Officials in Illinois reported many deaths on Monday when a dust storm forced 40-60 vehicles, including 20 commercial trucks, to crash. More than 30 people were injured and many were killed in a series of automobile accidents on I-55, according to ABC7 Chicago. I-55 is stopped between mileposts 63 and 80 due to a major collision, according to the Illinois State Police. “Traffic is being redirected via the frontage road.” The accident, according to a tweet from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), was “caused by a dust storm, which has greatly reduced visibility.” IDOT has announced that Illinois State…
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On Monday, the Treasury Department told lawmakers that if they don’t do something to raise or stop the debt limit, the country won’t be able to pay its bills by June 1. In a message to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged Congress to end the current standoff over the government borrowing limit. She warned that waiting until the last minute could hurt the economy and the country’s credit rating. In January, Yellen told Congress that the US had hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion and that the Treasury Department would take “extraordinary measures” to…
Geoffrey Hinton worries that “bad actors” won’t be stopped from using AI. Geoffrey Hinton, a Google engineer who was known as the “godfather” of AI, quit his job and is now warning about the risks of developing AI further. Hinton worked at Google for more than ten years, and he is the one who made a big technological breakthrough in 2012 that is the basis for AIs like ChatGPT. In a letter to the New York Times, he said he was leaving Google because he now regretted his work there. He told the paper, “I make myself feel better by…
Republican MPs have been labeled “losers” by former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California for their work on anti-transgender legislation. The Advocate, an LGBT news website, released a “edited and condensed version” of the author’s conversation with Pelosi on Monday. She writes, “so many members of our community are scared right now because of all the hateful legislation in state houses all over the country and all the dangerous rhetoric by Republicans.” Allow me to elaborate if given the chance. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of gun rights and abortion rights proponents, “I don’t like those people.”Her assessment of…
The U.S. military is apparently looking into another mysterious balloon that flew over American land recently. This is because there are more and more worries that foreign enemies are using balloons to spy on secret military installations around the world. The U.S. military started following the object late last week, according to NBC News. Since then, it has flown over Hawaii and now seems to be heading toward Mexico. According to the story, U.S. officials don’t know what kind of balloon it is or who owns it, but they don’t think it’s a threat right now. The story comes after…
Missoula Democrat Zooey Zephyr is in a court battle after being censured for her transgender status by the Montana House of Representatives, which is controlled by the Republicans. On Monday, Zephyr said on Twitter, “I’m suing.” Recent actions have violated my right to free speech and the right of my 11,000 constituents to be fairly represented in government. Speaker Regier does not own the Montana State House, and I will work to give Montanans a voice there. In this case, the plaintiff is requesting that Zephyr be readmitted to the courtroom. Defendants include the state of Montana, House Speaker Matt…
Brittney Griner, a WNBA star, told the media last week that she believes it is a “crime” to exclude women who were born female from competing against biological men who pretend they are transgender women. A former NCAA diver, Riley Gaines is now speaking up for the rights of women athletes. At a press conference for the upcoming Phoenix Mercury basketball season, Griner was asked about transgender athletes competing against natural-born female athletes. Griner expressed her support for the proposal. To paraphrase Griner, “That’s high on the list of things I’ll fight for and speak out against.” Everybody needs to…
Critics took to social media to blast Anheuser-Busch, the makers of the flagging beverage Bud Light, for airing a country-themed ad during the first round of the NFL draft that featured women sipping Bud Light while listening to Zac Brown Band’s “Chicken Fried.” Because of its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, a showy trans influencer who says he is a woman but acts like a guy, the beer brand is in the midst of a public relations crisis. Two marketing execs have been put on indefinite administrative leave for coming up with the disastrous strategy that has caused customers to flee…
On Monday, JPMorgan Chase took over First Republic Bank, which had failed because of problems in the banking sector. First Republic Bank is based in San Francisco, California, and most of its clients are wealthy people with account amounts above the $250,000 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-backed deposit barrier. Customers withdrew their money from the company in recent weeks because the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank scared their account holders. This made the FDIC secure insured and uninsured deposits at the two failed companies to reduce the chance of bank runs at other institutions. JPMorgan Chase, which…
The Democratic mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, has begged the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to stop transporting illegal immigrants to the Windy City. Despite Lightfoot’s “strengthening” of Chicago’s position as a sanctuary city just two years ago, the city is still receiving blowback for this policy. The outgoing mayor wrote to Governor Abbott on Sunday, appealing with him to require Texas to provide treatment for the daily influx of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. The mayor claims that starting on Monday, the governor of Texas would send buses full of illegal aliens back to Chicago. Since August…
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, said in an interview last week that he thinks the Republicans will make a big mistake if Donald Trump becomes the party’s choice again, because he will lose the general election to President Joe Biden. Schwarzenegger told CNN’s Dana Bash that “no one” in the media reported the riot on January 6th properly because the focus was on “Oh, let’s get those right-wingers. Let’s throw them in prison.” “But no one has really asked why it was like that.” Schwarzenegger said. “What rights do people have that make them so angry and upset…
Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential contender, says it’s “perfectly fine” to make undergoing a sex change illegal for anyone under the age of 18. On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate and professor Vivek Ramaswamy said that transgender ism is “making more gender dysphoria” and “confusion” among young people in the United States. According to Ramaswamy, who spoke on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” youngsters who express thoughts like “I was born into the wrong body” or “my gender doesn’t match my biological sex” typically suffer from mental health problems. Chuck Todd, a journalist, wanted to know if Ramaswamy had ever tried to…
On Sunday, a Republican senator claimed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had misled to Congress about his interactions with President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Emails between Blinken and Biden in 2015 were just revealed. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has responded by saying he would release the transcript of an interview he conducted with Blinken in December 2020, in which Blinken is alleged to have denied any such interactions ever taking place. “Now that more information has come out, we know that he lied straight to Congress when he said he never emailed Hunter Biden,” Johnson said on Fox…
LGBT groups on the political left are pressuring Anheuser-Busch, maker of Bud Light, to support transgender rights activist Dylan Mulvaney. The Hill reports that the Human Rights Campaign sent a letter of protest to Anheuser-Busch last week in response to the company’s sponsored marketing contract with Mulvaney. According to our informant, “Right now, it is very important for Anheuser-Busch to stand with Dylan and the trans community.” By not defending its values of diversity, equity, and inclusion with its workers, customers, shareholders, and the LGBTQ+ community, Anheuser-Busch has displayed a surprising lack of fortitude in the face of anti-LGBTQ+ and…
Truth Social fired an executive who dared to tell the truth; that executive now works as a barista at Starbucks and makes $16 an hour. When asked by the Washington Post about his new job in North Carolina, Will Wilkerson described it as a “honest day’s work.” Wilkerson, who was 38 at the time, assisted the SEC and its equivalents in Florida and New York City in their probe of Trump’s Media and Technology Group by providing access to over a million documents, including contracts, emails, and private notes. In 2017, it was stated by a reliable government source that…