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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Statutory rape, sexual abuse of a child, assault on a child causing death, and manslaughter are some of the criminal illegal aliens documented by the Deptartment of Homeland Security.
The Trump administration is continuing the mass deportation of illegal aliens despite challenges in court from illegal alien advocates and left-wing politicians.
'ICE arrested child killers, pedophiles, murderers, and other despicable criminals across the country.'
"March 1, 2026, marked the 23-year anniversary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS is finally putting Americans first," said Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis in an email release to Blaze News.
"Over the weekend, ICE arrested child killers, pedophiles, murderers, and other despicable criminals across the country," she added.
Among those on the list was Miglan Elvin Alvarado-Martinez from El Salvador, who was convicted for assault on a child causing death in Los Angeles, California.
Fernando Melendez-Ramirez was convicted for first-degree criminal sexual penetration of a child under 13 years old in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is an illegal alien from Mexico.
Alfonso Santillan-Sanchez was convicted for third-degree rape, unlawful imprisonment, and second-degree assault with a deadly weapon in Yakima, Washington. He is originally from Mexico.
Here's a list of the other cases from the release:
DHS has reported that 622,000 illegal aliens were deported from the U.S. in 2025, and it estimates that over two million other illegal aliens have voluntarily self-deported during that time.
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Critics on the left have lambasted the administration over reports of detentions against some illegal aliens without violent criminal histories. DHS has pushed back with lists of the worst of the worst criminal aliens and also with government statistics.
In February 2026, DHS argued in a statement on social media that many illegal aliens deported without violent criminal convictions recorded in the U.S. have horrific convictions in other countries.
"We will stop at nothing to remove these public safety threats and Make America Safe Again," the agency added.
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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal visited ABC's "The View" on Monday to promote her upcoming Frankenstein remake, "The Bride," and helped lead the audience in a stress relieving screaming session that co-host Ana Navarro turned into a rage exercise against President Donald Trump.
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Iran’s state broadcaster was taken over on Sunday, according to reports, by what appeared to be a coordinated cyber operation airing messages from President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging Iranians to rise up against their government.
The interruption struck feeds operated by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, including its widely viewed TV3 channel. Viewers inside Iran recorded the moment on their phones, and the footage quickly spread across social media.
'Unleash the glorious and prosperous future that is close within your reach.'
Video circulating online show clips featuring Trump and Netanyahu accompanied by Persian subtitles calling on citizens to take action against the ruling regime.
The disruption reportedly lasted roughly 30 seconds before the signal cut to black and regular programming resumed.
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Video widely shared on X shows Trump at a podium wearing a “USA” cap, delivering remarks translated into Farsi. In the video Trump encouraged Iranian citizens to “seize control of your destiny” and “unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.”
Netanyahu’s segment, according to clips and reposts, described what he called a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Iranians to change their government and cast off what he referred to as the yoke of tyranny.
Iranian authorities have not publicly confirmed the intrusion or identified who was responsible. There has been no official statement from IRIB acknowledging the disruption.
Conservative commentator Nick Sortor wrote that Iran State TV had reportedly been hacked and was showing a message from President Trump calling on Iranians to rise up against the regime. His post quickly amassed tens of thousands of likes and more than a million views.
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Satellite monitoring groups and regional outlets reported the disruption based on viewer videos and feed anomalies, though independent verification of the source of the intrusion remains limited.
If confirmed as an external cyber operation, the intrusion would mark a rare instance of a foreign leader’s call for regime change appearing on a state-controlled television network inside an authoritarian country. During the Cold War, Western governments used outlets such as Voice of America to broadcast into countries behind the Iron Curtain. Interrupting a regime’s domestic television feed would represent a more direct form of information warfare than traditional cross-border broadcasting.
For now, Iranian state television has resumed normal programming.
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