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Washington state’s trucking industry is urging Gov. Jay Inslee to reconsider a first of the year commitment to align with California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) regulation, which requires a certain percentage of so called "zero emissions" (ZEV) trucks to be sold in the state. This goes back to 2020, when Washington lawmakers committed to follow California’s strict emissions mandates. It got more critical last month when on Oct. 23, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) amended its ACT standards to require manufacturers to gradually increase the percentage of zero-emission vehicles they sell with targets from 4% to 7%. Washington has...

ric Abbenante @EricAbbenante There is not a reasonable explanation as to why so many precincts in Boston had over 100% turnout rate. Edward Coyle @SirEdwardCoyle So, many precincts in the City of #Boston had #voter turnout that exceeded 100% - even up to 263%. If a precinct has 2,366 registered voters and they received 6,244 votes, does that not raise a red flag? I wonder how many times my d*ceased grandparents voted. #bospoli

The Biden White House has said that it is in a "different place" after President Joe Biden as well as others have spent months calling President-elect Donald Trump a "fascist" as well as an “existential threat," and Trump and Biden met in what appeared to be a friendly meeting after Trump stood victorious against Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5 in the presidential election. When she was pressed by media on Biden no longer using the phrases since Trump was elected, Jean-Pierre replied that Biden is "now in a situation where we have to deal with a peaceful transfer...

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday. In a televised meeting with the leadership of Russia’s defense ministry, Putin claimed the missile could not be intercepted by air defenses and said Russia will begin serial production of the new weapon. “There are currently no means of countering such a missile, no means of intercepting it, in the world. And I will emphasize once again: We will continue testing the latest system,” Putin said. “Based on the test results, these weapons will also go...

Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler has emerged as the favorite to become Donald Trump's next secretary of Agriculture. The 53-year-old blonde bombshell didn't dispel suggestions she was being considered for the top Cabinet job earlier this week. She disclosed on the Politically Georgia Podcast that she's a 'huge advocate' for rural America.

MSNBC's Joy Reid told Republicans their liberal friends and family have a right to be scared in an end-of-times warning on TikTok today. Reid, 55, who recently left X after Elon Musk's cabinet nomination by President-Elect Donald Trump, isn't done explaining to GOP voters why she believes Democrats are rightfully scared for the future. She warned Trump voters they should accept being excluded from family Thanksgiving plans, and spoke of the likelihood of the country collapsing under the new government.

President-elect Donald Trump appeared with a group of mothers on Friday as they had a luncheon at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. The president strolled into the dining room wearing golf attire and a white Make America Great Again hat as the crowd of women cheered. The Moms for America Mothers of Influence Luncheon was held at the club on Friday where the group presented Trump with the ‘Man of the Century’ award.

Melania Trump announced her first major hire for her return as first lady, naming a longtime Trump loyalist as her chief of staff. Hayley Harrison, who worked in the East Wing during the first Donald Trump administration and joined the Trumps in Florida after they left the White House, was named to the position. Harrison, along with her husband William 'Beau' Harrison, are Trump White House staffers who joined the first couple in Mar-a-Lago for their post-presidency life. Hayley and Beau traveled on Marine One with the Trumps from the White House on January 20th, 2021.

The terrace is packed every night with politicos looking for a post or people simply looking to party. The opportunistic and the merely curious are offering members thousands of dollars to land a seat at dinner. And since November 5 Mar-a-Lago has become 'the most exclusive place' on the planet,' according to one regular. Every night is like a party, as guests throng the pool deck waiting for the man who will become the 47th president of the United States to make his grand entrance.

Anti-Israel protestors took to the streets of Montreal on Friday night setting cars on fire, smashing up shop windows and burning an effigy in the middle of the street of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The riots began at around 4:30pm at Émilie-Gamelin Parc downtown as darkness fell in the Canadian city. But the protests quickly turned violent as protestors hurled small explosive devices and pieces of metal were thrown at police officers.

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“Behold, I have played the fool” (1 Samuel 26:21). A Christian should not act like a fool. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses looked out at the belligerent children of Israel who had failed God so many times and said, “Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people?” The children of Israel were playing the fool. Sadly, God’s people today continue to play the fool. One way they do so is through disbelief. On the road to Emmaus, Jesus appeared to two disciples who didn’t believe that He had risen from the dead. Jesus said to them, “O foolish...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek (D) has announced that the state has supposedly stockpiled enough of the drug mifepristone — the first drug in the two-drug abortion pill regimen — to kill babies for the next four years of Donald Trump’s presidency. An announcement published on the governor’s website on Monday said “[T]he Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) have executed an updated agreement to continue operating the distribution of the state’s emergency Mifepristone supply into the future.” In April of 2023, Kotek had told OHA to partner with OHSU to secure a three-year supply of...

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has relocated to a new facility that it built in Central El Paso, and according to the pro-life Southwest Coalition for Life, the abortion giant used a fake name during the process. Planned Parenthood began building the new multi-million dollar facility last year under the name “Pima Medical,” said Southwest Coalition in an email. The new building is located just 16 miles from an abortion facility in New Mexico, where Planned Parenthood staff can easily refer women for abortions that are illegal in Texas. “[Planned Parenthood’s] history in El Paso tells a troubling story,” said...

In a bicameral letter led by House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), 112 Members of Congress today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate and report on the amount of federal funding that has been awarded to abortion providers—including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the International Planned Parenthood Federation—over the past three years. Among the 81 House Members and 31 Senators who signed the letter are the top three leaders of the new Congress: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Majority Leader...

The Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN) has saved 6,000 babies since its founding in 2008, according to a November 20 press release from Heartbeat International. Founded by Dr. George Delgado, APRN has been managed by Heartbeat International since 2018. The network has a 24/7 hotline that connects women in 93 countries with providers who can help reverse their chemical abortions. Women who have taken mifepristone, the first pill in a chemical abortion procedure, can reverse the abortion by taking progesterone. Progesterone is naturally produced by a woman’s body, and has been used safely during pregnancy since the 1950s. It is...

President Joe Biden this week awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, a decision that has drawn sharp criticism from pro-life advocates. After a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, November 20, Biden commended Richards, who was the organization’s president from 2006 to 2018, as a leader of “absolute courage.” He stated in a post on X that she “fearlessly leads us forward to be the America we say we are — a nation of freedom.” In the post on X, he also said, “Through her work to lift up the dignity of...

A new commercial is surfacing that is wholesome, heartwarming, and beautifully Pro-Life. Who knew that a car advertisement could tug at our heartstrings and capture the beauty of choosing Life in the midst of an unplanned pregnancy? Video Player video on link 00:00 03:49 Volvo debuted their new EX90 SUV with an unforgettable message: Life is valuable and worthy of being protected. In the commercial, a young woman tells her boyfriend she is pregnant. Overjoyed and emotional, they embrace in a hug. The next scene captures a beautiful moment of the expecting father sharing the news with his mother. Although...

The nation’s biggest abortion business has been shown once again to be selling the body parts of aborted babies. The latest expose’ of the Planned Parenthood abortion giant comes via never- before-seen documents released under a California public records request. They show Planned Parenthood selling 23-week-old aborted babies to a university for dubious research, Newly revealed documents show Planned Parenthood supplying UC San Diego with aborted babies parts from unborn babies killed in elective abortions , including viable babies up to 23 weeks. The agreements suggest the use of fetal material for research projects in exchange for potential intellectual property...

An article published by MSN says scientists are afraid that the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy, jr. to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will further erode public trust in science. "Science is losing its place as a source of truth," said Dr. Paul Offit, a physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "It's becoming just another voice in the room." "Considering the sloppiness of the science deployed by Pfizer in developing the mRNA covid vaccine, the explicitly anti-science resort to censorship to suppress critics of this sloppiness, and the arrogance of Dr. Anthony Fauci's assertion 'I...