdesivir or standard protocols, knowing the harm that they caused.

One common thread within every testimony was the forced and consistent administration of Remdesivir, which Johnson said nurses mockingly called, “Run, Death is Near.” Another thread was the hospitals’ refusal, despite patients’ requests and insistence, to administer Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and monoclonal antibodies. The third thread was the practice of putting people on ventilators, despite the fact that they were showing improvement, and how in each case it ultimately ushered the patients more quickly to their deaths.

‘We’re rapidly running out of time’: 7 of Earth’s 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns– www.livescience.com

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‘We’re rapidly running out of time’: 7 of Earth’s 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns– www.livescience.com
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Earth’s life-support systems are in peril — and they’re getting worse — but although the window for action is closing, we still have a chance to give our planet a sustainable future, a new report finds.

The report, called “Planetary Health Check 2026,” was written by more than 60 scientists and assessed the state of interconnected natural systems, or planetary boundaries, upon which Earth’s stability and resilience depend. When these boundaries are crossed, researchers say there’s an increasing risk of serious and irreversible harm.

Video. French students blockade schools nationwide to demand more resources– www.euronews.com

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Video. French students blockade schools nationwide to demand more resources– www.euronews.com
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Hundreds of students took part in protests in Rennes and Paris, blocking school entrances and demanding more resources for education.

In Rennes, students barricaded the entrance to Lycée Bréquigny, where bins were set alight and police faced protesters.

In Paris, students at Lycée Simone Weil used bins and crates to block an entrance and called for more staff and funding, citing overcrowded classrooms and poor conditions in some schools.

Students in several other parts of France also joined the national day of action.

Iran may have played part in U.S.-run Fairford air base incident, U.K. says – National– globalnews.ca

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Iran may have played part in U.S.-run Fairford air base incident, U.K. says – National– globalnews.ca
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The U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in the incident that saw five men arrested near a U.S.-run military air base in England late at night, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday.

Burnham said U.K. and U.S. officials are carrying out a “complex and serious” investigation into how and why five men and three vans were near the perimeter of RAF Fairford, a base that has been used by American bombers striking Iran during this year’s war.

Five British men in their 20s were arrested Sunday on suspicion of explosives offenses and planning an act of terror, before being released on bail a day later. Police say they found a quantity of an accelerant – gasoline – in the vans, but no explosives.

Burnham did not provide details about what the suspects were planning or why the U.K. thinks Iran was involved. He said he would “update people more in due course.”

NASA Chief Warns America Must Beat China in Space Race to the Moon– slaynews.com

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NASA Chief Warns America Must Beat China in Space Race to the Moon– slaynews.com
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is warning that communist China will put astronauts on the Moon and said the United States must beat Beijing back to the lunar surface as a new space race accelerates.

Speaking to members of the Air Force and Space Force at the Air and Space Forces Association’s annual conference, Isaacman said China is positioned to accomplish something the Soviet Union never managed during the original Cold War space race.

“You are witnessing a very energized NASA, and we will need to be, as we are in the midst of a very real second space race,” Isaacman said.

“China will accomplish what the Soviets never could.”

Beijing has announced plans to land its astronauts, known as taikonauts, on the moon by 2030.

NASA, meanwhile, is targeting an American return to the lunar surface before the end of 2028.

Isaacman warned that there is little room for delay.

“History has shown they could even be early, and we could easily be late,” he said.

“Success in this endeavor will be measured in months, not years.”

Iran War Updates: Tehran says it expects U.S. response to cease-fire proposal already rejected by Trump today – cbsnews.com– news.google.com

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Iran War Updates: Tehran says it expects U.S. response to cease-fire proposal already rejected by Trump today – cbsnews.com– news.google.com
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  1. Iran War Updates: Tehran says it expects U.S. response to cease-fire proposal already rejected by Trump today  cbsnews.com
  2. Hormuz and Yemen: Iran offers de-escalation at a price others will pay  Al Jazeera
  3. US, Iran separately talk with mediators in latest bid to end war  Reuters
  4. After nixing Iran proposal, Trump tells Axios he expects talks this week  Axios
  5. U.S., Iran hold separate mediator talks as Mideast oil exports hit war-time high  CNBC

 

Putin humiliated as Russian nuclear capable bomber crashes in huge fireball | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Putin humiliated as Russian nuclear capable bomber crashes in huge fireball | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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A Russian warplane crashed in flames in the country’s Far East today killing at least six of the crew. Initial reports said there were “two survivors” who were rushed to hospital, said reports.

Initial reports said the stricken plane was a Tu-95MS bomber, capable of carrying Russian nuclear missiles, but there was no initial confirmation. Earlier reports claimed it was a Tu-154. The Russian Defence Ministry later confirmed that a Tu-95MS crashed. The Tu-95MS has been used regularly to fire missiles at Ukraine. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. The crash was more than 3,000 miles from Ukraine. The AMK Mapping Telegram channel claimed three out of four engines failed “simultaneously, right after take-off”.

It added: “That happening practically guarantees the crew is killed, as there is no time for parachuting to the ground, which is another potential sign of sabotage.”

The plane was seen engulfed in flames. The aircraft was from Russia’s Ukrainka Air Group, an airbase located in Seryshevsky District of the remote Amur Region.

The Ukrainka airfield is home to the command of the 6952nd Guards Sevastopol-Berlin Red Banner Air Base, which operates Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers.

Exclusive: Orgs Form Coalition To Counter Islamic ‘Threat’– thefederalist.com

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Exclusive: Orgs Form Coalition To Counter Islamic ‘Threat’– thefederalist.com
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Four conservative groups are launching a coalition to safeguard America’s “constitutional order” from the rising tide of Islam and its left-wing political allies, The Federalist has learned. The newly formed Alliance for Islamic Remigration, announced Wednesday, will develop legislation and legal strategies to address the Islamification of culture in the United States, while educating Americans on one of the most pressing cultural and political issues of the day.

The Center for Renewing America, the American Accountability Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the American Strategy Group formed the alliance to “shin[e] a light on the forces working to destroy American culture, erase Western understandings of human freedom, and eradicate the constitutional order that protects both,” according to a press release announcing the alliance. Wade Miller (executive director, Center for Renewing America), Tom Jones (president, American Accountability Foundation), Mike Howell (president, Oversight Project), and Brian Kennedy (president, American Strategy Group) released a statement outlining the group’s purpose and the issues it seeks to address.

“Islam’s growing presence in the United States is a scaled threat to Western civilization and to the high-trust Christian culture liberty requires,” the leaders said. “It is a political ideology of total control whose core tenet is conquest of non-believers through institutional capture, social pressure, intimidation, and violence. The 3,000-plus mosques here function as outposts of that project.” The statement went on to sum up the new initiative’s mission: “The Alliance for Islamic Remigration will work to educate Americans on the daily instances of the radicalization of mainstream Islam within America, its alliance with Marxists/Communists, while uplifting those in the movement who are already exposing this problem, and while we work towards legislative and legal remedies.”

U.S. military says the last of its troops in Iraq have withdrawn – National– globalnews.ca

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U.S. military says the last of its troops in Iraq have withdrawn – National– globalnews.ca
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The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that it has completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight the Islamic State group.

The last U.S. troops left an air base in northern Iraq under a deal between Baghdad and Washington.

The withdrawal, agreed on two years ago, comes against the backdrop of the ongoing war between the United States and Iran that has also sometimes spilled over into Iraq, with Iran-backed militias firing on U.S. troops and the U.S. striking the groups’ strongholds.

In recent years, Washington has appeared to seek to shift its focus from the Middle East toward Asia, but that shift has been inconsistent, with the Pentagon alternating between reducing its Mideast presence and then finding itself engaging in new conflicts — including the ongoing war in Iran.

Baghdad touted the end of the U.S. mission as a sign of the country’s increasing strength and sovereignty.

Trump Admin Moves to Protect Nursing Home Voters from Fraud, Coercion– slaynews.com

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Trump Admin Moves to Protect Nursing Home Voters from Fraud, Coercion– slaynews.com
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The Trump administration is moving to protect elderly nursing home residents from voter fraud and coercion, pointing to past cases in which vulnerable seniors were allegedly exploited by political operatives or facility staff.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance in late July reminding long-term care facilities that residents have a right to vote while warning that staff cannot engage in coercion or violate federal and state election laws.

The Election Integrity Network has now released a toolkit designed to help nursing homes and caregivers comply with the federal guidance while protecting residents from improper influence.

Vulnerable Seniors Targeted in Past Election Cases

The CMS memo makes clear that nursing home residents retain their voting rights and that facilities have a “responsibility to preserve residents’ rights to vote and to promote participation in the democratic process.”

But the agency also warned that “this activity should not violate federal or state voting laws” and that staff “cannot engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”

University of Illinois pauses ‘minority-owned’ business partnership after civil rights complaint– www.thecollegefix.com

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University of Illinois pauses ‘minority-owned’ business partnership after civil rights complaint– www.thecollegefix.com
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Description ‘raised questions regarding compliance with the university’s nondiscrimination requirements,’ campus attorney says

A partnership to support “minority-owned, Black-owned, and women-owned businesses” has been paused by University of Illinois officials following a federal civil rights complaint.

The joint venture, Project MicroBoom, involved the public university’s College of Media and Our Tech LLC.

The latter promotes “the idea of digital neo-activism to create a conglomerate of Afrocentric platforms where the voices and ideas of any underrepresented community, business, and student can be heard.”

Project MicroBoom aimed to start on Thursday and included a four-week marketing program specifically women and non-white business owners. Participants would be guided through branding, website design, and social media marketing plans.

However, the original post advertising the Project MicroBoom event has now been taken down after a complaint from civil rights activist Mark Perry and media inquiries. The College Fix first asked Perry for his insights on the program, based on his extensive history of civil rights activism.

Trump approves new fuel economy standards, reversing Biden’s EV push– www.cnbc.com

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Trump approves new fuel economy standards, reversing Biden’s EV push– www.cnbc.com
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he approved new fuel economy standards, reversing former President Joe Biden’s stricter policies meant to fuel electric vehicle adoption.

Since the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards were established in 1975, they have been periodically updated, typically to make vehicles more efficient. Under former President Joe Biden’s standards, automakers would have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their passenger cars and light trucks to roughly 50 miles per gallon by 2031. The stricter standards were designed to incentivize electric vehicle production and sales in the U.S.

Trump presented the policy change as a boon for both automakers and consumers, though the final standards have not yet been publicly detailed.

“These new Standards will take the waste out of building cars in America. That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car — Far better than the Environmental Monsters that we were building heretofore,” he wrote in the Truth Social post. “Every Manufacturer, from General Motors to Ford to Stellantis, has called me wanting to build here, and now they can!”

The regulatory change would fulfill a campaign promise from Trump to rescind policies that encouraged or incentivized electric vehicles.

ICE: Arrests of Illegal Immigrants, ‘Collaterals’ Will Continue– legalinsurrection.com

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ICE: Arrests of Illegal Immigrants, ‘Collaterals’ Will Continue– legalinsurrection.com
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ICE officers can still arrest illegal immigrants without additional criminal histories, including during operations targeting someone else. The Trump administration says that has not changed.

President Donald Trump told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that anyone in the country illegally remains “on the table” for arrest and deportation. ICE field offices also received new guidance reaffirming that authority. 

“I’ve spoken on the phone with President Trump and nine ICE & DHS sources about this today. Here’s what I’ve learned.

Yes, this verbal guidance did go out to ICE offices across the country last night. I’ve spoken with ICE agents who received it & were shocked & frustrated by it. It’s unclear who it started with. However, I’m told it’s erroneous, was some type of “miscommunication” during conversations about prioritizing “worst first”, and there is no change in immigration enforcement policy. President Trump tells me anyone in the country illegally remains “on the table” for ICE arrest & deportation. I’m also told new guidance went out to ICE field offices tonight to reaffirm this and that yes, arrests of illegal aliens and “collaterals” without additional criminal history will continue. ICE sources confirm to me they received the new guidance.

I’m not really sure what happened here – but everyone is on the same page, including President Trump, in telling me that his immigration enforcement agenda isn’t scaling back.”

Muslim group fears ‘France will become Catholic again’– www.lifesitenews.com

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Muslim group fears ‘France will become Catholic again’– www.lifesitenews.com
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A French Muslim apologetics group that actively opposes a Catholic revival has predicted that France could “become Catholic again” within a few generations, following the Pope’s enthusiastic reception in Paris.

On September 25 the group Miséricorde pour l’Houmanité (“Mercy for Humanity”) published a message on X predicting that “France will become Catholic again” amid what it described as a growing Catholic revival, strengthened by American Catholic influence. The group lamented that such a revival could undermine Islam’s spiritual influence in Western Europe.

Trump Invokes Rare Authority To Cancel Nearly $1,000,000,000 In Congressionally Approved Spending– dailycaller.com

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Trump Invokes Rare Authority To Cancel Nearly $1,000,000,000 In Congressionally Approved Spending– dailycaller.com
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President Donald Trump has moved to cancel more than $800 million that Congress approved for refugee aid, migrant education and diversity programs.

The White House announced late Friday it would rescind $810 million in appropriated funds through a rare budgetary tool called a pocket rescission, according to CBS News. The largest cut, $567 million, hit Health and Human Services (HHS) accounts that funded nonprofits serving refugees and asylees, according to the administration.

Officials argued the money is no longer needed because illegal crossings have fallen sharply under Trump’s border policies. They labeled the spending wasteful and harmful to taxpayers. (RELATED: Lisa Murkowski ‘Strongly’ Objects To Trump Admin Quest To Cancel $5 Billion In Foreign Aid)

The reductions also covered $70 million for programs the administration branded “Woke International Education,” $56 million in Housing and Urban Development (HUD) counseling grants and $25 million in migrant student education. The education money once paid for an LGBT youth summit and “Therapy for Latinx” workshops.

Among the groups losing support was Southwest Key Programs, which received $40 million and faced a Justice Department suit alleging its staff sexually harassed and abused unaccompanied minors, according to the White House. Another was Global Refuge, an immigration nonprofit led by a former policy director for Michelle Obama.

The cuts drew a rebuke from Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to CBS News. She called the package an effort to “undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse” and said lawmakers received no warning, according to her statement on X.

Scientists engineered bacteria to make stronger silk fibres using mussel protein fragments, boosting tensile strength by up to 345% |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Scientists engineered bacteria to make stronger silk fibres using mussel protein fragments, boosting tensile strength by up to 345% |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Scientists have engineered bacteria to produce a silk-based protein using a surprising ingredient: a protein fragment from mussels. The approach combines an artificially designed silk protein with mussel foot protein 5, or Mfp5, which the researchers found could improve the strength and toughness of the resulting fibres. According to the study published in Nature Communications, titled ‘Bi-terminal fusion of intrinsically-disordered mussel foot protein fragments boosts mechanical strength for protein fibres’, attaching Mfp5 fragments to both ends of the protein encouraged interactions between protein molecules. The researchers also demonstrated that the engineered protein could be produced in a bacterial bioreactor at a substantially higher titre than some previously reported recombinant silk proteins.

Trump administration cracks down on fraudulent ‘birth tourism’– www.lifesitenews.com

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Trump administration cracks down on fraudulent ‘birth tourism’– www.lifesitenews.com
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration will restrict visas for individuals who “engage in or facilitate” birth tourism, a practice that exploits the United States’ 14th Amendment granting automatic citizenship to any child born within the U.S.

“Foreign commercial birth tourism networks have exploited the U.S. immigration system to sell U.S. citizenship for profit. These networks advertise and coach foreign nationals to lie on U.S. visa applications and collect tens of thousands of dollars to arrange births on American soil for the sole purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship,” Rubio explained in a press release. 

The new policy targets foreigners “who knowingly engage in, have engaged in, or facilitate birth tourism to the United States, including owners, operators, and managers of commercial birth tourism facilitation networks, visa ‘fixers’ who coach applicants to commit fraud, foreign medical providers who knowingly abet and facilitate such travel and the fraudulent use of our Medicaid system, and other individuals who support, abet, and enable commercial birth tourism.”

The Trump administration has sought to use every tool at its disposal to defend the integrity of U.S. citizenship, protect American public benefits and U.S. taxpayers from exploitation, and safeguard national security according to the Secretary of State. 

“By restricting visa issuance of those who both engage in and profit from this fraud, we are sending a clear message: The United States will not allow foreigners to exploit our immigration system and violate the sanctity of U.S. citizenship,” he declared. 

Venezuela releases dozens of prisoners following meeting between Trump and interim leader– abcnews.com

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Venezuela releases dozens of prisoners following meeting between Trump and interim leader– abcnews.com
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Human rights groups in Venezuela said that significant numbers of political prisoners were released in the South American country on Saturday, though the total number of those freed has still not been determined.

The prisoner releases follow a meeting Tuesday between Interim President Delcy Rodríguez and President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In her speech at the UN, Rodríguez said Venezuela, whose government has been widely accused of jailing dissidents, stealing elections and stifling freedom of speech, has “begun a process of democratic transformation.”

In a message posted on X, the Venezuelan human rights group Clippve said seven political prisoners were released from a prison on the outskirts of Caracas on Saturday morning, including Wilder Vasquez, a university student who had been sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a 2018 plot to kill former President Nicolás Maduro. Vasquez has long claimed he was innocent. His sentence had expired in 2023.

In another X message, the human rights group Justicia Encuentro y Perdon said that 29 people were released from Venezuelan prisons Saturday, including 12 inmates who were on its list of political prisoners.

“Seventeen of those freed were not in our database of political prisoners,” the organization said. “Our team continues to verify information to update our registry.”

America’s ‘AI czar’ could revolutionize our form of government– www.theblaze.com

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America’s ‘AI czar’ could revolutionize our form of government– www.theblaze.com
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Donald Trump is considering a small handful of candidates for “AI czar” — notionally, a Cabinet-level role overseeing the industry, the technology, and something the president is calling, perhaps in the spirit of Space Force, the “AI Force.”

Trump has not specified much beyond that. Nobody rumored to be under consideration seems especially eager for the job.

Perhaps we don’t need someone with the power of a czar to rule AI. Perhaps we need someone with the authority of a saint to counsel us about it.

Plenty of reasons suggest themselves.

Not quite everything is computer. Many crucial components of America’s good working order still require special and undivided attention of their own. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer being considered because of the importance of his current role. The logic is arguably the same for White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios and other potential candidates.

And, as the untimely demise of Czar Nicholas II and his family at the hands of the communists reminds us, a czar invested with enough power and authority can swiftly become a scapegoat or blood sacrifice of the highest order.

Which brings us to the momentous possibilities unsealed simply by creating a high office called AI czar.

Polls show most Americans think democracy is doing poorly. For a growing share across the political spectrum, that is not necessarily a bad thing.