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A teen in Western’s Australia’s capital has been given two funerals.The 15-year-old female — who identified as a boy — died tragically by suicide.The child’s mother and father are estranged.Given the terrible situation, they had to decide: Would she be laid to rest as female? Or would the identity of a boy be reflected by the burial?Mom and dad couldn’t come to a consensus.The mother insisted her child — born a girl — find a final resting place as a guy.In fact, as reported by 7News, she vowed to employ the full power of the court system if necessary:The boy’s...

OPEN Republican-led states Texas and Florida are reporting fewer Covid-19 cases than the likes of New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - which all still have restrictions and mask mandates in place. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott faced fierce scrutiny for reversing the Lone Star State's mask mandate on March 10 and completely reopening its economy, with President Biden calling the move "neanderthal thinking". Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also faced criticism for "endangering" his state's most vulnerable residents when he permitted businesses to reopen in September without enforcing mask-wearing. However, each of the two Republican-led states has managed to keep case positivity...

Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives. Ambition within the entertainment industry blocks Hollywood insiders from publicly criticizing false orthodoxies espoused by their peers, Milius stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. She noted Tinseltown’s decades of direct and indirect left-wing political advocacy. “What Hollywood is — and what it’s always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything,” she remarked. “Nobody’s going to...

It was a heck of a way to start a week as the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, and Spanish language networks CNN en Español, Telemundo, and Univision completely blacked out the bombshell leaked audio that suggested former Secretary of State John Kerry backstabbed Israel and told secrets to Iran’s terrorist-backing regime. The audio of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and an Iranian journalist was leaked to the New York Times and an Iranian outlet based in the U.K. And according to Zarif, Kerry had confirmed Israel’s involvement in operations against Iranian forces in Syria. If true, it constituted...

ARKANSAS, USA — The Arkansas State Senate has voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson's veto of legislation that would prohibit local police from enforcing federal gun laws. The bill now heads to the House of Representatives, where they also must decide if they want to override Hutchinson's veto. Hutchinson vetoed SB 298 last Friday, saying that the measure would jeopardize law enforcement and the public. On Monday, the Arkansas State Senate voted 21-12, with two Senators not voting, to overturn his decision, our content partner Talk Business & Politics reports. The law imposes criminal fines on local or state law...

Among the far-right groups whose members are suspected of planning the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are the Proud Boys. In March, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s director told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he “absolutely” wished the agency had penetrated the group beforehand, or knew its plans. “I do not consider what happened on January 6th to be an acceptable result,” Director Christopher Wray said. “We are focused very, very hard on how can we get better sources, better information, better analysis.” The FBI had deeper insight into the group than Wray disclosed, however. Bureau agents maintained...

The Supreme Court said on April 26 it won’t hear a dispute between Texas and California over the latter’s ban on state-funded business travel. The nation’s top court delivered the decision in an unsigned order. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in February 2020 asked the Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban of state-funded travel from Texas, enacted in response to a law passed in Texas that allows foster care and adoption agencies to decline placements that don’t align with their religious beliefs. “The law California opposes does not prevent anyone from contributing to child-welfare; in fact, it allows our...

This may be California Governor Gavin Newsom’s #TimesUp moment. No, it’s not over a sex scandal. The voters of California have spoken and they want a recall election. This news comes from the Secretary of State who confirmed today that enough valid signatures were collected to force a recall election.According to FoxLA:This is only the second time in California history that a governor has been voted to be removed from office. It remains unclear when the election will be held. As of Monday, more than 1,495,709 verified voters signed the recall effort, meeting the minimum threshold to force a special...

Anyone who believes the “rich” and large corporations will pay for $28 trillion in debt or the $2 trillion in new deficit has a real problem with maths...Biden’s announcement of a massive tax increase on businesses and wealthier segments of the population simply makes no sense. The tax hikes will have a significant impact on economic growth, investment and job creation and do not even scratch the surface of the structural deficit. Even if we believe the Gross Domestic Product growth and revenue estimates announced by the Biden administration, the impact on debt and deficit is negligible. So, what is...

Hollywood star Rosanna Arquette is once again attacking U.S. law enforcement as racist, saying that police officers patrolling communities around the country resemble the “Gestapo.”

Now, simple AI-driven tools like chatbots, plagiarism-detecting software and apps to check spelling and grammar are being joined by new, more powerful – and controversial – applications that answer academic questions, grade assignments, recommend classes and even teach. The newest can evaluate and score applicants’ personality traits and perceived motivation, and colleges increasingly are using these tools to make admissions and financial aid decisions Hundreds of colleges subscribe to private platforms that do intensive data analysis about past classes and use it to score applicants for admission on factors such as the likelihood they will enroll, the amount of financial...

PHOENIX — A contractor hired by Arizona's state Senate to oversee the recount of 2.1 million ballots from November’s election in the county that includes the metro Phoenix area wants a judge to keep secret its methods for ensuring ballot secrecy. The request came ahead of a hearing set for late Monday morning. A judge on Friday ordered the state Senate and ballot recount contractor Cyber Ninjas to submit their policies and procedures for ensuring voter privacy and ballot secrecy so he could review them. Cyber Ninjas filed policies under seal Sunday afternoon and asked for the hearing to be...

I have been thinking about the videos I've watched by YOUTUBE channel Dr. Barry Awe. I'll link the most recent below.He studies the bible to understand God's design and timing of the End Times. I'm really struck by his Bible - he holds it up to the camera and you can see every line is marked with a variety of hi-lighters with notes on the margin. In his search for the Rapture date, he has found links between stories in the bible that I was unaware of. He's learned the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and in an earlier video...

When an American blogger named Tieghan Gerard naively dubbed her quick noodle soup recipe "chicken pho", it caused a storm in a soup bowl. sesame chicken and noodles in spicy broth", many Vietnamese Americans believe the title change was not sufficient and that the issue extends far beyond food, especially with the current rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. You think you know pho, but you really don't because pho changes While the culinary catastrophe played out on Instagram and had everyone from chefs to influencers to food lovers up in arms, the upside was that it shone a...

Mormons, Moderna Fund Pope’s Health GigFrancis schmoozes doctrinally white-supremacist, pro-polygamy cult VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A $100-billion cult rooted in white supremacy and an experimental vaccine manufacturer with financial links to pro-abortionist Bill Gates are among the controversial sponsors of the Vatican's forthcoming summit on global health.Mormon leaders give Francis a statue of the Mormon Jesus Mormon elder William King Jackson and Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel will address the Pontifical Council for Culture's conference on "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul" from May 6–8. The conference will also host abortion advocate Chelsea Clinton and New Age guru Deepak Chopra.The Vatican...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki took the podium on Monday afternoon, and was pressed on President Joe Biden’s recent virtue signaling with mask-wearing. The president participated in a Zoom call with world leaders while masked, despite being fully vaccinated. When pressed by Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Psaki maintained that Biden was attempting to showcase that he was “sending a message to the world that he is putting in place precautions” as leader of the free world. She went on to claim that there were "additional staff and personnel" present, which is why the president elected to mask-up. The president's...

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Black Lives Matter militants in Ohio were caught on camera threatening to retaliate against police for a recent shooting of an armed teenager in Columbus. These increasingly violent threats have been enabled by Democratic Party leadership who not only refuse to condemn Black Lives Matter mobs and riots, but enable and actively support them. “We’re not gonna sit here and just sit around while you shoot and kills us and back to the suburbs. We’re sick…maybe it needs to be an eye for an eye,” the militant leftist says. “They shoot us, we shoot them! You shot us, we shoot...

A FISA Court opinion and order declassified today reveals continued FBI abuses of “raw FISA-acquired information.” After a DOJ National Security Division review, the FISA Court noted “the FBI’s failure to properly apply its querying standard when searching Section 702-acquired information was more pervasive than was previously believed.” This opinion includes these findings: April 2019 - July 2019: An FBI technical information specialist was involved in “Compliance incidents” by conducting 124 queries of Section 702-acquired information on (1) Volunteers who had requested to participate in the FBI’s “Citizens Academy”; (2) Persons who needed to enter the field office to perform...