Spotlight Story

21 March 2026

The foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Pakistan held talks in Riyadh on Thursday, on the sideline of a summit of Islamic countries, and discussed ways to combine their strengths for the first time.

Turkey has, since last year, been seeking a security pact with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year, a Pakistani minister said in a statement that such a deal had been in the pipeline for nearly a year.

If all wars stopped. Imagine.

A resident of Tyrone Township, MI confronted local officials with a simple question:

Have you signed an NDA with any private party regarding developments that could affect the township?

Anthropic's new economist:

"it is optimal to take a 1 in 3 chance of ending human existence for a 2/3 chance of dramatically changing living standards."

Anthropic hires Stanford economist Chad Jones to assess AI risks

What does the Magic 8 Ball say?

Before Trump - from Library of Congress

Trump plans to spend more than $377 million renovating the White House executive residence in fiscal 2026 — and is estimating another $174 million on top of it for the next year, according to the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request.

The budget document, which proposes slashing domestic programs to help fund a $1.5 trillion bump to defense spending, estimates spending $377 million in fiscal 2026 under an account for repairs and renovations to the executive residence. That’s a mammoth 866 percent increase over the $39 million estimated to have been spent in fiscal 2025 on sprucing up the area of the White House where the president lives.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice:

"Just to be clear, a 12 year old girl was sexually assaulted by her father and became pregnant - under your interpretation of 940.04 she would be forced to carry her pregnancy to term, correct?"

Response:

"I would say that the policy choice the legislature made in 940.04 that that would be correct."

*** Disgusting.

6 July 2026: I searched 'Wisconsin 940.04' on DuckDuckGo and the results were lean. Wisconsin dot gov says:

(1) Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony. NOTE: The Wisconsin Supreme Court held in Kaul v. Urmanski, 2025 WI 32, that the legislature impliedly repealed sub. (1) as to abortion and that sub. (1) does not ban abortion in this state.