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Three girls from a Connecticut high school have filed a federal discrimination complaint against a statewide policy on transgender athletes. The girls say that these policies are hurting them; they missed out on top finishes in races and possibly even on college scholarships.The complaint was filed Monday by the conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom. Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel for the Alliance, explains in the New York Times: Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Women fought long and hard to earn the equal athletic opportunities that Title IX provides. Allowing boys to compete in girls'...

<p>A street shooting in eastern Pennsylvania that left 10 people wounded early Thursday is likely to be gang-related, authorities said.</p> <p>The shooting outside the Deja Vu nightclub in Allentown occurred shortly before 2 a.m. Most of the victims had just left the nightclub and were standing on the sidewalk when the shots were fired, police said. Authorities believe there were three shooters.</p>

Last month, when Trump dispatched the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the Persian Gulf region, it was reportedly the Israeli Mossad that tipped off the U.S. “on an Iranian plan to attack either a US or a US-allied target.”If so, the warning has already been borne out as just a week later Iran—trying to bully and threaten its way out of the Trump administration’s economic chokehold—attacked Norwegian, Emirati, and Saudi oil tankers, and last week attacked a Japanese and a Norwegian oil tanker.It’s not the first time Israeli intelligence has warned of impending attacks by Iran or...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, on Thursday signed pop star Taylor Swift's Change.org petition asking for support for the Equality Act, which seeks to protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination. "It’s 2019 and our LGBTQ+ friends continue to face discrimination at work, school, and in their communities," Warren said in a statement. "Enough is enough. I’m proud to represent Massachusetts in the Senate, a state that has led the nation in protecting and promoting equality. But there’s so much more work to be done. We can start by passing the Equality Act," she added. The Democratic-controlled House voted...

The Philadelphia Police Department has pulled 72 officers off their regular duties as authorities investigate inflammatory social media posts revealed in a database that found thousands of offensive postings by current and former officers, the city's police commissioner said Wednesday. Police officials in Philadelphia are describing the action as the largest removal of officers from the street in recent memory. "We are equally as disgusted by many of the posts that you saw and in many cases, the rest of the nation saw," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross. It is the latest fallout since the advocacy group The Plain...

At the start of the Women's World Cup, Team USA's third match––against Sweden––was marked as a key game in the group stage of the tournament. While the U.S. entered the tournament as the reigning champions and the most-successful nation in Women's World Cup history, the pain of an early exit in the 2016 Olympics still lingered in the air. Back in Rio, it was Sweden that ended the USWNT's fight for the gold, keeping the U.S. off the podium for the first time in history. Both Sweden and the U.S. enter the final match of the group stage with six...

With so much political noise in the air, with President Donald Trump and AOC calling their partisan bannermen to political war, it's almost impossible for Americans to hear themselves think. But there are two questions we might ask of ourselves: What does the republic have in common with the Roman Catholic Church? And what happens if Attorney General William Barr is thwarted in his investigation of the investigators of the Democrats' popular (yet now discredited) theory that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to deny the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton? "If you want to see what happens to...

I left Los Angeles for Nashville slightly over a year ago. When I call friends back in my former home (for 50 years), most of them tell me I got out just in time.Actually, they're wrong. I should have gotten out ten or even fifteen years before. The handwriting was on the wall. "California dreamin'," pace Mama Cass, "was no longer a ray-al-it-tee." It hasn't been for a long time.Now everybody knows about the 36,000 homeless on the streets of LA, over 60,000 in the county, replete with human feces and syringes littering the sidewalks, along with rats, typhus and...

President Trump bashed Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in his first interview with a Spanish-language television network, suggesting both men look tired on the campaign trail. Trump was asked by Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart about who he would prefer to face in the 2020 election. Trump declined to speculate, but offered his thoughts on Biden and Sanders, two of the frontrunners in most polls. "Bernie looks like he's had it," Trump said. "Bernie looks crazy, but he always did. But he looks like a tired crazy right now." "Joe Biden, he looks like he's just...

ORLANDO, Fla.—As the crowds poured into the Amway Center, The Epoch Times asked Trump supporters a few questions about the president’s achievements and what he has to do to win over swing voters. What is the single most significant thing Trump has done since taking office? Our economy; I think it’s thriving. There’s plenty of jobs. Obviously, there are way more jobs than there are people to fill them. Which is a good thing, because everyone should have access to a job of some sort. What do you think Trump needs to do to win over swing voters for 2020?

IRAN has been accused of using a fake photo in an attempt to 'prove' a US drone was over its territory before being shot down. State-run IRNA news agency shared an image of a damaged drone falling to Earth to illustrate its report. But in a shocking twist it subsequently emerged that the same image - albeit in a wider crop - was previously used on a report of a drone being shot down over Yemen two year's ago.

A Syrian refugee was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack on a Christian church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the name of ISIS. According to the criminal complaint, Mousab Alowemer, 21, was born in Daraa, Syria, and was admitted to the United States as a refugee on Aug. 1, 2016. Alowemer, now a resident of Pittsburgh, is being charged with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State, and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction in relation to his plan...

Some upstate New York county clerks are taking a stand against the state’s controversial new law granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Clerks in Erie, Rensselaer, Niagara and Allegany counties have said they won’t be handing out the licenses, despite the legislation signed Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Erie County Clerk Michael Kerns said he believes the Green Light Bill, which passed the state Senate 33-29, conflicts with federal policy — and is ready to go to court with his concerns.

Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this. What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remolding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviors we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit. New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing hornlike spikes at the back of their skulls — bone spurs caused by the forward tilt of the head, which shifts weight from the spine to the muscles at the back of the head, causing...

Several weeks ago I wrote a review here of Peter Zeihan's 2015 book "The Accidental Superpower." At the time I was urged to compare it with the work of another "Futurist," George Friedman, whose 2010 book "The Next 100 Years" appeared five years earlier. So this is in response to those Freepers who requested this review. Friedman is the had of STRATFOR, obviously preceded Zeihan's "Accidental Superpower," and perhaps because of that was less specific in some of his predictions. Overall, the two books are extremely similar with perhaps one big exception, their take on Mexico/oil. Friedman argues that as...

Good, good. Let the hate flow through you. The cat is out of the bag. The corporate wing of the Democratic Party is publicly "anybody but Bernie." They know our progressive agenda of Medicare for All, breaking up big banks, taking on drug companies and raising wages is the real threat to the billionaire class. https://t.co/zimci7JRO6— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 19, 2019 A wounded animal is apt to lash out. And Bernie has been wounded:That’s the second poll in eight days in which she’s nudged ahead of him nationally. On April 27, a few days after Biden entered the...

Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” ABC’s chief national correspondent Tom Llamas laid out some of the issues concerning some of former Vice President Joe Biden son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which appear to have coincided with certain events during the elder Biden’s term as VP. Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, refused to answer questions about that topic when confronted on camera.

Let's say somebody committed some sort of horrible crime against you, a horrifying crime -- shot your dog, burned your house down, kidnapped one of your children. Let's say the person who did it escaped and then died before being punished. You'd be frustrated, of course. But how would you feel if the police arrested someone else -- an innocent person -- for the crime, someone who just happened to look like the criminal, and then sent that person to prison? Would you be happy with that? Would you consider it justice? If so, you probably agree with Democratic Congresswoman...

Trump administration officials have put the Office of Personnel Management on the chopping block in an ambitious but controversial bid to reorganize the federal government -- and they are ready to furlough or even lay off workers if Congress stands in their way. According to an internal document obtained by The Washington Post, workers could be sent home on Oct. 1 and laid off 30 days later, if Congress will not agree to their plan to eliminate the agency -- which essentially serves as HR of the federal government. “This is a crisis building for years,” acting OPM Director Margaret...

Last night, during a wide-ranging interview with Sean Hannity (video of the full interview is embedded below), President Trump dropped a bombshell, telling the Fox News host that the DOJ is investigating whether his own phone calls were monitored during the presidential campaign. "The fact is, they were spying on my campaign, using intelligence agencies to do it. ... We're trying to figure out whether they listened to my calls. That would be the ultimate. We'll see what happens. If that happens, we'll probably find out. If they spied on my campaign, and they may have, it will be...