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Justice Department Drops Criminal Case Against Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani

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The move comes as part of the Trump administration’s broader resolution of pending legal matters against the business magnate and his associates.

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Billionaire Trump ally melts down in spat with pope: ‘Working for Chinese communists”

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Billionaire Trump ally melts down in spat with pope: ‘Working for Chinese communists”

Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence.According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” when he released a 42,000-word encyclical that called for strict regulation of AI, a technology that the pontiff said heightens the “risk of dehumanization” throughout the world.Thiel argued that this sort of thinking was dangerous, CNN reported, because it could result in the US losing the “race” to build more advanced AI to China. Because of this, Thiel continued, the pope is essentially “working for the Chinese communists” by trying to tap the brakes on AI development.Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has long decried AI critics in harsh terms. Over the last year, he has been delivering a series of lectures in which he has said that opponents of AI development are working as agents for the Antichrist.Journalist Christopher Hale, who writes the Letters From Leo newsletter, noted on Friday that Thiel in the past has even speculated that Pope Leo could be “a manifestation of the Antichrist.”Thiel has said that he instructed Vice President JD Vance, a longtime political ally who received major funding from the tech billionaire for his 2022 Senate campaign, to ignore the pope’s moral guidance despite influencing Vance to convert to Catholicism, Hale added.“Thiel seeded the vice president’s Catholic faith,” Hale wrote, “and he now tells wealthy festival audiences that the leader of that faith works for a communist government.”In addition to his attacks on the pope, Thiel also warned about “a democratic-socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,” pointing to recent victories in New York and Colorado of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.Thiel said that this “takeover” would doom the US, arguing that “when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,” according to CNN.The New York Times reported in May that Thiel has grown so concerned about the political situation in the US that he’s created a “foothold” for himself in Argentina, which is currently being governed by ideologically likeminded libertarian President Javier Milei.“Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B,” the Times reported. “Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.”

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

The DOJ’s response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents.

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Justice Department defends decision not to release, unredact more Epstein files

The Justice Department (DOJ) declined on Thursday to release additional unredacted records from its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, telling a federal judge that it has already adequately complied with the law. The DOJ’s response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents…

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Education Departments sues schools for allegedly letting boy dominate girls’ sports

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Education Departments sues schools for allegedly letting boy dominate girls’ sports

A California sports league and two school districts are being sued for allegedly forcing girls to share single-sex spaces with boys in athletic competitions. The California Interscholastic […]

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Education Department sues schools over boys in girls’ sports

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Education Department sues schools over boys in girls’ sports

District's actions allegedly violate Title IX and the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause

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Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general

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Louisiana court halts criminal indictment against state attorney general

Republican Liz Murrill was indicted for the alleged intimidation of New Orleans elected officialsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Louisiana’s highest court has granted a stay of the proceedings in a criminal indictment targeting the state’s attorney general, in the latest twist of a high-stakes political battle between Republican state leaders and Democrats who govern its most famous city, New Orleans.Liz Murrill, a Republican who is Louisiana’s first female attorney general, was slapped with a 16-count indictment on Thursday by a New Orleans grand jury charging her with intimidation and malfeasance. The charges effectively accused her of trying to intimidate New Orleans officials who fought a law passed by Republican legislators to overhaul the city’s courts. Continue reading...

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Some Thoughts on the Court's Opinion(s) in the Birthright Citizenship Case

Did any of the other Justices happen to notice Justice Kavanaugh's argument that the entire matter could have been disposed of on statutory grounds?

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Pirro SHUTS DOWN relentless reporter questioning case against alleged Reflecting Pool vandal

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Pirro SHUTS DOWN relentless reporter questioning case against alleged Reflecting Pool vandal

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro held a press conference Thursday to announce that a grand jury indicted former Olympian David Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly ripping […]

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Justice Department Drops Criminal Case Against Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani

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