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An Arizona judge on Wednesday questioned the claim that the public does not have the right to know who is funding the audit of the Maricopa County vote tally in the 2020 presidential election. The controversial audit, a Republican state Senate-led effort to determine the validity of former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the previously red state, has been criticized over its methods and undisclosed sources of funding.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp questioned Kory Langhofer, an attorney for Senate President Karen Fann who has resisted calls to release donor names. The judge noted Fann hired...

The primary purpose of these financial statements is to report how the annual budget deficit relates to the change in the government’s cash and other monetary assets, as well as federal debt and interest payable. It explains why the budget deficit normally would not result in an equivalent change in the government’s cash and other monetary assets. These statements reconcile the budget deficit to the change in cash and other monetary assets during the fiscal year. They also serve to explain how the budget deficits were financed. These statements show the adjustments for non-cash outlays included in the budget, and...

Could data harvested from millions of pregnant women pave the way for genetically enhanced super-soldiers? According to a recent Reuters investigation, BGI Group, the manufacturers of a popular prenatal test, is working with the Chinese military towards that very goal. BGI group offers a test called Nifty (“Non-Invasive Fetal TrisomY”), which is offered in more than 50 countries and is used to look for genetic abnormalities such as Down’s syndrome early on in a pregnancy. According to Reuters, more than 8 million women have taken these tests, and BGI has used the genetic data it has collected to help the...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging parents to get their eligible children vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus prior to the fall 2021 school year, despite lingering concerns about the possible development of heart inflammation conditions in young people who receive the mRNA vaccines. “Parents: Prevent #COVID19 from spreading at school. Get kids 12+ fully vaccinated before school begins,” the federal health agency said Friday, adding that children who are not fully vaccinated should wear a mask indoors. In areas where COVID-19 is spreading, kids who are not fully vaccinated should #WearAMask indoors, on the school...

SAN JOSE (KPIX) — On Friday, Santa Clara County health leaders announced a drop in its COVID-19 death toll by nearly a quarter after it refined its approach in reporting the data. The county reported that it had reviewed each COVID-19 fatality and was only counting those whose cause of death was from the virus and not those who tested positive for COVID-19 at the time of death but did not necessarily die from the virus. The new approach meant that the death toll dropped by 22%, specifically from 2,201 to 1,696 deaths.

Australia was the envy of the world for much of 2020, but it is not anymore. Having endured the first year of Covid-19 with aplomb, the country is firmly in the grip of the virus once again. As London and New York open up, Sydney is in lockdown. Even outside the nation’s most populous city, travel restrictions mean many Australians are unable to move within the country. More than 30,000 residents also remain stranded overseas, with borders closed and no obvious way to return home anytime soon.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

A police officer in New York state is on administrative leave after a video showed him punching a woman in the face after she tried to bite him while under arrest in Walmart. Multiple cameras captured the violent incident inside the East Syracuse Walmart on July 4. The Dewitt Police Department said 22-year-old Tajenik Byrd pepper-sprayed several people, including children, when a fight broke out in the store. It's unclear what led to the altercation. During the confrontation, a woman in a black shirt, identified as 26-year-old Tyreana Edmonds, began arguing with store employees and allegedly hit them in the...

The Department of Justice, (DOJ) dropped a cool $6.1 million on a database to keep all the evidence related to the January 6 Capitol protest that turned ugly. No word on whether or not there will be a database for a year’s worth of apparatchik violence sparked by the death of George Floyd. Spoiler alert, there won’t be. $6.1 million is just for starts. That figure could explode to $25.9 million, according to the database listing which The Epoch Times reviewed. That’s a lot of cheddar to arrest those insurrectionist grannies. Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP, got the contract in...

Leading up to the summer months when Chicago historically sees its highest levels of violence, Mayor Lori Lightfoot vowed to take an “all hands on deck” approach to stopping the city’s shootings. But even as the city canceled days off for Chicago cops and forced them to work 12 hour days, two of the mayor’s top aides took time off leading up to the Fourth of July holiday, where at least 108 people were shot, 17 fatally. Some aldermen criticized the absences. Lightfoot chief of staff Sybil Madison was out of the office on Thursday and Friday, Madison told city...

On June 6, the widow of British-American computer magnate John McAfee went on a Twitter rant, blaming the corporate media a “malignant cancer” for “fabricating” the narrative of her husband’s prison suicide. “Before I or his attorneys were even aware of his death, the story of John’s’suicide’ was fully written and given to the public,” the statement stated. Janice McAfee stated in the Twitter caption of the post accompanying the declaration, “I cannot begin to convey this pain I am feeling.” “This is how everyone who actually loved John feels. Since the news of John’s death, I’ve been trying to...

You may recall the story of Ka’Mauri Harrison, the Louisiana elementary school student who was suspended from school last year after a teacher briefly spotted a BB gun in Harrison’s room during a virtual class session. Harrison had simply picked up the BB gun from the floor of his bedroom and put it away so that his younger brother wouldn’t trip over it, but the mere sight of the BB gun through the boy’s laptop camera was enough to cause the Jefferson Parish School District to claim that Harrison had violated the district’s weapons policy, and they barred from attending...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As news events made headlines across the United States for months last year — particularly the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic and racism in America — priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers, according to a report issued July 8 by the Pew Research Center. Compared to their Protestant counterparts — whatever the stripe, be it mainline, evangelical or historically Black — Catholics brought up the rear when it came to sharing at least one sermon about the election last fall. Overall, 67 percent of churches did, but...

In Denton v. City of El Paso, Texas, (5th Cir., July 6, 2021), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals remanded the case to a Texas federal district court ordering it to grant a preliminary injunction barring El Paso from prohibiting religious proselytizing at the weekly outdoor El Paso Art and Farmers Market. The city's rules bar fundraising, political campaigning and religious proselytizing from the market. The court held that these exclusions are content-based, and concluded: It is unclear whether the City has asserted a compelling government interest. We need not decide this issue ......

Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann told "Watters’ World" Saturday that the federal government wants Americans to "check our Bill of Rights" at the door when it comes to COVID vaccines. MICHELE BACHMANN: I'm glad that this is an issue, and I want to urge all the viewers to go out and buy "No Trespassing" signs at the local hardware store – "No solicitor" signs. Affix them to your front doors, put them right out by your front stoop, end of your driveway, because the government has zero business to do this, zero right. And what they're wanting all of us...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles was taking stock Thursday of damage to the four-story St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boyle Heights damaged by a man in boxer shorts who allegedly set the bell tower on fire before being taken into custody. “The church building incurred some damage, including fire damage to the roof of the bell tower and some broken stained-glass windows, but thankfully no one was in the building at the time,” said Archdiocese spokeswoman Itzel Magana. “The parish is currently assessing the extent of the damage.” The parish has been part of the Boyle Heights community more than...

My 9-year-old daughter came home from camp two weeks ago after playing three hours of outdoor tennis in a mask. “I thought I was going to faint,” she told me, looking ill after playing in 98-degree weather. Later that afternoon the camp, run by the Sidwell Friends School, called to complain about her mask compliance. We’re now 16 months into the pandemic and children remain victims of the Covid political theater that has characterized the national debate about masks ever since. We’ve had an entire school year to prove what scientists have said all along: Children aren’t major vectors of...

It’s AOC versus Hillary as the two Dem heavyweights duke it out for an open Congressional seat in Ohio — and possibly control of the party. The raging proxy fight in the Buckeye state’s solidly Democratic 11th District pits Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad against Clinton and establishment Democrats over who will replace longtime Rep. Marcia Fudge, who retired this year to become Secretary for Housing and Urban Development. On the progressives’ left is Nina Turner, a former state senator and former co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced on Friday that children will continue to wear mandatory masks in school despite new federal guidelines saying that masks are no longer necessary in schools.