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String fullTitle = 'Welcome to /news/';
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String comment = '/news/ is a text board for sharing and discussing current news articles. When starting a thread you must include the complete URL of a news article from a credible news site (for instance, a newspaper, news magazine, or a news TV channel). Blogs and editorial articles are not acceptable news sources. News articles must be recent! Nothing older than 48 hours please. Threads older than 48 hours will cease to bump when replied to. Please note that 4chan's global rules are in effect. Blatant trolling and racism is not permitted.
Please note that news, news articles, and current events can also be discussed on /pol/; however /news/ is exclusively for recent news articles, and not general discussions of politics, social phenomenon, or world events.';
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String fullTitle = 'ZOGbot Pedo Who Was in Gitmo Gets Magdumped';
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String date = '04/25/24(Thu)08:46:40';
String comment = 'https://justicereport.net/2024/04/2
Crazy story with the best possible ending.
>US Navy Captain retires, tries to bang two underage girls in Seattle
>Turns out it's a trap, pulls a gun when cops try to van him.
>Cops proceed to magdump this freak, sending him to the nether realm alongside the rest of his Zionist friends.
>Bruce C. Meneley, he was in charge of medical procedures at Gitmo during the Bush and Obama years and was responsible for force feeding them bacon burgers when they went on hunger strike.
LOL.'
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String fullTitle = 'Tucker Carlson Completely Dismisses Darwin’s Theory of Evolution';
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)22:47:09';
String comment = 'Tucker Carlson rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
During a discussion on AI, in which Carlson called the technology a threat to humanity, the conversation turned to the topic of evolution as Joe Rogan pushed back on some of Carlson’s AI concerns.
“Maybe a good use of nuclear weapons would be to hit the data centers,” Carlson said at one point.
As Rogan laughed at the idea, Carlson added, “No, I’m serious. Why is that crazy?”
“It’s not if you think that human beings are the end of this evolutionary chain,” Rogan said.
The comedian later made reference to “evolution” again, leading to Carlson rejecting it.
“If evolution is real and if there is this constant —” Rogan began as Carlson jumped in.
“Is it real?” the former Fox News host said.
“I don’t know…It’s visible. You can measure it in certain animals,” Rogan said.
Carlson argued you can measure “adaptation.”
Part of Darwin’s theory of evolution is that species adapt to their environments and, through time and natural selection, evolve.
“But there’s no evidence that — in fact, I think we’ve kind of given up on evolution, the theory of evolution as articulated by Darwin. It’s, like, kind of not true,” Carlson declared.
“In what sense?” Rogan asked.
“Well, in the most basic sense, the idea that all life emerged from a single-cell organism and over time there would be a fossil record of that, and there’s not,” Carlson said.
Rogan noted transitions can be seen in animal species, and Carlson again chalked this up to “adaptation” instead of evidence of evolution.
https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/t
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String fullTitle = 'Fake blog Gateway Pundit used by /news/ shills bankrupted for printing fake election steal news';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)17:29:30';
String comment = 'The Gateway Pundit, Infamous Conspiracy Blog, Declares Bankruptcy After Suit From Election Workers
Jim Hoft published a message on the website that read, “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.”
Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter sued the Gateway Pundit in 2021, alleging that Jim and Joe Hoft, behind the conspiracy theory site engaged in “a campaign of lies” that “instigated a deluge of intimidation, harassment, and threats that has forced them to change their phone numbers, delete their online accounts, and fear for their physical safety.”
The Gateway Pundit saw its traffic soar surrounding the 2020 presidential election as it published story after story parroting then-President Donald Trump’s roundly debunked allegations of election fraud that led to the Jan. 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. In January 0f 2020, the Gateway Pundit had some 1.7 million unique readers. In January of this year, that number had dropped some 54 percent to 813,000 users, according to Comscore data.
Hoft’s statement added, “This is not an admission of fault or culpability. This is a common tool for reorganization and to consolidate litigation when attacks are coming from all sides. It allows TGP to consolidate this lawfare in one court for ultimate resolution.”
https://www.mediaite.com/news/the-g
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String fullTitle = 'In defeat for Trump and Putin, Biden signs bill providing crucial military aid to Ukraine';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)16:25:30';
String comment = 'Putin and his Puppet, Donald Trump, are seething that Ukraine is getting aid again to fight off Russian invaders.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/poli
Washington CNN —
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law an aid package providing crucial military assistance to Ukraine, capping months of negotiations and debate.
The aid package, passed by the Senate late Tuesday evening and worth $95 billion in total, includes nearly $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and $8 billion for the Indo-Pacific. The package also includes a bill that could eventually lead to the banning of TikTok in the United States - giving Chinese parent company ByteDance roughly nine months to sell it or else it will be banned from app stores in the United States.
Wearing a US-Ukrainian flag pin and speaking from the White House after signing the bill on Wednesday, Biden said it was a “good day for America, a good day for Ukraine and a good day for world peace.”
The aid package, Biden said, is “going to make America safer. It’s going to make the world safer. And it continues America’s leadership in the world.”
The signing of the aid package was the culmination of months of tense negotiations, personal lobbying from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a split in the House Republican conference that continues to threaten the leadership position of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Hardline House conservatives opposed further US funding to Kyiv and threatened to oust Johnson over his handling of the negotiations. Conservatives in Congress have opposed additional assistance for what they view as an unwinnable war.
Biden had spent months lobbying Johnson to move forward with aid to Ukraine, enlisting top administration officials and CIA Director Bill Burns to lay out the stakes for Ukraine - and ultimately democracy in Europe and across the world - if Russia continued to make inroads in its military campaign there.'
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String fullTitle = 'Trump only wins 83% of the vote in an unopposed election';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)20:34:58';
String comment = 'Nikki Haley wins 17% of vote in Pennsylvania GOP primary. Is it warning sign for Trump?
Nikki Haley garnered 17% of the vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary despite having dropped out over a month ago. Her double-digit performance in the swing state is seen by some as a potential warning sign for former President Donald Trump — the party’s presumptive nominee — who won 83% of the vote in the April 23 primary. “This is a huge red flag for the Trump campaign in a battleground state,” Republicans Against Trump, an anti-Trump political initiative, wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “Many Republicans will never vote for Donald Trump.”
“She has 155,000 votes with 98% reported — nearly 2X the margin Trump lost the state by in 2020,” Kaivan Shroff, a Democratic commentator, wrote in a post on X. “Good news for Biden.” Haley performed particularly well in some counties surrounding Philadelphia in the closed primary, garnering nearly 25% in Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties. “Trump is hemorrhaging votes in the Philadelphia suburbs,” Matthew McDermott, a Democratic strategist, wrote in a post on X, adding “Major red flags for Republicans.”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/na
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String fullTitle = 'Arizona Republicans involved in Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election officially charged';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)19:36:28';
String comment = 'Those charged in the election fraud attempt to destroy US democracy for Trump included the state chair of the Republican party.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20
A state grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday indicted so-called "fake electors" who backed then-President Donald Trump in 2020, following a sprawling investigation into the alleged efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election in the state.
One month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters convened at the Arizona GOP’s headquarters in Phoenix to sign a certificate claiming to be Arizona’s 11 electors to the Electoral College, though Biden won the state by 10,457 votes and his electors were certified by state officials. The state Republican Party documented the signing of the certificate in a social media post and sent it to Congress and the National Archives.
Among those charged is Kelli Ward, who served as chair of the Arizona GOP during the 2020 election and the immediate aftermath. She tweeted on Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack on the U.S. Capitol: “Congress is adjourned. Send the elector choice back to the legislatures.” Ward was a consistent propagator of false claims that Arizona’s election results were rigged.
Others charged include: state legislators Anthony Kern and Jake Hoffman; Michael Ward, Kelli Ward’s husband; Tyler Bowyer, the Republican National Committee's Arizona committeeman and the chief operating officer of the Trump-aligned Turning Point USA; Greg Safsten, the former Arizona GOP executive director; former U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon; Robert Montgomery, the former head of the Cochise County GOP; and Republican Party activists Samuel Moorhead, Nancy Cottle and Loraine Pellegrino.
>The indictment lists Trump as "Unindicted Coconspirator 1." It also includes redacted names of other people who have been charged in the case but have not yet been served.'
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String fullTitle = 'Trump hacks detractors at super PAC';
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)09:35:53';
String comment = 'Trump has directed his team of cronies to hack The Lincoln Project, the ultraconservative right-wing group that opposes him.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hacke
Hackers Steal Large Sum From Anti-Trump Super PAC The Lincoln Project
Unidentified hackers targeted centrist political action committee The Lincoln Project, eventually stealing $35,000 from the organization known for its criticisms of Donald Trump. First reported by Raw Story, The Lincoln Project notes the loss in a filing to federal regulators that includes two “fraudulent” transactions. Known for its anti-Trump ads, the super PAC blamed the incident on “hackers,” with spokesman Greg Minchak telling Raw Story: “A vendor’s email was hacked, with the hackers producing authentic-looking invoices that were sent from our vendor’s legitimate email account. The hack affected multiple clients of the vendor, including Lincoln Project.” Minchak added that the “transactions did not impact our operations in any way in the fight for a democratic future for our nation.” Minchak did not name the vender, but said the organization was “implementing new procedures to confirm invoices and payments. Since it was the vendor that was hacked, we are letting them and our bank's fraud department lead any investigation.”'
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String fullTitle = 'Some migrants flown by DeSantis to Martha’s Vineyard qualify for victim visas, feds say';
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String date = '04/22/24(Mon)22:09:43';
String comment = 'Some of the 49 migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by the state of Florida are now able to legally work in the United States and have temporary protections from deportation — because they are considered victims of a potential crime, their attorney says. The migrants are eligible for protections because they applied for a special kind of visa meant for crime victims who are helping law enforcement in the investigation of suspected criminal activity. They applied for what are known as U visas last year after they said they had been tricked into taking charter flights from San Antonio, Texas to the Massachusetts island with false promises of jobs and other aid, said Rachel Self, an attorney for the migrants. The migrant flight program — a taxpayer-funded operation led by Gov. Ron DeSantis and a politically connected private contractor — was designed to remove “unauthorized aliens” from Florida. But critics, including immigration advocacy groups, have pointed out that the migrants had legal status in the United States as asylum seekers and that they were found in Texas, not Florida. DeSantis has maintained the flights were conducted lawfully and that migrants boarded the flights “voluntarily.” Yet the recruitment tactics used in the first iteration of the governor’s migrant relocation program have resulted in a criminal investigation by the Bexar County sheriff in Texas and a federal lawsuit by some of the migrants who have claimed they were deceived by the state. Now, some of the migrants have been granted U visas, which are “set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. They can eventually lead to permanent lawful status in the United States.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/po
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String fullTitle = 'Trump seeks to blame Biden for potential TikTok ban';
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Former President Trump is casting blame on President Biden for legislation that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S., after the bill cleared the House last weekend as part of a larger foreign aid package.
“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Monday.
Trump’s opposition to a potential TikTok ban represents a significant shift from the position he held while he was in office. The former president issued an executive order in 2020 seeking to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets, though the order was later blocked in court.
The TikTok bill, which now heads to the Senate alongside legislation for long-sought aid to Ukraine and Israel, would require ByteDance to sell the app within roughly a year or face a U.S. ban.'
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String fullTitle = 'mother of TEN children murdered by psycho husband';
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)10:38:08';
String comment = 'https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f
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String fullTitle = 'Homelessness will be Illegal soon Apparently';
int postNumber = "1289266";
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String date = '04/22/24(Mon)13:55:02';
String comment = 'With homelessness on the rise, the Supreme Court weighs bans on sleeping outdoors
https://apnews.com/article/homeless
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness on Monday as it considered whether cities can ban people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.
The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue as record numbers of people are without a permanent place to live in the United States.
In California and other Western states, courts have ruled that it’s unconstitutional to fine and arrest people sleeping in homeless encampments if shelter space is lacking.
A a cross-section of Democratic and Republican officials contend that makes it difficult for them to manage encampments, which can have dangerous and unsanitary living conditions. But hundreds of advocacy groups argue that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep will criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse as the cost of housing increases.
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court Monday morning with silver thermal blankets and signs like “housing not handcuffs.”
The Justice Department has also weighed in. It argues people shouldn’t be punished just for sleeping outside, but only if there’s a determination they truly have nowhere else to go.
The case comes from the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which started fining people $295 for sleeping outside to manage homeless encampments that sprung up in the city’s public parks as the cost of housing escalated.'
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String fullTitle = 'biden/dems/communists just can't stop losing on guns';
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String date = '04/22/24(Mon)17:05:58';
String comment = 'SCOTUS to hear Firearms Policy Coalition lawsuit on ATFs rules for no serial number and "ghost" guns
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli
https://www.theguardian.com/law/202
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup
There were no serial number regulations in 1792 or 1868 and people frequently made their own guns in 1792 and 1868. sounds like someone is going to get blown the fuck out'
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String fullTitle = 'AI-generated child pornography threatens to overwhelm reporting system';
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String date = '04/22/24(Mon)20:33:51';
String comment = 'https://thehill.com/policy/technolo
Child pornography generated by artificial intelligence (AI) could overwhelm an already inundated reporting system for online child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found.
The CyberTipline, which is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), processes and shares reports of child sexual abuse material with relevant law enforcement for further investigation.
Open-source generative AI models that can be retrained to produce the material “threaten to flood the CyberTipline and downstream law enforcement with millions of new images,” according to the report.
“One million unique images reported due to the AI generation of [child sexual abuse material] would be unmanageable with NCMEC’s current technology and procedures,” the report said.
“With the capability for individuals to use AI models to create [child sexual abuse material], there is concern that reports of such content—potentially indistinguishable from real photos of children—may divert law enforcement’s attention away from actual children in need of rescue,” it added.
Several constraints already exist on the reporting system. Only about 5 percent to 8 percent of reports to the CyberTipline result in arrests in the U.S., according to Monday’s report.'
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String fullTitle = 'Who was wrong?';
int postNumber = "1289624";
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String date = '04/24/24(Wed)07:42:38';
String comment = 'https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/c
Who was in the wrong here?'
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String fullTitle = 'CRIME - Rochester man arrested, accused of threatening to kill law enforcement officers';
int postNumber = "1289589";
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)23:44:18';
String comment = 'https://www.rochesterfirst.com/crim
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — A Rochester man was arrested and accused of threatening federal law enforcement in messages sent to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
According to prosecutors, Eric Anthony, 27, sent an email to the ATF Thursday criticizing gun laws, the ATF, FBI, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, and Rochester Police Department. In the email, Anthony allegedly threatened to kill law enforcement officers, and said if anything happened to him or his family, he would be “left no choice to impose my ‘hellish strategic move.’”
Anthony then allegedly faxed much of the same information directly to the MCSO.
Anthony was arrested and charged with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such law enforcement officers while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such law enforcement officers on account of the performance of their official duties. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
A detention hearing is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.'
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String fullTitle = 'Biden says businesses should be FORCED to hire criminals; it's racist not to';
int postNumber = "1289136";
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)19:57:10';
String comment = 'https://www.cleveland.com/business/
Feds sue popular convenience store, charging racial discrimination in hiring practices
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Federal officials have sued the Sheetz convenience store chain, claiming the company discriminated against job applicants who were Black, Native American and multiracial.
The discrimination occurred, the federal government said, as the company automatically eliminated job applicants that Sheetz deemed to have failed a criminal background check.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit in Baltimore against the company and two subsidiaries, charging that the convenience store and gas station chain’s practices have a disproportionate impact on minority applicants and thus run afoul of federal civil rights law.
Sheetz on Thursday denied the charges.
“Diversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are,” company spokesperson Nick Ruffner said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We take these allegations seriously. We have attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute,”'
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String fullTitle = 'Texas freak has 'Barbie doll' op to remove all sexual organs no genitals, just pee hole';
int postNumber = "1289118";
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)17:41:08';
String comment = 'A transgender person has shared their experience after receiving an experimental new surgery that involves removing the entirety of their external genitals.
Adrian, 27, from Florida, is non-binary - meaning they do not conform to either male or female - and had the operation at a controversial gender clinic in Texas that has been dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab'.
It is one of a handful hospitals in the country that offer genital nullification surgery - a procedure which involves removing all external genitalia to create a smooth transition down from the stomach to the groin.
A small but hidden opening remains in order for urine to exit the body. Those born biologically female undergo a hysterectomy, which stops them menstruating.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/
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String fullTitle = 'IT'S OVER:Mike Johnson's speakership is over.';
int postNumber = "1289114";
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)17:30:23';
String comment = 'Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on Johnson to resign after foreign aid bills pass: ‘If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated’
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 5:09 PM EDT, Sun April 21, 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/21/poli
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday said House Speaker Mike Johnson “betrayed” Republican voters after the House approved new aid to Ukraine, threatening to call a vote for his ouster if he doesn’t resign.
“Mike Johnson’s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn’t do so, he will be vacated,” Greene said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”'
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String fullTitle = 'Dine and dash family';
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String date = '04/23/24(Tue)03:33:10';
String comment = 'Family dine and dash in Swansea, getting children involved is what's makes it even more scummy. Making a child stay while the whole family "gets the credit card" from the car and then the kid running away is honestly a crazy plan.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20
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String fullTitle = 'Trump Trial Self-Immolator Posted Dizzying Manifesto Online';
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String date = '04/20/24(Sat)20:24:56';
String comment = 'Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-s
>The man who doused himself with accelerant and set himself ablaze outside Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial on Friday published an online manifesto, declaring that he self-immolated to warn the world about an “apocalyptic fascist world coup.”
>The self-immolating conspiracy theorist was identified by cops as Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old from St. Augustine, Florida, who was in critical condition on Friday afternoon. He declared online that his act was an “extreme act of protest ... to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery.”
>His Substack manifesto is a dizzying document that rails against cryptocurrency, New York University, the Clintons, and the world’s governments—warning readers that they are “victims of a totalitarian con” akin to a massive Ponzi scheme.
He mentions that Peter Thiel, famed billionaire homosexual immigrant, is behind much of the worlds suffering and it kind of makes sense seeing how evil Peter Thiel is.'
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String fullTitle = 'NOOOOO AMERICA IS ACTUALLY FUNDING THEIR ALLIES NNOOO!!!!!!!';
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String date = '04/20/24(Sat)14:38:20';
String comment = 'House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
After months of delay at the hands of a bloc of ultraconservative Republicans, the package drew overwhelming bipartisan support, reflecting broad consensus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/
The House voted resoundingly on Saturday to approve $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as Speaker Mike Johnson put his job on the line to advance the long-stalled aid package by marshaling support from mainstream Republicans and Democrats.
In four back-to-back votes, overwhelming bipartisan coalitions of lawmakers approved fresh rounds of funding for the three U.S. allies, as well as another bill meant to sweeten the deal for conservatives that could result in a nationwide ban of TikTok.
The scene on the House floor reflected both the broad support in Congress for continuing to help the Ukrainian military beat back Russia, and the extraordinary political risk taken by Mr. Johnson to defy the anti-interventionist wing of his party who had sought to thwart the measure. Minutes before the vote on assistance for Kyiv, Democrats began to wave small Ukrainian flags on the House floor, as hard-right Republicans jeered.'
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String fullTitle = 'Federal Judge Issues Warning That Trump and Republicans Could Stage Another Coup d'etat';
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)15:57:58';
String comment = 'https://www.politico.com/news/2024/
A Washington, D.C., judge issued a dire warning Friday about the effects of the January 6 attack.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Scott Miller, a former Proud Boys leader who fought with multiple police officers while trying to storm the Capitol building, to 66 months in prison. This is one of the longest sentences that Chutkan has given. She cited Miller’s actions at the Capitol, as well as evidence that he held Nazi beliefs and thought that Washington, D.C., residents should be executed.
Previously, the longest sentences Chutkan had handed down related to the insurrection were 63 months long, given to two other violent offenders at the Capitol. Chutkan described the storming of the Capitol as “close to as serious a crisis as this nation has ever faced.”
“It can happen again,” Chutkan, who is expected to preside over Donald Trump’s criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election, said Friday. “Extremism is alive and well in this country. Threats of violence continue unabated.”
Those threats have become normalized in Republican discourse, with right-wing figures across the country invoking violence and urging their supporters to arm themselves. The man behind it all, Donald Trump, has yet to face any consequences thanks to the Supreme Court holding up his case over questions of presidential immunity.'
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String fullTitle = 'Wait a minute, was the Trump-Russia thing not a hoax...?';
int postNumber = "1289065";
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String date = '04/21/24(Sun)13:42:07';
String comment = 'I look forward to reading the Fox News and Newsmax article on this.
GOP operative’s conviction over illegal Russian contributions to Trump campaign upheld
The Hill
FILIP TIMOTIJA
April 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
https://www.aol.com/news/gop-operat
A GOP political operative’s conviction over steering illegal Russian contributions to former President Trump’s 2016 campaign was upheld by a federal appeals court on Friday.
The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Jesse Benton, a veteran political operative.
Benton was convicted in late 2022. He had been charged with helping to orchestrate an illegal donation to the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) for a Russian national, Roman Vasilenko.
Benton’s consulting firm received $100,000. The operative created a fake invoice on which he said the fee was for consulting. He then arranged for Vasilenko to meet with Trump at a fundraiser without revealing his nationality to the campaign or the former president, according to court documents.
Benton kept $75,000 for himself and used the remaining $25,000 to contribute to the campaign, according to a Justice Department release. He listed himself as a contributor for the donation, concealing the actual source of the funds when filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).'
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String fullTitle = 'MAGA Pro-Putin American Fighting Against Ukraine Gets Kidnapped and Killed by Russians';
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String date = '04/20/24(Sat)20:06:43';
String comment = 'https://www.reuters.com/world/europ
Russell Bentley, a 64-year-old American who has been fighting with pro-Russian fighters against Ukraine since 2014, was kidnapped and killed, according to his battalion and Russian media reports.
Russell, who was known by his call sign “Texas,” died in Donetsk, Margarita Simonyan, the head of pro-Kremlin RT, said in a Telegram post.
“He fought there for our people,” Simonyan said. “Terrible. Kingdom of heaven.”
The battalion he worked in, “Vostok,” confirmed he died in a social media post Friday.
“Russell Bentley was killed,” the battalion said. “We have to agree that such people and their cover-ups make evil banal.”
An official from Donetsk confirmed Bentley died, adding that Bentley’s wife informed him of the death.
Bentley had gone missing earlier this month after reportedly going to help after a Ukrainian strike in Donetsk, according to local police. He and his wife had been in line to deal with some administrative documents, when he went to go help. But when his wife went looking for him she only found his car, with his baseball cap, glasses, and a broken phone, according to news outlet Mash.
>His colleagues had reportedly suspected him of being a western spy.
Americans have for years been going to Ukraine to fight in the war. Since Russia invaded Ukraine again in 2022, Americans have joined foreign fighter legions to help Ukraine defend against Russia’s unprompted invasion, including Trevor Reed, the U.S. Marine who was freed from Russian prison, as The Daily Beast reported.'
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String fullTitle = 'Trolls and gullible kids LASH OUT as a CCP surveillance arm is on its death bed';
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String comment = 'Another L for China
Another L for Communism
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Tech Policy
House passes potential TikTok ban that could speed through Senate
By tying the renewed crackdown to a bipartisan foreign aid deal, the bill could move quickly through Congress
By Cristiano Lima-Strong and Taylor Telford
Updated April 20, 2024 at 6:31 p.m. EDT|Published April 20, 2024 at 1:25 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech
House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine.
The unorthodox maneuver could expedite the crackdown’s path through Congress, where negotiations had slowed after an earlier attempt hurtled through the House last month. With growing support in the Senate, the legislation appears more likely than ever to become law.
The move represents one of the most significant threats to the U.S. operations of the wildly popular app, which is used by roughly 170 million Americans, but whose China-based parent company ByteDance has long sparked national security fears in Washington.
TikTok is “a spy balloon in Americans’ phones” used to “surveil and exploit America’s personal information,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said Saturday as he introduced the measure for debate.'
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String fullTitle = 'Republican fascists defeated as Volkswagen Workers vote to Join UAW In Historic Labor Win';
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String date = '04/20/24(Sat)02:11:14';
String comment = 'In huge defeat for the Republican fascists and their billionaire owners, the first Auto Plant in the south has voted to unionize
https://apnews.com/article/volkswag
Employees at Volkswagen’s SUV assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted to join the United Auto Workers in a historic labor victory, the union and Volkswagen announced late Friday.
A preliminary tally released by the company showed workers favored union representation by a count of 2,628 to 985, a nearly 3-1 margin. The landslide win gives the union a crucial toehold in the anti-union South.
The UAW called it a “historic breakthrough” in a statement.
More than 4,000 workers at the facility would be represented by the UAW, which has most of its auto membership at Ford, General Motors and Jeep parent company Stellantis, collectively known as the “Big Three.” The union previously lost two plant-wide votes at Volkswagen, including one in 2019, where it fell short by just 57 votes.
Volkswagen said in a brief statement that it would wait for the National Labor Relations Board to certify the results as official, suggesting it would not challenge them. The company, which is based in Germany, thanked its workers for voting.
This third Volkswagen election was closely watched because the union has struggled for years to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the South. But the UAW is riding high off its strike against the Big Three last year and has plans to unionize more plants in Southern states, including Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai facilities in Alabama.
The stakes are high for both the union and the industry. Over the years, automakers have increasingly set up operations below the Mason-Dixon line, where unions tend to be weaker and wages lower than in the Midwest. By failing to organize plants in the South, the UAW has lost much of the power it once wielded in setting working conditions across the industry.'
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String comment = 'Joe Biden Is Now Favorite Over Donald Trump in Four Swing States
Published Apr 18, 2024 at 8:31 AM EDT
Updated Apr 18, 2024 at 8:32 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-
Joe Biden is leading Donald Trump in four swing states, the latest betting odds show.
According to Polymarket, an online prediction platform where users can place yes or no bets on world events, the incumbent president will beat Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, in November's vote in Pennsylvania (58 percent to 42 percent), Nevada (58 percent to 41 percent), Michigan (57 percent to 44 percent) and Wisconsin (52 percent to 47 percent.)
Biden won all of them in the 2020 presidential election, but they are all known as battleground states that could go either way when voters go to the polls in November. Newsweek contacted representatives for Trump and Biden by email to comment on this story.
Trump's victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in 2016 helped him win the White House, but he only beat Hillary Clinton in the three states by a combined 83,161 votes.
In contrast, Biden won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by a combined 255,425 votes in 2020, more than tripling Trump's margin of victory. Wisconsin, which Biden won by 20,682 votes, was the only one of the three states decided by less than 1 percentage point.'
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String fullTitle = 'Bosnian Serb Leader Tells Rally In Banja Luka Srebrenica Massacre 'Wasn't Genocide'';
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String date = '04/19/24(Fri)12:47:06';
String comment = 'Sometimes I hate that I have a passport which ties me to Republika Srpska, for I absolutely condone anything Dodik does
https://www.rferl.org/a/republika-s
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik told supporters at a rally in Banja Luka on April 18 that the actions of the Republika Srpska Army in Srebrenica in 1995 were "a mistake that left the crime" but again denied it was genocide.
"I want to express my special respect to all the victims and my condolences to their families. It was a crime," he said, addressing thousands of supporters. But he denied it was genocide.
More than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were massacred by Bosnian Serb troops in Srebrenica in July 1995. International courts have ruled it a genocide, and Bosnian Serb army officers and political leaders also have been convicted of genocide by UN judges.
Earlier on April 18, Dodik told the Republika Srpska parliament that genocide "did not happen," adding that "such a qualification must be dismissed." The parliament adopted a report stating that the massacre in Srebrenica did not constitute genocide.
The moves came as Serbia and the Republika Srpska campaign against a resolution under debate at the UN to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide. Dodik said the government of Republika Srpska will spend the whole day in Srebrenica when the resolution is discussed at the UN.
Dodik, the pro-Russian leader of the ethnic Serbian entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been designated for sanctions by the United States and Britain over alleged destabilization efforts and corruption.
He organized the rally to voice opposition to the resolution, which would declare July 11 as the International Day of the Remembrance of the Genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995.'
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String fullTitle = 'Today marks the 249th anniversary of pro gun conservative extremists shooting at the british';
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String comment = '249th anniversary of us shooting the bongs for trying to take our weapons of war because the right to keep and bear arms is a basic human right
https://www.wktv.com/news/local/tod
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String fullTitle = 'Far-right Republican White Man Self-Immolates for Trump';
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String fullTitle = 'NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after essay accusing outlet of liberal bias';
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A senior business editor at National Public Radio has resigned after writing an essay for an online news site published last week accusing the outlet of a liberal bias in its coverage.
In a Wednesday post on X, Uri Berliner included a statement in what he said was his resignation letter to NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher.
"I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years," Berliner wrote in the post. "I don't support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism. But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay."
On Friday, Berliner was suspended for five days without pay, NPR confirmed Tuesday, a week after his essay in the Free Press, an online news publication, where he argued the network had "lost America's trust" and allowed a "liberal bent" to influence its coverage, causing the outlet to steadily lose credibility with audiences'
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String fullTitle = 'Jury is Set for Donald Trump’s Election Interference Hush Money Trial + Other Updates';
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NEW YORK (AP) — A jury of 12 people was seated Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial, propelling the proceedings closer to opening statements and the start of weeks of dramatic testimony.
The court quickly turned to selecting alternate jurors.
The jury includes a sales professional, a software engineer, a security engineer, an English teacher, a speech therapist, multiple lawyers, an investment banker and a retired wealth manager.
The first-ever trial of a former American president will unfold in the middle of this year’s race for the White House, ensuring that the legal troubles of the presumptive Republican nominee will be a dominant issue in the contest against Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.
The trial will almost certainly feature unflattering testimony about the Trump’s personal life before he became president, with allegations that he falsifying business records to suppress stories in the final days of the 2016 election about his sexual relationships.
The jury selection process appeared wobbly earlier in the day when two jurors were dismissed, one after expressing doubt about her ability to be fair following disclosure of details about her identity and the other over concerns that some of his answers in court may have been inaccurate.
But lawyers who began the day with only five jurors settled on the remaining seven for the panel in quick succession, along with one alternate. Judge Juan Merchan has said his goal is to have six alternates.
In other developments, prosecutors asked for Trump to be held in contempt over a series of social media posts this week, and the judge barred reporters from identifying jurors’ employers after expressing privacy concerns.'
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String fullTitle = 'Corrupt democrat makes wife take fall';
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String comment = 'Corrupt democrat scumbag and foreign agent Senator Menendez is trying to blame his wife for him accepting cash, gold bars and luxury cars as bribes.
He intends to blame it all on her and incriminate his wife so he can get off without a conviction
https://www.wsgw.com/sen-bob-menend
Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, could incriminate his wife when he heads to trial next month to fight charges that he traded his political influence for cash, gold bars and a luxury Mercedes, according to newly unsealed court documents.
A legal brief from Menendez’s lawyers said the senator might testify about communications with his wife that will demonstrate “the ways in which she withheld information” from her husband “or otherwise led him to believe that nothing unlawful was taking place.”
The disclosure about Menendez’s possible defense strategy, which had been redacted, was unsealed by a federal judge at the request of several news organizations, including CBS News.
Menendez was indicted in September on charges alleging he and his wife, Nadine, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes while using his power and influence to enrich and protect three New Jersey businessmen and benefit the government of Egypt.
Later, a superseding indictment alleged Menendez and his wife conspired to act as a foreign agent for Egypt and accepted expensive gifts in exchange for favorable comments about Qatar. The latest indictment unsealed in March accused the duo of obstructing the investigation into the alleged yearslong corruption scheme.
Menendez and his wife have pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
The New Jersey senator’s trial is scheduled to begin in early May, while Nadine Menendez is set to be tried separately. The federal judge delayed her trial until at least July while she undergoes surgery to treat a medical condition.'
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String fullTitle = 'MAGA Propagandists Learn in Real-Time That NYC Isn’t the Dystopian Hellscape They Keep Claiming';
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String comment = '>“I thought I would see a little more chaos on the streets than, um, from what I’ve been told. And I didn’t see as much as I thought I would,” RSBN host Brian Glenn said this week.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-
For years now, right-wing media and conservative politicians have framed New York City as a Democratic-run “hellhole” full of violent migrant criminals and homeless drug addicts clogging up the streets in a zombified state.
Now that Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is taking place in lower Manhattan and has brought an intense media spotlight with it, many in the MAGAverse are learning that the Big Apple isn’t exactly the post-apocalyptic wasteland they’ve been led to believe.
During the opening day of the ex-president’s criminal trial on Monday, Brian Glenn—a host for the aggressively pro-Trump streaming platform Right Side Broadcasting Network and MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s paramour—wandered the streets near the courthouse with his camera in tow.
While speculating about the jury selection and how Trump faces an uphill climb with the largely Democratic base of New York, Glenn suddenly admitted that the city wasn’t quite what he expected based on what he’d been fed by conservative media.
In a clip flagged by journalist Jacqueline Sweet, Glenn noted that he and his crew had driven in from Philadelphia on Sunday and spent the day “exploring” New York and came to the stunning realization that the city was fairly peaceful.
“I gotta say, I thought I would see more [of a] homeless situation here,” he said. “I thought I would see a little more chaos on the streets than, um, from what I’ve been told. And I didn’t see as much as I thought I would.”'
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String fullTitle = 'Biden lets loose unhinged rant';
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String comment = 'Biden lets loose an unhinged rant consisting almost exclusively of baseless lies.
He claims his uncle was a WW2 pilot who got shot down over New Guinea and eaten by cannibals, and that he has personally seen the plane wreckage, while every single claim is directly contradicted by historic record
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/poli
Biden claims cannibals ate his uncle
US president’s theory of 2nd Lieut Ambrose J Finnegan’s death contradicted by official war records
“He flew single-engine planes, reconnaissance flights over New Guinea,” Mr Biden said of his maternal uncle, 2nd Lieutenant Ambrose J Finnegan.
“He had volunteered because someone couldn’t make it. He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals in New Guinea at the time.
“They never recovered his body. But the government went back, when I went down there, and they checked and found some parts of the plane and the like.”
In fact, official war records dispute all of Mr Biden’s assertions about his uncle’s fate during the flight on May 14, 1944.
Lt Finnegan was not flying the plane, nor was it shot down.
Moreover, investigators found no evidence he emerged from the wreckage, let alone encountered cannibals or indeed any other inhabitants in the Pacific islands.
“For unknown reasons this plane was forced to ditch in the ocean off the north coast of New Guinea,” according to records held by the Pentagon’s Prisoners of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency.
A report on the missing A-20 Havoc was filed to the US war department on May 17, 1944, according to the National Archives, which collates historical US government documents.
It registers three crew and one passenger, identified as Lieutenant Finnegan, on board.'
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String fullTitle = 'Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he fights criminal charges in the 2020 election case';
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump lost a bid Thursday to pause a string of lawsuits accusing him of inciting the U.S. Capitol attack, while the former president fights his 2020 election interference criminal case in Washington.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington denied defense lawyers’ request to put the civil cases seeking to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on hold while the criminal case accusing him of conspiring to overturn his election defeat to President Joe Biden plays out.
It’s the latest legal setback for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, whose trial in a separate criminal case related to hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign began this week with jury selection in New York.
The lawsuits brought by Democratic lawmakers and police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 seek civil damages for harm they say they suffered during the attack, which aimed to stop Congress’ certification of Biden’s victory.
Trump has claimed he can’t be sued over the riot that left dozens of police officers injured, arguing that his words during a rally before the storming of the Capitol addressed “matters of public concern” and fell within the scope of absolute presidential immunity.
Washington’s federal appeals court ruled in December that the lawsuits can move forward, rejecting Trump’s sweeping claims that presidential immunity shields him from liability. The court, however, said Trump can continue to fight, as the cases proceed, to try to prove that his actions were taken in his official capacity as president.'
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String fullTitle = 'Colorado Republicans block child sex abuse victims from suing their rapists';
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Republicans in the Colorado Senate on Wednesday blocked the legislature from asking voters to amend the state constitution to let victims of child sex abuse from decades past sue their abusers even if the statute of limitations has run out.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 1, which would have sent the question to the November ballot, needed a supermajority of support to pass the chamber. It failed by a single vote.
Democrats hold a 23-12 advantage in the Senate, one vote shy of a supermajority. Democrats were united in favor of the resolution. No Republicans would join them, citing concerns about the constitutionality of the measure and how it could bankrupt institutions like churches and school districts.'
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String fullTitle = 'Woke indoctrination show "Bluey" has LGBT characters';
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The 49th episode of Bluey Season 3 featured a subtle reference to the show's first-ever same-sex couple
Dylan Murray
Published Apr 18, 2024, 18:12:22 GMT+1
Last updated Apr 18, 2024, 18:12:20 GMT+1
https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/
The Australian kid’s TV show Bluey has become one of the most critically acclaimed shows of its genre since its debut in 2018.
Upon Bluey’s eventual arrival worldwide on Disney+ a year later in 2019, the show became incredibly popular among both children and adults.
The popular show details the life of Bluey, a seven-year-old blue healer, and her little sister Bingo, a five-year-old red healer, alongside a supporting cast featuring their friends and family
The popular show details the life of Bluey, a seven-year-old blue healer, and her little sister Bingo, a five-year-old red healer, alongside a supporting cast featuring their friends and family'
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String fullTitle = 'Israel launches missile strikes into Iran in response to Tehran's attack Sunday';
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String comment = 'The Israeli military has conducted missile strikes against Iran, a senior U.S. military official told NPR on Thursday. There are also reports of explosions in Iraq and Syria.
The strikes appear to be the response Israel vowed to carry out after an Iranian attack on Sunday, when Tehran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel. Most of Iran's volleys were intercepted or caused little damage. The U.S. military official spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday. Iran's Fars News Agency says explosions were heard in the central city of Isfahan, according to the Reuters News Agency.
The extent of Israel's strikes and the weapons used weren't clear. The U.S. and other western allies had been urging Israel to forego a military strike to avoid a regional conflict springing out of the Israel-Hamas war. Those concerns rose when an air strike – which Iran blamed on Israel – killed two Iranian military commanders in the country's consulate in Damascus, Syria, on April 1. Iran said Sunday's attack on Israel was in response to that.
The region has been on the edge of wider conflict since Hamas attacked Israel Oct. 7, which Israel says killed 1,200 people, and Israel's subsequent invasion of Gaza, which has killed more than 30,000 people according to Gaza health officials. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have traded frequent fire over the northern Israel border. Houthi militants, also backed by Iran, have been going after international commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea in recent months. The group's leaders claim they're targeting ships with links to Israel in response to the country's ongoing invasion of Gaza.
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news
The US has vetoed a Palestinian request to the United Nations security council for full UN membership, blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian state.
The vote in the 15-member security council was 12 in favor, the US opposed and two abstentions, the UK and Switzerland.
US officials had been hoping Washington could avoid use of its veto if other states objected to a draft resolution before the council recommending the “State of Palestine be admitted to membership of the United Nations”.
Before the vote, diplomats said the US mission had been trying to convince one or two other council members to abstain, to mitigate Washington’s isolation on the issue, but American officials said they were resigned to having to wield the US veto once more in support of Israel.
Washington’s position is that the emergence of a Palestinian state had to be the outcome of negotiations on all aspects of a Middle East peace settlement.
“The United States continues to strongly support a two-state solution. This vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood, but instead is an acknowledgment that it will only come from direct negotiations between the parties,” deputy US ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, told the council.
The decision to veto the request drew rebukes from across the region. The Palestinian presidency condemned the US veto as “unfair, unethical and unjustified”, while the Egyptian foreign ministry said it regretted the inability of the security council to enable full Palestinian membership.
Hamas said it strongly condemned America’s position.'
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String fullTitle = 'Joe Biden Is Now Beating Donald Trump With Republican Pollsters as Well';
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String comment = 'Joe Biden is beating Donald Trump ahead of November's presidential election, according to a new poll.
The survey from Echelon Insights, which was cofounded by former Republican digital strategist Patrick Ruffini and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, found that 49 percent of respondents would either definitely, probably or lean to voting for Biden, while 46 percent said they would opt for Trump.
The poll surveyed 1,020 likely voters and was conducted from April 12-14. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points.
Newsweek contacted representatives for Trump and Biden by email to comment on this story.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-
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String fullTitle = '28 percent of Gen Z "identify" as LGBTQ';
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String comment = 'Only 2 years ago it was 20 percent. Most of it is the Bisexual/something else category. We all know its complete bullshit but who wants to risk losing their jobs over something so retarded?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/g
Nearly a third, or 28%, of Gen Z adults in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, a larger share than older generations, according to a new report by PRRI, a nonprofit that conducts research on religion, values and public policy.
The report, titled “A political and cultural glimpse into America’s future,” sought to highlight the cultural and political views of Gen Z adults, compared with older Americans.
Researchers surveyed more than 6,600 people ages 13 to over 65, with oversamples of Gen Z adults and teens between August 21 to September 15, 2023.
The report found about 16% of Millennials and 7% of Baby Boomers identify as LGBTQ. But among Gen Z adults ages 18–25, 72% identified as straight, 15% as bisexual, 5% as gay or lesbian and 8% as “something else,” according to the report.
About 20% of Americans are Gen Z, according to PRRI.
When asked about their political ideology, the report found 43% of Gen Z adults identified as liberal – a larger share than all other generational groups.
Thirty-nine percent of Millennials, 25% of Gen X adults, and 25% of Baby Boomers identified as liberal, according to PRRI.'
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String fullTitle = '81 yr old GOP 2nd amender shoots black Uber driver picking up a package(video)';
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String comment = 'He wouldn't have done it if she were a white woman
An 81-year-old Ohio man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting an Uber driver who thought she was picking up a package from the man's house. Both appeared to have been victims of scam phone calls, the Clark County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The Uber driver, Loletha Hall, was found shot multiple times near 81-year-old William Brock's South Charleston home on March 25.
Hall, a Black woman, was taken to a hospital in Dayton, where she died of her injuries.
Investigators discovered that Brock had earlier received a scam call about an incarcerated relative, which had involved threats and demands for money.
An unknown man told Brock over the phone he needed to pay $12,000 to get his nephew out of jail, according to a police report. Brock told police the caller threatened to kill him and his nephew if he didn't pay the ransom, the report said.
The same caller, or an accomplice, later hired Hall using the Uber app to pick up a package from Brock's residence, according to investigators. Hall was not aware that Brock had been threatened, the sheriff's office. said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3u
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-d
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateof
YouTube Issues New Ad Blocker Warning As Crackdown Ramps Up
Kate O'Flaherty
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Apr 18, 2024,04:10am EDT
Google’s YouTube is ramping up its crackdown on privacy-preserving ad blockers to include third party apps. It comes after a YouTube ad blocking crackdown that started last year when users started receiving a pop up encouraging them to disable ad blockers or pay for Premium. YouTube also started disabling videos when users had enabled an ad blocking extension.
Now, YouTube has issued a new warning to anyone using a third party app on the video streaming platform. “We’re strengthening our enforcement on third party apps that violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, specifically ad blocking apps,” Google said in an announcement on its support page.
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YouTube explained how the platform only allows third party apps to use its API when they follow its API Services Terms of Service, and “when we find an app that violates these terms, we will take appropriate action to protect our platform, creators, and viewers.”
What Happens If I Use a Third Party App to Block Ads on YouTube?
During the last crackdown on ad blocking extensions, YouTube users noticed buffering on the platform, often making it unusable. Under the YouTube’s latest crackdown, viewers using third-party apps may experience buffering issues or see the error, “The following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch a video, Google said.
It looks like YouTube’s plan is working, with users on X formerly Twitter saying they were unable to use their ad blocking apps.'
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String comment = 'The “Hitler Pig” sobriquet is used frequently to describe Trump and generally by younger, tech-savvy, aides to President Biden, according to Politico.
White House staffers and campaign aides first started using the term after Trump dined with rapper Kanye West and notorious Holocaust skeptic and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Some on social media mocked the nickname.
“White House nickname for Trump is ‘Hitler Pig.’ How humorless and pathetic is that?” Marc Thiessen, former President George W. Bush’s speechwriter, wrote on X.
“‘Pig Hitler’ is funnier though,” another user chimed in.
“[Politico] thinks this is funny it’s actually more a representation of what a rag they’ve become and the level of shit that works in the White House ‘Hitler Pig,’” he wrote on X.
As West Wing Playbook reported earlier this year, President JOE BIDEN is often far saltier about Trump behind closed doors than he is in public, even as his willingness to publicly attack his predecessor and likely 2024 challenger in speeches and offhand comments has grown.
https://www.politico.com/newsletter
https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-ne
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A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers.
The House Labor and Industrial Relations panel advanced the child labor legislation, House Bill 156, along with House Bill 119, which would slash the amount of time for which people can collect unemployment aid. A third bill the committee approved, House Bill 529, would change how workers' compensation wages are calculated in ways that could reduce benefits received by some injured laborers.
The bills, which head to the full House, are part of a broad effort by Republicans to weaken labor unions and strengthen employers' hands in Louisiana. They are aligned with steps other Republican-led legislatures have taken in recent years, and on Thursday, GOP lawmakers attributed the moves to Gov. Jeff Landry's directive to "reform" the business environment and remove bureaucratic red tape.
First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks. He questioned why Louisiana has the requirement while other states where he owns Smoothie King locations, such as Mississippi, don't have them, and criticized people who have questioned the bill's purpose.
“The wording is ‘We’re here to harm children.’ Give me a break," he said. "These are young adults.”'
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Ignoring 200 years of precedent they table an impeachment motion against mayorkas instead of allowing a trial, effectively meaning the Senate can ignore the House when they impeach someone, something that's never been done before
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co
The House impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in February and, on Tuesday, formally referred the issue to the Senate for a trial.
Democrats voted to rule both impeachment articles unconstitutional because they did not rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors." They then adjourned the trial.
The first impeachment article had accused Mayorkas of “willfully and systemically” refusing to comply with federal immigration laws. The second charged him with making false statements to Congress.
In the end, Sen. Eric Schmitt’s, R-Mo., objection to allowing for debate and procedural votes ahead of the Democrats’ motions to dispense with the two articles of impeachment precluded Republicans from putting Democrats in a tough spot with substantive votes.
Republicans had planned to force Democrats to take tough votes, like on the constitutionality of not holding a trial. But because Schmitt objected to a debate agreement, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, immediately moved to question the constitutionality of the articles of impeachment. And that meant Republican senators could only force votes on procedural questions like adjourning or going into closed session.
Schmitt was pressed on his decision by reporters and responded by saying, “Impeachments aren’t debatable. So if you have an impeachment trial, we don’t debate that we listen, we hear evidence. All we were asking for is something that has happened every single time articles of impeachment have ever come over the United States Senate.”'
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two years ago, Democrats repeatedly and forcefully warned Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis that a new law making it easier to challenge school books was so broadly worded that it would create havoc across the state.
Now they can say, “I told you so.”
DeSantis backtracked on the 2022 law on Tuesday when he signed a bill narrowing its focus. He blamed liberal activists for abusing the law, not the citizens whose objections to certain books account for the majority of book removals from school libraries and classrooms.
“The idea that someone can use the parents rights and the curriculum transparency to start objecting to every single book to try to make a mockery of this is just wrong,” DeSantis said the day before the bill signing. “That’s performative. That’s political.”
Coincidentally, PEN America, a group that fights book bans, issued a report Tuesday saying Florida is responsible for 72% of the books that have been pulled from the nation’s schools in the first half of the current school year.
The organization said liberal activists are not the ones who should be blamed for abusing the law.
“The majority of books that we see being removed are books that talk about LBTQ+ identities, that include characters of color, that talk about race and racism, that include depictions of sexual experiences in the most broadest interpretation of that understanding,” said Kasey Meehan, Pen America’s Freedom to Read program director.'
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>MOSCOW/DUBAI, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged all sides in the Middle East to refrain from action that would trigger a new confrontation which he warned would be fraught with catastrophic consequences for the region, the Kremlin said.
>Putin, who has forged much closer ties with the Islamic Republic since sending troops into Ukraine in 2022, spoke to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi by phone about what the Kremlin called "retaliatory measures taken by Iran."
>Iran launched drones and missiles at Israel late on Saturday in retaliation for an Israeli strike on its Damascus consulate on April 1 that killed seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two senior commanders.
>Putin, in his first publicly aired comments on Iran's attack, said the root cause of the current instability in the Middle East was the unresolved conflict between Palestinians and Israel.
>"Vladimir Putin expressed hope that all sides would show reasonable restraint and prevent a new round of confrontation fraught with catastrophic consequences for the entire region," the Kremlin said.
>"Ebrahim Raisi noted that Iran's actions were forced and limited in nature," the Kremlin said. "At the same time, he stressed Tehran's disinterest in further escalation of tensions."
>Tehran gave a slightly different readout of the call, with state media quoting Raisi as declaring that Iran would respond more severely, extensively, and painfully than ever to any action against Iran's interests.'
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politic
Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later.
Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ensure anyone turning 15 from this year would be banned from buying cigarettes, and also aims to make vapes less appealing to children.
A number of Tory MPs have told the BBC they won't back the bill.
The BBC understands that Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is considering voting against the plans.
Conservative MPs will get a free vote on it so they won't be ordered to vote with the government, but the bill is likely to pass as it has Labour support.
The bill would make the sale of tobacco products, rather than the act of smoking, illegal.
Tobacco use is the UK's single biggest preventable cause of death, killing two-thirds of long-term users and causing 80,000 deaths every year.
On top of that, a patient is admitted to hospital with a smoking-related condition, such as heart disease, strokes and lung cancer, almost every minute in England.
Supporting the ban, England's chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty said once people become addicted to smoking "their choice is taken away".
"If you are in favour of choice you should be against something that takes away people's choice.
>>infallible logic'
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String fullTitle = 'Smartmatic and OANN settle 2020 election defamation lawsuit';
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Smartmatic reached a settlement with One America News Network Tuesday in its lawsuit that accused the conservative broadcaster of peddling disinformation about the voting machine company's technology in regards to the 2020 presidential election.
The big picture: The lawsuit was one of several Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems filed against conservative-leaning networks and pro-Trump figures, accusing them of broadcasting baseless conspiracy theories about their voting equipment and software.
The suit accused OANN of "falsely" stating that Smartmatic "rigged" the 2020 presidential election for President Biden in key swing states, despite Los Angeles County being the only place in the U.S. where the company provided services that year.
Details: A federal court filing in D.C. shows the claims were dismissed without prejudice on Tuesday, with each party bearing its own attorneys' fees, costs and expenses.
Erik Connolly, Smartmatic's lead attorney, said in a statement to media that the company had "resolved its litigation against OANN through a confidential settlement."
OANN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN the case "has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement."
Flashback: The settlement comes one year after Fox News settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for over $787 million.
What we're watching: Smartmatic has lawsuits against Fox News and Newsmax pending before the courts over reporting on its machines.
Fox has filed a countersuit against the firm and the network citing First Amendment protections and public interest in the election claims by former President Trump and his allies following his 2020 election loss.'
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String fullTitle = 'WA has passed lots of new gun laws. Could they be in legal trouble?';
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String comment = 'We need to get rid of legislative immunity. shit like California's fee shifting bullshit and Washington's judge shopping is proof that all this shit is in bad faith. Make it so any politician who votes for and any governor that signs a gun law that is found to be unconstitutional has to pay back the state and the plaintiff all their legal fees and goes to jail or is hanged.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl
Local Politics
WA has passed lots of new gun laws. Could they be in legal trouble?
April 15, 2024 at 6:00 am Updated April 15, 2024 at 6:00 am
Rifle magazines and accessories for sale at a gun store in Miami Beach, Fla. (Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg, 2023)
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David Gutman By David Gutman
Seattle Times staff reporter
When a Cowlitz County judge ruled last week that Washington’s ban on high- capacity magazines is unconstitutional, he added one line, on Page 43 of his 55-page opinion, that could just be a little-noticed throwaway, or could prove shockingly prescient.
There are, Judge Gary Bashor wrote, “few, if any, historical analogue laws by which a state can justify a modern firearms regulation.”
The high-capacity magazine ban, Bashor wrote, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court precedent, fails because there are no “relevantly similar” laws from around 1791, when the Second Amendment was adopted.
Bashor’s ruling was immediately placed on hold, and the state’s ban on high-capacity magazines remains in effect, while the state Supreme Court considers the issue.'
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CLAIM: World Economic Forum executive chairman Klaus Schwab was recently admitted to the hospital in serious condition and might have died.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Posts making these allegations began spreading widely after a website that says it publishes “satire, and comedic opinion pieces and editorials” posted an article about Schwab’s supposed hospitalization. A WEF spokesperson told The Associated Press that the claims are untrue.
THE FACTS: Social media users are spreading baseless rumors about Schwab’s health.
“BREAKING: Klaus Schwab was apparently admitted to the hospital seriously ill,” reads one X post that had received approximately 25,000 likes and 8,800 shares as of Monday. “Anyway, that doesn’t BUG me.”
The word “bug” appears to be emphasized in reference to another false claim, that the WEF wants to replace meat with bugs.
Other posts go a step further, stating that Schwab “may be dead.”
But the WEF founder is not deathly ill or worse, according to Yann Zopf, a spokesperson for the organization.
“These claims are entirely baseless and unfounded,” he wrote in an email to the AP. “Professor Schwab’s health is excellent. Like many high-profile individuals and organizations, he and the World Economic Forum have been targeted by conspiracy narratives, as well as misinformation and disinformation campaigns.”'
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String fullTitle = '‘Sleepy Don’: Trump sparks Twitter hilarity as he appears to fall asleep at trial';
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String comment = 'While the rest of the world can’t peel their eyes away as Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial gets under way in New York, the former president himself appears to be far less enthralled by the proceedings.
Jury selection got under way on Monday in the first-ever criminal trial of a sitting or former president, as he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a bid to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
But, according to some courtroom reporters, Mr Trump appeared to struggle to keep his eyes open – and at one point may have even fallen asleep.
“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack,” New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported.
The observation quickly inspired a new nickname for the 77-year-old former president: “Sleepy Don.”
Soon, the moniker spread like wildfire on social media.
“My theory: Trump’s legal team sedated him,” Mother Jones DC bureau chief David Corn wrote.
“Looks, he’s old. The judge is keeping Sleepy Don from his nap time,” Meidas Touch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted.
The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Super PAC, wrote that Mr Trump had worn himself out with his post-trial Truth Social rants.
“#SleepyDon was up late rage-posting on Truth Social,” the account posted.
The former president’s apparent courtroom nap eventually began trending, with users flocking to the hashtag #DonSnorleone, a reference to the mafia kingpin Don Corleone from the Godfather series. Others chose another pun for Mr Trump: The Nodfather.
Several other social media users joined in the joke.
“I prefer Presidents who don’t fall asleep before the lunch break in their hush money paid to a porn star election interference trial,” one user mocked.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/
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On Monday, 15 April 2024, Donald Trump went to Manhattan court for his trial in Manhattan, making him the first US president, former or present, to face a criminal jury. More than 500 prospective jurors have been summoned to Manhattan supreme court in preparation for a selection process that could span days.
Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, in spring 2023 charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records over an alleged hush-money scheme involving the adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal. The charge is a class E felony.
Bragg’s office contends that Trump facilitated payoffs to the women through his then attorney, Michael Cohen, to cover up alleged extramarital liaisons that could have damaged his candidacy in the 2016 election. They say that the illicit “catch and kill” payoff scheme spanned from August 2015 to December 2017. Cohen in 2018 pleaded guilty to federal charges in Manhattan related to his involvement in that particular scheme, among other crimes.
Trump has maintained his innocence. As with the other criminal and civil cases against him, Trump has largely claimed these proceedings are a politically motivated witch-hunt, intended to impede his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.'
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String fullTitle = 'Ukraine is losing';
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String comment = 'Ukraine appears to be losing.
Centrenergo has lost all of its power plants.
DTEK has lost 80% of its power generation capabilities.
Ukraine is being forced now to triple energy imports and cease energy exporting.
It really sucks Ukraine has to deal with the disastrous effects of the 2014 democrat-planned coup in Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/markets/com
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-euro
Ukraine's power plants at the mercy of Russian missiles
Officials in Ukraine say they can "count on one hand" the thermal and hydro power plants across the country that are not yet badly damaged or totally destroyed. As Ukraine scrambles to repair what it can, and keep the electricity flowing to homes and industry, Russia's assault has not stopped.
The attack on 22 March was deliberate and devastating. Five Russian missiles struck the same spot, mangling turbines, generators and transformers and taking the plant offline. A week later, Russia targeted the city's power plants again.
For Ihor Orlovskiy this feels personal.
"It's like looking at the ruins of your own home. It brings pain and tears," the deputy director says, leading me across chunks of metal and stone to the spot where the missiles exploded.
He's worked here since Soviet times.
"It's a very bitter feeling. But this mobilises us too, to build back. Because we know a city of more than a million people is depending on us."
There have been six attacks on this plant since the start of the full-scale invasion, but the one in March was the worst by far.
It was also the most demoralising: it took engineers a full year to repair one section of the plant, then two weeks after it was restarted Russia hit exactly the same spot.'
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String comment = 'The ''fierce'' leader demanded his country receive the "same level of protection" after the UK, US and Western powers blasted Iran's missiles and drones out the sky in a steadfast defence of Israel.
We see that when allies act as one in a very coordinated way, not a single missile falls on the targets, reaches targets in Israel," Kuleba said.
"Everything we are asking from partners, even if you cannot act the way you act in Israel, give us what we need and we will do the rest of the job," he added.
Ukraine has in recent months grown increasingly exasperated at delays in Western aid, which it says are urgently needed to repel deadly Russian attacks.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/111070
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) announced Tuesday he will co-sponsor a resolution to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the House’s top job.
Massie told his colleagues during a closed-door conference meeting that he will co-sponsor the motion to vacate resolution filed late last month by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), according to three GOP lawmakers in the room, becoming the first lawmaker to publicly join Greene’s effort.
Massie’s announcement came less than 24 hours after Johnson unveiled the outline of a plan to move foreign aid through the House, which includes voting on three separate bills to send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and a fourth measure that pertains to other national security priorities.
But in a departure from his previous positions, Johnson did not include border security provisions in the plan after months of Republicans — including the Speaker — demanding that any aid for Ukraine be paired with legislation to address the situation at the southern border, sparking intense opposition among conservatives.'
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String comment = 'Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes took a corpse in a wheelchair to sign a loan, but bank employees noticed the attempted fraud and ended up at the police station
Érika entered with the corpse in a wheelchair and spoke to him normally, even asking him to sign the document. Employees at the bank branch became suspicious and called Samu.
"The people at the bank thought he was sick, feeling unwell, and called Police. The doctor found that the elderly man had already died, apparently a few hours ago.
https://extra.globo.com/rio/casos-d
video in X.com: https://twitter.com/AlertaMundoNews
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>The "super weapon" is understood to be capable of dodging Western detection thanks to its unpredictable manoeuvres.
>The suspected advanced rocket was launched last week from the Kapustin Yar test range - leaving a bizarre smoke trail behind.
>The intercontinental missile was spotted "waltzing" across the sky from different regions in Russia and even Iran.
>Shocked witnesses have caught the unusual "pirouettes" on camera with the clips showing white smoke twirls.
>Following the testing of the mysterious weapon, Ukraine has been on a total air alert, according to a military expert.
>Colonel Viktor Baranets, Russian defence expert for Komsomolskaya Pravda, said: "Nato's intelligence agencies are beside themselves after Russia's new missile test.
>"It looked like a comet with a serpentine white tail.
>“Its spiralling twists and turns were watched with amazement by residents of different regions of Russia - Orenburg, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Dagestan and others.
>“And even in many countries of the Middle East.'
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String fullTitle = 'Secret Rift Over Data Center Fueled Push to Expand Reach of Surveillance Program';
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A hidden dispute over whether a data center for cloud computing must cooperate with a warrantless surveillance program prompted the House last week to add a mysterious provision to a bill extending the program, according to people familiar with the matter.
The disclosure helps clarify the intent behind an amendment that has alarmed privacy advocates as Senate leaders try to swiftly pass the bill, which would add two more years to a wiretapping law known as Section 702. The provision would add to the types of service providers that could be compelled to participate in the program, but it is written in enigmatic terms that make it hard to understand what it is supposed to permit.
Data centers are centralized warehouses of computer servers that can be accessed over the internet from anywhere in the world. In the cloud computing era, they are increasingly operated by third parties that rent out the storage space and computing power that make other companies’ online services work.
Even as national security officials described the provision as a narrow fix to a technical issue, they have declined to explain a classified court ruling from 2022 to which the provision is a response, citing the risk of tipping off foreign adversaries. Privacy advocates, for their part, have portrayed the amendment as dangerous, so broadly worded that it could be used to draft ordinary service people — like cable installers, janitors or plumbers who can gain physical access to office computer equipment — to act as spies.'
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String fullTitle = 'muslims imported by biden and obongo chant "death to America"';
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String comment = 'Wow, who could have predicted this? It isn't like obongo and brandon were intentionally flying muslims from the MENA to red towns/states to cause the muslims to kill everyone or anything. Remember when dems flipped out because Trump banned muslims and then king hawaii judge overturned it?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bi
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Homicides in American cities are falling at the fastest pace in decades, bringing them close to levels they were at before a pandemic-era jump.
Nationwide, homicides dropped around 20% in 133 cities from the beginning of the year through the end of March compared with the same period in 2023, according to crime-data analyst Jeff Asher, who tabulated statistics from police departments across the country.'
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String fullTitle = 'Majority of voters think Trump committed ‘serious federal crimes,’';
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A majority of voters believe former President Donald Trump has committed “serious federal crimes,” according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll.
Fifty-three percent of likely voters said they believe this, while 39 percent of those surveyed said they did not believe that Trump committed serious crimes. Nine percent said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.
The numbers broken down by party affiliation show that 90 percent of Democrats believe he has committed serious crimes, while 17 percent of Republicans fall in this category. Forty-nine percent of independents shared this sentiment.
The new poll comes as jury selection will begin in Trump’s New York trial on Monday, setting the stage for an unprecedented presidential race. In what will be the first time a former U.S. president has gone to criminal trial, the next couple of months will place into focus the long-anticipated clash of Trump’s legal perils with his push to win back the White House. The former president is set to hold a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, the last before court will hamper his ability to be on the campaign trail.
In New York, Trump is being tried on charges that he falsified business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. He has continued to deny the charges while slamming the case as a political witch hunt.
Asked specifically about this case, 46 percent of likely voters surveyed said they believe Trump should be found guilty, while 37 percent said he should be found not guilty. Seventeen percent of voters said they didn’t know or didn’t answer the question.'
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String comment = 'Just checked, and yup, Ukraine is still losing the war. They haven't taken shit back, they lost an additional city, and Russia destroyed Trypilska, a power plant in kyiv, one of the largest power plants in all of Europe and maybe the largest one in Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2
Ukraine air defences overwhelmed as Russia pounds power stations
Kyiv running short of missile defence systems while US military aid dries up
Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.
Mykhailo Podolyak said Moscow was adopting new tactics of attacking power stations with up to “10 or 12 missiles at a time”, bypassing already stretched Patriot and other missile shields.
“The system is overloaded,” Podolyak said in an interview. “Now we have to see whether we can keep the system running, whether we need more air defence systems, especially against [hypersonic] ballistic missiles, and whether we can restore the destroyed facilities.”
On Thursday, Trypilska, a coal and gas fired plant south of Kyiv, was destroyed after Russian bombing caused fire to break out in the turbine hall, according to its operator, Centrenergo.
The energy company said that while no staff were killed, it had lost 100% of its generating capacity. “The scale of destruction is terrifying,” said its chair, Andriy Gota. The attack came three weeks after the same company lost the Zmiiv power station to Russian bombing near the city of Kharkiv
People who lived near the fossil fuel plant described the site being hit by multiple missile strikes shortly before 5am on Thursday, causing a fire that took several hours to put out, leaving the main building a charred ruin overlooking a lake near the country’s central Dnipro River.'
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String fullTitle = 'Biden Stops World War III: Won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran';
int postNumber = "1286836";
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)00:40:46';
String comment = 'Meanwhile Trump is still in favor of Israeli war crimes
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/14/bi
President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. will oppose any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.
Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an Israeli response to Iran's attack on Israel would lead to a regional war with catastrophic consequences, U.S. officials said.
>Iran launched attack drones and missiles against Israel on Saturday night local time in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria that killed a top Iranian general.
>"More than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were fired from Iran," IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said. Most of the threats were intercepted outside of Israeli airspace, he said.
>A U.S. defense official earlier said U.S. forces in the region shot down Iranian-launched drones targeting Israel.
Behind the scenes: Biden told Netanyahu the joint defensive efforts by Israel, the U.S. and other countries in the region led to the failure of the Iranian attack, according to the White House official.
> "You got a win. Take the win," Biden told Netanyahu, according to the official.
>The official said that when Biden told Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in any offensive operations against Iran and will not support such operations, Netanyahu said he understood.
>U.S. Secretary of State Lloyd Austin spoke on Saturday with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant and asked that Israel notify the U.S. ahead of any response against Iran, a senior Israeli official said.'
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String fullTitle = ''Not going to be able to sleep tonight': Truth Social boosters panicking as Trump stock plummets';
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String comment = 'https://www.thedailybeast.com/truth
Donald Trump’s acolytes gathered at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening to celebrate the public listing of his social media firm, even as the company’s stock continued to crater. Under the Palm Beach sky, right-wing radio host Sebastian Gorka sucked on a cigar, actor Jon Voight posed for photos, and country singer turned Bible salesman Lee Greenwood belted his runaway hit “God Bless the USA.” At the end of the song, he and the former president saluted.
In a speech, Trump encouraged investors to keep calm. “We have over $200 million dollars in cash, which is very liquid,” he said, according to a reporter from Right Side Broadcasting Network in attendance.
On Trump’s social media site, Truth Social, the mood is less ebullient. “Man I really thought we were gonna see a jump today. Especially after that party last night. There is always tomorrow,” one user lamented on Thursday morning.
“Doesn’t it seem strange that the price goes down steadily every day? Haven’t seen a green day for a while,” wondered another.
Shares of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, have fallen more than 50 percent since late March, as the company’s dire financial position has become more clear. Last year, it brought in just $4.1 million in revenue and posted a $58.2 million loss.
Even after tanking, however, the business is still worth more than $4 billion on paper—a number that defies normal valuation metrics. Trump loyalists have helped keep the stock afloat as a way to financially support him, though TMTG remains heavily shorted by investors who believe its shares will continue to fall.
On Truth Social, retail investors are encouraging each other to keep the faith. “When the whole world is set on ruining you with everything that they have got, it’s a good sign that you are likely on the right side of things,” one person wrote on Thursday.'
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String fullTitle = 'Iran launches invasion of Israel by launching rockets from Yemen';
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From Iran state media outlet Press TV:
Iran has launched retaliatory strikes against the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s terrorist attack of April 1 against the consular section of the Islamic Republic’s Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, reports say.
The strikes were launched on Saturday night, with some reports saying that the Islamic Republic launched a number of attack drones towards the occupied territories.
Iran has not officially acknowledged retaliatory strikes yet.
Reuters news agency reported that the Islamic Republic has not yet launched missiles in its retaliatory military action against the occupying regime, adding that there is likelihood of it targeting the occupied city of Haifa and the occupied territories’ coastline with “ballistic missiles” in the coming hours.
Israel’s Channel 12 confirmed that the regime had been attacked, claiming that Iran launched tens of drones towards the occupied territories.
(This story will be updated.)'
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String fullTitle = '6 dead in stabbing rampage in Australian mall(Benny Cohen did it?)';
int postNumber = "1286705";
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)15:25:34';
String comment = 'A mother who was among six victims killed in the knife attack at a Sydney shopping centre has been named.
Ash Good died in hospital from her injuries following the Saturday morning attack in the Australian city. Four other women and one man were also killed while another eight people remain in hospital including the 38 year-old Ms Good’s baby daughter.
The attacker, believed to be a 40-year-old male known to authorities, was shot dead by a police inspector.
A shocking video has shown the suspect armed with a large knife, while shoppers take cover in shops as one brave individual attempts to ward him off on an escalator.
One eyewitness reported seeing Ms Good’s baby with stab wounds, with the “terrified” mother attempting to console her child as they were taken to an ambulance.
Other witnesses reported hearing gunshots as they hid inside stores, with one saying of the attacker: “He had a nice big blade on him. He looked like he was on a killing spree.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbV
https://holrmagazine.com/who-is-ben
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String fullTitle = 'The Republican/Trump abortion ban has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona';
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)01:01:04';
String comment = 'https://apnews.com/article/abortion
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground.
This Sunbelt state with a fierce independent streak has long been at the forefront of the nation’s immigration debate due to its 378-mile border with Mexico and its large Hispanic and immigrant populations. It now moves to the center of the national debate over reproductive rights after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion.
Abortion and immigration have been two of this year’s biggest political issues. No battleground state has been affected more directly by both than Arizona.
“Do not underestimate this,” Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who polls for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, said of the Arizona abortion ruling. “It’s dynamic-changing.”
Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump are expected to fight hard to win Arizona after Biden carried the state four years ago by less than 11,000 votes.
In addition to the presidency, the U.S. Senate majority may be decided by the state’s high-profile contest between Republican Kari Lake and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in the race to replace retiring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.
The state Supreme Court’s ruling reviving an abortion ban passed in 1864 also added rocket fuel to Democrats’ push to add a question to the November ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion until viability, when a fetus could survive outside the womb. Later abortions would be allowed to save the woman’s life or protect her physical or mental health.'
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String fullTitle = 'Wetin dey cause kasala as Israel say dem go take action against Iran wen time reach?';
int postNumber = "1287133";
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)22:08:18';
String comment = 'https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles
Anoda kasala don begin happun, but dis time around na between Israel and Iran.
Di attack involve drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Iran bin launch
more dan 300 drones and missiles towards Israel on Sunday, di Israeli military tok.
Di attack include 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles, but none of dem enta di Israeli territory.
Dem also fire 110 ballistic missiles, and na small number of di ballistic missiles reach Israel, military tok-tok pesin, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari tok for statement wey dem show for television.
Di BBC neva independently verify di figures.
Di shortest distance from Iran to Israel na about 1,000km (620 miles) across Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
>Israel say dem go take action against Iran wen time reach
Israel go "exact a price" from Iran in response to dia attack on di kontri wen di time dey right, war cabinet minister Benny Gantz tok.
For one statement bifor Israel war cabinet convene, Gantz say: "We go build a regional coalition and exact di price from Iran in di fashion and timing wey dey right for us.
"And most importantly, faced wit di desire of our enemies to harm us, we go continue to unite and become stronger."
Separately, Gantz tok say im don speak wit German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
"We bin discuss first and foremost di imperative of forming a global united front to counter emboldened Iranian aggression directly and through dia proxies - regionally and globally," Gantz tok dis one for one social media post.
>Wia Iran launch di missiles from?
On Saturday night Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) say dem launch drones and missiles.
Iraqi security sources tell Reuters say dem see projectiles wey dey fly ova Iraq dey go Israel direction.
Di IRGC say dem fire di ballistic missiles almost one hour afta di drones wey dey waka small small so dat dem go strike Israel almost di same time.'
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String fullTitle = 'Bill Maher:Murder is okay.';
int postNumber = "1286830";
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)23:31:08';
String comment = 'We Won’t Miss You’: Bill Maher Says He’s ‘Okay’ With Abortion As ‘Murder’
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/13/
Comedian Bill Maher said Friday on “Real Time with Bill Maher” he is “okay” with abortion even though some consider it to be “murder.”
Maher told guests Gillian Tett, a British author and journalist, Piers Morgan and his audience that people who are pro-life are “kind of” right that abortion is “murder,” before highlighting the reason why he is “okay” with that.
"None of you believe it’s murder. You know, that’s why I don’t understand the 15-week thing. Or the — Trump’s plan is, ‘Let’s leave it to the states.’ You mean, so killing babies is okay in some states?” Maher asked.
“Like, I can respect the absolutist position. I really can,” he continued. “I scold the left on when they say, ‘Oh, you know what, they just hate women, people who aren’t pro-life. They, the pro-choice, they don’t hate women. They just made that up. They think it’s murder. And it kind of is. I’m just okay with that. I am. I, I mean, there’s eight billion people in the world. I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position on that.”
The former president previously criticized members of the GOP for “poorly” handling the abortion issue during the 2022 midterm elections on Truth Social in January 2023. Trump said the losses suffered by various Republican candidates “wasn’t my fault.”'
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String fullTitle = 'Dems are mad that harvard is requiring SATs/ACTs again';
int postNumber = "1286858";
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)01:49:22';
String comment = 'Dems say its racist to require students prove the can do math and read on a test before going to college
Also remember in the 2000s when George W Bush passed a law requiring schools teach phonic because it worked to make sure his retarded brother learned how to read so dems intentionally embezzled a ton of NCLB money Marie Clay/Lucy Calkins reading program, that doesn't teach phonic and is scientifically proven not to teach kids to read. And the dems literally installed this in as many schools as possible and used up as much NCLB money on it as possible even though they were told they legally couldn't so they just changed the the Calkins description without changing the program at all. Meaning the Dems intentionally didn't teach pretty much any kid who started going to school after 2002 how to read to own W Bush and that is why zoomers are retarded and have so much more trouble reading 4chan posts than boomers did 5-10 years ago
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news
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String fullTitle = 'Justice be done though heavens may fall';
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)14:35:54';
String comment = 'Federal judge rejects hunter biden's claim of democrat privilege. The man who stated he's "ready to take responsibility" and then pleaded not guilty to literally everything and who refused to testify at the public hearing he claimed to want is losing in court.
Democrats demand to know where hunters penis is in this debacle.
https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-bid
Hunter Biden Just Faced 'Devastating Take-Down' in Court—Attorney
Hunter Biden just faced a "devastating take-down" in court regarding his federal gun case, attorney Jonathan Turley said on Saturday.
Hunter Biden is facing three federal gun charges in Delaware, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. The charges relate to the president's son lying about his drug use on a federal form to purchase a handgun in October 2018.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected several motions filed by Hunter Biden's lawyers in an effort to throw out the gun charges against their client—one of the claims being that the president's son was being subjected to selective prosecution.
"These charges are the result of political pressure from President Trump and his MAGA allies," said a democrat out of pure cope, successfully parroting the democrat talking point.
Department of Justice's (DOJ) special counsel David Weiss, who is prosecuting the case against Hunter Biden, noted in a recent filing that other defendants did not write "a memoir in which they made countless statements proving their crimes and drawing further attention to their criminal conduct."
Weiss also dismissed many of Hunter's arguments in the case as "patently false" in the filing.
The special counsel was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland from the Biden administration. He was nominated by then-President Donald Trump in 2017 to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.
Newsweek reached out to Turley and Hunter's lawyer via email for comment.'
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String fullTitle = 'Hunter Biden caused this';
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A federal judge in Delaware refused Friday to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden, rejecting the president's son's claim that he is being prosecuted for political purposes as well as other arguments.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika denied defense efforts to scuttle the prosecution charging Hunter Biden with lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days.
Hunter Biden's lawyers had argued the case was politically motivated and asserted that an immunity provision from an original plea deal that fell apart still holds. They had also challenged the appointment of special counsel David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, to lead the prosecution.
The trial is tentatively scheduled to begin in early June.
Noreika, who was appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, has not yet ruled on a challenge to the constitutionality of the gun charges.
Hunter Biden faces separate tax counts in Los Angeles alleging he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over three years while living an "extravagant lifestyle," during his days of using drugs. The judge overseeing that case refused to dismiss the charges earlier this month.'
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String fullTitle = 'Despite dems shouting from the hills, historic gun rights case lowered murder rate';
int postNumber = "1286994";
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String date = '04/14/24(Sun)13:19:35';
String comment = 'Wow, Bruen sure did cause murders to go down. Remember when dems said we would become the wild west? Remember when dems said everyone carrying a gun would result in constant mass murder?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/inves
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String fullTitle = 'World War 3?';
int postNumber = "1286786";
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)20:32:45';
String comment = 'https://www.bbc.com/news/world-midd
In the wars within wars of this grievous Gaza crisis, the most explosive of all is the searing official enmity between Israel and Iran.
It's now at its most perilous point.
And this region, and many capitals beyond, are watching and waiting with bated breath to see what Iran does next.
It's Tehran's move after the airstrike on its diplomatic compound in the heart of the Syrian capital, Damascus on 1 April, which killed senior commanders in its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Israel never admits carrying out such attacks, but everyone knows it was its doing.
And since the Israel-Gaza war erupted six months ago, Israel has ramped up its targeting of Iran, not just destroying arms supplies and infrastructure in Syria, but assassinating senior IRGC and Hezbollah commanders.
"We will make them regret this crime and other ones like it, by God's will," warned Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
His vow triggered an immediate Israeli retort in an escalating war of words. The two regional powerhouses have been at daggers drawn ever since Iran's 1979 revolution made hostility towards the "Zionist regime" a core tenet of its doctrine. For many years, Israel has conducted targeted killings, mounted cyber operations, and sounded alarm bells about the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions as well as its backing for militias, including Hamas, who threaten Israel's destruction.
"If Iran attacks from its territory - Israel will respond and attack in Iran," declared Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in a post on X, formerly Twitter, tagging the Supreme Leader, a most modern of way to communicate for countries with no diplomatic ties.'
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String fullTitle = 'biden uses 2022 gun law in bad faith';
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String date = '04/12/24(Fri)16:27:53';
String comment = 'https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-ne
https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/us-ne
>the biden admin is passing a new EO to "close the gun show loophole"
>even though gun shows are not a significant source of crime guns
>this will require anyone who sells guns for a profit to get an FFL and do background checks
>biden is fine with crackheads lying on the background checks, like his son did
Expect higher fees from the gun store faggots when they try to gouge you the incredibly hard work of typing in your info into the NICS portal which takes like 2 mins and they charge like $50 because they are faggots. Dems are also doing this because the ATF is illegally trying to make a searchable database of guns using 4473s'
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String fullTitle = 'The Supreme Court May Throw Out Hundreds Of Jan. 6 Convictions';
int postNumber = "1286351";
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String date = '04/12/24(Fri)09:53:47';
String comment = 'The case could also erase one of the biggest charges former President Donald Trump now faces.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janu
On Jan. 6, 2021, Joseph Fischer allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol, along with more than 2,000 others, in the effort to stop the counting of the electoral votes that was already underway.
Fischer wasn’t there in his official capacity as a police officer with the North Cornwall Township Police Department in Pennsylvania. He was there to, per text messages he sent that were later cited in a filing by Department of Justice lawyers, “take democratic congress to the gallows.”
“Can’t vote if they can’t breathe..lol,” Fischer allegedly wrote in another text message about his plans before Jan. 6.
Fischer, per federal charging documents, pushed his way into the building with yells of “Charge!” Once inside, he crashed into a line of police officers, according to a cell phone video he recorded. Fischer and at least one police officer were knocked to the ground. Police removed him four minutes later.
Later identified by one of his coworkers, Fischer was arrested by federal officers on Feb. 19, 2021. He was charged with multiple felonies, but has still yet to go to trial. That’s because he’s appealed one of his charges all the way to the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 16.
At issue is a law that makes it a felony if someone “corruptly … obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so.” This law — known as 18 U.S.C. 1512(c) — was enacted as part of the accounting reform law passed in 2002, in the wake of the Enron and Arthur Andersen scandals. Federal prosecutors have used it to charge 330 people who were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, including Fischer — and former President Donald Trump.'
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String fullTitle = 'IF YOU VOTE FOR TRUMP YOU AIN'T QUEER';
int postNumber = "1286462";
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String date = '04/12/24(Fri)17:20:16';
String comment = 'Jill Biden calls Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘a bully’ in speech to LGBT group
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/
First lady Jill Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump on Friday while speaking to an LGBT advocacy group.
“Donald Trump is a bully,” she said at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event. “He is dangerous to the LGBTQ community, to our families, to our country, and we cannot let him win. We have to fight like hell until Joe and Kamala have another term.”
The first lady’s speech at the Sheraton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia, comes just after the launch of the Biden campaign’s “Out for Biden-Harris” initiative to engage LGBT voters.
“We’ve made progress, but there’s still so much more to do,” Jill Biden told the crowd of more than 500. “And we can’t and we won’t go back and refight the fights of the past.”
Those battles, she added, include rights being taken away, freedoms eroding, and state laws that target the LGBT community.
“Just last month, we had to fend off more than 50 anti-gay amendments that Republicans tried to force into the government funding bill,” she said, explaining that the amendments would have limited healthcare and other protections for same-sex couples.
Jill Biden specifically mentioned Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, calling it the “Don’t Say Gay law.” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has defended the bill, saying Democrats have a false narrative of its contents.
Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, is also seeking to win over LGBT voters. His wife, former first lady Melania Trump, will host a fundraising event for the Log Cabin Republicans, a GOP LGBT group, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on April 20.
But Jill Biden warned that more archaic laws could be passed if people do not fight back.'
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String fullTitle = 'Biden such a good president, economy so good, record number of Americans suicide';
int postNumber = "1286561";
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String date = '04/12/24(Fri)22:09:52';
String comment = 'https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-c
>His death was one of 50,000 suicides registered in the US last year - the largest number ever recorded. In second place: 2022, which saw 49,449 suicides.
>Other universities, across many different states, are experiencing a similar trend. And suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 35, according to the Centers for Disease Control, America's health protection agency.
#1 cause of death is accidents, btw
>inb4 good fuck white men
there is another article that is a week old that I am not going to add to this post because then trannies will report it despite the bbc article only being a day old, blacks are killing themselves at record rates and it keeps going up.
But you know biden is totally a good president. that is why 2023 had a record number of homeless and a record number of suicides. Such a good president and economy you either kill yourself or you live on the streets'
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String fullTitle = 'Migrants thank Biden for letting them in; San Diego processing centers reach 245% capacity';
int postNumber = "1286677";
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)11:57:37';
String comment = 'https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-ne
SAN DIEGO, California — The US Border Patrol has more than twice as many migrants as they can hold in the San Diego area of the southern border — and immigrants there were thanking President Biden for letting them in.
The agency’s processing centers in the region are 245% capacity, as 1,812 migrants were being detained as of Friday in facilities normally meant to hold 750, according to agency data exclusively obtained by The Post.
With the influx — and the fact that migrants can only be held 72 hours — there’s been more than 125,000 migrants released onto the streets of San Diego since September.
Migrants who were exiting Border Patrol buses this week told The Post they were from a diverse array of countries — from China, India and Egypt to Jordan, Mauritania and Colombia.
“Thank you America, thank you American president,” a migrant from India said after being dropped off by Border Patrol and allowed to enter the US.
With so many people coming, there’s concern among the rank-and-file Border Patrol agents that the agency is not able to properly vet everyone before releasing them into the country with court dates'
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String fullTitle = 'Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in its largest-ever fraud case';
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Vietnam Net said.
The 67-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat was formally charged with fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP.
Lan illegally controlled Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank between 2012 and 2022 and allowed 2,500 loans that resulted in losses of $27 billion to the bank, reported state media VnExpress. The court asked her to compensate the bank $26.9 million.
Despite mitigating circumstances — this was a first-time offense and Lan participated in charity activities — the court attributed its harsh sentence to the seriousness of the case, saying Lan was at the helm of an orchestrated and sophisticated criminal enterprise that had serious consequences with no possibility of the money being recovered, VnExpress said.
Her actions “not only violate the property management rights of individuals and organizations but also push SCB (Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank) into a state of special control; eroding people’s trust in the leadership of the Party and State,” VnExpress quoted the judgement as saying.
Her niece, Truong Hue Van, the chief executive of Van Thinh Phat, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for aiding her aunt, and Lan’s husband Eric Chu Nap-kee, who is from Hong Kong, was given nine years in prison.
Lan and her family established the Van Thing Phat company in 1992 after Vietnam shed its state-run economy in favor of a more market-oriented approach that was open to foreigners. She started out helping her mother, a Chinese entrepreneur, sell cosmetics in Ho Chi Minh City’s oldest market, according to state media Tien Phong.'
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String fullTitle = 'Iran Seizes Cargo Ship Linked to Israeli Billionaire';
int postNumber = "1286734";
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String date = '04/13/24(Sat)18:14:29';
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Sat, April 13, 2024
Iran Seizes Cargo Ship Linked to Israeli Billionaire
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seized an Israeli-affiliated shipping vessel on Saturday, amid mounting tensions between the two countries—and threats of military action—after a deadly missile strike hit Iran’s embassy in Syria.
Operatives of the Iranian paramilitary group rappelled onto the container ship, MSC Aries, as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to IRNA, a state media outlet in Iran. The ship was then directed into Iranian waters.
The Portuguese-flagged vessel is operated by Zodiac Maritime, a shipping company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer. Forbes estimates that Ofer is worth $24.8 billion.
Following the seizure, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Iran was committing piracy, and called on the international community to declare the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Iran “is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’ crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law,” Katz said.
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String fullTitle = 'In win for real Americans, Bidenomics has helped improve global economic outlook, IMF chief says';
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Strong growth in the United States has helped to lift the outlook for the world economy, but more needs to be done to stem a slide in productivity, the head of the IMF said Thursday.
"Global growth is marginally stronger on account of robust activity in the United States and in many emerging markets economies," International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters in prepared remarks.
The U.S. economy grew by a robust 2.5 percent last year, according to the US Commerce Department, far outstripping most other advanced economies.
"Robust household consumption and business investment, and an easing of supply chain problems helped," Georgieva added. "And inflation is going down, somewhat faster than previously expected."
She spoke just a few days before the IMF-World Bank spring meetings of world financial leaders in Washington, one of two such gatherings hosted each year by the international financial institutions.
Her remarks suggest the IMF now expects the world economy to grow faster than it predicted in January, when it forecast global growth to rise by 3.1 percent in 2024, and 3.2 percent in 2025.
"It is tempting to breathe a sigh of relief. We have avoided a global recession and a period of stagflation -- as some had predicted," Georgieva said. "But there are still plenty of things to worry about."'
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String comment = 'We all keep reading about how generative AI is now so widely available that it poses a profound new threat to legitimate journalism and to trust in general. So I decided to find out exactly how easy it is to use the new weapon.
It took me two days, $105 and no expertise whatsoever to launch a fully automated, AI-generated local news site capable of publishing thousands of articles a day—with the partisan news coverage framing of my choice, nearly all rewritten without credit from legitimate news sources. I created a website specifically designed to support one political candidate against another in a real race for the U.S. Senate. And I made it all happen in a matter of hours.
With OpenAI’s ChatGPT and a few lines of code, developers on freelancer websites such as Fiverr.com—the site I used to find my developer—can program websites to autonomously rewrite and publish articles from mainstream news outlets according to specific political preferences. Within a few weeks, I could even start earning programmatic ad revenue from my partisan AI content farm.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/how-i-
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Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas.
Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed that 99 percent of his investment fund’s money came from foreign sources. The outlet also reported Kushner is working on developing hotels in the Balkans, specifically in Serbia and Albania, and noted that the firm has taken money from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
“I mean, look, this is not subtle corruption that we’re looking at,” Rhodes told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner during his Wednesday appearance on “Alex Wagner Tonight.”
“This is a guy, Jared Kushner, who had no expertise, no qualification whatsoever to be in the White House while he was there. He made it his account to work in the Gulf Arab states. He basically helped lead the cover-up for [Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud]. Get him in from the cold after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.”
Rhodes said Kushner securing a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia six months after leaving the White House is a way for Salman to exert influence on U.S. foreign policy if Trump returns to the Oval Office after the November election.
“Basically, what we can take from that investment is that in a second Trump term, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and around the world will be made entirely with the interests of Mohammed bin Salman in mind,” Rhodes said.'
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O.J. Simpson, whose life as an American sports hero quickly turned when he was charged with the 1994 murder of his wife and her friend, died on Wednesday at the age of 76, his family announced on social media.
"On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace," the family posted on Simpson's X account.
Simpson's attorney also confirmed his death Thursday to TMZ.
Simpson ultimately was acquitted of stabbing to death Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles in one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century. But his life was forever changed; he went from a sports idol to a celebrity-in-exile before being sentenced to 33 years in prison for a bungled 2007 Las Vegas hotel robbery.'
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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/we-
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String fullTitle = 'Democrat corruption';
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String comment = 'The unyielding torrential flood of democrat corruption continues. This time high ranking Democrat legislator Sheryl Stapleton was caught for racketeering, fraud, bribery, corruption and money laundering
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexi
high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico pleads not guilty in federal fraud case
high-ranking Democratic legislator in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to numerous federal charges stemming from a corruption investigation into allegations that millions of dollars meant for educational programs in the state’s largest school district were diverted to businesses and charities in which she had an interest.
Sheryl Williams Stapleton, 66, entered her plea Tuesday during an initial court appearance in Albuquerque. The judge ordered her and a co-defendant released on their own recognizance. They also were ordered to surrender their passports.
A grand jury indicted Williams Stapleton in March on charges that included bribery, mail fraud and money laundering. Those federal charges are on top of money laundering, racketeering and other counts that had been filed in 2021 by state prosecutors. That case is still pending.
A former state House majority leader and an administrator with Albuquerque Public Schools, Williams Stapleton was first elected in 1994. She resigned from the New Mexico House of Representatives two days after search warrants were served at her home during the summer of 2021. The school district also fired her from her role there.
According to the federal indictment, the Albuquerque district had paid more than $3 million to Robotics Management Learning Systems LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based company. Most of that money came from federal funds meant for vocational education programs.
Joseph Johnson, 72 provided blank checks to Stapleton, who in turn wrote around 233 checks totaling $1,152,506 “for her own benefit”'
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April 11, 2024
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group have traded on heavy volume since former President Donald Trump’s new media company took over the ticker DJT on March 26. Who, or what, is behind that market action?
But there is no reliable way to answer the question for Trump Media or any other stock. That’s because public disclosure regulations provide a limited and belated look at stock ownership.
To stick with the Trump Media example, the company began trading under DJT after it completed a merger with a blank-check company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., which was already listed. Trump Media operates the social-media network Truth Social, which it launched in 2022. Former President Donald Trump owns 57% of DJT stock, but is constrained by a lockup agreement from selling shares before late September.
https://www.marketwatch.com/article
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I thought you faggots would be discussing this here. Now paste the article for me.'
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are inching closer to burying a bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and provide breaks for businesses, issuing a series of demands that would most likely disrupt the coalition that enabled it to pass the House.
The $78 billion bill, negotiated by House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., passed the Republican-led House by a vote of 357-70 in January, a rare feat in a divided Congress that has struggled to function. But it has languished in the Senate, where key Republicans have said they’ll kill it unless it includes major revisions. Senate Democrats have 51 seats, and they need 60 votes to break a filibuster.
But with tax filing season close to finishing and election-year politics heating up, there’s no hint of a resolution in sight. Democratic leaders are eager to pass the legislation, which, according to one analysis, would benefit about 16 million children in low-income households. Some Republicans openly warn they may sink it.'
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String fullTitle = 'New Trump biopic movie "The Apprentice" will premiere at 2024 Cannes Film Festival';
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It’s official: Donald Trump — or at least a fictionalized version of him — is heading to Cannes.
The prestigious French film festival unveiled its 2024 official film selection Thursday in Paris, and Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice was among the titles revealed for the event’s main competition.
The biographical drama stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and explores his career as an aspiring real estate tycoon in the New York City of the 1970s and 1980s. The film is described as a mentor-protégé narrative that documents the start of an American dynasty and tackles themes including power, corruption and deception. It delves into the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn, the New York City prosecutor oft-remembered for working with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Second Red Scare.
The movie’s official logline reads: “The Apprentice is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.”'
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String fullTitle = 'American Hero Letitia James Scores Again, Nails Notorious MAGA Election Fraudsters';
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String comment = '>Two men agreed to pay a settlement for trying to intimidate Black voters in 2020.
https://newrepublic.com/post/180563
Far-right provocateur Jacob Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have a history of promoting conspiracy theories, unsuccessfully trying to frame public figures for made-up sexual assaults, and saying fraudulent things. Now they have to pay more than $1 million for a robocall scheme meant to discourage Black voters during the 2020 election.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has reached a settlement with the pair, who were found to have violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act by a New York federal judge in 2023. Wohl and Burkman have been ordered to pay “up to $1.25 million” in the deal.
“The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, and it belongs to everyone,” James said in a statement released on Tuesday. “We will not allow anyone to threaten that right. Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate.”
The calls, directed at areas with predominantly Black populations, made wild claims during the summer of 2020 about how voting by mail was unsafe. The robocalls insisted that voting by mail would put people’s personal data at risk of being used by local law enforcement to track old warrants, used by credit card companies to collect debts, and even used to make a database for “mandatory vaccines.” The robocalls mentioned Burkman and Wohl by name, making it easy for authorities to connect the effort to the pair.'
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String fullTitle = 'Appeals court rejects Trump's latest effort to delay his Election Interference hush money trial';
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A New York appeals court judge Tuesday denied Donald Trump's bid to halt his hush money trial while he appeals a gag order, a ruling that came less than 24 hours after another judge rejected the former president's request to delay his impending criminal trial on other grounds.
Tuesday's ruling came roughly one hour after Trump attorney Emil Bove argued that his client is entitled to a stay of the proceedings while he challenges the "unconstitutional" partial gag order Judge Juan Merchan handed down against Trump last month and expanded days later.
Bove contended the gag order — which prohibits Trump from bashing witnesses, individual prosecutors, court staff and their relatives, the judge's relatives, and jurors and potential jurors — means his client can't comment on publicly filed motions and that it violates the former president's Sixth and First Amendment rights.
His court filing contended the order is causing "ongoing, irreparable harm to Petitioner and the voting public."
"He is the leading candidate in a presidential election and this record does not support the gag order," Bove told Justice Cynthia Kern.
Steven Wu of the Manhattan district attorney's office, which brought the case against Trump, told the judge that there's no basis for a stay and that Bove was misrepresenting the gag order.'
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that could end virtually all abortions in the state puts the issue front and center in a 2024 battleground that will play a crucial role in deciding the next president and the Senate majority.
Democrats immediately pounced on the ruling, which will allow a law first passed in 1864 to go into effect. It permits doctors or others to be prosecuted for performing an abortion at any time unless the mother’s life is in danger and does not include exceptions for rape or incest. Democrats blamed former President Donald Trump for the loss of abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court, reshaped by his three appointments, ended a federally guaranteed right to abortion and allowed for the enforcement of state laws like Arizona’s.
“Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state,” Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. She pledged that prosecutors in her office would not enforce it.
The decision will give Arizona the strictest abortion law of the six top-tier battlegrounds heading into November’s election. That could give a political advantage to President Joe Biden and his allies, who are campaigning on restoring abortion rights as Trump has avoided endorsing a national abortion ban and openly warned that the issue could lead to Republican losses.
“We will continue to fight to protect reproductive rights and call on Congress to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade,” Biden said in a statement shortly after the court’s ruling was announced.'
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String fullTitle = 'Republican operative sentenced to jail for stealing and selling Biden’s daughter’s diary';
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NEW YORK — A Florida mother was sentenced Tuesday to a month in prison and three months of home confinement for stealing and selling President Joe Biden’s daughter’s diary four years ago to the conservative group Project Veritas.
Aimee Harris was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who called the Palm Beach, Florida, woman’s actions “despicable.”
Harris pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in August 2022, admitting that she received $20,000 of the $40,000 that was paid by Project Veritas for personal items belonging to the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden.
Project Veritas, founded in 2010, identifies itself as a news organization. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.
A tearful Harris apologized for enabling Ashley Biden’s private writings to be sold after she found the diary and other items at a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in 2020, where prosecutors said Ashley Biden believed her items were safely stored after she temporarily stayed there in spring 2020.
“I do not believe I am above the law,” Harris said after a prosecutor urged a prison sentence following her failure to appear at numerous sentencing dates on the grounds that she was consumed with caring for her two children, ages 8 and 6.
“I’m a survivor of long term domestic abuse and sexual trauma,” she told the judge.
With a lawyer for Ashley Biden observing from the courtroom’s spectator section, Harris apologized to the president’s daughter, saying she regrets making her childhood and life public.'
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Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward with concerns over one of the planemaker's family of passenger jetliners, pointing to safety concerns in at least 1,400 widebody airplanes.
In a January complaint to aviation regulators that was publicly released for the first time on Tuesday, Sam Salehpour, who claims to be a veteran Boeing employee and 40-year aerospace engineer, said parts of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Boeing 777 were misaligned during assembly and could pose safety threats.
The New York Times first reported his allegations on Tuesday.
Through lawyers, Salehpour said he observed problems during his work on both programs and documented his concerns in order to send them to the FAA and Boeing leadership.
He said employees were pressured to "overlook" the concerns in what he described as a "schedule over safety" culture, which he claimed affects more than 1,000 Dreamliners and at least 400 777s.
Regarding the 787, Salehpour said he observed "shortcuts employed by Boeing to reduce bottlenecks during the 787 assembly process," including placing "excessive stress on major airplane joints" and leaving drilling debris between certain key joints.
This could "significantly" reduce the lifespan of the plane due to metal fatigue and cause an accident, Salehpour said in a Tuesday call with journalists.
Salehpour also raised flags about the 777, saying in his complaint that a redesign of the jet's assembly process to speed up production used "unmeasured and unlimited" force to get the fuselage to fit together.
"I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to align," he told the media in a press conference on Tuesday. He noted his concerns about the 787 and 777 airplanes were backed by Boeing data but that his complaints were ignored.
The complaint is under investigation, the FAA told to BI.'
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A 22-year-old French woman whose blood-drained body was found in an abandoned church in northern Italy’s Aosta Valley over the weekend had been looking for a haunted house believed to contain ghosts, according to police.
Police believe the victim could have been attempting to carry out a vampire hunt, adding that her death could be related to a ghost hunting competition. The other working theory is that it was a “consented murder” or sacrifice in the deconsecrated church. Police are still searching for a young man who was seen with her. There are also two other missing persons cases in the area which police say could be related.
The victim and a male friend had been seen in the area looking “like vampires.” A witness interviewed by police say the young woman was pale and “emaciated”. The witness told police investigators that she looked like a “walking corpse.”
The dead woman had been stabbed with what investigators say was a camping knife and had been bled to death. She also had two wounds to her neck and a gunshot to her abdomen that police say may have been inflicted after she died.'
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>Russian president Vladimir Putin has drawn parallels between himself and Jesus Christ, as he continues to battle what he describes as the "Satanic" values of the West. During a video call to open several youth centres near Moscow, Vladimir Putin used various biblical references, in an increasing trend of using religion to justify his severe campaign in Ukraine.
>He had previously likened his supposed "mission" to protect the youth from the harmful influence of the West to the story of Christ's disciples Peter and Andrew, who were charged with spreading the word of God. In a meeting with top Russian officials, the Russian leader asked: "Do you remember how Jesus came to Galilee and saw the fishermen beside the Sea of Galilee?," reports the Daily Star.
>"One was catching fish, another was fixing his net. And he said to them: 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men, fishers of human souls.' They became his evangelists, his students.'
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Maps show where trillions of cicadas will emerge in the U.S. this spring
Caitlin O'Kane
Updated Tue, April 9, 2024 at 4:05 PM EDT
2 min read
Trillions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the ground this spring, bringing with them their loud buzzing and molted exoskeletons. Here's where you will be able to see cicadas in the U.S.
When are the cicadas coming in 2024?
There are two groups of periodical cicadas – those that emerge every 13 years and those that emerge every 17 years. For most of their lives, cicadas live underground and then emerge once the soil reaches 64 degrees. They are expected to arrive in mid-May.
This year, both the 13-year and the 17-year cicadas will emerge, arriving in numbers that have not been seen in generations.
They mate, molt and then die, leaving behind their offspring to burry themselves into the soil and lay dormant until their brood's next cycle.
Where will cicadas be in 2024?
The 13-year cicadas, called Brood XIX, will emerge in Georgia and the Southeast. The 17-year cicadas, called Brood XIII, will appear in Illinois. This will be the first time since 1803 that two broods emerged at the same time. The next time this happens will be 2037.
The overlap of these two broods has been dubbed by an expert as "cicada-geddon" – but it won't be the biggest cicada event. In 2076, the two largest broods –XIX and XIV – will come out together. "That is the cicada-palooza," University of Connecticut cicada expert John Cooley said.'
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Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during the New York civil fraud investigation involving former President Trump and others, multiple outlets reported.
Why it matters: The sentencing comes just over a month after Weisselberg pleaded guilty to two perjury counts. He will now serve a second stint in jail.
State of play: Weisselberg's conviction Wednesday was connected to an interview he gave to the New York attorney general's office in the lead up to the civil fraud case.
He will serve his sentence in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex.
Weisselberg had also been charged with three additional counts of perjury, but he avoided pleading guilty to those counts under the terms of the plea deal.'
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6 Mississippi 'Goon Squad' officers sentenced to 15 to 45 years on state charges for torture of 2 Black men
The white officers pleaded guilty in the brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new
April 10, 2024, 10:53 AM EDT
By Maria Piñero, Marlene Lenthang and Doha Madani
The six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who tortured and abused two Black men in a racist attack were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 to 45 years in prison on state charges.
The men — former Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies Brett Morris McAlpin, 53; Christian Dedmon, 29; Jeffrey Middleton, 46; Hunter Elward, 31; and Daniel Opdyke, 28' and a former police officer from the city of Richland, Joshua Hartfield, 32 — had pleaded guilty to state charges in August.
McAlpin, Middleton, and Opdyke were sentenced to serve 20 years; Dedmon to 25 years; Elward to 45 years; and Hartfield to 15 years in federal penitentiaries. The sentences will be served concurrently with their federal sentences, and all were ordered to pay $6,431 within two years of release, and permanently surrender their law enforcement certificates.
Prosecutors said the white officers had nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” due to their willingness to use excessive force and cover up their brutal attack on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023.
In the attack, the men verbally abused Jenkins and Parker, beat them, assaulted them with stun guns and a sex toy, and one of them shot Jenkins in the mouth in a "mock execution."
The men had also pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the assault and were sentenced to federal prison terms of 10 to 40 years.'
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String fullTitle = 'US transfers thousands of seized Iranian guns, rocket launchers and munitions to Ukraine';
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The US transferred thousands of machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition seized from Iran to Ukraine last week, US Central Command announced on Tuesday.
Ukraine has been suffering from shortages of weapons and munitions on the battlefield in its war against Russia, with the US unable to send more equipment from its own stockpiles until more funding is approved by Congress.
CENTCOM said the materiel transferred to Ukraine is enough to equip one Ukrainian brigade — around 4,000 personnel — with small-arms rifles. “These weapons will help Ukraine defend against Russia’s invasion,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
The munitions were originally seized by the US military and its partners “from four separate transiting stateless vessels between 22 May 2021 to 15 Feb 2023,” but the US government did not obtain ownership of the equipment via the Justice Department’s civil forfeiture process until December of last year, CENTCOM said.
It is not the first time the US has transferred seized Iranian military equipment to the Ukrainians. The US transferred over one million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces in October, CNN previously reported.'
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String fullTitle = 'It's all falling apart';
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String date = '04/08/24(Mon)23:31:54';
String comment = 'It's been discovered Fani Willis was illegally wiretapping conversations between defendants lawyers.
Oh, and she's now getting sued for racism
https://www.newsweek.com/fani-willi
the co-defendants in the sweeping RICO case against former President Donald Trump and his allies is accusing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of racism.
Harrison Floyd, who led Black Voices for Trump in 2020, announced Monday that he and his lawyers were planning to bring an equal protection claim against Willis, saying that she was going after some of the defendants because of the color of their skin. Floyd is one of two Black co-defendants in the Georgia case.
"While my skin is also Black, DA Willis identifies me as white and views me as a defender of white supremacists due to my political beliefs," Floyd said in a video shared to social media. "Deep down, she wants to make me pay for what she feels is a betrayal to Black culture. Her words and actions consistently demonstrate a hate for white people and need to make this case about race."
Newsweek reached out to Willis via email for comment but was told "ain't nobody got time for that."
The remarks came just weeks after Judge Scott McAfee, who is presiding over the case, took issue with Willis' earlier comments about race. In January, the district attorney said her critics were "playing the race card" because they criticized special prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is Black, but not one of the two other special prosecutors, who are white. Willis and Wade were facing criticism over their romantic relationship.
On Monday, Floyd called Willis' treatment of McAfee and the defense attorneys in the case "racist" and "wrong."
"The truth is simple and quite frankly sad. DA Willis is blinded by her upbringing, which was deeply rooted in radical, progressive ideology and racism. She has no problem weaponizing her skin or her office to further its aims," he said.'
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String fullTitle = 'Another democrat success story';
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String date = '04/09/24(Tue)00:03:01';
String comment = 'Another massive win for democrats applying progressive justice reforms in Oakland. Sorry, chuds.
https://justthenews.com/nation/stat
As crime spikes in Oakland, burglaries up 99% while arrests fall more than 50%
The city of Oakland is seeing a high increase in crime, with burglaries increasing by 99% since 2020, while the Oakland Police Department struggles to fill full-time police officer positions.
From 2020 to 2023, the city of Oakland has also seen a 72% increase in motor vehicle thefts, robberies have increased by 53%, and homicides are up 16%, according to recent report that is on the April 9 agenda of the city's Public Safety Committee.
Despite the rise in crime, police arrests have followed a nationwide trend and have plummeted. City of Oakland police made 12,911 arrests in 2016. That number has declined over the years and dropped to 5,576 in 2023, the lowest since the city has records online dating back to 2006.
As the city of Oakland grapples with the crime surge, the report reveals that 9.5% of the city's police officers reside within the city limits, while some live in neighboring counties and cities up to an hour away from Oakland.
The department has seen a decline in sworn staffing positions since 2019, with the recorded number of 749 sworn staffing positions dropping to 730 in 2020, 723 in 2021, and 690 in 2022.
As of September 2023, the department had filled 713 sworn staffing positions. The Oakland Police Department is projecting as many as 91 retirees in 2024.
The city of Oakland and the city's police department did not respond to emails seeking comment.'
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String fullTitle = 'Engine Cover Falls Off Airplane Because of DEI Policies';
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String comment = 'https://www.reuters.com/business/ae
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines (LUV.N), opens new tab Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to open an investigation.
No one was injured and Southwest Flight 3695 returned safely to Denver International Airport around 8:15 a.m. local time (1415 GMT) on Sunday and was towed to the gate after losing the engine cowling.
The Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab aircraft bound for Houston Hobby airport with 135 passengers and six crew members aboard climbed to about 10,300 feet (3,140 m) before returning 25 minutes after takeoff.
Passengers arrived in Houston on another Southwest plane about four hours behind schedule. Southwest said maintenance teams are reviewing the aircraft.
The plane entered service in June 2015, according to FAA records. Boeing referred questions to Southwest.
The 737-800 is in the prior generation of the best-selling 737 known as the 737 NG, which in turn was replaced by the 737 MAX.
Southwest declined to say when the plane's engine had last had maintenance.
ABC News aired a video posted on social media platform X of the ripped engine cover flapping in the wind with a torn Southwest logo.
Boeing has come under intense criticism since a door plug panel tore off a new Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), opens new tab 737 MAX 9 jet at 16,000 feet on Jan. 5.
In the aftermath of that incident, the FAA grounded the MAX 9 for several weeks, barred Boeing from increasing the MAX production rate and ordered it to develop a comprehensive plan to address "systemic quality-control issues" within 90 days.
Boeing production has fallen below the maximum 38 MAX planes per month the FAA is allowing. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the MAX 9 incident.'
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String fullTitle = 'Amazon fresh just walk out tech was apparently just 1,000 indians watching a livestream';
int postNumber = "1285381";
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String date = '04/07/24(Sun)23:01:09';
String comment = 'https://www.nj.com/business/2024/04
ok, this is pretty funny'
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String fullTitle = 'NASA discovers it accidently caused asteroid chunks to fall on Mars with DART probe';
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String date = '04/08/24(Mon)15:26:21';
String comment = 'https://www.extremetech.com/science
NASA chalked up a major accomplishment with DART—the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. In 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully plunged into a space rock dubbed Dimorphos. The test showed that it is possible to redirect an asteroid, potentially saving Earth from a future cataclysm, and it may not take as much energy as previously believed. Some bits of Dimorphos have been redirected a bit more substantially than expected. A new study projects that fragments of Dimorphos may one day collide with Mars due to DART's impact.
Until the last several years, no one had ever gotten an up-close look at the surface of an asteroid. Now, not only have we seen several of them in the rocky flesh, but both Japan and the US have collected large samples from asteroids. We are beginning to learn that many asteroids are not the monolithic objects we thought. Instead, they're more akin to floating rubble piles. When OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu to collect its record-setting sample, it was almost swallowed up by the gravel-strewn surface. In the case of DART, NASA has confirmed that the impact changed the shape of the object, which is about the size of The Great Pyramid of Giza, but it also flung some large boulders into space.
The new study, available on the pre-print arXiv server, says the impact of DART ejected at least 37 boulders from Dimorphos, some up to 22 feet (seven meters) in diameter—the specs visible in the image above. The swarm of space rocks is still clustered near Dimorphos and its orbital partner Didymos, but that won't be the case forever. The study sought to track the potential course those objects will take, and the researchers claim these fragments will get around over the next 20,000 years.'
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String fullTitle = 'Principled Pro Life Republicans: Baby Murder Okay at the State Level';
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String date = '04/08/24(Mon)12:23:40';
String comment = 'Where Trump leads, performative evangelicals and 'conservative' pundits follow. Expect them to begin espousing the value of states rights to legalize baby murder within the next 48 hours.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/
Former President Donald Trump on Monday said abortion should be left to the states in the post-Roe era, declining to endorse any national limit on the procedure.
His announcement, shared on Truth Social, is likely to disappoint anti-abortion groups who hoped he would use his bully pulpit to endorse national restrictions on abortion, especially after his campaign floated a 15-week ban earlier this year. Trump instead said that it was “up to the states to do the right thing” on abortion, painting Democrats as “radical” on the issue.
“The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump said. “Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will [be] more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.”
The announcement highlights Trump’s recognition that abortion has dogged Republicans on the campaign trail since the fall of Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago — and his primary goal of winning the 2024 election. He has chided other Republicans for speaking “inaccurately” on abortion, intimating that severe restrictions have cost the GOP winnable elections. On Sunday night and again Monday morning he urged people to “follow their heart” or their religion but encouraged voters to remember the stakes.'
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String fullTitle = 'Dems seethe over the rock for not endorsing biden';
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String date = '04/06/24(Sat)23:15:20';
String comment = 'https://www.newsweek.com/dwayne-roc
kek, that shithole reddit and twitter are saying the fact he doesn't want to endorse biden is the same as wanting to destroy America'
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String fullTitle = 'Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions and spreading fake news online';
int postNumber = "1285097";
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String date = '04/07/24(Sun)02:20:34';
String comment = 'https://apnews.com/article/misinfor
NEW YORK (AP) — The reposts and expressions of shock from public figures followed quickly after a user on the social platform Twitter who uses a pseudonym claimed that a government website had revealed “skyrocketing” rates of voters registering without a photo ID in three states this year — two of them crucial to the presidential contest.
“Extremely concerning,” Twitter owner Elon Musk replied twice to the post this past week.
“Are migrants registering to vote using SSN?” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, an ally of former President Donald Trump, asked on Instagram, using the acronym for Social Security number.
Trump himself posted to his own social platform within hours to ask, “Who are all those voters registering without a Photo ID in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Arizona??? What is going on???”
State election officials soon found themselves forced to respond. They said the user, who pledges to fight, expose and mock “wokeness,” was wrong and had distorted Social Security Administration data. Actual voter registrations during the time period cited were much lower than the numbers being shared online.
Stephen Richer, the recorder in Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes Phoenix, refuted the claim in multiple Twitter posts while Jane Nelson, the secretary of state in Texas, issued a statement calling it “totally inaccurate.”
Yet by the time they tried to correct the record, the false claim had spread widely. In three days, the pseudonymous user’s claim amassed more than 63 million views on Twitter, according to the platform’s metrics. A thorough explanation from Richer attracted a fraction of that, reaching 2.4 million users.'
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String fullTitle = 'Melania Trump is back, set to hold event for Log Cabin Republicans';
int postNumber = "1284888";
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String date = '04/06/24(Sat)10:34:24';
String comment = 'https://www.politico.com/news/2024/
Melania Trump, who has been largely absent from the campaign trail during her husband’s presidential run, is back on the GOP fundraising circuit.
The former first lady is set to hold her first major political event of the year — a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans on April 20 at Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach, Florida, club where she and former president Donald Trump live, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.
Melania Trump has long maintained a close relationship with the Log Cabin Republicans, which describes itself as “ the nation’s largest Republican organization dedicated to representing LGBT conservatives and allies.” In 2021, she was the special guest at a dinner the organization hosted at Mar-a-Lago, where she was given an award. The former president himself spoke at an event the organization hosted at the club in 2022.'
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String fullTitle = 'Kid Woke Endorses Bud Light, Demands End of Boycott';
int postNumber = "1284812";
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)18:26:02';
String comment = 'https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-
Kid Rock has made Budweiser part of his style again roughly one year after he shared a video of himself shooting cans of Bud Light amid conservative backlash to the brand’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The Trump-supporting rapper, in a Fox News appearance on Thursday, rocked a “This Bud’s For You” hat before host Laura Ingraham pointed to his headwear.
“Oh, shit,” said Kid Rock as he took the hat off and looked at it.
Ingraham asked the rapper if he’s “lightened up” on the drink.
“This is a cool hat,” replied Kid Rock, adding that he didn’t know what hat he was wearing in the interview.
He continued, “We got bigger targets. I mean, when you look at what, Planet Fitness? Like what are they doing? Like, Ben and Jerry’s? I don’t want to put any targets on people’s back. Target?”
Kid Rock joined a number of other right-wing critics who claimed to boycott Bud Light amid a controversy that saw a massive drop in the drink’s sales and hundreds of layoffs at Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company.
The rapper’s boycott seemingly didn’t last long, as he was caught on camera drinking Bud Light at a Nashville bar in August.
His own bar in the Music City — Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ‘n’ Roll Steakhouse — still kept the drink on the menu months after his shooting video, as well, according to reports by CNN and Newsweek.
He told Tucker Carlson in December that it was a wrap on his boycott, adding that he thinks Anheuser-Busch “got the message.”'
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String fullTitle = 'President Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders on Lowering Health Care Costs';
int postNumber = "1284775";
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)17:02:08';
String comment = 'https://www.c-span.org/video/?53463
President Biden was joined by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to deliver remarks on the administration’s efforts to lower health care costs. The president announced the capping of out-of-pocket costs at $35 for inhalers from several pharmaceutical makers. He also discussed his administration’s intention to cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 annually for all Americans. President Biden also took aim at the 2024 Republican presumptive nominee and former President Donald Trump, saying he and his supporters in Congress intend to “terminate” the Affordable Care Act and eliminate the Inflation Reduction Act while giving large tax breaks to the wealthy.'
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String fullTitle = 'Bidenflation: black mother loses her beloved home from ridiculous prices';
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String date = '04/06/24(Sat)13:54:14';
String comment = 'https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/per
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String fullTitle = 'House Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami federal prison after Trump';
int postNumber = "1284884";
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String date = '04/06/24(Sat)10:11:25';
String comment = 'https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hou
After House Republicans introduced legislation to rename an airport outside of Washington, D.C., after former President Donald Trump, a group of House Democrats are now proposing a bill to rename a federal prison in Miami after Trump.
The legislation, which would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida as the "Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution," was officially filed on Wednesday, April 3.
The move comes just days after House Republicans introduced a bill to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after the former president. The renaming efforts come in an election year when many Republicans seek to honor the presumptive nominee, while Democrats work to undercut him.'
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String fullTitle = 'Turns Out, No One Gives a Shit About a "Coup" I Wonder NO ONE Cares';
int postNumber = "1284607";
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)01:22:33';
String comment = 'Trump is remembered MORE for improving the economy than January 6, his COVID response and the 'drama': Daily Mail poll reveals why Biden constantly warning 'democracy is at stake' is falling flat with voters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar
When Bill Clinton and Barack Obama joined Joe Biden on stage in New York last week they agreed that voters had a clear decision to make in November's election.
'I think our democracy is at stake,' said Biden at the fundraising event. 'Not a joke. I think democracy is literally at stake.'
But an exclusive DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll shows that his campaign still has work to do if that is going to be a winning message.
Voters are more likely to say they remember a better economy during Donald Trump's four years in office than the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol or four years of political drama.
Of 1005 likely voters, some 30 percent said they thought first of 'a better economic situation'. In contrast, 20 percent said their main memory was Jan. 6.
Democratic strategists said there was still seven months until the election and there was plenty of time for the Biden campaign to sharpen its messaging and refocus perceptions.
And a Biden campaign insider said a plurality of voters seemed to remember negative things about Trump's time in office, even if a healthy economy came top.
Even so the results also show that the upheaval of street protests and Trump's erratic handling of the coronavirus pandemic have faded from immediate memory.
Overall, 45 percent of respondents say their life was better under Trump, compared with 38 percent under Biden.
Although the numbers split along partisan political lines, they are reflected among independents, who may include the swing votes that will determine the outcome of the election.'
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String fullTitle = 'THE WALLS ARE CLOSING I-...wait...*checks notes*....nevermind. False Alarm.';
int postNumber = "1285002";
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String date = '04/06/24(Sat)18:31:17';
String comment = 'CIA refutes whistleblower claim pushed by Republicans leading Biden impeachment inquiry
By Annie Grayer, CNN
Published 2:48 PM EDT, Fri April 5, 2024
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/05/
CNN
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House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden were dealt their latest blow this week when the CIA informed them that an allegation they pushed was false, the latest example of House Republicans citing questionable information to make a serious claim.
Without the evidence or the votes to impeach the president, at this point there is no clear consensus on how – or even when – to end the Republican-led impeachment inquiry. This latest development comes after the Department of Justice charged a once trusted FBI informant with lying about the president and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in business dealings, undercutting a major aspect of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president.
House Oversight Chair James Comer and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan accused the CIA in a letter last month of intervening in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden by preventing IRS and DOJ investigators from interviewing a witness in their probe, based on information they say came from a whistleblower.'
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String fullTitle = 'Adults force to live with parents due to Bidenflation';
int postNumber = "1284712";
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)11:40:23';
String comment = 'https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/per
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String fullTitle = 'violent muslim migrants beat girl in france';
int postNumber = "1284628";
String image = 6000.jpg;
String date = '04/05/24(Fri)04:53:38';
String comment = 'https://www.theguardian.com/world/2
disgusting'
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String fullTitle = 'Bad news, Bernie Sanders unfortunately survived office fire';
int postNumber = "1284867";
String image = pussy sanders.jpg;
String date = '04/06/24(Sat)01:06:58';
String comment = 'https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bern
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String fullTitle = 'Corrupt Biden factually saved Zlochevsky by firing Shokin';
int postNumber = "1284567";
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String date = '04/04/24(Thu)18:36:15';
String comment = 'House republicans discover that the replacement for Ukrainian prosecutor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma (the one whom Biden got fired while VP) immediately removed Mykola Zlochevsky from the wanted list and dropped all charges against him.
Biden was *literally* responsible for firing the Ukrainian guy investigating a corrupt oligarch and replacing him with a crony.
Also, hunters business partner confirms under oath that Joe Biden was promised 10% of a Chinese business deal
https://www.stateofunion.org/2024/0
Impeachment Witness Confirms Joe Biden Is The ‘Big Guy’ In China Deal
The recent testimony by former Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski suggests that Joe Biden may have lied about his involvement in his family’s business dealings.
The House Oversight Committee is currently investigating whether Biden should be impeached for influence peddling.
Bobulinski stated that Biden is the “big guy,” as referenced in text messages regarding illegal financial deals, potentially implicating him in corruption.
“Joe Biden was opposed to corruption,” Democrat congressman Jamie Raskin stated.
“Really? So opposed, he leveraged a billion dollars of American tax money to fire the prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating Zlochevsky [Mykola Zlochevsky] at Burisma, the company Hunter Biden sat on the board of?” Rep. Jim Jordan asked.
“And the prosecutor who replaced [him] … took [Zlochevsky] off the wanted list and dropped the charges,” Jordan added.
“Mr. Bobulinski, who is the big guy?” Jordan asked.
“Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said.
“Are you sure?” Jordan asked.
“I am 1000% sure.. and there are other text messages that back that up,” Bobulinski said.'
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String fullTitle = 'THE WALLS ARE closing in around Ted Cruz,';
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)01:25:20';
String comment = 'no, seriously, that is the first line of the article. the retards at the rolling stone think ted cruz is going to lose his job to a special teams linebacker who wants to ban guns.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi
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String fullTitle = 'Sweden's deadly gang war has turned 'peacful' country into murder hotspot';
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String date = '04/04/24(Thu)03:32:31';
String comment = 'THE GANGSTER
In a car park in a suburb in Sweden, Adam reveals how much money can be earned from shooting someone.
"If you shoot somebody in the leg, you'll get 50,000 krona (£3,700)," he says.
"Before, if you were going to kill somebody, you got a million [krona] (£76,000) - but now the prices are so low that everyone kills."
"I've eliminated almost everyone"
Now a young man, Adam has been in a gang since he was nine.
He covers his face to protect his identity - leaving only his eyes showing - and spits out terse answers to the questions we ask him.
"I'm not worried about my own safety, because I've eliminated almost everyone," he claims.
By his own admission, he has committed a litany of crimes and has been in prison several times.
"I've seen a lot of shit happen," says Adam (not his real name) in the city of Uppsala.
"I've seen people getting shot. I've seen people die, people getting hurt, mothers crying in despair. I've seen almost everything, but there's nothing you can do about it."
He is part of a wave of gang violence that has shocked Swedish society and turned the country, with a reputation as a safe and peaceful nation, into a homicide hotspot.
OUT TO KILL
Sweden's gun crime death rate is now the highest in the European Union. About 62,000 people are linked to criminal networks in the country, police say.
Most of the violence is a result of gang warfare, with more and more groups competing for territory and the lucrative narcotics trade.
For gangsters like Adam, this represents a business opportunity. He estimates he has earned two "rabbits" (slang for a million Swedish krona) for taking on jobs. That's about £150,000 - but with such financial rewards comes risks.
A week earlier, he says, a rival gang came for him, but the would-be assassins didn't get far.
https://news.sky.com/story/swedens-
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String fullTitle = 'Putin Official Tells Russians To Fend For Themselves Amid Drone Attacks';
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String date = '04/04/24(Thu)11:59:46';
String comment = 'Link: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukr
>Residents in a region hit by the deepest drone strikes within Russian territory since the start of the war in Ukraine have been warned that air defenses may not be able to protect them from future attacks.
>Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Russia has been hit with drone strikes reaching Moscow as well as ammunition depots and warehouses around the country linked to the war effort. Russian authorities blame Ukraine for the attacks, which Kyiv rarely claims responsibility for.
>In the latest incident, a drone attack on the Russian republic of Tatarstan on Tuesday reportedly hit industrial areas that produce Iranian-designed Shahed drones which Moscow uses extensively in its invasion.
>Responding to the strikes, the head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, appeared to suggest that the system that usually protects against airborne threats may not help them.
>"You should not expect missile defense to work—it solves other tasks," he said in comments reported by Radio Free Europe, without specifying what the other tasks are.'
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String fullTitle = 'In Huge Blow to the Republicans, their puppet group No Labels abandons 2024 presidential effort';
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)01:00:39';
String comment = 'The Republican funded group could not find a candidate who was willing to go down in history as the individual who acted as a spoiler for Joe Biden and help reinstall Donald Trump as president and have his new fascist regime end US Democracy.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campai
The bipartisan group No Labels won’t put forward a third-party presidential ticket after failing to find a candidate.
“Today, No Labels is ending our effort to put forth a Unity ticket in the 2024 presidential election,” the group said in a release Thursday.
“No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House. No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.”
The Wall Street Journal first broke the news Thursday of No Labels’s plans.
One of this cycle’s biggest questions was whether No Labels would move forward with a third-party ticket in reaction to the unpopularity of President Biden and former President Trump.
Leaders floated former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) as possible candidates before running through a list that grew narrower as more names fell off.
Last month, the group blew past its own deadline to give an update about its strategy, extending it to mid-April. And last week, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined a lengthy list of would-be recruits who preemptively turned down the position.
Democrats were keeping close tabs on No Labels as they devote more resources and targeted focus to third-party candidacies they deem “spoilers.” But as weeks and months passed with no candidate, some recalibrated to concentrate on Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose choice of an ultra-wealthy running mate in Nicole Shanahan does not quell concerns of his potential longevity in the race.'
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String fullTitle = 'How Charlie Kirk and Trump sent Nebraska Republicans scrambling on change to state's 2024 electors';
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String date = '04/05/24(Fri)08:51:05';
String comment = 'https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cha
Nebraska lawmakers are embroiled in a last-ditch, Republican-led effort, spurred on by Donald Trump and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, to eliminate the state's unique split-vote system for allocating three of its five Electoral College delegates just days before the end of the legislative session.
Such a change could have major implications for the outcome of the 2024 election.
The current system, which is also used by Maine, has been in place since 1991 and has faced multiple attempts to repeal it, coming just one vote short in 2016.
The latest proposal, originally introduced in 2023 and given new urgency with the endorsement of former President Trump and others, would reapportion the three electors awarded to the winner of each of the state's three congressional districts, instead awarding all five of them to the overall victor of the state, which leans Republican.'
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String fullTitle = 'Libershits Think Their Messages are Being Co-Opted; They're Actually Crafted by Corpos';
int postNumber = "1284402";
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String date = '04/03/24(Wed)22:22:06';
String comment = 'REVEALED: How junk food giant used the 'anti-diet' movement to sell sugar-laden cereals...and paid dietitians to promote unhealthy foods
An investigation uncovered anti-diet campaign
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellnes
Junk food giants have been 'co-opting' body positive social media trends to try and sell Americans more calorific foods, a new investigation has uncovered.
The manufacturer behind Coca Puffs, Golden Grahams and Annie's Mac and Cheese is accused of cynical advertising tactics - such as paying dietitians to promote sugar-laden products on social media using body positive hashtags.
The sponsored content is targeted at the 'anti-diet' community - people who believe labelling any foods as 'bad' or 'unhealthy' can lead to mental health problems such as disordered eating.
Many of the junk food-funded posts use the hashtag #derailtheshame on social media - a marketing ploy invented by the firm, called General Mills, which infers people shouldn't be ashamed of eating sugary food.
.One post was shared in November 2023 by dietitian Cara Harbstreet, who has 38,000 followers on Tiktok.
In the clip, she can be seen preparing a bowl of cereal and eating it, while the captions read: 'As a registered dietitian I will always advocate for fearlessly nourishing meals including cereal because everyone deserves to enjoy food without judgement'. She states the video is a sponsored partnership with General Mills.
Another was shared by Arizona-based nutritionist Christy Wilson last February. It featured her preparing and eating a bowl of cheerios, alongside the caption, #derailtheshame.
In another TikTok posted last January, dietitian Liz Weiss shared a box gifted to her by General Mills with her name on it - and claimed the cereal is effective for treating constipation. Her video also featured #derailtheshame.'
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String fullTitle = 'Disney CEO Bob Iger vanquishes billionaire foe Nelson Peltz in battle over board';
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Disney CEO Bob Iger on Wednesday fended off an aggressive challenge by activist investors seeking to take the company in a new direction, averting what would have been a stunning embarrassment for one of Hollywood’s leading executives.
The entertainment conglomerate’s corporate leadership was facing a bold attack from billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz, who loudly pushed the company to come up with a concrete succession plan and derided efforts to make more diverse movies and shows.
But that crusade fell short, as Disney shareholders approved board members backed by the current company leadership, denying seats for Peltz and his ally Jay Rasulo, a former chief financial officer at Disney.'
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String fullTitle = 'Amanda Nguyen Becomes First Vietnamese Female Astronaut After Surviving Rape At Harvard';
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String comment = 'Amanda Nguyen: Civil Rights Astronaut, 2022 TIME Woman of the Year, and 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
In 2013, after interning for NASA during her last semester at Harvard University, Amanda Nguyen was raped.
Although she took immediate action against the perpetrator by reporting the gruesome crime, lawyers warned Nguyen that it could take multiple years for her case to get taken to court.
Nguyen said: "There's a very real economic cost to violence against women. There are incredible sacrifices that survivors have to make if they want to pursue justice. I don't think that is right."
Speaking of the "broken" criminal justice system for rape survivors in the US, Nguyen said that she refused to choose between seeking justice or continuing her career as a trainee astronaut.
"No one should have to choose between justice and their career," she added.
Instead, Nguyen prioritised speaking out against the US legal system and addressing the preservation of critical evidence from rape cases.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amanda-ng
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String fullTitle = 'Republican Oklahoma official with ties to Nazis ousted in recall vote';
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String comment = 'In a defeat for /pol/, 'their guy' was recalled in a massive landslide of 20 percent of the vote in a deep conservative district.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new
ENID, Okla. — Voters in Enid decided by a nearly 20-point margin Tuesday to remove a City Council member over his ties to white nationalist groups.
Judd Blevins lost his seat on Enid’s six-member City Council by 268 votes, according to unofficial results from the Oklahoma State Election Board. Nearly 1,400 people turned out, about a quarter of Ward 1’s registered voters and hundreds more than voted when Blevins was first elected last year.
Blevins will be replaced by Cheryl Patterson, a former teacher and longtime Republican who campaigned on a return to “normalcy” for this small city nearly 100 miles north of Oklahoma City, which was divided by the furor over Blevins.
“We won,” said Connie Vickers, a Democrat in conservative Enid, who was among the first to publicly confront Blevins over his white nationalist ties. “Blevins lost. Hate lost.”
Blevins faced the recall vote after local activists learned that he had marched alongside neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and led an Oklahoma chapter of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa.
Blevins has denied that he has ever been a white supremacist, but at a candidate forum last week he defended marching in Charlottesville and said his activism was motivated by “the same issues that got Donald Trump elected in 2016.”
Blevins had his supporters in Enid. A woman who campaigned for him said she liked what she saw from him over the last year. Another outside a polling station Tuesday said he knew Blevins personally.
“He’s a really good guy,” Tim McDonald said. “He deserves a second chance.”'
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String fullTitle = 'Republika Srpska Moves Ahead With Proposed 'Foreign Agents' Law';
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String comment = 'Dodik is literally Putin!!!11! But seriously, what a nutjob both of them are
https://www.rferl.org/a/republika-s
Republika Srpska is going ahead with its controversial proposed law on "foreign agents," which aims to curb the work of nonprofit organizations financed from abroad in the Serbian entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The proposed law was published on April 3 on the website of Republika Srpska's Justice Ministry, despite opposition from the public, NGOs, and international organizations.
The law would define "agents of foreign influence" as nonprofit organizations assisted by foreign entities that are engaged in political activities, try to influence public opinion, and are undermining the integrity and constitution of Republika Srpska.
The proposed law would oblige organizations to report to the Justice Ministry within 15 days the receipt of financial or any other kind of support. It also stipulates possible bans if an organization violates "the integrity of [Republika Srpska]."'
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String fullTitle = 'FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump';
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String comment = 'The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President Donald Trump, the agency's chair said.
The FCC told advocates on Tuesday of the plan to vote on the final rule at its April 25 meeting.
The commission voted 3-2 in October on the proposal to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and re-establish the commission's authority over broadband internet.
Net neutrality refers to the principle that internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel confirmed the planned commission vote in an interview with Reuters.
"The pandemic made clear that broadband is an essential service, that every one of us - no matter who we are or where we live - needs it to have a fair shot at success in the digital age," she said.
An essential service requires oversight and in this case we are just putting back in place the rules that have already been court-approved that ensures that broadband access is fast, open and fair."
Reinstating the rules has been a priority for President Joe Biden, who signed a July 2021 executive order encouraging the FCC to reinstate net neutrality rules adopted under Democratic President Barack Obama.
Democrats were stymied for nearly three years because they did not take majority control of the five-member FCC until October.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/
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String fullTitle = 'Republican Run Daily Caller Retracts Fake News Piece That Launched Phony Easter Outrage Cycle';
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String comment = '>The original story helped push the false narrative that the Biden White House had banned religious designs at its Easter festivities.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/daily
The Daily Caller has retracted and removed an article falsely accusing the Biden administration of banning religious designs on Easter eggs submitted to a White House art contest.
The retraction comes days after the right-wing media ecosystem ran wild with the story (alongside misleading claims about Transgender Day of Visibility), claiming that it was further proof of President Joe Biden’s supposed war on Christianity.
Reacting to a flyer sent out for the “Celebrating National Guard Families” contest at this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll, The Daily Caller reported that the competition “explicitly stipulated that egg designs not feature any ‘religious symbols’ on the Christian holiday.” The Caller’s article helped launch a days-long outrage cycle throughout conservative media, culminating in obsessive coverage across Fox News.
Photo illustration of Brian Kilmeade, Maria Bartiromo, Harris Faulkner in a tv with an angry easter bunny behind them
Following that backlash, however, the American Egg Board, which helps coordinate the annual White House event, explained that the “guideline language referenced in recent news reports has consistently applied to the board since its founding” in 1978. Therefore, the restrictions had been in place since the Carter administration, including Donald Trump’s term in office.
“While the Caller did not explicitly state at any point that the rule was new, this additional context rendered the main thrust of the article misleading to readers, who could reasonably have come to the conclusion that the rule was new,” the Daily Caller explained in its retraction.'
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String fullTitle = 'Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to "roam free" in Germany in public dispute';
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Johannesburg — Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has threatened to send 20,000 African elephants to "roam free" in Germany in a public dispute between the nations over hunting and conservation, according to the German newspaper Bild.
Masisi's comments came in response to Germany's government saying earlier this year that it wants to restrict hunters from importing hunting trophies from Africa into Germany.
Botswana is home to roughly one-third of the world's elephant population. Germany is among the largest importers of hunting trophies in Europe, with German hunters representing a significant amount of the income used to fund sustainable conservation in many African nations.
Masisi said elephant numbers in his country had exploded as a result of conservation efforts to protect the animals, and that trophy hunting was one of the tools his country used to bring in much needed revenue while keeping elephant populations in check.
Germans should "live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to," Masisi told Bild, adding: "This is not a joke."'
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String fullTitle = 'illinois jews propose new bill that would require 3 background checks to buy a gun';
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String comment = 'right now they have 2 background checks to buy a gun. There are a few other states that do this for all gun purchases, NJ, california, connecticut, mass and hawaii. also DC, but DC isn't in the US and none of the DC residents are American so imo they shouldn't be allowed to own guns
https://highlandcountypress.com/new
Illinois legislation would require third background check, mandatory training for gun purchases
By Catrina Petersen
The Center Square
Despite Illinois having nearly four million background checks done on gun owning residents in 2023, Illinoisans who want to buy a firearm would have to undergo state-approved training and three background checks if a proposed bill makes it across the finish line.
A Second Amendment advocate says this latest gun-restriction bill is a tactic to keep firearms out of law-abiding citizens’ hands.
House Bill 3239, sponsored by state Rep. Maura Hirschauer, D-Batavia, would obligate Illinoisans who want to buy a firearm to go through eight hours of training and other requirements. The bill is in the House Judiciary Criminal Committee, which is scheduled to meet in Springfield this week. Her office said she will not be calling the bill this week.
William Kirk, president of Washington Gun Law, said the measure woud require residents who want to purchase a firearm to go to their local law enforcement department and go through a background check with fingerprinting.'
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String fullTitle = 'The Power of the Sun';
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String comment = 'South Korea's "artificial sun" has set a new fusion record after superheating a plasma loop to 180 million degrees Fahrenheit (100 million degrees Celsius) for 48 seconds, scientists have announced
To extend their plasma's burning time from the previous record-breaking run, the scientists tweaked aspects of their reactor's design, including replacing carbon with tungsten to improve the efficiency of the tokamak’s "divertors," which extract heat and ash from the reactor.
https://www.livescience.com/physics
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String fullTitle = 'To You, 100 Years From Now:Steven Bannon's 100 Year Plan';
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String comment = 'New book details Steve Bannon’s ‘Maga movement’ plan to rule for 100 years
Isaac Arnsdorf’s Finish What We Started shows how the strategist wanted to create a dominant coalition to take US political power
Martin Pengelly in Washington
Thu 4 Apr 2024 09.07 EDT
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chair and White House strategist, believed before the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on Congress that a “Maga movement” of Trump supporters “could rule for a hundred years”.
“Outside the uniparty,” the Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf writes in a new book, referring to Bannon’s term for the political establishment, “as Bannon saw it, there was the progressive wing of the Democratic party, which he considered a relatively small slice of the electorate. And the rest, the vast majority of the country, was Maga.
“Bannon believed the Maga movement, if it could break out of being suppressed and marginalised by the establishment, represented a dominant coalition that could rule for a hundred years.”
Arnsdorf’s book, Finish What We Started: The Maga Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy, will be published next week. The Post published an excerpt on Thursday.'
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String fullTitle = 'Chaya Raichik left sputtering when asked what “wokeness” is as the audience bursts out laughing';
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String comment = 'Hate influencer Chaya Raichik – who goes by “Libs of TikTok” online – is trying to take her show on the road, and it doesn’t appear to be going well.
Raichik gave a speech yesterday at the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, alongside Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).
During her speech, she ranted about “pornographic” books in schools and moved on to her hatred of everything “woke.”
“It’s been in schools, it’s on college campuses, it- it’s in the workforce, it is in the streets, it’s when you go to the store,” she complained. “I mean, like, you can’t do anything in peace without this wokeness being shoved down your throat wherever you go!”
Some students started laughing.
“Um, do you have a question? Is something funny?” she asked, apparently not expecting people to find her over-the-top concerns funny.
“How do you define wokeness?” someone in the back asked.
Raichik tried to respond: “Wokeness is the destruction of normalicy [sic] and… And… Um… Uh…” More students started laughing.
“… of our lives,” she said, apparently thinking she was finishing a sentence.
Banks then took over and said that wokeness is “anti-Americanism.”
“I’m sick and tired of being taught that America isn’t worth fighting and dying for, it’s a great country, it’s the greatest country in the history of the world,” Banks said.
Despite conservatives beating the “wokeness” drum for several years now, Raichik is far from the first to have trouble explaining what that word means. Conservative writer Bethany Mandel was mocked online last year when she wasn’t able to explain what the word means in an interview about her book that is about how “woke indoctrination” is targeting children.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04