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Although Tucker Carlson has made no public comments about being fired by Fox News as of Tuesday morning, a new report said he believes his ouster was part of a one-two punch hitting Fox News. The host of the ratings juggernaut “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was abruptly axed Monday. “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” Fox News said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” According to Vanity Fair, Carlson has told people he believes his show was killed and he...

North Korea announced about the launch of a reconnaissance satellite, while Japan stated its readiness to destroy a missile carrier, since there is no certainty that it will not be a ballistic missileTokyo has decided to be straightforward with Pyongyang and has officially announced that the country is ready to shoot down any missile that will be launched from North Korea and pose a threat to Japan's security. For this purpose, the Kongō and Atago-class Aegis destroyers have been deployed, which are armed with the Standard Missile 3 SAM. Also, and Patriot PAC 3 systems have been deployed in Okinawa.This...

Fox News executives reportedly possess a dossier of ‘damaging’ information on Tucker Carlson, which they are prepared to use should he speak against the network following his departure. Sources suggest that the file contains internal complaints about workplace conduct, disparaging comments about management and colleagues, and allegations of creating a ‘toxic’ work environment. While a network spokesperson denies the existence of the file, many within the network disagree, citing Fox PR’s tactics to silence Tucker. Rolling Stone reported: Fox News executives have in their possession a dossier of alleged dirt on Tucker Carlson should he attack the network in the...

A two-time Olympian has ripped rules that allowed a transgender runner to beat nearly 14,000 women in the female category of the London Marathon. Mara Yamauchi — who finished sixth in the marathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics — lashed out after trans racer Glenique Frank, 54, gushed to the BBC about using “girl power” to run the key UK race on Sunday. “Males in the [female] category is UNFAIR for females,” Yamauchi tweeted alongside a clip of the mid-race interview by the sports bra-wearing runner who also gushed about soon becoming “a gran.” “Nearly 14,000 actual females suffered a...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) will be put to a vote in the Senate this week, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in an announcement on Monday. […] Schumer argued for the new vote on the ERA by citing the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year, as well as the ongoing legal dispute over the popular abortion drug mifepristone. […] In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA after Nevada and Illinois did so in 2017 and 2018. The ERA would no longer have to be ratified by the original deadline under...

The battle is on between the dollar and yuan as the world’s reserve currency. Or is there a battle at all?The dollar will remain the world’s top reserve currency—not the yuan any time at all—and for four good reasons to be spelled out in a while.A CNBC report early this year echoed a general sentiment that the greenback is ready for a fall as the top reserve currency by 2015. Meaning, countries will stop using our money to exchange goods, or conversely, we need to change our dollar to another currency to export or import goods.The country’s trillion-dollar debt, the...

ROME—Michela Leidi became a mother last summer when her wife gave birth to their daughter Giulia. The couple was swept up in the joyful, sleepless whirlwind of early parenthood. This month, a local court ordered Ms. Leidi’s name to be erased from Giulia’s birth certificate on the grounds that her inclusion was “contrary to public order.” The ruling, which left the baby with only one legal parent, her biological mother, was a headline-generating surprise in Italy but is part of a growing trend of moves against same-sex parents by Italy’s courts and government. “I cried all my tears,” said Ms....

Reader advisory: Discussion of male genitalia. (LifeSiteNews) — Bizarre stories seem to come and go so swiftly these days that it is easy for the transgender movement to memory-hole the more egregious instances of their malfeasance, but I suspect many of you remember the 2021 Wi Spa incident, in which a man claiming to be a woman was confronted after exposing himself in a spa in Koreatown in Los Angeles. In June of 2021, several videos of a furious Hispanic woman confronting spa employees went viral. A man had entered the female side of the spa, and she wanted to...

During his decadeslong career, Mr. Egan worked in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office and in private practice as a criminal defense attorney.Robert Egan’s wife, Tracy, remembers her husband as a gifted storyteller, though she said he rarely spared the gory details, even at the dinner table. After decades working in criminal law, he had plenty of material. One of Mr. Egan’s most notorious cases was the trial of Chicago-area serial killer John Wayne Gacy, for which he served as a lead prosecutor. Gacy, known as the “Killer Clown,” was put to death for murdering...

INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — The governor of Indiana has signed legislation to protect gender-confused children from partaking in irreversible drugs and surgeries. On Wednesday, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law a bill that prohibits medical professionals from distributing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as well as committing “gender transition” surgeries for citizens under the age of 18. Holcomb, who has previously vetoed pro-family legislation, reluctantly signed the bill after criticizing it. “A physician or other practitioner may not aid or abet another physician practitioner in the provision of gender transition procedures of a minor,” SB 480 states. “This section does...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to Jedi mind trick an audience on Monday at the University of Ottawa, claiming that he never forced anybody to get the Covid-19 vaccine, despite his government legislating some of the strictest vaccine mandates in the world."My responsibility is to keep as many Canadians alive as possible and all of the scientists and the medical experts and the researchers, not just in Canada but around the world, understood that vaccination was going to be the way through this," said Trudeau, adding "Therefore, while not forcing anyone to get vaccinated, I chose to make sure...

DES MOINES (LifeSiteNews) – Iowa is the latest state to prohibit surgical or chemical “transitioning” of gender-confused minors as well as forcing students to share restrooms with members of the opposite sex, thanks to new laws signed by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. The Des Moines Register reports that on Wednesday, Reynolds signed Senate File 538, which forbids the administering of prohibits Iowa doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or “transition” surgeries to anyone younger than 18, and Senate File 482, which forbids schools from allowing individuals to use a bathroom or changing that does not match their biological sex....

The World Health Organization (WHO) says there's a "huge biological risk" after Sudanese rebels of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the country's National Public Health Laboratory in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday. A US-brokered 72-hour truce deal appears to have already collapsed, given war correspondents widely reported hearing gunfire persist into the evening. The top-ranking WHO official in Sudan, Nima Saeed Abid, called the development "extremely dangerous because we have polio isolates in the lab, we have measles isolates in the lab, we have cholera isolates in the lab."Khartoum's damaged international airport. Fighting has raged since April 15 between...

One America News Network, the Heritage Foundation and BlazeTV founder Glenn Beck were among those publicly eager to welcome Mr. Carlson after Fox News Media unexpectedly cut ties with its top-rated primetime host on Monday. “We would love to have you here. You won’t miss a beat,” said Mr. Beck, a former Fox News figure, on his BlazeTV program. “Together, the two of us will tear it up. Just tear it up.” The offers began streaming in after Fox News Media announced that the network and Mr. Carlson had agreed to part ways, touching off a torrent of speculation about...

DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania—Richard Tems was about as loyal a Trump supporter as you can get. The Bucks County businessman and GOP committeeman has fiercely defended former President Donald Trump in editorials, interviews with reporters, and conversations with anyone within earshot. He voted for Trump twice and believed he was the right president at the right time. However, eight years after the New York businessman and entertainer came down the escalator in Trump Tower in June 2015, Tems said he would move on in next year’s Pennsylvania primary. He plans to vote instead for Governor Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., for the Republican nomination...

What if I told you that a bill in the Minnesota Legislature is changing the definition of “sexual orientation” to include pedophilia?That’s crazy, right? Who thinks pedophiles should be a protected class?The authors of this bill which is progressing through the Minnesota State Legislature, that’s who.The bill amends the provisions in Minnesota law that created sexual orientation as a protected class, meaning that discrimination of any kind based upon sexual orientation is illegal in the state. It’s been around for a long time, unsurprisingly, and like all such provisions, it encourages mischief such as lawsuits, quotas, DEI initiatives, etc. They...

Earlier this month I wrote about San Francisco’s flagship Whole Foods supermarket which announced it was closing after just one year because of high theft and security issues for employees who worked there. Today, SFGate reports another store downtown is closing after two decades.Anthropologie, a retailer chain that specializes in women’s clothing and accessories, is closing its location at 880 Market St. on May 13, according to the Anthropologie website. The 880 Market St. location has been a staple of the Union Square retail space, and originally opened there more than two decades ago.Anthropologie didn’t say why it was closing....

FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — The Kentucky legislature on Wednesday overrode a veto by Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear of a bill prohibiting the gender “transitioning” of minors as well as the promotion or indulgence of gender-fluid ideology in public schools, making the new rules law despite his objections. On Friday, Beshear vetoed S.B. 150, which forbids minors from being subjected to surgical or chemical “sex change” interventions, requires medical providers to wean minors off of already-dispensed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, prohibits classroom discussion of sexual or gender identity, discourages state education officials from implementing or recommending “gender-affirming” policies such as...

I regret to inform you that Jim Cramer has claimed another scalp. The notorious “expert” who has produced some of the worst financial takes in history saw another one of his anti-predictions come to fruition on Tuesday after it was reported that First Republic Bank will be seized by the federal government.To set the stage, a month before Silicon Valley Bank collapsed earlier in the year, Cramer famously recommended its stock as a “buy” at $320 a share. In 2022, he recommended people buy into Signature Bank. By 2023, Signature Bank had shut down.Following the collapse of those banks, Cramer...

At Florida State University, students are being educated on etiquette — where the sexually marginalized are concerned.The college boasts an Allies and Safe Zones program, which encourages the following pledge:I am an Ally, and this space is a Safe Zone.I am committed to working toward providing a safe, confidential support network for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community.I am committed to treating everyone with the dignity and respect they deserve.In support of the above, the program offers 10 “Educational Handouts”:Action Continuum for AlliesTips for AlliesAllies & Safe Zones 101 Vocabulary ListAttitude Continuum for AlliesIdeas for AlliesBi-BasicsTrans...