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The grant raised concerns for the potential of abuse by organizations to act against Israel via BDS and international law tribunals. The US State Department has offered a grant of up to $987,654 for projects that include reporting human rights violations by Israel, raising concern about the potential for abuse by organizations seeking boycotts, sanctions and international law tribunals against Israel. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announced "an open competition for projects that strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza" last month, thought to be the first of its kind...

The State University of New York at Brockport said in a statement that the possibility of "large numbers" of police officers on-campus during an event featuring a convicted cop killer could be "traumatizing," and is allowing students to skip class during the day of the event.

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Drugs known as antidopaminergic antiemetics (ADAs) that are widely used to relieve nausea and vomiting caused, for instance, by migraine, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and after surgery are associated with an increased risk of ischaemic stroke, finds a study published by The BMJ today. The results show that all three ADAs studied (domperidone, metopimazine, and metoclopramide) were associated with an increased risk, especially in the first days of use, but the highest increase was found for metopimazine and metoclopramide. The researchers suggest that the potential action of ADAs on blood flow to the brain could explain this higher risk. Like antipsychotics,...

Two Philadelphia pit bull owners were caught unleashing their dogs on a helpless family cat, named Buddy, in Philadelphia on Tuesday One man can be seen drawing his dog's attention to the cat before dropping its leash, and the other man follows suit The men laugh, one yelling 'Get him' and 'Good boy' as their dogs maul the cat Buddy is currently in critical condition, and the Pennsylvania SPCA is taking donations for his extensive medical needs He survived the night, the representatives from the agency are '(very) cautiously optimistic' that he will pull through If caught, the men could...

An observant resident of Rehoboth Beach, DE, Joe Biden’s home community, brought to our attention that Jill Biden has applied for a variance from the Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission to make the fence around their compound higher. CDMedia has found out the fence addition will cost $500k. The Biden’s are providing additional security for themselves while the souther border of the United States is wide open with hundreds of thousands of migrants, terrorists and criminal pass monthly. We assume this is the ‘new world order’ that the ‘10% for the big guy’ is talking about.

His crappy night only got worse. A Florida man was left screaming after getting trapped in a porta-potty — then was promptly busted for drug possession by the cops who bailed him out. Bystanders called Naples police after hearing James Gousse, 34, shouting for help Sunday night while stuck in the mobile latrine. An arriving deputy heard Gousse’s yells and spotted his foot protruding from the porta potty’s door. The officer successfully dislodged Gousse and told him to sit down nearby. He told cops that he had somehow gotten his foot jammed and couldn’t get out. Cops searched the john...

A Canadian branch of Home Depot sparked outrage after it posted a notice to employees about the benefits of “white privilege” and included a checklist for those who are “white, male, Christian, cisgender, able-bodied, and heterosexual.” The notice, which is titled “Leading Practices — Unpacking privilege,” was posted in an employee lounge at a Home Depot in Calgary, Alberta.

DETROIT – A woman is facing a second-degree murder charge after allegedly fatally shooting her boyfriend in their Detroit home where children were present. According to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, 29-year-old Shanitra Newson has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man last weekend. At about 4:10 p.m. on March 19, police responded to the shooting at a home on Bringard Drive near Gratiot Avenue. Officials say that officers entered the home and found the 31-year-old man -- identified as Jamel Sandifer -- suffering from gunshot wounds to the wrist and the side of his...

Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston has formally resigned as global senior pastor in the wake of recent revelations that two women made serious complaints of misconduct against him in the last 10 years, officials announced Wednesday.“We would like to advise you that Pastor Brian Houston has resigned as Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church and the board has accepted his resignation,” a statement from the Hillsong Church Global and Australian boards published on the global megachurch network’s website said.“We understand there will be much emotion at this news, and we all share these feelings. Irrespective of the circumstances around this,...

On Friday, the Supreme Court announced that Justice Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized after experiencing flu-like symptoms. Thomas, 73, was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C.“Justice Thomas’s symptoms were abating, he’s comfortable, and could be released in the next few days,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe said Friday. According to the statement, Thomas underwent tests and was “diagnosed with an infection and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics.” It’s been five days, and we haven’t received any new updates from the Supreme Court since Sunday, when Thomas was expected to “participate in the consideration and discussion of any...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joked that the Catholic Church would "like to throw me out" due to her support of abortion rights during an event at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Tuesday night, The Daily Wire reports."It isn't about 'What is your religious belief?' It's 'What is the right of people to make their own decisions about the sizing and time — or if — they're going to have a family," Pelosi said, her hands visibly shaking. "This really gets me burned up — in case you didn't notice — because, again, I'm very Catholic. Devout, practicing, all...

Repeatedly using a word she says she ‘can’t’ define is not a good look for a potential Supreme Court justice.Joe Biden’s recent Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom the president has admitted was nominated in part because she is a woman, stunned listeners on Tuesday when she refused to give a definition of what a woman is.“I can’t. … I’m not a biologist,” Jackson said after Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked her to provide a definition of the word “woman.”But for not knowing what a “woman” is, Jackson loves to use the word. Here are 14 times she...

Joe Biden is no longer useful to the ruling class. It is painfully obvious, as was predictable, that Joe Biden’s presidency is a dumpster fire. As demonstrated by the party’s destructive callousness towards children, the elderly, and the poor during their Covid lockdown frenzy, Democrats care about none of these real-world results of their policies. But they do care about polling, and Joe Biden’s is abysmal. According to even heavily politicized polls, Biden is at least performing as badly as Donald Trump. Biden is between the third- and fifth-most ratings-underwater president ever in American history at this point in his...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticized President Joe Biden for focusing on telling Americans to guard against Russian cyberattacks rather than telling Russia there will be consequences if they do so and argued that Biden has repeatedly sent the wrong signals to Putin by making statements that tell Putin he can get away with certain actions like only declaring that certain sectors of the U.S. are off-limits to cyberattacks and that a smaller incursion into Ukraine would provoke a smaller response.

OAKLAND, Calif. - A double shooting at a gas station in East Oakland has left one man dead and a woman hospitalized with serious injuries. A man named Rodney Davis, whom witnesses described as an innocent bystander, was shot and killed Saturday just before 8:30 p.m. at a gas station on 102nd Avenue and International Boulevard.

New Zealand has announced the end of QR codes, mask rules, COVID-19 vaccine passports, and other mandates in most industries.As of April 4, vaccination passport rules will be removed and vaccination mandates will be lifted in all industries except health and disability, aged care, corrections, and border forces. Changes that take effect on March 26 include increasing indoor capacity limits to 200 from 100, while outdoor limits will be completely removed.Mask mandates also will be removed for all outdoor events, but remain for workers at indoor events with an orange risk rating.QR code scanning requirements also will be removed.As the...

First use of high-speed missiles by Russia in Ukraine sparks renewed urgency for U.S. development. With the first claimed use of a hypersonic weapon by Russia in the invasion of Ukraine, attention is again focusing on defense contractors in the U.S. that are trying to develop their own. Among U.S. defense contractors notable for their efforts are Lockheed Martin (LMT) , Northrop Grumman (NOC) and Raytheon (RTX). The three were picked by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency last November to develop an "accelerated concept design of the Glide Phase Interceptor," to stop incoming vehicles. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are also...

As more companies begin their return to the office, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is becoming more remote than ever before. The company’s management team, including Mark Zuckerberg, is scattering to locations far from its Silicon Valley headquarters in an extreme test of the limits of remote work. Naomi Gleit, the company’s head of product and one of its longest-tenured employees, has relocated to New York. Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz plans to move to the U.K., and Guy Rosen, the company’s vice president of integrity, will be moving to Israel in the future, according to a company spokesman. Meanwhile...

America cannot defeat Russia and China without the help of other nations. And America cannot defeat the Left without the help of liberals. America is caught between an external and an internal threat. The external is an economically aggressive and America-hating China and a nuclear-equipped, America-hating Russia; the internal is a non-nuclear, America-hating Left. (As I always note, “Left” is not the same as “liberal”; in fact, leftism poses a mortal threat to liberalism. The greatest contemporary tragedy in American life is that most liberals are unwilling to acknowledge this and continue to vote for the Left.) To use one...