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Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, who served as an intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Forces, told CNN Wednesday that Israel fully expects President Donald Trump to involve the U.S. in its bombing campaign against Iran.

Ravid told anchor Sara Sidner that Israel was "pretty close" to having identified all of the targets they need to hit.

"I think they need another 2 or 3 days, tops, before they exhaust all the targets that they had," Ravid said. "Obviously there are new targets coming in all the time, but I think that the major things have already been done."...

Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump's social media account on Tuesday removed a video showing fake headlines about a "unified reich" if he wins the 2024 US election, as his rival President Joe Biden fiercely condemned the post. Trump's campaign blamed an inattentive staffer for reposting the 30-second clip, which flashed a series of fictitious news stories painting a picture of American prosperity, with one including the term normally associated with Nazi Germany. "This is the same guy that uses Hitler's language, not America's," Biden told donors during a fundraiser in Boston. "It's no surprise" ......

Washington (AFP) - Blue Origin is set to fly adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, reigniting competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold. Six people including Black sculptor and former Air Force pilot Ed Dwight, who was controversially spurned by NASA's astronaut corps in the 1960s, will blast off at around 8:30 am local time (1330 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas.  Dwight -- at 90 years, 8 months and 10 days -- is set to become the oldest person to go to space, narrowly......

San Francisco (AFP) - Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was scoured from the internet as source material.  AI's underlying intelligence, therefore, is only as good as the world it came from, as likely to be filled with wit, wisdom, and usefulness, as well as hatred, prejudice and r......

Los Angeles (AFP) - A lawyer who was the architect of a plan to subvert the 2020 election and return Donald Trump to the White House denied all charges against him when he appeared in an Arizona court Friday. John Eastman is the first of 18 people charged in the battleground state to appear in court over the scheme to empanel fake electors to support their favored candidate.  Others include Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one-time Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Jenna Ellis and campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn. Eastman on Friday entered not guilty pleas to ......

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden unveiled steep tariff hikes on Chinese green tech this week, hitting imports like electric vehicles, chips and solar cells -- and adding stress to US-China ties. But despite targeting $18 billion in imports across new and already targeted sectors, analysts do not expect a major economic impact, assuming Beijing does not retaliate significantly. So what will be the repercussions of his moves? Will this hit the US economy?Biden's EV, semiconductor and battery tariffs "will not have a noticeable impact on US inflation or GDP," said economist Ryan Sweet at......