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California is set to be the first state in the country to enact a law that will limit prosecutors’ ability to use rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases. Assembly Bill 2799 will require a pre-trial hearing to determine if the lyrics are relevant to the case. Assembly member Reginald Jones-Sawyer Sr., says this bill will help protect rap artists, who are predominantly African American, and their freedom of speech. He also says he hopes the bill will help eliminate any racial bias that may exist when presenting evidence.

Biden is reportedly planning to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt per person for individuals making less than $125,000 per year. Joe Biden is reportedly planning to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt per person for individuals making less than $125,000 per year, according to reports which say the announcement will be made on Wednesday. Various outlets have reported on the potential move, with CNN claiming that the Biden administration is “leaning towards” the $10,000 forgiveness amount, and The Hill claiming the same along with an additional pause in student loan payments for roughly four months. Bloomberg also reported that...

Due to the alleged mass refusal of Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) officers to participate in combat in Ukraine, Russian paratrooper command has begun trying to hire contractors to fill the vacant positions, but even they do not seem keen to fight, Ukrainian Intelligence said in a statement Saturday. Russia has been increasingly using contracted professionals - contraktniki in Russian - to replace conscripts in elite military units. After severe losses suffered by the Russian paratroopers as a result of clashes with Ukraine's army, the command of the airborne troops is attempting to restore the morale and combat capability of the...

Israel on Monday warned Lebanon's Hezbollah any attack on its gas assets could spark war, after the terrorist group threatened to "sever" Israel's hands if it taps a disputed offshore field. The warning from Defense Minister Benny Gantz comes amid lengthy negotiations between the eastern Mediterranean neighbors to settle a dispute over their maritime border. Tensions spiked in June when a production vessel chartered by Israel arrived near the Karish offshore gas field, which Lebanon claims is within contested waters. Israel said on July 2 that it had downed three drones launched by Hezbollah toward Karish. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah...

COLOMBO/LONDON (Reuters) - A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday for talks to finalise a bailout package, including restructuring debt of about $29 billion, amid the nation's worst financial crisis in more than seven decades. The country's most severe financial crisis since independence from Britain in 1948 stemmed from the combined impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic mismanagement, stoking unprecedented protests. For months the population of 22 million has struggled with soaring inflation, economic contraction and a severe shortage of essential items of food, fuel and medicine caused by a record...

The international community under the leadership of the U.S. appears to be closing in on signing a new nuclear deal with Iran. On both sides of the negotiating table, there are those who are taking care to create a thick smokescreen to “confuse the enemy.” Sadly, the enemy, in their eyes, isn’t Tehran, but those who oppose a deal with it—primarily Israel. But the fog of battle eventually clears. Over the past few days, it’s become clear that, despite reports that both sides of the talks were digging in their heels to the point of an impasse and even a...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE WHEN SWALLOWED, REPENT AND PRAY!! J O N A H CHAPTERS 1&2 Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him. But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. He said: “In my distress I called to...

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(AFP) — President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Wednesday that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion “until the end” without “any concession or compromise”, as the nation marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war. “We don’t care what army you have, we only care about our land,” Zelensky said in a defiant morning video address. “We will fight for it until the end.”

Who wants to be an Internal Revenue Service enforcement agent? Turns out, hardly anyone. President Biden’s plan to boost government revenue over the next decade by adding 87,000 IRS agents is on a collision course with the hard reality that they can’t even recruit enough workers now to meet existing staff levels, according to recent studies. That could seriously imperil Mr. Biden’s goal of using the IRS to generate $124 billion more in government revenue through 2031 to pay for portions of the $740 billion climate, tax, and health care bill he signed into law last week.

LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Another dramatic spike in natural gas prices appears to have ended any hopes that Europe's inflation battle is set to ease, with financial markets now bracing for higher prices, a faster pace of interest rate hikes and a deeper economic downturn. Just a few weeks ago, signs that inflation in the United States - which tends to lead world economic shifts - might be peaking boosted stocks and lowered government borrowing costs. Investors bet central banks would now pay more attention to slowing economies, with a peak in the rate-hiking cycle nearing. Instead, this week...

Google made an oops. After suddenly pulling the plug on dozens of Cook County courtroom feeds on YouTube last week, the tech giant reversed course on Tuesday, saying, “sometimes we make mistakes.” Most of the court system’s feed pages were restored by Tuesday evening. “Last Friday, Google disabled the accounts due to unspecified violations of unspecified YouTube Community Guidelines,” the office of Chief Judge Timothy Evans said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “Earlier today, [we] received a notice from Google’s YouTube team confirming that the court’s channels do not violate the guidelines and acknowledging that ‘sometimes we make mistakes.'” Evans...

President Emmanuel Macron warned the French on Wednesday of tough months ahead as the world faces "a big shift", with government spokesman Olivier Veran adding that the cap on energy prices will have to end. The billion euro energy price cap, which has helped households cope with soaring inflation, looks set to expire this winter, the government said. Gas prices in France are currently frozen and there is currently a cap on power price hikes. Both have helped keep French inflation lower than many of its EU peers but are weighing heavily on the public purse. Furthermore, pension and unemployment...

Wednesday 24 August 2022 Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Feast The Basilica of Saint Bartholomew, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 21:9-14 ©He showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heavenThe angel came to speak to me, and said, ‘Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.’ In the spirit, he took me to the top of an enormous high mountain and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the radiant glory of God and glittered like some precious...

Florida flipped multiple major school boards from liberal to conservative Tuesday evening, continuing a nationwide trend of parents taking back control of public schools. Florida school board elections have been a major political battleground this cycle, with big names like Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Rep. Byron Donalds (R) making endorsements and joining the campaign trail. While primary elections occurred in Florida, New York, and Oklahoma Tuesday, Florida has general elections for school boards, meaning the winners will be the official members of the boards. Many of the winning candidates have been endorsed by the 1776 Project PAC, an organization...

Recently an Iran-inspired jihadist attempted to murder author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed ten times and remains in critical condition. The origins of this crime go back to 1989, when the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa that promised millions of dollars (eventually $3.3 million), instant martyrdom, and a trip to paradise for anyone killed while murdering the apostate Rushdie, who allegedly insulted Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. The subsequent response of the West to this grotesque violation of free speech exemplified the willful blindness to jihad that would characterize...

As The Gateway Pundit reported in March 2021 — The New York Times published a hit piece targeting popular Trump-supporter Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). The NY Times said the Florida Congressman was under investigation for dating a 17-year-old girl. The Gateway Pundit later spoke with a source close to Matt Gaetz who told us this NY Times report was completely false. Gaetz is not the target of the investigation. We were also told none of the women he was seeing were underage. It’s not a surprise the left went after Gaetz since he is such an effective communicator and a...

New Orleans’ LaToya Cantrell is running away with the competition.irst, for those of you who haven’t read all of the previous columns in this space, a definition. What is Weaponized Governmental Failure?Simply put, it’s the process by which urban socialist Democrats intentionally muck up the basic tasks of municipal governance and create such soul-crushing environments that middle-class taxpayers and voters decamp for the suburbs, thus leaving an electorate incapable of throwing off the political machine.My theory is that Weaponized Governmental Failure, or WGF for short, was arrived upon serendipitously. At some point in the 1990s, Democrats noticed that some of...

In the first congressional election of the year, Pat Ryan and Marc Molinaro are vying for the seat left open by Antonio Delgado.Although the seats have been redrawn for the November rematch this is a poor reflection on the ability of McCarthy and his ability to win close seats. The Democrat won last night 51-49%.

Oh, look, another Biden policy that will hurt the middle and lower classes. Yay Democrats. For years, they’ve claimed to be the party of the poor, those in need, and yet every policy they’re shoving through does nothing to help the poor and everything to help their wealthy pals in green energy, and oddly enough, Ukraine. Making a plumber pay for the debt of a lawyer? That’s Biden for ya’. Here are some facts: Only 37% of Americans have a 4-yr college degree, only 13% have graduate degrees, and a full 56% of student loan debt is held by people...