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TSMC (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major supplier to Apple Inc (AAPL.O), said on Wednesday it was constructing a building that could serve as its second chip factory in Arizona in the United States. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd said in an emailed statement to Reuters that it could use the building for future expansion but has not yet arrived on a final decision for a second chip manufacturing plant. "In light of the strong customer demand we are seeing in TSMC's advanced technology, we will consider adding more capacity in Arizona with a second fab based...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has announced that incarcerated women in the state will now be able to receive taxpayer-funded abortions, at no cost to them. The policy change comes after a WBEZ investigation found that incarcerated women had been required to pay for their own abortions as well as the fees for the correctional officer accompanying them to appointments. “Moving forward, abortion procedures and their associated expenses will not be covered by incarcerated women,” Illinois Department of Corrections spokesperson Naomi Puzello wrote in a statement, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “Those who previously paid for expenses will be reimbursed.” The...

He was tossing the fetus up in the air and catching it. Like it was a rubber ball. Abortion providers see the bodies of aborted babies daily. They deal with the grief and heartache of seeing women through what is almost always a difficult and painful experience. Sometimes the stress of what they are doing comes out in disturbing ways. According to Father Frank Pavone from Priests for Life: Former workers in the abortion industry have told us stories about playing games of toss with aborted babies in the hallway. Your mind has to invert what is going on: to...

My expectations last night were 20-25 House seats and plus one or two in the Senate. As we can all see this morning it’s looking like maybe 10 House seats and a chance of gaining one in the Senate. It’s also possible the GOP could lose GA and NV and wind up with one less seat than they had previously. For the sake of argument, let’s assume a narrow majority in the House and the Senate remains 50-50 with VP Harris breaking ties. If that’s where things land is there any silver lining?In the short term it’s definitely a mixed...

[Catholic Caucus] German bishop: Homosexual ‘attraction’ and ‘lovemaking’ not an ‘aberration’'We cannot give homosexual people the answer that their feelings are unnatural and that they must therefore live celibate lives. As a Church, we have to answer these questions in a new way,' said Bishop Helmut Dieser.(LifeSiteNews) — A German bishop has declared that sexual diversity is “willed by God and does not violate the Creator’s will,” and that “homosexual lovemaking” is not an aberration but a “variant of human sexuality.” Helmut Dieser, the bishop of the diocese of Aachen and the head of the Forum for Sexuality and Partnership...

On an otherwise disastrous night for Republicans, who were the biggest winners?ANSWER: Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia -- the two Republicans Donald Trump hates with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns.Which Republicans most underperformed?ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia -- two nominees hand-picked by Trump.The first horror of a long Tuesday night came soon after the polls closed in Pennsylvania, with the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Mastriano, getting clobbered. Some of the tipoffs that Mastriano might not have been the strongest candidate for the GOP were:-- A week before...

Dick Morris says he is concerned that, "Ron DeSantis would split the Republican Party," if he decides to run in the 2024 presidential race.

Though the votes have not been fully tabulated, it appears at this time that Montana voters have failed to pass a referendum that would have ensured that all children born alive, including after a failed or botched abortion, receive proper medical treatment. LR-131, a referendum for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, reads as follows: This Act legally protects born-alive infants by imposing criminal penalties on healthcare providers who do not act to preserve the life of such infants, including infants born during an attempted abortion. A born alive infant is entitled to medically appropriate care and treatment. A healthcare...

A former Twitter Inc engineer has accused the company of firing him days after it was acquired by Elon Musk because he developed a tool to allow workers to save important documents in anticipation of mass layoffs. The engineer, Emmanuel Cornet, filed a complaint with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Monday claiming he was engaged in protected activity when he shared the software on an internal Twitter messaging channel....Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaint. Cornet, who was based in San Francisco, said in the complaint that he was fired on Nov....

Last night in the 2022 Midterms the infamous “Drop and Roll” occurred in the Michigan Governor race just like it happened in the 2020 Presidential Election. In the Drop and Roll incidents identified in the 2020 election, we found that at around the point where 90% of the expected ballots were returned, a large batch of ballots was “dropped” with nearly every ballot for Joe Biden. These batches were as large as 330,000 ballots for Biden in Virginia in one single drop. The ballot drops were never questioned or challenged by Republican officials. Then after that point, nearly all of...

The Alaska Senate race is headed to the ranked choice runoff process, as no candidate on the ballot, including top-two voter getters GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski and GOP challenger Kelly Tshibaka, will reach 50%, according to NBC News. However the eventual winner of the contest shakes out, the seat will remain in GOP hands. The ranked-choice voting system is a method that allows voters in the state to rank candidates in order of preference. SNIP

DETROIT (LifeSiteNews) — Leftist Gov. Gretchen Whitmer handily won reelection Tuesday in the state of Michigan with a resounding victory over her Trump-endorsed Republican challenger Tudor Dixon by a margin of 54-44%. She was joined in her win by Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, both of whom are pro-LGBT extremists. “As we think about the historic nature of yesterday, we know that this is a moment where people have reaffirmed that focusing on the fundamentals, building a Michigan where every person can get ahead is what really matters right now more than ever,” Whitmer claimed...

In addition to drinking alcohol, buying a handgun and vaping, what are other things that require a minimum age of 21 years?

Former President Trump appeared undeterred by the GOP’s lackluster results in Tuesday’s midterm elections, indicating Wednesday that he does not plan to move his “big announcement” scheduled for next week. “We had tremendous success,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “Why would anything change?”

The far-left and the RINOs are joining forces to support Ron DeSantis today in an effort to dethrone President Trump as the top candidate for President in 2024.This will not end well. The far-left and RINOs cannot be trusted and the MAGA crowd will have nothing to do with them.Even some “mainstream” conservatives (i.e. Ben Shapiro) are praising DeSantis. But anyone who has followed these actors knows they are attacking President Trump by backing DeSantis.The New York Post this morning led with the picture above.Liz Peek called DeSantis the new Republican leader on FOX this morning.The far-left New York Times...

There are videos making the rounds showing President Trump standing on stage in Miami's pouring rain while imploring Americans to get out and vote. The metaphor is striking. *** MAGA, in other words, is a direct threat to the international coalition that insists on extinguishing American independence and freedom. For at least six years, the Establishment Class has worked to demolish not so much Donald Trump, but rather the assembly of MAGA Americans that have found each other and are now working together. The Uniparty has used all its tricks and sticks. It has tried shaming Christians. It has called...

“Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty” (Proverbs 10:14-15).

It was early Wednesday morning when Leigh Finke returned home in St. Paul after the campaign victory party. Representative-Elect Finke won 81% of the vote in the Minnesota House District 66A race. “To have that many people come out, and that many people support a first-time trans candidate, it’s really humbling,” said Finke. “It’s really an honor, it’s really exciting.” The 2023 legislative session will feature a historic class of LGTBQ Minnesotans. In addition to Finke becoming the state’s first transgender representative, Alicia Kozlowski of Duluth was elected as Minnesota’s first nonbinary legislator after winning House District 8B, according to...

President Joe Biden pledged to build a high-speed railway between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New York City on Wednesday. The president made his bold (and likely unrealistic) pronouncement during his post-midterm election press conference on Wednesday when recalling how a congressman in the state of Pennsylvania asked if his infrastructure plan would include a high-speed rail between the two cities. “We can. First of all, it will make it a lot easier to take a lot of vehicles off the road, and we have more money in the pot now already out there that we voted for than the entire money...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Wichita Police Department (WPD) is investigating a criminal discharge of a gun at Ascension Via Christi. Officers were called to the hospital around 7:10 p.m. on Monday for the report of vandalism. They arrived and learned a single gunshot had been fired from inside the secured pediatric unit. Through the investigation, officers learned that a child was brought to the hospital by a female caretaker. While in the pediatric unit the mother arrived. While the mother was out of the room, the caretaker and two other females (unknown adult or juvenile) remained in the room....