Emergency responders carried patients out of a government hospital in Odisha, India, after a fire killed at least 10 ICU patients, according to officials.
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Jerry O’Connell says wife Rebecca Romijn got physical over Kamala Harris remarks
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Actor Jerry O’Connell revealed his wife, actress Rebecca Romijn, and their daughters “became physical” with him after former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election.
“If I say this, will I stay married?” the “Stand by Me” actor joked on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast on Monday.
O’Connell continued describing the night of the election where he insisted that he did not believe President Donald Trump would win. However, he recalled making off-hand remarks to his family during the night.
Actor Jerry O’Connell recounted a story involving his wife Rebecca Romijn after the 2024 election. (Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)
“I said something along the lines of ‘there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.’ I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spit-balling ideas. It was a shock. My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,” O’Connell said.
He continued, “So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they’d become very angry with me.”
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Maher responded by saying he could not live that way.
Jerry O’Connell appeared on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast on Monday. (Club Random Podcast YouTube channel)
“Whatever household situation I’m in, I say what I truly think, and if it makes you angry, I’m sorry. We’ll have to work that out. But I am not going to tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the f— up,” Maher said.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Romijn’s representatives for comment.
O’Connell and Maher’s conversation came after Maher criticized Hollywood’s refusal to award or acknowledge the Paramount+ series “Landman” because it was perceived as a “conservative show.”
Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn both donated to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 election campaign. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
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“First of all, even if it was a conservative show, that should be allowed. This is f—ing America, you a–holes. Okay, you know what? ‘Landman’ has girl bosses. It has Mexicans. It has a trans character. I mean, it’s just not exactly what you are. And so we have to ignore that and pretend it doesn’t exist. You want to know why people vote for Trump? That’s why your s—– attitude is a real turnoff,” Maher said.
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Nvidia’s DLSS 5 seems to cross the uncanny valley • The Register
GTC Computer graphics have come a long way from chasing Donkey Kong around a 2D board and fragging 3D demons in Doom. However, even with the most powerful graphics cards, human faces in games still look surreal and lifeless, with dead eyes,saran-wrap-smooth faces, and beards that blend into their chins. With Nvidia’s upcoming DLSS 5, you can play with characters that look like they’re stepped out of a movie screen – and we’re not talking about a Pixar movie either.
Announced at Nvidia’s GTC 2026 keynote and due out this fall, DLSS 5 takes an application’s existing 3D content, colors, and motion and uses AI to add photorealistic lighting. The AI understands what typical human elements such as skin, hair, and clothing should look like. Then, even after viewing a single frame, it’s able to adjust the lighting and colors to make them all the more real.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on stage that the process DLSS 5 uses is called “neural rendering,” because it “fuses” AI and 3D graphics. DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) debuted in 2018 on RTX 20 series cards. It uses AI to squeeze more performance out of GeForce GPUs by upscaling natively lower resolution frames or inserting additional frames generated by AI instead of relying entirely on traditional rendering.
“About 10 years ago, we thought that AI would revolutionize computer graphics,” Nvidia CEO Huang noted before he showed a demo video of DLSS 5. “Just as GeForce brought AI to the world, AI is now going to go back and revolutionize how computer graphics is done altogether.
In a demo video, Nvidia showed a series of games with characters staring directly at the camera and a transition from DLSS 5 off to DLSS 5 on. In the first example, a blonde-haired female character stares at the viewer in Resident Evil: Requiem. With DLSS off, it’s obvious that she’s computer-generated, from her lifeless eyes to her flat, poreless skin and nearly colorless lips. Her face falls squarely into the uncanny valley, that realm of perception where computer-generated characters are semi-realistic, but just “off” enough to feel deeply disturbing.
With DLSS 5 turned on, the woman looks like she stepped from a photo – perhaps an AI-generated photo, but one of the better ones. Now, we’re on the other side of the uncanny valley. If you look carefully, you can tell that she’s computer animated, but her face won’t disgust and frighten you. It’s very close to looking real.
DLSS on and off – Click to enlarge
In another scene, this time from Starfield, a female character’s face looks completely lifeless and fake, her completely dead pupils staring into your soul and trying to extract it.
DLSS 5 off in Starfield – Click to enlarge
However, with DLSS 5 turned on, she comes to life completely, with real lines on her face, pupils that accurately reflect light, and even eyebrows that seem like they were plucked from a human. There are some fine lines and discolorations on her skin, along with bubbling in her down jacket and leather vest. Imperfections make it believable.
DLSS 5 on in Starfield – Click to enlarge
In another example, we see a soccer player in EA Sports FC. It’s easy to make out the pixels in his face. Blotchy skin on his left cheek looks like a uniform patch of pixels and it’s difficult to tell his beard from his chin skin.
DLSS 5 off in EA Sports FC – Click to enlarge
However, with DLSS 5 on, we can clearly see the imperfections that make someone human. There’s a dark patch on his left check, along with some prominent lines in his forehead. We can clearly make out the difference between his facial hair and shadows on his skin.
DLSS 5 on in EA Sports FC – Click to enlarge
If you’ve watched some of the best recent special effects in Hollywood movies or tried out one of the many text-to-video AI generators, you might wonder why games don’t already have photorealistic images. The advantage these other media have is time. According to Nvidia, a game frame might need to be ready in just 16 milliseconds, where movie VFX can take hours to render. Even AI generators like Sora 2 have some delay while you wait for them to process.
“We combined 3D graphics, structured data, with generative AI, probabilistic computing,” Huang said. “One of them is completely predictive, the other one probabilistic yet highly realistic. We combined these two ideas. Controlled through structured data, controlled perfectly, and yet generating at the same time and, as a result, the content is beautiful, amazing, as well as controllable.”
As with earlier versions of DLSS, game developers will have to integrate the technology into their titles before players can take advantage of them. In a press release, Nvidia said that it already has major publishers such as Bethesda, Capcom, NCSoft, Tencent, and Warner Brothers Games onboard. In the demo video, we saw clips from Resident Evil: Requiem,Hogwarts Legacy, Starfield, and EA Sports FC.
So what hardware is this going to take? Nvidia told us the early preview demo shown at GTC ran on two GeForce 5090s. One RTX 5090 was dedicated to rendering the game while the other was dedicated for running the DLSS 5 model, but DLSS 5 will run on a single GPU at release.
Unfortunately, for gamers that’s about all Huang wrote. GTC is no longer a conference for gamers or PC enthusiasts, but one of AI. ®
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‘Fourth world nation’: Trump slams Somalia, Ilhan Omar | Migration
Speaking at the Oval office, US President Donald Trump stated that Somalia is a “fourth world nation” while repeating claims without evidence that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar had illegally entered the country by marrying her brother. Omar has consistently denied the “sick” allegations.
Published On 16 Mar 2026
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Campaigners say Lake Windermere needs real-time pollution warnings after two swimmers were taken to hospital | UK News
Real-time pollution warnings are needed at Lake Windermere after two people swimming there were taken to hospital last summer, campaigners have said.
A seven-year-old boy developed life-threatening kidney failure following an E coli infection allegedly linked to him swimming in the lake.
Windermere, in the Lake District in Cumbria, is one of the UK’s most popular open-water swimming destinations and attracts millions of visitors every year.
In August last year, Claire and her family were kayaking in the lake when she noticed the water appeared murky, but she said she was reassured by the Environment Agency’s “excellent” bathing water classification.
But hours later, her seven-year-old son became violently ill, suffering severe vomiting and rectal bleeding.
He was admitted to hospital but his condition rapidly deteriorated, and after three days, he was transferred to a regional children’s hospital.
The boy was diagnosed with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), a life-threatening condition which is one of the leading causes of sudden kidney failure in children.
Four days later, he experienced hallucinations after toxins from the infection began affecting his brain.
Tests confirmed he had contracted E coli 0157. Doctors established the infection was caused by exposure to contaminated water. It was the same strain responsible for the death of Heather Preen, whose case was explored in the Channel 4 docudrama Dirty Business.
The boy had two emergency operations, required dialysis to keep his kidneys functioning, received several blood transfusions and suffered serious complications, including a collapsed lung, during the six weeks he spent in hospital.
In June 2025, 42-year-old Graham went paddleboarding with his children on the lake and spent around 30 minutes in the water.
Days later he developed a urinary tract infection, which escalated into life-threatening sepsis when antibiotics failed.
Hospital tests confirmed he had been infected with ESBL-producing E coli, a strain which is resistant to many common antibiotics and is typically associated with faecal contamination.
He was discharged after 10 days on intravenous antibiotics, but deteriorated again, suffering septic shock and requiring seven more days in hospital.
His consultant concluded the most likely source of infection was exposure while swimming in Windermere.
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Matt Staniek, founder of campaign group Save Windermere, said: “We are told Windermere’s water quality is ‘excellent’, but that label is dangerously misleading.
“People are ending up in hospital. Sewage is being dumped into the lake, yet the government continues to allow England’s largest lake to be polluted by the water company without real-time public warnings.”
Mr Staniek added: “The EA already operates real-time forecasting elsewhere; it must now bring it to Windermere. The government must end sewage pollution in Windermere and put people before profit.”
The group has called for the immediate introduction of pollution risk forecasting at Windermere as well as clear public signage and an accessible online portal providing real-time pollution information.
It comes after a comprehensive analysis of water quality in 2025 found bathing water quality across much of the lake is poor during the summer months, with elevated levels of bacteria indicating sewage pollution peaking when recreational use of the lake is at its highest.
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Nebraska tourists rescued after boat catches fire off Miami Beach
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Harrowing video shows the moment a group of Nebraska vacationers narrowly escaped death after their tourist boat went up in flames just off the coast of a popular Florida beach destination.
The incident unfolded just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, when a group of tourists from Omaha boarded the 40-foot vessel named “Size Matters” for a trip from Fort Lauderdale to the Florida Keys, according to WSVN.
“We were running with several other MTI boats, we were on like a poker run or get together,” boat owner Peter Fink told the outlet.
As the group was approximately a quarter mile off the coast of Miami Beach, they reportedly noticed a burning smell coming from the vessel.
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A 40-foot boat named “Size Matters” became engulfed in flames as it carried a group of tourists from Nebraska roughly a quarter mile off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida on Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Cristian Valles via Storyful)
“Smelled some smoke and, you know, slowed down, figured out it’s our boat,” Fink said.
Video captured by witnesses shows the five-engine vessel engulfed in flames, with thick plumes of black smoke rising into the air.
Fink and the group of travelers reportedly began using a fire extinguisher to try to keep the fire from spreading, but ultimately determined they needed to escape the burning vessel and began trying to signal to nearby boaters.
“We waved down a boat actually, shot the fire extinguisher a bit up into the air so they could see the smoke from the fire extinguisher and it kind of caught their attention and they pulled over to us and they were amazing,” passenger Jason James told WSVN.
An Ocean Rescue boat subsequently noticed the flames and rushed to the boat to rescue its passengers, with the family members coming together to lift each other to safety.
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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue vessels extinguish a fire that broke out on a 40-foot boat named “Size Matters” roughly a quarter mile off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida on Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue)
“We had our heroes here that saved us all, threw us on the other boat,” passenger Irelynn James reportedly said.
Following the passengers’ evacuation, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units arrived by air and sea to assist in emergency efforts, and later towed the charred remains to the nearby Haulover Inlet.
“Luckily no one fell in, nobody – we didn’t have to jump in, so it’s all good,” Fink told the outlet.
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No injuries were reported after a fire broke out on a 40-foot boat named “Size Matters” roughly a quarter mile off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida on Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue)
Despite the boat being completely destroyed in the blaze, the family’s luggage was reportedly unharmed and recovered from the wreckage, allowing them to continue on with their trip.
“I figured it wasn’t my time to go yet,” James said. “It was their trip and I decided to tag along so I could do something for my birthday in two more days; I’m just trying to get to 20.”
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Authorities have not specified the cause of the fire and no injuries were reported, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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Zero lessons learned: Convicted scammer allegedly ran another athlete-focused phishing scam from federal prison
Professional NBA and NFL athletes were allegedly deceived and victimized by a 34-year-old Georgia man’s sneaky social-engineering scheme that he ran while impersonating a well-known adult film star, the Justice Department said Monday.
Kwamaine Jerell Ford allegedly initiated and committed some of the crimes while incarcerated in federal prison for a similar, widespread phishing scam that also targeted college and professional athletes and musical artists starting in 2015.
“While serving time for stealing credit card numbers from athletes and celebrities to fund his lifestyle, Ford allegedly engaged in the same conduct again,” Theodore S. Hertzberg, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said in a statement.
The alleged repeat offender, while adopting the persona of an adult film model, tricked professional athletes into providing him their iCloud login credentials and multifactor authentication codes for those accounts to steal financial and personally identifiable information to pay for personal expenses.
Ford is accused of executing more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions on professional athletes’ debit and credit cards from November 2020 to September 2024, according to an unsealed indictment. He was in federal custody for the first 14 months of the conspiracy and released on probation for prior crimes in January 2022.
Prosecutors did not name victims, divulge how many athletes Ford allegedly victimized during his latest scheme, or how much money he obtained through the conspiracy.
He pleaded not guilty Friday to 22 charges for crimes including wire fraud, obtaining information by computer from a protected computer, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft and sex trafficking. Ford is being held without bail pending a trial.
Using the adult film model’s identity, Ford allegedly enticed his high-profile victims to communicate with him on social media by falsely claiming he would send them adult film content through iCloud.
When a professional athlete responded, Ford allegedly sent phishing messages to the victim designed to look like legitimate Apple customer service text messages. Officials said Ford spoofed legitimate Apple customer service accounts and posed as an Apple customer support representative to request victims’ login details via text messages.
Prosecutors said Ford told his victims the messages contained a video file shared through an iCloud link that required them to reply with an MFA code. Ford allegedly attempted to access his victims’ iCloud accounts at the same time, triggering an MFA code delivery to the victim’s device.
Professional athletes who provided their iCloud MFA codes to Ford were ultimately tricked into giving him complete access to their iCloud accounts, officials said. Ford allegedly used that access to steal sensitive data, driver’s licenses and credit card information that he used for personal spending.
Ford also, while impersonating the adult film star, allegedly victimized an OnlyFans model by claiming he would advance their career. Prosecutors said Ford enticed the OnlyFans model to engage in and record commercial sex acts with professional athletes without their consent.
“Ford clearly did not learn from his prior conviction for a similar scheme. This time, he allegedly escalated his criminal activity — stealing identities and money while also moving into coercion and sex trafficking,” Peter Ellis, acting special agent in charge at the FBI Atlanta office, said in a statement.
Ford allegedly advertised the victim to targeted athletes, coordinated their travel to coincide with athletes’ known locations, and negotiated payments from the athletes for sex with the victim. Prosecutors said Ford took a financial cut from those commercial sex acts, many of which the victim was coerced into filming without the athletes’ knowledge.
Ford is also accused of using these videos from the OnlyFans model to engage with additional athletes under false pretenses. When the OnlyFans model resisted filming the sex acts, Ford allegedly coerced them to send him money in lieu of the videos.
In 2019, Ford pleaded guilty to computer fraud was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of almost $700,000 after he pleaded guilty to computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. That scheme, which also ran for about four years, allowed Ford to hack into more than 100 Apple accounts belonging to high-profile professional athletes and rappers.
Ford was still in prison for those crimes when he allegedly established a new scheme targeting similar victims on some of the same technology platforms.
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Supreme court to consider Trump push to end protection status for Haitians and Syrians | US immigration
The supreme court will hear arguments over the Trump administration’s push to end legal protections for people fleeing war and natural disaster from countries around the world, including Haiti and Syria.
The justices refused to immediately lift the protections for hundreds of thousands of people Monday, allowing them to live and work in the US legally for now.
The court is expected to hear the case next month.
The conservative-majority court has sided with the Trump administration on the issue before and allowed the end of similar legal protections for a total of 600,000 people from Venezuela while lawsuits play out, exposing them to potential deportation.
The Trump administration filed emergency appeals after lower courts stopped the immediate end of temporary protected status for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,000 people from Syria.
The justice department argued that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sole power to end the protections, which were originally designed to be temporary.
But immigration attorneys argued that both countries are still largely in crisis and people can’t return safely.
Courts in New York and Washington DC, have agreed to delay the end of protections, with one finding that “hostility to nonwhite immigrants” likely played a role in the decision to end protections for Haitians. Appeals courts left the decisions in place.
A total of about 1.3 million people fleeing armed conflict and natural disasters around the world have been granted temporary protected status. The administration is asking the court for a broad ruling that would block courts from intervening when homeland security decides to end a designation.
Authorities have said conditions in the affected countries have improved and denied racial animus played a role.
Temporary protected status allows people to legally live and work in the US, though it does not provide a path to citizenship. Homeland security has moved to terminate the program for people from multiple countries since Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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‘Chilling’ Donald Trump lawsuit should be thrown out, BBC says | World News
The BBC has filed a motion in a US court to dismiss a $10bn lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump over an edited documentary clip.
The broadcaster claimed that the case could have a “chilling effect” on robust reporting.
Mr Trump’s 33-page complaint relates to the corporation’s editing of a speech he made on 6 January 2021, the day his supporters stormed the US Capitol building.
Clips were spliced together from sections of the his address to make it appear that he told supporters that he was going to walk with them to “fight like hell”.
Among the parts cut out was a section where Mr Trump said he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.
It aired in the documentary Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast by the BBC the week before last year’s US election.
Initially, Mr Trump had threatened to sue for $1bn, but the lawsuit filed in Florida on 16 December is for 10 times more – and more than double the annual revenue raised by the BBC’s licence fee in 2023-24.
The claim seeks $5bn in damages for defamation, and a further $5bn for unfair trade practices.
A trial date has been provisionally set for February next year.
The BBC argued that the case should be thrown out because the documentary was never aired in Florida or the US.
In a statement, the broadcaster said: “We have therefore challenged jurisdiction of the Florida court and filed a motion to dismiss the president’s claim.”
In a 34-page document, the BBC also argued that Mr Trump failed to “plausibly allege facts showing that defendants knowingly intended to create a false impression”.
Mr Trump’s case “falls well short of the high bar of actual malice”, it said.
The document also claimed that “the chilling effect is clear” when Mr Trump is “among the most powerful and high-profile individuals in the world, on whose activities the BBC reports every day”.
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The BBC’s chair, Samir Shah, has already apologised to Mr Trump over the edit of the speech, and admitted that it gave “the impression of a direct call for violent action”.
However, the corporation rejects claims that it defamed him.
The furore triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive, and its head of news, last year.
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Florida Highway Patrol, Border Patrol arrest 15 in Key Largo sweep
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The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) and U.S. Border Patrol arrested 15 illegal immigrants with criminal records during a “targeted” enforcement operation in Key Largo.
The operation, part of “Operation Tidal Wave,” was carried out March 9 by FHP’s Criminal Alien Apprehension Team (CAAT) in coordination with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Officials said all 15 illegal aliens had prior criminal histories, including charges or convictions for battery and domestic violence, drug possession and distribution, burglary, theft, home invasion, aggravated battery, firearm offenses and obstruction of justice, among others. Some also had prior deportation offenses and failures to appear in court.
“The Florida Highway Patrol leads in the apprehension and arrest of criminal illegal allies who have committed violent crimes here or abroad,” Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) Executive Director Dave Kerner wrote in a statement. “Our Criminal Alien Apprehension Team (CAAT) and federal partners are executing targeted, coordinated operations that remove criminal aliens off our streets. This is what accountability looks like, and Florida will continue to lead with decisive action to protect our residents.”
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Florida Highway Patrol worked with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to carry out an immigration enforcement operation in which 15 individuals were arrested on March 9, 2026, in Key Largo, Florida. (Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles)
Authorities said in a Thursday announcement that those arrested were nationals of Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala and were unlawfully present in the United States.
According to FHP, the agency has apprehended more than 9,000 Illegal immigrants since March 2025 through the federal 287(g) program, including more than 1,600 with prior criminal histories.
Florida Highway Patrol officers have been empowered to enforce federal immigration law in partnership with federal agents. (St. Augustine Police Department)
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The FLHSMV wrote it is committed to securing its states streets and communities.
“This operation underscores Florida’s continued commitment to protecting its communities from individuals who engage in criminal activity and violate U.S. immigration law,” it said in a Thursday press release. “Through coordinated efforts like Operation Tidal Wave, state and federal partners are working proactively to identify threats, uphold public safety, and ensure that those who repeatedly disregard the law are held accountable and removed off our streets.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been one of the nation’s leading governors in encouraging state and local cooperation with federal immigration and customs and border patrol officials. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)
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“Border security is a whole-of-government effort, and the success of our mission depends on strong partnerships with federal, state, and local agencies, including the Florida Highway Patrol,” acting Miami Chief Patrol Agent Samuel Briggs wrote in a statement after last week’s arrests.
“Our partners are vital to our operations and serve as a force multiplier, enabling us to respond swiftly and effectively to threats, protect our communities, and uphold the security of our nation’s borders.”
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