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There was chaos in the Florida Capitol on Thursday with protesters flooding the building as the state House prepared to vote on a bill that would outlaw abortions in Florida after six weeks. The law essentially is a total ban on abortions as most women don't realize they're pregnant until after six weeks. Dozens of protesters were seen shouting and handfuls of stickers and small pieces of paper down on lawmakers as they entered the House chamber. The stickers provided information on how to receive abortion pills through mail, according to local reports. Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, supports the...

Some members of the Thug Shake Central Group defended Teixeira, arguing the young guardsman only posted the materials to the group in an attempt to spark discussion and keep friends informed. "This guy was a Christian, anti-war, just wanted to inform some of his friends about what’s going on," a 17-year-old member of the group told the New York Times. "We have some people in our group who are in Ukraine. We like fighting games, we like war games."

California's superbloom phenomenon is so big and bright this year it can be seen from space. NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, which was launched in 2021 to capture images of Earth's land surface, sent back images of bright purple and green blooms in Carrizo Plain National Park. A superbloom occurs when desert areas in Southern California receive more rain or cooler weather through the fall and winter, allowing more flowers to thrive. The term "superbloom," however, is not a scientific one: It was created by the media to describe these colorful, robust blooms, said said Cameron Barrows, an associate research ecologist...

Tennessee house Democrat Justin Jones, who was just reinstated to the chamber after being expelled for leading a disruptive gun-control protest on the floor, assaulted a driver and faced serious charges for other misconduct committed while attending racial-justice protests in the summer of 2020. Footage of rioting outside the state Capitol in 2020 first shared by Scoop Nashville appears to show Jones repeatedly hitting the driver of a car with a traffic cone. The video, which was resurfaced by the Post Millenial, shows Jones and other activists stopping and surrounding the vehicle before the driver escaped. Jones was charged with...

A surprising number of the most expensive sports teams sales were triggered by scandal. Or maybe that's not so surprising. The Washington Commanders are reportedly being sold to billionaire hedge fun manager Josh Harris for a staggering $6 billion, a price tag that would smash the record for most expensive sports team sale in U.S. history. With the Commanders reportedly soon to be at the top of that list, let's take a refreshed look at the 10 most expensive sports team sales. Were they also partially spurred by scandal and wrongdoing, like Dan Snyder's sale of the Commanders? Let's find...

FBI investigators have arrested Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old suspected of being behind the biggest US intelligence leak in nearly a decade. Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that the National Guardsman had been arrested in North Dighton, Massachusetts 'without incident'. He said Teixeira will appear in a local court as part of the investigation into 'alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmissions of classified national defense information.' He was a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and the leader of an online chat group where top secret Pentagon documents were published. It is the most embarrassing security...

A flower shop near Nashville refused to provide decorations for a GOP event featuring former President Donald Trump, and urged other businesses to deny future services to the Republican Party in a call for stricter gun laws. Owners of the FLWR Shop in Belle Meade, Tennessee, said they "immediately declined" service for the upcoming Republican National Committee (RNC) fundraiser and encouraged "others in the Nashville event industry to say no to taking money or jobs from the Republican Party until they begin to make the changes to gun laws that most Americans are calling for." In a lengthy response to...

The tech executive who has been arrested for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee can be named as 38-year-old Berkeley graduate, Nima Momeni. Momeni was arrested today at his home in Emeryville, around nine miles from where Lee was stabbed to death on April 4. He is the owner of Expand IT, a tech business in the Bay Area, and describes himself online as a start-up entrepreneur. Lee was stabbed in the street last week while visiting the city from Miami, where he lived. It is unclear if Momeni attended the same tech conference Lee was in town...

President Biden on Thursday took the opportunity to acknowledge his age — which comes up often as one of his weaknesses in office and on the campaign trail — when addressing the Irish parliament. Biden expressed hope to Irish lawmakers about the future, while lauding the historic partnership between the two countries. He also invoked his late son Beau, who he said should have been standing in his place. “I’ve never been more optimistic about the future than I am today, and I’m at the end of my career, not the beginning,” Biden said as questions surrounding the timing of...

China approved “provision of lethal aid” to Russia in its war in Ukraine earlier this year and planned to disguise military equipment as civilian items, according to a U.S. intercept of Russian intelligence revealed in leaked secret documents.The intercept, apparently obtained through U.S. eavesdropping on Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), was included in a top-secret summary, dated Feb. 23, of recent Ukraine- and Russia-related “products” compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It was among a number of previously unreported documents that The Washington Post obtained from a trove of images of classified files posted on a...

Jones...was seen on video blocking a street with six other demonstrators on June 18, 2020. Dressed in all black and a tan-brimmed hat, the future lawmaker could be seen attempting to stop a white truck trying to drive around them by placing a traffic cone in front of the vehicle. Undeterred, the driver runs over the cone, causing the group to approach the truck and yell at him with a megaphone. Appearing angered by the driver’s actions, Jones can be seen pulling the cone from underneath the vehicle and using it to repeatedly jab the driver, who attempts to smack...

An Indian court has now dismissed a case filed against a magistrate’s order in which Shilpa Shetty was discharged. Shetty had been embroiled in a 2007 obscenity trial because actor Richard Gere kissed her several times during an AIDS awareness public event in Mumbai, India. After the event, many Hindus protested against Gere’s actions because they went against Indian values. Gere responded by apologising and saying that he had tried to show that kissing does not cause HIV transmission. In January last year, the obscenity charge against Shetty was dismissed, noting that the charges against Shetty were “groundless”, with her...

VIDEOThe fight was over before it even started. The younger guy should have known better than to pick a fight with the Hillbilly named Big Al. However, what makes this fight truly interesting is the uniquely southern lexicon used by both the belligerents as well as the bystanders. This video could serve as training material for students of colorful dialect.

THURSDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF EASTER Luke 24:35–48Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus appeared alive again to his followers. Upon seeing him, “they were startled and terrified.” They are terrified because the one they abandoned and betrayed and left for dead is back—undoubtedly for revenge!Luke’s risen Jesus does two things in the presence of his shocked followers. The first thing is that he shows them his wounds. This move is a reiteration of the judgment of the cross: don’t forget, he tells them, what the world did when the Author of life appeared.But he does something else; he says, “Shalom”—“Peace be...

Bud Light's recent partnership with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has driven one Republican to launch his own beer that's specifically marketed to conservatives. The beer – dubbed the "Conservative Dad's Ultra Right" – is currently being sold online, and the response has been "nuts," according to the man behind the mission to defeat "woke corporations." Speaking to Fox News Digital about his efforts, Seth Weathers, the CEO of Freedom Speaks Up, said companies like Anheuser-Busch are "spitting on" conservative values. "I have kids and I don't care what their response is, Bud Light has hired a mentally deranged freak to...

There are demons out there, y'all. An entire unseen world doing battle for everyone's souls, and we're just stuck here in the middle of it, eating our ramen noodles and watching reality TV. Just think, you may be possessed by a demon right now and you don't even know it! With a wide variety of crises like soaring gas prices, countries on the brink of starting World War 3, and Lizzo appearing in The Mandalorian, the last thing you need to be dealing with right now is demon possession. That's why The Babylon Bee has put together this useful list...

Global oil markets will see a sizable supply deficit this year, as the production cutbacks of major exporters begin to kick in. The world will be short by about 2 million barrels a day in the fourth quarter, more than reversing an expected surplus of 300,000 barrels a day in the second quarter, according to OPEC data cited by Bloomberg. That's after OPEC and non-member partner Russia announced steep cuts to their production. On April 2, OPEC lowered its planned output by 1 million barrels a day, citing protection against price shocks after March's bank turmoil caused a brief drop...

Former President Donald Trump is seeking to delay his upcoming civil trial on allegations that he raped writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s — arguing for a “cooling off” period after his indictment on criminal charges late last month. Trump attorney Joe Tacopina requested the month-long delay in a letter Tuesday to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who will oversee the trial in Manhattan federal court. The trial is scheduled to begin on April 25. “Holding the trial of this case a mere three weeks after these historic events will guarantee that many, if not most, prospective jurors will have the...

FBI agents have made an arrest in their investigation into leaked classified documents, Fox News has learned, as the bureau focuses on a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman. Police vehicles were seen at a Massachusetts location believed to be connected with the guardsman. The guardsman's security clearance and access to classified government systems have been revoked, according an internal government document reviewed by Fox News.

It's impossible to live here anymore. Don't let this happen to your state! If it weren't so serious, Gavin Newsom's current assault on red states would be hilarious. What he is peddling as "democracy" is totalitarianism in its worst form. What's frightening is that there are millions of voters throughout America who will lap up what he's selling. Why? Because they are Zombie Voters; brain-dead people who do zero research and even less thinking before they vote. They get their news from TikTok and Facebook. They vote based on how they feel about a candidate instead of what they think...