July 10, 2023 Good morning Welcome to today's top news. Leading the News
. . . Putin meets with Prigozhin, Kremlin says . . . President Vladimir Putin held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin days after denouncing an armed mutiny he had led as treasonous, Putin's spokesman said on Monday, as Russia's top general resurfaced for the first time. The meeting with Prigozhin, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, was held on June 29, five days after
the aborted mutiny, which is widely regarded to have posed the most serious challenge to Putin since he assumed the presidency on the last day of 1999. Reuters DeSantis's stumbles spur others
to consider getting in . . . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s weaker-than-expected campaign is prompting other Republicans, such as Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp,to take a new look at running for president, GOP strategists say. These Republicans argue that DeSantis, long seen as the strongest potential challenger in a GOP primary to former President Trump,
has failed to establish himself as the clear alternative. “I think his high point was right after the last election, when he was the brightest spot on an otherwise somewhat disappointing night for Republicans,” said GOP strategist Vin Weber, commenting on the big DeSantis reelection victory for governor in 2022. The Hill
Biden brutalizes staff with F-bombs . . . In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he's prone to yelling. Behind closed
doors, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast. The president's admonitions include: "God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!," "Don't f**king bullsh*t me!" and "Get the f**k out of here!" — according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts. Axios Careful that lunchbox Joe doesn't hit you with his lunchbox. Joe Biden, you have seven grandkids . . . I have sympathy for Hunter going into a “dark, bleak hole,” as he called it. I have sympathy for a father coping with a son who
was out of control and who may still be fragile. With Hunter, his father can seem paralyzed about the right thing to do. But the president can’t defend Hunter on all his other messes and draw the line at accepting one little girl. You can’t punish her for something she had no choice about. The Bidens should embrace the life Hunter brought into the world, even if he didn’t consider her mother “the dating type.” The president’s cold shoulder — and heart — is counter to every message he has sent
for decades, and it’s out of sync with the America he wants to continue to lead. Maureen Dowd A rare rebuke from the liberal New York Times columnist, who understands this as the cruelty it is. Imagine how that will affect a young girl, being rejected by the president of the United States.
Chat GPT leaders concerned AI could destroy humanity . . . OpenAI is assembling a team to prevent emerging artificial intelligence technology from going rogue and fueling the extinction of humanity, which the company now fears is a real possibility. The makers of the popular chatbot ChatGPT say AI will power new superintelligence that will help solve the
world’s most important problems and be the most consequential technology ever invented by humans. And yet, OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike warned that humans are not prepared to handle technology smarter than they are. The vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction,” Mr. Sutskever and Mr. Leike wrote on OpenAI’s blog. “While superintelligence seems far off now, we believe it could arrive this
decade.” Washington Times China's military leads the world in 'neurostrike' tech . . . China‘s People’s Liberation Army is developing high-technology weapons designed to disrupt brain functions and influence government leaders or entire populations, according to a report by three open-source intelligence analysts. The weapons can be used to directly attack
or control brains using microwave or other directed energy weapons in handheld guns or larger weapons firing electromagnetic beams, adding that the danger of China‘s brain warfare weapons prior to or during a conflict is no longer theoretical. Washington Times Scary. I'm under my desk trying to avoid a neurostrike right now. Biden reveals we're getting low on key artillery . . . "This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it," Biden told CNN's Fareed Zakaria. "And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not
permanently – but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians." Reactions on social media ranged from confused to outrage as conservative pundits and experts alike wondered why Biden was announcing the U.S. shortage during a nationally televised interview that would be seen by adversaries. Fox News
Biden meets with British PM Sunak, King Charles . . . President Biden was in London Monday morning for a whistlestop, 24-hour visit to the United Kingdom before heading for a NATO leaders
summit in Lithuania. The first meeting on Mr. Biden's agenda after his Sunday night arrival was a sit-down with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at his residence at No. 10 Downing Street. It was the president's first in-person discussion with a fellow world leader on the European trip as the U.S. and its NATO allies look to maintain a unified voice in support of Ukraine as it battles Russia's ongoing invasion. Mr. Biden was heard saying as he walked into the British prime minister's official residence that the U.S. has "no closer friend and greater ally" and that the relationship remained "rock solid." CBS
Belarus tennis star booed for not shaking Ukrainian's hand . . . ictoria Azarenka was booed off the court at Wimbledon on Sunday after her loss to Elina Svitolina. The boos seemed to stem from
Azarenka, who is from Belarus, not shaking with Svitolina, who is Ukrainian. However, what the crowd didn’t appear to realize was that Svitolina had said publicly that she would not shake hands with players from Russia or Belarus over the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. New
York Post Money Five ways the Bull market makes investors nervous . . . 1. Earnings Season Could Reveal Hidden Weakness 2. The Yield Curve Inversion Is Deepening 3. Global Markets Look Cloudy, Too 4. Trouble From Higher Rates Keeps Bubbling 5. U.S. Stock Positioning Looks Stretched Wall Street Journal
Culture Soros-backed group fuels vast leftists education network . . . The Student Experience Research Network sounds innocuous enough. The organization says it exists to "advance the research, relationships, and capacity necessary to build an education system in which every student experiences respect as a valued person and thinker." In reality, the group funds research with the goal of promoting DEI practices in education and partners with other left-wing organizations to promote
"inclusive mathematics environments" and push universities to abandon standardized tests. Earlier this month, the Student Experience Research Network took a victory lap after the University of California system said it would toss out the SAT in its admissions process. Free Beacon Sound of Freedom scores with massive box office opening . . . Sound of Freedom’s opening weekend earned
$18 million and took the No. 3 spot at the box office. The film, which is distributed by Angel Studios, details the true story of how Tim Ballard, a former federal agent with Homeland Security, quit his job and risked his life to journey into the jungles of Colombia in an effort to save children from sex slavery. Sound of Freedom shocked the box office on Tuesday with its No. 1 opening day finish, beating Disney’s latest Indiana Jones
film. Washington Examiner I went to see this gripping,
important film with my family on July 4. I hope everyone gets to see it. Transgender woman wins Miss Netherlands pageant . . . A transgender woman was crowned as the Miss Universe Netherlands’ winner Saturday. Rikkie Valerie Kolle beat
out Nathalie Mogbelzada to claim the competition’s top prize, according to TMZ. The 22-year-old from Breda became the first transgender woman to win the competition in her country. She will be the second transgender person to compete at the Miss Universe pageant later this year in El Salvador, following in the footsteps of Spain’s Angela Ponce who did so in 2018. Washington Times
Record number of Americans living alone . . . Nearly 30 percent of American households comprise a single person, a record high. Scholars say living alone is not a trend so much as a transformation: Across much of the world, large numbers of people are
living alone for the first time in recorded history. “It’s just a stunning social change,” said Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University and author of the book “Going Solo.” “I came to see it as the biggest demographic change in the last century that we failed to recognize and take seriously.” The Hill Native Americans demand land back
from Ben & Jerry's . . . Ben & Jerry’s called on the U.S. to return “stolen indigenous land” to American Indians during its Independence Day message last week. Now a tribe in Vermont is asking the famous ice cream company to personally partake in that effort. Don Stevens, chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, told the New York Post on Friday that Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in South Burlington is located on Western Abenaki land. If the company is “sincere,”
Mr. Stevens told the newspaper, then he “looks forward to any kind of correspondence with the brand to see how they can better benefit Indigenous people.” Washington Times Stealing land from Native Americans to make ice cream. What were these two liberal sugar merchants thinking?
Former Engineer fulfils dream job of being paid to be naked . . . Ever since he was a child, Dave Bufalo enjoyed being nude around the house when no one else was around. Now 80 years old and living in Denver, he has designed his backyard so he can be
naked outdoors without offending his neighbors. “I love the feeling of fresh air and sunshine all over my body,” he says. “It is just a great sense of body awareness and of being alive.” It is difficult to fathom that Mr. Bufalo was able to turn his love for being naked into a Second Act, but he did—as a nude model for artists. Wall Street Journal Man bites dog . . . A drunk
Delaware man allegedly injured two troopers and repeatedly bit a K9 while resisting arrest following a traffic stop Saturday, Delaware State Police (DSP) said. State troopers pulled over Jamal Wing, 47, of Wilmington, who was allegedly speeding southbound on Philadelphia Pike near Rolling Road at about 1:41 a.m., according to a DSP press release. Wing “exited the car without being told and refused all commands to return to his car.” Wing “forcibly” resisted arrest and bit a K9, Mako, “multiple
times” in the process. Troopers soon took him into custody, “smelled alcohol coming from his breath and detected signs of impairment.” Daily Caller Sent from heaven for reporters. As the old rule goes, "Dog bites man," no story. "Man bites dog," you've got a story.
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