14+ min ago  (942+ words) China keeps sending diplomatic tantrums toward Japan, and Tokyo keeps moving. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government placed four Japan Self-Defense Forces personnel at NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine headquarters in Germany. The Ministry of Defense described the dispatch…...

26+ min ago  (175+ words) Social Security is barreling toward a 24% across-the-board benefit cut in 2032 that would slash roughly $500 a month from the average retiree's check " a hit that totals about $345 billion a year nationwide, according to a first-of-its-kind report from the Committee for a…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1355+ words) The prime minister hoped to head to the polls as the victor of the Middle East, but a rebuke from Trump and ultra-Orthodox crises have imposed a new political reality...

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2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (435+ words) Legislators try to stay up with rapidly developing deep fake technology. In the wake of the nation's first ban of AI "nudification" apps passed in Minnesota, Pennsylvania legislators are working hard to keep up with their own bill that will…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (136+ words) In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for "Presidential Politics. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Donald Trump Administration and…...

7+ hour, 28+ min ago  (320+ words) There are two legs to the argument in favor of assisted suicide. The first is that it will reduce the unnecessary and futile suffering of those very near to death. The second is that it will increase the sovereignty of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1384+ words) In six years, you could not have fixed the problem? I have a friend who is a kind of fixer in. .. The Republicans Are Saps and Saps Deserve to Lose In six years, you could not have fixed the problem?...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1189+ words) I have spent thirty years in rooms where real money changes hands " structuring private credit deals, managing family office portfolios, and testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty in federal and state courts. One lesson sticks: when government programs…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (247+ words) Louie Gohmert, the pro-Trump then-Congressman from Texas, spoke at the 2018 Prayer Breakfast, as did actor Stephen Baldwin. One year later, Pastor Jim Garlow of President Trump's White House Spiritual Council attended as a special guest. After Moscow's reinvasion, the Prayer…...