President Trump on Friday slammed what he described as “treasonous” media coverage of the U.S. conflict with Iran, accusing New York Times reporter David Sanger of misrepresenting the military operation. “I had a total military victory, but the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly,” Trump told Sanger aboard Air Force One on the way… Source link
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. This weekend at BookCon, Veronica Roth announced two new books set in her Divergent universe, beginning with the publication of The Sixth Faction this fall. These books are not sequels, prequels or “interquels,” but rather set in an alternative universe in which Tris Prior, the series’ protagonist, experiences an alternate history from the original series. This is not the first time Roth has dipped back into her blockbuster series. More than a decade ago, Roth released Four, a collection of stories about the earlier life of Tobias (Tris Prior’s love interest in the Divergent series). While that book came out just one year after the final book in the Divergent series, The Sixth Faction comes a full dozen years later. Roth has continued to publish regularly in the intervening years, with several new series and a handful of standalone works. But none of them have approached the success of Divergent, and the sputtering out of the filmed version …
I saw the Emperor — this world-soul [Weltseele] — riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.— G.W.F. Hegel As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.— H.L. Mencken All credit goes to John B. Judis, formerly of In These Times and the New Republic, for his ecumenical spirit. A lifelong democratic socialist, Judis has authored a scrupulously fair biography of William F. Buckley Jr., and has lately pondered the world-historical significance of Donald John Trump through the philosophical lens of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Watching Napoleon ride into the German university town of Jena in 1806 shortly before his great victory over the Prussian army, Hegel …
The award-winning Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon is returning for a sixth season on BBC One next month, and the series kicks off with an emotional start. The new series returns on Tuesday 10 March at 8pm on BBC One and iPlayer, as Stacey and her team help a family undertake a life-changing declutter, while the team delivers a budget-friendly makeover and a supersized spring clean, in just seven days! In the first of six episodes, Stacey and the team tackle the Kings’ home, where retired architectural technician Gerry and care worker Trish live with two of their three grown-up kids. Filled with 30 years of memories and unfinished projects, Stacey challenges them to sort their life out in just seven days by letting go of half their belongings, paving the way to let the joy back in. Dilly Carter, Stacey Solomon, Rob Bent, Iwan Carrington in Sort Your Life Out season 5. BBC/Optomen Television As per the BBC: “With Stacey and the team’s help, the family begins by packing all their possessions into …
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. The James Bond films are famous for their very cool—and usually very absurd—spy gadgetry. In reality, however, espionage has always been more about lowkey surveillance than laser watches. Any good professional intelligence officer will almost always opt for a discreet, reliable camera over a parking meter loaded with tear gas. One of the Central Intelligence Agency’s former chiefs of disguise has even said as much. “There are a lot of ways to collect intelligence. Cameras [were] my preferred method of collection,” Former CIA Chief Jonna Mendez explained during a 2020 interview. While decent store bought cameras often did the trick, specialized spy photography remains a cornerstone of modern espionage. There are plenty of examples, from the commercially available Minox-B subminiature camera of the 1950s–60s to the CIA’s famous 1970s fountain pen containing a tiny Tropel lens. But it wasn’t only American and British spy agencies that gathered intel from photography. The Soviet KGB apparatus employed all kinds of custom …
For Reform parliamentary candidate and former academic Matt Goodwin: “Englishness is an ethnicity that is deeply rooted in a people that can trace their roots back over generations.” By contrast, he argues, liberal progressives believe “anybody can be English as long as they sign a piece of paper and identify with Englishness.” This is not a novel definition, and for some, it may be completely uncontroversial. It’s not surprising that some people living in England can trace their ancestors back many generations. But attempting to define a particular “ethnicity” is also an attempt to determine who is (and who is not) part of a given group. Policing these boundaries has serious consequences. The idea of essential groups To speak of an identity as one that can be traced “back over generations”, is to speak of human reproduction and generational transmission. These are central ideas in how, historically, people have been categorised into racial groups. The biological sciences have a long history of dividing humans up. Take 18th-century Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, the most …
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form, according to an inventory released Wednesday of all use cases the Department of Homeland Security had for AI in 2025. The “AI Enhanced ICE Tip Processing” service is intended to help ICE investigators “to more quickly identify and action tips” for urgent cases, as well as translate submissions not made in English, according to the inventory. It also provides a “BLUF,” defined as a “high-level summary of the tip,” produced using at least one large language model. BLUF, or “bottom line up front,” is a military term that’s also used internally by some Palantir employees. DHS says that the software is “being actively authorized” in support of ICE operations, adding that the tool helps reduce the ”time-consuming manual effort required to review and categorize incoming tips.” The date when the AI-enhanced tip processing “became operational” is listed in the inventory as May 2, 2025. The DHS inventory does not provide …
Comment by US official on amnesty for Hamas members is seen as a ‘significant step’, as focus moves to next stage of Gaza ceasefire. Disarmament by Hamas in Gaza will be accompanied by “some sort of amnesty” for the Palestinian group, a United States official has said. The US official, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity on Monday, made the comment after the body of the last Israeli captive in Gaza was recovered, a move that paves the way towards the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal agreed upon in October. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list “We are listening to many of their people talk about disarming. We think they’re going to. If they don’t disarm, then they’ve breached the deal. We think disarmament comes along with some sort of amnesty, and candidly, we think we have a very, very good programme to disarm,” the official said, according to the Reuters news agency. Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, DC, said the official made the comment during a background …
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed concerns that President Trump’s new tariffs could upend existing trade deals, saying he’s confident the disagreement with European allies over Trump’s push to acquire Greenland will “sort its way out.” In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Lutnick defended Trump’s approach… Source link
At the Golden Globes 2026, creatives behind the year’s best non-English-language film, The Secret Agent, said “this is a very important time” to be making movies. Adolescence’s Stephen Graham concluded his acceptance speech for best actor in a limited series by quoting Bob Marley’s “One Love.” These sorts of vaguely political platitudes were typical of the 83rd Golden Globes, although host Nikki Glaser kicked off the night by joking that these awards are “without a doubt the most important thing happening in the world right now.” On the Golden Globes red carpet 2026, nominees and presenters, including Wanda Sykes and Poker Face’s Natasha Lyonne, wore “Be Good” pins—a reference to Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent on Wednesday in Minneapolis, sparking nationwide protests. The pins made an anti-ICE statement, as did those adorned by other attendees reading “ICE OUT.” They originated with an ACLU-endorsed protest campaign organized by a group of entertainment industry advocates, as reported by The New York Times. “Of course this is for …
