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On Tuesday, a federal appeals court struck down a West Virginia law that protects female athletes from male athletes who think they are women. According to NBC News, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to halt the law, which prevents so-called “transgender” athletes from competing on teams that align with their “gender identity” in the state’s public schools and colleges. Reportedly, Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 13-year-old “transgender” child, argued that the law prevented “her” from running on the girls’ cross-country team and track teams at her middle school (NBC News):The federal appeals court, which is based in Richmond,...

A paper at the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), founded by researcher John Lott, shows how faith in the police, arrest rates, and crime reporting are all interrelated. The paper is titled " The Collapse in Law Enforcement: As Arrest Rates Plummet, People Have Been Less Willing to Report Crime", published on April 5, 2024. As faith in the police collapses, reporting of crime drops, and so do arrest rates and clearance rates for both violent crimes and property crimes. This has the classic look of a positive feedback loop. The consequences are far from positive. It is not a...

Google's AI programs are still generating woke and controversial answers despite the company claiming to have stripped Gemini of its liberal biases. The initial outrage began last month when the tech giant's image generator depicted historically inaccurate figures including Black Founding Fathers and ethnic minority Nazis in 1940s Germany. Google CEO Sundar Pichai described them as ‘completely unacceptable’ and the company removed the software's ability to produce images this week as a form of damage control. But DailyMail.com’s tests show that the AI chatbot - which can now only provide text answers - still exposes where it leans on hot-button...

Joe Biden got a $40,000 check in 2017 from China funds that originated from a Biden family deal with a CCP-linked company, CEFC China Energy Co., James Biden admitted to the House impeachment inquiry on February 21, according to a transcript reviewed by Breitbart News. The acknowledgment raises questions about Joe Biden’s previous claims that his family never made money from China.

I don’t know who she is, I don’t know where she is located, and I don’t know what sparked her amazing monologue. Still, there is a video circulating of a middle-aged black woman who totally gets it: She gets it about Barack Obama, the Marxist who used blacks rather than uplifting them; she gets it about the way Democrats use black women by promoting them far beyond their abilities, creating monsters (more on that below); and she gets the horrible things Democrats are doing to black men. As far as I can tell, the video of this wise woman first...

The Russian air force lost another Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber on Thursday, the Ukrainian air force claimed. If confirmed, the Thursday shoot-down would extend an unprecedented hot streak for Ukrainian air-defenses. The Ukrainian claim they’ve shot down 11 Russian planes in 11 days: eight Su-34s, two Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and a rare Beriev A-50 radar plane. But those 11 claimed losses are worse than they might seem for the increasingly stressed Russian air force. In theory, the air arm has plenty more planes. In practice, the service is dangerously close to collapse. Exactly how the Ukrainians are shooting down so many...

Civil liberties advocates have long argued that “geofence” search warrants are unconstitutional for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a crime was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the privacy of vastly more people — in one case almost two miles away. Attorneys at the ACLU of Northern California found what they called an “alarming error” in a geofence warrant application that “resulted in a warrant stretching nearly two miles across San Francisco.” The error, likely caused by a typo, allowed the requesting law...

Republicans had significant leverage to demand spending concessions from Democrats but let them increase spending in the latest deal anyway.With “friends” like Mike Johnson, do conservatives really need enemies?That question, harsh as it sounds, should echo in the minds of individuals and groups who want to restrain Washington’s inflation-causing spending. The agreement House Speaker Johnson cut with Democrats over the weekend would actually raise spending compared to what would happen under the status quo. That additional spending binge might constitute the kind of change Democrats believe in, but it shouldn’t persuade fellow Republicans to sign off on this ill-conceived plan.Debt...

The Chinese scientist who ran controversial experiments at the laboratory suspected of triggering Covid held a secret meeting with the US government to seek backing for a project that would go on to supercharge coronaviruses – shortly before the devastating outbreak started in her native Wuhan. The June 2017 meeting at America's National Institutes of Health (NIH) held by Shi Zhengli – known as 'Batwoman' because of her work on sampling and sequencing the animals' viruses – will bolster fears of Western collusion in a Chinese cover-up after Covid resulted from a reckless laboratory experiment. A new cache of documents,...

Abrielle Baldwin, 23, was shot and killed on Christmas Eve in Largo, Florida Police have charged her brother Damarcus Coley, 14, over her death Another brother, Darcus Coley, 15, then came out the house and shot and injured Damarcus: both brothers, sheriffs said, were known to carry guns all the time The family had been arguing over Christmas presents, with the 15-year-old saying his 14-year-old brother was getting more generous gifts than he was

Four teenagers charged as adults with the murder of fellow student Jonathan Lewis have had their mugshots released ahead of their next court appearance. Lewis, 17, had agreed to a fight in an alley outside Rancho High School in Las Vegas in an argument over stolen wireless headphones and a vape. He was set upon by a mob on November 1, in a fight filmed and shared on social media, and was taken to hospital with severe head injuries. He died on November 7. Eight were arrested and will all be tried as adults. Four of them, aged 13-17, remain...

Reportedly, the shooter is Kenneth Darlington 77, a lawyer and a professor with duel American and Panamanian Citizenship. A local lawyer and professor reportedly shot 2 climate protestors blocking The Pan American highway in Panama Wednesday. The Pan American Highway is a 19,000 mile road, goes from Alaska to Argentina. The protests are causing $80M/day losses to business and shuttered schools across the country for a week. Reportedly, the shooter is 77, a lawyer and a professor. A 77-year-old man shot dead two environmental protesters on Wednesday in an apparent outburst of rage over a roadblock in Panama. Reportedly, the...

Ceiling fans are now the latest target in the Biden administration’s green agenda, sparking pushback from Republicans and manufacturers. The Department of Energy is proposing a rule that would require ceiling fans to be more energy efficient, arguing the move would save U.S. households on energy costs. According to the Energy Department’s analysis, the new rules would save households about $39 over the lifespan of the new energy-efficient fan. However, the cost to manufacturers associated with the increased equipment will total $86.6 million per year, the department said. Republicans on the House Committee on Small Business say if the rule...

Five women intentionally clogged a toilet inside a Florida chicken wing restaurant over the weekend, igniting a brawl between the group and employees, police said. The incident began around 9 p.m. Saturday at Papa Bees in Longwood, a suburb of Orlando. A supervisor told authorities that the women stuffed a restroom toilet with wads of toilet paper. The women were blamed because they were the only customers inside the restaurant. An employee cleaned the bathroom. However, one of the women went inside the bathroom afterward and the toilet was stuffed with toilet paper again, according to an arrest report obtained...

Planet Earth is plagued with terrible governments, most notably those of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. It is not difficult to argue that one of these is the world’s worst. My vote, however, goes to the current US government for this reason: When the most powerful and influential country in the world has a dysfunctional government like the one run by Joe Biden, the equilibrium of the entire world is threatened. We have the most powerful economic engine and the most lethal military machine. Such a colossus should demand a government of equivalent power and capability. No such luck....

Dylan Mulvaney is back Stateside for a flashy film festival event in California after she traveled to Peru, claiming she didn’t feel safe in the US. The transgender influencer, 26, appeared in good spirits as she wore a daring dress at the celebrated LGBTQ+ festival Outfest at downtown Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre on Thursday. The model opted for a see-through dress for the star-studded premiere, pairing the look with bold eyeliner and a pair of black heels. She enjoyed several photo ops on the pink carpet, before posing for snaps with TikTok star Chris Olsen. Mulvaney attended the screening of...

His name was Nasratullah Ahmadyar and he had lived on an US Army base from the time he was young, working an an interpreter. He and his family escaped the Taliban when the US pulled out of the country. He and his wife and five children were living in Alexandria and he worked as a Lyft driver in and around Washington DC. Monday he was shot and killed by a group of teens who were apparently trying to carjack him.Matthew Butler, who was in the Army from 1990 through 2017 and did five tours in Afghanistan, said Ahmadyar started working...

Dr. Gal Luft, the Israeli whistleblower who has been on the run since April, detailed his bribery allegations against the Biden family in an extraordinary new video obtained by the New York Post. As American Greatness previously reported, Luft was arrested on weapon trafficking and other charges in Cyprus last February and disappeared after he was let out on bail. After his arrest, the former Israeli army officer tweeted that the Biden administration was out to “bury” him.The Biden Department of Justice had Luft, the founder and executive director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS),...

Tucker Carlson joined Russell Brand’s podcast on Friday, and what was revealed has people talking.Carlson told Brand about an interview he conducted before leaving Fox News with former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund. The interview with Sund, who held his position during the unrest that occurred on January 6th, never aired on the network due to Carlson’s firing.Here’s part of the exchange.Whoa Tucker Carlson Tells @rustyrockets That He Was Able To Interview The Chief Of The Capitol Police On January 6th Steven Sund Sund Claimed In The Interview The Crowd Was Filled With Federal Agents On January 6th Fox News...

Conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has surpassed former Vice President Mike Pence in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, according to an Echelon Insights poll.He is also catching up to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.On top of the survey, taken from June 26 to June 29, is former President Donald Trump with a commanding lead at 49%. DeSantis, meanwhile, is 33 percentage points behind with 16% of the vote.DeSantis is just 6 points ahead of Ramaswamy, who are at 16% and 10% respectively. Next up was Pence and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — both tied at 5%.In a head-to-head match-up between...