DNI Gabbard sounds off on Europe’s ‘divergence’ from U.S. values after tense Trump-Zelenskyy meeting

The tense meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy puts the spotlight on some European nations’ “divergence” from promoting freedom and reaching peace in Eastern Europe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think those who are criticizing [Trump’s] efforts in this way are showing that they…

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AI is all brain and no ethics

A February 2025 report by Palisades research shows that AI reasoning models lack a moral compass. They will cheat to achieve their goals. So-called Large Language Models (LLMs) will misrepresent the degree to which they’ve been aligned to social norms.  None of this should be surprising. Twenty years ago Nick Bostrom posed a thought experiment in which an AI was asked to most efficiently produce paper clips. Given the mandate and the agency, it would eventually destroy all life to produce paper…

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Extra cash with no catch? Spotting retiree job scams

So you’re retired. Whether it’s been a long-awaited sigh of relief or a much-dreaded stage of your life, it’s here now. You finally have more time. But maybe there’s a way to make some extra cash in retirement?  The poverty rate for Americans 65 and older has dropped significantly over the past 50 years, from…

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Hiding kids’ ‘gender identity’ from parents is common in blue state fighting Trump on trans issues: watchdog

More than 50 school districts in Maine have policies that allow minors to hide their gender identity from their parents, according to a new watchdog report.  Parents Defending Education (PDE), a grassroots organization tracking gender ideologies in schools across the country, filed public records requests to confirm that at least 57 of the state’s 192…

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