A U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Jose Barco, was deported early Friday morning from a detention facility in Florence, Arizona — a move that has ignited outrage across veteran communities, immigration advocates, and lawmakers. Barco, a 39-year-old Venezuela-born veteran whose family fled Cuba as political refugees, served two tours in Iraq and was […]
A single ticket sold in Georgia has changed someone’s life forever. The Mega Millions jackpot, which soared to $980 million, was won Friday night by a player who overcame odds of 1 in 290.5 million—roughly the same as being struck by lightning multiple times in one year. The winning numbers were 1, 8, 11, 12, […]
When Marina Lacerda learned that House Republicans had released thousands of new Jeffrey Epstein–related documents, she said she braced herself — not for silence, but for another storm. Lacerda, 37, known for years in court records as “Minor Victim-1,” has become one of the most prominent voices calling for the full release of Epstein’s government […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Sunday that it will lift all remaining flight restrictions at 40 major U.S. airports, marking the end of a turbulent chapter in aviation brought on by the nation’s longest government shutdown. Airlines will resume full schedules Monday at 6 a.m. EST, according to a joint statement from Transportation Secretary […]
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging California’s newly approved congressional map, opening a high-stakes legal front that could help decide control of the U.S. House in 2026. The move marks an extraordinary moment in American politics: a Republican administration suing a Democratic-led state over redistricting, in a mirror image of […]
A federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of people arrested as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to a court ruling, dealing a blow to federal efforts to detain and deport as many undocumented people as possible. US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings on Wednesday morning sided with attorneys from the […]
“Please” and “Thank you” to ChatGPT: Small words, big costs Recently Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made headlines when he acknowledged that courteously saying “please” and “thank you” to AI tools like ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars in energy bills. The basic logic: Thus, the article’s framing that even small […]
Core thesis. Across these papers, Infoton proposes that today’s computing model wastes vast amounts of energy because the byte/bit abstraction expends power on “empty” states (zeros) and on mathematically inefficient software stacks. The authors argue for a re-encoding of information—an “Infoton,” described as a wave-based, physics-grounded unit—plus firmware/OS/hardware changes that would radically reduce data-center energy, […]
A Louisiana family is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against the Lafourche Parish School District after a 13-year-old girl was expelled for hitting a male classmate she says created and circulated a deepfake pornographic image of her. The incident occurred in August at Sixth Ward Middle School, sparking community outrage, national attention on social […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck its final circulating penny Wednesday, officially ending the nation’s longest-running coin denomination after more than 230 years of production. President Donald Trump ordered the phase-out earlier this year, calling the penny “wasteful” as production costs rose to nearly four cents per coin. “For far too long […]