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KALAMAZOO, MI – A former adjunct professor is suing Western Michigan University, alleging his right to free speech and religion were violated when his contract was not renewed with the school. Daniel Mattson alleges his rights under the First and 14th Amendments were violated by employees at WMU, in a lawsuit filed March 20 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The lawsuit names Dean of College of Fine Arts Daniel Guyette and School of Music professor and former director Keith Kothman as defendants. The current School of Music Director and WMU president are also named as...

Image Credit Metropolitan Nashville Police Department/YouTubeThe Nashville Police have released bodycam footage of its response to a terrorist shooting at Covenant Church school:MNPD Officers Rex Engelbert, a 4-year veteran, and Michael Collazo, a 9-year veteran, were part of a team of first responders to the Covenant campus Mon morning. They fired on the active shooter, who was killed. This is their body camera footage.https://t.co/17qsZM6bNp pic.twitter.com/g4b0nMTFRD— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 28, 2023The six-minute clip is shot from the perspectives of Rex Engelbert and Michael Collazo, among the first two officers on the scene. It shows impressive bravery, determination, urgency,...

Washington D.C., Mar 23, 2023 / 17:14 pm Recently released political prisoners and human rights activists testified before members of Congress Wednesday about the ongoing persecution in Nicaragua, which one witness called an “unholy war against the Catholic Church.” In recent years, the Nicaraguan government under Daniel Ortega has detained, imprisoned, and likely tortured numerous Catholic leaders, targeting at least one bishop and several priests. In addition, the Ortega regime has repressed Catholic radio and television stations and driven Catholic religious orders, including the Missionaries of Charity, from the country. Among those to testify March 22 was Juan Sebastian Chamorro,...

Sepsis occurs in approximately 1.7 million hospitalizations in the U.S. with in more than a third of hospitalizations resulting in death. Patients with septic shock benefit from steroid medications (corticosteroids) to reduce shock duration and potentially decrease the chance of dying. However, it is unclear if one of the two main frequently used steroid regimens (hydrocortisone alone versus hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone together) is better than the other regimen. A new study shows that patients receiving a combination of hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone had lower death rates and discharge to hospice compared to those who only received hydrocortisone. "Our results provide robust...

Fr. James E. Connell sued several states to remove legal protections for the seal of confession and recently wrote an op-ed endorsing a bill to repeal Delaware’s clergy-penitent privilege.MILWAUKEE (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stripped a priest of his faculties to hear confessions after the priest publicly endorsed a bill that would force Catholic clergy to break the seal of confession. In a statement issued March 22, the archbishop stated, “Sadly, I have learned that Father James Connell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee who is now retired from active ministry, has continued to disseminate false...

Most people don’t need an additional COVID-19 vaccine booster, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update on March 28. People designated as high priority, including older adults and people with significant comorbidities such as diabetes or immunocompromising conditions such as having received an organ transplant are being advised by the United Nations organization to get an additional booster six to 12 months after their last dose. The group includes adults over the age of 60. The medium priority group, including younger, healthier adults who don’t have comorbidities, are still advised to get a primary series and one booster,...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army and Wagners are blocked in Bakhmut and Avdiivka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVmGeo2EKjg ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 398 – Summary March 28, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 28th March 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-398-summary/

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The New York Times and USA Today complied with radical gender ideology by apologizing for correctly identifying the Nashville Christian School shooting suspect as a woman. Soon after the shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday, in which three students and three adults were shot and killed, police identified the suspected shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale. A little while later, officials stated that Hale, who was killed by police during the attack, identified as transgender — meaning Hale allegedly believed she was a man. Following the revelation that Audrey was a woman who identified as a man, both USA Today...

A set of locks for an Ohio River dam in Kentucky is closed due to a "navigational incident" after 10 barges were released from a tugboat, including one barge carrying 1,400 tons of a toxic alcohol compound, officials said. The incident occurred at roughly 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Of 11 total barges, 10 became loose from a tugboat; three barges became pinned to the dam, and one additional barge was pinned against a pier, the agency said. The Army Corp of Engineers said it recovered the barge pinned against the pier by noon...

Goldman Sachs has abandoned a plan to buy a pricey private jet equipped with its own shower, ... in canceling the order for the shower-equipped model, Goldman likely forfeited a big deposit, with one industry expert estimating it was likely equal to 5% of the purchase price, or $3.75 million. ... The use of a private jet by Goldman CEO David Solomon and other top bankers has reportedly been a source of angst among staffers ... For decades, top bankers at Goldman were loathe to fly on a company-owned private jet — instead opting to assume fractional ownership in an...

What does Africa have that Kamala wants so bad? Joe and Kamala promised to make America green. They can't do that without strip mining Africa for all its worth. Africa is rich with minerals, key minerals, the ones Biden needs to build electric car batteries, turbines and solar panels. So, Joe sent Kamala to Africa with the bag. The vice president showed up on Sunday with a big smile and a check for $100 million. She told them it was to fight "extremists." (I didn't know there were Republicans in Ghana. ) And they happily took the bribe, I mean...

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Abe Hamadeh, the Republican candidate for Arizona Attorney General in 2022, is still fighting to ensure that every valid vote cast in his race – the closest race in Arizona history – is counted. Democrat Kris Mayes was declared the winner, with the initial official result showing she’d won by 511 votes. Hamadeh initially filed suit in December challenging those results; a judge dismissed that suit on December 23, six days before recount results were announced that cut Mayes’ lead nearly in half, to 280 votes. In that recount, “significant, material discrepancies” were identified that “cast doubt upon the completeness...

(CNN) -- If someone were to ask you to draw the Pepsi logo from memory, what would you draw? A circle, perhaps, with the red, white, and blue stripes that are emblematic of the brand. The word "Pepsi," probably, in that globe. When PepsiCo walks people through this exercise, as it sometimes does, that's what most do: They put the word "Pepsi" in the circle. But that's not how the current logo actually looks. The brand name is off to the side, a bit meek next to the iconic globe. So Pepsi is making a change.

Israel is a sovereign country that does not make decisions based on pressures from abroad, says PM Netanyahu after US President Biden warned Tel Aviv "cannot continue" pressing for deeply controversial reforms. Israel is a sovereign nation that does not make decisions based on pressures from abroad, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in response to comments by US President Joe Biden. Biden said on Tuesday he hoped Netanyahu would abandon judicial changes that had sparked protests in Israel and a political crisis for its government. "Israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its...

A transgender woman was left in tears at JFK Airport after she claimed a TSA agent punched her in the testicles while she was going through security, the Daily Mail reported. The unidentified flyer took to social media to vent about the incident, in which she said the agent “humiliated” her in front of everyone in a series of posts that have since been deleted, according to the outlet. “hi so a tsa agent at jfk airport punched me in the genitalia, yelled at me for having a penis (?) and humiliated me in front of everyone after i told...

The late comedian George Carlin once astutely noted the word bipartisan “usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” The new Tiktok bill, known as the RESTRICT Act, falls into this category. The legislation was introduced by Uniparty members Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD). The bill does not mention TikTok by name but the Uniparty members said they had the Chinese app in mind when drafting the legislation. The legislation supposedly is about national security and protecting the United States from its major foreign adversaries. But Tucker Carlson revealed the real agenda behind the bill...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation. New York City resident Anthony Rivera, 20, who sorts packages at a United Parcel Service facility in Brooklyn, said he had to take a second job at a grocery store after his food costs soared. “I was sitting at $15 an hour at UPS, and when it came to paying bills and buying groceries, it was starting to become not enough,” he...

FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden’s former business partner, John Robinson "Rob" Walker, appears to have visited the White House at least 16 times when President Biden was vice president. Walker’s name resurfaced a couple of weeks ago when House Oversight Committee Republicans said they obtained records showing members of the Biden family received more than $1 million in payments from accounts related to Walker and their Chinese business ventures in 2017. Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., obtained the records after subpoenaing Bank of America, which revealed that "at least three family members" received lucrative payments from a bank account belonging...