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The FBI is attempting to rehabilitate the public image of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Congress has until April 19 to reauthorize it. The bureau recently posted a video to X that features FBI Director Christopher Wray attempting to put a gloss on Section 702 as part of this monthslong campaign. The bureau's timely propaganda did not escape the attention of critics on X, where the post received a community note that read, "The FBI violated American citizens' 4A rights 278,000 times with illegal, unauthorized FISA 702 searches." Among the critics was Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah),...

Former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case is unlikely to be resolved by Election Day, according to a former assistant attorney general. A Manhattan appellate court recently gave Trump a significant financial reprieve, permitting him to post a $175 million bond as he challenges a massive $454 million judgment, the amount a state judge determined to be a decade of bank fraud. The appellate judges also gave Trump a break.

In a mandatory course on "structural racism" for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" and demanded that they bow down to "mama earth," according to students in the class and audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, who has referred to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks as "justice," began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," instructing everyone to get on their...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Tuesday, the Chicago Health Department confirmed there are some cases of tuberculosis among migrants newly arrived in the city. They are not saying exactly how many cases there are, but did say it's a "small number." The city pointed out that many residents of Central America and South America have latent TB infections, which means they can't pass the virus, but it does cause a positive test result. The health department said it is taking steps to keep these infections contained.

The current status of the New York civil fraud case that New York Attorney Letitia James filed against Donald Trump, and that resulted in a huge ruling against him, thanks to Judge Arthur Engoron, is just a little bit of a puzzle. In the short term, Trump is on defense, but the wheels of justice should turn and place him on offense. Understanding that requires us to look at the logic of the law, a subject at once fascinating and exacting and, sometimes, very surprising. The role of logic in law is one of the features of the law that...

Oh look. What a urprise. Bigoted Cobb-Smith "provides his expertise" to WaPo on the WCK accident.Quoted in: IDF chief apologizes as details emerge of strike that picked off Gaza aid cars one by one Halevi: Deaths of 7 WCK staffers 'a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, in very complex war conditions'; report claims 'each commander makes his own rules' in Gaza. By Jacob Magid. TOI, 3 Apr, 2024.Here is a bit about this propagandist Cobb-Smiths.StandWithUs @StandWithUs: One example of Cobb-Smith's bias - he wrote the guide that is linked above for an organization that opposes Israel's existence. May...

Sebastian Maniscalco said he received a $3 COVID fee charge at a restaurant. "It’s a real bad look as a business. Absorb the fee. It’s called the cost of doing business," Maniscalco continued, adding that it "ain’t right" in a seeming reference to the name of his upcoming stand-up tour.

Tens of thousands of American families continue to demand justice for what they believe are the wrongful deaths (murders) of loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such justice soon may be coming due in large part to the dedicated efforts of two attorneys in Florida (working pro bono) to thoroughly research the criminal codes of 25 states to identify crimes committed by various high-level officials and organizations prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the attorneys, a former prosecutor, prepared extensive legal briefs (documenting strong evidence of crimes) that have been submitted to the attorneys general of Texas...

Famous comedian and actor Joe Flaherty died at 82 years of age, having previously experienced a short illness. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Tuesday, according to Global News. Flaherty is reportedly best known for his role as Harold Weir in the cult favorite NBC comedy series, “Freaks and Geeks,” as well as his unforgettable character opposite Adam Sandler, in “Happy Gilmore.” News of his passing traveled quickly, as friends, colleagues and loved ones took to social media to pay tribute to a beloved actor, gone too soon. “No one could have played the role of Donald like Joe...

RINGGOLD, Ga., Friday, April 1. The cavalry force of the enemy have been augmenting within the past few days, and now amounts to about 5,000. They are encamped in the valley at the foot of Rocky Faced Ridge, from Tunnel Hill to Varness Station and Red Clay, which they hold. The rebels have also a considerable force at Nickajack Gap, six miles below this place. The picket lines of the rebels are within a mile of ours, but no disposition is shown on either side to crowd the other. There is a very small rebel force of infantry north of...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill on Tuesday to lower the conscription age to 25 in a bid to expand the ranks of his military ahead of what promises to be another tough year defending against Russia. With the Spring Thaw quickly approaching, fighting on the ground in the war between Russia and Ukraine is likely to again intensify. Last year, Kyiv launched a highly touted yet ultimately unsuccessful “counter-offensive” attempting to recapture lands seized by Moscow. This year, with dwindling manpower and alleged shortages of weapons and munitions, Ukraine appears content with digging in, while Moscow appears to...

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“A study published by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future in June of 2023 estimated Ukraine's population to be around 28.5M, while the Wilson Centre estimated (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-pos...) the population to be 31M. Males in the 25-27 age band are only 2% of the population according to US government data (https://www.census.gov/data-tools/dem.... US population data notes this age band has rough 419,000 people but is likely overstated as they use an overall population of 34.8M. I'd estimate it is likely closer to ~340K. It is unknown how many men in this age band have already volunteered or were in the pre-war professional...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that “the automotive sector is moving towards EVs” and China pushed for an advantage in the EV market “because that’s the economically smart play” but “we can’t just sit back and let this happen on its own pace” because there’s a competition between the U.S. and China. Co-host John Roberts asked, “Tesla sales fell 8.5% the first quarter of this year, Ford, this week, is laying off two-thirds of its workforce at the F-150 electric Lightning plant, it’s also scaling back a battery production facility...

Doctors successfully removed the clot and inserted a stent for Boebert, who is expected to make a full recovery. Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert underwent emergency surgery to remove a blood clot that she received due to a rare condition known as May-Thurner Syndrome, her campaign said. She experienced severe swelling in her upper left leg and was admitted to the hospital in Loveland, Colo., on Monday afternoon, her campaign said late Tuesday evening on Facebook. The congresswoman underwent a CT Scan and doctors discovered an acute blood clot and diagnosed her with May-Thurner Syndrome, which is a condition that...

How do you get tens of millions of Americans, maybe even hundreds of millions, to believe ideas that at first glance seem to be nothing less than crazy? When I speak of “crazy ideas,” I have in mind things like the following. - The idea that a male can become a female by feeling that he is a female, and vice versa. - The idea that there is nothing morally objectionable about killing an unborn baby at any point, even the last minute, during a nine-month pregnancy. - The idea that almost all white Americans, except for those who are...

Just three weeks after the U.S. Justice Department announced that an investigation into the Utah Department of Corrections found a transgender inmate was discriminated against by prison administrators, the Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state. The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Utah and its corrections department violated the Americans with Disabilities Act "against an incarcerated transgender woman on the basis of her disability, gender dysphoria," according to a prepared statement. "The department's complaint alleges that (the Utah Department of Corrections) failed to provide the complainant equal access to health care services after she repeatedly requested hormone...

Housing in the US under Bidenomics is simply unaffordable. With the massive expansion of M2 Money supply under Biden thanks to Covid and Bidenomics, home prices are up 39.2% and mortgage demand keeps falling like a paralyzed falcon. We are truly on the highway to hell under Bidenomics in terms of housing affordability. Mortgage applications decreased 0.6 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending March 29, 2024. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted...

The upcoming election will likely be less about changing voters’ minds and more about rousing the faithful and getting them to the polls. America’s students, who according to an analysis by Tufts University helped elect Biden in key swing states in 2020, could prove to be pivotal in this regard, both as targets and as foot soldiers in the party’s get-out-the-vote drives. Meanwhile, a lawsuit currently moving through Wisconsin courts appears to provide a case study for how these campaigns translate into election wins for the Democratic Party. In February, Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted that the government is paying...

The only way this will end is for Israel's complete annihilation of Hamas.On Monday six foreign aid workers and a Gazan driver were killed in a what was described as an Israeli precision attack. Netanyahu said in a statement that it was a “tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the Gaza Strip. This happens in war … We are conducting a thorough inquiry and are in contact with the governments. We will do everything to prevent a recurrence.” The country has launched an investigation.They were killed because Gaza is a war zone and as admirable as...