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Sen. Raphael Warnock has been hit with allegations that he misused campaign funds to defend himself against a federal lawsuit stemming from his time as a pastor, according to a report out Wednesday. Atlanta resident Melvin Robertson initially sued Warnock (D-Ga.) in 2019 over allegations dating back to 2005, when Warnock led the city’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. That suit was dismissed by a federal judge in Georgia without any of the defendants being served, Politico reported. Robertson sued again in April 2021, making the same allegations against Warnock and naming the church and other public officials as defendants, the report...

Video footage shows three women who attacked Bel Fries in Manhattan after a feud with the restaurant worker over an extra sauce. The women were having fries when they asked for an extra sauce. However, the waiter requested them to pay an additional $1.75 for the sauce as it was restaurant policy. But then, the women went rampage and started attacking the restaurant counter. They threw stuff toward the restaurant and continued doing so for a few minutes. The New York Police Department confirmed the names of three women, Pearl Ozaria, Chitara Plasencia, and Tattiyana Johnson. No further details about...

Mississippi is one of several states with trigger laws that go into effect once Roe v Wade was overturned. A lawsuit was filed by the state’s only abortion clinic after the Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v Wade. The lawsuit asked for a temporary block to the state’s trigger law that would ban most abortions. On Tuesday, a Mississippi judge rejected the request. Barring further developments, the clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, will close at the end of business today. The state law takes effect Thursday.Mississippi’s law has been on the books since 2007. It has never been challenged in...

We saw Twitter suspend author and psychologist Jordan Peterson in June because he “deadnamed” transgender actor Elliot Page.Twitter told him he could get back his account if he deleted the tweet in question. The tweet said, “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.” But Peterson said he would “rather die” than do so. His daughter wrote about it.Wow. @jordanbpeterson got a twitter strike. No more twitter until he deletes the tweet. Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment @elonmuskpic.twitter.com/YuBTwnjz5W— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) June 29, 2022Then Dave Rubin...

COVID response critic and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson was reinstated by Twitter Wednesday, after suing the social media company in the wake of his August 2021 banishment from the platform. Berenson and Twitter settled the lawsuit in late June, with most of the terms undisclosed. The tech giant was forced to eat a little crow, though, admitting that his “tweets should have not led to [his] (Berenson’s) suspension at that time.”Shady's back.Tell a friend.For the full story of my reinstatment, including @Twitter's acknowledgment of error, see my Substack.https://t.co/SgXfocIFiQ— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 6, 2022Berenson was a loud...

Before the mayhem, Ukraine was known as “Europe’s breadbasket.” The most fertile soil deposits on Earth lie within the country’s borders. This “chernozem” (or “black soil”) lets the nation produce massive wheat and oilseed exports. But the Russia-Ukraine war threw the breadbasket into chaos… A Russian blockade halted Ukraine’s agricultural exports. Food prices have soared worldwide as a result – and that’s on top of existing inflation. I’m not sharing this to alarm you, though. In fact, I want to highlight some early signs of relief… New data shows that the rate of food inflation may be stalling, at least...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, after another violent weekend in which there were more than 70 shootings on her city's streets, has found a new scapegoat to dodge blame for the chaos that befalls her city at some level each weekend despite strict gun laws and an alleged commitment to law and order: the public discourse. Specifically, according to remarks Mayor Lightfoot made on Tuesday, "the toxicity in our public discourse is a thing that I think we should all be concerned about." Ah, well, if it's non-toxic public discourse Mayor Lightfoot wants to encourage, she should probably start with herself...

JACKSON, Miss. — As the sun bore down around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Dale Gibson began affixing signs to the iron fence surrounding Mississippi’s only abortion clinic. “The fight is not over,” one read. In cursive script, another vowed: “This is not the end.” Wednesday was the last day the Jackson Women’s Health Organization was legally allowed to perform abortions in Mississippi. It was the last day Gibson and his fellow volunteer patient escorts gathered outside the clinic to defend a right that no longer exists in much of the country. For years, the volunteers — known as the Pink...

Operation North Star Targeted Most Dangerous Criminals in Communities with High Levels of Violence The U.S. Marshals Service has concluded a high-impact fugitive apprehension initiative aimed at combating violent crime in 10 cities with a significant number of homicides and shootings. This 30-day initiative, called Operation North Star (ONS), resulted in the arrest of 1,501 fugitives, violent criminals, sex offenders, and self-identified gang members in Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Operation North Star focused on fugitives wanted for the most serious, violent, and harmful offenses, including homicide, sexual assault,...

A woman is facing backlash for her 'backwards' and 'misdirected' protest after announcing she refused to serve jury duty due to her 'emotional distress' over the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Alyssa Wolfe, who is known as @eatwithlys on TikTok, detailed her scathing response to her recent jury summons in a now-viral video days after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal at the federal level. 'I was summoned for jury duty,' she explained in the on-screen text. 'As a woman in my 20s, this is what I had to say...am I wrong though?' Scroll down...

Gun owners in Maryland will no longer be required to prove that they have a “good and substantial reason” to carry a concealed firearm under a new order issued by Gov. Larry Hogan following a recent Supreme Court ruling.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The Dallas County health department has reported its first locally transmitted case of the monkeypox virus after a man who attended the Daddyland Festival tested positive. He traveled from out-of-state for the four-day, Fourth of July circuit party. Health officials said the man went to a Dallas hospital with a rash and was diagnosed through laboratory testing done. Given the size of the Daddyland Festival, others who attended the events could have been exposed to monkeypox and, possibly, infected.

The Republican Party of Texas has finally released its 2022 platform and the vote totals for each plank. Over 90% support a vote on TEXIT. After a two-and-a-half-week delay, the RPT has released its platform, and the delegate vote totals for each plank. The Texas Nationalist Movement has been eagerly awaiting the results of the vote for two planks that expressly call for a vote on TEXIT. The strongest of the two numbered initially as Plank 224, was renumbered as Plank 225 due to a last-minute addition of a plank earlier in the platform at the convention. Plank 225 reads:...

Desperate parolee, fearing return to jail for missing work, begs climate change protestors to open just one lane for traffic. They say no.

CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and political violence, is laying the ground to claim any declaration of a recession is… racist. America is headed into recession. Am I a genius? No. It’s just that I lack the sophistication necessary to look at record gas prices and record inflation and see any possible way around a recession. Joe Biden is already in deep dookie, and in four months, the Democrat party as a whole will be in real trouble when the midterm results start pouring in. Moreover, CNN knows that our economy has already shrunk this last...

PHOENIX -- The Biden administration is planning to sue Arizona over a new state law that requires proof of citizenship to vote for president.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court after being sworn in on Thursday. While the media celebrated the historic occasion, Jackson herself refused to define the word "woman" during her Senate confirmation hearing. "No, I can't," Jackson said in March. "I'm not a biologist."

The Ukranian Biolabs story is starting to become unavoidable by Western media. Liberal media mogul Bloomberg had no choice but to report on it due to a US Ambassador directly addressing it. However, you will notice they don’t address the “Russian Lies” Burns is referring to in the title, they bury it in the article. Further down the page they address the allegations are pertaining to Russia’s allegations of BIOWEAPONS LABS IN UKRAINE. The Chinese continue to adamantly agree with the findings from Russia. Yet Burns, and the Biden admin, continue to deny the existence of bioweapons labs in Ukraine....

Opioids are the gold standard for treatment of chronic and acute pain; however, their use may result in significant gastrointestinal side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and constipation. A new study is the first report of how opioids like morphine cause gastric inflammation and how this condition can be reversed through treatment with proton pump inhibitor drugs like omeprazole, an over-the-counter medication commonly used to reduce stomach acid. Opioid users, compared with non-users, have a higher incidence of gastric dysfunction, greater levels of gastric retention, worse quality of life, increased hospitalizations, and increased use of antinausea and pain medications. To investigate...