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Jaren Thompson won’t play the school district’s game. The veteran teacher told the Board of Education he’s walking away from the classroom because he can’t support woke gender policies. Some have been in place for several years. Thompson is a devout man and cited several recent court cases to bolster his position. Cases the school’s lawyers have likely also followed and noted. Thompson explained at a Monday board meeting that also he can’t violate biological science and then teach that there are multiple genders in order to appease confused students. You can watch his comments on YouTube by clicking here.

Three men have been criminally charged in Manhattan with possessing about 100 pages stolen from the singer Don Henley of handwritten notes and lyrics for the Eagles' blockbuster 1976 album "Hotel California."

As we reported previously, the Democrats are making some interesting arguments during a hearing on abortion in the Senate. That is to say, they’re wandering into trainwreck territory with one of the witnesses they put on — Khiara Bridges, who is a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. Bridges accused Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) of being transphobic because he asked if she meant “women” when she used the term “people with a capacity for pregnancy.” The professor then said he was opening up trans people to violence by the nature of his question. But she didn’t leave it...

With one week to go until primary day in Maryland, former President Donald Trump and Gov. Larry Hogan are taking aim at each other in the GOP gubernatorial nomination race to succeed the term-limited Republican governor. Trump, who last year endorsed state Delegate Dan Cox, claimed in a statement on Tuesday that Cox "is doing a great job running for Governor of Maryland." And the former president argued that "Dan will end Larry Hogan’s terrible RINO reign by defeating his "Never Trump" successor, another low-energy RINO, Kelly Schulz."

The leader of Islamic State in Syria, one of the top five leaders of the militant group, has been killed in a US air strike, the US military said on Tuesday (Jul 12). In a statement, US Central Command said Maher al-Agal had been killed in a drone strike in northwestern Syria and a close associate of his was seriously injured. "Extensive planning went into this operation to ensure its successful execution. An initial review indicates there were no civilian casualties," the statement added.

Fresh waves of COVID-19 infections show the pandemic is "nowhere near over", the World Health Organization's chief warned Tuesday (Jul 12), voicing concern the virus is "running freely". Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was worried that case numbers were continuing to rise, putting further pressure on stretched health systems and workers. "New waves of the virus demonstrate again that COVID-19 is nowhere near over," he told a news conference, adding: "As the virus pushes at us, we must push back."

Cops responding to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting ran away from the gunshots while 19 children and two teachers were left to die in their classrooms, according to new footage of the horrifying attack published Tuesday. The bombshell video, first obtained by the Austin-American Statesman, shows police officers rushing into Robb Elementary School on May 24 just minutes after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos began his deadly rampage — but lingering in the halls instead of going after the gunman. The officers even fled down the hallway when Ramos fired shots in their direction, according to the footage, taken from school security...

China’s production of more intellectual property (IP) does not automatically translate into a strategic advantage in economic competition with the United States. High-quality IP is needed amid globalisation, say two researchersIntellectual property (IP) has long been a sore point in relations between Washington and Beijing. United States officials have repeatedly targeted China for widespread counterfeiting since its economic "opening up" in the late 1970s. But after enduring a punishing series of legal reforms to join the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Chinese government is still under fire for weak enforcement, forced technology transfers and state-sponsored IP theft. Now China’s...

Railroad freight traffic across the United States could come to a screeching halt July 18 if progress isn’t made on a labor contract between national rail carriers and their unions. Union officials stressed they do not want to go on strike, but argued they are being forced to consider the option in a bid to get better benefits, wages and staffing. The unions have worked without a contract since July 1, 2019. The two sides were forced into a 30-day “cooling off period” after failing to reach an agreement working through the National Mediation Board. The cooling off period prevents...

Incredible video shows an avalanche of rocks and snow cascading down a mountain in Kyrgyzstan directly toward the hiker filming the spectacle. A group of 10 tourists - nine Brits and one American - who were caught in the avalanche in the Tian Shan mountains managed to avoid serious injury, but ended up with a great story and astonishing footage. Advertisement "It was only later we realised just how lucky we'd been," wrote Harry Shimmin. "If we had walked 5 minutes further on our trek, we would all be dead." Shimmin's video of the avalanche has racked up 900,000 views...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed says a potential ballot measure to move citywide elections to presidential years is a democratic socialist power grab, and the proposal's author is pushing back. Breed, a Democrat, characterized Supervisor Dean Preston's proposal to hold the next mayor, sheriff, district attorney, city attorney elections and treasurer in 2024 – and every four years after that – rather than in 2023 as Preston and a "group of democratic socialists" deciding "they want to have more control and power of being able to get their people elected." Preston, the board's first democratic socialist supervisor in decades, introduced...

A Kentucky woman was hospitalized after she picked up a dollar bill she suspected was laced with fentanyl on Sunday. 'My body went completely numb, I could barely talk and I could barely breathe. I was fighting to stay awake,' Renne Parson wrote on Facebook. Parson says she was driving with her husband, Justin, and children through Nashville, Tennessee, when the family stopped at a local McDonald's to use the restroom. Renne was holding her three-month-old baby while waiting to use the restroom when she spotted a dollar bill on the ground. 'Thinking nothing of it - I picked it...

A 15-year-old boy died in a house fire after an Albuquerque SWAT team launched tear gas into the home while going after an adult suspect, reported New York Daily News. The police tracked the suspect in question to the home where the boy was and used the gas to draw them out. The boy never made it out. Police were looking for Qiaunt Kelley, 27, who was wanted for violating probation for an armed carjacking and stolen vehicle charge, per the NY Daily News. The report says Kelley fled to a home where 15-year-old Brett Rosenau later walked into. Authorities...

Sen. Josh Hawley and a law professor from Berkeley engaged in a heated back-and-forth about who can get pregnant at a Senate hearing on abortion Tuesday, with the teacher accusing the Republican of pursuing a “transphobic” line of questioning. The Missouri Republican was questioning Khiara Bridges at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the abortion restriction case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that led the Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade last month. ​ The testy exchange began when Hawley said he wanted to “clear one thing up” and ​asked Bridges ​if she meant women when she...

Even after the Uvalde school shooter launched a second burst of gunfire inside a fourth-grade classroom, police officers still didn’t try to stop him, video reveals. Salvador Ramos, 18, entered a Robb Elementary School classroom on May 24 and unleashed more than 100 bullets inside the classroom before cops even arrived, video obtained Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman showed. The first responding officers approached the classroom just three minutes later. Ramos fought them off with a short burst, sending the few officers on the scene scrambling in retreat. Then, they waited. And waited. And waited. More than half an hour...

Eight contenders will be on the ballot paper when Conservative MPs in the UK begin voting on Wednesday to elect a successor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady, has announced. Johnson was forced to step down after dozens of members of government resigned in protest after a series of scandals. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Jeremy Hunt, Nadhim Zahawi and Suella Braverman all secured the 20 nominations from fellow members of parliament needed to enter the contest.

For decades, environmental activists along with some government officials and scientists have argued that rich countries should pay the most to address climate change, and even pay poor countries reparations, because industrialized nations have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases. A new study by two Dartmouth scientists aims to calculate just how much economic impact larger emitters have caused other nations. Published Tuesday in the journal Climatic Change, the study says the figures could be used in courtrooms and in international climate negotiations about payments from rich nations that burn more coal, oil and gas, to poor countries damaged by...

"Hi, I’m Jill. Jill Biden. But please, call me Dr. Biden" So demands the First Birthing Person. Jill Biden has not a Ph.D, but a Ed.D., a much lesser degree. Joe Biden explained it this way“She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” So Joe Biden basically told the U of Delaware to give Jill a "doctorate" and of course they obliged. Mrs. Biden wanted the credential for its own sake. As for its...

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A star couple is born: Bradley Cooper and Huma Abedin are dating, sources tell Page Six exclusively.The top aide to Hillary Clinton — and former wife of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner — has been seeing the A-lister for the past few months, according to multiple insiders.They were introduced by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who is close with both of them.