Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he will continue to serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve after his chairmanship of the central bank ends next month. Powell said his decision to remain as governor is based on

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An assault caught on camera earlier this month has resulted in two indictments. Citing “federal sources,” Fox News reported Wednesday that a grand jury indicted two unnamed individuals in connection […]

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An illegal alien is accused of viciously attacking his ex-girlfriend and a man with a machete in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

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Failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, is now taking credit for cracking down on fraud in his state despite dismissing critics months ago for "politicizing the issue" in a stunning evolution all around.

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At a House Armed Services Committee hearing to explain the Pentagon’s 2027 budget request, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth got his first public congressional grilling since the start of the conflict with Iran.

The secretary came in ready to bring the fight to Congress before the questions even began.

“The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats, and some Republicans, two months … into a conflict,” Hegseth said in his opening statement.

He argued the campaign was an “existential fight for the safety of the American people.”

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the top Democrat on the committee, pressed Hegseth on this fight, arguing the administration was contradicting itself by declaring the previous “Midnight Hammer” strikes on nuclear facilities a success while also justifying the current operation as an attempt to deprive Iran of nuclear capabilities.

“So, Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance. It left us at the same place we were before,” Smith said.

Hegseth countered, “Their facilities were bombed and obliterated. Their ambitions continued.”

Hegseth added that Iran was developing a “conventional shield” to guard future nuclear weapons production, which President Donald Trump sought to destroy when Iran was at “its weakest moment.”

Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., accused Hegseth in the hearing of offering “ever-changing reasons for this war.”

Hegseth snapped at Garamendi, needling him for having described the conflict as a “quagmire” in a CNN interview shortly before the hearing.

“My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan—years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing,” the secretary said.

“You should know better, Congressman,” he continued. “Shame on you, calling this a ‘quagmire’ two months in … [and] handing propaganda to our enemies. Shame on you for that statement. Statements like that are reckless to our troops.”

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., also pressed Hegseth on the economic impact of the conflict.

“Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of the increased cost of gas and food because of the Iran war?” he asked.

“I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb,” Hegseth quipped in response. “You’re [asking] gotcha questions about domestic things.”

A Stanford microbiologist was shaken when an AI chatbot outlined a detailed plan for a biological attack on mass transit systems during a safety test last summer.

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LEE'S SUMMIT, MO — Traveling to and from work followed its standard pattern this morning, as a local dad once again split his commute between worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ and cursing out bad drivers.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested during oral arguments on Wednesday that DHS may have discriminated against Haitian migrants by ending TPS.

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A Senate report alleges that Biden administration health officials failed to act on early warning signs of potential COVID-19 vaccine side effects identified by a Food and Drug Administration scientist.

The interim report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says internal records show officials “ignored” findings from a senior FDA safety data expert using an alternative data analysis method, who identified “dozens of statistically significant safety signals for adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.”

According to the report, Dr. Ana Szarfman, then a senior medical officer at the FDA, used a modified data-mining approach that accounted for a known limitation called “masking,” which can obscure safety signals in large data sets. She worked with Dr. William DuMouchel, then chief statistician at Oracle.

Her analysis found “49 examples of extreme masking,” including about 25 statistically significant safety signals that were not detected using the FDA’s standard method.

“In other words, by using a methodology that accounted for the masking limitation, Dr. Szarfman and Dr. DuMouchel uncovered approximately 25 statistically significant safety signals for adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines that were not previously detected by FDA’s current methodology, including sudden cardiac death, Bell’s palsy, and pulmonary infarction,” the report says.

The report was made public on Wednesday morning ahead of a subcommittee hearing on the matter.

Szarfman shared her findings with other FDA officials beginning in March 2021 and continued to present similar analyses in the months that followed, according to the report.

Later analyses identified additional signals associated with COVID-19 vaccines, including “embolism and thrombosis,” “dementia,” and “death and sudden death.”

“However, rather than warn the public or halt distribution of the vaccines for further investigation, records appear to indicate that Biden health officials ignored the statistically significant safety signals uncovered through the new methodology and were more concerned about Dr. Szarfman’s efforts rather than her troubling findings,” the report says.

In April 2021, after Szarfman emailed a data-mining analysis highlighting the limitations of the FDA’s existing system, one senior FDA official wrote to colleagues, “Before we potentially reach out to Ana, we should meet internally—many considerations not suited to email …,” according to the report.

Internal emails cited by the subcommittee show FDA officials expressing concern about how Szarfman’s analyses might be perceived. One senior official warned that her work could “create erroneous conflicts that feed into anti-vaccination rhetoric.”

By May 2021, officials in the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research instructed Szarfman to “hold off on creating and sending data-mining reports and analyses.” Later communications show she was told to “cease and desist.”

Masking occurs, according to the report, when safety signals from one product are “hidden by the presence of other reported vaccines,” potentially delaying the detection of safety concerns.

To address that problem, Szarfman and DuMouchel proposed a newer method known as Regression-Adjusted Gamma Poisson Shrinker, or RGPS, which the report describes as “state of the art” and better able to “unmask hidden signals.”

Internal correspondence cited by the subcommittee shows one FDA official acknowledging that “an absence of a disproportionality alert does not rule out presence of a safety problem” and that results could be “muted” by the sheer volume of COVID-19 vaccine reports.

The report further says FDA officials in 2021 and 2022 reduced distribution of weekly data-mining reports, initially citing “data security reasons.” One Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official later suggested the decision may have been influenced by public records concerns, writing, “I think that because of the FOIAs [Freedom of Information Act requests] we may have asked FDA to stop sending these weekly data-mining outputs.”

The timing of the decision to stop distributing the weekly data-mining reports “seems particularly suspect,” the report concludes.

“In light of these public and congressional requests, the timing of FDA’s decision to end its distribution of its weekly data-mining reports seems particularly suspect,” the report says. “The notion that Biden health officials took steps to limit its distribution of COVID-19 vaccine safety data in order to avoid more internal review or public scrutiny is completely unacceptable.”

By 2024, according to the report, some FDA officials appeared to acknowledge that the newer method Szarfman advocated was more sensitive. One official wrote that the updated model produced “significantly higher” results for certain adverse events, while another agreed it appeared “way more sensitive” than the existing system.

“FDA officials had ample opportunity to involve Drs. Szarfman and DuMouchel—both experts in data mining—in their safety surveillance efforts, but instead, cast them and their analyses aside,” the report says.

The 10-8 Master Class shoots like a modernized 1911—but long-term use reveals a few important details.

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Tuesday night’s chaotic California gubernatorial debate at Pomona College was marked by constant interruptions and deep voter frustration.

Drew Allen, The Daily Signal’s California columnist, argues in today’s commentary that Republican Steve Hilton delivered the strongest performance by confronting Sacramento’s failures head-on, Matt Mahan stood out as the most pragmatic Democrat, while Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer turned in the weakest, most disconnected showings, all while 64% of Californians now believe the California dream is no longer attainable.

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