Lee Ardis

Criminals Are Now Using AI To Impersonate Senior U.S. Officials, FBI Warns

The Federal Bureau of Investigation released an alert on Dec. 19 warning that phony text messages and AI are being used to scam people in the orbits of high-level government officials in the United States.

“Since at least 2023, malicious actors have sent text messages and AI-generated voice messages — techniques known as smishing and vishing, respectively — that claim to come from a senior U.S. official to establish rapport with targeted individuals,” The FBI wrote in an announcement.

Bondi Beach Shooter Naveed Akram Charged with 15 Counts of Murder over Terrorist Attack

Naveed Akram, lone surviving suspect in Sunday’s massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney, was charged Wednesday with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist act.

Forty counts of causing wounding/grievous bodily harm to person with intent to murder are also on the charge sheet, New South Wales Police confirmed per the ABC News outlet.

Naveed Akram remains in hospital under police guard. The other gunman, his India-born immigrant father Sajid Akram, 50, was killed in an exchange of fire with police at the scene.

The Genesis 12:3 Effect: Iran Experiences Drought Of Biblical Proportions

A foundational verse for Christian supporters of Israel and the Jewish people is Genesis 12:3. God says to Abraham, “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you.” If you question whether that verse is about blessing Israel, I would point out that it was a promise directed to the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—who God renamed Israel. It is speaking of both the nation and the children of Israel.

‘If Jewish Children Singing In Hebrew Now Triggers Law Enforcement And Handcuffs, Then Something Is Broken’

A chilling video circulating online shows a young woman being pinned against the floor of an airport as Spanish police place her in handcuffs, manhandling her in the process.

The video has drawn condemnation not only because of what it shows, but also because of what led to the incident: the removal of 44 French Jewish teenagers the woman was supervising from a European flight, allegedly for the crime of speaking Hebrew.

House Passes Nationwide Ban On Trans Procedures For Gender-Confused Children

The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would prohibit doctors across the country from performing transgender surgeries on minors or giving gender-confused kids puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

The legislation, introduced by outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), passed 216-211. Under Greene’s proposal, doctors who provide transgender procedures to children could face steep fines or up to 10 years in prison.

Could Donald Trump Finally Dismantle The Deep State? Ronald Pestritto Thinks So.

When Democrats want to slam their political opponents, they resort to a kind of linguistic reductionism. Everyone to their right is a neocon, or alt right, or MAGA, or a Christian nationalist, or whatever the popular term of art is at the moment.

Republicans have the opposite problem. For years, they’ve used “liberal,” “leftist,” and progressive” interchangeably. Today things are even further obfuscated by more specific but still somewhat vague concepts like “DEI,” and of course, the ever-evocative but incredibly diffuse “woke.”

Putting God back in ‘degraded’ US Chaplain Corps: Hegseth axes pagan codes and New Age guides

Earlier this week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that he would be overhauling yet another aspect of the military: the Chaplain Corps.

On Tuesday, Hegseth explained a directive that will effectively overhaul the United States Chaplain Corps, “the spiritual and moral backbone of our nation’s forces” that, for hundreds of years, “ministered” to the “souls” of American servicemen and women, as he explained in the video.

‘The Devil Is In The Details’ Of Bill C-9: Canadian Gov’t Demonizes The Bible As ‘Hateful,’ Revokes Long-Standing Religious Exemption

Despite outcry from Church leaders and Conservative MPs, the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday passed an alarming amendment to remove long-standing religious protections from the country’s hate speech laws.

The ruling Liberal Party joined the Bloc Québécois in voting to approve the amendment, which removed text from the Canadian Criminal Code regarding hate crimes. The now-deleted text provided a religious exemption: “if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text.”

South Carolina measles outbreak ‘accelerating,’ driving hundreds into quarantine

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what’s known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg.

“We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go on for many more weeks,” Dr. Linda Bell, state epidemiologist for the South Carolina Department of Public Health, said during a news briefing Wednesday.

Supreme Court rules NI’s Christian religious education is unlawful

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Christian-focused religious education and collective worship taught in Northern Ireland’s state-funded primary schools is unlawful.

The decision upholds a 2022 High Court judgement which found that the subject is not delivered in an objective, critical and pluralistic way.

The case was brought by a non-religious father and his daughter, who argued that the curriculum and lack of a genuine alternative breached their human rights. The court said withdrawing children from RE or collective worship is not an adequate safeguard, especially when it may lead to pupils feeling singled out or excluded.