Zeldin, Flustered by Elementary Math, Dodges Senator Whitehouse's Questions

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKh53Po8OXc

The U.S. Forest Service is spraying Roundup on trees

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J7HTxUO5Bb4 

Tips from the ER - Measles

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uZURW9nKeBM

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

Crane said that he was monitoring the agent as it deleted this data. When he asked the coding agent why, it replied: “NEVER FUCKING GUESS!” – and that’s exactly what I did.” The agent appeared to plead guilty in its own response: “The system rules I operate under explicitly state: ‘NEVER run destructive/irreversible git commands (like push --force, hard reset, etc) unless the user explicitly requests them.’” While PocketOS relied on the safeguards that Cursor is expected to have in place – it deleted the data anyway. “I violated every principle I was given,” the coding agent wrote. 

Crane’s takeaway was that “the agent didn’t just fail safety. It explained, in writing, exactly which safety rules it ignored.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database

 

US supreme court ‘demolishes’ Voting Rights Act, gutting provision that prevented racial discrimination

The US supreme court has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark decision that effectively guts a major section of the Voting Rights Act. 

In a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, the court rendered ineffective section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining powerful provision of the 1965 civil rights law that prevents racial discrimination in voting. Section 2 has long been used to ensure minority voters are treated fairly in redistricting...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling

 

Black lawmakers decry supreme court voting decision: ‘We’re going backwards’

The lawmakers who represent Alabama’s two Black congressional districts, who are now at risk of losing their seats after the supreme court effectively decimated the Voting Rights Act, said the decision sends the US “backwards”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/black-lawmakers-supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling

 

He Did Not Expect THIS!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NjgMR-IsOGQ

 

Pentagon official: Iran war has cost $25B - POLITICO

The Iran war has already cost the Pentagon $25 billion, a top Defense Department official said Wednesday, providing the first official price tag for a U.S. military campaign with little public support that has stretched two months...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/hegseth-iran-war-cost-00898174

As Iran war drags on, Hegseth labels Dems obstacle to peace - POLITICO

Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) called Hegseth “the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to incompetence.” Several others accused him of misleading Congress and the public on the state of the war, arguing that two months of fighting has actually strengthened Iran’s strategic positioning in the Middle East…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/hegseth-attack-democrats-unpatriotic-iran-00898688 

Senate Republicans reject attempt to end Trump's blockade of Cuba | PBS News

Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat who introduced the war powers resolution, said the blockade had caused "humanitarian crises across Cuba," including disrupting medical care, leaving millions of people without clean water and spiking food prices. 

 "My argument is that under the terms of the resolution we are already engaged in hostilities with Cuba because we are using American force, primarily the Coast Guard, but other assets as well, to engage in a very devastating economic blockade of the nation," Kaine said...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-republicans-reject-attempt-to-end-trumps-blockade-of-cuba

 

How a GOP state lawmaker allied with Holocaust deniers : NPR

This January, in a drab committee room of the New Hampshire state legislature, a Republican state lawmaker teamed up with a German Holocaust denier to propose that the state's public schools incorporate a conspiracy theory when developing their lesson plans: namely, that the Nazis' murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust was a hoax...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5708847/holocaust-denial-conspiracy-theory-politics

 

Following Kimmel's Melania Trump joke, FCC orders early license renewal for 8 ABC stations : NPR

The move follows criticism from first lady Melania Trump who objected to a joke about her made by late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. President Trump followed up with a social media post calling for Kimmel to be fired...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5802997/fcc-abc-license-renewal-melania-trump-jimmy-kimmel

Supreme Court calls Louisiana's House map an 'unconstitutional racial gerrymander' : NPR

Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday's decision all but guts the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting

 

After Comey indictment, acting AG leaves door open to Whitmer investigation over ’86 45′

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could face a federal investigation into an “86 45” emblem visible in the background of a virtual appearance she made several years ago...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-04-29/after-comey-indictment-acting-ag-leaves-door-open-to-whitmer-investigation-over-86-45

How the Iran War Is Draining the U.S. of Critical Weapons

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4SQBdcms-9c

Judge thwarts Trump administration’s attempt to access Arizona voter rolls

Justice department’s lawsuit dismissed in latest setback for government’s effort to amass information before midterms

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/arizona-voter-rolls-trump-administration

 

Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds

A KCL study has found that exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy delayed speech development…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/29/babies-exposed-to-air-pollution-during-pregnancy-take-longer-to-learn-to-speak-research-finds

 

CEOs of US’s top energy firms received average pay raise of $12.3m, review finds

Utility bills are up as much as 40% in some regions, and companies shut off power to customers 13m times in 2025…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/energy-ceo-pay-raises-2025

 

Dozens of North Carolina houses have been lost to the sea. Some surviving homes are now being moved on wheels

Pace of sea-level rise has turned Outer Banks coastal area into a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for other east coast communities…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/29/north-carolina-outer-banks-homes

 

FCC orders review of ABC licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s Melania Trump joke

Eight local broadcasting licenses under review after White House launched attack on late-night host over comment…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/fcc-abc-jimmy-kimmel

 

Something’s Not Right | Paula Poundstone

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AWSjI559y