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Pop star Billie Eilish slammed Texas for saving unborn babies from abortions in a vile rant Saturday at the Austin City Limits Festival, calling the state heartbeat law “s—” and saying she wants to “punish this f—— place.” The 19-year-old singer/songwriter is part of a chorus of celebrities who are criticizing the Texas pro-life law. Jennifer Aniston, Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence and Sharon Stone are among the others. Eilish bashed the law on stage during her concert in Austin, Texas, standing in front of a banner that read, “Bans off our bodies,” the entertainment news site Pop Buzz reports. “When...

The billion-dollar abortion chain Planned Parenthood just lost another attempt to block the Texas heartbeat law in court, meaning babies will continue to be saved from abortion violence. On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court refused the abortion chain’s request to allow its lawsuit to proceed, the Texas Tribune reports. Texas Right to Life, one of the parties named in the lawsuit, celebrated the ruling. “We are thankful that Planned Parenthood’s attempt to shortcut the normal process of litigation was again denied,” said Kimberlyn Schwartz, media and communication director for the pro-life organization. Federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, also...

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There’s a new type of killer whale that prowls deeper waters and specializes in hunting big game, new research by a B.C. scientist suggests. ...But evidence indicates there’s a newly identified type of orca — outer coast killer whales — that are a distinct subgroup of transient whales, and which frequent the ocean depths along the continental shelf off the coast of central California and Oregon, said lead author Josh McInnes, a scientist with the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia. Once believed to be part of the larger West Coast population, these outer coast killer...

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), said that the United States still does not have an FDA-approved vaccine for COVID as he exposed what was really approved by the government agency on “Fox News Primetime.” The FDA put out a fact-sheet on the Pfizer-BioNTech and Comirnaty vaccines. That’s plural, because one is not the other and the FDA even makes that distinction on their fact-sheet. On the fact-sheet, Pfizer says that the FDA approved the Comirnaty vaccine which was created by Pfizer for the company BioNTech. BioNTech has said that it will not be made available until 2023 or possibly 2024. Title...

Having lost a Texas state Senate race in 2020, Pete Flores is taking another crack at a post in a newly drawn district, earning the endorsement of former President Donald Trump to boot. Trump wrote Tuesday in a statement from his Save America PAC: "Pete Flores will be a great state senator for the terrific people of Central Texas. With 27 years in strong law enforcement, Pete will stand for law and order, loves our military and our vets, and will fight to secure our border. Pete is strong on our second amendment and will fight for low taxes. Pete...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration warned Arizona on Tuesday that it could lose some of its state and local recovery funds because it has been using money meant to combat the pandemic to undercut mask requirements in schools. In a letter to Arizona’s Republican governor, Doug Ducey, the Treasury Department said the state was misusing the money, which was intended to help local governments bolster public health measures. As part of the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package that Congress passed earlier this year, states and cities were awarded $350 billion of relief money that they could use for a wide...

A Virginia woman allegedly stole the car of a person who pulled over to help her after she crashed. Markell Hancox of Chesapeake, Virginia, stole a man's Suburban with his five children still inside the car after he had stopped when he witnessed a "multi-vehicle collision," the Currituck County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook press release. The collision took place on Oct. 3 around 12:40 p.m. in Grandy, North Carolina, according to the Sheriff's office. After he had exited the car, Hancox "jumped into the driver seat of his Suburban and stole it with his 5 children still inside,"...

Long Covid could be caused by an overload of tiny clots 'trapped' inside people's blood weeks after they clear the initial infection, scientists say. The small study found patients who are 'long haulers' have a large amount of inflammatory molecules trapped in their bloodstream.... The South African researcher who made the discovery said the micro clots may be the cause of long Covid or one of several contributing factors. The new discovery came from Professor Resia Pretorius from the department of physiological science at Stellenbosch University. Professor Pretorius compared blood collected from 11 people with long Covid and 13 healthy...

Meghan McCain slammed the left after a “disgusting” bathroom accosting of Democrat Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and argued that the activists “filmed themselves committing a felony.”“Filming someone in a bathroom without consent is a class 5 felony in Arizona,” the former co-host of “The View” tweeted Mondays. “You all just filmed yourselves committing a felony,” she added, along with a retweet of a clip showing Sinema being chased into the bathroom and filmed at Arizona State University.

A prestigious lecture at MIT which was set to be delivered by a University of Chicago geophysicist was canceled due to pressure from ‘woke’ students because the professor argued for ‘academic freedom and merit-based evaluations’ rather than 'equity.' Dorian Abbot was denied the opportunity to give the Carlson Lecture, which is devoted to ‘new results in climate science’ and hosted by MIT’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. The lecture was scheduled to be delivered on October 21, but Abbot learned over the weekend that EAPS would be canceling his talk. 'I am a professor who just had a prestigious public...

A federal appeals court Tuesday unanimously rejected a suit filed by ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overturn a tax overhaul law approved by former President Donald Trump in 2017 that limited federal deductions on state and local taxes. The $1.5 trillion law imposed a $10,000 cap on itemized SALT deductions that taxpayers could write-off on their federal returns, which provided Trump and the then-Republican-led Congress more revenues to pay for other federal tax cuts. The SALT cap largely affects the wealthiest taxpayers in high tax Democratic states in the Northeast — New York and New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as...

...This year, DTE cut electricity to Owens and thousands more in Michigan, despite receiving a $220m bailout made available through Cares Act tax changes during the pandemic. Nor is DTE alone: a new analysis of 16 large electric utilities found they collectively received a $1.25bn bailout, but still cut power to nearly 1 million struggling customers in the US between February 2020 and June 2021. ...The companies received enough funding to forgive their customers’ debt hundreds of times over, but instead many handed out executive bonuses and increased shareholder dividends: DTE bumped investor payouts from $714m to nearly $800m over...

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Twitter labels tweet on young mother's obituary as 'misleading'Critics are slamming Twitter after the social media company fact checked an obituary of a young mother that attributed her death to a rare blood disorder induced by the coronavirus vaccine. "This obituary is ‘misleading’ says Twitter. ‘For [on Twitter] we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead,’ unless of course it contradicts what Dr. Fauci or the enlightened government and tech overlords say you must do for your healthcare," Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy tweeted in response to the fact-checked obituary. The fact check came after an...

As China is ramping up its military might, Taiwan stands concerned that Beijing might mount a ‘full scale’ invasion by 2025. On Wednesday, Taiwan’s defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng in the parliament said that military tensions with China are at their worst in more than 40 years – certainly the “most serious” since he joined the military. Cheng further mentioned that there was an added risk of ‘misfire’ across the sensitive Taiwan Strait and that while China already has the required arsenal to take Taiwan by force. The cost of a “full scale” war for Beijing might be at its lowest...

The United States on Tuesday revealed the number of warheads in the country’s nuclear arsenal for the first time in four years, ending a Trump-era blackout on the figure. The number of nuclear weapons — both active and inactive — in the US military’s stockpile stood at 3,750 as of September 30, 2020, according to the data released Tuesday. The figure is down from 3,785 in 2018. As recently as 2003, the United States’ nuclear weapon stockpile was just above 10,000. In 1967, at the height of the cold war with Russia, the country’s nuclear reserve peaked with a total...

Crypto Exchange Bug Reveals North Korean Monero Laundering ShapeShift's Systems Reduced Privacy for Monero, Researcher Says Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • September 29, 2021 Weaknesses in the systems of ShapeShift, a U.K.-based cryptocurrency exchange, reveal how a North Korean-linked group laundered cryptocurrency that came from a notorious ransomware attack in 2017. See Also: Automating Security Operations The issues also put at risk the privacy of some other users of Monero, a cryptocurrency designed to provide a high degree of privacy, who transacted on ShapeShift. The bug appears to have been discovered by multiple parties, including Nick Bax, who recently received a...

When is a protester “angry and justified” and when are they a “domestic terrorist”? It all depends on how far left they are. This week, activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena into a women’s restroom at Arizona State University, where the senator teaches a class. Angry that she won’t vote for the Democrat’s unprecedented $3.5 trillion reconciliation mega-bill, the protesters filmed her walking into a bathroom stall. The same liberal commentators and politicians who were wringing their hands over “civility” in politics under Donald Trump suddenly had an array of justifications. President Joe Biden said “it happens to everybody . ....

A hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig was facing accusations of antisemitism on Tuesday after a musician said he was denied service for wearing a Star of David. The video sparked sharp criticism from Germany’s Jewish communities and drew the attention of police. In a video posted on social media, German musician Gil Ofarim said he attempted to check in to the Hotel Westin in Leipzig on Monday evening. Ofarim, who is Jewish, was wearing a necklace with a Star of David pendant. Due to technical issues with the hotel’s computers, a long line had formed at the...