Nolte: In 1940, Harvard student John F. Kennedy wrote a famous thesis titled "Why England Slept." In my thesis, "Why England Sucks," we will examine a new question.
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The image of the undershirt of the shooting suspect in Austin who was gunned down by police suggests that he may have been motivated by the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.
Two people were killed and another 14 were injured when 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne allegedly opened fire early on Sunday morning at Buford's Backyard Beer Garden. Police tracked him down and shot him to death, according to the Austin Police Department.
The sweatshirt is stained with blood.
Images of the suspect showed that he wore a hoodie proclaiming the wearer to be the "Property of Allah," but another image after Diagne was taken down points to Iran for the possible motivation.
The image, obtained by CBS News and posted on social media, shows a gloved hand, likely of a police officer, lifting the suspect's sweatshirt to show another shirt with designs from the Iranian flag. The sweatshirt is stained with blood.
FBI agent Alex Doran had previously said "there were indicators ... on the subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism."
Police said Diagne first shot at patrons outside the bar from the window of his vehicle. He then parked his SUV and fired a rifle at unsuspecting pedestrians. Police fatally shot him after encountering him on East 6th Street.
A New York Times report indicated that a Quran was found inside the suspect's vehicle. Investigators also found an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian leaders after conducting a search warrant on Diagne's residence in Pflugerville.
CBS also reported that the suspect had dealt with mental health issues.
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Diagne migrated to the U.S. on a B-2 tourist visa in March 2000 and became naturalized in April 2013 after seven years of being married to an American citizen, according to the Department of Homeland Security. He was originally from Senegal.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) made reference to the suspect's alleged terror ties.
"To anyone who thinks about using the current conflict in the Middle East to threaten Texans or our critical infrastructure, understand this clearly: Texas will respond with decisive and overwhelming force to protect our state," the governor wrote.
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The Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched missiles and drones at Israel on Sunday night, ostensibly in revenge for the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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The U.S. Department of State issued guidance on Monday for Americans stuck in the Middle East amid Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
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An elementary school counselor charged with sexually abusing children has remained on paid leave after being arrested in February 2025 in Sacramento, California.
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An artificial intelligence company has one philosopher in charge of teaching its chatbot right and wrong, and now her views are everywhere.
That person is Scottish immigrant Amanda Askell, who holds degrees from Oxford and NYU. Askell is in charge of the moral leanings of Claude, the state-of-the-art chatbot from Anthropic — the leading AI company Trump banned from government work for "radical left, woke" politics.
Despite the White House crackdown, however, Anthropic's products are dominating the tech sector and transforming the economic landscape, and Askell's indoctrination of Claude is spreading through the internet as its powerful applications become an emerging industry standard.
'Respecting others' values can also be harmful. Navigating this is hard.'
Askell, formerly MacAskill from a previous marriage (since divorced), is the woman who teaches chatbot Claude how to be "a good person."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Askell is instructing the AI on how to read subtle cues and to avoid being a bully or "doormat," and she compares her work to that of a parent raising a child.
To that end, X owner Elon Musk — who is indeed a competitor with his own xAI — criticized Askell as the company's choice.
"Those without children lack a stake in the future," Musk wrote in February.
Askell replied, "I think it depends on how much you care about people in general vs. your own kin. I do intend to have kids, but I still feel like I have a strong personal stake in the future because I care a lot about people thriving, even if they're not related to me."
Musk shut her down, though, stating that Askell cannot understand his point until she has a child, "anymore than someone who has never experienced true love can understand love."
Askell is not shy about bringing her philosophical or political leanings into the public spotlight for open discourse, and although she displays obvious liberal leanings, it would be hard to label her as unwilling to engage in debate.
She has often discussed ethics and morals of AI bots throughout her time with OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly posing questions about navigating cultural viewpoints for a worldwide product.
"It's easy to say you want technology to respect local values when those values are unobjectionable," she wrote in 2021. "It's harder when they include things like persecuting gay people. Imposing your values can be harmful. Respecting others' values can also be harmful. Navigating this is hard."
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Also in 2021, Askell praised the vaccination rate in San Francisco. Four years later, she seemed to call out some of the vaccine side effects:
"Getting a covid vaccine is like a surreal religious experience of chills and pain and fever dreams where you feel like you've lived a decade in a single night and gazed into something absurd and otherworldly. As a bonus, it also makes you less susceptible to covid," she claimed.
She even referred to her dosage, albeit jokingly, as the "mind-bending RNA vaccine."
Askell has also engaged in discussions surrounding reparations and said she supported governments paying off the debt for those of certain ethnicities.
"It seems more sensible for governments to underwrite some amount of debt from historically disadvantaged groups like black people in the US," she claimed. "That way you try to prevent social harms from perpetuating without legislating the burden onto a specific industry."
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Askell has also frequently discussed immigration, and in addition to saying how difficult the process has been for her in the United States, she has noted an increased intolerance for illegal immigration from both sides of the political aisle.
"Legal and illegal immigration seem to basically be entirely different policy domains and I'm not sure why they get lumped together," she wrote on X in late 2024. "Americans dislike illegal immigration but are surprisingly supportive of legal immigration."
Askell's views are now being disseminated throughout the world through OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot), an open-source AI bot that users are downloading for their own use to do their own bidding. This can happen locally on one's computer, be unleashed online, or both.
It is, to borrow a '90s analogy, the first burned CD of the AI chatbot world, based on Anthropic's Claude; and now it is everywhere, perpetuating Askell's views.
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The United States Senate reconvenes to hold a debate and vote on war powers resolutions after the United States and Israel carried out joint strikes on Iran this weekend.
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Fox News anchor Shannon Bream may look like the perfect picture of health on the outside, but she’s no stranger to illness and pain.
In a battle that nearly broke her physically, emotionally, and spiritually, Bream tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey about a mysterious nighttime episode that soon became a years-long ordeal that left her desperate for answers — and ultimately relying on faith when medicine seemed to fail.
“Several years ago, I woke up one night with excruciating pain in one eye, and it was bizarre. I’m stumbling around the bathroom looking for eye drops, I try like a compress, a washcloth on it,” Bream tells Stuckey.
“And I thought, what have I done while I’m sleeping? This is so strange. And kind of thought of it as a one-off. And that went on for a while. A few weeks later, a few months into it, I’m now getting this pain in both eyes,” she explains.
Bream got to the point where she couldn’t sleep and suffered from double vision and migraines on top of the eye pain.
When she went to a specialist, she only got worse.
“I’m now to where this, as crazy as this sounds, I’m carrying eye drops with me everywhere, at the gym, from machine to machine, even in the shower. Like water touching my eyes hurt. And there was just this mystery about it,” she tells Stuckey.
“I go back to the specialist and say to him, ‘I’m really struggling. I can’t sleep’ ... and I just told him, ‘I’m kind of barely holding on right now, and I need some answers.’ And he said to me, ‘You know, you’re very emotional.’ And I always describe it as feeling like I needed somebody to throw me a life preserver, and he threw me an anchor. And I just went under,” she continues.
And this helplessness led to Bream feeling as though it “would be so nice to just go to sleep.”
“The Lord knows how much I’m struggling, just to wake up in heaven. Like, just be done with this. I can’t fathom another 40 years of my life living like this. There were times I couldn’t fathom 40 seconds. I mean, I just was in such excruciating pain all the time,” she explains.
But before Bream gave up, she prayed for another doctor — and God provided.
“When he came in, he said, ‘Oh, I know what you have.’ He hadn’t looked at my eyeballs, had done none of that. And it was this weird hopeful feeling that I really had not had in almost two years at that point,” Bream explains.
“It’s called Map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, which is a mouthful,” she tells Stuckey, noting that while there’s no cure, surgery and therapy the doctor provided were helpful.
“So much bittersweet there because it really deepened my faith in so many ways. Made me much more empathetic and just grateful to be on the other side of that,” she adds.
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