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New York will ban pet stores from selling dogs, cats and rabbits beginning in 2024 under a new bill designed to crack down on corporate breeders. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Puppy Mill Pipeline bill into law on Thursday, months after it passed the State Legislature, after facing mounting pressure from animal rights activists who argue that breeding facilities subject pets to inhumane conditions and saddle unassuming customers with high veterinary bills. Pet store owners, however, have spent the past few months railing against the measure, saying it would put them out of business and have unintended consequences that would...

DETROIT (Reuters) - The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc and rival electric vehicle startups that hoped to emulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk's success. As interest rates rose and financial markets gyrated, shares in many EV startups deflated. Rivian Automotive Inc, which had a higher market value than Ford Motor Co shortly after it went public in 2021, lost more than 70% of its value over the past year. Other EV startups fared worse. Electric van maker Arrival warned it could run out of cash in less than a year. Lucid Group Inc, backed...

OCEAN CITY – While a long-term decision on a proposed rule change to reduce offshore speed limits for recreational and commercial vessels to further protect endangered North Atlantic right whales hangs in the balance, a national environmental advocacy group this week filed an emergency rulemaking petition urging the federal government to institute the change immediately. In an effort to save endangered North American right whales, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed restriction for recreational and commercial vessels 35 feet in length or greater, down from the current 65 feet. The proposed rule change would...

Anderson, of Ocean Springs, is accused of opening fire while sitting with her 10-year-old daughter in her SUV outside Motel 6 in Bay St. Louis after police called child protective services at 4:30 a.m. Thursday, Anderson — who had no criminal history and was reportedly well-liked in the community — had spent 30 minutes speaking to Sgt. Steven Robin, 34, and officer Branden Estorffe, 23, before flipping out and gunning them down, according to Bay St. Louis police. Police said they believe the troubled mother fatally shot herself — but one of the officers also fired a shot, so an...

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) Rep. Jesús ‘Chuy’ García (D-IL) Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA) Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN)

The psychologists are burning another witch. A mob of professors, graduate students, and miscellaneous luftmenschen denounced Klaus Fiedler, the editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science, for “racism, general editorial incompetence, and abuse of power.” The Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), craven accomplices to the mob, swiftly told Fiedler to resign or be fired. Fiedler resigned. The occasion? In 2020, one Steven Roberts of Stanford University published the usual farrago of identity-politics activism that passes for professional research among the woke, copy-pasted to apply to psychology. Fiedler, naif, arranged to publish a professional discussion of his...

The story of Jesus teaches love, forgiveness and courage against tyranny. Helena is a woman who courageously and consistently denounces evil in Melbourne's Saturday protests while proudly displaying an iconic image of The Mother and Child. God Bless Helena. God Save Us From Tyranny.

Scott Smith, the Loudoun County, Va., parent arrested while objecting during a school board meeting following the alleged sexual assault of his daughter by a biological male in a restroom deserves a "universal apology," Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Fox News on Thursday."I think that across the board, there should be a universal apology to Mr. Smith," he said. "He stood up for his daughter's rights and his daughter had been sexually assaulted."Youngkin highlighted the fact Smith was not only socially "cancelled" but dragged out by county police at the school board's whim."It's just unacceptable."Youngkin, speaking with "The Story"...

I haven't travelled out of the country in 3 years. I am unjabbed. I just want to make sure I can come back. I checked the CDC website. The jab requirement is only for non-citizens. Has any unjabbed freepers travel overseas recently? Thanks!

The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tiltThe long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution. Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” — Elon Musk’s self-styled exposé of the alleged excesses of the “woke” managers of Twitter before he bought it — there’s been a lively debate over what exactly Musk is trying to accomplish. His statements clearly indicate that he sees himself as being engaged in some kind of culture war — “The woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing else matters,” as he tweeted on Monday morning. But what does the...

LAKE MARY, Fla. - A credit union customer, a man sitting in his driveway, a gas station clerk and a customer were all punched by a stranger, according to deputies in Florida. Devin Ray Wilbanks, 23, is facing several charges including battery, assault, burglary, and resisting arrest. Hernando County sheriff’s deputies said the first incident happened around noon at the Mid-Florida Credit Union, located at 11098 Spring Hill Drive in Spring Hill. When they arrived, they were met by a woman who was a customer at the credit union. She told deputies a strange man punched her in the forehead...

With its big NAB Show in Las Vegas six months away, the National Association of Broadcasters is launching a new awards program focused on the growing importance of sustainability in media and advertising. The just announced Excellence in Sustainability Awards will be presented during a special ceremony on the Main Stage at the Vegas Show on April 15, 2023. The NAB says the new program will recognize individuals, companies and products for outstanding innovations in media technology that promote conservation and reusability of natural resources and foster economic and social development.“Sustainability efforts not only benefit the planet and society but...

A gift that was given to Poland’s top police commander during his recent visit to Ukraine exploded at the national police headquarters in Warsaw on Wednesday.General Jaroshaw Szymcayk met with leaders of the Ukrainian police and emergency service on Sunday and Monday. There, he received the gift. The gift itself has not been specified.The explosion happened on Wednesday morning in a room next to General Szymcsyk’s office. The explosion caused the commander and a civilian employee to suffer what is said to be minor injuries. Szymcsyk has been in the hospital since the explosion for observation. The civilian employee on...

Claudine Gay should not even have been considered as a potential choice. Not only is she incompetent and intellectually dishonest, but she has been covering up research fraud by Ryan Enos for over four years with an illiterate excuse, while orchestrating witchhunts against Roland Fryer and Ronald Sullivan. See this link for further details: https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudine-gay All these circumstances should have made her automatically ineligible for the presidency. She is a liability to Harvard.

Inadequate support: The study by Schwab et al. didn’t provide evidence showing that sudden deaths are “likely” caused by COVID-19 vaccination. The study was focused on providing descriptive data about myocarditis and not data on its incidence or risk estimation post-vaccination, as acknowledged by the authors. KEY TAKE AWAY While COVID-19 vaccines have indeed been associated with an elevated risk of certain adverse events like myocarditis, COVID-19 itself is associated with greater risks, including cardiac complications. To date, the scientific evidence shows that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines outweigh their risks. FULL CLAIM: “Major New Autopsy Report Reveals Those Who...

THE FACTS: A misleading article spreading widely online this week attempts to link recent child and young adult deaths in the U.S. to COVID-19 vaccines.“CDC quietly confirms at least 118k Children & Young Adults have ‘Died Suddenly’ in the USA since the roll-out of the COVID Vaccines,” reads its headline. The article originally appeared in November on The Exposé, a website that has repeatedly spread COVID-19 misinformation. A screenshot of the article’s headline was shared in multiple Facebook and Instagram posts. One Instagram post had more than 15,500 likes as of Thursday. As evidence, the article cites CDC data as...

The 2020 elections in Arizona have resulted in multiple election challenges, and voters who aware of the dubious nature of some of them might conclude that they are collectively “Much Ado About Nothing.” But at least one of the election lawsuits not only merits further consideration, it is worth the time of Arizona’s legal system to fully evaluate it instead of rushing to judgment. “Lake’s lawsuit is a Hail Mary that seems as much about the 2020 election as the 2022 election, and it will be tough to convince the judge not to dismiss it early in the process.” said...

Comedian David Baddiel and actor Miriam Margoyles were among those sharing memories of Lesley LandTributes have poured in following the death of Jewish PR whiz Lesley Land. The 41-year-old, who died suddenly last Friday, had racked up over two decades of experience in the television industry, recently working on David Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count documentary. The Channel 4 publicist joined the UK public broadcaster back in 2014 as publicity manager for comedy and entertainment. She had recently been working across the channel’s factual entertainment, features and daytime programming. Ms Land was the daughter of talent agent Anita and the...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents show. Samuel Bateman was a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, until he left to start his own small offshoot group. He was supported financially by male followers who also gave up their own wives and children to be Bateman’s wives, according to an FBI affidavit.

A Delta Airlines employee is on the mend after she was struck by a service truck at Atlanta’s airport over the weekend. The collision occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, as the ramp agent was guiding a flight into one of the gates at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to Atlanta police. That’s when the driver, who police said was admittedly distracted by his tablet, struck her on the tarmac. The woman’s family shared video of the incident online, showing the moment the truck hits her from behind. Officers responded to Concourse C and found the agent on the...