Berlin And Hamburg Spend At Least €4 Billion On Housing Asylum Seekers Since 2022

Musk's xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Law, Saying It Forces Developers To Back State's Views Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, filed a lawsuit on April 9 over a Colorado law it claims makes AI developers endorse “Colorado’s views on diversity, equity, and inclusion or face significant compliance costs and civil fines.” The chatbot Grok is the flagship product of xAI. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times The company, whose flagship product is the chatbot Grok, named Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser as the defendant. The...

Israel Seizes Crusader Beaufort Castle, Marking Deepest Plunge Into Lebanon In Decades Fresh Sunday reports say that Israel's military has made its deepest plunge into Lebanon in nearly three decades, having captured a strategic crusader castle site and UNESCO World Heritage Landmark, Beaufort castle. It was last captured in 1982, when the IDF later pushed all the way north to occupy portions of Beirut. The army posted photographic proof via its Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, who issued an image on X showing Israeli troops walking outside the castle. An Israeli flag has also...

French Commandos Board & Seize 4th Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Vessel Since September France announced Monday another weekend interdiction of a Russian "shadow fleet" vessel in international waters near its coast. The French Navy boarded and detained a sanctioned oil tanker, President Emmanuel Macron announced Monday, in an operation which had the assistance from the UK Royal Navy and other allies. This marks the fourth time since September that French commandoes have intercepted a boarded a sanctioned Russian vessel in regional waters. via AFP/French military The vessel, identified as the Tagor, originated from Murmansk,...