In a defiant speech following his arrest in Manhattan, Donald Trump said America is “going to hell”. After pleading not guilty to falsifying business records to hide damaging information ahead of the 2016 election, the former president said the case against him was “an insult to our country” and insisted he had not committed any crime. “The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly... 

A high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) researcher is warning that unless all advanced AI systems and associated programs are immediately shut down, humanity will eventually become extinct at the hands of the life-destroying robots they are unleashing. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), wrote an op-ed for TIME magazine this week explaining the... 

In the complex quagmire of the Ukraine conflict, Vladimir Putin finds himself ensnared in a “no-win situation,” according to James Olson, former director of counterintelligence at the CIA. The seasoned intelligence veteran believes that the war will persist unless the Russian president meets a grim fate – either being killed or ousted, rendering him a “dead man walking.”... 

The Russian woman arrested on suspicion of assassinating one of Vladimir Putin’s propagandists in a bomb attack has today admitted she carried the statue laden with explosives into a cafe in St Petersburg – but insisted she had been ‘set up’. Daria Trepova, 26, was filmed with her hands chained to a radiator while being interrogated by Russian investigators over the assassination... 

President Biden issued a statement to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility. He told those celebrating Friday’s Transgender Day of Visibility, to know that they are seen. “We see you for who you are: Made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support” He said: “We know it’s hard when there are those who don’t see you, who don’t respect you. So, let... 

Any time the government promises to make you “safer,” beware of their intentions. The media-amplified hysteria over TikTok — a video social media platform built and run by communist China — has handed the power opportunists in Washington D.C. a cover story to try to control all online speech through the introduction of the S. 686 RESTRICT Act, sponsored by an anti-free speech zealot on the... 

An African national was arrested for urinating on homeless people in Germany and recording video of himself in the act, according to authorities. The disturbing incident unfolded on Thursday night in Düsseldorf. Three young men got into an altercation with a vagrant near the central train station for unknown reasons, German police explained in a press release. Subsequently, one of the youths took... 

The Chinese spy balloon that few across the US in February gathered intelligence from several American military sites before it was shot down, according to two senior US officials and a former senior administration official. The sources said China could have gathered more intelligence if not for the Biden administration’s efforts to block it. The intel collected was mostly from electronic signals,... 

Scientists have unveiled a blood test designed to detect signs of cancer up to a year before tumors emerge. Results from a 1,000-patient trial have shown 100 percent accuracy, even identifying cancers in a control group of patients initially believed to be cancer-free. Published in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, the blood biopsy technique focuses on changes in the behavior of stem cells, presenting... 

USA Today has once again chosen a biological male who identifies as transgender as its ‘woman of the year’. USA Today now has a habit of picking biological men as ‘woman of the year’, having last year decided that Biden’s assistant secretary of health and human services Rachel Levine was worthy of the award. This time, USA Today’s chosen transgender woman is Leigh Finke, who is an advocate... 

Famous South Korean fugitive and “crypto-entrepeneur” Do Kwon, who was behind the $40BN implosion of the terraUSD and luna digital tokens last year which sparked the initial leg of the crash sweeping the crypto space, has been arrested in Montenegro according to local authorities. In a statement on Twitter, Montenegro’s interior minister Filip Adzic said “the former cryptocurrency... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed criticism over the UK’s donation of 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, particularly objecting to the potential deployment of depleted uranium (DU) tank rounds. Putin characterized this move as a dangerous escalation towards nuclear war. The technical details of the Challenger 2 tank’s armament include a 120mm rifled gun with ammunition unique to... 

New research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters reveals in-depth how deadly per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS, are leaching out of plastic containers and contaminating the food products they contain. Confirming what earlier research also found, the study focused on the tendency of PFAS to contaminate various pesticide products via the plastic... 

Democrat lawmakers in Oregon are working to create a sanctuary state for minors to get abortions or sex changes without parental consent. The measure, The Reproductive Health and Access to Care Act, would allow “any person without regard to the age” to get abortions or sex change surgeries, including those that will sterilize them, without their parent’s knowledge or permission. The changes... 

Russia’s Wagner group is reportedly now turning its focus to Africa after suffering heavy losses in Ukraine amid the mercenary group boss’ fall-out with Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the group, has been in a long-running dispute with the Kremlin, particularly with defence minister Sergei Shoigu. He has accused Shoigu of blocking the supply of ammunition and personnel to...