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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón (D) is planning to "severely downsize or outright dissolve" the office's Hardcore Gang and Major Narcotics units as early as next month, according to Fox11 LA, citing multiple sources within the DA's office.Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón"What we're hearing is that the Hardcore Gang Unit will be dissolved," said one of the DA's prosecutors, who spoke on condition of anonymity."My understanding is there's going to be a dissolution of the unit either April 1 or April 2," said a second prosecutor, who say they feel they've been "hamstrung by Gascón's decision...

China’s no-holds-barred experiments, often involving Western scientists, have come under the spotlight as a controversial World Health Organisation (WHO) report into the origins of Covid dismissed the lab leak theory even as WHO chiefs called for a new probe. But it is known the Communist Party-state has been carrying out all kinds of dangerous and ethically controversial research which may not be allowed in Western countries. It is alleged some scientists attempt to dodge regulation or ethical considerations by "outsourcing" controversial experiments to labs in China. Human-monkey hybrids, souped-up viruses, head transplants and gene editing are just some of the...

When we use vaccines or medicines which utilize cell lines originating from aborted babies, we physically benefit from the “fruits” of one of the greatest evils of mankind—the cruel genocide of the unborn. For if an innocent child had not been cruelly murdered, we would not have these concrete vaccines or medicines. We should not be so naive to not see that these vaccines and medicines not only offer a health benefit but also promise to promote the culture of death.

A New Jersey lawsuit that seeks to hold Antifa accountable for organizing campaigns of terror and harassment against individuals is picking up steam. In D'ambly v. Exoo, originally filed in September 2020, plaintiff Daniel D'Ambly is suing Christian Exoo (known on Twitter as "Antifash Gordon") for leading campaigns of violence and harassment to compel his employer -- the New York Daily News,-- to fire him. The attacks on D'Ambly were due to his participation in the New Jersey European Heritage Association. Under New Jersey law, his termination was legally dubious on these grounds alone. D'Ambly also alleges a number of...

Progressive leftists across the country are demanding that schools named after people who don’t pass their purity tests get new monikers. But in Waukegan, Illinois, they’re having a difficult time finding a suitable alternative.Two committees comprised of students, staff, and those in the community were tasked with renaming the Thomas Jefferson Middle School and the Daniel Webster Middle School, the first because he was a slave owner and the latter because he supported slavery.During a school board meeting on Tuesday to discuss some of the finalists for the Thomas Jefferson Middle School, immigration activists expressed their disapproval over one of...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday pointed to young adults in four specific neighborhoods as driving the city's "troubling" increase in coronavirus cases. At a news conference announcing a new vaccination site for union members in the city, Lightfoot noted that although Chicago is progressing in its vaccine distribution, "we are not out of the woods yet by a long shot." "Right now we are seeing a troubling uptick in our case positivity and daily case rates," Lightfoot said. "Folks, I just want to tell you, it was about three weeks ago that we were still on a downward trend...

The White House released a fact sheet of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.5 trillion infrastructure bill on Wednesday, detailing his multi-billion-dollar spending priorities. Here are some of the top 45 spending proposals: $400 billion toward expanding access to quality, affordable home- or community-based care for aging relatives and people with disabilities. $213 billion to produce, preserve, and retrofit more than two million affordable and sustainable places to live. $174 billion to win the electric vehicle market. $115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair. $111 billion to replace 100...

Cancels entire business competition Loyola University Maryland’s business school removed a video that proposed a project to match black entrepreneurs in Baltimore with black students to provide them with mentoring on business skills and financial literacy. Several students at the Catholic university in Baltimore submitted the video to the “Building a Better Baltimore” competition as part of the Sellinger School’s annual “Building a Better World Through Business” series that involves various events. “How might the Baltimore business community effectively advance racial equity?” the proposal competition asked. The video quotes from slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass and former President Barack Obama to...

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.” — Brennan ManningOver the past year, we have witnessed key Christian leaders and pastors’ moral failures get exposed. It happens every year, but it feels like the Church has taken a huge hit more recently. Leaders who have personally impacted me through their teachings and writings are no longer in ministry. Every time I learn about what was happening behind the scenes, my heart breaks for the leader, their family, their organization and for the body of Christ. We all suffer when someone falls. I’ll never forget a...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday singled out Amazon.com Inc for not paying federal taxes during his address in Pittsburgh, as he spoke about raising the burden of taxes on multinational companies and hiking the corporate tax rate. ... Biden said Amazon was one of 91 Fortune 500 companies that "use various loopholes where they pay not a single solitary penny in federal income tax," in sharp contrast to middle class families paying over 20% tax rates."I don't want to punish them but that's just wrong," he said.

Politicians betray their campaign promises all the time. So, it's no surprise to see President Joe Biden go back on his word that, in spite of his plan to significantly hike taxes to pay for a portion of a massive increase in spending, nobody earning less than $400,000 annually would suffer a tax increase. But this flip-flop is just the tip of the iceberg. During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Biden declared that if someone makes less than $400,000, they wouldn't face any tax hikes. His campaign website reinforced this promise: "Joe Biden will not raise taxes on anyone making less...

More than 100 people in (Washington state) have tested positive for COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated, authorities said March 30.Epidemiologists have found evidence of 102 so-called breakthrough cases since Feb. 1. That number represents 0.01 percent of people in the state who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP (CCP (Chinese Communist Party virus),which causes COVID-19.The CCP virus is also known as SARS-CoV-2.

Fake or fraudulent coronavirus vaccine cards are growing in popularity as governments and businesses mull the idea of using the documentation as a possible way to begin relaxing pandemic restrictions. The fraudulent proof of COVID-19 prophylaxis could be used as a way for the vaccine-hesitant — or those tired of waiting to qualify for the vaccines — to pass off their verification of immunity. Nearly a third of American adults have said they would not get the coronavirus vaccine if it was available to them, NPR reported. Where are fake vaccine cards being sold? The fake blank cards have been...

If you are a struggling American who has barely gotten by for over a year, Just know that Democrats still do not care. Instead, Democrats are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $20,000 apiece in direct payments related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Plans were announced today to dig a 245-mile long canal from the northern Gulf of California into southwestern Arizona to flood the region with sea water creating new economic opportunities and beach-front housing across thousands of square miles of mostly uninhabited desert. The City of Phoenix could become one of America’s busiest seaports under the plan.

This video has been posted all over the internet, but no one has included a link to the original. Her statement is as dumb as I've ever heard, and I'm curious to hear more from this person. Does anyone know the link to the original? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66gCWI0xAM

European rabbits dug up Stone and Bronze Age artifacts on Skokholm Island. (Image credit: Fiona McAllister Photography via Getty Images) A fluffle of wild rabbits has dug up priceless archaeological treasures on an island off the coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom. The burrowing bunnies unearthed two artifacts — a 9,000-year-old Stone Age tool and a 3,750-year-old pottery piece, likely from a broken Bronze Age urn, according to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, which manages Skokholm Island, where the objects were found. ________________________________________________________________ Archaeologists have discovered similar artifacts on the U.K.'s mainland, but these new findings...

On Wednesday, a new conservative coalition launched a website aimed at combatting “woke” capital and cancel culture. StopCorporateTyranny.org aims to educate Americans on the dangers of far-Left advocacy in corporate America and equip them to fight back against the swelling tide of the “woke” inquisition. The coalition, Back to Neutral, includes organizations and leaders fed up with the Left weaponizing big business to achieve its political goals.“We’ve watched with growing concern the Left’s efforts to infiltrate corporate boardrooms and use that power to force their agenda on Americans everywhere,” Justin Danhof, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy...

<p>Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.</p><p>There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.</p><p>1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.</p>

The pandemic has driven chilliheads online, where some have built impressive followings for their hot sauce reviews and daring feats of strength Kate Robertson Thu 1 Apr 2021 04.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 08.07 EDT Shares 134 Carolina Reaper Hot Chilli Peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Two Carolina Reaper peppers: ‘You can effectively map your GI tract by feeling how it moves.’ Photograph: mrsixinthemix/Getty Images/iStockphoto Behind his calm, methodical approach to every hot chilli eating and super spicy food challenge, Dustin “Atomik Menace” Johnson is enduring a kind of...