Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, has a bolder plan than task forces to tackle political weaponization under the Biden administration.“I think the answer to the problems, and frankly the political promises that have been made about weaponizing the government have been there the whole time, in terms of historical precedent,” Howell tells BlazeTV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”“Countries and even the United States, over the course of history, have developed basically truth and reconciliation commissions, or committees, what have you, to deal with some of the biggest historical events and abuses, and I think that’s what we’re looking at when we look at what happened over the Biden administration,” he continues.And he believes this needs to happen so America doesn’t see a repeat of his first administration.“We learned this lesson in the first Trump administration. There was a lot of efforts to hold Hillary Clinton accountable, to even produce documents that could help inform what her and Obama did, and the first Trump administration decided not to do that, not to release those things, and to basically let Hillary and Company off,” Howell explains, adding, “I fear that we’re making the same mistake again right now.”Howell believes that an entity that doesn’t work in the same offices being investigated, as well as one that sits at the top of the entire federal government, should have “the full powers of the government” in order to avoid following in the footsteps of Trump’s last stint as president.“I’m talking about prosecutorial powers, the power to subpoena, the power to grant immunity, perhaps to recommend pardons, and then also the ability to use government funds to make wrongs right,” he explains.“And once that exists, outside of, you know, the standard apparatus that we’re used to, I think things start moving along,” he adds.Want more from 'Blaze News | The Mandate'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The high-profile case against Karen Read is over after a jury found her not guilty of killing her police officer boyfriend, though they found her guilty on a far lesser charge.The 45-year-old expressed relief to a crowd of supporters outside of the Norfolk County Superior Court after jurors deliberated for at least 22 hours in the emotional case. Read could have faced a life sentence in prison for the murder charge, but instead she will only serve one year of probation.Read was accused of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of John O’Keefe, a Boston Police officer, in 2022. On the night of his death, she dropped him off at a party in the home of a fellow officer.Prosecutors said that Read had run him over with her SUV before driving away and leaving him for dead in the snow. Read and her attorneys claimed that O'Keefe had been beaten to death inside of the home, and his body was dragged out into the street in order to frame her.“No one has fought harder for justice for John O’Keefe than I have — than I have and my team!" said Read to supporters after the hearing.A separate jury hearing the case had declared a deadlock and that trial had ended in a mistrial. A different special prosecutor in the second trial lowered the number of witnesses that provided testimony for the case.The jury did find that there was enough evidence to pronounce Read guilty of drunken driving.Read could have faced a life sentence in prison for the murder charge, but instead she will only serve one year of probation for the drunken driving charge.RELATED: Cops say Florida woman poured Diet Mountain Dew on herself to destroy DNA evidence of murder Brian Albert, who owned the home where the party was located, accused Read of spreading "lies and conspiracy theories" to infect the prosecution."The result is a devastating miscarriage of justice,” added Albert.Read's attorneys had produced experts who testified there was no evidence of a collision to support the prosecution's version of events.“There is no evidence that John was hit by a car. None. This case should be over right now, done, because there was no collision,” attorney Alan Jackson said in his closing argument.Supporters of Read wore pink after she said it was her favorite color. The case had made national headlines after online commentators picked apart every detail of the allegations. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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It appears Apple has several under-the-hood AI improvements in the works for iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe. While most of the features are building on what's already available, the company will also offer a chatbot-like experience for those who'd like to talk to Apple Intelligence privately through the Shortcuts app, and it has a very good speech API that outpaces OpenAI's Whisper. At least, that's what MacStories' John Voorhees claims in his hands-on report. He asked his son to build Yap, a "simple command-line utility that takes audio and video files as input and outputs SRT- and TXT-formatted transcripts." In his tests, he was able to transcribe a 7GB 4K video version of a 34-minute-long AppStories podcast episode in only 45 seconds and generate an SRT file. After doing the same with other AI transcription models, Apple's outperformed all of them: Yap: 45 seconds. MacWhisper (Large V3 Turbo): 1 minute and 41 seconds. VidCap: 1 minute and 55 seconds. MacWhisper (Large V2) 3 minutes and 55 seconds. While Apple's AI transcription model isn't flawless, and it still had trouble with last names and words like "AppStories," Voorhees was impressed by Yap's speed, being 55% faster than OpenAI's best model while achieving the same transcription quality. That said, once iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe are released, you'll probably see new apps taking advantage of Apple's latest AI models to analyze speech and transcribe data. Since these models are free for developers to use, they will improve the market for audio transcription. Currently, these features are limited to developers running the beta versions of iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and Xcode 26. Don't Miss: How to transform Apple Intelligence into a real AI chatbot without ChatGPT The post Apple’s new AI-powered transcription outperforms OpenAI’s Whisper appeared first on BGR.

Invoking a variation of the famed "Never Again" post-Holocaust mantra, Israeli President Isaac Herzog tells Newsmax it is time to allow Israel to "save the world" from the Islamic Republic's terror regime.

While there is talk of opposition to Israel taking out Iran's nuclear weapons aspirations, if not its entire regime, Israeli President Isaac Herzog tells Newsmax that some of those same people are privately thanking Israel for its bold actions.