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Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad featuring Amy Acton's mother sparked bipartisan outrage, but a strategist says Acton's COVID-19 record matters more.

The Midnight Mimosa malware campaign hides inside cheap Android phone firmware, giving attackers powerful access before owners even turn devices on.

Intel has announced that workers installed the first major structural truss at its new chip factory in New Albany, Ohio, a milestone the company is celebrating after years of project delays. The company envisions the massive project as a new "Silicon Heartland."

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Two former senior FBI officials have been indicted and surrendered to authorities on Friday in connection with Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release.

46-year-old Nikki Cole Floris of Alexandria, Virginia, and 56-year-old Bradley Benavides of Aiken, South Carolina, are alleged to have lied in congressional testimony in 2023.

'No one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth.'

The now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which Floris and Benavides had been a part of, led the FBI's mission to combat foreign influence on the 2020 election.

Both Floris and Benavides testified before Congress that the FITF was not involved in the investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop, the criminal complaint claims.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media, "Documentary evidence, contemporaneous communications, and witness accounts contradict their testimony."

Benavides testified that he had learned about the Biden case from Wikipedia, but records allegedly showed that he had been regularly talking about the case with FBI officials up to the 2020 election.

Floris had also allegedly spoken with FBI officials in the FITF and others about Hunter routinely for more than a year.

Patel claimed that Floris had also texted that she was "basically running a shadow government" across the FBI. A screenshot of the text was posted to social media by House Republicans.

"Lying to Congress by anyone strikes at the heart of our democratic system­­, but when senior FBI agents lie to Congress believing they are above the law, it’s time to bring the hammer of justice down on them," said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

“When senior officials entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s security choose deception over duty, they undermine the very institutions they swore to uphold," she added. "Today’s action makes clear that no one is above the law, and we will hold accountable all who obstruct the truth."

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Both Floris and Benavides appeared in a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

Floris' attorney called her a "patriot" in court and implied that the government was bringing up the charges just ahead of the election in order to influence public opinion.

Benavides was a section chief with the FITF from 2019 through the 2020 election, and Floris was a deputy assistant director and "functional head" of the FITF from 2019 until 2022, the complaint said.

"Lying to Congress by senior FBI officials strikes at the heart of our system. No one is above the law," said Patel on social media.

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Federal agents have arrested 10 foreign nationals in North Carolina this month, accusing them of illegally voting in several of the nation's elections in recent years, Breitbart News has learned.

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Texas fans panicked after a report suggested Steve Sarkisian used the new Bevo Lab AI platform to call a critical fourth-down play against Florida.

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his contempt for the Minnesota Democrat who has long gone by the name "Ilhan Omar." He stated in November, for example, that "she should go back" to her native Somalia — an African nation Trump has characterized as "decadent, backward, and crime ridden."

In light of new revelations about the criminal investigations into the congresswoman, Trump demanded her immediate resignation late Thursday evening and announced, "She will not be legally allowed to be a Member of this August Body from this point forth."

Some people found something

Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Somali-born ethno-nationalist's D.C.-area residence on Oct. 12 under a warrant signed by a federal judge, according to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

'She used a fake name to be sworn in.'

As part of this search — which a DOJ spokesperson confirmed to the New York Times was part of an "ongoing federal criminal investigation" and the congresswoman characterized as an "abuse of power" — officers reportedly seized her phone and potentially also her personal passport.

The DOJ generated additional waves on Wednesday with a court filing that appears to indicate that "Ilhan Abdullahi Omar" is an alias and that the congresswoman's real name is actually "Ilhan Nur Said Elmi."

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

A source familiar with the investigation subsequently confirmed to the New York Post that "Omar" is not the congresswoman's "real name."

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This would suggest that her birth name may have been Elmi — the very same surname as Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the British-Somali national reportedly identified by numerous Somalis as the Democrat's alleged brother.

It's universal practice — even in Somalia — for a sister to share a surname with her brother. The issue in the congresswoman's case is, however, that she was legally married to Elmi from 2009 until 2017.

Abdihakim Osman, a self-identified friend of the congresswoman, claimed to the Daily Mail in 2020 that the congresswoman had confirmed that Elmi was her brother and that she married him so he could remain in the United States.

The congresswoman previously denied the allegation that she married her brother, calling it "absolutely false and ridiculous."

It is possible that Elmi may simply have been her married name. The New York Post has, however, obtained a marriage certificate for Leila Nur Said — a Somali woman believed to be the congresswoman's sister — that lists "Nur Said Elmi" as her father.

A purported expert claimed to the Post that the congresswoman's late father, Nur Omar Mohamed, had "misrepresented himself as a refugee" to American authorities and was actually a military commander in "Siad Barre's military regime." He allegedly also went by the name of Nur Said Elmi.

The congresswoman's office said in a statement to Blaze News, "The congresswoman’s name has always been Ilhan Omar. Any claim suggesting otherwise is categorically false and has no basis in fact."

Family matters

Though the Minnesota congresswoman has long dismissed the allegations about marrying her brother, when asked this week by MS NOW's Chris Hayes whether she is related to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, she responded with uncertainty, stating, "Not to my knowledge."

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Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday, "It was just revealed that Ilhan Omar's name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather, it's an entirely different name, Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, and that her last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had children with."

While the congresswoman married Elmi, she had multiple children with a man named Ahmed Hirsi, whom she married in a 2002 Muslim ceremony, legally married in 2018, and divorced in 2019.

After suggesting that he didn't buy the congresswoman's "not to my knowledge" response to Hayes, Trump said, "Because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she must IMMEDIATELY resign from Congress."

"Please inform the Speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson, that the Dumocrat Party has just conceded her seat. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to FRAUD," added the president.

Omar said in response to Trump's statement, "The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar."

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L Todd Wood and French intelligence analyst Thierry Laurent discuss the collapse of the French republic.

Russia's SVR accused London of plotting a false flag and Britain dismissed it as conspiracy theory. Now the government wants households stocking three days of food for the Russian threat, and the Defence Secretary admits there is nothing specific in mind.

King Abdullah II vowed the "harshest retaliation" after gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, killing at least seven.

America First Legal filed a complaint alleging Rhode Island's Westerly Public Schools facilitates gender transitions without parental consent.

The Fifth Circuit called Judge Henry Wingate's handling of Mississippi's anti-DEI law challenge a "botch job" riddled with AI hallucinations and errors.

ESPN host Michael Wilbon unleashed an expletive-filled rant on "The Dan LeBatard Show," accusing The New York Times of gutting its sports news coverage.

Generative AI development moves faster than other tech categories, with new major models coming out several times a year. Google was starting to fall behind, with its last frontier model launching in February, but not any more. The brand-new Gemini 4 Argon is finally here, and this is how it stacks up against the competition.

Google has been falling behind the other frontier AI platforms after it missed its own deadline to launch Gemini 3.5 Pro, which was teased at Google I/O for release in June. Instead, it has been riding on 3.8 Flash, a newer but lighter-weight version of Gemini, to serve as its flagship model. While this is fine for most people who use Gemini for general queries, the Pro version is meant to measure the cutting-edge capabilities of the latest AI models — something Google simply didn’t have.

Critics see Argon as a return to the frontier, with Google finally competing against the other leading AI giants again.

Analysts even started to question whether Google Gemini was still a frontier model, since its capabilities were no longer on the leading edge of development. CEO Sundar Pichai disagreed in July, reportedly claiming that Google is still at “the frontier level of where the frontier will be when Gemini 4 comes out.”

And now Gemini 4 Argon is here.

Taking cues from OpenAI and Anthropic, Google made Gemini 4 Argon available only to a limited number of “trusted cyber defenders” when it was released at the end of September. However, nearly a month later, Argon is available to the public, specifically for Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers.

Replacing Gemini 3.1 Pro from February 2026, Gemini 4 Argon is a high-end reasoning model built to handle complex tasks. On its website, Google lists several major real-world use cases for the new model. According to the company, ”teams at Google, across enterprises, and in the research community have already been using Argon to land significant impact across fields” including:

• engineering, where Argon excels at solving complex problems and optimizing software code for better performance. Google used the new model to adjust the way Chrome handles live webpages when switching between tabs, panels, and floating windows, resulting in smoother performance with fewer crashes.
• business and enterprise, where Argon is especially useful in refining workflows for those in the legal, finance, and science industries. Based on user testimonials, Argon is great at reasoning with complex research data and maintaining context across long projects.
• cybersecurity, where Argon can discover and patch unknown bugs and vulnerabilities. According to Google, Argon identified and repaired gaps that exposed sensitive data in government and health care infrastructure.
• high-tech industries, where Argon can make it possible to achieve novel discoveries in quantum computing, nuclear fusion, and life sciences. For example, it is already being used to research rare diseases and advance quantum computing development.

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Gemini 4 Argon competes directly with OpenAI ChatGPT-6 Astra, Anthropic Claude Opus 5.5, and the new Meta Muse. In a head-to-head test, MindStudio claims that Argon:

• placed slightly behind Muse at writing code.
• fell behind Claude and Muse in terminal command-line tasks.
• dropped behind the other newest models in general knowledge.
• lagged behind Claude and ChatGPT in generating 3D graphics.
• outperformed the rest when handling business, legal, and financial tasks.

For added perks, Argon offers industry-leading tokens for longer responses, and it is much more affordable than the competition until December, when prices for output will double.

Perhaps the thing that normies like us will care about most, though, is that Gemini 4 Argon boasts a much smaller 15% hallucination rate than other platforms on the AA-Omniscience test. This knowledge gauntlet asks AI models 6,000 questions from various academic and industry sources to uncover data gaps. For comparison, GPT-6 Astra had a 51% hallucination rate on the same test. That’s not to say that Argon won’t hallucinate at all, but it is nice to see companies making progress in this contested area.

Ultimately, critics see Argon as a return to the frontier, with Google finally competing against the other leading AI giants again, pulling ahead in some areas and falling behind in others. But at the very least, Google’s frontier AI status is no longer in question.

Gemini 4 Argon is available now for paying Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. It joins Google’s other Gemini models, including 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.8 Flash, and 3.1 Pro. Unfortunately, if you’re a free Gemini user, you won’t have access to Argon any time soon. In fact, Google recently reduced free access to include only 3.5 Flash-Lite, while paying customers on the lowest AI Plus tier only get access to 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.8 Flash.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D) and several other individuals were charged with drug trafficking and money laundering.

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Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas has been arrested by federal authorities over charges in a drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering, and firearms case Thursday morning. She is the Virginia Senate President pro tempore, and her office was searched by the FBI in May as part of an investigation, according to the outlet.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon unveiled a $500 million commitment to bring AI training to small business owners at the launch of the bank's new Small Business AI Institute on Thursday.

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