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Eight cities in the United States scored a zero out of 100 on the 10th annual Municipal Equality Index, which evaluates cities and towns based on the level of LGBTQ inclusion found in their local laws, policies and services. LGBTQ advocacy groups Human Rights Campaign and Equality Federation evaluated 506 municipalities — including the country’s 50 state capitals and 200 largest cities — on 49 criteria for the index. The criteria included nondiscrimination protections, policies for municipal employees and city leadership. This year’s zero-point earners span from South Carolina to Wyoming, and they all came in at zero on last...

President Biden's nominee to lead a branch of the Treasury Department was arrested in 1995 for "retail theft." Fox News obtained a Wisconsin Department of Justice criminal background check of Saule Omarova, the president’s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). According to the background check, Omarova was arrested by Madison, Wisconsin, police officers on June 2, 1995 and charged with a misdemeanor count of "retail theft."

Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director — Ashley Etienne — will leave her post in December to “pursue other opportunities” amid reports of White House infighting and Harris struggling to find her footing. The news was first reported by Vanity Fair on Thursday and later confirmed by CBS News and Bloomberg News.

A California elementary teacher has come under fire for saying students in a conservative club at the local high school could “jump off a bridge” after a student was filmed waving a “f–k Biden” flag on school grounds. Kristin Usilton, who works for the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District, made the comments in a video she posted on her Instagram account after seeing footage of a student waving the anti-Biden flag on Veterans Day, the Paso Robles Express reports. “The Paso Robles Conservative club for the high school, you can go jump off a bridge,” she said. “I’m going...

A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Alec Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn’t called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins -snip- “There was nothing in the script about the gun being discharged by DEFENDANT BALDWIN or by any other person,” the lawsuit from script supervisor Mamie Mitchell says. -snip- According to discussions before the scene was filmed, it called for three tight shots of Baldwin: One on his eyes, one on a blood stain on his shoulder, and one on his torso as he pulled the gun from a holster, the lawsuit...

A Pennsylvania school bus aide is charged with stabbing a nurse at the school and holding a 14-year-old student hostage at knifepoint in a bizarre burst of violence. Police said the incident unfolded shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday during morning drop-off at the Watson Institute, a school for special-needs students in Allegheny County. Rochelle Pinkle, an aide at the Sewickley school, allegedly stabbed the school nurse twice in the back, then grabbed the student and led him at knifepoint back inside her bus, WTAE-TV said. She released the teen after police arrived but struggled with the cops and had to...

Jordan Peterson says he spoke to a senior government adviser who told him Canada’s COVID restriction policies are completely driven by opinion polls and not science. “In relation to the COVID restrictions, I talked to a senior adviser to one of the provincial governments a couple of weeks ago,” said Peterson. “He told me flat out that the COVID policy here is driven by nothing but opinion polls related to the popularity of the government,” he added. “No science, no endgame in sight, no real plan, and so what that means is that the part of the population that is...

If the midterm elections were held today, 51% of likely U.S. voters would cast their ballots for the Republican candidate, compared to 38% who would vote for the Democrat, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. After that, 3% would vote for some other candidate, while 8% were uncertain. Here are how the results, released Tuesday, break down: 89% of Republican voters say they would cast their ballots for the GOP’s candidate. 77% of Democrats would vote for the Democrat candidate. 48% of independents would vote for the Republican candidate, compared to the 26% who would vote for the Democrat....

US special operators have played an instrumental role in the fight against terrorists and insurgent groups over the past 20 years. Now, as the Pentagon focuses on preparing for a conflict a near-peer or peer military, like China and Russia, the special-operations community is looking for ways to remain relevant in a completely different type of war. Army special-operations units are particularly concerned, as they make up most of the US Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) numbers.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to open an investigation into the planned deal between former President Trump’s new media and technology company and a Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC. In a letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, Warren said Trump’s company “may have committed serious securities violations by holding private and undisclosed discussions about the merger as early as May 2021,” which was before the deal was announced. Trump announced last month that he was launching a new social media network, dubbed “Truth Social,” while also revealing that his Trump...

The US has been stripped of its title as the richest country in the world, with China now being the world’s wealthiest nation. The switch-up in the global wealth leaderboard was announced in a report from McKinsey & Co., says Bloomberg who first broke the story, which revealed that China’s value skyrocketed from $7 trillion in 2000 to $120 trillion in 2020. In that same time, the value of the United States climbed to almost $90 trillion, falling short of the number one spot. China’s race to the top of the leaderboard contributed to almost a third of the total...

Animal rights groups have responded with a protest letter against a policy of euthanasia, pointing out that most visitors do not feed the boars and arguing resources should be directed toward stopping the human activity rather than blaming all the boars. Allowing the boars to be captured and killed “ignores their right to live and considers their existence in urban areas as a capital offense,” the letter read.

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A new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine is reporting the development of a novel mRNA-based vaccine designed to help resist tick bites. Preclinical tests in guinea pigs indicate the vaccine aids the immune system in recognizing tick bites, resulting in the parasites being dislodged before they can transmit any pathogenic disease. Over a dozen diseases can be transmitted by tick bites. The most well-known is Lyme disease, caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. In the past, vaccines have successfully been developed to specifically target this Lyme disease bacterium. However, this new vaccine candidate takes a different...

The Equitarian MindBanning Critical Race Theory won't solve the problem. Critical Race Theory is on the ropes, if you believe what you read in the papers. This pernicious hypothesis lost the Democrats the governorship in Virginia, is repelling moderates around the country, and is even bringing mainstream media types like Bill Maher to denounce it as nothing more than “virtue signaling.” On the other side, proponents insist that CRT is a strawman, an arcane law school topic about the deep structure of legal institutions that is being employed by the forces of reaction as a dog-whistle to summon its racist...

Republican-led states have already added enough safe seats through redistricting to flip control of the House of Representatives in next year's midterm elections. Republicans have already reconfigured enough districts to add five safe seats, which would be enough to flip the House majority if nothing else changes, according to a New York Times analysis. Though people of color drove most of the nation's population growth in the last census, some Republican states have aggressively packed voters of colors into single districts or failed to draw a single minority-majority district at all. Many of the new maps have already been challenged...

THE DIVIDE OVER FAITH AND POLITICS.THIS AS A NEW REPORT REVEALS AMERICAN ATTITUDES ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ISSUES.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) delivered a vicious one-minute speech on Wednesday that highlighted various Democrat congressmembers’ “inappropriate actions” ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holding a vote to censure one of their Republican colleagues. Boebert, speaking during debate over the resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), pointed to Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) as examples of those in Congress whose “unacceptable” behavior has gone without repercussions. Gosar’s staff had posted a political anime video on social media that he later had removed, but not before Democrats pounced on the post for its...

CLAIM: Raising the cap on the amount of state and local taxes, known as the SALT cap, that can be deducted from income for federal tax purposes would benefit lower-income Americans. “Those with lower incomes would be able to fully write-off state and local taxes,” Whitehouse press secretary Jen Psaki said in a press conference Thursday. VERDICT: False. No low-income taxpayers will benefit from raising the cap on state and local tax deductions.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) met on Thursday as they look for an off-ramp from a looming fight over the debt ceiling. “We had a good discussion about several different issues that are all extant as we move toward the end of the session,” McConnell told reporters. “We agreed to kind of keep talking, working together to try to get somewhere,” McConnell added.