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The California Senate has passed legislation that prevents employers from requiring workers to confront active shooters or shoplifters. Passed May 31, Senate Bill 553 contains provisions prohibiting employers from maintaining such policies. “With growing awareness of workplace violence, California needs smarter guidelines to keep workers safe in the office or on the job site,” said Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose), in a CSA report. “Under my SB 553, employers would be prohibited from forcing their workers to confront active shoplifters, and all retail employees would be trained on how to react to active shoplifting. The legislation has other provisions that...

WASHINGTON: The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) is raising serious concerns about the 'search bans' imposed by Twitter on their accounts, as well as other accounts critical of China such as the Central Tibetan Administration. This move effectively silences voices protesting against the Chinese government's genocidal policies on the platform. Searches for East Turkistan Government in Exile, Salih Hudayar, Central Tibetan Administration and other accounts critical of China no longer yield results on Twitter. This unprecedented restriction on visibility comes shortly after Twitter Chairman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with senior Chinese officials in Beijing to expand Tesla's...

The United Nations has joined LGBT Pride Month. This Tuesday, the iconic Rockefeller Center, in New York City, was filled with rainbow flags, replacing the 193 flags that are usually found in the plaza, one for each country that belongs to the United Nations: The initiative sparked a lot of criticism on social media. Some users criticized replacing country flags with the LGBT flag. Others complained that the display in honor of Pride Month is larger than the one for Christmas. In addition, many Americans have criticized the UN for making such a statement at Rockefeller Center. Many consider the...

Committee removes scheduled contempt of Congress markupWASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after the FBI caved under the threat of holding Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress and will now allow all members of the committee to review the record and receive a briefing. Additionally, the FBI is making two additional documents referenced in the FD-1023 available for Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin to review. The Full Committee business meeting to vote on holding Director Wray in contempt of Congress is now removed from Thursday’s schedule. “After weeks of refusing...

Amassive six-alarm fire ravaged a 160-year-old Massachusetts church, a blaze that the interim pastor believes may have been started by a lightning strike. An automated alarm brought firefighters to the First Congregational United Church on Main Street around 3 p.m. Friday. Sign up for our Newsletters Firefighters did not see any fire or smoke when they first arrived at the church, but when they went inside, they discovered smoke inside the steeple. The flames spread quickly from there and grew in intensity.

Federal prosecutors have notified former President Donald Trump in a letter that he is the target of a criminal investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter. That notification is the clearest signal yet that special counsel Jack Smith is on the verge of a charging decision in his probe of the former president. Trump is under investigation for concealing reams of classified documents at his private estate and orchestrating a scheme to prevent federal authorities from finding them.

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. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

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If New York is the city that never sleeps then how's this for keeping you up at night? It is also sinking. The Big Apple is gradually going down partly because of the weight of the skyscrapers that make the concrete jungle famous, a new study has found. The descent makes the metropolis more vulnerable to rising sea levels and coastal flooding caused by climate change, the researchers noted. The paper, published this month in the Earth's Future journal, sought to estimate how the city's vast infrastructure impacts subsidence. Subsidence is the sinking of land mass caused by either natural...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Michael Olson, Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, now under criminal investigationFORT WORTH, Texas - A criminal investigation has been launched into the actions taken by Bishop Michael Olson against two nuns in Fort Worth in April.According to a release, the investigation is looking into the actions taken by Olson and those in the Fort Worth diocese under his control relating to the Discalced Carmelite Mother Superior and Nuns at the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington. The Mother Superior and a sister from Carmelite nuns claim Olson abused his power and inflicted moral violence and...

Few serious people think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be elected president of the United States in 2024. The nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the namesake of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated (six years later in 1968), is at this moment the main rival for the Democratic nomination to President Joe Biden. The Democratic race is not set up to allow Biden's defeat. There will be no debates, and the primary rules are all geared to ensure that the process will be a coronation of Biden that will not require him to expose himself...

Singapore is sorry for the offence and hurt caused to all Malaysians over statements made by the comedian Jocelyn Chia, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said on Thursday (Jun 8). Singapore's High Commissioner to Malaysia Vanu Gopala Menon also apologised "to all Malaysians for her hurtful remarks". In a video clip of Chia performing stand-up at the Comedy Cellar club in New York, she can be seen making jokes about Singapore's relationship with Malaysia. She commented on Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965, saying that Singapore has gone on to become a first-world country and that Malaysia was "still a developing"...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec Mike Pence announces he would not support pardoning J6 defendants, running to uphold ‘our democracy’ From Breaking911 8:53 PM · Jun 7, 2023

Ms Kyaw's killing is the latest in a series of assassinations of high-profile government supporters. Four days before she was attacked, a well-known nationalist and pro-military supporter, Tint Lwin, was fatally shot in the head while at a tea shop in Yangon, the country's main city. He had been in hiding after surviving a shooting last summer. Ms Kyaw was targeted early in the evening of 30 May while parked outside her house in Yangon's Yankin Township. First reports said she had been killed, after an image of her lying face down in her car was shared on social media....

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announcing an investigation after a video appears to show soldiers executing five men... Joe Biden vetoing legislation that blocked his program... In announcing his candidacy for President today former Vice-President Mike Pence claimed that he was asked by President Trump to choose 'between him and the Constitution' on January 6th... Saudi Arabia condemning an attack on its embassy in Sudan... The Russian and Syrian militaries conducting joint operations in Syria... The FBI went to Twitter with a list of accounts to censor provided by Ukraine's state police agency... An attempt to arrest Ammon Bundy...

A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. The new data verify the Biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Despite tumbling sales and negative press coverage as a result of its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light is reportedly co-sponsoring an "all-ages Pride event" in Flagstaff, Arizona, according to the Flagstaff Pride website. The party, which is called "Pride in the Pines" and includes drag queens and other performers, lists Bud Light as one of the companies sponsoring the June 17 event. (Bud Light is mentioned prominently in one of the posters.) The event is listed as a "family festival event" and a family-friendly, "safe space" for all visitors. Other big-name companies sponsoring the all-ages event for...

Matt Cook, who has written on queer urban life and the Aids crisis, takes up the new post at Mansfield CollegeThe renowned cultural historian Matt Cook is to become the UK’s first fully endowed professor of LGBTQ+ history in a newly created post at Mansfield College, Oxford. Cook, who has written extensively on queer urban life, the Aids crisis and queer domesticity, will become the first Jonathan Cooper chair of the history of sexualities later this year. It’s the first fully endowed specialist post of its kind in the UK, funded by a £4.9m donation from the Arcadia Fund, a...

The owner of a funeral company has been charged with murder after police say he shot and killed a pallbearer before a burial service for a 10-year-old girl at a Prince George’s County, Maryland, cemetery.Wilson Chavis, 48, of Hughesville, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 30-year-old Ronald Steven Banks, of D.C., Prince George’s County police said in a news release Wednesday.The shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday at Washington National Cemetery on Suitland Road, shortly before burial services for 10-year-old Ariana Davis. The girl was struck by a stray bullet while riding home...

resident Joe Biden on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have overturned his student debt relief plan, leaving program's fate in the hands of the Supreme Court. Both the House and Senate approved the legislation that would block the president's program, which promises to cancel up to $20,000 of debt for millions of borrowers but has been held up by courts. 'I'm not gonna back down in my efforts to help pretend to manage and working and middle class families. That's why I'm going to veto this bill,' Biden said in a video posted to the White House social media...