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Immigrants from Venezuela remain at the center of persistent controversy in Aurora, with four city lawmakers on Thursday offering commentary and narratives about gang members, flash-mobs and national immigration policy. City officials notified residents that they must vacate their condemned apartments in the north-Aurora complex by next Tuesday, a moved that some city lawmakers, without evidence or details, say is the result of Venezuelan gang activity. Lawmakers commented on other recent Venezuelan immigrant controversies as well.

On Friday, August 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulation that grants work authorization eligibility to certain H-4 nonimmigrant visa holders in a lawsuit called Save Jobs USA v. DHS. H-4 visa holders are dependent spouses or unmarried children (under the age of 21) of H-1B nonimmigrant visa holders. The INA does not specifically provide work authorization eligibility for these derivative nonimmigrants. Rather, DHS, through the issuance of a regulation, granted certain H-4 dependent spouses work authorization eligibility. Saves Job USA challenged the rule, arguing...

U.S. strategic forces prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to authorize nuclear weapons operations even though nuclear-armed adversaries China and Russia may not, the commander of Strategic Command said Tuesday. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, chief of the command based in Omaha, Nebraska, also suggested that U.S. nuclear forces may be increased to maintain deterrence against the rising nuclear threat from the country’s two “near-peer” adversaries. Strategic Command has no plans for a real-life version of the fictional automated nuclear launch system called “war operation plan response,” or WOPR, in the futuristic 1983 movie “WarGames,” the four-star general said. “You...

U.S. House 5th District Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, member of the progressive “squad,” faces multiple primary challengers, including Don Samuels, a prominent Minneapolis Democrat who sought a rematch after Ms. Omar narrowly defeated him in 2022.

When Emerald Medrano learned Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 presidential election and endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee, Medrano knew he had to speak now – as his favorite artist, Taylor Swift, would say. “I feel like us US Swifties should mass organize and help campaign for Kamala Harris and spread how horrendous Project 2025 would be to help get people’s butts down to the polls in November,” the 22-year-old posted to his 70,000 followers. He added a sobbing emoji. “Like if we don’t want democracy to end we really need to move and push blue...

A King County jury has ordered the city of Seattle and the owners of a Queen Anne apartment building to pay a 53-year-old ultramarathon runner $13.1 million after she fell and severely injured herself on a sidewalk in 2021. Responsibility for the verdict is split roughly in half between the city and 14th & Dravus LLC, owners of the building. The sum reflects the extent of Lesley Mettler Auld’s injuries and what they will mean for her life going forward. Mettler Auld is a professional fitness coach and has run dozens of marathons and ultramarathons, according to her lawyers with...

[Catholic Caucus] Italy: Cardinal Finds an Alternative to LatinCardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians until 16 August, presided yesterday at the Eucharist in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin on the occasion of a youth synod.When he came to the Lord's Prayer, he invited everyone to pray in their own language.As a result, those present were given a vivid illustration of how the Latin Roman Rite had been replaced by a Novus Ordo Babylon.Regarding the Lord's Prayer, this chaos was exacerbated by Francis in June 2019, when he invented a falsified version of the...

A local woman was arrested early Saturday for allegedly stabbing another woman multiple times during an argument after the victim ran up to a Hot Springs police officer. Vera Lashonea Jordan, 51, aka "Shawn," who lists a Terry Street address, was taken into custody shortly before 2:30 a.m. and charged with a felony count of second-degree battery, punishable by up to six years in prison. Jordan, who lists no prior felony history, was later released on a $2,500 bond (snip) According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly before 1:30 a.m., an HSPD officer was conducting a traffic stop in the...

Joe Biden on Tuesday traveled to New Orleans to deliver remarks at a Cancer Moonshot event. Biden announced $150 million in research grants at Tulane University in Louisiana on Tuesday. “We’re moving quickly because we know that all families touched by cancer are in a race against time,” Biden said. “I’m a congenital optimist about what Americans can do. There’s so much that we’re doing. It matters” “We’re mobilizing the whole country effort to cut American cancer deaths in half by 2020,” Biden said. He’s completely shot. WATCH: Biden says his goal is to "cut American cancer deaths in half...

The State Department announced on Saturday that it would lift a three-year ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia, allowing some $750 million worth of bombs to be sold to the Saudi kingdom within the next few months. “The deliveries will include 3,000 Small Diameter Bombs and 7,500 Paveway IV bombs, which have been on hold since President Biden halted the shipments in 2021 over Saudi Arabia’s punishing war in Yemen,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Days after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France over online harassment she faced during the 2024 Olympics, some high-profile people were revealed as part of the case. Both Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling have been named in the complaint, which was filed against X on Friday, according to Variety. “J. K. Rowling and Elon Musk are named in the lawsuit, among others,” attorney Nabil Boudi told Variety on Tuesday.

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/37586 Last Telegram post at 17:22 Eastern (Edited) Israeli fighter jets are now above Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut! It has been almost 3 hours since Amir Tsarfati last posted on Telegram The silence is deafening given the past 24-48 hours of non-stop play by play

Nearly two years after Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, the billionaire is leveraging its power as a source of real-time news for millions of users to try to sway the outcome of the 2024 presidential election in favor of former President Donald Trump. Musk has already asserted his voice in the political sphere for months. He’s pushed racist conspiracy theories about the Biden administration’s immigration policies, obsessed over the “woke mind virus,” a term used by conservatives to describe progressive causes, and warned of the country’s impending “doom” if a “red wave” does not materialize in...

Newark archbishop says all citizens should ‘engage in the political process’NEW YORK – At a time of inflamed political rhetoric, where neither major party candidate fully represents Church teaching on the issues, Cardinal Joseph Tobin is reminding Catholics of their duty to actively participate in the political process.“In this time of political uncertainty, it’s tempting to be cynical about the motivations and tactics of politicians and to want to disengage from politics, but in spite of what people often say, ‘politics’ is not a dirty word,” Tobin said. “In fact, as Pope Francis forcefully reminds us, committed Christians and faithful...

President Joe Biden implied Tuesday that he will attend an inauguration for former President Donald Trump if he wins the election in November against Vice President Kamala Harris. When a reporter asked Biden if he would attend Trump’s inauguration, he implied that he would attend, adding that he has “good manners.” “Mr. President, if Trump wins, will you attend his inauguration, sir?” the reporter asked. “For the peaceful transfer of power?”

Jusper Machogu, a farmer in Kenya, Africa, wants people who think Africa shouldn’t develop with fossil fuels to see what a low-carbon lifestyle is really like. He and his family live it every day, and he told Cowboy State Daily that people, especially those of the West, don’t really grasp what it means not to have access to energy. In an effort to combat global emissions, wealthy nations are trying to discourage African countries from using fossil fuels, which Machogu said that will keep Africa in poverty. That’s why he’s offering an educational tour of his low-carbon lifestyle, which he...

Missouri voters will decide in November whether to guarantee a right to abortion with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total ban. The secretary of state’s office certified Tuesday that an initiative petition received more than enough valid signatures from registered voters to qualify for the general election. It will need approval from a majority of voters to become enshrined in the state constitution. If passed, the Missouri initiative would “do something that no other state has done before — end a total abortion ban at the ballot box,” said Rachel Sweet, campaign manager for Missourians for Constitutional...

Despite corporate media’s unabashed u-turn to support Kamala Harris, her campaign has been busted creating made-up headlines next to the names of real news outlets to trick people into thinking they’ve stumbled upon the real thing, Axios reports. Upon hearing the news, The Guardian lost their sh*t, telling Axios: “While we understand why an organization might wish to align itself with the Guardian’s trusted brand, we need to ensure it is being used appropriately and with our permission. We’ll be reaching out to Google for more information about this practice.”

North Carolina school reassigns DEI staff amid statewide crackdown The University of North Carolina Wilmington is the most recent college to close its “diversity and inclusion” office. The school announced the decision to shut down its Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion last week, ... “Based on policy requirements and consistent with System Office guidance, UNCW will close the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI), eliminate the Chief Diversity Officer position and shift the cultural and identity centers from OIDI to Student Affairs,” Chancellor Aswani K. Volety wrote in a message to the school. “Careful and deliberate thought was...