A practical guide for girl dads.
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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| Ivan Pentchoukov
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Good morning. It’s Saturday. Here are today’s top stories: |
- The United States is leading the global AI race, but China has several advantages that may prove dangerous, experts say.
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The Atlantic’s first hurricane of the season officially made landfall as a dangerous Category 2 storm. Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, with maximum winds of 105 mph, around 9:30 p.m.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal to buy a nationwide low-band wireless spectrum, a move the company said would allow Starlink Mobile, its satellite-based cellular service, to become a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier.
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Russia is expected to immediately begin shipping diesel to the strained global market, with the United States temporarily removing sanctions placed on the country over its war with Ukraine to try to ease prices for Americans as the midterm elections approach, U.S. President Donald Trump said.
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🍵 Health: An herbalist explains how passionflower may ease racing thoughts and support rest.
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(Illustration by Rae Li for The Epoch Times) |
"Among a father’s most important roles is the way he models healthy masculine behavior and healthy male–female relationships for his daughters," Walker Larson says.
Larson points to the challenges and the joys in his practical examples. |
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The question of where the U.S.–China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both countries, as mastery of AI may determine the world’s economic and military leadership, experts say.
To assess the state of the U.S.–China AI competition, The Epoch Times consulted 10 experts across the defense and cybersecurity sectors. Most agreed that the United States maintains a lead in frontier AI models as well as in the scale of computational power—called “compute”—and the quality of microchips.
China, however, has proven adept at producing AI models that rival top Western competitors at a fraction of the cost and computational load. This efficiency is driven in part by “distillation”—a technique enabling Chinese AI models to mimic the output of American ones. China also holds an advantage in its massive manufacturing capacity, which would allow it to rapidly deploy and iterate AI-powered products.
AI was among the core topics Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed with President Donald Trump during their recent talks. Washington seeks bilateral cooperation to prevent the most powerful AI models from being exploited by terrorists and criminal groups. Beijing, however, is unlikely to make meaningful commitments, as it suspects that U.S. security initiatives are designed to assess Chinese technical capabilities and vulnerabilities, insider sources previously told The Epoch Times. Beijing views AI as a strategic tool to rival—or even surpass—American power, a shift experts warn would fundamentally alter the global order.
Xi has treated AI development as a national priority for years, pouring substantial state resources into it, mandating AI implementation across the economy, and commencing the buildup of the necessary infrastructure, including data centers and power plants.
China is also rushing to field AI-powered weapons and other military capabilities, and behind the scenes, it’s using AI as a clandestine cyber weapon for its hacking and information warfare operations, the experts said.
Some of the experts cited China’s increasingly command economy as an advantage, as a top-down edict can immediately cut through regulatory obstacles, which have, by contrast, proven considerable in the United States.
Yet a state-run economy also poses disadvantages, some experts noted, as it constrains innovation and often leads to wasteful efforts. (More) |
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The State Department imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, saying Washington “will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.” |
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The State Department imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court on Friday, saying Washington “will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate.”
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President Donald Trump honored Christopher Columbus, touting the Italian explorer’s legacy and criticizing those who want to destroy his statues.
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The Trump administration has offered Katie Zacharia a position as the new White House press secretary, an administration official has confirmed.
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- The U.S. Army said systemic failures led to a collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a military helicopter that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January 2025.
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The Justice Department and FBI seized seven internet domains used by Chinese state-linked hackers to target critical infrastructure and other computer networks in the United States and overseas.
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A number of new guardrails introduced by OpenAI in a special children’s version of its widely used artificial intelligence tool do not work, according to a newly published assessment by a watchdog.
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FBI Director Kash Patel said on Thursday that a raid in Ghana, part of the bureau’s operation against scam centers, led to more than 130 people being arrested or detained.
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American Express has been ordered to pay a $350 million penalty over what federal regulators described as “critical deficiencies” in its anti-money laundering controls. The regulators said it missed about $13 billion in suspected activity over more than a decade.
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Consumers remain downbeat about the U.S. economy as affordability challenges persist. The University of Michigan’s October Consumer Sentiment Index declined almost 4 percent to 46.3, the second-lowest level on record.
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An ambulance moves past a hospital building in the town of Shelekhov in the Irkutsk region on Oct. 7, 2026. (Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP via Getty Images) |
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A local Russian official on Thursday sought to assuage the public’s fears following the death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia, saying a quarantine and other preventive measures had been completed with no dangerous pathogens detected.
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China nominated a senior Chinese Communist Party health official to lead the World Health Organization, a late entry into the race after the United States quit the agency.
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A massive earthquake preliminarily measuring 7.6 magnitude struck about nine miles west of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama. No fatalities were reported to state authorities by Friday afternoon.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a South African-born international jurist and former U.N. human rights commissioner, Navi Pillay, on Friday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he deserved it for ending eight wars.
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- Why People Avoid Grappling With Deep Suffering—by Jeffrey A. Tucker (Read)
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What Do We Want Our Money to Keep Alive?—by Mollie Engelhart (Read)
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Skip the toast for these savory breakfast portobellos, filled with garlicky spinach, melted Gouda, a baked egg, and crispy bacon.
Meaty mushrooms, eggs, and cheese put protein front and center, while keeping this hearty morning meal low in carbs. |
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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” |
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