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The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly says he has sought legal advice on how to resist the imposition of full abortion services by Westminster. Paul Givan, who is a DUP member of the Legislative Assembly, said that he is assessing his options in a bid to stop the Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis, from using new powers to insist that full abortion services are rolled out in the region at the behest of the British parliament. Mr. Lewis is seeking to direct Stormont to roll out abortion services by March despite previously being on record as saying he...

Democratic swing vote, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that she would not be staying in town through the August recess - as she already had vacation plans. On Friday, Politico's Playbook cited several unnamed Senate sources reporting that the Arizona Democrat told the party leader that she would not be sticking around to vote. That's problematic because Democrats need every single senator to get through a potential $3.5 trillion budget bill using reconciliation, and need to pass the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

The city of Weslaco, Texas announced on Thursday they did not know Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley was putting COVID-19-positive immigrants into a local hotel after they were released from federal custody.Weslaco is one of the towns in the Rio Grande Vally that has seen large groups of illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border during the historic surge under President Joe Biden.Weslaco Border Patrol Station agents apprehend a large group of 237 migrants, consisting mainly of family members and unaccompanied noncitizen children. RGV has encountered more than 50 large groups this FYTD. pic.twitter.com/gg9E7RO6FT— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings...

oodwyn is ordered to wear a mask during "home visits" by pre-trial services/court Goodwyn says "I'm not gonna do that" Judge responds, "Then I'm going to issue a warrant for your arrest!" Yes.. this is really happening

Some joker(s) vandalized a LeBron James mural in Akron, Ohio, James' hometown! The mural depicts LeBron James surrounded by several Looney Tunes characters from the new movie "Space Jam: A New Legacy."

For the first time, economic output eclipsed its pre-pandemic high, after adjusting for inflation

A California medical school student says professors are cowering to “woke ideology” out of fear that students will use an instant reporting system against them if they teach that sex is a biological reality and not a "social construct."In a piece titled “Med Schools are Now Denying Biological Sex,” on the Substack page called “Common Sense with Bari Weiss,” journalist Katie Herzog shared recordings of lectures captured by a student at a medical school in the University of California system. One recording details how, after using the term “pregnant women” during a lecture, the professor of an endocrinology course apologized...

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to hand over former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a U.S. House of Representatives committee, saying the panel has invoked "sufficient reasons" for requesting it. This is a breaking news report. Check back for updates.

Lamar Odom has been ordered to shell out nearly $400,000 to his “Basketball Wives” ex-girlfriend after he allegedly stopped paying her child support and other costs related to their two kids. Former gal pal and TV reality star Liza Morales sued the ex-Los Angeles Laker in May, claiming the Queens-born baller hasn’t been honoring their 2015 settlement agreement over their now-adult children since June 2020. Morales alleged that Odom was behind on child support, college costs and tuition, as well as rent for the Lower Manhattan apartment where she lives with their kids Destiny, 23, and Lamar Jr., 19, prompting...

Snopes is well-known for covering up liberal lies. They’ll twist and turn to make an outright liberal lie “partially true”. So I was curious how they’d handle Biden’s latest lie, that he was once a truck driver. No smokescreen from Snopes this time. They labeled Biden’s claim “False”, period.

@elonmusk Apple app store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet. Epic is right.

Immediate steps must be taken to stop this abuse of U.S. intelligence agencies to weaponize intelligence against American journalists. Fred Fleitz By Fred Fleitz JULY 30, 2021 Last week, a National Security Agency (NSA) investigation quietly confirmed Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s allegation that it had collected his electronic communications. The NSA also admitted the content of Carlson’s communications was leaked to the press after they “unmasked” Carlson’s name to a Biden administration official. The NSA cannot legally target the communications of Americans without an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court. However, such communications are often “incidentally” collected...

Hey: A couple of weeks ago my wife went to her doctor and told her that she didn't want the jab. Now friends of hers are being notified when they are in the same general area that they might be at risk and identifying her by name as not being vaccinated. Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing?

Nauka module before launch in Baikonur. (NASA) Nauka module before launch in Baikonur. (NASA)

That little ol’ band from Texas is now, sadly, littler. Dusty Hill, one-third of ZZ Top for the last 51 years, was revealed Wednesday to have died of indeterminate causes. On Thursday, remaining members Billy Gibbons announced that the tour they just began would resume Friday after a brief lull, with their guitar tech of three decades filling in. A funeral is expected to take place next week, but it’s perhaps not surprising that the survivors would work through their grief by wrapping some of their scheduled road dates around a memorial that will represent friends’ and family’s last chance...

Tough crowd, tough crowd. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was reportedly "booed" by his fellow Democrats after mentioning the budget deficit at a caucus luncheon earlier this week, according to Politico. One witness maintains that Manchin was "jokingly booed," but another reports not having seen it that way. Manchin, who holds "fairly typical budget-hawk beliefs," views the growing national debt as a "heavy burden" on the economy and future generations, writes Politico. His gamble to bring it up during the luncheon perhaps indicates Democrats are in "for even more haggling over the price tag" of their $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, at...

The RINOs in the Senate are delivering a big win by caving to the Radical Democrats on infrastructure. Once they pass this bill out of the Senate, it will sit in the House until they get steamrolled by the biggest government expansion in a generation. Tax increases on everyone, government run health care, more government run schools, amnesty for illegal immigrants, MASKS, and many more terrible socialist programs. Nancy Pelosi has said NO INFRASTRUCTURE until they get everything else. Infrastructure is just a “carrot” for a massive socialist expansion. Why are RINOs so desperate to push bad, Radical Leftist policies?...

CNN anchor Don Lemon said Thursday during the handoff between shows that it was time to blame the “selfish” and “ignorant” unvaccinated for the coronavirus Delta variant surge. Lemon said, “I don’t know if we can get this under control. We had the opportunity. None of this had to happen. Children didn’t have to get sick. If we didn’t let the virus to mutate and this variant to catch on, we could have had this under control. We were well on our way, and the only people you can blame, the only people you can blame — this isn’t shaming—...

Pfizer has been extremely aggressive in trying to protect the details of their international COVID19 vaccine agreements. If you were wondering why #Ivermectin was suppressed, well, it is because the agreement that countries had with Pfizer does not allow them to escape their contract, which states that even if a drug will be found to treat COVID19 the contract cannot be voided. Supplying the product: "Pfizer shall have no liability for any failure to deliver doses in accordance with any estimated delivery dates... nor shall any such failure give Purchaser any right to cancel orders for any quantities of Product."...

Here’s Where That COVID-19 Vaccine Infertility Myth Came From—And Why It Is Not True Posted on April 23, 2021 by Henry Ford Health System Staff Last December, a German epidemiologist said the COVID-19 vaccines might make women’s bodies reject a protein that’s connected to placenta, therefore making women infertile. He thought this because the genetic code of the placenta protein, called syncytin-1, shares a hint of similarity with the genetic code of the spike protein in COVID-19. If the vaccines caused our bodies to make antibodies to protect us from COVID-19, he thought, they could also make antibodies to reject...