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Student math scores at The Math & Science Exploratory School in Brooklyn have tanked 26% since 2018. The system’s “solution”? Change the name to The Exploratory School. That’s right: District 15’s Community Education Council unanimously voted to eliminate MS 447’s STEM-focused moniker, rather than address the reasons why it was failing at its mission. Because the drop was a direct result of the CEC’s 2018 decision, engineered by the de Blasio administration, to scrap selective middle-school admissions across the district in the name of “equity.” So a school that once served higher-achievers suddenly faced admission by lottery, and a large...

The Biden administration has awarded an anti-terrorism grant worth more than half-a-million dollars to an LGBTQ activist group, which distributes condoms and “sex education” material, to expand its “in-school support for LGBTQ+ youth” as young as age 6. The manifesto of its school-based group—which is based on the Black Panthers—calls for the “abolition” of the police, the erasure of the U.S. border, and the “reclamation” of all “stolen lands” by Indigenous people. President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League had received a $530,000 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant late last week....

Five cars have been destroyed at Sydney Airport after a battery from a luxury electric car burst into flames. About 8.30pm on Monday, firefighters were called to a parking lot on Airport Drive in Mascot after flames engulfed a luxury electric car before spreading to another four vehicles. Research officers from Fire and Rescue’s Safety of Alternative and Renewable Energy Technologies team have also been at the scene. Fire and Rescue NSW Superintendent Adam Dewberry said … “There had been some problem with the car and the battery had been removed, we believe that the car has suffered some mechanical...

An IRS whistleblower's contemporaneous notes of his October 2022 meeting with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss quotes the prosecutor as saying he was "not the deciding person" on charging Hunter Biden with tax crimes, according to documents transmitted by his lawyer to Congress on Thursday, IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley's handwritten notes, obtained by Just the News, call into question both Weiss' representation to Congress as well as other witness testimony released in recent days, according to the letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith from Tristan Leavitt, the president of the Empower Oversight whistleblower center and...

Following Morocco’s devastating earthquake last week, videos emerged online of what appeared to be mysterious lights in the sky before the tremor hit. Blue lights in the sky can be seen flashing above Agadir at the foot of the Atlas Mountains in just hours before Morocco’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck. The sightings have baffled onlookers. “The [Morocco] earthquake happened at nighttime,” geophysicist Dr Friedemann Freund told The Washington Post. “The condition for earthquake lights to be seen by people and maybe even recorded by cameras would be relatively high,” he said. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK.......... The unusual lights are thought...

Ex-city Department of Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich allegedly ran a years-long scheme doling out political favors in exchange for more than $150,000 in bribes — including a $10,000 Mets season tickets package and a bespoke suit, Manhattan prosecutors alleged Wednesday. The charges against Ulrich, 38, span five indictments and relate to his time serving in three political posts — including his days as a Queens councilman and his stint as an adviser to Mayor Eric Adams, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said. Ulrich “monetized each and every elected role that he held in government,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said...

Former President Donald Trump has jumped 13 points in Texas’s Republican primary race since July, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has lost steam, a Defend Texas Liberty PAC/CWS Research survey released this week found.The survey asked likely 2024 Texas Republican primary voters whom they would support if the GOP primary were held today.A majority, 61 percent, said they would support Trump, reflecting a 13 point bump from the 48 percent who chose him in the July issue poll. No other candidate listed saw a bump even close to Trump’s.On the contrary, DeSantis came in a distant second with ten percent...

Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D) was named in Time magazine’s 2023 “TIME100 Next” list for her opposition against bills that restrict gender-affirming care, which gained her national recognition. In April, Zephyr was outspoken against a bill prohibiting gender-affirming medical and surgical care for minors in Montana, saying the bill’s supporters would have “blood on your hands.” The bill was one of a record-breaking number of anti-LGBTQ bills across the country in 2023, Time reported.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, announced on Wednesday that he is not seeking re-election in 2024 in a statement bashing both President Biden and former President Donald Trump while calling for "a new generation of leaders.""I have spent my last 25 years in public service of one kind or another. At the end of another term, I’d be in my mid-eighties. Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders. They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in," Romney said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

Fulton County’s District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Wednesday insisted former President Trump and all of his co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case be tried together in October, despite already-emerging skepticism from the judge. “The State requests this Court to keep all defendants together for trial … until the Defendants have presented to this Court their basis for severance,” Willis said in court documents made public Wednesday.

“Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” Romney, 76, said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter.

MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough said Wednesday that every Democrat he has spoken to privately believes President Biden is “too old” to run for reelection next year. During an appearance on “Morning Joe,” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius spoke to Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski about his new piece calling on Biden and Vice President Harris to halt their plans to run in 2024. “I think it comes down to what we were talking about earlier — is Joe Biden the person who can stop Donald Trump or somebody like Trump who gets the Republican nomination?” Ignatius said. “That’s what he’s...

An “armed, dangerous person” was reported Wednesday afternoon at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, less than three weeks after a gunman shot and killed a faculty member on campus. UNC Chapel Hill sent out an alert at 12:54 p.m. Wednesday reporting an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. The alert told individuals to go inside and avoid windows. UNC police shared the same alert on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The warning comes 14 days after UNC associate professor Zijie Yan was shot and killed in a campus science building, prompting...

UFC’s Sean Strickland has established himself as one of the most polarizing characters in the combat sports realm. His lack of filter on almost every other worldly issue has some laughing hysterically while downright disgusting others. Due to his brash approach, the 32-year-old has emerged as a fan favorite for a good chunk of the MMA community.Strickland is set to face Abus Magomedov in the main event of this Saturday’s UFC Fight Night. He returns to the Octagon after defeating Nassourdine Imavov on days’ notice earlier this year. Ahead of the said bout, Sean pulled no punches in a pre-fight...

Earlier this year, Jennifer Adkins learned during a 12-week ultrasound that her second child — nicknamed “Spooky” because she was due near Halloween — was unlikely to survive her pregnancy. Adkins said doctors told her the likely miscarriage could result in mirror syndrome, a rare disorder that would cause her to experience the same life-threatening symptoms as the fetus. Adkins recalled that her medical providers were “visibly distraught” when they told her Idaho law prevented them from performing an abortion. After traveling to Oregon for a legal abortion, Adkins said she and her husband struggled to pay their mortgage.Now Adkins...

[Catholic Caucus] Papal Nuncio Christophe Pierre's Role in Pressuring Bishops to Cancel Latin Masses Confirmed Traditonis Custodes states that "[i[t belongs to the diocesan bishop, as moderator, promoter, and guardian of the whole liturgical life of the particular Church entrusted to him, to regulate the liturgical celebrations of his diocese. Therefore, it is his exclusive competence to authorize the use of the 1962 Roman Missal in his diocese, according to the guidelines of the Apostolic See." Nonetheless, in defiance of the letter of Traditionis, the Vatican has been conducting an extraordinary backroom pressure campaign to force bishops-- particularly American bishops--...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Tuesday that parents who want to be notified by schools if their children want to change genders have been “ginned up” by misinformation produced by Republicans and conservative news outlets. The Newsom administration is currently suing the school district of Chino Valley in Riverside, California, over its new policy of parental notification, claiming that it violates the rights of transgender minors to “out” them to their parents. Newsom was asked about the issue Tuesday in a live forum by Politico‘s California bureau chief, Christopher Cadelago. We’re winning. Instead of answering @ccadelago’s question on parental...

How do you build a ship without a mission? The littoral combat ship (LCS) is how. It could not carry out its original mission because the ship is not survivable in combat. The billions wasted on the US Navy’s so-called “urban street fighter” ship could have been used to build additional missile defense AEGIS destroyers or give the Navy more firepower or finance a new generation of robotic surface and subsurface vessels. Instead, the Navy chose to build ships it did not need and could not use. Even when they were deployed, they often broke down, deeply embarrassing the Navy...

Amulti-millionaire property developer from Australia has sparked fury for calling for unemployment to rise to 50 per cent while claiming workers became “arrogant” during Covid. Gurner Group CEO Tim Gurner told the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit that productivity had plummeted during the global pandemic as “people decided they didn't really want to work so much”. “We need to see pain in the economy,” Mr Gurner told the summit on Tuesday, taking particular aim at the post-Covid work rates of construction labourers. “We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around.” The inflammatory comments...

State Supreme Court Judge Ralph J. Porzio ruled Wednesday — the day before school started in New York City — that 10 employees fired by the New York City Department of Education for refusing the Covid vaccine must be reinstated and provided back pay, holding that denials of religious accommodation to the plaintiffs were unlawful, arbitrary and capricious ... “This victory is a watershed moment in the teachers’ two-year fight for relief,” said Sujata Gibson, lead attorney in the two cases. “The Court’s decision not only grants relief to these ten teachers, but it also sets important precedent for all...