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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs this week indicated that she would be moving to route tens of millions of dollars in state funding to scholarships for illegal immigrants after securing re-election in November. In her inaugural address this week, Hobbs said that as governor she will work to "create the Promise for DREAMers Scholarship Program to cover all students, regardless of immigration status, who attend a public university."Specifically, Hobbs said her budget "allocates $40 million to create the Promise for DREAMers Scholarship Program to cover all students, regardless of immigration status."The governor said this proposal was "in line with the will...

After all flights in the U.S. were grounded early Wednesday morning over a system failure, the Federal Aviation Administration said it traced the issue back to a “damaged database file.” “The FAA is continuing a thorough review to determine the root cause of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system outage,” the FAA said in a statement Wednesday night. “Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file.”The Notice to Air Missions system provides safety information to flight crews. “At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack,” the statement continued. “The FAA is working...

The Biden administration condemned Israel for giving $39 million in tax revenues to the victims of terrorism instead of the terrorists.“It is morally just and important for the war against terror. There is no greater justice than using the funds for the victims of terror,” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said of the move.State Department spokesman Ned Price condemned Israel’s actions as a “unilateral response” that will “exacerbate tensions. and warned that the administration will raise the issue with Israel.Price did not address whether the Palestinian Authority spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to finance terrorist attacks against...

We’re assured that the person hired to be special counsel in the Joe Biden classified document scandal, Robert Hur, “has a great record. He is a superb lawyer.” He was a pivotal right-hand man in a high governmental office. He “has a long and distinguished career as a federal prosecutor.” And was a key person dealing with a very special, special counsel. That guy sounds like a total legal dreamboat. Except that those accolades were spoken by none other than disgraced former-deputy attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who conspired with the fellow disgracee Andrew McCabe to wear a wire to catch...

Some occupations have a better reputation for honesty than others. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, Gallup examines the issue in a reoccurring poll showing that nurses are the most trusted professionals in the United States, followed by doctors and pharmacists.They have actually topped the ranking for two decades and were regarded as highly honest and ethical by 79 percent of respondents in 2022, down from a coronavirus high of 89 percent in 2020.You will find more infographics at StatistaOther than the healthcare sector, trusted professionals in the eyes of Americans also come from the fields of teaching, the judiciary and...

Every president probably stashes away classified documents. The chances of any president being successfully prosecuted for pilfering them are infinitesimal. Nevertheless, now that we’ve learned Joe Biden has engaged in the same behavior as Donald Trump — perhaps worse, considering vice presidents are afforded less leeway on classified documents — precedent and transparency, our very democracy, demand Attorney General Merrick Garland name a special counsel to investigate (I get results!) Right now, none of the rationalizations offered by the media for Biden’s actions over the past few days are operational. When the story first broke, outlets stressed that one of...

The Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (Democrats to you and me) controls every level of government. The Minnesota House, the Senate, and the governorship. It can basically do what it wants.What it wants is unlimited abortion for anybody, any time, until the moment of birth.The bill is HF 1, which is always the bill that the majority party chooses as its highest priority. They aren’t sneaking this in some larger Health and Human Services Bill or anything like that. They are being loud and proud, shouting their abortions so to speak.Here’s the bill. You don’t get much more extreme than this:A few...

As Jazz Shaw pointed out earlier, the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a statement yesterday directly contradicting something that has been said Monday by one of the CPSC’s board members. Monday’s statement, which was part of an interview, indicated that the board was looking at banning gas stoves. Yesterday’s statement said they definitely were not.In between those two statements there was all sorts of activity from those who supported the gas stove ban and from those who opposed it. But the key point here is that a member of the government body with regulatory control over gas...

This story has been cropping up around the world for several months now. Back in October, an Australian news site published a story about Chinese police operating in unofficial stations around the world, including in the US. In November the BBC covered the story:The FBI is “concerned” by reports that secret “police stations” linked to China have been set up across the US…The FBI’s director, Christopher Wray, told senior politicians that the agency was monitoring reports of such centres across the country.“We are aware of the existence of these stations,” Mr Wray said.“To me, it is outrageous to think that...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Friday the 13th and Triskaidekaphobia Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in...

Democrats have manned the walls in order to defend President Joe Biden and the recent discovery of classified documents in his possession. It probably wouldn’t be as big of a story had the Biden administration and the entirety of the Democrat Party not made Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents out to be a major national security issue that required an armed raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida. As the story developed, it was revealed that even more documents had been found, further putting the Democrats in the very awkward position of having to justify why it’s okay for...

How far is Sweden’s Kvistrum Bridge from my room at the University of Chicago Hospital Center for Care and Discovery? You can see by the photo there are men salmon fishing upstream from that bridge. Isn’t that enough? Does it matter how far it is? Or who is in the water? They’re human. They’re men. That’s enough. They seem to be fishing for sport, not for meat. Tight lines, boys! I can’t even get my mind around the distance now. An eternity. An impossibility. For me the middle of the night isn’t the time of measuring distances, thinking of schedules,...

Oh, how barren is our time without these great giants - great influences. How adrift we have become. Where has Franklin been? Maybe I have missed him. Not to take away anything from dear MacArthur, Jeff Durbin or Jack Hibbs. But this era does not know Billy Graham. I miss our Christian nation.

Former Alabama running back Ahmaad Galloway -- who rushed for 17 touchdowns in his Crimson Tide career -- has died ... TMZ Sports has confirmed.He was just 42 years old.According to principal Susan Reid at Compton-Drew Middle School in St. Louis, where Galloway was teaching eighth grade English, Galloway was found dead on Monday.Reid tells us the former tailback, who was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2003, failed to show up to work ... prompting concerned school leaders to ask for a welfare check at his home.Reid said when officials entered Galloway's apartment, they discovered he was deceased. A...

In the Russia-Ukraine conflict an official of the Donestsk People's Republic telling Russian TV that the city of Bakhnut (Artyomovsk) is surrounded. He claims that the city is surrounded by Russian forces with striking forces getting ready to attack from two directions... The Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva says he's convinced that Presidential Palace employees helped protesters... Israeli police are concerned that rallies against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government this weekend may turn into riots... Meanwhile the President of Israel's Supreme Court Esther Hayut declaring that proposed legislation to overhaul the judiciary in Israel is a "fatal blow"...

The report suggests that the U.S. government appears to be taking UFOs seriously. The Pentagon's long-awaited 2022 report on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, is finally here. The unclassified "2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" was published by the Pentagon's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday (Jan. 12) after a months-long delay. The report was mandated by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and was created by ODNI's National Intelligence Manager for Aviation and the newly-established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Input was gathered from various intelligence community agencies and military intelligence offices, the Federal...

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, has died at the age of 54, hours after she suffered a cardiac arrest at the home where she had been living in Calabasas, California. Earlier on Thursday, Presley was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and was said to be in a coma following a 'full cardiac arrest' shortly after she had been complaining about stomach pains, according to TMZ. Her mother Priscilla, who was at her daughter's side, said in a statement: 'It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful...

The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official. This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said. After the FAA was able to get planes flying again, a government official said a corrupted file that affected both the primary and the backup NOTAM systems appeared to be the culprit. Investigators are working...

Snowden noted that prior to Biden, others having been in illicit possession of secret docs include former US presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as ex-CIA boss David Petraeus, hadn't been prosecuted MOSCOW, January 12./TASS/.Former NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Thursday that US President Joe Biden (during his tenure as vice-president) "absconded" with more-classified documents that many whistleblowers. "Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document," Smowden tweeted, commenting on the news that...

Some employers look to hire and continually turn over junior employees – sometimes harming young workers’ careers before they’ve even begun. Experts say there are many employers that specifically hire new graduates looking to pursue their passions – often in competitive, even ‘glamourous’ careers. In some cases, this can be great for these workers, who are looking for a way into an industry of their dreams. Sometimes, however, young employees can get ground down in low-paying, demanding roles, as employers know that vacancies will always be hotly desired. These situations can leave early-career workers, hoping to establish themselves, making them...