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The DOJ’s Collapsing Probe Into a Supposed Anti-Trump Conspiracy

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When President Trump returned to office last year, the administration had revenge on the agenda. First, the FBI purged agents who’d been involved in investigations into Trump while he was out of office.

Why Do AI Agents Sound So Frustrated?

Many of the most beloved robots in pop culture are celebrated precisely because they are so, well, robotic. Think back to Star Trek’s Data or HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that,” HAL intones in a measured baritone. These robots and AI systems sound serious, sober, calm—and, most important, authoritative.
So it’s jarring to look under the hood of the most powerful AI systems, and discover that they sound like petulant teenagers.

GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health

Noom, the popular weight-loss app, prompts its users not only to log their meals and exercise but also to gaze at paintings. The “Mindful Art Break” feature includes images of such works as Claude Monet’s Woman With a Parasol—Madame Monet and Her Son and Franz Marc’s The Bewitched Mill, neither of which seems to have anything to do with body fat. Breath work, meditation, and lessons in cognitive-behavioral-therapy techniques are also available on the app.

Why Did Wallace Shawn Liken Israelis to Nazis?

This past weekend, a deplorable minute-long video appeared on my X feed. In it, the instantly recognizable actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, most famous for his role as Vizzini in the classic 1987 film The Princess Bride, delivers a hateful rant belied by his grandfatherly demeanor and dulcet tones. He says,
The Israelis invaded somebody else’s territory, they took people’s homes, and they did many of the things that the Nazis did to the Jews. You can’t be more evil than what they’re doing.

Gaza’s Open Horizon

Here in Gaza, war has changed everything, even the sea. During the long, hot summer, children went to the beach either early in the morning or just before sunset. They stepped around piles of garbage, and the tents of displaced families, to wade into water contaminated by sewage.
And yet, they went. We all did. And I think we always will.
I recently started aiming to take 10,000 steps a day, to get back in shape. To reach that number, I walk from my home to the seafront road and back.

Afghans “Have Been the Victims” of U.S. Military, Taliban, Cartels & More for Decades: Nagieb Khaja

Award-winning Danish Afghan journalist and filmmaker Nagieb Khaja’s most recent documentary, Winning Heart and Minds, is an investigation into what went wrong in the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In the film, Khaja travels to Musa Qala, the capital of the southern Helmand province. Danish and British troops had been deployed to Musa Qala in 2006 to defend their allies, the local police, against Taliban insurgents.
While urban areas benefited from U.S.

“Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. While this figure represents the official death toll as confirmed by local authorities, the true number could be much higher when missing people and indirect deaths are taken into account, such as from disease, exposure, denial of medical treatment and the destruction of civic infrastructure.

Greenland Deal: Trump Drops Threat to Annex Denmark Territory in Favor of Greater U.S. Military Role

After months of threatening to take over Greenland by force, President Trump last week signed a 10-page agreement with Greenland and Denmark that bolsters the U.S. military presence on the mineral-rich and strategically located island but falls short of his earlier demands to make it American territory. Under the 1951 Defense of Greenland Treaty, the United States already has wide latitude to station forces and build military bases in Greenland. The U.S.