Award-winning French director Mathieu Kassovitz is embracing AI and predicts that “in two years from now nobody will care” if actors are real or AI.
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The Founders required the government to ask permission before searching for your effects. They wrote it down. One week is enough time to honor that — if Congress actually wants to.
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Iranian leaders insisted on Thursday that they could not allow the free flow of commercial transit in the Strait of Hormuz because the United States has continued to enforce a blockade on Iranian ships using the maritime byway, indicating continued Iranian intransigence hampering attempts at peace talks.
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A former North Carolina guidance counselor faces decades in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an underage girl, according to police. The ex-school staffer reportedly promised the victim that she would leave her family to be with her.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that an investigation was launched in February 2024 regarding accusations that a school guidance counselor was involved in an improper relationship with a student.
'A predator was lurking behind the walls of the counseling office, waiting for a victim.'
The investigation resulted in the arrest of 31-year-old Jessica Patrick Finley, a guidance counselor and volleyball coach at McDowell County High School.
Finley was charged with eight counts of indecent liberties with a child, six counts of statutory sex offense with a child, one count of sex act with a student, and one count of offenses involving a child under the age of 15.
"In April 2025, Finley declined a plea agreement and chose to proceed toward trial," the press release read.
On Thursday, Finley pleaded guilty to all charges in superior court.
A judge sentenced Finley to a minimum of 28 years and four months and a maximum of 40 years and six months in prison, police said.
At the time of sentencing, Finley already had served 778 days in jail, according to McDowell News.
Finley is required to pay a fine of $30,000 and register as a sex offender upon release.
The victim — now 17 years old — explained to the court that she originally sought counseling for anxiety and depression before her relationship with Finley began, according to McDowell News.
"I was seeking help during a time when I felt alone, and she took advantage of that," the victim said in court.
The victim knew the guidance counselor because Finley was a volleyball coach and the student played volleyball, according to McDowell News.
“A predator was lurking behind the walls of the counseling office, waiting for a victim,” the teen's older sister said in court, adding that "a day does not go by that we do not wonder what we could have done to prevent this nightmare for my sister."
The victim’s mother told the courtroom, "We would have beat the door hinges off that building to save her from that monster" and that "children are off limits. Period. No excuses and no exceptions."
A sobbing Finley told the court, "I would just like to say I am so sorry for my actions and the things I have caused, for pain I have caused, for the Carter family, my family, and my own children."
The McDowell News reported that Finley's attorney, Christopher Rumfelt, argued that Finley was suffering from postpartum depression and having marital issues around the time of the sexual abuse.
Rumfelt conceded regarding Finley, "This will follow her until the day she dies. She understands that and accepts that."
Officials with McDowell Public Schools confirmed to WHNS-TV that Finley resigned in February 2024, once the school district was made aware of the child sex crime allegations.
WLOS-TV obtained warrants revealing that Finley had sexual conversations through text messages with the 14-year-old student.
"Finley and (Minor Child 1) discussed details of their sexual encounters, as well as acts they wanted to perform on each other in the future," the warrants stated.
McDowell News reported, "Finley also had phone sex with the victim on one occasion."
The victim told investigators that Finley performed sexual acts on her on multiple occasions in Finley's guidance counselor's office at McDowell High School, according to WLOS.
Finley also told the underage girl that she would leave her family for her, according to warrants.
"Finley made statements to (Minor Child 1) regarding Finley leaving her husband and children to be with (Minor Child 1)," the warrants said.
The teen told investigators that she thought she was dating Finley, WLOS reported.
McDowell News reported, "The victim said she tried multiple times to stop seeing Finley. The victim said anytime she tried to stop the interactions, Finley would threaten to quit her job or kill herself."
The news outlet added that the victim said she felt trapped by the fear of being held responsible for Finley’s death.
Shanon Smith, a captain at the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office at the time of the crimes being reported, told McDowell News that Finley's father had been a deputy with the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office, and Finley's mother had worked with McDowell CrimeStoppers.
With a potential conflict of interest, the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office handed over the investigation to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
McDowell Public Schools did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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President Donald Trump's DOJ has moved to reclassify how marijuana is treated by the federal government, building on his 2025 executive order.
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Comedian Margaret Cho says she wishes "a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat" would "punish" President Trump and his Cabinet officials -- right after accusing the administration of taking sexual pleasure in "cruelty."
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Georgia Rep. Rich McCormick (R) introduced legislation on Wednesday aimed at turning Virginia red by offloading liberal jurisdictions back onto the District of Columbia.
D.C. was established in 1790 through the Residence Act on 100 square miles of land ceded by Virginia and Maryland to the federal government. In 1846, however, Congress passed a law retroceding "and forever relinquish[ing]" present-day Arlington County and the City of Alexandria to Old Dominion, thereby limiting D.C. to the Maryland side of the Potomac.
'Democrats have spent years manipulating maps and boundaries to rig elections.'
McCormick cast doubt on the legality of the 1846 retrocession, noting in a release that "Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the Enclave Clause, grants Congress authority over a federal district 'not exceeding ten miles square' made up of territory ceded by state governments to serve as the seat of government. The Constitution does not enumerate any power to retrocede such territories back to state governments."
The congressman is hardly the first to question the legality of the retrocession.
Radical Republican Sen. Benjamin Wade of Ohio introduced a bill in April 1866 that would have nullified the retrocession. Wade asserted that all jurisdiction over the once-ceded territory was "vested in Congress, whose duty it was then, and forever after, to preserve unviolated and free from all control whatsoever, save that of Congress."
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Nearly a decade later, the U.S. Supreme Court broached the question of the retrocession's legality in Phillips v. Payne without, however, ruling on its validity.
McCormick maintains that the retrocession of Arlington and Alexandria "has warped the system since then" as evidenced by the recent Virginia redistricting referendum.
Virginia voted on Tuesday in favor of adopting gerrymandered congressional maps.
If the gerrymandering campaign ultimately proves successful — a Tazewell Circuit Court judge blocked the state on Wednesday from certifying the results of the vote, and the Virginia Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the referendum's legality next week — then 10 out of the state's 11 congressional seats are all but guaranteed to go to Democrats.
McCormick noted, however, that by dumping Arlington County and Alexandria inside D.C.'s borders — along with their estimated 250,000 "votes that belong to Washington DC" — the political dynamic will dramatically shift in Virginia.
The City of Alexandria voted overwhelmingly in favor on Tuesday — 78.89% to 21.11% — of allowing the General Assembly to adopt the gerrymandered congressional maps. It was the same story in Arlington County, where 79.9% of voters supported the proposed constitutional amendment to adopt the gerrymandered maps.
"Democrats have spent years manipulating maps and boundaries to rig elections," said the congressman. "The Make DC Square Again Act restores the original ten-mile-square District and ends the artificial advantage Virginia Democrats have recently gained from all the federal bureaucrats moving into Virginia."
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Peruvian lawmaker Ilich López on Wednesday announced that he will collect signatures from his peers to start an impeachment process against Marxist interim President José María Balcázar over his handling of an F-16 fighter jet deal with the U.S.
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An American company is pushing science fiction to its limits by introducing a mind-reading product, backed by a controversial investor from India.
The product falls under the new category called brain-computer interface technology, with the investor saying he sees his product as the best path to push people into using the brain-tapping gadgets.
'Securely and wirelessly, understands your thoughts and what you attempt to speak.'
The Silicon Valley startup is backed by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, an AI and software investor from Bombay State, India. The new company is called Sabi, and it is developing the Sabi Cap, a beanie that reads the wearer's thoughts and puts them into text on a connected device.
In remarks to Wired, Khosla said that a noninvasive wearable device was the only way to get a lot of people to use the BCI technology.
"The biggest and baddest application of BCI is if you can talk to your computer by thinking about it," Khosla explained. "If you're going to have a billion people use BCI for access to their computers every day, it can't be invasive."
The technology works by using metal disks placed on the wearer's scalp that can record their brain's electrical activity through a technology called electroencephalography. The process is called decoding "imagined speech."
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Given that the sensors on the beanie (or a planned baseball cap product) would have to work through hair, skin, and bone, the company plans on increasing the amount of sensors to piece together the required data; 70,000 to 100,000 miniature sensors per beanie have been suggested.
"Given that high-density sensing, it pinpoints exactly what and where neural activity is happening. We use that information to get much more reliable data to decode what a person is thinking," said CEO Rahul Chhabra.
Sabi's website describes the "brain reading" process as starting with "brain imaging" with "neuroimaging sensors."
The company notes that it collects "a lot of brain imaging data" and maps signals into thoughts.
"Securely and wirelessly, understands your thoughts and what you attempt to speak," the website boasts, touting how one could connect his or her brain to AI.
"AI agents do whatever you can think of. Literally."
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Investor Khosla has been vocally opposed to President Trump on his X page while having a public feud with Elon Musk, who is in the same field with his product Neuralink.
Khosla claimed that Musk wanted to make "white America great again" while saying Musk finds racism "desirable."
This was in response to Musk stating that white people are a diminishing population.
"Vinod, you're not just such a pompous asshole that you tried to stop the public from using a public beach near your house, you've also gone full retard," Musk replied.
At the same time, entrepreneur Palmer Luckey mocked Khosla for saying that "decent whites should quit" Tesla and SpaceX and join his own company.
Khosla has also called Trump "not fit to be President" and advocated against his anti-DEI positions by championing a "dire US need" to bring in international students.
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