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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a bill Wednesday to allow children harmed by transgender procedures to sue the doctors and hospitals that carried out the operations.Hawley’s bill would enable individuals to sue the pediatric gender clinics and doctors who gave them cross-sex hormones or performed transgender surgery on them as minors. The legislation comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking federal funding for any hospital that performs such procedures. “Our children should no longer suffer from irreversible and dangerous child mutilation procedures, which the Biden administration enabled and promoted,” Hawley said. “I welcome President Trump’s strong action...

A leaked Home Office report has called on the UK government to revamp efforts to crack down on so-called “non-crime hate incidents” to counter extremism within the country. In the wake of the Southport stabbing attack by second-generation Rwandan migrant Axel Rudakubana that left three young girls dead and several others injured and the anti-mass migration riots which followed, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper ordered a “rapid sprint” review to counter extremism.

If this is indeed representative of half the country, then we are dealing with half the country having a severe mental illness.Sheldon Whitehouse tells RFK Jr during his confirmation hearing today that support for forced, mandatory vaccinations is required as the baseline for supporting his nomination to HHS Secretary. The moment comes at 00:50 of Whitehouse reading his script. The intensity and vitriol behind the statement is a testimony to the scale of money from Big Pharma to these senators. WATCH: Salty response below...

LONDON (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors are seeking to recover nearly $33 million of funds that they say were allocated for the defence of the western Kursk region, invaded by Ukraine last year, but stolen instead by corrupt officials. Ukrainian troops stormed across the border in a surprise attack on Aug. 6 and seized a chunk of Russian territory, some of which they still hold - a valuable bargaining chip for Kyiv in any peace talks with Moscow. A lawsuit filed by the office of Russia's Prosecutor General orders the head of the Kursk Regional Development Corporation, his deputies and a...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trumpsigned an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests. A fact sheet on the order promises "immediate action" by the Justice Department to prosecute "terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews" and marshal all federal resources to combat what it called "the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and streets" since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

The Justice Department on Wednesday moved to drop its appeal of a federal court order dismissing the criminal charges against President Donald Trump's former co-defendants in the classified documents case, which would effectively end the case. Then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland had cited the pending appeal as the reason why he would not publicly release special counsel Jack Smith's report on the criminal case he'd brought against Trump, saying it could impact the due process rights of the co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. The Justice Department's motion to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to drop the...

Only 10 days into President Donald Trump’s second term it’s abundantly clear that Christians who opposed his presence in the White House and condemned their brethren for supporting it have some repenting to do.Never Trumpers spent the last decade weaponizing their faith to demonize Christian Trump supporters. By the time the 2024 election rolled around, they had proudly endorsed the radical, openly anti-Christian Joe Biden stand-in for president. According to them, mean tweets and a bad spray tan were far worse than a regime that made a point out of throwing praying grandmas in prison.Concerns about Trump’s personal conduct 10...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting federal funding of K-12 schools that promote Critical Race Theory or radical gender ideology.

The 43-year-old retired athlete, who shares three children with singer Enrique Iglesias, was seen in a wheelchair with a group of people at Bal Harbour Shops on Saturday, Jan. 25, according to pictures obtained by the New York Post. Kournikova, wearing an orthopedic boot and a black sweatsuit, was joined by her and Iglesias' daughters, Lucy, 7, and Mary, 4, during the outing. The couple also shares Nicholas, who is Lucy's twin brother. An unidentified woman was pushing Kournikova's wheelchair through the parking lot as the group entered the shops in Miami. Kournikova retired at age 21 due to ongoing...

A request by L.A. County to temporarily waive state housing laws drew the ire from advocates who accused the county of skirting efforts aimed at boosting affordable housing. County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath, who represent districts blackened by this month’s wildfires, put forward a motion Tuesday with 41 steps they want department heads to take to speed up the recovery process.That included an ask to Gov. Gavin Newsom to temporarily exempt the county from some of the state’s most significant housing laws intended to speed up the creation of affordable housing, including parts of Senate Bill 330, aimed...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated a recall of Lay's potato chips across Oregon and Washington and labeled the affected product with its highest risk level. According to the FDA, the recall was initiated on December 13, 2024, and the risk level was assessed as a "Class I" alert on January 27, 2025. The reason for the recall is the potential undeclared presence of milk, a known allergen, in the affected products. The voluntary recall was announced by the Frito-Lay company in December. According to the agency's website, the FDA assigns Class I designation to recall situations in...

“Clear a path!” shouted the big shots of TV news as they tried to squeeze their way through reporters packed like sardines into the White House briefing room to get to their front-row seats. Tempers frayed, foreheads perspired and necks strained similar to those of passengers itching to get off a plane.The first press briefing of a new administration is always a standing-room-only event. This time, it was the second Donald Trump administration and the debut of Karoline Leavitt, who pointed out that she is the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary. The 27-year-old beats the record...

President Trump is starting his second term in the White House with a job approval rating ten points higher than at the start of his first presidential term, according to a Quinnipiac(KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today. Just over a week after being sworn into office, 46 percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing, while 43 percent disapprove and 11 percent did not offer an opinion. In Quinnipiac University's January 26, 2017 national poll, 36 percent approved of the job he was doing, while 44 percent disapproved and 19 percent did not offer an...

President Donald Trump has signed an agreement in which Meta would pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit he brought against the company after being suspended from Facebook in 2021 following the January 6 riot. Trump signed the settlement papers Wednesday in the Oval Office, his attorney John Coale confirmed to Business Insider. He said much of the $25 million settlement paid by Meta would go toward Trump's presidential library.

The Polish Parliament looks set to debate a proposal to ban the Sacrament of Confession for those under 18 years of age. The move follows the submission of a petition to the Sejm, Poland’s lower House of Parliament, in October 2024. The petition has gathered around 13,000 signatures. A similar petition was presented to the Polish Parliament in 2023, but it was rejected because it did not meet the necessary conditions for admission, reports the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe). The latest petition attempt “met the formal requirements”, it adds. OIDAC Europe notes that...

CHICAGO — Chicago police are preparing to arrest two undocumented migrants to face charges of home invasion and murder in connection with the brutal slaying of a man in his Norwood Park home, an alderman said this afternoon. Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), chair of the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety, shared the news on Twitter. “Two in custody for this horrific home invasion and murder,” Hopkins wrote, “both offenders are undocumented migrants, one from Ecuador, one from Venezuela

With a blizzard of executive orders, President Donald Trump has jump-started an extraordinary plan to transform the federal government into a leaner operation packed with his loyalists. The fine print of those directives reveals how shrewdly the new administration is maneuvering — and sometimes outright ignoring — the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long protected the civil service of 2.3 million from a political takeover. Trump has skirted Biden-era rules by essentially declaring them unlawful, used probationary periods to place masses of civil servants in limbo and issued a memo lifting restrictions on hiring temporary political appointees to...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) to take the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He was confirmed in a 56-42 vote. Democrats Mark Kelly (Ariz.), John Fetterman (Pa.) and Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) voted with Republicans in favor of his confirmation. Zeldin was a surprise pick for the EPA administrator role because during his congressional tenure, he was more well known for working on international affairs. But he has been a major defender of President Trump, including during the president’s first impeachment in 2019. During his confirmation hearing, Democrats pressed Zeldin on climate change —...

A range of Coca-Cola products have been recalled in the UK after the firm's bottling partner said it had identified "elevated levels" of a chemical called chlorate. Cans of Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, and Sprite Zero sent to cafes and restaurants are being withdrawn as well as 6x250ml Appletiser multipacks sent to UK supermarkets. The announcement follows a larger recall of Coca-Cola products across Europe on Monday. Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, the firm's bottling partner, said the risk of illness was "very low".