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BREAKING: Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after a botched execution left her critically injured and temporarily on a ventilator, her attorneys said Tuesday.

"Her recovery is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear but, at a minimum, we expect a long recovery," her attorneys -- Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the Tennessee Office of the Post Conviction Defender and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee -- said in a statement.

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NOW - Trump says the 'Hormuz Strait belongs to Unites States Navy and United States of America'

JUST IN - President Trump announces construction of the largest new shipyard in the United States since World War 2 at Sparrows Point in Maryland

BREAKING: Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits southern Alaska

A 67-year-old woman was arrested in Vernon, Indiana, after reportedly doing doughnuts on a courthouse lawn while driving under the influence.

https://x.com/breaking911/status/2107589265047609679

A man carrying a large, fixed-blade knife is accused of growling and making incoherent noises while crawling through the ceiling of a Macy's store as Vancouver police tried to coax him down for over an hour.

Read the full story: https://officer.com/55410035

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NEW: A pair of planes appeared to be involved in a minor collision at Los Angeles International Airport earlier today.

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Artifact of the Week: Miniature Volume of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.

Learn more: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/artifact/miniature-volume-of-pasternaks-doctor-zhivago/

https://x.com/cia/status/2107461867912524160

The FBI has removed a contractor over a breach that exposed personal details of thousands of its employees.

The cause, per the FBI's cyber chief: a security patch that was "explicitly issued" but never installed.

Sources tell Reuters the contractor is from Accenture and the unpatched platform was Oracle PeopleSoft, which ShinyHunters says it exploited.

https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2107482913419780104

Code words are an operational problem, not just a rhetorical one.
In information operations, coded language carries a surface meaning for a general audience and a second meaning for a primed one. Operators use it to signal alignment, narrow a target set without naming it, or keep a literal defense if challenged. Adversaries use the same device. So do unaffiliated actors who have absorbed a dialect and are repeating it without having designed it. Treating every instance as a deliberate strike, or none of them as one, both degrade assessment.
Three distinctions are worth holding.
Effect does not require confessed intent. A term can function as a targeting cue because a community has already assigned it that role, even when the speaker did not select it as a weapon. Operationally, repeatability matters more than whether the originator would admit the second meaning. A single ambiguous phrase is weak evidence. The same phrase, aimed at the same cohort, paired with the same calls to action or the same exclusion, is much harder to explain as accident.
Deniability cuts both ways. Coded language lowers the cost of a message inside a permissive audience and raises the cost of attribution outside it. That trade is useful only if ambiguity actually serves the objective. If the aim is deterrence, coalition-building, or a clear behavioral ask, code usually leaks intent to the wrong audience and withholds it from the right one. It also leaves a record that can be re read later under a less favorable frame. A useful internal check: can the plain claim be stated without changing the target or the ask? If the restatement collapses or shifts, the code was doing the work.
False attribution is itself an information effect. Over-reading ordinary language as code trains audiences to treat ambiguity as proof. Adversaries can exploit that reflex, and it weakens your position when a stronger pattern is actually available. Under-reading it leaves real targeting unaddressed. The standard is specific, not atmospheric: what does this phrase do in this message, to this audience, in this environment, and what behavior follows?
Ambiguity is a tool. It is not a substitute for knowing what you are trying to do, to whom, and what you are willing to say in the open.

JUST IN - US warns Americans in Russia as suspected plague death sparks health alert

READ: https://t.co/zncKEqnPU3

As we reflect on the sacrifices made by our nation’s heroes, we hold the deepest respect for America’s Gold Star families. You carry the profound loss of a loved one who gave their life to safeguard our freedom.

No words can express the depth of your loss.

We will forever honor the lives of your loved ones.

Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

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FBI Record Search Returns ~20,000 Hits for SPLC, ~4,200 Hits for Informant Names

The SPLC is still pressing the government for records of its work with federal law enforcement, including its “field sources”—informants who also served as confidential human sources for federal agencies.

For the SPLC, this information could be useful at trial. The group appears to be building a defense that casts its field-source program as cooperative and well known to federal law enforcement and the indictment as evidence that Trump has weaponized the DOJ against his political opponents.

According to court filings, FBI database searches for “SPLC” and “Southern Poverty Law Center,” limited to 2007–2023, produced 19,746 hits. Searches for each of the 28 field sources by name returned between 0 and 4,220 hits.

The SPLC wants the court to order these records turned over.

Prosecutors maintain that the confidential human source (CHS) category of information is not Brady material. They say that if any of those field sources may appear as witnesses at trial, disclosure may fall under Giglio. The government has asked the FBI to determine whether any SPLC informants who are likely government trial witnesses also worked as FBI confidential human sources.

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https://rumble.com/v7gh4f4-fbi-record-search-returns-20000-hits-for-splc-4200-hits-for-informant-names.html

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