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Ugandan lawmakers have passed a new version of an anti-gay bill that removes penalties for those who identify as LGBTQ. The country’s national assembly previously passed a sweeping bill criminalizing those who identify as LGBTQ, engage in homosexual acts, disseminate information about homosexuality, or advocate on behalf of LGBTQ causes. But Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni sent the bill back, demanding changes to the bill. Among those changes were a distinction between those who identify as LGBTQ and those who advocate on behalf of LGBTQ rights or present homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle. Another change suggested by Museveni was clemency for...

A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a unique rule that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule until May 15 unless she extends it. She scheduled a May 11 hearing on the lawsuit challenging the rule. In her ruling, Ribaudo wrote that those suing to block the rule would “be subjected to immediate and...

The twin crashes in US commercial real estate and the US bond market have collided with $9 trillion uninsured deposits in the American banking system. Such deposits can vanish in an afternoon in the cyber age. The second and third biggest bank failures in US history have followed in quick succession. The US Treasury and Federal Reserve would like us to believe that they are “idiosyncratic”. That is a dangerous evasion. Almost half of America’s 4,800 banks have already burned through their capital buffers and are running on negative equity. They may not have to mark all losses to market...

But the one-semester class has gone full-time because of “strong demand from students to make this a year-long course,” Peng said. Peng’s course has been such a hit that state lawmakers are considering making it mandatory, statewide. What grabbed Peng’s eye in 2021 was an editorial in the school paper written by Anisha Singhal, who asked, “Calculus Before Checkbooks?” When Peng introduced the class in 2022, it was so popular that even Singhal ended up on a waitlist to get in. The class covers mortgages, tax returns, student loans, and more. Singhal said that “If there was an empty seat...

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The advent of abortions in Lancaster, Pennsylvania demonstrates the abortion industry’s relentless drive to expand abortion in the Commonwealth. This bucolic community, best known as a sanctuary for the Amish population and a lovely tourist attraction, is now home to a Planned Parenthood that advertises chemical abortion on its website. The opening of an abortion center in the heart of the homeland came despite a groundswell of opposition from the area. It is unbelievably sad that abortion totals in Lancaster will now rise from zero to who-knows-how-many. Abortions have been on the rise in the Keystone State, with totals topping...

Hours before stabbing death he visited convicted drug dealer's home with suspect's SISTER Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs and alcohol in his system, his autopsy revealed Lee, 43, was murdered in the early hours of April 4 while visiting San Francisco from Miami, where he moved last year with his family He had three stab wounds and underwent emergency treatment but was pronounced dead in the operating room of a San Francisco hospital Cash App founder Bob Lee died of stab wounds on the operating table and had drugs...

This is great news! Time to pop the champagne corks, break out the canapés and brie, and have a big party. Illegal migration is down 90% because of Joe Biden’s tremendously effective border policies! I always suspected that all that whining by governors and mayors has been all over nothing. Sure, Mayor Adams of NYC has complained that illegal migrants are “destroying” his city, and outgoing Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot is begging Governor Abbot to quit shipping illegal migrants to her city.

Bud Light is in big trouble as sales continue to plummet, according to data released by Bump Williams Consulting. As Slay News has reported, decent-minded Americans everywhere have been boycotting Anheuser-Busch products after Bud Light tried to pour “woke” ideology down their throats. Bud Light sales were down 21.4% compared to the same time last year. The week before, sales were down 17%. “Larger packages of Bud Light are not being purchased — the 30-pack suitcases, the 20 packs, the 18 packs, the 12 packs — they’re all being impacted,” Williams said. “It’s going to be very very hard to...

Performing trans surgery on children, as well as prescribing a child with puberty blockers, is now a felony offence in the state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law measures forbidding the use of medical transgender interventions on children, with it now being a felony offence in the state to perform trans surgery on a child or prescribe them puberty blockers. The move has prompted outrage from U.S. progressives, with a number of non-profit organisations vowing to take the state to court over the law change. According to a report by Fox News, Stitt signed SB 613...

70-year-old David Hughes, of Deltona, Florida took home $5,555 for the victory over 83 entries. A man has won a Florida women’s poker tournament, taking home $5,555 for the victory over 83 entries. 70-year-old David Hughes, of Deltona, Florida, had a first place finish in the weekend’s $250 buy-in Ladies No-limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) event Saturday held at the Hollywood, Florida Seminole Hard Rock Hotel’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Anti-discrimination laws reportedly prevent Florida casinos from banning men from entering women’s events. The World Series of Poker previously implemented a $10,000 buy-in for men...

The number of open jobs in the economy decreased to 9.6 million in March, down from 9.9 million on the last day in February, as concerns about a recession later this year hung over the economy, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The 9.6 million open jobs in the economy are the lowest number since April, 2021. The February Job Openings and Labor Turnover (JOLTS) report was in line with the economists’ expectations and left the ratio of available jobs to job seekers unchanged from February to March at about 1.7— conditions that are still beneficial to...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) defended a 12-year-old Massachusetts boy who stood up for the idea that only two genders exist. The Georgia Republican on Sunday tweeted about 12-year-old Liam Morrison, who, according to The Blaze, was sent home from Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Massachusetts, for wearing a shirt that said, “There are only two genders.”

After days of refusing to meet with Speaker of The House McCarthy, Biden caved and is calling for a meeting to negotiate the debt limit. On Wednesday, Republicans and McCarthy passed a bill allowing an increase in the debt ceiling, apparently surprising the White House, which was taking a stubborn stance against negotiating how to handle America’s debt. The government has a spending problem, and instead of taking care of the root and cutting spending, the Biden administration would like an open checkbook. When checks and balances were put in place, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday, “We...

11,539 views Streamed live on May 1, 2023 #moscow #russiaukrianewar #firstpost LIVE: Russian Communists Hold A Rally In Moscow To Celebrate Labour Day Russian communists are holding a rally in central Moscow. They are celebrating the Labour Day by a Soviet tradition while main demos in the country have been cancelled due to security concerns. Russia Ukraine | Labour Day | Moscow | World News | International News | Firstpost #russiaukrianewar #labourday #moscow #worldnews #internationalnews #firstpost Firstpost is an Indian news and media website.

Former President Donald Trump has strengthened his position as the GOP’s leader and is now in his best position yet to win the Republican presidential nomination and beat President Joe Biden in a grudge election next year. New polling data shared with Secrets on Tuesday morning indicate that Trump has a 41-percentage-point lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is expected to join the GOP race this month. And Trump leads Biden 47%-43% in the monthly McLaughlin & Associates national survey. “President Trump has his best poll results year to date in our poll,” John McLaughlin said. The pollster said...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Republicans in Congress are moving to rein in President Joe Biden’s executive order putting federal agencies in the business of getting out the vote. Their proposed legislation would defund any federally backed voter mobilization drives and prohibit the government from entering election-related agreements with private, nonprofit organizations to mobilize voters. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., who co-chairs the House Election Integrity Caucus, plans to introduce a bill Tuesday called the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act. Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., intends to introduce the Senate version of Tenney’s bill. Budd, who was a House member...

The Pentagon is sending a contingent of troops to the southern border to reinforce Customs and Border Protection (CBP) missions ahead of an expected surge in migrant entrances later this month, a U.S. official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested the Pentagon’s assistance as Title 42, a Trump-era authority implemented in the wake of COVID-19 is scheduled to sunset on May 11, opening the way for thousands of migrants who would formerly be subject to expulsion to seek entry into the U.S. A temporary addition of 1,500 military personnel will mostly perform...

The smoke of burning buildings, trash and even one unfortunate police officer perfumed the air on May Day in France. It’s officially springtime in Paris, but whether the promise of a new harvest will bear any ripe fruit for President Emmanuel Macron remains doubtful as the revolt against his neo-liberal regime continues to rage. As people across Europe danced around the Maypole to mark the coming of Spring after another harsh winter mired by economic deprivation, the people of France did their own form of traditional dance, that of rioting against an out-of-touch government behind the walls of a palace....

The California Reparations Task Force published documents Monday indicating it plans to recommend the state apologize for racism and slavery and consider “down payments” of varying amounts to eligible African American residents.