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29 August 2026
Part 3 of This Was The Week That Was (in TrumpLand) with Scott Lucas and Maddie Hale 1. #DonaldTrump and #PeteHegseth decimate US military through purges and incompetence 2. How a 4-star general was fired after US helicopters overflew mansion of Kid Rock Bonus: Maddie and I clash over whether Kid Rock is a crime against music Recorded August 27, 2026 Full analysis: https://eaworldview.com/2026/08/canad...
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THE GIRL IN THE TOWER
A Concert Film by HALSEY
The film takes its name from The Girl in the Tower – A Ceremony by Halsey, the gothic-inspired live production Halsey introduced during her European festival run this summer. The performances transformed her catalog into a theatrical experience, with the set incorporating songs from across her career, including “Experiment On Me.” https://inmusicblog.com/news/halsey-girl-tower-concert-film-youtube/
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27 August 2026
Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement with technology giant Meta over accusations that the social media company deliberately designed addictive products they knew to be harmful to children.
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is set to pay at least $12 billion and up to $17.1 billion in financial penalties, in addition to implementing design changes for underage users. "This is the least they can do to prevent harms that have metastasized and have already caused suicides … [but] we cannot be relying on fines, or certainly even on litigation, after harms have already transpired.
What we need are rules of the road. And we need rules that go to the root cause of the business model," says Amba Kak, the co-executive director of AI Now Institute, who joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on tech policy and regulation.
Kak, who advises various governments on AI regulatory guidelines, adds, "The era of looking to tech CEOs or tech luminaries to give us answers for what are fundamentally social and political questions, I think, is gone."
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26 August 2026
Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton joins Maddie Hale to discuss Trump’s escalating “no-win” trade war with Canada, his handling of Iran and the “huge mistake” he’s making on Ukraine.
26 August 2026
A secretive US mission to Moscow is raising fresh questions about Washington’s engagement with the Kremlin. A US Air Force aircraft reportedly carrying CIA chief John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow, with no prior announcement or official confirmation from either side. US media reports say Ratcliffe met Russian officials as efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war remain stalled. Washington also reportedly asked Kyiv to temporarily pause strikes during the visit. The mission comes amid rising US-Iran tensions and Russia’s close ties with Tehran. Watch the full report as Firstpost’s Gursshheen Gahllen brings you the latest. 00:00 - Introduction and Morning Headlines (Canada Tariffs, South Korea-Russia tensions, Meta safety concerns). 01:40 - CIA Chief John Ratcliffe's secret visit to Moscow: Flight tracking and mission details. 03:13 - Strategic significance of the visit regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict. 04:13 - Contextualising the visit against past high-level US-Russia diplomacy. 05:03 - The Iran connection: "Operation Economic Outcast" and Russia-Iran ties. 06:28 - Conflict in the Strait of Hormuz: Trump's warning to Iran. 07:21 - Iran’s regional response and the Omani-Iranian shipping corridor project. 09:32 - Deep dive into Operation Economic Outcast and financial sanctions. 10:48 - Operation Sindur: General Anil Chauhan on munitions hitting Pakistani sites. 12:20 - Analysis of the May 10th air campaign and India's military calculations. 13:50 - Discussion on lower airspace tactics and the element of surprise. 15:21 - Timeline of the 2025 terror attacks and subsequent military escalation.
24 August 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, First Lady Olena Zelenska and foreign guests attend an event to mark Independence Day.
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20 August 2026
A history of the technology and subsequent use and abuse of deepfakes. Beginning with a little-known 1994 Photoshop demo in which a programmer digitally cloned his girlfriend, this film follows the evolution of fake imagery through internet hoaxes, celebrity porn, and the breakthrough AI technology that made it possible to generate entirely convincing people from scratch. Meet Ian Goodfellow, the creator of the AI tech behind deepfakes - as he explains how he first made AI generated images, and predicts that the computers will continue to get better at faking indefinitely. Uncover early deepfake porn communities, through messages shared with the first journalist to report on deepfakes globally. Hear from a young journalist, who speaks out about her experience of deepfake nudification and how it can happen to anyone. **Correction, Julie Yukari's name was spelt incorrectly in this video.
21 August 2026
China’s humanoid robot makers now control 97% of global shipments, giving Beijing an early lead over U.S. rivals. At the World Robot Conference, robots sort boxes, handle laundry, and bag clothes, but the real test is whether they can become everyday tools.
Bloomberg’s Allen Wan has more.
21 August 2026
Peter O'Brien is pleased to welcome Simon McGarr, Lawyer with McGarr Solicitors in Dublin, and Managing Director of Data Compliance Europe. Cybersecurity is no longer simply a question of whether governments possess adequate technical defences, explains McGarr. AI is altering those risks at extraordinary speed, placing capabilities once associated with states or sophisticated criminal organizations within reach of much smaller actors. If threats evolve month by month, governments must focus on prevention: identifying vulnerabilities, adapting defenses and developing long-term institutional capacity before emerging threats become crises.
20 August 2026
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins joins 'Mornings with Maria' to discuss how a historic cattle shortage is driving beef prices higher.
Rollins also reacts to the latest jobless claims and details the rising energy demands of AI data centers.
18 August 2026
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond has hit its highest level since 2007 as investors remain worried about inflation and government borrowing.
Wall Street Journal Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip and VP of General Economics at the Cato Institute Scott
Lincicome join Stephanie Ruhle to provide their insight.
Why are so many people allowing Trump's grift? 'Corruption is mind-boggling': Professor says
20 August 2026
The US gross national debt has surged past $40 trillion for the first time, government data showed Wednesday, outstripping earlier forecasts at a pace fuelled in part by President Donald Trump's invalidated tariffs.
The uptick in borrowing is a blow to Trump, who promised to cut public spending during his 2024 presidential campaign, and sparked a backlash from US representatives across the political field.
17 August 2026
Donald Trump's order to reduce military cooperation with South Korea has left his security strategy in tatters as his 'good relationship' with Kim Jong Un will embolden US adversaries and push away allies warns Prof. Robert Kelly on Frontline.
3 August 2026
£19,000 buys a full three-bedroom house in Britain right now — not a shed, not a caravan, an actual home with a front door and a postcode. England alone sits on over 750,000 empty properties, and 300,000 of them have stood vacant for six months or more, the worst figure since 2011. We ranked ten real towns from cheapest to most surprising, each with one honest number and one honest catch. In this video, we explore: → Why a three-bed terrace in Boston, Lincolnshire costs a third of the county average — and has for years
→ A Victorian promenade town in North Wales where homes near the beach sell under £120,000, sea air included
→ Four of Britain's five cheapest towns clustered on one stretch of Ayrshire coast, all in the same rock-bottom band
→ Scotland's most affordable town, where Burns wrote "Sweet Afton" and prices never recovered from pit closures
→ Burnley — officially the cheapest local authority in England at £129K, with Pennine-edge winters to match
→ A house on Cameron Road, Hartlepool that sold for £25,000 in September 2026, and auction guide prices as low as £15,000
→ Rhondda Valley, where 5,654 men once worked a single pit complex — now Wales's most affordable place to buy a home
→ Britain's cheapest postcode, PA15 in Greenock, averaging £56,823 on the Clyde where empire ships were built
→ Campbeltown, once "Whiskyopolis" with 37 distilleries, now Britain's cheapest coastal town at £103K → And at number one: the town officially rated most affordable in all of Britain — with a £325 monthly mortgage and 175,000 heritage visitors a year
12 August 2026
Chinese researchers may have found a way to reverse childhood myopia using nothing but red light, and the clinical results are already reshaping how the world thinks about corrective lenses.
This video breaks down Repeated Low-Level Red Light therapy (RLRL), a three-minute daily treatment developed at the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center in Guangzhou that reduced eyeball elongation by nearly 70 percent in a randomized clinical trial, with some children's eyes actually shortening. We explain the science of photobiomodulation, how red light boosts blood flow to the sclera to stop the eye from stretching, and why myopia rates have exploded to over 80 percent among Chinese high schoolers.
You'll learn about the Eyerising device now approved in the UK, EU, Japan, and Australia, why it still isn't FDA-approved in the US, the safety concerns that led China to reclassify these devices, and how low-dose atropine eye drops are emerging as a second major treatment. We also cover why the global eyewear industry has little incentive to fund a cure for the condition it profits from. If you or your child wears glasses, this is the future of myopia treatment you need to understand.
Is This the End of Cataract Surgery? New US Trial Begins
Could an eye drop really replace cataract surgery? The first American patients are now enrolled in a US clinical trial of ZOC2017217, an investigational lanosterol-derived eye drop designed to slow, and possibly reverse, age-related cataracts. As a board-certified cataract and refractive surgeon, I break down what this trial can and cannot tell us, the critical number missing from the company's early data, why the original 2015 lanosterol discovery failed replication, and the truth about castor oil "cures" spreading on social media. Plus: 5 things you can do right now to lower your cataract risk. Dr. Marc Shomer, MD PhD is a board-certified ophthalmologist and vision surgeon at Eye MDs of Inland, serving the Inland Empire of Southern California.
Cataract surgery is performed when the eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy, impairing vision. The procedure replaces the cloudy lens with a clear artificial lens called an intraocular lens (IOL). Most surgeries are outpatient procedures, and patients remain awake under local anesthesia, often with sedatives to relax. The most common technique is phacoemulsification, where an ultrasonic probe breaks up the lens, which is then removed and replaced with a foldable IOL through a small incision that usually does not require stitches. Less common techniques include manual extracapsular cataract extraction and laser-assisted surgery .
Before surgery, your ophthalmologist will:
Recovery occurs in stages:
Cataract surgery is generally safe, but potential risks include:
Cataract surgery is often covered by Medicare and private insurance, especially for standard monofocal IOLs. Premium lenses or laser-assisted procedures may incur additional out-of-pocket costs. Average costs in the U.S. range from approximately $1,600 to $3,000 per eye, depending on the facility, lens type, and insurance coverage .
Cataract surgery is a highly effective and commonly performed procedure that restores vision by replacing the cloudy lens with an artificial IOL. Recovery is generally quick, with most patients noticing improved vision within days, though full healing may take several weeks. Discussing lens options, timing, and potential risks with your ophthalmologist ensures the best outcomes for your individual needs .
13 August 2026
If you're buying a used car in Britain this year, the best value on any forecourt is the stuff nobody will touch. Cars that cost forty-five grand new, sitting there at seven grand — and not because they're broken. They're cheap because the badge is boring, or the shape went out of fashion, or somebody told you diesel was banned. I'm Roy Stroud: forty-five, twenty-two years in independent workshops in the Midlands, never worked for a dealership in my life. Nobody pays me to defend a design decision, and nobody's paying me to talk any of these cars up either. In this video: eight cars nobody wants — and number one cost SEVENTY GRAND when it was new. None of this is opinion. It's DVSA and MOT failure data, What Car? reliability figures, and what comes through the door of an independent workshop every single week.
