‘The Brink of War’ Gives Reagan’s Reykjavik Summit the History Channel Treatment
Jeff Daniels is solid as the Gipper, but it’s a shame that such a significant event did not get a better movie.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Mr. Zdan is a writer, award-winning investigative journalist and television newscaster. He is a regular contributor to NewsNation, Newsmax and other news networks and hosts an international commentary program on TV Asia.
Jeff Daniels is solid as the Gipper, but it’s a shame that such a significant event did not get a better movie.
By ALEX ZDAN
||Culture
‘Gringos’ who detained wounded fishermen off the coast of Ecuador were CIA operatives, according to unnamed sources quoted by the Washington Post.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Anthropic is working on a moral compass for Claude but has yet to determine if the AI model is mirroring input or developing a personality replete with neuroses.
By ALEX ZDAN
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With a new cut of his 2008 movie ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn,’ the franchise’s creator takes aim at fan-obsessed pop culture.
By ALEX ZDAN
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‘The only person who wants these ‘golden ships’ is Donald Trump. So he can slap his name on them,’ Schumer says.
By ALEX ZDAN
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‘Just as New England no longer promotes whaling but sells everything that celebrates whales, Ocean City has a similar opportunity to transition toward compassion.’
By ALEX ZDAN
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The decision on whether to charge Dr. Fauci criminally with contemptof Congress will rest with the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, or a grand jury if she decides to let one be the final arbiter.
By ALEX ZDAN
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The contempt resolution brought by Senator Rand Paul finds Dr. Fauci did not have grounds to exercise his Fifth Amendment privileges against self-incrimination during his July 29th testimony to the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
By ALEX ZDAN
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The same conditions that have slowed oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted tea shipments from India, driving up the price of a long favored beverage.
By ALEX ZDAN
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Hugging Face’s CEO is ambivalent about proposed legislation to allow Homeland Security to throttle or even terminate an artificial intelligence model during a ‘loss-of-control scenario.’
By ALEX ZDAN
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The administration says the temporary benefit put in place under the Biden administration amounts to corporate welfare for insurance companies and is no longer needed to stabilize the market.
By ALEX ZDAN
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The practice enhances the transmissibility or virulence of biological agents, making them easier to study but more dangerous to the public if they escape from the lab.
By ALEX ZDAN
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