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AI & The Same Old Politicized Hysteria Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The midterm elections are six weeks away. Suddenly, a debate has erupted over the existential dangers of artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a little-known Silicon Valley researcher who worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned and went public with a dire warning: AI now threatens the future of the world. Shortly beforehand, news broke of the Hugging Face episode, in which OpenAI's advanced AI "agents" autonomously hacked another company's computers. Bedlam followed. Weaponizing AI Almost on cue, Democrats seized on the alarm as...

Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Ten Commandments In Texas Classrooms Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court ruled April 21 that the state of Texas may order every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments, marking a victory to supporters of the law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which voted 9–8, upheld Texas Senate Bill 10, overturning a lower-court injunction that had barred the 2025 law from taking effect. “We conclude the Texas law does not violate either the Establishment Clause...

Treasury Department Alerts US Banks To Suspected Iranian Money Laundering Efforts Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes ​Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on May 11 issued an alert to financial institutions warning them of efforts by ​the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to evade sanctions. The U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington on June 30, 2025.Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times FinCEN said in a statement that the IRGC has been facilitating and laundering the proceeds of illicit oil sales using networks of financial facilitators...