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Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon, recently warned that technology, specifically artificial intelligence, will cost thousands of Americans their jobs in coming months and years.
Intel, the faltering legacy tech company, confirmed that.
It announced, in an email sent to employees, that it could lay off as many as one-fifth of its staff."These are difficult actions but essential to meet our affordability challenges and current financial position of the company," explained Naga Chandrasekaran, an executive at the Oregon-based company.
His comments were confirmed in a report at Oregon Live.
Chandrasekaran said the company is expecting cut up to 20% of its factory workers.
A report at the Daily Mail noted the company has about 109,000 workers globally, so the cuts could mean up to 21,800 being laid off.
"It is not clear how many work in US-based factories, and how many American jobs will go," the report said.
Microsoft had confirmed only days ago it was preparing to cut thousands of jobs, and Amazon also said it was making plans for "brutal" workforce cuts, all because of AI.
The Mail noted this was the second round of layoffs at Intel in just a year, after last winter's 15% cutback.
The report said the company troubles are because of upstart competitors, compounding financial losses, and a declining stock price.
Chipmakers IBM, AMD, TSMC and NVIDIA have gained ground by investing in AI, the report said.
Intel's stock price was $68 in 2021, but only about $21 now. It reported a loss of $821 million during the first quarter of the year, the report said.
It was Jassy who said, "As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. It's hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce."
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A newly published report says that CBS parent Paramount is hesitating to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump over the network's decision to edit a Kamala Harris interview during last year's presidential race, eliminating her word salad response and inserting a coherent statement.
The report in the New York Post confirms it's because the corporation fears accusations of bribery should Democrats take over the U.S. House in the 2026 elections.
That fear is because there have been charges, without evidence, that the Trump administration's Federal Communications Commission may not approve a pending merger involving Paramount absent a settlement.
The report said, "Approval of the deal by Trump's regulators at the Federal Communications Commission is seen as contingent on settlement of the case, people at Paramount tell The Post. Trump legal reps and officials deny that the two issues are related, but Paramount executives are concerned that any large settlement would be considered a bribe since the fate of the $8 billion Paramount-Skydance merger is at stake."
The report said Trump's legal team had tried to settle for $50 million, but then reportedly agreed to the slightly lower figure.
"(The Trump people) appeared to be willing to settle for less, but even that amount worries the Paramount people," one deal insider was quoted in the Post report.
Meanwhile, the report said a source close to the Trump legal team denied the $35 million figure was acceptable.
"CBS has denied the charges and the main allegation that it purposely edited the Kamala Harris interview to edit out her famous 'word salad' vernacular to make her sound more presidential," the report said.
Media heiress Shari Redstone is wanting to sell Paramount to independent studio Skydance, and she has indicated previously her willingness to pay as much as $50 million to end the case.
She's wants to "preserve some semblance of her inheritance from her late father, media mogul Sumner Redstone."
Earlier, the Disney-owned ABC settled a Trump lawsuit, over anchor George Stephanopolous' claims Trump was guilty of "rape," paying $15 million.
"Skydance is run by movie maven David Ellison, the son of Trump friend and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who is worth approximately $250 billion," the report said.
The report noted, "A Paramount spokesman declined comment. A legal rep for Trump didn't return a request for comment. A Redstone rep didn't return a request for comment."
Democrats in Congress already have "raised the bribery issue and the worry is that a state attorney general or Congress — if it changes hands in the midterms — could launch an investigation," the report said.
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Abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood is running fewer brick-and-mortar abortion businesses these days. But it is actually increasing the abortions it performs.
Because it has taken the abortion industry online.
That's according to a new report from STOPP, the American Life League's program to monitor Planned Parenthood and comment on its activities.
"America's largest abortion provider is deliberately skirting legislated protections for expectant mothers and their preborn children while continuing to receive nearly $800 million in taxpayer funding," explained the organization.
It is the new "2025 Planned Parenthood Facilities Report" that documents the trends.
It shows while the number of the abortion chain's physical locations dropped "to its lowest level since 2006," it performed a record number of abortions, 402,230, in 2022-2023.
This was done through "online appointments, virtual health centers, and abortion pill mobile apps."
"Planned Parenthood is leveraging the Internet to skirt state abortion laws," said Katie Brown Xavios, national director of American Life League. "Even in states where abortion pills are restricted, women can book virtual appointments and receive abortion drugs in the mail. This is not only unethical, it's illegal."
The report explains that from 2022 to last month, the nation's leading player in the abortion industry "shut down 66 brick-and-mortar locations, dropping 22 from its total facility count in the first five months of 2025. Yet in its 2023-2024 annual report, we see that the abortion conglomerate took credit for performing a record high number of abortions – 402,230 – in 2022-2023."
"Planned Parenthood is adapting to find new ways of delivering abortion in the face of state attempts to shield women and children from harm," explained Xavios. "As legislators seek ways to defund the abortion vendor and Planned Parenthood is closing doors, the organization is infiltrating the virtual healthcare sphere, moving online to entice its clients to end the lives of their preborn children through convenient, impersonal telehealth services. In the face of declining facilities for on-site abortions, Planned Parenthood has cunningly leveraged the telehealth platform to prescribe abortion pills to women, even in states where the pills are illegal, furthering its largest moneymaking 'service.'"
The report also notes that travel to states where the abortion industry essentially is unregulated, or nominally regulated, has increased, including to Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas and New Mexico.
Planned Parenthood boasted in 2023 along it "helped" more than 33,000 women travel out of state to get an abortion.
The report said even as the world suffered from COVID-19, "the Biden administration temporarily lifted regulations on mailing abortion pills through the postal service so that women could have abortions without in-person appointments. Then in 2023, the FDA permanently removed regulations on mailing abortion pills throughout the United States, making it easier for both the abortionist to distribute the pills and for mothers to obtain them. Additionally, shield laws in seven states allow abortionists to legally provide abortion pills via telehealth to women who live in states with more restrictions."
At Planned Parenthood, it turned its work toward telehealth options for women, virtual health centers and a social media app to push abortions.
"As Planned Parenthood increases its virtual footprint, one has to wonder if this is an attempt to counter the steep decline in brick-and-mortar facilities," Xavios suggested. "Another possibility is that Planned Parenthood is desperate to regain market share from rogue abortion pill drug cartel traffickers that are snagging the abortion giant's customers and profits via shadowy virtual operations. The truth likely lies somewhere in the middle, but one thing is certain: Planned Parenthood is panicking, and it's changing its game."
Katherine Van Dyke, American Life League's lead researcher for the STOPP report, summed up the findings saying, "Every time we learn that a Planned Parenthood facility has closed its doors for good, we can rejoice in knowing that lives and souls will be saved without an abortion vendor in the neighborhood. However, Planned Parenthood is now utilizing the Internet to continue to earn big bucks off of its most profitable revenue stream—aborting preborn babies. And they've illegally played a part in trafficking more than 33,000 women across state lines to get those abortions."
American Life League president Judie Brown said Planned Parenthood now promotes abortion by mail, letting women "kill their babies in the privacy of their home. If this is not demonic, then what is? We must end Planned Parenthood's reign of death."
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Democrats were on the warpath on Wednesday against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was supposed to be asked about the department's budget requests.
Instead, he was asked about whether he'd given an order to kill (use lethal force on) Americans.
The senator pursuing that line was told the "be careful" about believing what she reads in books. "Except for the Bible."
When another member of the Senate complained about whether it was "appropriate" for a social media influencer to "influence personnel decisions, Hegseth informed the senator her time was up.
She erupted in anger.
Hegseth told another he rejected the premise of what clearly was an outlandish question, which he said was just intended to "SMEAR" President Trump.
And he delivered his opinion that entry level judges in the federal court system are not given the responsibility of determining national security policy.
At one point, MSNBC's commentator spoke over Hegseth, drowning out his explanation of the success the Trump administration has had in securing the southern border.
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After President Trump responded negatively to assertions by his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, recent media reports claim the former Democrat DNI is on thin ice with her boss.
In March, Gabbard made remarks before Congress, saying that although Iran's enriched uranium levels were at an all-time high, experts believed that Tehran was not currently seeking to develop a nuclear bomb.
Trump was asked about the remarks Tuesday and responded: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having a weapon."
Another bone of contention reportedly is a video Gabbard posted on X June 10 in response to a trip she took to Hiroshima, Japan, the location of the first nuclear attack in history. She warned that "political elite and warmongers" are "carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers," placing the world "on the brink of nuclear annihilation."
The video reportedly angered the president, as it was seen as correcting the administration's policy on Iran.
Politico reported comments from anonymous sources familiar with the relationship between the two.
"I don't think [Trump] dislikes Tulsi as a person," the source said. "But certainly the video made him not super hot on her … and he doesn't like it when people are off message."
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance has defended Gabbard.
"Tulsi is a veteran, a patriot, a loyal supporter of Pres Trump and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024," Vance said in a statement obtained by NewsNation. "She's an essential member of our nat sec team, & we're grateful for her tireless work to keep America safe from foreign threats."
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GRANTS PASS, Oregon – Two Oregon educators who were fired for expressing their opinions about gender-identity issues on their own time have won a victory in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The two women, Rachel Sager (previously Damiano), a former assistant principal, and Katie Medart, a teacher, had sued the Grants Pass School District after being fired over their production of a 2021 video, called "I Resolve," that presented ideas about how the district could handle issues surrounding the use of pronouns and restrooms amid the growing popularity of students identifying as genders counter to their biological sex. The two hoped the district would establish policies that protected student privacy, respected parental rights and labeled restrooms and changing areas based on "anatomical gender presentation."
A three-judge panel ruled Monday that the women can move forward with their lawsuit.
As reported by the Oregon Eagle, Judge Jennifer Sung wrote that there are real disputes over what the pair did and whether it disrupted the district enough to justify their firings, meaning a jury of the educators' peers may now decide whether their speech was wrongly punished by the district.
Sager and Medart's video was made at a local church during spring break on their own time, but allegations arose that they used some work time and school email accounts, and that Medart mentioned an actual student's situation in the film. As WND reported, after initially being fired, the district reinstated them but in different positions.
The educators sued the school district for violating their free speech, equal protection, Title VII rights and the Oregon Constitution. A lower court threw out their claims, but the 9th Circuit decision brings key parts of the suit back to life.
Matthew Hoffmann, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been working on the case, told the Oregon Eagle the ruling affirms vital rights for teachers.
"The 9th Circuit recognized that teachers don't give up their free speech and religious rights when they step onto campus. Government employers can't silence speech just because they disagree with it," Hoffmann said.
"Rachel and Katie spoke up for what they believed was best for everyone: parents, students and staff alike. They didn't break the law. They didn't harm anyone. They offered ideas. The district fired them for it, and that's flatly unconstitutional."
Hoffmann says the message is clear: "Public schools can't play favorites in the culture war. They can't protect one side and punish the other. This decision defends freedom for every teacher to speak up and stand with families."
The lawsuit now goes back to the trial court, and based on the result there, either side could appeal again, potentially reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Not guilty of murder but guilty of operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
That's the jury's determination in the case against Karen Read.
She was charged for the death of her Boston policeman boyfriend John O'Keefe.
Prosecutors claimed she ran into him and killed him during a blizzard in January 2022.
The verdict from jurors said she was not guilty of second-degree murder, which was the most serious claim. But they convicted her on of a lesser offense of driving a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of .08% or more.
A report from Fox News said a special prosecutor in the case, Hank Brennan, asked the judge for a sentence of a year of probation and for her to be ordered into an outpatient program, which is routine in the jurisdiction for first drunken driving offenses.
The jury also returned not guilty verdicts to drunken driving manslaughter and fleeing the scene of a deadly accident.
It was her second trial. During the first, last year, jurors deadlocked.
Her supporters burst into cheers on hearing the decision.
The month-long testimony included statements from two women, Jennifer McCabe and Kerry Roberts, who said they were with Read when O'Keefe was found lying in the snow and unresponsive. McCabe claimed Read said, three times, "I hit him."
The report said the couple and others had been out drinking before an after-party at the home of Brian Albert. O'Keefe was found on Albert's lawn hours later.
Prosecutors alleged Read hit O'Keefe and drove to his house without him. Read's defense said she never hit him, suggesting the injuries came from a dog attack and a party altercation.
The Norfolk County jury had been deliberating since June 13.
"Today, our hearts are with John and the entire O'Keefe family. They have suffered through so much and deserved better from our justice system," said a statement released by members of the Albert and McCabe families. "While we may have more to say in the future, today we mourn with John's family and lament the cruel reality that this prosecution was infected by lies and conspiracy theories spread by Karen Read, her defense team, and some in the media."
The jury has posed several questions to the judge during deliberations, including about whether there could be a split verdict.
Beverly Cannone, the judge, said she was unable to answer hypotheticals.
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China reportedly wanted to manufacture and send to the U.S. false driver's licenses during 2020 in order to facilitate "tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in votes" for Joe Biden in that dramatic faceoff with the then-sitting president, Donald Trump, according to a new report that cites a human source's statements to the FBI.
But the FBI ordered a report on that situation destroyed, the report said.
That election, of course, was the one where there have been documented enough "undue influences" to have changed the outcome, which ended up with Biden in the Oval office. One was Mark Zuckerberg's decision to hand out, through foundations, hundreds of millions of dollars to mostly leftist local elections officials who often used the influx of cash to recruit voters in Democrat districts.
The other, which was cited in a polling as probably having cost Trump the election, was the FBI's decision to interfere in the election results by telling media and other organizations to suppress what turned out to be accurate, and damaging, information about the Biden business enterprises found in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.
The new details were outlined in a report at Just the News, which said it reviewed a raw intelligence reported containing the details.
That said a confidential human source told the FBI in 2020 China's communist government was shipping faked driver's licenses to the U.S. to be used to create those fraudulent ballots.
Just the News reported that report was one of two sent by FBI Director Kash Patel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. Originally it went to U.S. intel agencies in August of that election year as "an uncorroborated advisory."
Then the FBI suddenly recalled the report because, officials stated, they wanted to "re-interview" the source. The FBI wanted those original reports erased or destroyed.
The FBI, at the time, said, "This report was recalled in order to re-interview the source. Recipients should destroy all copies of the original report and remove the original report from all computer holdings."
That order, Just the News reported, kept the FBI or any other agency "from fully investigating allegations that Beijing was trying to meddle in the U.S. election to Biden's benefit."
But other agencies' reports affirmed parts of the alleged scheme, revealing U.S. Customs Border and Protection had captured 19,888 of the fake driver's licenses, sourced in Hong Kong and China.
They reportedly were en route to battleground states in the Midwest, where a few thousand fraudulent ballots easily could change the outcome of an election, the report said.
The FBI report had described, "Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020."
The FBI had noted that it was information, "raw intelligence," but was not a fully reviewed intel report.
The report delivered to Grassley explained, "In late August 2020, the Chinese government had produced a large amount of fraudulent United States driver's licenses that were secretly exported to the United States. The fraudulent driver's licenses would allow tens of thousands of Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party to vote for U.S. presidential candidate USPER Joe Biden despite not being eligible to vote in the United States."
Details used on the fake licenses apparently came from TikTok data, the report said.
Grassley said, "The document alleges serious national security concerns that need to be fully investigated by the FBI." His officer said the senator "is requesting additional documentation from the FBI to verify the production, and is urging the FBI to do its due diligence to investigate why the document was recalled, who recalled it and inform the American people of its findings."
Patel told Just the News he was investigating.
WND had reported only hours earlier on Patel's revelations about Chinese plans to create fake mail-in ballots, information that Patel said was never revealed to the public.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States knows where Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding, calling him an "easy target," but adds he's not looking to kill him for the time being.
"We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding," Trump said on Truth Social.
"He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now.
"But we don't want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers.
"Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" the president added.
Trump also Tuesday expressed confidence in American-made weaponry being used in the Israel-Iran war, saying "Nobody does it better than the good ol' USA."
"We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran," Trump said.
"Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured 'stuff.'
"Nobody does it better than the good ol' USA."
In an another post early Tuesday, Trump stated: "I have not reached out to Iran for 'Peace Talks' in any way, shape, or form. This is just more HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS! If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table – Would have saved a lot of lives!!!"
Trump is getting mixed reaction online, including:
"FAFO. It's the American way. We don't play games with terrorists. We blow them up before they blow us up."
"Control of the skies reflects technological superiority, but true success lies in its ability to promote peace."
"If Iran fires rockets at Israel from now on, America will be disgraced in front of the world."
"WE? What's with this WE sh**? Not our war!"
"You said no new wars and now you're getting us into a endless ones. American lives are now going to be on the line and you are going to have blood on their hands. You said America first not Israel first. This is going to end terribly. Stop now and focus on AMERICA."
"Well technically, according to Israel, this war has been going on for 30 years. So technically it isn't a new war. But I agree. I did not vote for this."
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With the armed conflict between Israel and Iran escalating, President Donald Trump has advised Iran to capitulate, saying on social media that even though the U.S. knows the hidden location of the nation's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he doesn't want Khamenei killed "for now," but rather is calling for Iran's "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER."
Now with over 220 people having been killed by Israeli airstrikes against Iran to deter its nuclear program, the U.S. and Israel have advised millions of Iranian people to evacuate their nation's capital city of Tehran. On Monday, Trump said on social media, "IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON," adding, "Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"
In an interview with WorldNetDaily, veteran national security analyst Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center said the issuing of statements to evacuate Tehran may have multiple intentions. "It likely has purposes beyond just minimizing casualties ahead of large Israeli strikes," explained Mauro, who has focused his expertise on the Middle East for over 20 years.
Broadly speaking, he said, an evacuation would help "drain Iranian resources." But there are other more specific reasons, he told WND.
With the potential for hundreds of thousands to begin exiting the city, Mauro said, "Traffic jams would make it harder for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iranian ground forces and mobile weaponry to deploy and move around."
Likewise, he said, should traffic be ordered to one side of the road to create an evacuation lane for the Iranian military, that would "give away their cover and identify themselves to aerial observers."
And the chaos of massive amounts of traffic has other advantages for Israel, the national security analyst pointed out. "It's much easier to move covert operators and informants around because [their] movement blends in, as checkpoints and domestic security become overwhelmed."
Mauro said the call for evacuation also "induced panic and possible defections." He explained: "Israeli intel can see which Iranian units are responsive to regime commands to stay put, or move to more dangerous locations," adding that "the ones who prefer staying alive will refuse or will drag their feet."
What's more, he said, "there will be increased opportunities for assassinations." For example, he explained, "Israel can't kill a target because he lives in the middle of an apartment building, but if he evacuates and gets stuck in traffic, he's now vulnerable and local security's response time is lessened due to congestion." Likewise, Mauro added, "Should a target stay inside a building but everyone else has evacuated, you can now target the building via an airstrike or infiltrate a hit squad when you couldn't before."