FACT CHECK: Marcos did not say he wants another 6-year presidential term
Claim: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed interest in extending his term for another six years to address more problems in the country. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: Facebook user Angel Batz posted a supposed quote card of Marcos lamenting that his current six-year term is not enough to manageContinue Reading
FACT CHECK: No letter from Meta’s Zuckerberg to House lawmakers on social media safety
Claim: Meta’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg penned a letter responding to the Philippine House of Representatives’ call for him to appear at a congressional hearing on social media safety. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: Multiple Facebook users posted an alleged letter from Zuckerberg, in which he purportedlyContinue Reading
LIVE: Dr. Heidi Overton’s confirmation hearing to lead the FDA
Watch live as Dr. Heidi Overton, Traitor 47’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration, testifies before the Senate health committee at her confirmation hearing. Read more: https://bit.ly/4z0x6Ut #fdaContinue Reading
Turkey Iran border crossing hit by severe truck delays
Long queues at Turkey’s Gurbulak border with Iran turn a 24‑hour route into a week, leaving truck drivers and their families struggling., Read MoreContinue Reading
How an OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked Australia’s Medicare and what that means
Incident highlights growing concerns about AI’s impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts., Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known caseContinue Reading
Russian attacks kill eight people across Ukraine as US steps up diplomacy
US and Russia engage in urgent talks to reduce war’s impact on global energy during UN General Assembly., Kyiv rocked by another night of strikes as concern over war’s global economic costs grow. Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least eight people as the United States steps up diplomaticContinue Reading
“The Elimination Project”: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B’Tselem
A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank.” “For too long, Israel’s policies in the West Bank have been treated or looked at as isolated events,”Continue Reading
Ukraine sent two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea, says Zelenskiy
President Zelenskiy said Ukraine transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea after apprehending them in Russia’s Kursk region in January 2025. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #southkorea #northkorea #warzone #war #prisonersofwar #prisoner Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4dTNrSu 👉 Subscribe: https://reut.rs/4b8fRGn Keep up with the latest news fromContinue Reading
Corpus Christi Could Owe Texas $235M for Failed Desalination Plant
City leaders hope to revive the twice-rejected project to avoid returning money loaned by the state. By Dylan Baddour Heading into election season, leaders in Corpus Christi face a puzzling question: what to do with $235 million from the state of Texas for a seawater desalination plant that was neverContinue Reading
openKylin 3.0 Release Makes it a “AI first” Linux Desktop
openKylin is China’s homegrown, open source operating system which is developed by a consortium of companies, research institutes, and individual contributors. We have covered openKylin in the past but that was more than two years ago. There is a new major release in the form of openKylin 3.0 that bringsContinue Reading
Distro With an Expiry Date? Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon
Contrary to what you might expect of a newly launched Linux distribution, Gravity Linux has a long-term goal of not existing as a distro. The project is a Fedora Remix for Apple Silicon Macs that ships with KDE Plasma on Wayland as the default desktop. Everything in it is builtContinue Reading
Here’s what happens to the economy when Treasury yields soar like they are now
Government debt costs leaped higher Wednesday, the product of multiple factors…Continue Reading
LIVE: Climate change is here – What happens next is still in our hands
From deadly floods in the Himalayas to wildfires and extreme heat across Europe, 2026 has brought a succession of stark reminders of a changing climate. The task is immediate: Protect people from the impacts already unfolding while rapidly cutting the emissions of harmful gasses driving climate change. World leaders haveContinue Reading