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‘You Have To Stand Up’: School Board Member Who Spoke Out Against Transgenderism Wins Special Election

‘You Have To Stand Up’: School Board Member Who Spoke Out Against Transgenderism Wins Special Election Reagan Reese on May 4, 2023 A California school board member reclaimed his seat on Wednesday in a special election after community members petitioned to remove him for speaking out against transgenderism. In October, community members garnered enough signatures to force a special election to remove Kenneth Enney, a then-newly appointed Paso Robles Joint Unified School District trustee, who had posted on Facebook stating that he rejects transgenderism within the LGBTQ movement. Enney won back his seat on Wednesday claiming 6,486 votes and ending

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Fox News Host Rips LA Times Reporter For Giving White House ‘Heads Up’ On Question Before Press Conference

Fox News Host Rips LA Times Reporter For Giving White House ‘Heads Up’ On Question Before Press Conference Harold Hutchison on April 27, 2023 Fox News host John Roberts ripped a Los Angeles Times reporter Thursday over a reported “cheat sheet” President Joe Biden had during a press conference. “Typically, if there’s a big press conference, not necessarily a two on two like yesterday, they’ll do almost a murder board with the president, to anticipate literally every question that comes out of a reporter’s mouth,” Roberts said to guest co-host Aishah Hasnie. “So, your goal during these news conferences is

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‘Lawyer Up’: Matt Walsh Breaks Silence On Phone Hack

‘Lawyer Up’: Matt Walsh Breaks Silence On Phone Hack Alexa Schwerha on April 19, 2023 Conservative commentator Matt Walsh broke his silence about a hacker that broke into his phone and stole information during a Wednesday night speech at the University of Iowa, according to video livestream of the event. An unknown hacker gained access to Walsh’s phone, including his social media, texts and emails, on Tuesday with help from an inside source and made several tweets from the commentators account in order to “make funny tweets,” Wired, who spoke with the alleged hacker, reported. Walsh, who has since regained

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Tucker Carlson Accuses Corporate Media Of ‘Covering Up’ What The Leaked Pentagon Docs Actually Reveal

Tucker Carlson Accuses Corporate Media Of ‘Covering Up’ What The Leaked Pentagon Docs Actually Reveal Harold Hutchison on April 13, 2023 Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused corporate media outlets Thursday of “covering up” what the leaked Pentagon documents actually reveal about the U.S.’ involvement in the Ukraine conflict. “If you want to get really sick to your stomach, go pull a transcript from the Pentagon briefing today where news reporters asked flacks from the Pentagon, what are we gonna do to keep information like this secret in the future?” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said.

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‘It’s Only Picking Up’: Northern Border Agents Are Grappling With A ‘Wave’ Of Illicit Drugs

‘It’s Only Picking Up’: Northern Border Agents Are Grappling With A ‘Wave’ Of Illicit Drugs Jennie Taer on April 12, 2023 Border Patrol agents are seeing an increasing surge of illicit drugs coming across the northern border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics and two agents who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Border Patrol agents have already seized 1,500 pounds of drugs at the northern border between October 2022 and February 2023, surpassing the 1,300 pounds seized in all of fiscal year 2022, according to CBP data. Agents are not only dealing with a surge

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IMF’s Georgieva says she told China to ‘speed up’ work on debt restructuring

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said she told China’s new top economic official, Li Qiang, that China must accelerate its work to reach debt restructuring agreements for countries like Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia. Georgieva, who met with Li and other top Chinese officials during a visit to China last month, said on Thursday that she found Li very approachable and pragmatic, and he assured her that he wants China to play a constructive role in resolving debt relief cases. “The truth is, and I was … very straightforward on that, it takes far

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Schenectady man arrested for threatening to ‘shoot up’ high school

SCHENECTADY, NY – A 24-year-old Schenectady man was arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat after he arrived at Schenectady High School and threatened to ‘shoot up the school’. Police were called to the school, and the suspect, Zackery McWilliams, was found a short time later by patrol officers nearby. Officers assigned to the high school reported that McWilliams made the threat on school property at around 11:10 am on Thursday. He left the campus shortly after without incident.

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‘Gonna Blow Up’: Oklahoma Seeks To Open First-Of-Its-Kind Religious Virtual Charter School As Court Cases Loom

‘Gonna Blow Up’: Oklahoma Seeks To Open First-Of-Its-Kind Religious Virtual Charter School As Court Cases Loom Reagan Reese on March 12, 2023 The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board is currently considering an application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City for the country’s first virtual religious charter school.  The decision, whether the application is approved or denied, will most likely be met with lawsuits after state Attorney General Gentner Drummond chose to withdraw a previous opinion which established that public funds could be provided to religious charter schools, advocates for the school told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “No

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‘Parents Need To Wake Up’: Advocates Sound Alarm About Satanist After-School Clubs Sprouting Across The Country

“The Chesapeake School Board will vote on two policy revisions tonight, putting non-profit organizations, including the After School Satan Club and the Good News Club, on equal footing for the use of school facilities,” TST’s Feb. 27 post read. A flyer for Chesapeake, Virginia’s club, shared by TST’s National Campaign Director June Everett to Reddit in 2022, said students will be doing puzzles, games, crafts and nature activities in addition to being taught “benevolence and empathy, critical thinking, problem-solving, creative expression, personal sovereignty, and compassion.”  While the club’s flyer claimed the program “does not attempt to convert children to any

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Fox Panelist Wonders How Many Times Pete Buttigieg ‘Gets To Screw Up’ Before Biden Shows Him The Door

Fox Panelist Wonders How Many Times Pete Buttigieg ‘Gets To Screw Up’ Before Biden Shows Him The Door Harold Hutchison on February 24, 2023 A panelist on “The Five” wondered Friday how many times Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg could “screw up” and make President Joe Biden “look bad” before being fired. “When it comes to Pete Buttigieg, the White House is throwing him under the bus, kind of, by default because Joe Biden handled this poorly,” Katie Pavlich said. “Yesterday the White House press secretary was defending him from the lectern in the briefing room. I’m curious how many

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Joy Reid Says It’s ‘Up For Debate’ On Whether DeSantis Thinks ‘Fascist Italy’ Was A ‘Bad Guy’ During World War II

Joy Reid Says It’s ‘Up For Debate’ On Whether DeSantis Thinks ‘Fascist Italy’ Was A ‘Bad Guy’ During World War II Harold Hutchison on January 19, 2023 MSNBC host Joy Reid claimed Thursday it was “up for debate” on whether Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis thought “fascist Italy” was a “bad guy” in World War II. “Just take a look at which AP courses are deemed educationally valuable in the state of Florida, per the book banning wannabe president. European history, of course. Along with courses on the history and language of Italy, where DeSantis’ family hails from, Germany, and Japan,

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Lavrov says Russia will “sober up” NATO and EU

(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow would do all it could to “sober up” the European Union and NATO, which he accused of setting out to weaken and defeat Russia. His comments came on the same day that former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war. Nearly 11 months after invading Ukraine, Russia is increasingly presenting the war to its own people as an existential battle with the West. In televised comments, Lavrov said Moscow would set out to disabuse Western politicians of

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Dem Lawmakers Say They Worry Their Republican Colleagues Could Shoot Up Congress

Dem Lawmakers Say They Worry Their Republican Colleagues Could Shoot Up Congress Bronson Winslow on January 6, 2023 Some House Democrats are concerned that their Republican colleagues could shoot up Congress after metal detectors were removed from the House of Representatives, they told Raw Story. “A lot of my Republican colleagues glorify violence and proudly display the firearms they have in their offices, so it just makes me nervous that we could have a workplace violent event. They’re not the most stable people,” Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell said in an interview this week with Raw Story. Metal detectors were

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Senate Dems Try To Beef Up Staff For Potential Probes Of Energy Companies

Senate Dems Try To Beef Up Staff For Potential Probes Of Energy Companies Jack McEvoy on January 5, 2023 Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee are attempting to employ a “climate policy expert” and staffers who have previously investigated fossil fuel companies, indicating that the committee is gearing up to probe energy companies. Committee Democrats are looking to hire an oversight director who has experience investigating fossil fuel firms’ “dark money” influence campaigns as well as a staffer who has a “deep” understanding of climate change policy, according to job postings listed on the Senate website. Incoming Democratic Chair Sen.

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Twitter Bowed To Dem Lawmaker Pressure, Buddied Up With Intel Agencies, Docs Show

Twitter Bowed To Dem Lawmaker Pressure, Buddied Up With Intel Agencies, Docs Show John Hugh DeMastri on January 3, 2023 Twitter staff relented to a pressure campaign spearheaded by a Democratic lawmaker in the fall of 2017, changing its advertising policy to allow for a closer relationship with U.S. intelligence agencies, according to internal documents published Tuesday by independent journalist Matt Taibbi. Twitter executives did not believe that there was significant activity by Russian election interference groups on the platform as of Sept. 6, 2017, and had internally decided to direct concerned reporters to Facebook, who they believed to be facing the brunt

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‘You Can Protect Yourself’: Zeke Emanuel Tells MSNBC Viewers To Mask Up As New COVID Strain Spreads ‘Very Rapidly’

‘You Can Protect Yourself’: Zeke Emanuel Tells MSNBC Viewers To Mask Up As New COVID Strain Spreads ‘Very Rapidly’ Harold Hutchison on January 2, 2023 A MSNBC guest told viewers Monday that the best way to prevent infection from a new strain of COVID-19 was to use masks, and characterized travel bans as a “delaying” tactic that won’t “help.” “A travel ban isn’t going to end, the negative test results are just going to — they’re delaying tactics. They’re trying to give us information. They’re not going to help,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell. “Individually for your

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New Jersey among states to resort to desperate measures to make up for pandemic learning loss

Alexa Schwerha on January 2, 2023 TRENTON, NJ – In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, state leaders are implementing new methods to improve students’ academic performance. The Nation’s Report Card revealed that eighth-grade national math and reading scores dropped eight and three points, respectively, while average fourth-grade scores dropped five and three points, respectively. In order to help students catch up, states are now implementing tutoring systems and providing additional support. Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and the state’s Public Education Department (PED) announced mid-December that 20 hours of online tutoring sessions would become available to

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The US Could End Up Handing Out Huge Tax Breaks For Foreign EVs

The US Could End Up Handing Out Huge Tax Breaks For Foreign EVs John Hugh DeMastri on December 29, 2022 Under mounting pressure from foreign allies, the Biden administration may extend tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to foreign businesses in Europe and Asia, according to documents released Thursday by the Treasury Department. The IRA has drawn criticism from South Korea, the United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union for violating pre-existing trade agreements, as the majority of their cars would fail to qualify for the $7,500 tax credit for manufacturing a car in the United States, The

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House Financial Services Committee Member Unloads Up To $12 Million In Stocks

House Financial Services Committee Member Unloads Up To $12 Million In Stocks Trevor Schakohl on December 29, 2022 Outgoing Republican House Financial Services Committee member Van Taylor sold between roughly $3 million to $12 million in stock last month, according to his recently-released periodic transaction report. Taylor has represented Texas’ third congressional district since 2019 after a more than 15-year career at the Churchill Capital Company, an investment firm, but abandoned his reelection campaign in March after admitting to an affair. His disclosed Nov. 28 transactions included selling between $1,000,001 and $5 million in Exxon Mobil stock and $500,001 to $1 million

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Local And Federal Prosecutors Looking Into New York GOP Rep-Elect Who Made Up His Resume

Kate Anderson on December 29, 2022 Republican Rep.-elect George Santos of New York is being investigated by federal and local prosecutors after a New York Times investigation showed the future congressman lied about his resume. The Times report revealed that Santos had lied about attending multiple universities, his work history, his Jewish heritage, and some of his financial dealings over the past week. It has been reported that prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, and Nassau County, New York, are investigating Santos’ background and financial history. Anne Donnelly, the Nassau County district attorney, opened an investigation on Wednesday, according to Newsweek.

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Illegal Immigrants Set to Fill Up Arizona Colleges In 2023

Illegal Immigrants Set to Fill Up Arizona Colleges In 2023 Alexa Schwerha on December 27, 2022 Arizona colleges are preparing to enroll more illegal immigrants this spring after voters approved a ballot measure to allow undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition, Arizona Public Media reported. Voters approved Proposition 308 during the midterm elections with 51.7% of the vote to allow all students to receive in-state tuition regardless of immigration status so long as they graduated from an Arizona high school which they attended for a minimum of two years. Undocumented students will be eligible for in-state tuition prices beginning in

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Biden Admin Investigating How US Tech Wound Up In Iranian Suicide Drones Hitting Ukraine

Biden Admin Investigating How US Tech Wound Up In Iranian Suicide Drones Hitting Ukraine Micaela Burrow on December 21, 2022 The U.S. initiated a far-reaching probe after researchers found U.S.-made components in some of the hundreds of Iranian-made drones Russia is using to attack Ukraine, CNN reported, citing multiple officials familiar with the effort. Despite stringent sanctions on Iranian businesses and export controls on U.S. technology, researchers analyzing remains of the Iranian drones on the battlefield identified the kinds of advanced microelectronics the strict sanctions regime intends to block Iran from acquiring. The White House Security Council convened representatives from the

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Intel Officials Find No Evidence Russia Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline: REPORT

Intel Officials Find No Evidence Russia Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline: REPORT Micaela Burrow on December 21, 2022 After world leaders blamed Russia for causing the explosions that largely disabled two key natural gas pipelines in September, investigators now say they have yet to discover conclusive evidence of a Russian sabotage operation, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Officials in the U.S. and Western countries, including German Economy Minister Robert Habeck and an adviser for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, initially accused Russia of seeking to “blackmail” the West into withdrawing support for Ukraine by restricting an important energy source to Europe

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Germany Stocks Up On Candles As Energy Crisis Rages

Germany Stocks Up On Candles As Energy Crisis Rages Jack McEvoy on December 20, 2022 Germans are stocking up on wax candles to light up their homes as natural gas shortages have caused citizens to grow anxious about potential blackouts and soaring electricity costs, NPR reported Tuesday. Germany and the European Union levied sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine and in response, Russia has continuously cut natural gas deliveries into Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. With winter approaching, the German government has urged its citizens to cut electricity consumption to avoid power outages, which has led

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China To Team Up With Russia, Conduct Joint Naval Drills

China To Team Up With Russia, Conduct Joint Naval Drills Micaela Burrow on December 19, 2022 Russian and Chinese navies will conduct joint exercises in the coming days to strengthen cooperation between the two nations, Russia’s defense ministry said Monday, according to media reports. A naval contingent deployed from the base in Vladivostok on Monday to participate in the combined drills with Chinese warships from Dec. 21 to Dec. 27, Moscow said Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The drills are the latest in an annual series of joint exercises since 2012, but they underscore increasing worries in the

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