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6+ hour, 18+ min ago  (232+ words) South Dakota Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill into law Monday that makes it a felony crime to create, possess or share computer-generated "deepfakes" of unwilling people in states of nudity or engaging in pornographic acts. The bill was…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (704+ words) Philosophical differences are for each man or woman to decide for themselves. But the Tuesday departure of Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), is murky on the surface, his critics say. Wading deeper into Kent's stated…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago  (601+ words) Pictured: The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is pictured at its December 2025 meeting." The controversial federal judge, whose ruling Monday blocked a new Health and Human Services (HHS) policy on childhood vaccines, is being blasted as a proven left-wing…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago  (293+ words) President Donald Trump appeared to suggest he might wipe out the rest of the Iranian regime in a Wednesday post on Truth Social. The president's post comes amid a conflict with U.S. allies over their refusal to assist the U.S. in clearing…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (305+ words) Democrats haven't met a spending bill they didn't love. Right up until it comes to funding the Department of Homeland Security and ICE or ridding the world of its largest state-sponsor of terrorism, Iran. Then " suddenly and miraculously " Democrats are…...

2+ hour, 42+ min ago  (308+ words) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed that the Trump administration has launched investigations to identify suspected leakers following the resignation of now-former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who was removed from the president's intelligence briefings over alleged leaks....

2+ hour, 3+ min ago  (268+ words) (TNND) " Cuban President Miguel D'az-Canel warned the Trump administration on Tuesday against taking control of the island, saying any attempt would be met with "impregnable resistance." D'az-Canel accused successive U.S. administrations of trying to isolate Cuba "for more than six decades,…...

13+ hour, 15+ min ago  (509+ words) The Department of Human Settlements is implementing a range of measures to curb the underspending of grants, and improve the delivery of housing and related infrastructure. Responding to oral questions in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Tuesday, Human…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago  (781+ words) Ministerial envoys have criticised the "fragile" state of Tower Hamlets" golden triangle of statutory officers and called on its monitoring officer to "robustly challenge" senior officers in the lead-up to local elections. Writing in their second report " which was handed…...

1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (310+ words) Emmanuel Saez doesn't look like a political provocateur. Tall and lean, with graying temples and rectangular eyeglasses, the UC Berkeley economics professor favors V-neck sweaters, drives a 2009 Honda Fit and speaks so softly in his French accent that colleagues lean…...