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Fact-checking institute Poynter is demanding that local news stations reduce coverage of stories that connect “Black and brown communities” to violent crime because it is fueling “systemic racism.”

Bill C-10 passed last night, 196 to 112. The vote passed at just after 1:30 am. As for what's next, the bill will now go to Senate. Senators have said that there is no chance that the bill gets approved the week before Parliament goes on summer break, according to law professor Michael Geist. The bill has been the topic of controversy for weeks, as supporters of the bill, mainly from the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc, say that the bill will introduce long-needed regulation to the internet that would protect Canadians from tech giants.The Conservatives, however, see the bill as...

A number of Amazon delivery drivers recently spoke to CNBC about working for the e-commerce giant. Drivers running stop signs and buckling their seatbelts behind them are just two common tricks used to keep up with Jeff Bezos’ merciless efficiency algorithm. In a recent article titled “Pee bottles, constant monitoring and blowing through stop signs: Amazon DSP drivers describe the job,” Amazon delivery drivers described what it is like to work for the company, or one of its delivery partners, to CNBC. CNBC spoke to a number of Amazon’s drivers most of which work for more than 2,000 independent delivery...

A group of Indiana residents have filed a lawsuit against state officials, challenging the state's decision to end federal unemployment benefits by the end of the week.The lawsuit, filed last Monday, seeks to preserve what was supposed to be temporary pandemic safety net of $300 per week on top of other state or federal benefits, after indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb announced last month that the state would pull out of the federal program before it's official September end date in order to motivate unemployed people to help fill the state's more than 116,000 open jobs.Holcomb is joined by around two...

Former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday called for nationalizing elections and ending the filibuster in the Senate. Steele argued that states are stripping away access to the ballot box and “putting hurdles” in front of voters. He added that removing the Senate filibuster and putting the federal government in charge of election laws makes “common sense.” “[T]he filibuster is used as a wedge, a political insiders’ game, tool, to sort of not have to deal with the big policy,” Steele said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Rank and file Americans out there are just like, ‘Can you just get...

The Biden administration is eager to meet with North Korean officials “anywhere, anytime without preconditions,” a top U.S. diplomat said on a visit to South Korea Monday, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signaled that his regime is preparing for dialogue or confrontation — but more for confrontation — with Washington. Ambassador Sung Kim, whom President Biden tapped last month to serve as U.S. special envoy for North Korea, made the comments during a meeting with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Seoul, asserting that administration officials “hope [North Korea] will respond positively to our outreach.” At the...

Claims traditional part of public meetings is the cause of 'inappropriate comments' The mayor of a small town in Colorado unilaterally removed the Pledge of Allegiance from the town board's agenda for all future meetings, claiming the move was required because of the divisiveness it creates.

President Joe Biden’s Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said the federal government now is in the business of helping veterans undergo surgery to alter their biological sex. McDonough said in prepared remarks that the Department of Veteran Affairs will move to make “gender reassignment” surgery available to veterans. This is in stark contrast to the Trump administration, which made serving in the U.S. military reserved for men and women who are housed according to their biological sex. McDonough claimed the policy is necessary because transgender veterans are at greater risk of mental illness and suicidal thoughts but do not always...

The military wings of the Hamas terror group and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are recruiting Palestinian children and teenagers for their upcoming annual summer camps to train them and win their support to become future operatives in the terrorist organizations. The summer camps are “a type of indoctrination into the group’s ideology. What they are trying to do here is to prepare these child minors into possibly joining militant groups at an older age of about 16. There are many child militants out there,” Joe Truzman, research analyst at FDD’s Long War Journal told The Algemeiner. “For someone in Gaza...

A Tennessee man on Tuesday became the fifth person to plead guilty for their involvement in the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for D.C., Bryan Wayne Ivey agreed to plead guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing inside a Capitol building, violating a federal law that forbids violent entry and disorderly conduct. As part of the agreement, Ivey agreed to pay $500 in restitution for the nearly $1.5 million in damages that were caused by the riot. The other three charges against him were dropped. Ivey was arrested in Cookeville, Tenn.,...

A western South Dakota farmer wanted a bin aeration control system he could operate from his smartphone. When he learned it would cost $80,000 he used his tech savvy to build his own — for $100. Too much of a cheap farmer,” chuckles Ehlers, 43, who farms at Presho, S.D. Ehlers said he got tired of forgetting to turn off his aeration. “In the middle of the night I’d have to jump out of bed and go turn my fans off. Or I’d be gone and it’d start raining and I had to turn my fans off,” he said. “So...

Democrats put their faith and hope in Katie Hobbs to cover the fraud in Arizona. She failed. Despite her many attempts to shut down America’s Audit in Arizona the investigation into the Maricopa County ballots and machines is winding down. And Hobbs and Democrats KNOW the results will be devastating. And no matter what spin they choose on CNN or MSNBC or any of the fake news media outlets the truth that is coming will shatter their lies. On Monday Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs went on CNN with Anderson Cooper. She is about two steps from admitted complete...

Joy Behar apologized to her co-hosts and the audience Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” for making an “inappropriate” joke while discussing Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib becoming the first active NFL player to come out as gay. Behar said, “I know he’s the first active NFL player to come out as gay. It’s 2021. Is this such a big deal?”

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that people who were not vaccinated against COVID-19 or did not have immunity would be unable to work in all workplaces in Russia and that those people could be discriminated against.

In an historic first, the Vatican has invoked its sovereign status under a 1929 treaty with Italy to protest a draft Italian law designed to combat homophobia, objecting that it could restrict the religious freedom guaranteed the church under that accord. The Vatican’s concerns were expressed in a nota verbale, meaning a formal diplomatic communique, presented by British Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister, to the Italian Ambassador to Italy, Pietro Sebastiani, in mid-June. It’s not a personal letter by Gallagher, but rather a corporate statement by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State. The contents of the note were first...

I was waiting to see of anyone would mention this and as of now no one has. 80 years ago today Germany invaded the Soviet Union in a surprise attack. It started one of the bloodiest and catastrophic episodes of W.W. II. The scope, scale, casualties , and atrocities almost dwarf anything that happened anywhere else in the ETO. Without the sacrifices the Russians made on the Eastern Front the invasion of Europe would not have been successful. Estimated deaths on the Eastern Front are not totally known but an estimated 20 million died

Oakland seems like a wild place. One where you can hear Americans chanting "Death to America" as they refuse selling lattes to law enforcement officers. Then the Raiders abandoned the city for the more moral Las Vegas and things really went to poop. How much so? We have people twerking on ambulances as EMTs respond to a shooting with multiple victims. View this with a healthy dose of "allegedly," because it's based on a viral video. Like most, there's context missing. What we can confirm is a) EMTs rushing somewhere with a stretcher, b) their ambulance, and c) people twerking...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In order to fit all the judges President Biden has hinted at nominating to the Supreme Court, the court will no longer be able to fit inside its current building. Therefore, Biden has proposed moving all SCOTUS proceedings to Nationals Park. All court hearings will occur in the outdoor baseball stadium, which has a capacity of 41,000 -- just enough to fit all the justices Biden wants to sit on the court. "Listen, we're gonna need a bigger court," Biden said at a press conference this morning. "So I was talkin' to the guys and that nice, young, articulate...

The left has taken it upon itself to be the “protectors” of minorities, but what that really means is that it’s they who decide how minority communities function and run, even if it defies the wishes of the minority communities. Case in point, Jane Fonda decided for the Native American community that building a pipeline on their land wasn’t something the Native Americans should do, and in the spirit of speaking for them, destroyed their equipment. As reported by Fox News, the Gordon Construction company is owned by Natives and tasked with the construction of Line 3 from Candian energy...

The economist Thomas Sowell distinguished himself in the early 1970s as a critic of the traditional civil rights leadership, but in earlier decades he had been optimistic about the direction of the civil rights movement. Sowell was born into an extremely poor family in rural Gastonia, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and raised in a New York City ghetto in the 1940s. Like many other blacks of that time and in those places, his family was uneducated. The men mostly worked as laborers or in the service sector, and the women typically were domestics. Racist laws had reduced opportunities...