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The USS Gerald R. Ford will return to the US after nearly a year at war.  The Ford is one of three aircraft carrier strike groups in the Middle East. The Washington Post reported speaking with US officials who said USS Ford will be leaving the region in the coming days and return to the Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.  The removal of the USS Ford from the Middle East will leave two aircraft carrier strike groups operating in the Arabian Sea, the USS George H.W. Bush and the USS Abraham Lincoln. The US Navy is attempting to enforce a…

Eight candidates vying to become California’s next governor gathered Tuesday at Pomona College in Claremont for a debate that was as much a test of scrappy stamina as it was of policy, with contenders in the crowded field fighting for airtime while attempting to address the state’s deepening affordability crisis. The debate’s distracting format, featuring rotating, often chatty moderators from CBS News and CBS Los Angeles with markedly different styles and tight limits on responses, produced more chaos than clarity. Candidates repeatedly spoke over one another, squabbled with moderators over time and fairness, and struggled to develop substantive answers amid…

Loudoun County, Virginia, has embraced digital infrastructure-and its economic benefits. Source link

A new book reframes the affordability debate: the problem isn’t just prices alone, but persistently low wages. Source link

The article is here; the Introduction: In recent years, a lively scholarly discourse has emerged about whether and how the U.S. First Amendment protects generative AI outputs. Some have argued that such outputs are protected at the very least by the rights of AI users to receive information and to create their own speech. Others would not recognize gen AI outputs as receiving such First Amendment protections. The issue of whether gen AI program creators are entitled to free speech protections for such outputs has also spurred a variety of reactions. As this discourse on the First Amendment and gen…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Nate Bear Do Not Panic The American tech giant behind the most popular tax filing software in the US allows employees to wear their IDF uniforms to work and also permits them to take months off the job to fight Israel’s wars. Last month, Tom Yacobi, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit, whose products include the widely-used…

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared battle plans for a round of strikes against Iran.  Axios spoke with three people familiar with the Department of War’s planning to resume strikes against Iran. According to the sources CENTCOM, the US military command responsible for the Middle East, has prepared a plan for a “short and powerful” wave of strikes. The US and Iran have been in an uneasy ceasefire for three weeks as the two sides attempted to negotiate an end to the conflict. Tehran has said that if Washington breaks the ceasefire, Iranian officials will not return to the negotiating…

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana had unconstitutionally added a second black-majority congressional district, and struck down its map as a racial gerrymander. In 2024, Louisiana had been forced to add this district due to a lower court ruling. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The 6–3 ruling split between the court’s conservative and liberal blocs. Associate Justice Samuel Alito penned the opinion, which represents a shift in the interpretation of Section 2 of Voting Rights Act of 1965, which made gerrymandering to dilute minority political representation illegal. The Supreme Court…

Zyns are super popular. They are little pouches people tuck into their lip to get a hit of nicotine. Zyn has competitors, like Velo and On!, but Zyn has most of the market. Young people love the pouches. They are safer than cigarettes. Their nicotine is addictive, but nicotine isn’t what makes tobacco deadly. “[The] mix of chemicals—not nicotine—cause the serious health effects,” says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That’s why the FDA supports nicotine pouches. Still, some anti-tobacco activists oppose all nicotine use. “It’s a pouch packed with problems!” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) tells cameras. Some states ban…

Leading U.K. media don’t mention the Israel Lobby because they’re part of it, writes Mark Curtis. But its influence over U.K. politics is likely to be greater than any other state, except perhaps the U.S. BBC Bias Kills – London protest against Israel’s assault on Gaza, May 15, 2021. (Alisdaire Hickson, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0) By Mark CurtisDeclassified UK Britain’s national media fails to recognise the influence – and even the existence – of an Israel lobby, our new media analysis shows. Declassified researched two years of reporting by seven British media outlets and found only 16 mentions of the phrase Israel lobby without speech marks.…