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The Wisconsin judge overseeing the intentional homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse on Tuesday afternoon dismissed the seventh count against the teen. That charge alleged that Rittenhouse failed to comply with an emergency management order of a state or local government by failing to heed a curfew on Aug. 25, 2020, when he shot three people and killed two of them. Lead defense attorney Mark Richards moved to dismiss the count after the jury broke for lunch. “I want to put on the record now that the state intends to rest,” said lead prosecutor Thomas Binger. Judge Bruce Schroeder used the...

Asian honey bees scream as they are being attacked by giant hornets, scientists have discovered. By recording acoustic signals from bees defending their nests from hornets, researchers were able to pinpoint an alarm signal akin to screams of fear.... ...Heather Mattila, from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, studies the organization of animal societies and insect communication. In December last year, she published a study showing that honey bees will use animal poop to defend their nests .. Mattila and colleagues have looked closer at what happens before and during an attack. They said hornets and honey bees appear locked in an "evolutionary...

By now everyone has heard that Camilla Parker Bowles, the duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles, learned the hard way from which orifice our puppet president (P.P.) speaks. Dementia Joe arrived in Scotland to demand clean air and settled for crop-dusting those in attendance instead. Royal gossipers quote Camilla as saying the American president's flatulence was "long and loud and impossible to ignore." This diplomatic airing of grievances comes at the rear of a disputed report from Rome last week that "the most popularly elected president in American history" was so happy to see the pope that he...

VIDEOIt was one of the most dramatic moments in the history of criminal trials when Gaige Grosskreutz ADMITTED that he pointed his gun at Kyle Rittenhouse BEFORE the latter fired his rifle thus providing a slam dunk case for self-defense. However, that moment was either buried or avoided by much of the mainstream media. Such was the case with NBC News which downplayed that moment as almost an afterthought towards the end of its report or completely avoided by NBC News which hyped the whole situation as a "racial justice protest."

In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's highest-profile promise was to build the wall -- that is, to construct a barrier along about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. Once elected, Trump's best chance to win money from Congress for a wall came in 2018, when Republican Speaker Paul Ryan controlled the House and Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell controlled the Senate. It didn't happen. Now, one of Trump's strongest supporters on Capitol Hill, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, is out with a new memoir, "Do What You Said You Would Do," on Nov. 23 that describes those months when GOP...

As Virginia's gubernatorial election drew to a close last week, Democrat Terry McAuliffe brought in teachers union president Randi Weingarten. He thought that would help? I suppose he, like many progressives, believes everyone thinks the way he does. "I'm not going to let parents come into schools and ... make their own decisions," he'd said. "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." That's the political attitude: Government runs things. We, the experts, know what's best. Parents as "customers" who make choices? Nonsense. I hope his defeat means Americans are figuring out that such politicians are...

Over a weekend of discussing politics with like-minded family, we of course discussed Trump and the mean tweets. Women don’t like mean tweets. Especially from their president. Because? Never mind. Remember Ronald Reagan? Back when Ronald Reagan was building up to a presidential campaign he was broadcasting weekly opinion pieces in which he sounded pretty angry and determined to do something about it. When he was on the Carson Show he emitted corny one-liners, and everyone laughed. But when he became president he switched to an avuncular personality. I wonder why? Do you think it was because he had a...

Unfortunately, election season is not completely over. On Dec 7, voters in District 3 - which includes Capitol Hill, the Central District, Madison Park, Leschi, Madrona, and parts of surrounding neighborhoods - will decide whether to keep or boot the council’s lone socialist, Kshama Sawant. Here's everything you need to know: When is the recall happening? King County Elections will mail out ballots for the recall on November 17. Expect ballots to hit mailboxes November 19, and go apesh-- if they don’t arrive by November 22. (That is, check to make sure you're registered in the district and/or ask the...

After almost two contentious years in the throes of the COVID pandemic that was speculative and problematic from the beginning, partisan loyalists, once known as socially conscious Democrats, continue to justify the unconstitutional lockdowns and its violations of humanity as "following the science." Those same Democrats have now morphed into an activist Marxist throng as the pandemic offers the perfect opportunity to distort "science" in order to accomplish the final malevolent chapter of the globalist cabal's agenda of altering Homo sapiens into a transhumanist world order. The mandatory COVID lockdown and vaccine requirements are sold to the public as a...

Watching the shenanigans in the still contested New Jersey gubernatorial election, I have to wonder whether there has ever been a truly honest election in state history. From my own experience, I would say probably not and, as I also learned, there are a thousand ways to cheat. In 1982, through an odd sequence of events, I found myself with a ringside seat on a routinely crooked Newark mayoral election. I had been offered a job as “associate director” of the 1,000-employee Newark Housing and Redevelopment Authority. This being a recession year, and I needing to finish my Ph.D. dissertation,...

The massive, Washington state-owned vehicle pool will begin the switch to electric power with the goal of having the whole fleet fully electric by 2040, under an executive order signed by Gov. Jay Inslee. The order outlines specific target goals for all of the approximately 5,000 state vehicle from snow plows to state trooper patrol vehicles. Broadly, it calls for 40% of the fleet to switch electric by 2025; then to 75% by 2030 and ending at 100% compliance five years later. The order allows some deadline and vehicle-type leeway for state-owned medium and heavy-duty trucks. Under the order, 30%...

Japan has detected its first outbreak of bird flu for the 2021 winter season, with confirmation of a case of "highly pathogenic avian influenza" at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday (Nov 10). About 143,000 egg-laying chickens are being exterminated at the farm in Yokote city in Akita Prefecture, the ministry said in a statement on its website, adding that restricted zones up to 10km from the site have been established. Japan has temporarily suspended exports of chicken meat and eggs from all regions following the outbreak, the ministry said.

This is not your usual fishy business. With many areas in Thailand submerged due to heavy rains, one woman in Pathum Thani got a shock when she woke up to find her bedroom flooded with fish swimming in their newfound habitat — instantly turning the room into an 'aquarium'. On Oct 31, TikTok user lookpud935 uploaded a video of the incident, garnering more than 1.2 million views and 4,000 comments. It’s time to get a dental plan that gives you access to quality care and keeps costs in check, including 400,000 access points (online & in person), critical illness coverage...

SpinLaunch, which is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, last month conducted its first test flight of a prototype in New Mexico...The company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to get off the ground – with a vacuum-sealed centrifuge spinning the rocket at several times the speed of sound before releasing...The SpinLaunch design for its orbital vehicle would be able to carry about 200 kilograms of payload to orbit, equivalent to a few small satellites.

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The principal at the center of a controversy over social media posts and allegations of teaching Critical Race Theory at Heritage High School in Colleyville is leaving the school district — but not immediately. Dr. James Whitfield announced he will resign effective August 15, 2023. As part of the settlement between Whitfield and the school board, he will remain on paid leave until then.

Hawthorne Academy High School Principal Diann Weston and assistant principal Nina Adams have been suspended with pay in the wake of an ongoing WBTV investigation into the handling of reported sexual assaults at the school. Students and parents were notified of the move in a message from district administrators late Tuesday afternoon. WBTV first reported last week about a sophomore student who reported being sexually assaulted by a classmate in August and was suspended late last month because, administrators said, she filed a false report.

A plucky migrating godwit that captured New Zealand’s attention after it was forced to make a dramatic U-turn back to Alaska after 33 hours of non-stop flight has finally touched down in the country. Every year, the Eastern bar-tailed godwits, or kuaka in Māori, make one of the longest avian migration flights in the world, travelling from their breeding ground in the Arctic, across the Pacific, to New Zealand... ..This year, a female godwit, identified as 4BYWW by the bands on her legs, was confirmed as having made the longest flight ever recorded by a land bird....But one unlucky godwit,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, 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. Finally, brothers, rejoice. Set things in order. Be encouraged. Agree with one another. Be at peace. And the God of love...

...Labor action has surged in many industries over the past two years, including in bookselling, a business where unions had been rare. Since 2020, employees have unionized or are attempting to do so everywhere from Printed Matter in New York City to Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle and Bookshop Santa Cruz in California. In Minnesota, workers at four Half Price Books stores have announced plans to affiliate with locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. "I think COVID-19 was a rude awakening for bookstore workers, and really anyone who works with the public,” says Owen Hill, a...