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Several blue states across the United States are automatically registering hundreds of thousands of residents to vote each year whenever they interact with state agencies, including welfare offices, a report from journalist John Fund details. The report, issued by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, documents the Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) policy now imposed by 23 states and the District of Columbia. All but three of these states are blue states controlled by Democrats. Fund authored the 2021 book Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote with The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky.

Columbia University announced it has suspended the school's Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace chapters. Gerald Rosberg, senior vice president of Columbia University, said the student groups violated campus policy on Thursday afternoon when they held an unauthorized event that included threats. "Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term. This decision was made after the two groups repeatedly violated University policies related to holding campus events, culminating in an unauthorized event Thursday afternoon that proceeded despite...

MrBeast is facing backlash after helping build 100 wells in Africa. The YouTube personality hopped took to Twitter on Friday to tease the project. “We’ve spent over 8 months working on tomorrow’s video and it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever done!" he wrote. On Saturday, MrBeast dropped the video, which features his team traveling across Africa in an effort to provide fresh water for those without access. The clip sees the YouTuber bringing water to a hospital in Zimbabwe and a school in Kenya, in addition to other sites in Uganda, Somalia and Cameroon. It didn't take long before MrBeast's...

Sweet performing "The Ballroom Blitz" on the the German TV show Sylvester-Tanzparty from the 31st December, 1974.

And they aren't even done exploring the massive space.The tomb of Queen Meret-Neith, an Egyptian royal who was most likely the most powerful woman of her era — if not the first female pharaoh — was discovered by archaeologists well over a century ago, but there are still mysteries surrounding both her and her burial site. A team of German and Austrian archaeologists organized by the University of Vienna are currently excavating her sprawling, complicated tomb, and they’ve already made some surprising discoveries. Including lots and lots of wine. Earlier this month, the team revealed that they had unearthed...

On this date in 2009, D.C. sniper John Muhammad was executed by lethal injection in Virginia. Muhammad — born John Allen Williams; he renamed himself after joining the Nation of Islam — authored with Lee Boyd Malvo, a juvenile collaborator under his sway, a spree of random sniper attacks around the Washington D.C. suburbs that terrified the nation’s capital in October 2002. The two were captured together sleeping out in their sniper-mobile — a Chevy Caprice with a hole drilled in the trunk for taking concealed potshots at gas stations and mall parking lots and the like. Although arrested initially...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Winter Haven police have released photos of people who were involved in a fight at Publix that ended with one person being stabbed to death. The Winter Haven Police Department said a man was inside of the store, located at 1395 Sixth Street Northwest in the Northgate Shopping Center when a group of men approached him at the counter. [four photos at link] When the group got behind the man, a fight broke out, before the group fled the store. The man at the counter cut one of the men in the group during the...

The mother of Eric Garner sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday asking him to oppose the Biden administration’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which she says could lead to “increased negative encounters with police in communities of color.” “Senator Schumer, you have been a longstanding advocate for the people of New York and have shown a commitment to tackling tough issues with both courage and compassion,” Gwen Carr wrote in a Nov. 9 missive exclusively obtained by The Post. “It is with respect for your role and faith in your leadership that I urge...

Cheating on college campuses has always been an arms race. But ChatGPT has upended the balance, and now no one knows for sure what or who is on the level. Is a BA worth anything if it’s all BS?Scott Limmer has been a defense attorney in Nassau County for nearly a quarter of a century. Solidly built, with salt-and-pepper hair and a booming Long Island accent, Limmer is the kind of guy who can make anyone feel comfortable, including the criminal defendants who are the bread and butter of his practice. Or at least they used to be. Lately, college...

Sometimes, quirky superstitions can pay off in a big way, like they did for Orange County resident Daniel Peramaki. Peramaki won a staggering $5 million top prize on a Neon Cash Party California Lottery Scratchers game. Peramaki, who considers himself the "king of the $20 Scratchers," meticulously chose ticket numbers seven, eight, or nine from newly opened packs, with his winning ticket turning out to be number seven. Superstitious as ever, he refrained from scratching the ticket immediately, waiting until midnight to unveil the life-changing prize. "I thought, ‘no way!’ I honestly thought I scratched it wrong. I was in...

In a heartbreaking loss today, a UK appeals court has ruled that a hospital can remove a newborn baby girl’s life support without her parents’ consent. As LifeNews has reported, a Vatican hospital has stepped up and agreed to provide care for 8-month-old baby Indi Gregory, where a British court ruled her life support could be revoked even though her parents are fighting for her life. But that was not enough for the parents of this little girl to get a British appellate court to rule in their favor. Indi suffers from a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease and has been...

More than 600,000 people were at least temporarily homeless in the EU state last year, a report has said A sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany has contributed to a more-than-50% rise in homelessness in the EU state in the past 12 months, according to a report by an emergency housing assistance organization. Increased rents, a lack of social housing and soaring costs of living have limited accommodation options for about one million refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, The Times newspaper reported, citing just-released data from the Federal Association for Aid to the Homeless...

Launching your watercraft is always stressful. There’s the challenge of backing up a trailer, the jeopardy of doing that with an expensive piece of equipment behind you, and the added spice of reversing towards a large body of water. However, a couple in Hollywood, Florida, learned that things can get a whole lot more stressful than that when their Tesla Model X slipped into the water. The incident occurred last month, when the driver of the Model X was attempting to launch a jet ski into the water. According to a video posted to YouTube, the jet ski did get...

[Catholic Caucus] A Kingdom Divided Against Itself: In 2015 the Vatican Still Forbad Transvestite GodparentsIn his response to the recent Dubia on transvestite godparents, the homosexualist Tucho Fernández superficially used ambiguous formulations to deceive. The text was unambiguously intended to get headlines in the oligarchs media such as, “Vatican says transgender people can be godparents”.Just eight years ago, the Vatican presented a "different truth". In 2015, a Spanish woman calling herself "Alex" Salinas, asked to be the “godfather” of her nephew. But the CDF told Cádiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy that it was "impossible" for transvestites to fulfil their duties...

The suspect in a homicide late last month was in court this morning for his preliminary hearing. Bryan Houston says he was with Darryl Roberts the night of September 28 when Chattanooga Police say he shot and killed Chris Wright next to Patten Towers. He says they hung out together every night at that spot. The surveillance footage used in Monday’s preliminary hearing came from a camera adjacent to Patten Towers. That would have been located at the corner of Market and East 11th Streets, on the blue and yellow checkered sidewalk that begins Georgia Avenue. The footage begins at...

In February 2017, a month after Donald Trump was sworn into office, the Washington Post proudly announced a change in its online masthead, with it reading “Democracy dies in darkness.” These days, democracy is dying in anti-Semitism thanks to the Post‘s cowardly decision to yank a cartoon done by Las Vegas Journal-Review cartoonist Michael Ramirez, which was originally published Monday, because it sparked an outcry among triggered anti-Israel staffers, readers, and other assorted Useful Idiots who claimed it was “racist” and allegedly unfairly put the lion’s share of the blame for civilian deaths in Gaza on Hamas terrorists and not...

When most people think of the so-called “superfoods” recommended for healthy living, something out of a can doesn’t generally come to mind. But one expert says there’s a shelf-stable supermarket staple that’s an essential part of every balanced diet — and most of us aren’t eating enough of it. Cans of fatty fish — including sardines, mackerel and anchovies — provide a big boost to brain health, due to high levels of omega-3, Dr. Michael Moseley told the Daily Mail. “Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid, which means it is vital for our health but, unfortunately, your body can’t produce...

Scientists are celebrating a remarkable discovery -- the Attenborough Echidna can't be extinct, as they thought it was, because it was caught on freakin' camera!!! VIDEO AT LINK................ Check out the extremely rare find, captured on a remote camera placed by Oxford University researchers on an expedition to Indonesia. The footage shows the long-beaked creature just strolling in the woods. Dr. James Kempton told BBC News he and his whole team got the impressive footage on "the very last SD card that we looked at, from the very last camera that we collected, on the very last day of our...

The more than two dozen tainted eye drops that the FDA warned could cause infection and vision loss have been traced back to an unsanitary factory, according to a report The tainted eye drops that the Food and Drug Administration recently warned people to stop using ASAP have reportedly been traced back to a factory in India. The more than two dozen affected eye-drop brands sold by retailers like Walmart, CVS, Target and Rite Aid were made by Kilitch Healthcare India Ltd. in Navi Mumbai, India, according to a federal inspection report seen by Bloomberg News. The report cites unsanitary...

A Tesla vehicle caught fire in Plano, Texas, early Friday morning, leading to concerns about electric vehicle battery safety. The owner claims he just had a new battery installed by Elon Musk’s company, only to discover a hissing noise coming from it followed by flames shooting out from the battery compartment. WFAA reports that in the early hours of Friday morning in Plano, Texas, a Tesla vehicle unexpectedly caught fire, raising fresh concerns about the safety of electric vehicle batteries. According to the car’s owner, the incident occurred shortly after midnight in the residential area of the 2700 block of...