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A top Biden administration health official successfully pressured an international group of medical experts to do away with age limit guidelines for transgender procedures, including gender-changing surgery, for minors, an unsealed court document shows. Adm. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, feared that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s late 2021 draft guidelines would make it difficult for American transgender youth to obtain access to the procedures, according to email excerpts between WPATH members included in an Alabama court filing. WPATH guidance recommended age minimums of 14 for hormone treatment,...

Southern California appeared to be under siege from a blockade. More than 50 enormous vessels bobbed in the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean, marooned off the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. As days stretched into weeks, they waited their turn to pull up to the docks and disgorge their cargo. Rubberneckers flocked to the water’s edge with binoculars, trying to count the ships that stretched to the inky horizon. This was no act of war. This was what it looked like when the global economy came shuddering to a halt. ...Given the scale of container...

A Texas man who admitted he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot an 18-year-old woman in 2001 was executed Wednesday evening. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CDT following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the January Gonzales was repeatedly apologetic to the victim's relatives in his last statement from the execution chamber. Just before he spoke, a spiritual adviser sang a prayer, resting her left hand on his chest. "I can't put into words the pain I have caused y'all, the hurt, what I took away that I cannot give back. I...

Bolivian President Luis Arce sharply criticized the NATO military alliance in an exclusive interview with Sputnik just over two weeks ago, on June 7, on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024. “I believe that NATO's actions are putting world peace at risk,” the leader insisted. “We have seen it not only here in Europe, but also in Latin America,” he noted, referring to the bloc’s attempts to form partnerships with the historical US ally Colombia and, more recently, with Javier Milei’s Argentina. “We see with great concern that NATO is acting in several countries in the...

A six-figure ad campaign airing in several swing states, set to run during the first presidential debate on Thursday, will blame President Joe Biden’s border policies for the murder of Rachel Morin allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien MS-13 gang member. The $200,000 ad buy from the nonprofit Building America’s Future will run in Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Georgia from June 26 through June 28. RELATED VIDEO — Mayorkas: “No Evidence” Migrants Brought by ISIS-Affiliated Network Planning to Harm U.S.: In addition to the 60-second digital ad, the group will post mobile billboards and...

Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson utterly stumped a reporter by simply asking for a citation after she accused him of promoting The Great Replacement Theory. Carlson denied a reporter’s accusation that he argued immigrants are replacing white people in the United States, Australia and Europe. “Have I said that whites are being replaced?” he asked. “I don’t think I said that.” “Well, it’s been mentioned on your show 4,000 times,” the reporter said. “Really? When did I say that?” Carlson pressed. “On your show,” the reporter claimed. “I said whites are being replaced? … Really? I would challenge you to...

KYIV—Ukraine’s battle-weary troops are desperate for reinforcements. Civilians want to keep up the fight but are less eager to pick up rifles. The West is dangling membership in political and military blocs and feeding military aid but not enough for a breakthrough. As Russia’s invasion enters a third summer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is juggling competing domestic and international priorities even as Ukrainians and their Western allies agree: Russia can’t be allowed to win. On Tuesday, Ukraine officially began negotiations to join the European Union, a symbolic step toward the West, and a small victory for Zelensky. Still, EU accession...

Dr. Anthony Fauci nearly appeared on The Bump during the pandemic, according to Matt Camp. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic turned the wrestling world upside down. Fans were unable to attend shows, so WWE held tapings in empty arenas before they pivoted to the ThunderDome. Throughout the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci was often in the news, as he served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and he was also the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022 The Young Bucks Say They Are Inserting The Wild Card Into Men's Owen Hart...

ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by the ACLU of Vermont on behalf of Gregory Bombard, of St. Albans. It says Bombard’s First Amendment rights were violated after an unnecessary traffic stop and retaliatory arrest in 2018. Trooper Jay Riggen stopped Bombard’s vehicle in St. Albans on Feb. 9, 2018, because he believed...

An Iowa woman was charged Tuesday after a Minneapolis murder victim's body was found in a car she was driving when she crashed on a southern Minnesota interstate over the weekend. Margot G. Lewis, 32, of New Liberty, Iowa, was charged in Olmsted County District Court in Rochester with felony interference with a dead body in connection with the death of 35-year-old Liara Tsai.(snip) Lewis, who was arrested about 7 a.m. Saturday at the scene of the crash on eastbound Interstate 90 south of Eyota, appeared in court Tuesday morning and remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail....

This could really shake things up in Atlanta. As the clock ticks closer to Thursday’s presidential debate pitting former President Donald Trump against President Joe Biden, a report is circulating that Trump could be springing a big surprise on his Democratic opponent. And upending the presidential campaign in the process. NBC News reported Tuesday, citing sources identified only as “people familiar with the situation,” Trump could be revealing his running mate before he and Biden even take the stage at CNN headquarters. Trump has previously said he would reveal the name of the individual he’s chosen before the Republican National...

A single Reddit post exposed a student at an elite college as a fraud who lied his way into the school - and had major legal consequences. Aryan Anand, 19, was exposed as a total fraud after a Reddit post revealed his web of lies. Anand pleaded guilty to forgery in Northampton County following revelations that his entire application to the university was fabricated. The international student was caught after investigators found a post written by an anonymous user they believed to be Anand on the Reddit forum titled, 'I have built my life and career on lies.' The post...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A pilot group of Oakland Unified School District students at seven school sites have been getting paid $50 a week – if they have perfect attendance.

Many scientists have called the “alien” mummies found in Peru a hoax. But a new study shows something different. Recent analysis of one of the humanoids named Maria showed that it has biological similarities to humans, but with many morphological and anatomical structural differences. It turned out that the elongated skull of the mummified humanoid does not show any signs of artificial deformation. Scientists were also able to find out that the mummy was created between 240 and 383 AD, reports the Daily Mail. .... Snip.... Scientists found that the mummy did not have hair and external ears, that is,...

A top Namibian court on Friday struck down the African country's colonial-era laws criminalising same-sex relationships, in a victory for the LGBTQ community. The high court in the capital, Windhoek, declared the crimes of "sodomy" and "unnatural sexual offences" as "unconstitutional and invalid" in a ruling hailed by LGBTQ rights groups. "We are not persuaded that in a democratic society such as ours... it is reasonably justifiable to make an activity criminal just because a segment, maybe a majority, of the citizenry consider it to be unacceptable," the judges wrote. ...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a question on why President Joe Biden didn’t take the executive action on the border he took recently earlier by arguing that “essentially, the border was closed” until May of last year. BBC U.S. Special Correspondent and MSNBC Contributor Katty Kay asked, “Mr. Secretary, the flows of people across the border have caused the President a huge amount of political trouble. If this executive order has worked as well as you’re saying it’s worked this morning, why not just do it a year-and-a-half ago and save...

This headline article from the New York Post caught our attention because it has the familiar ring of “51 former intelligence heads” in the 2020 election. Previously, the stacking of experts to create disinformation was used to hide the truth within the Hunter Biden laptop, which was evidence of Joe Biden’s pay-to-play schemes. Now, the “experts” are stacked to claim Joe Biden’s economic policy is better than Donald Trump’s. I will ignore the article’s Freudian optic of the economist speaking at the globalist WEF event, and instead focus on the facts. We have an actual track record of President Trump’s...

Tone-deaf Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday shrugged off attempts to blame Biden’s border policy for the horrific slaughter of Americans at the hands of illegal migrants, saying, “The individual who is responsible for a heinous criminal act is the criminal.” His comment during a press conference from a Border Patrol aircraft hangar in Tucson, Arizona — some 70 miles from the nearest border crossing — came in response to a question about 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was brutalized and murdered in Houston, allegedly by two Venezuelan migrants who were released into the US earlier this year.“We...

CNN and the entire left are so terrified of free speech, it’s almost beyond belief. They will go to unreal lengths to control the narrative and silence anyone who dares to challenge the progressive storyline or call out—and even mock—the so-called leaders on the left. That’s exactly why, with the highly anticipated upcoming debate, the regime-run media hacks at CNN are desperate to control the narrative. This includes censoring right-wing accounts that might clip parts of the debate to share on social media. CNN has even threatened to go after any accounts that do this by citing the Digital Millennium...

Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora reviewed with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin the joint lithium and nuclear projects with which the South American country consolidates its position from a geopolitical and strategic viewpoint given the presence of Iranian facilities and equipment. Arce told reporters in La Paz Tuesday that all these matters were discussed during his recent meeting with the Russian leader in St. Petersburg on the occasion of the International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in the former imperial capital. According to Arce, the project involving Russia's Uranium One company regarding direct lithium extraction in Bolivian salt flats “must start operating...