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The Michigan Supreme Court will soon determine whether Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson circumvented the rule making process to impose restrictions on poll challengers.The case argued before the state’s highest court on Tuesday is only the latest in a string of lawsuits over election rules Benson imposed through a manual issued to clerks in 2022 that has since led to repeated defeats in lower courts.On Tuesday, arguments centered on instructions for election challengers, which involve a uniform credential form, limits on recordings, and a ban on electronic devices during absentee vote counting, The Detroit News reports.State and national Republican...

CNN presidential debate moderator Jake Tapper’s show is at the center of a defamation suit brought by a consulting company which alleges that the network and one of its reporters lied about the company’s work.The network’s defense: CNN did not intend to harm and its language was “opinion or ambiguous.”Tapper is set to co-host the first presidential debate next Thursday which is being hosted by his network. The host has come under scrutiny from former President Donald Trump, who is set to participate in the debate, for his partiality— calling him “Fake [Jake] Tapper.”But, as the well-known CNN personality gears...

Pastel painter Rosalie Filleul (English Wikipedia entry | the far more detailed French) was guillotined on this date in 1794, during the Paris Terror. The prodigy daughter of a Paris, young Rosalie Boquet — as she was born — exhibited several times in the 1770s when she was barely out of her teens. Famous for her beauty as well as her brushstrokes, she married into a comfortable sinecure held by the Superintendant of the Chateau de la Muette. As this fine post by history writer Melanie Clegg describes, Filleul cultivated an Enlightenment artist’s friendships with both revolution (Benjamin Franklin, whose...

Former President Trump visits Tony and Nick's Steaks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before a campaign rally.

The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the systems of Federal Reserve of the United States and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data, including “Americans’ banking secrets.” The Lockbit ransomware group added the Federal Reserve to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on 25 June, 2024 20:27:10 UTC. The group hasn’t published any sample of the stolen data. “Federal banking is the term for the way the Federal Reserve of the United States distributes its money. The Reserve operates twelve banking districts around the country which oversee...

@glennbeck So, the FBI held onto video evidence for DECADES showing that Saudi Arabia may have helped plan 9/11. Why release it NOW? Does this have anything to do with Saudi Arabia’s threat to end the petrodollar? Did the United States just threaten global war?

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) on Monday led 22 members of Congress in requesting that the Department of Energy add Texas to the areas serviced by proposed federal corridors for electrical transmission. In May, the department announced 10 proposed National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETCs) that, if implemented, could make federal funds available to expand grid capability in those areas. However, Texas, which relies on the self-contained Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), was not among the proposed sites. “The United States needs a 21st-century electric grid [and] you can’t have a 21st-centutry electric grid with a giant hole in the...

CNN cut the microphone of Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Monday after she correctly pointed out the network’s debate moderators’ long history of anti-Trump bias — proving the former president’s biggest opponent during the Thursday presidential debate isn’t President Joe Biden, but the media.CNN’s Kasie Hunt first asked Leavitt “what Donald Trump is going to do differently on the debate stage,” before asking Leavitt what she expects from Biden.“It would take someone five minutes to google ‘Jake Tapper, Donald Trump’ to see that Jake Tapper has —,” Leavitt said, referencing that the debate would be moderated by Jake Tapper...

The Supreme Court will hear the Biden administration’s challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-transition procedures for minors, inserting itself for the first time into the heated public debate surrounding the government’s role in protecting children from experimental procedures that come with lifelong medical consequences. The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will hear United States v. Skrmetti, a case brought by multiple transgender plaintiffs and their families against a Tennessee law prohibiting minors from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and invasive transgender surgical procedures. The Biden administration joined the case in support for the plaintiffs.

Investigators in Philadelphia provided new details Monday on a traffic stop turned shooting that critically wounded a Philadelphia police officer over the weekend. Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez, 36, was charged with numerous crimes, including two counts of attempted murder of a police officer and aggravated assault on an officer.

Hamas leaders are planning to leave Qatar for Iraq, due to Washington's insistence that Qatar increase pressure on the terror group to agree to a prisoner swap deal. According to The National, the Iraqi government has approved the move, as well as the opening of new Hamas offices in Baghdad. The report noted that Iran will take responsibility for the safety of the Hamas officials in Iraq. In recent weeks, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh held talks with officials in Iran and Iraq, consulting about that matter, which United Arab Emirates reports say is expected to come to fruition. .....

President Donald Trump is building a relationship with Glenn Youngkin in the hope that the popular Republican governor can help bring Virginia into play this fall. Youngkin's election in 2021 made him the first Republican in Virginia to win statewide since 2009, but he did so by running a campaign that kept Trump at an arm’s length. Youngkin also waited to endorse Trump in the 2024 race until after the Super Tuesday primary, when the former president easily won Virginia. While Trump has poked fun at Youngkin’s name and made note of him for keeping his distance, the two are...

Princess Anne was hospitalized after a horse accident at Buckingham Palace. Princess Anne, who is the 73-year-old sister of King Charles III, was hospitalized after a horse reportedly kicked her. Anne only suffered minor injuries from the incident and is suspected of having a concussion. In a statement Buckingham Palace reported, “Her Royal Highness remains in Southmead Hospital, Bristol, as a precautionary measure for observation.”

@HoodedClaw1974 Brilliant.🤣Another young one loving Nigel.

The 2027 Bugatti Tourbillon is here to officially supplant the outgoing Bugatti Chiron as the Chiron did the Veyron before it. People probably have a million queries about the new Tourbillon, but considering its Bugatti lineage, we’re sure there’s one question in particular above all else: How fast is it? Bugatti’s resurgence with the Veyron was built on that coupe claiming the production-car top-speed crown from the legendary McLaren F1. Since then, Bugatti has chased that carrot with each new variation of its models. So it’s not surprising the first question we have about the new hybrid Tourbillon is how...

Former President Donald Trump is edging out President Joe Biden and garnering support from nearly a quarter of black voters, a recent survey from CBS News/YouGov found. The survey showed Trump leading Biden with support from 50 percent of respondents. Biden comes one point behind with 49 percent support. In other words, while it is a virtual tie, Trump continues to edge out Biden even after the various cases of lawfare against him — the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict in Trump’s business records trial being the latest example of such.

A Dallas ISD employee headlined an anti-bullying event that discussed “religious or faith-based LGBTQIA+ discrimination,” according to documents obtained in an open records request by The Dallas Express.

A German police officer escorting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Stuttgart has died after a car rammed into the Hungarian leader’s convoy. While on the way Monday to the airport after watching his national football team compete against Scotland in the UEFA European Championship in Stuttgart, Germany the previous night, Prime Minister Orbán’s motorcade was hit with tragedy. According to a report from the German daily Bild, a 69-year-old woman ignored signs for road closures as the Hungarian leader’s convoy made its way through the city, ramming into the police motorcycle of a 61-year-old officer accompanying Orbán’s car. The strength...

Daniel Alman from Squirrel Hill @DanielAlmanPGH Hypocrite Biden won't jail people who blocked synagogue even though it's the exact same law that was used to jail people who blocked abortion clinic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Access_to_Clinic_Entrances_Act https://youtube.com/watch?v=kXZSMSh84s4 https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-paulette-harlow-abortion-clinic-praying-prison-839402959778 https://apnews.com/article/lauren-handy-abortion-clinic-blockade-ab461332b6c83d1c4d7f4d6175d04fbc #Abortion #Jews #Antisemitism 3:45 PM · Jun 24, 2024

Roughly 100,000 took part in early voting for this year's federal and state primary elections in New York, according to state Board of Elections numbers. Between June 15 and June 23, 102,883 residents voted early. Nearly half of those — 46,241 — came from New York City voters. About 56,642 came from voters in the other parts of the state. Statewide, the highest turnout day was the last day, June 23. In upstate's more populous counties, 1,031 people voted early in Erie County, 1,995 voted early in Monroe County, 4,603 voted early in Albany County and 3,877 voted early in...