As President Biden nears the end of his term in office, and his political career, he is fully committed to a project close to his heart: the fight against cancer.
President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, announced eight research centers, including one at Tulane University, that will collectively receive $150 million in research awards aimed at pioneering new methods of precision cancer surgery. https://t.co/hlPltuFwLJ
Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited New Orleans to announce $150 million in grants to advance cancer research.
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This financial support underscores their deep commitment to revolutionizing cancer treatments and reducing mortality.
This cause is particularly dear to the president, who lost his son Beau in 2015 to brain cancer, an event that deeply affected the president as well as the first lady.
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These multi-million dollar grants for advanced cancer treatments, aim to boost research across the country, including at Tulane University, where the announcement was made.
Biden’s involvement in the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative is motivated not only by his personal family tragedy, but also by a sense of public duty, given that cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. He hopes to see cancer deaths halved over the next twenty-five years.
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Joe Biden hopes that the commitment to the fight against cancer will extend well beyond his term of office, stressing the importance of continuing to support advances in cancer treatment and research.
Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, revealed in an official announcement the details of a covert operation as the US discovered that Russia had set up a sophisticated pro-Russian propaganda plan by transferring millions of dollars to Tenet Media, a US media company, which employed influencers with several million subscribers.
According to Garland, this company paid thousands of dollars to far-right influencers to spread pro-Russian propaganda and influence the 2024 presidential elections on social networks and YouTube.
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The Justice Department has indicted two individuals, imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and entities, and seized 32 Internet domains linked to these harmful activities, which the department claims were orchestrated at the request of the Russian government.
The indictment revealed in New York accuses two employees of RT, the Kremlin’s media arm, of transferring $10 million to an unidentified company, listed as “Company 1” in the court documents.
However, according to CNN, it would appear that this company is actually Tenet Media.
The Justice Department alleges Russia funded a US media company linked to right-wing commentators with millions of social media subscribers https://t.co/WGXxPr7vtd
On its website, Tenet Media describes itself as a network of commentators focused on Western political and cultural issues. Its mission is to support creators who challenge institutions, and to promote rigorous and honest debate on current issues.
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Lauren Southern
Tenet Media features several influencers, including Lauren Southern, described as a Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, author and mother who has appeared on Fox News and Sky News.
Southern, who previously worked for Rebel Media, a right-wing Canadian media outlet, has 147,000 followers on Instagram, 562,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) and 712,000 subscribers on YouTube.
She has generally tackled Canadian propaganda topics, but in the Tenet Media category of her YouTube account, she asserts that the justice system has failed Derek Chauvin (the police officer who took George Floyd’s life) and criticizes the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, among other things.
Also according to the Tenet Media website, Tim Pool, a podcast host based in West Virginia, is considered a credible journalist and has, according to his description, collaborated with Fox News, NBC, Reuters, MSNBC, Al Jazeera and BBC News.
Tim Pool has over 400,000 followers on Instagram, 1.37 million subscribers on YouTube and 2.1 million followers on X (Twitter) and focuses mainly on American politics with right-wing positions.
He claims in a statement to have been unaware of Tenet Media’s ties to Russia, but through his videos he proves to be a strong critic of aid to Ukraine.
Tim Pool was also recently targeted by the Kamala Harris campaign, which broadcast one of his videos in which he claimed that Trump had every right to imprison elected Democrats. Pool has said he will defend himself in court.
Also on Tenet Media, Tayler Hansen is presented as a field journalist.
He has 173,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter) and, through his right-wing content, shares Tenet Media posts illustrating altercations and civil protests in the US on social networks.
Matt Christiansen is a political commentator from Montana. He first gained popularity in 2016 through his YouTube channel, where he offers analysis of current events, with a particular focus on constitutional philosophy, according to Tenet Media.
With 215,000 subscribers on YouTube, he very often covers topics involving Democratic elected officials, January 6 prosecutors, the Black Lives Matter movement, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as various other topics related to popular conspiracy theories.
This week, video showed an armed Venezuelan migrant gang taking over a Colorado apartment building. The governor dismissed the concern as ‘imaginary,’ but now the gang leader has been arrested. New video on @watchTENETnow breaks down the propaganda: https://t.co/vSZFc8oL0Jpic.twitter.com/CNjKkPzIsO
Tenet Media also features Dave Rubin, a New York Times bestselling author, humorist and television personality best known for his political commentary. He is the host of The Rubin Report on YouTube.
With 1.5 million followers on X (twitter) and 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube, Rubin’s interviews include such staunch Trump supporters and Democratic critics as Dennis Quaid, Roseanne Barr and Russell Brand.
That’s a wrap on season 11 of The Rubin Report.
I’m now heading off the grid for August with no phone, computer, news or current events.
We already crushed every view record this year with 5 months still to go.
Finally, the last influencer highlighted by Tenet Media, Florida-born Benny Johnson, is known for his podcast The Benny Show. He broadcasts live every day to his millions of subscribers.
Johnson has 2.7 million subscribers on X (formerly Twitter) and 2.4 million subscribers on YouTube, where he tackles various topics related to American politics, including pro-Trump and anti-Kamala Harris positions.
Kamala Harris is an empty vessel who will do ANYTHING for public approval. It just shows she has never experienced the true power of Jesus Christ.
Of these influencers singled out by the DOJ, several have already commented on the situation and present themselves as victims of this Russian plot… but they were paid by Tenet Media, which, for its part, received nearly $10 million for this operation.
In response to these accusations, Vladimir Putin has declared… his support for Kamala Harris.
A grinning Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he supported Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. https://t.co/jE2EOvYCdi
Former President Donald Trump sparked controversy with a clearly unfounded claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign was using artificial intelligence to increase the size of crowds in photos of their rallies.
Trump seems perturbed by the dynamism of his rival Kamala Harris, reacting to images that show huge crowds at his political rallies.
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He now makes the unfounded claim that the people in these photos are generated by artificial intelligence!
Trump specifically targeted Kamala Harris’s rally in Romulus, Michigan, on August 7, where organizers had to change the venue due to high registration numbers.
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The space originally planned was no longer sufficient to accommodate all the participants, so Kamala Harris’s campaign team had to hold the rally inside a crowded airplane hangar, with a crowd that stretched all the way to the tarmac.
Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz gathered around 27,000 people, according to Reuters, at the rally, an influx that visibly surprised Trump.
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Trump said on Truth Social, that the images of Harris greeting supporters at the Michigan airport after getting off Air Force Two were faked.
In response, the Kamala Harris campaign posted a video on its platform showing Harris and Walz facing throngs of enthusiastic supporters at their rally, accompanied by the caption: “While Trump sits at Mar-a-Lago…”.
The Democratic campaign seems to be having fun at the expense of Trump and his obsession with crowd size, especially now that Kamala Harris has given them a new boost.
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At a rally in Arizona, in front of more than 15,000 people, Tim Walz quipped about Trump’s obsession…
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The many photos and videos from the event demonstrate, much to Trump’s dismay, that the crowds gathered around the Democrats are real!
While a Brazilian judge had ordered the suspension of social network X (Twitter) due to non-compliance with local legislation, the Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously upheld this decision.
As a result, Elon Musk’s social network has been blocked throughout the country.
A panel of Brazil’s federal supreme court justices voted unanimously to uphold orders suspending the use of Elon Musk’s social network X nationwide. https://t.co/vdpwOVmUKP
The suspension of social network X in Brazil was implemented on Saturday, following an order issued when Elon Musk, despite multiple requests from a judge, had refused to appoint a legal representative for the company in Brazil.
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Under Brazilian law, any company operating in the country must have a local legal representative.
Misinformation is at the heart of this legal dispute between Elon Musk and the judge, which began last April, when the latter ordered the suspension of several accounts accused of spreading misinformation in Brazil.
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Recall that the situation deteriorated last month, when X closed its office in Brazil after refusing to comply with what Musk considers censorship.
The judge harshly criticized X and Elon Musk, saying the latter saw himself as above the law. He ordered him to find a local representative or risk being blocked, a threat he was eventually forced to carry out.
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Elon Musk described the ban on his platform as an attack on freedom of expression, and stepped up his criticism of Brazil’s Supreme Court and the government.
Starlink, Musk’s satellite internet company, has also reportedly refused to comply with the Brazilian court order to block X. This could result in similar sanctions for Starlink to those imposed on X.
In an interview on Fox News on September 1, former U.S. President Donald Trump asserted that despite the accusations against him for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, he had “every right” to interfere in that election.
During the televised interview, Donald Trump invoked his presidential immunity, claiming that he had had “every right” to interfere in the 2020 election.
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The statement comes just days after Jack Smith, the special prosecutor leading the federal investigation into Trump’s attempts to interfere in the electoral process, filed a new indictment replacing the previous one, taking into account the Supreme Court’s recent clarifications regarding presidential immunity.
In the revised indictment, Jack Smith clarified that Trump had “no official responsibility” for a state’s certification of election results, and that he was acting “not as president, but as a candidate”.
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During the interview, Donald Trump also boasted that, since his indictment, his position in the polls has climbed!
Trump pointed out that, in general, the popularity ratings of people who have been indicted tend to fall…
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Shortly after Trump’s statements, Kamala Harris’s campaign argued that the comments were clear evidence that Donald Trump considered himself to be “above the law.”
BREAKING: Kamala Harris just released her statement slamming Donald Trump for claiming he has every right to interfere illegally in elections. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this and know Kamala Harris isn’t messing around. pic.twitter.com/SvXZCCLlZE
Judge Juan Merchan has, for the third time, refused to recuse himself from Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York, one of the major court cases involving the former president. Trump, despite his recent allegations accusing the judge of having ties to Kamala Harris, his political rival, failed to secure his recusal.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial declined to step aside from the case on Wednesday, rebutting Trump's claims that the judge had a distant connection to Kamala Harris that posed a conflict. https://t.co/sy5WPzHVGH
In his ruling, Judge Merchan once again rejected Donald Trump’s arguments, calling them “old, unfounded allegations”.
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Judge Merchan stated that the lawyer had merely repeated arguments that have been rejected by the Court and other courts.
The judge also mentioned that the defense was resorting to previously refuted allegations.
Merchan was also particularly critical of Todd Blanche, Trump’s lawyer, and his colleagues, stressing the importance of professionalism.
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Trump, through his lawyers, argued that there was a conflict of interest involving the judge since Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate and Trump’s rival, as well as Merchan’s daughter, were both involved in political campaigns.
Both the prosecutor of record, Alvin Bragg, and Judge Merchan have deemed this argument frivolous and assert that Trump has not identified any new facts or change in the law that would justify a different result.
Trump is attempting to escape his sentencing set for September 18, following his conviction by a jury on May 30 on 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records.
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Trump retains a glimmer of hope, however, following a recent Supreme Court ruling granting broad immunity to presidents.
Judge Merchan has yet to rule on a defense motion seeking to set aside Trump’s guilty verdicts in the case.
In an interview with Joe Biden, airing on CBS Sunday Morning on August 11, the president expresses deep concern about Donald Trump’s potential disruptions on the heels of the upcoming presidential election.
Biden "not confident at all" Trump will accept 2024 election results https://t.co/iI8jqSPuGB
More than that, Joe Biden discusses the potential consequences of a contested election and expresses serious concerns about the direction Trump and his allies might take should they lose the election.
In fact, Biden fears that Trump will attempt to undermine the peaceful transition of power once again even if he’s not actually in the White House right now!
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Biden used Trump’s own words to back up his argument, quoting the former president using phrases such as “bloodbath” in the event of an election defeat.
Biden, along with many of Trump’s detractors, see these words as a threat to democracy.
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Recall that at the last debate, when Biden was still the Democratic nominee, Trump was asked directly about his acceptance of the 2024 election results.
After attempting to dodge the question, he had replied that if the election was fair, legal and good, he would absolutely accept the results. However, many interpreted this comment to mean that he would accept the results only if they were in his favor.
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In the CBS interview, Biden also alluded to ongoing attempts to complicate post-election verification processes.
The current U.S. president called for careful monitoring of what happens in local districts, where votes are counted…
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The concerns expressed by Joe Biden are shared by many Americans…
The recent conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on the social network X, presented by Trump as a historic event, turned out to be a complete disaster for the former president’s election campaign.
While Elon Musk suspiciously invoked “a DDoS attack” on X to justify being more than 45 minutes behind schedule, Trump’s incoherent speech, punctuated by serious speech problems, his inappropriate comments on Kamala Harris’s beauty, and his nebulous assertions about a possible flight to Venezuela in the event of electoral defeat, contributed to the monumental failure of this interview, exacerbating the disorder of a campaign already in crisis for the former president.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's two-hour interview with billionaire Elon Musk on X got off to a delayed start after more than half an hour of technical problems https://t.co/k9s4CEWahDpic.twitter.com/Tkd4yxrhdL
One might think that Donald Trump’s campaign couldn’t be in more trouble after the withdrawal of Joe Biden and the meteoric rise of Kamala Harris, his new opponent.
However, the conversation between Trump and Musk on X, initially billed as a highlight for his re-election campaign, turned out to be a further disaster for the former president.
Monday night’s event had been billed as an opportunity for Trump to discuss crucial issues in front of a large online audience. However, the experience turned into a veritable nightmare, both technically – evoking the failed launch of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign on this very platform – and in terms of the interview itself, during which Trump physically seemed to struggle to express himself normally.
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From the outset, the livestream on X was marred by major technical problems, preventing many users from accessing the interview for over 45 minutes.
The chaos was quickly mocked and criticized on social networks, sparking anger and frustration. Elon Musk attributed these malfunctions to “a DDoS cyber attack” targeting the platform.
However, this explanation was greeted with skepticism by many, who pointed out that such a forward would probably have had repercussions on the entire X platform, not just the livestream.
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Once the “technical problems” had been resolved, the interview between the two billionaires began. Trump encountered serious speech difficulties, as he discussed his experience on his assassination attempt and his usual topics. His communication problems led some listeners to compare him to “Daffy Duck”.
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Afterwards, Trump made an odd remark when referring to Kamala Harris’s beauty on the TIME cover, comparing her to that of his wife, former first lady Melania Trump.
Donald Trump Says Kamala Harris' TIME Cover Reminds Him of Melania, Looks Like 'Most Beautiful Actress to Ever Live' https://t.co/mlc88JAPxN
During this strange, rather one-sided conversation with Elon Musk, the former president also said he wanted to move to Venezuela if he lost the election, arguing that Venezuela would be much safer than the USA.
He insisted to Musk that the next time they met, it would be in Venezuela.
Clearly, this is not a good moment in history for the two men.
Recently, Donald Trump’s campaign traveled to Montana, Wyoming and Colorado using the plane that belonged to Jeffrey Epstein, the discredited financier convicted of serious sex crimes against underage girls, now deceased.
Why Trump flew to campaign events on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane last weekend https://t.co/hc9CMwnQJh
Trump encountered mechanical problems with his Trump Force One plane, forcing his campaign to seek an alternative for his recent travels.
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They turned to Private Jet Services Group, a supplier regularly used by Trump, who provided them with a Gulfstream G-550… social network users identified a link between the Gulfstream Jet’s serial number, N550GP, and Jeffrey Epstein, using information from the Federal Aviation Administration’s public registry.
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly last used this aircraft in 2019, when he was arrested on July 6, 2019 by the FBI at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, on sex trafficking charges.
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It should be clarified that the Gulfstream G-550 is not Epstein’s infamous Lolita Express, which was allegedly used by Epstein to transport girls under 18 to various destinations and was at the center of Epstein’s sex-trafficking charges, but another of the infamous billionaire’s personal aircraft.
Following these revelations, a campaign official indicated that Trump’s team was unaware that Epstein was the plane’s former owner and only learned of his past after being contacted by journalists for comment.
The plane has since reportedly changed ownership twice.
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Let’s not forget that this coincidence once again revives memories of the visibly close past ties between Epstein and Trump, in any case certainly closer than the former president is willing to admit.
Trump had even praised Epstein in the past, calling him a “great guy”, as they lived close to each other in Florida.
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According to the Washington Post, the two frequented the same parties in Mar-a-Lago and Manhattan, before a dispute over a Palm Beach property cooled their relationship.
The OceanGate Titan saga, marked by the catastrophic accident that led to the destruction of a tourist submarine and the death of its passengers during an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, continues with the announcement that the family of French explorer Paul Henri Nargeolet, who perished in the incident, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking $50 million in damages.
Explorer's family could have difficulty winning their lawsuit against Titan sub owner, experts say https://t.co/TGCNre2zct
Paul-Henri Nargeolet was one of five passengers aboard the Titan when, on June 18, 2023, a sudden interruption in communications signaled his disappearance.
This triggered one of the largest maritime search operations ever undertaken, lasting several days.
Unfortunately, it was later established that the submersible had suffered a massive pressure drop, causing it to implode and resulting in the death of all its passengers.
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Right from the start of the search operations, the quality of the Titan’s design was called into question, not least because the designer boasted of having deviated from the strict standards imposed by the industry for the construction of craft capable of withstanding the high pressures of the seabed.
Among other things, he had chosen to use carbon fiber to build the Titan’s hull, rather than titanium.
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Many pointed to carbon fiber as one of the main factors contributing to the aircraft’s implosion.
In addition, they pointed out that the Titan was controlled by a simple Logitech gamepad, similar to those used for Xbox and PlayStation consoles, and that using such a controller in such a hostile environment represented another questionable design choice.
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In a lawsuit filed by the family in King County, Washington, the plaintiffs claim that carbon fiber can break under stress, unlike titanium, which is strengthened by repeated pressure.
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According to the lawsuit, the Titan’s crew was aware of the gravity of the situation, as the craft dropped weights in a desperate attempt to halt its descent some 3,500 meters below the Titanic’s level.
A system designed to detect the cracking of carbon fiber under stress would have alerted crew members to the impending failure of the ship, most likely causing terror and mental anguish prior to implosion, according to the lawsuit.
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So this case is far from over.
In addition to the $50 million lawsuit filed by the family of one of the victims, an in-depth investigation into the circumstances of the disaster is still underway.
In addition, a public hearing is scheduled for next September.
