Month: June 2023

Related: Competition against Donald Trump Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to receive exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump is likely feeling the heat after a series of new allegations related to the special counsel’s investigation into secret documents he is accused of keeping at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency. This week, multiple reports alleged that Mr. Trump was caught on tape in 2021 admitting that he had held on to a classified Pentagon document that described a possible attack on Iran. It was later found that the…

London CNN — The political unrest that has engulfed Pakistan since former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested earlier this week will complicate efforts to secure a financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund and aggravate the country. economic crisis. Growth has stagnated and inflation has soared in the South Asian country of 220 million over the past year. With the sharp depreciation of the Pakistani rupee and dwindling foreign currency reserves, the country has struggled to import essential goods such as food, leading to deadly stampedes at distribution centers. Fears that Pakistan could default on its debt have been…

It was late 1978, on the eve of Khomeini’s revolution in Iran. Crowds marched down Pahlavi Boulevard in the heart of Tehran and beat themselves to the point of bleeding in an Ashura procession. They stormed El Al’s office in the Iranian capital while shouting threats, prompting Israelis there to flee for their lives. “We saw death before our eyes when the traditional Ashura procession turned into a demonstration of rage against the Shah’s regime,” recalls Carmi Gillon, 73. He was later the eighth head of the Shin Bet during the Rabin assassination, but then, in 1978, he was the…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Tech-inclined computer engineers and political scientists have warned for years that cheap and powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, videos and audio realistic enough to deceive voters and maybe influence an election. The synthetic images that emerged were often crude, unconvincing and expensive to produce, especially when other types of disinformation were so cheap and easy to spread on social media. The threat posed by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or two away. Not more. Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic images,…

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump has turned on another former loyalist, this time former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. “RINOS and globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL stars!!!” Trump said Tuesday afternoon about his Truth Social website, drawing criticism from conservatives who have typically been sympathetic to the uber-aggressive former president. “He is completely unhinged,” tweeted Marc Thiessena senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington Post columnist and a Fox News commentator who has also drawn Trump’s ire. Saying McEnany served the Trump administration loyally, Thiessen tweeted that he is “losing control, attacking anyone and…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – When Alexei Navalny turns 47 on Sunday, he will wake up in a bare concrete cell with almost no natural light. He will not be able to see or speak to any of his loved ones. Phone calls and visits are prohibited for those in “punishment isolation” cells, a 2-by-3-meter (6 1/2-by-10-foot) space. Guards often sing him patriotic songs and speeches by President Vladimir Putin. “Guess who is the champion of listening to Putin’s speeches? Who listens to them for hours and falls asleep? Navalny recently said in a typically sardonic social media post through his…

ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two people were killed and another person was injured in a car accident in Allegheny Township. According to Westmoreland County 911, the crash happened in the 1300 block of Melwood Road around 9:30 a.m. Dispatch confirmed that two people died in the accident and that officials were working to extract a third person from a car. The third person will be taken to the hospital for his injuries, the office said. The coroner is on his way to the scene. This is a developing story and Channel 11 has a team en route to the scene….

Video of Trump’s statement released Watch the former president answer questions in the defamation case he lost. NEW YORK – A few hours after his historic appearance this spring, donald trump aimed his anger at the judge, complaining that he is “a Trump-hating judge” with a family full of “Trump haters.” On Friday, the ex-president’s lawyers doubled down on those criticisms and demanded that Judge Juan Manuel Merchan recuse himself from his New York City criminal case over what they say is anti-Trump bias and a conflict of interest stemming from his daughter’s work for some of Trump’s Democratic rivals….