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Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are teaming up on legislation to create a new agency that would have the power to regulate tech giants. The bipartisan Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, unveiled Thursday, would create an agency charged with oversight of Meta, Google, Amazon and other large tech companies and seek to promote industry competition and consumer privacy online. The commission would work alongside the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), the agencies that currently operate as antitrust enforcers, according to the bill.

EXCLUSIVE: A presentation offered by employees of the Hawaii Department of Health encourages staff and graduate students at the University of Hawaii Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy not to document their conversations with LGBTQ+ youth in an effort to keep parents in the dark about their child's sexual identity. The training, titled "Affirming practice with LGBTQ+ youth" and obtained by Fox News Digital through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, was delivered to staff and graduate students at the university on May 5 by two members of the Hawaii Department of Health’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division’s Safe...

A former intelligence official told lawmakers Wednesday that the federal government has misappropriated funds to retrieve and reverse engineer technology from crashed unidentified flying objects and has “non-human” remains in its possession from these recovery efforts. During his explosive testimony under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, David Grusch — a former national reconnaissance officer who served as a member of the Pentagon’s task force on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP — alleged that the federal government has relied on intimidation, budgetary trickery and classified reporting to conceal its decades-long awareness of...

A Florida high school principal and four staffers were arrested after allegedly failing to report the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl to the state. Palm Beach Central High School Principal Darren Edgecomb, 58, was booked Monday night for his alleged failure, police said. Charges were also filed against assistant principal Dan Snider, 49, assistant principal Nereyda Garcia, 37, chorus teacher Scott Houchins, 53, and school behavioral therapist Priscilla Carter. Charging documents revealed that school administrators were alerted to the abuse on June 16, 2021, when a friend of the victim wrote a letter alleging that the 15-year-old had...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A dozen teenagers were arrested and accused of beating a man and engaging in a shootout outside a Cleveland gas station early Tuesday, an attack that city and county officials said encapsulates a wave of crime and violence that has taxed police departments across the country. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley, Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and city Police Chief Wayne Drummond released video of the incident at a Wednesday news conference. The attack on the victim, 34, appears to be entirely random. The lack of security measures in some Hyundais and Kias and the state legislature’s weakening...

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, who froze during a news conference Wednesday and earlier this year suffered a concussion after falling down, has also endured two other falls this year, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The first known time, in February, occurred in Finland when McConnell and a US delegation met with the Finnish president in Helsinki, according to three sources familiar with the matter. As he got out of his car on a snowy day and walked towards his meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, the GOP leader tripped and fell, the sources said of the...

I don't know what it is. It's Hollywood's take on the issue. 3 hours. I'm sure they took liberties with the truth. Was his foolin' around with other women important? Perhaps a documentary would have been too boring for people's attention spans.

The man who was at the helm of the crane that caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards Wednesday once had his operating license suspended after a co-worker plummeted 48 stories to his death. The Department of Buildings identified Chris Van Duyne of Rockaway, New Jersey, as the man who was operating a construction crane that snapped and struck a neighboring building before smashing onto the street below. Despite verifying Van Duyne was the operator, the DOB said records didn’t list the 62-year-old man on the construction paperwork. The DOB couldn’t say whether the omission was unusual and said...

A jury found a Green Bay woman guilty Wednesday of killing and dismembering a former boyfriend and scattering his body parts at various locations. The Brown County jury deliberated less than an hour before convicting Taylor Schabusiness, 25, of homicide, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating a corpse in the February 2022 killing of Shad Thyrion, 24, news outlets reported. Authorities say she strangled Thyrion at the Green Bay home he shared with his mother, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of it throughout the house and in a vehicle. In his closing argument, Brown County District Attorney...

FAIRLAND, Indiana — A girls basketball game at a tournament in Indiana devolved into a brawl when a team from the Cincinnati area attacked a referee, reportedly knocking her to the ground and kicking her. WISH Channel 8 reports the Dynasty Sports Performance Heat, a travel team of high-school-age girls from Owensboro, Kentucky, was playing the Cincinnati Indians Elite. Bobby Ewing, the coach of the Heat, tells WLWT that tensions began to rise when players on the Cincinnati team, which was down, 41-10, began to curse at Heat players. “They were looking for trouble,” Ewing tells WLWT. Because of the...

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum credits 'hack' of offering $20 gift cards in exchange for $1 campaign donations Dark horse GOP presidential candidate and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has revealed the "completely legal" hack that helped secure his spot on the first Republican debate stage. Burgum's campaign announced Tuesday morning that he qualified for the first Republican debate in Milwaukee by receiving 1% in the Morning Consult national poll. Burgum is the seventh candidate to meet all the requirements to participate in the first debate. To help meet one of the Republican National Committee's requirements for debate participants to...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The man who was accused of attacking former Congressman Lee Zeldin at a campaign stop is scheduled in court Wednesday morning for a status conference. David Jakubonis, a war veteran, confronted Zeldin at the VFW in Perinton back in July 2022. He then climbed onto the stage and lunged at Zeldin with a keychain before being restrained. He was arrested a few days later.

A federal judge has voided the court-martial conviction of former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was then captured and held by the Taliban for five years. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton on Tuesday issued a 63-page ruling granting summary judgment in favor of Bergdahl, who was convicted after pleading guilty in 2017 to charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Walton argued that Bergdahl was denied a fair trial because the military judge who presided over the court martial, Jeffrey Nance, failed to disclose that he had applied to the executive...

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Democrats’ demands for conservative private citizens’ interactions with Supreme Court justices are unconstitutional, violating First Amendment and equal protection rights, according to lawyers representing Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society. Partisan Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have been pursuing conservative Supreme Court justices – but only conservative justices – for years. But now Democrats are targeting conservative private citizens, with Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) leading the charge. In the latest salvo, Durbin and Whitehouse fired off a letter on July 11 to Leo, requesting that he provide the committee...

“Heil Zelenski”, YouTube video, 1:02 minutes.

Women with a history of endometriosis had higher concentrations of cadmium in their urine compared to those without that diagnosis, according to a study that suggests the toxic metal could be linked to the development of endometriosis. Affecting one in 10 reproductive-age women, endometriosis is a gynecologic condition in which tissue that looks like the lining of the uterus, or womb, appears outside the uterus. Those with endometriosis can experience chronic, painful and debilitating symptoms. Cadmium is a toxic metal and a "metalloestrogen," meaning it can act like the hormone estrogen. People are commonly exposed to cadmium by breathing in...

Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the Republican primary field as his lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has grown ten points in two weeks, according to a YouGov/Economist poll. The survey, published Wednesday, shows that 54 percent of registered Republicans and independents who plan to vote in their state’s Republican presidential primary back Trump. He has climbed six points since another YouGov/Economist poll taken between July 8-11. 2024 National Republican Primary:Trump 54% (+36)DeSantis 18%Ramaswamy 6%Pence 3%Haley 3%Scott 3%Christie 1%Suarez 0%Burgum 0%Elder 0%Hutchinson 0%Hurd 0%.@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, 498 RV, 7/22-25https://t.co/xd3AA4t7wH— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) July 26, 2023Trump stands 36 points ahead of...

In a recent appearance on Stay Free with Russel Brand, Florida Gov. and GOP presidential primary candidate Ron DeSantis made a statement that will undoubtedly prove controversial to many, confidently claiming that he gets “attacked by the corporate press” more than any other person, including former President Donald Trump. DeSantis’ remarks came after show host Russell Brand asked how he is managing to deal with “the tension of being a representative of establishment forces while acknowledging that many people no longer trust the media” in addition to government and American institutions. “Well, one I would, I would push back on...

Why are they doing it? That's the logical question that any normal human being would have as they watch these interviews with the stars of Disney's upcoming live-action Snow White. VIDEOS AT LINK.................. This is the kind of stuff that actually makes me worry about the future of our friends at The Babylon Bee. Those actual, real-life, serious interviews are almost identical to the kind of scripts satirists would write in an effort to parody progressives' absurd obsession with wokeness and identity politics. I know it's becoming cliché, but there is a sector of progressivism that is now beyond parody....

On this day in history, July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), one of the most sweeping affirmation of rights for the disabled in American history, according to History.com. President Bush signed the act into law on the South Lawn of the White House South Lawn in front of an audience of 3,000 people, according to the White House's website. "On that day, America became the first country to adopt a comprehensive civil rights declaration for people with disabilities," the same source cited.