With obviously fake photos, Republican presidential aspirants DeSantis and Trump raise AI ante

With obviously fake photos, Republican presidential aspirants DeSantis and Trump raise AI ante

Trump, who is currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, has indeed used altered images to attack DeSantis, his closest rival. However, he seems to have primarily shared obviously fake content, for instance an image of DeSantis riding a rhinoceros, a suggestion that the governor is a “Republican in Name Only” (RINO).

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Trump’s push to recapture White House runs into headwinds as he’s accused of mishandling sensitive documents

Trump’s push to recapture White House runs into headwinds as he’s accused of mishandling sensitive documents

Investigators seized roughly 13,000 documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, nearly a year ago. One hundred were marked as classified, even though one of Trump’s lawyers had previously said all records with classified markings had been returned to the government.

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Republicans join parents in Utah to protest ban on Bible in schools as a ‘violent, vulgar, incestuous’ book

Republicans join parents in Utah to protest ban on Bible in schools as a ‘violent, vulgar, incestuous’ book

The Bible removal is the highest-profile effort to remove a book from a school in Utah since the Legislature passed a law requiring school districts to create new pathways for residents to challenge “sensitive materials” and used a statute-based definition on pornography to define them.

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Republican party nomination field looks set for battle, but opinion polls give Trump a head start

Republican party nomination field looks set for battle, but opinion polls give Trump a head start

It will be a long road to the GOP’s national convention in Milwaukee next summer when Republican delegates across the country gather to finalise their nominee to run against President Joe Biden. Surprises are guaranteed. Fortunes will change. But as of now, every Republican White House hopeful is looking up at former President Donald Trump, who is the undisputed frontrunner in the crowded contest.

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Sudan and South Sudan Siamese twins conjoined at the hip, the bloodbath in Khartoum is bleeding both

Sudan and South Sudan Siamese twins conjoined at the hip, the bloodbath in Khartoum is bleeding both

In 2012, President Salva Kiir claimed that his own government officials had “stolen” $4 billion of the public’s money and that they needed to return it so that it could be used to lift the people out of poverty.

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US warns China’s growing military aggressiveness raises the risk of error in which ‘somebody gets hurt’

US warns China’s growing military aggressiveness raises the risk of error in which ‘somebody gets hurt’

Washington’s sharply worded warning followed the US Navy’s release on Sunday of a video of what it called an “unsafe interaction” in the Taiwan Strait in which a Chinese warship crossed in front of a US destroyer in the sensitive waterway.

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Uganda gay law: Homosexuality mutating into new tool of imperialism West is using to cast Africa as uncivilised, backward, savage and homophobic

Uganda gay law: Homosexuality mutating into new tool of imperialism West is using to cast Africa as uncivilised, backward, savage and homophobic

It is clear that the Global Homosexuality Movement is determined not only to stay afloat but to penetrate Africa by hook or crook but using highly educated Africans, many trained in the West. Now that Uganda has got a law to fight homosexuality, it needs to open up to confront the movement using national debates especially among the youth and at our universities. It will be necessary to take stock of our masters and doctorate graduates who got their education in the West and acquaint the country with their topics of research.

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Fragile M23 ceasefire fuels fears of resumption of fighting in eastern DR Congo as Kinshasa rules out talks

Fragile M23 ceasefire fuels fears of resumption of fighting in eastern DR Congo as Kinshasa rules out talks

Rebel leaders say they are fighting because the government broke a 2013 peace accord with the group, and because local Tutsis are at risk. Yet Rwanda is widely thought to be pulling the strings, reviving the group to push its own agenda.

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Newly declassified documents profile former US foreign secretary Henry Kissinger as ‘history’s bloodiest social climber’

Newly declassified documents profile former US foreign secretary Henry Kissinger as ‘history’s bloodiest social climber’

State Department documents, declassified in 2005 but largely ignored, show that the death toll at Neak Luong may have been far worse than was publicly reported at the time, and that the real toll was purposefully withheld by the US government.

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It’s a sigh of relief for President Biden as US debt ceiling bill passes House with broad bipartisan support

It’s a sigh of relief for President Biden as US debt ceiling bill passes House with broad bipartisan support

The legislation suspends – in essence, temporarily removes – the federal government’s borrowing limit through January 1, 2025. The timeline allows Biden and Congress to set aside the politically risky issue until after the November 2024 presidential election.

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