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MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A New York City woman entered a guilty plea to selling abortion drugs through the mail. A Wood County man was one of her customers, and is charged slipped them into his pregnant girlfriend's water bottle, hoping to kill her unborn baby. Ursula Wing, 42, pled guilty to using her mail order jewelry web site as a front for selling the drugs. Jeffrey Smith of Grand Rapids is facing charges for putting RU-486, or Mifepristone, into his girlfriend's water. She noticed an unusual taste and called police. A criminal complaint said Smith tried to order the...

A California congresswoman claimed killing unborn babies in abortions is safer for women than having wisdom teeth removed. U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, a pro-abortion Democrat, compared the two procedures Wednesday outside the U.S. Supreme Court building as the justices heard oral arguments in a Louisiana abortion case, the Washington Free Beacon reports. The case will determine whether states may require abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges for patient emergencies and whether abortion businesses may sue on behalf of their patients. A ruling is expected in June. Speier defended the life-destroying practice of abortion by claiming it is safe and, therefore,...

The politicians who govern Minnesota’s capital city honored abortionists who kill unborn babies Wednesday in a special resolution. The Pioneer Press reports the St. Paul City Council unanimously passed the resolution to recognize March 10 as Abortion Providers Appreciation Day. Council members timed the resolution to coincide with a U.S. Supreme Court case about a Louisiana abortion law, according to the local news. The high court heard oral arguments in the case Wednesday to determine whether states may require abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges for patient emergencies and whether abortion businesses may sue on behalf of their patients. A...

Bernie Sanders is giving his presidential campaign a “reset” as he goes head-to-head for the Democratic presidential nomination with Joe Biden, amid signs that the political revolution he hoped to ignite through a surge in voter turnout of young and marginalised Americans is failing to catch fire. Sanders is also discarding his aversion to negative political campaigning and sharpening his attacks on Biden, running TV attack adds over the former vice president’s record of supporting social security cuts and free trade agreements, which could be particularly damaging in the Midwestern states. In addition, the campaign is scrambling to make fresh...

Bernie Sanders remade his party with a youth movement he built from the outside. Just like the Gipper did. Democratic Party elders are bewildered. Don’t voters understand how unpopular Sen. Bernie Sanders is in Washington? “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done,” Hillary Clinton, still smarting from the wound he inflicted on her 2016 presidential campaign, said in January. “It’s all just baloney, and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” The consequences, the party establishment fears, could be dire: Sanders will be George McGovern all over again — roundly thrashed...

Well here we are on the weekend when clocks move forward one hour for those of us in the USA that's Sunday morning at 2 am. A set of songs here the beautiful Mac Davis song "I Believe In Music" as done by Gallery followed by the man who wrote "Snowbird" singing his song that Anne Murray made famous, then Ray Stevens does "Mr. Businessman" a song I remember hearing when I was young and The New Seekers with the song that was a commercial for a big multinational corporation some 50 years ago.... And lets consider this on the...

WASHINGTON—Republican Senators Joni Ernst of Iowa and Mike Braun of Indiana are proposing to limit the federal tax credit for electric vehicles (EVs) to those costing $45,000 or less and end the subsidy entirely for affluent buyers. Depending on the price of the EV purchased, the tax credit allows buyers to deduct between $2,500 and $7,500 from their federal taxes. The credit first went into effect in 2011. “Iowa taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for millionaires to get a discount on luxury cars. That’s why I’ve been working hard to get the EV tax credit off the books,” Ernst...

Her recovery is a home run! The father of a 2-year-old girl blasted in the face by a screaming line drive at Yankee Stadium three years ago told The Post his daughter’s recuperation is “nothing short of a miracle.” “An inch up or down, left or right and things could be completely different,” a grateful Geoffrey Jacobson told The Post in a series of e-mails. “At this point she gets to live like a normal 4-year-old. There are no more eye patches, no more restrictions. Just periodic doctor appointment checkups.” In the future, the girl might have to have surgery...

MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- As a particularly nasty flu season rages across the United States, scientists have found a powerful new disinfectant that makes "light" work of the virus. Researchers say a certain spectrum of ultraviolet light -- called far-UVC -- easily kills airborne flu viruses while posing no risk to people. It could offer a new, inexpensive way to eliminate airborne flu viruses in indoor public spaces such as hospitals, doctors' offices, schools, airports and aircraft, said the team from Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The disinfecting success of initial experiments still need...

On March 4, a conservative student group in Ireland revealed they had completed a year-long project operating undercover as an antifa cell. Antifascist Students Ireland revealed themselves to be a project of Irish conservative student news outlet The Burkean on their Twitter page, The Burkean’s actions directed significant attention towards Ireland’s official Antifa organization, Antifascist Ireland, a group that has come under fire in the past for the history of its alleged founding member and leading figurehead, Pat Corcoran—a convicted pedophile.

The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Salman have been arrested over a plot to oust the king and his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch's nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were accused of treason. They were taken from their homes early on Friday by black-clad royal guards, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Saudi royal court has accused the two men, once potential contenders for the throne, of 'plotting a coup to unseat the king and crown prince' and could face lifetime imprisonment or execution, the...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has bludgeoned risk assets and sent those perceived as havens — gold and government bonds, for example — to new heights. And the landscape that has emerged since the emergence of the coronavirus-borne disease late last year in Wuhan, China, is increasingly uncertain. That dynamic has left many investors, traders, analysts and strategists to question whether the timing is right to buy into a market that has been prone to stunning day-to-day and even intraday swings over the past month.

According to recent reports from Italy the coronavirus patient zero in the Pavia area is a Pakistani immigrant who refused to self-isolate after testing positive for the virus.

Sorry for being ableist and ageist Bernie Bros and Russians, but come on, man! We’d love to see a rigorous debate between President Trump and Joe Biden, who promises he will beat Trump like a drum, but there are gaffes and then there are gaffes. We cannot win this re-election… We can only re-elect Donald Trump’

the 36-year-old Omaha woman who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited Fremont on Feb. 29 according to a release from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. State and local officials are requesting basketball players, coaches and team staff who participated in the Special Olympics event at the Fremont Family YMCA on February 29, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to self-quarantine to limit exposure to others and monitor themselves for development of COVID-19 symptoms as listed below until Saturday, March 14, 2020. “We’re asking for basketball players, coaches, and team staff who participated this event on February...

  WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28 (C-Fam) The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders launched online medical abortion guidelines that its partner group acknowledges will be used for do-it-yourself abortions.Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), says it “has teamed up with” HowToUseAbortionPill.org to create an online video guide on how to use pills to abort an unborn child up to 22 weeks. In a cartoon-based guide, MSF shows how to “push out the pregnancy,” in “a process that is similar to miscarriage.” MSF says its “goal is to ensure that everyone” can get the information “no matter...

After South by Southwest was cancelled on Friday over concerns about the coronavirus, two of its founders told the Austin Chronicle that the film festival doesn’t have insurance to cover the cancellation. Nick Barbaro, a co-founder of SXSW who is also the publisher of the Chronicle, told the paper that the festival does not have cancellation insurance relating to a disease outbreak or a policy that would be triggered by the city declaring a local state of disaster. “We have a lot of insurance (terrorism, injury, property destruction, weather). However, bacterial infections, communicable diseases, viruses and pandemics are not covered,”...

NEW YORK, January 31 (C-Fam) Abortion groups are scrambling to keep U.S. government funding after Senate and House Republicans caught them exploiting loopholes in the U.S. pro-life foreign policy that forbids them to receive taxpayer monies to promote and perform abortions abroad.After President Trump put the policy in place upon taking office in 2017, Population Services International (PSI) hosted a conference call to explain how it would use the loopholes in the Mexico City Policy, now called the Protecting Life in Global Health Policy. The group would go on to receive over $180 million in 2018, even though they were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 6 (C-Fam) According to the UN’s special expert on freedom of religion, the fringe views of UN human rights bodies must take precedence over the mainstream beliefs of many leading world religions, when it comes to law and policy.In his newly-launched annual report, Ahmad Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, wrote about the intersection of religion and gender equality.  He concluded that laws based in traditional morality, often religious in nature, should be repealed if they conflict with the opinions of human rights scholars and UN experts.“States have an obligation to guarantee...