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AI Chatbots a Child Safety Risk, Parental Groups Report
(Esther Wickham, The Center Square) ParentsTogether Action and Heat Initiative, following a joint investigation, report that Character AI chatbots display inappropriate behavior, including allegations of grooming and sexual exploitation. This was seen over 50 hours of conversation with different Character AI chatbots using accounts registered to children ages 13-17, according to the investigation. These conversations…
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Supreme Court Will Consider Overturning Hawaii’s Strict Ban on Guns on Private Property
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii. President Donald Trump’s Republican administration had urged the justices to take the case, arguing the law violates the court’s 2022 ruling that expanded…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is Set to be Sentenced and Faces the Possibility of Years in Prison
(Headline USA) Sean “Diddy” Combs faces sentencing Friday in a sordid criminal case that could keep him locked up for years. The hip-hop mogul was convicted in July of flying people around the country for sexual encounters, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, in violation of the federal Mann Act. A jury acquitted Combs,…
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Over 1,000 Silver and Gold Coins Discovered Off Florida Coast
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) You may not think of the gold and silver bars and coins we sell at Money Metals as “treasure,” but if you put some in a chest and sink it in the ocean, that’s exactly what it would be! A salvage company recently pulled over 1,000 silver coins, 5…
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How Will the Government Shutdown Impact Gold Prices?
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The federal government remains closed (kind of). How will this affect the price of gold? It will depend on how long the budget stalemate drags out, but from a historical perspective, the impact of government shutdowns has been relatively short-lived and contained. As the shutdown deadline approached, gold rallied,…
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Venezuela Says It Detected Five US Fighter Jets Flying Near Its Coast
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on Thursday that the Venezuelan military had detected five US fighter jets flying near Venezuela’s coast, a provocation that comes amid reports that the US is considering bombing the country. “Venezuela’s integrated air defense system detected more than five aircraft with flight characteristics of 400…
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Fani Willis to Appear before Senate Committee in November
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wilis will appear before Georgia’s Special Senate Committee on Investigations, the committee’s chairman said Friday. The committee subpoenaed Willis to testify about her prosecution of President Donald Trump and others in a case accusing them of election fraud. Willis has fought the subpoena but has…
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Trump Gives Hamas a Sunday Deadline to agree to Peace Deal, or Else
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) A hard deadline has been set for Hamas to agree to a peace deal proposed by President Donald Trump and accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning this is their “last chance.” Trump told Hamas leaders that they have until 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, Washington, D.C. time, warning…
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Noem Visits Chicago Area ICE Facility as Agents Detain Multiple Protesters Outside
(Headline USA) Federal agents detained multiple people Friday near an immigration facility outside Chicago that has frequently been targeted by protesters during President Donald Trump’s administration’s surge of immigration enforcement this fall. As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met with employees inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, a crowd grew…
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Hegseth, Trump Shift Focus of Military From ‘Woke Department’ to War Department
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) In an unprecedented and historic gathering of the military’s top leaders at Virginia’s Quantico Marine Base, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump touted the military’s war ethos, stating that the days of the “woke department” are over, returning the military to a merit-based approach. During Hegseth’s speech, he…
