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Greg Price @greg_price11 You can’t make this up: Dafna Yoran is the Manhattan prosecutor currently throwing the book at Daniel Penny. In 2019, she gave a reduced sentence to a black man who murdered an asian college professor as he was withdrawing cash from an ATM. She said that it was under the guise of “restorative justice” and ended up giving him 10 years for manslaughter after he was originally charged with murder. Now she’s attempting to imprison an innocent man who protected a group of people on the subway.

An Idaho beauty salon owner said she is seeing customers “dropping like flies” after calling supporters of President-elect Donald Trump “racist, homophobic, and misogynistic.” Tiffney Prickett of Voiage Salon in Coeur d’Alene said she is “suffering the consequences of my own action” in a TikTok video posted days after the November election, saying that one of her longtime clients demanded a refund after she went on an anti-Trump tirade: @beautybytiffney It is the right thing to do. Period. #sorrynotsorry #humanrights ♬ original sound – Tiffney

he United States vaccine injury compensation system is grappling with significant challenges in handling claims tied to COVID-19 vaccines. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic warns that without major reforms, clearing the backlog in the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) could take almost 10 years, revealing significant system inefficiencies. The CICP, designed to handle emergencies on a smaller scale, has struggled to adapt to the demands of a global vaccination effort. According to a report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, "The current backlog would take nearly a decade to eliminate without accounting for any new...

Scientists have discovered a key biological reason why obesity increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, and it boils down to size—specifically the size of fat cells. While researchers have known that obesity disrupts the body's ability to make new fat cells, they haven't been able to pin down why. The findings shed new light on this link, establishing for the first time that obesity limits the body's ability to produce crucial cellular building blocks called ribosomal factors. Without sufficient ribosomal factors, fat stem cells lack the machinery to differentiate to produce functioning fat cells. Instead, energy gets trapped and...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will not participate in an environmental case being argued next week after reviewing the court's new ethics code, according to a letter sent on Wednesday to lawyers involved. The letter from Supreme Court Clerk Scott Harris did not explain why Gorsuch was recusing himself, saying only that "consistent with the code of conduct" he had decided not to participate. The move came after liberal groups and more than a dozen members of Congress urged him to recuse over his prior links to billionaire Philip Anschutz.

China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb the sandstorms that plague parts of the country during the spring, state media reported on Friday (Nov 29). A "green belt" of about 3,000 km around the Taklamakan was completed on Thursday in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, after workers planted the final 100 metres of trees on the desert's southern edge, the Communist Party-run People's Daily said. Efforts to enclose the desert with trees began in 1978 with the launch of China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, colloquially known...

Russia's top general called America's top general last week in a previously undisclosed conversation to warn the United States that Russia was going to carry out test launches of hypersonic missiles in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and that U.S. Navy ships should steer clear of the target area for safety reasons, according to a U.S. official. Gen. Valery Gerasimov initiated last Wednesday's call with Gen. CQ Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to provide him with that warning and to also discuss Ukraine and how to avoid miscalculation between the U.S. and Russia about that ongoing conflict....

Minnesota-based food production giant Cargill is laying off approximately 5 percent of its global employees amid decreasing food prices. According to Forbes, Cargill is the U.S.'s largest privately held company, and is the world's largest agricultural commodities trader. Commodity prices fell 4 percent in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the prior quarter, according to an analysis from the World Bank. Cargill employs more than 160,000 people world-wide, meaning its estimated cuts will eliminate approximately 8,000 jobs. The company told CNN on Monday that the layoffs were part of a "long-term strategy" set in stone earlier this year. “As...

The Arctic Ocean may see its first ice-free day before 2030, earlier than scientists predicted. While most projections of the Arctic’s sea ice have focused on month-by-month conditions, a new study has revealed possible predictions down to the day. Previous expectations had the Arctic Sea loss predicted around 2030, but these results reveal that an ice-free day could occur as early as late summer 2027. Nine other simulations, while less likely, predict that it could occur within the next three to six years. Scientists, from the study published in Nature Communications, say the Arctic’s first ice-free day is now inevitable...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Some Californians were carving Halloween pumpkins and taking their kids trick-or-treating when they cast their ballots in this year’s election. Now they’re putting up Christmas trees while officials are still tallying votes in some places.With the vast majority of ballots counted, most of the races have been called by media organizations anyway, including some very close ones. In Orange County, Democrat Derek Tran was declared the winner in his race against incumbent Michelle Steel last week.With that and a race in Iowa called the same week, California now claims the distinction of being home to the last congressional race in...

Biden White House considers preemptive pardons for those who may be 'targeted' by Trump - POLITICO Names mentioned include Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff. Biden aides are "deeply concerned" about current/former officials who may face investigations and indictments from Trump's DOJ - especially after Kash Patel was selected for FBI director

Is Tucker Carlson a traitor for talking with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov? That's sure what our media want us to think. Professor Jeffrey Sachs is one of the few clear thinkers who may help us to avoid nuclear annihilation. He says that Sergei Lavrov is in another league from our current, brilliant "diplomats", and that, as reviled as he was in the Cold War American press, Andrei Gromyko also was a great diplomat. (At least we didn't get nuked during the Cold War.) This is important because by some accounts we have cut off all regular contact with the...

Zanet Nachmia, the last Holocaust survivor from the city of Ioannina, Greece died shortly before her 100th birthday the Jewish Museum of Greece announced on Wednesday. Nachmia was born in Ioannina in 1925, one of the six children of Haim Nachmias, who ran a taverna, and his wife Revekka (née Mordechai), and grew up within the walled Kastro, opposite the synagogue. She attended primary school at the Alliance Israélite Universelle until the fifth grade, when she left to help her mother with the chores of their large household. On March 25, 1944, the entire Jewish community of Ioannina, including Nachmia...

A strange, new illness festering in the heart of Africa has killed 179 people and counting – and most of the victims are teenagers, authorities said. The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties and anemia, that country’s health ministry told the BBC. Most of the dead have been between 16 and 18, authorities said. The government has dispatched a medical team to the Kwango Province, where the disease is most common, to investigate the strange outbreak, Reuters reported. The...

Lawyers of three men who repeatedly visited a French home to rape a woman while unconscious Wednesday (Dec 4) pleaded for leniency, with one arguing that her "wolf" of a husband had manipulated his client. In a trial that has shocked France since it opened in September, the main defendant, 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot, has admitted to enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife Gisele Pelicot, now 71, after drugging her with sleeping pills. Prosecutors have sought a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, and 10 to 18 years in prison for 49 of the 50 other co-defendants accused...

Washington — Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican who is nearing the end of his Senate term, warned in his farewell address on Wednesday of those who "tear at our unity," urging America to uphold the nation's values as he capped more than two decades in public service. "I have learned that politics alone cannot measure up to the challenges we face," Romney said. "A country's character is a reflection not just of its elected officials, but also of its people. I leave Washington to return to be one among them."Romney announced in September 2023 that he would not seek...

Victor Willis, writer of “YMCA,” wants to clarify something: the song is not gay themed. “There is nothing gay about it,” he says in a Facebook post. Willis is thrilled Donald Trump likes the song, especially since the Village People singer says he’s made millions from it since Trump started using it. Willis also says his wife will start suing people who insist the song is gay themed. Whoever Willis’s wife is, she’s pretty busy according to him carrying out their efforts. He says “my wife” more often in his post below than the word “fiancee” is used in a...

Not just in America, but in many nations around the world, business operators can choose the products they wish to offer consumers. If they assess the market correctly, they'll succeed. If not, they close down. But California. As in that's not what is happening in California, where authorities now are demanding consumers file reports on retailers if they don't have an adequate "gender-neutral" selection of children's toys.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the typically chatty New York Democrat and majority leader, often resorts to repeating a single terse phrase when he doesn’t want to answer a question. “I’m with Joe,” was his mantra for two long weeks in July as he was barraged with questions about whether President Biden needed to withdraw from the presidential race after his devastating debate performance. Mr. Schumer took the same approach on Tuesday as he tried to avoid passing judgment on the fraught subject of Mr. Biden’s full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter. “I’ve got nothing for you on that,” he...