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Mexico has refused to accept any migrants deported by Texas under one of the toughest immigration laws enacted by a US state in modern times."Mexico will not accept, under any circumstances, repatriations by the State of Texas," the government said. The statement was issued as the US Supreme Court allowed the measure, SB4, to take effect pending an appeal. The law allows police in Texas to arrest those suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexican border. The Biden administration has challenged SB4, calling it unconstitutional.

Biotech company, Pluri, launches branch dedicated to cell-based coffee grown in labs to cut coffee production’s water usage by 98%.In the ever-evolving landscape of biotechnology, Israeli company Pluri (formerly Pluristem) has ventured into a new realm – developing lab-cultivated coffee. The impetus for venturing into the coffee sector stemmed from alarming projections indicating a potential 50 percent loss of arable land suitable for coffee-bean growing due to the adverse impacts of climate change. Cultivated coffee is part of the company’s new PluriAgtech arm dedicated to innovative food technology. The company’s trajectory in cellular agriculture traces back over two decades, primarily...

More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech. The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors (Debra Messing, Tovah Feldshuh), executives (Gary Barber, Gail Berman), creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors (Eli Roth, Rod Lurie), producers (Lawrence Bender, Amy Pascal, Hawk Koch, Sherry Lansing) and representatives (UTA’s Jake Fenton, Gersh’s Jeffrey Greenberg, attorney Craig Emmanuel). About 500 more individuals have added their names to the nearly 500 who signed on when the open letter was first published....

“This is not a food ban. This is not banning Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in California," says Assemblymember Jessie Gabriel, who introduced AB 2316 last weekGoogle "Flamin' Hot Cheetos" and you'll find a long list of news outlets joining the chorus of reports that a new California bill proposed last week by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) will ban the popular snack item, along with a bunch of other popular items including Gatorade and M&Ms, from public schools. It's an attention-grabbing, SEO-friendly headline, but ultimately misleading and misses the point of the legislation, which does not mention Cheetos or any other branded...

Sen. Ron Wyden, the chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, sharply criticized former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and his ties to money from the Middle East, in his effort to buy TikTok from its Chinese owner. Mnuchin told CNBC last week that he’s assembling a group of investors to buy the platform after the House overwhelmingly passed a bill forcing it to either be sold within six months or banned from app stores. The White House has urged the Senate, where the bill has powerful backers and opponents in both parties, to move quickly. Mnuchin gave few details on...

The congresswoman went on a podcast Tuesday where she was confronted about the claims she made after losing earlier this month JULIUS MILLEr The congresswoman went on a podcast Tuesday where she was confronted about the claims she made after losing earlier this month JULIUS MILLER5 HOURS AGO katie porter election rigged podcast Rep. Katie Porter speaks at a town hall hosted by the advocacy group March For Our Lives at East LA College. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Rep. Katie Porter is walking back her bold claims that the California Senate primary election was "rigged" after losing...

To judge from the happy talk coming from City Hall and Albany, these are Gotham’s golden days. The pols point to sky-high budgets — investments, they call them — as proof they are fighting to make New York better than ever. To which the public responds: Liars, liars, pants on fire!New Yorkers, it turns out, see life in the five boroughs as bad and getting worse. Much worse. That’s the resounding message from a huge survey of city residents conducted by the private Citizens Budget Commission. The findings amount to a thumbs-down response to our government overlords by painting a...

The climate alarmist cult is in planetary disarray, with their once-unquestionable ‘scientific theories’ and ‘environmental policies’ getting rejected at a rapid pace in many parts of the world. European farmers and Canadian Provincial Premiers and conservatives everywhere in the western world are getting increasingly vocal about the shortcomings of the so-called ‘Green New Deal’. In this context, it’s reassuring to see some measure of pushback from people who have real skin in the game, like Big Oil moguls. The world’s biggest oil producer is the Saudi company Aramco. Its CEO, Amin Nasser, just came out yesterday (18) and said that...

Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugar cane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even harder, research showed on Feb 7. Years of failed monsoons, extreme heat and droughts have led residents of Beed, a district in the top sugar-producing state to leave and become day labourers on plantations, said the report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a London-based think-tank. The research found more than half of the Beed women who had gone to work on sugar plantations had undergone...

Despite the fact that Georgia Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that Fani Willis can remain on the Trump case, even though she has been caught in numerous lies, the liberal media knows that she is now damaged goods and they are turning on her. Talking heads at MSNBC and CNN have already thrown her under the bus. Willis is used to the fawning coverage that usually comes with being a progressive public figure who is trying to ‘get’ Trump, so this could throw off her game a bit. The Washington Examiner reports: The Left turns on Fani Willis after judge...

It’s just the flu, bro…year 5 (a thread for Flubros and Flubras) Four years ago we started this series of threads based on the premise that…it’s just the flu, bro. Essentially that Covid is just the flu. It should have been nothing more, from an impact point of view, nothing more than a bad flu season. The symptoms, treatment, prevention techniques for Covid were all similar to that of the flu. We present as evidence… https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/p0301-respiratory-virus.html an excerpt- “The new guidance brings a unified approach to addressing risks from a range of common respiratory viral illnesses, such as COVID-19, flu,...

The death of Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former pro hockey player and boyfriend of professional tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, has been ruled an apparent suicide, the Miami-Dade Police Department said Tuesday. Koltsov was 42. Police said in a statement sent to Reuters that Bal Harbour Police and Fire Rescue had responded to a call at 12:39 a.m. Monday at St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort about reports of a man jumping off a balcony. "No foul play is suspected," the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a statement, adding that the homicide bureau has taken over the investigation. Koltsov was a forward...

An unidentified intelligence officer claimed that cross-dressing helped him perform his job better in an internal Director of National Intelligence (DNI) newsletter, according to The Daily Wire. The anonymous author of an article titled, “My Gender Identity and Expression Make Me a Better Intelligence Officer,” claimed that crossdressing “sharpened the skills” he used, according to The Daily Wire. The author claimed that his experiences as a cross-dresser also cultivated “strategic empathy” in the article.

The bees have been temporarily rehomed while the roof at Plas yn Rhiw is replacedFor 200 years, this historic manor house on a Welsh peninsula with ornamental gardens has been occupied. And for as long as anyone can remember, it has been home to swarms of Welsh bees. But for the first time in centuries it is eerily quiet, with 50,000 of its buzzing inhabitants temporarily moved out for renovations. These bees have lived in the roof space of the house for as long as anyone can remember, despite their habit of leaving honey oozing through the walls. In the...

By a long shot, the enduring image of a NATO-standard modern main battle tank in the Russo-Ukraine War is a video of a stopped vehicle getting hammered by cheap FPV drones, before it gets set on fire and burns down to a six-million-dollar hulk. Combat video posted by the 79th Air Assault Brigade on Tuesday, reportedly from the eastern Avdiivka sector, was typical, showing a stationary US-made M1A2 Abrams tank hit with a detonation in the back of the turret, probably by a Russian FPV drone. Three crew hurl themselves from the main battle tank (MBT) as ammunition stored in...

the Ohio Republican US Senate Primary Bernie Moreno the candidate endorsed by President Trump winning... The US Air Force says that it successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Sunday... A cruise missile from Yemen fell north of the Israeli city of Eilat Sunday night... In Canada Foreign Minister Melanie Joly saying Canada will not sell arms to Israel... On Capitol Hill former top generals saying the Biden Administration's response to the need to evacuate Afghanistan when the Taliban won the war was too little and too late... The US Supreme Court giving the go ahead for Texas to enforce a...

President Trump swept the primary elections tonight in Illinois, Ohio, and his home state of Florida. President Trump won Florida with 81% of the vote. Nikki Haley had 13.9% And Governor Ron DeSantis had 3.9% Trump supporter Roger Stone weighed in on today’s election.

The embattled Nickelodeon writer and producer adds that he “supported” her desire to be emancipated from her parentsFormer Nickelodeon writer and producer Dan Schneider defended his controversial relationship with “The Amanda Show” star Amanda Bynes in an interview on Tuesday, saying he fully supported her decision to pursue emancipation from her parents and assisted in her attempt to run away from home. “She wanted that for herself,” Schneider said, whose rehabilitative interview with former “iCarly” actor Bobby “BooG!e” Bowman aired Tuesday after the release of Investigation Discovery’s damning four-part docuseries, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV." “We...

An attorney involved in efforts to upend the results of the 2020 election was arrested in federal court in Washington this week and ordered to turn herself in to authorities in Michigan as civil and criminal cases involving claims of voter fraud collided. Stefanie Lambert’s arrest came more than a week after officials had issued a bench warrant for failing to appear for a hearing in her criminal case in Michigan, where she is charged with illegally breaching voting machines, and days after she came under scrutiny for the release of documents as the attorney for an ally of former...

illennial and Gen Z viewers are more interested in original content than franchises and remakes. That's one of the key takeaways from Tubi's annual report, The Stream, which the ad-supported streaming service partnered with The Harris Poll to conduct. Specifically, the report revealed that of those surveyed, 74% of Gen Z and Millennial participants said they prefer originals to remakes. Additionally, 71% of people surveyed from those age groups said they would like to see more more TV shows and movies on streaming that are either independent or from smaller creators, and 74% said they were interested in seeing more...