Footage shows Trump looking extremely drowsy at his inaugural “Board of Peace” meeting on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. His eyelids grew heavy during Major General Jasper Jeffers III’s presentation, and if he didn’t fall asleep completely, he at least looked incredibly disinterested in his own creation.

He is also under investigation for alleged misappropriation of public funds and corruption.

Western allies and US commanders express concern over Trump plan to hire Israeli-armed militias

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One final thought: if ISIS is allowed to ‘flourish’ in order to attack Iraq and/or Iran, what happens after that? Do you think ISIS will settle, or is the very real risk that it will expand beyond the borders of West Asia and Persia? Western regimes have created a Frankenstein monster that will eventually turn on their handlers and the populations of the countries whose regimes sustain the terror group if they are not contained and defeated by what remains of the regional resistance against the Axis of Terror.

Ghana's President John Mahama has received the African Union's backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the 'gravest crime against humanity.'

There is broad historical consensus that the transatlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries, which involved the kidnapping, enslavement and transport of millions of Africans to the Americas and the Caribbean, was one of the biggest tragedies in human history.

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The percentage of Canadians with a favorable view of the U.S. is now very similar to the percentage with a favorable view of China [both are very low].

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Canadians’ shifting opinion maps onto rhetoric from key government figures. Industry Minister Melanie Joly’s comment that trade discussions with China are “more predictable and stable” than with the U.S. is a good example of missing the forest for the trees.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech, a thinly veiled criticism of President Trump, came days after a new trade deal and smiling photo-op with Xi Jinping. It was another historic miscalculation. Both Joly’s comment and Carney’s speech betray a naive equivocation between China and the U.S.

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Yes, perhaps American democracy is strained, but the resilience of the American political system and people is also very much on display.

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Elections, term limits and push-back from legislatures on the executive are openly despised concepts in the People’s Republic of China. When Xi exercises hostage diplomacy or coercive tariffs against trading partners, which he does routinely, there is no open debate, no democratic backlash, no Chinese media outcry.

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Late this summer, a U.S. appeals court ruled most of Trump’s tariffs illegal. The Supreme Court followed up Friday, ruling that Trump exceeded his authority when imposing tariffs through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law intended to be reserved for national emergencies.

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For Canadians, perhaps the most disturbing part of Trump’s presidency thus far has been its immigration enforcement, including shootings and deaths in custody. The seemingly needless deaths on the streets of Minneapolis, and the subsequent characterization of the victims as “domestic terrorists” by the Trump administration, is inexcusable.

Yet compare the American outcry and mass protests over these crackdowns to the Chinese response to the Uyghur genocide.

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India and the US have deferred trade talks which were set to take place this week as they "study the implications" of the US Supreme Court striking down the Donald Trump administration's global tariffs, an Indian commerce ministry official told the BBC.

An Indian delegation was due to travel to Washington this week to finalise the terms of an interim trade deal which was announced earlier this month.

The agreement reduced US tariffs on Indian goods from 50% to 18%, even though several aspects of it remained unclear.

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Hey y'all, REAL basic question here. Like many, friends and I have started using Matrix (working on setting up my own server) and settled on Commet for a client, mainly because of its simplicity and gif keyboard (friends demand it)

Now I see in the Element client, during a call you can mute others. Commet does not have this feature anywhere that I can see, or I am missing something! This seems like such a basic feature I can't believe they wouldn't have it. Its a feature we desperately need to be able to mute others with echo/noise or if you have 2 gamers in the same room with 1 mic it picks up everyone so you want to be able to mute that person so you don't hear yourself echo back). Honestly element has much better audio settings but is just missing integrated gifs or I would use it.

I understand devs are doing this for free and owe us nothing. But this setting should really be in there. Teamspeak had it 15 years ago..

I did search everywhere I could on the internet and found no answer to this.

Anyway, thanks for the noob help!

Israeli soldiers fired nearly a thousand bullets during the massacre of 15 Palestinian aid workers in southern Gaza on March 23, 2025—with at least eight shots fired at point blank range—according to a joint investigation by the independent research groups Earshot and Forensic Architecture. The report, based on eyewitness testimony and audio and visual analysis, shows that a number of aid workers were executed and that at least one was shot from as close as one meter away.

In Tel al-Sultan that day, Israel killed eight aid workers with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), six from Palestinian Civil Defense, and a UN relief agency staffer. It immediately triggered international condemnation and was described as “one of the darkest moments” of the war by PRCS.

The Israeli military was forced to change its story about the ambush several times, following the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave, along with their flattened vehicles, and the emergence of video and audio recordings taken by the aid workers. An internal military inquiry ultimately did not recommend any criminal action against the army units responsible for the incident.

I tested 9 flagships (Claude 4.6, GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Kimi K2.5, etc.) in my own mini-benchmark with novel tasks, web search disabled and zero training contamination and no cheating possible.

TL;DR: Claude 4.6 is currently the best reasoning model, GPT-5.2 is overrated, and open-source is catching up fast, in particular Moonshot.ai's Kimi K2.5 seems very capable.

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Anyone trying to buy a souvenir at the official Olympic stores at the Milano Cortina Games will have been exposed to an issue troubling Europe's policymakers: the dominance of foreign payment providers and the fading role of cash.