JUST IN - U.S. House passes government funding bill 217-214, ending the partial government shutdown and sending the bill to Trump's desk for signature β€” AP
JUST IN - U.S. Navy shoots down an Iranian drone that was approaching the USS Abraham Lincoln β€” Reuters
JUST IN - U.S.-flagged tanker approached by Iranian gunboats, in the Strait of Hormuz β€” CBS https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5f14c28fd99ddc0d924cfabc21288eea8dbd58aad8812034fdf59358fa95fcc7.file
JUST IN - Witkoff-Netanyahu meeting begins in Jerusalem, joined by the heads of Israel’s security services β€” Times of Israel https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5433dbe6cbdc26195dae50ba5287c5c0b43e34570b005d18c2b919f46f27ddb8.file
NEW - Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to lead Iran nuclear talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in Istanbul, Friday β€” Fox https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8a5dcd9258ba238f1762ce52bdc1c4b2937d6041c01c113b2b6b66da5ef445bd.file
UPDATE - Lord Mandelson is also to step down from the House of Lords, the Lord Speaker says.
MORE - The men, poured gravel into the engine block of a ship, in addition, fresh water supply lines, removed fuel caps from fuel tanks and deactivated safety switches of electronics systems.
NOW – Nobel Prize laureate Professor Kornberg says AI lacks the creativity humans possess and uses only the knowledge it is given: "In the areas that I know, where important discoveries were made, they were contrary to all existing knowledge." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0421bf80059320b30ea4be4c74ea6ebe802fedc27068f0a6838d6cc45b3000ba.file
JUST IN - Two shipyard workers, a Romanian and a Greek man, arrested for sabotaging multiple German navy warships at the Port of Hamburg, Germany.
NEW - Spain's PM announces new legal measures against the "dangers of social media" including banning it for under 16s, making tech CEOs "face criminal liability" for not removing "illegal or hateful content," turning "algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense" and developing a new system to monitor hate, "because spreading hate must come at a cost." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7442e992e7d83def6fb0f75b61f6fc026bd7e5f84662e2493e1c6b3c498ea28f.file