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Screen Shot 2022-09-06 at 12.22.37 PM (St. Mary’s Episcopal School) Video of Eliza Fletcher, the late beloved Memphis kindergarten teacher who was also the heiress to a billion-dollar hardware fortune, singing to her class during the COVID pandemic, has surfaced, showing how much was lost when her body was found on Tuesday. Fletcher, a mother of two young boys, was kidnapped early Friday while jogging. “Cleotha Abston, 38, an ex-con who served time for kidnapping, was arrested Saturday in connection with the abduction,” The Daily Wire reported. “Hey girls, it’s Ms. Fletcher,” the young teacher told the camera as she...

by Samantha Foster | 24NewsPamela Ricard was a math teacher at Fort Riley Middle School. She was reprimanded then suspended after challenging a school district policy requiring faculty to use a student’s preferred name and "prounoun" while addressing the student, and forcing them to hide the student’s social transition from their parents but use the student’s legal name when speaking to parents. Ricard refused, asserting that the school policy violated her conscience.Administrators at Fort Riley Middle School retaliated when Ricard asserted that a teacher should refer to students by their legal name and pronouns that corresponded with their biological sex.They...

As the title suggests, something's been bothering me about the photo of "classified documents" released by the DOJ in their response filing for the special master request by Trump's legal team. The cover sheets are all wrong. I've had access to Top Secret/SCI material for over 40 years, working with it on a daily basis. I have never seen cover sheets with a solid color border that say "SECRET/SCI" or "TOP SECRET/SCI." Those would be OK if they were just SECRET or TOP SECRET collateral information (not sensitive compartmented information - SCI). The cover sheets for SCI documents have striped...

Paris (AFP) – French sports and education groups expressed outrage Tuesday at the closure of around 30 swimming pools, after their operator said surging heating costs made them no longer viable. “These closures directly impact all children and adults who won't be able to learn to swim," the French Swimming Federation (FFN) said in a statement, demanding the pools' "immediate" reopening. Vert Marine, which operates pools and ice rinks across France, said Monday that its annual energy bill had jumped to 100 million euros ($99 million) from 15 million euros -- a figure it said equalled "the company's entire annual...

On episode 3 of the show we are joined by Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Donetsk People's Republic's «Vostok» Battalion. Former commander of Ukraine's Alpha special unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin told her co-hosts Tuesday on “The View” that former President Donald Trump was a “semi-fascist,” but “most” of his supporters are not. Referencing Trump, co-host Joy Behar said, “He will twist everything around so that everything comes back to him.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre struggled Tuesday to respond to her past statements denying the results of an election — even as her boss President Joe Biden stated that “election deniers” posed a threat to democracy. “Look, I’m not going to go back to where we were or what happened in 2016, we’re going to focus on the here and now,” she said, when confronted with past statements on social media about President Donald Trump stealing the 2016 election and also Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin declared Tuesday on “The View” that former President Donald Trump has “hate in his heart,” so those who follow him were “complicit.” Referencing Trump, co-host Joy Behar said, “He will twist everything around so that everything comes back to him.” Referencing Biden, Griffin said, “My only counterpoint is this, while I actually agreed with the substance of his speech about democracy, there is poling from NBC—57% of Americans think the threat to democracy is the most important thing the nation is facing. I take a little bit of issue with him broadly applying the term...

Red Eagle Politics (REP) conducts an updated look and forecast of the 2022 US House Elections, approximately two months out. In a state-by-state analysis, REP's current prediction: GOP 242. Dems: 191

Responding to President Biden’s Labor Day speech ripping former President Donald Trump and his supporters, the GOP mocked the low turnout at his rally for union steelworkers near Pittsburgh. “MASSIVE crowd for Joe Biden in Pennsylvania today!,” the Republican National Committee Research account tweeted Monday, adding two laughing emojis. The posting included a photo showing Biden on the stage outside a union hall in West Mifflin, southeast of the Steel City, ​speaking before a crowd of a few dozen people.​ One picture, posted online by Molly Nagle of ABC News, showed Biden​, 79,​ speaking in shirtsleeves in front of the...

TOKYO -- A 29-year-old man died a day after receiving U.S. pharmaceutical firm Novavax Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine shot in Japan, but a causal relation remains unclear. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Sept. 2 reported the death of the man in an expert panel meeting to evaluate the safety of vaccines. Though the ministry received a report from the medical institution, saying, "It was a sudden death, and a link with vaccination such as the possibility of heart muscle inflammation cannot be denied," a causal relation apparently could not be confirmed due to a lack of objective information....

Talk about truck nuts. A Texas-based urologist performed a vasectomy using the battery in his Rivian R1T pickup to power his surgical equipment. And unlike some of the weird Tesla stunts we’ve seen lately, this Rivian-powered procedure was done out of necessity. Dr. Christopher Yang was set to perform a vasectomy at his clinic in Austin when a power outage struck the area. His patient didn’t want to reschedule the appointment because he’d already scheduled time off from work to recover. They needed to come up with a solution. That’s when genius struck.

When a 21-year incumbent politician is on the ballot, the election is naturally a referendum on the record of that person. In Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s case, the recent Senate primary show that a solid majority of Alaskans voted for someone else. This is the clearest demonstration yet that our citizens believe that it’s time for a change. With four candidates now left for the general election on Nov. 8, it’s also clear that I am the only viable alternative. People are understandably used to voting for someone named Murkowski – Lisa Murkowski’s father, Frank, served in the same seat for...

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 6:12–19 Friends, after Jesus names his twelve Apostles in today’s Gospel, he heals a multitude of people. And that multitude represents us, for we all stand in need of the Savior’s healing touch. We are made for love and connection and justice and nonviolence, but at every turn and in every way we are twisted in the direction of hatred, separation, injustice, and violence. We are, as St. Augustine put it, wandering in the land of dissimilitude and in the grip of the libido dominandi. The contemporary philosopher René Girard has reminded us that...

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1540055374572797954 10-minute video of prominent Democrats denying the validity of the presidential elections in 2000, 2004, 2016, and the Georgia 2018 gubernatorial election.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a power grid emergency due to energy usage being at a 5-year high. Still, Newsom has assured everyone that they will have plenty of electricity to spare as soon as everyone leaves the state to live in Florida instead. "Everyone, I understand your frustration, but by the end of the year with everyone leaving California, we're gonna cut our energy usage in half!" explained Governor Newsom. "In fact, so many are headed for Florida that the few of us who remain will be able to do cool stuff like use...

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Monday to have never eaten a grape until she was in her 20s, citing her belief to 'never cross a picket line.' Growing up with progressive activist parents, the vice president recounted her years-long support for labor movements including the grapes boycotts in her home state of California. The last and longest took place from 1984 through 2000. Harris would have been 19 or 20 when it started, and it ended the month after she turned 36. 'The farmworkers movement was very much a part of my childhood,' the vice president told The Nation. 'This...

Russia said Tuesday that it would not resume natural gas flow to the European Union until sanctions are lifted, all but acknowledging that it is intentionally inflicting an energy crisis on Europe as a means of countering Western economic punishment for its invasion of Ukraine... “It is important to recall that there is not just one gas pipeline from Russia to Europe,” European Commission energy spokesman Tim McPhie said Monday. “If there was a technical problem which was impeding supplies via Nord Stream 1, there would be a possibility, if there was willingness, to deliver gas to Europe through other...

The U.S. Federal Reserve has tightened the window for the launch of its FedNow instant payments platform to between May and July of 2023. According to a press release, FedNow will be open to financial institutions of any size, allowing them to facilitate instant payments for consumers and businesses, giving customers immediate full access to funds. The platform is currently in pilot phase with more than 120 organizations participating, including lender U.S. Bank and payment processor Alacriti Payments among them. Initially announced in August 2020 by then-Fed Governor (now Vice Chair) Lael Brainard, the FedNow platform is seen as a...

Justin Bieber has cancelled his Justice World Tour due to physical and mental health issues just weeks after resuming it as he recovered from facial paralysis. The 28-year-old Canadian superstar took to his Instagram Story to make the tough announcement as he thanked his fans for their support during his battle with Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome and declared that he needs to focus on himself before performing again. He performed in Brazil over the weekend and got candid as he wrote: 'After getting off the stage, the exhaustion overtook me and I realize that I need to make my health the priority...