Congress seeks answers about rising drone activity over military basesDefense officials testified before Congress on Tuesday about the increase in drone activity over military sites. …[TheTopNews] Read More.UPI – United States | United States NewsTue, April 29, 20254 hours ago
Trump roasted Dem critics, media with new nicknames in first 100 days online: ‘Watermelon-Head…President Donald Trump has been unafraid to publicly blast Democrats and the liberal media during his first 100 days in office, continuing a similar trend from his first term.In one high-profile skirmish, Trump publicly berated Maine’s Democrat. Gov. Janet Mills for defying his executive order barring biological males who identify as transgender from competing in women’s sports.”Your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports, so you better comply because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding,” Trump told Mills during a meeting of the nation’s governors at the White House in February. Mills argued she would “see [him] ion court” over the matter, to which the president responded: “I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.”TRUMP TOOK ON THE ‘ENTIRE’ INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL WORLD ORDER WITH TARIFFS: JOURNALIST”Enjoy your life after governor,” he…
‘No Idea What He’s Doing’: Hegseth Roasted For Ending ‘Biden Initiative’ Championed By Mar…(Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Tuesday that he canceled a program that promoted women in national security and military roles in the U.S. government, sparking a quick backlash. “This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the @DeptofDefense. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING,” Hegseth wrote on X, adding: WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it. DoD will hereby executive the minimum of WPS required by statute, and fight to end the program for our next budget. GOOD RIDDANCE WPS! Hegseth’s announcement quickly raised eyebrows as the Women, Peace and Security Act, which created the program he ended,…
These 10 Charts Prove Clean Energy Is Winning Despite Donald Trump’s EffortsThis story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At every light switch, power socket, and on the road, an unstoppable revolution is already underway. Technologies that can power our lives and jobs while doing less harm to the global climate—wind, solar, batteries, etc.—are getting cheaper, more efficient, and more abundant. The pace of progress on price, scale, and performance has been so extraordinary that even the most optimistic forecasts about green tech in the past have turned out to be too pessimistic. Clean energy isn’t just powering our devices, tools, and luxuries—it’s growing the global economy, creating a whole suite of new jobs, and reshaping trade. And despite what headlines may say, there’s no sign these trends will reverse. Political and economic turmoil may slow down clean energy, but the sector has built up so much momentum that it’s become…
Autonomous: Radio Has to Drive Its Own FutureDuring 2024, passengers took more than 4 million fully autonomous rides in Waymo self-driving cars. If you haven’t seen one of these almost sci-fi vehicles, it’s probably because you haven’t recently been to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix or Austin. But make no mistake: It’s only a matter of time before one shows up on your ride-sharing app or even in your own driveway. Since about half of all radio listening happens in the car, the implications for the industry are obvious. This is either a golden opportunity to grow share or a chance to watch broadcast radio drive off into the sunset. A person holds an iPhone with the Waymo One app, hailing a Waymo self-driving car in San Francisco in March. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Understanding how autonomous vehicles (AVs) will change radio means watching the tech reshape the car itself….
The Worst Parts of Trump’s First 100 Days Involved Ignoring Libertarian PrinciplesBefore the 2024 election, I wrote about the perplexing phenomenon of libertarians who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump for president, given his anti-libertarian and authoritarian temperament, his being “fanatically against free trade,” and pushing a “short-term promise to assault and kidnap and ship out millions of residents who have harmed no one’s life or property, and in doing so destroy huge chunks of America’s productive economy, disrupting the lives of the other millions of legal citizens who hire them, work for them, depend on their services, or rent and sell to them.” How Trump’s administration has misgoverned in its first 100 days, with his most destructive abuses arising from his rejection of core libertarian principles about trade policy and immigration, the movement of goods and people across arbitrary government barriers, demonstrates why trying to supposedly balance those ferociously anti-libertarian tendencies…