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Planned Parenthood North Central States announced it plans to close four clinics in Iowa amid financial challenges. The organization said it will close its clinics in Ames, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and Urbandale in addition to four of its clinics in Minnesota in the coming year. It will also layoff 66 staff members and offer 37 others reassignments. Planned Parenthood said in a press release that the decision to restructure and close the clinics "comes as patient needs and preferences have changed, the broken aspects of our health care system have intensified, the organization’s Minnesota Title X funds have been...

In summary Catholic hospitals run 20% of California’s maternity wards. Their policies generally prohibit abortion, even in miscarriage, as long as a heartbeat can be detected. Anna Nusslock never wanted to be the face of a new kind of reproductive rights battle in California, but when a small Catholic hospital refused to provide an abortion that would end her miscarriage, Nusslock girded herself for a long and difficult conflict. Nusslock felt her civil rights were being violated, she said, even as she lay in the hospital bed curled in on herself, bleeding and mourning the loss of her twin girls....

Los Angeles is hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics. The games were awarded to the city back in 2017 and since then it is preparing for the arrival of tens of thousands of visitors. They city was already struggling a bit because of the deadly wildfires which destroyed significant portions of two neighborhoods in January.No one is suggesting that the Games be postponed or canceled in response to the fires. But there is rising concern that an already difficult endeavor for both Los Angeles, the main host city, and LA2028, the private committee in charge of raising most of the money...

84 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us to rethink everything with everything he wrote. Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque best. Trump forces us to revealuate this modern world all the time. Bob Dylan mastered and elevated American music twice to great literature in a few short years, first as a folkie but then as a great rock n roller. Potus 45 surprised everyone to come down a...

A cat carrying a massive amount of crack cocaine and marijuana into a jail in Costa Rica was taken into custody by prison guards with the stash tied to its back, according to authorities. The black-and-white kitty was used as a drug mule and loaded up with over 230 grams of marijuana and 67 grams of crack cocaine that was meant for prisoners of the Pococi prison, Costa Rica’s justice ministry said in a statement posted to Facebook. “Thanks to the quick actions of acting officers, the cat was able to be caught… thus preventing them from reaching their final...

In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino describes how Shakespeare was central to his early development as a young actor. “I would bellow out monologues as I rambled through the streets of Manhattan,” Pacino writes. “If the hour was late and you heard someone in your alleyway with a bombastic voice shouting iambic pentameter into the night, that was probably me, training myself on the famous Shakespeare soliloquies.”... Pacino “always felt at home on a stage,” and an early performance in a school play literally brought his divorced parents “back together again,” if only for a post-show ice cream....

Donald Trump addressed the graduates of West Point on Saturday during their commencement, giving credit where due, saying, the experience at West Point had been "anything but easy" and he also gave out pardons for cadets with minor offences. Civilian @cherylinperil gave Trump a shoutout over on X, where she wrote in a post: "President Donald Trump giving commencement address to one thousand officers joining the best military, outfitted by President Donald Trump. He also bestowed customary pardon to all West Point Cadets!" As Trump walked to the podium, wearing a black suit, white shirt and purple tie, the crowd...

Recently US President Donald Trump said the notorious Alcatraz Island prison in the waters off San Francisco was to reopen again. But there is a prison just as notorious in fact more so the system of penal colonies in French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America... Gerald Darmanin's tough prison proposal is clearly linked to his presidential aspirations in 2027... Early this morning power knocked out in and around Cannes France hours before the closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival. It's considered sabotage... Late Saturday afternoon Prime Minister Francois Bayrou received representatives of taxi drivers angered by...

On the night of May 25, Russia attacked Ukraine using several types of weapons: drones, Kalibr missiles, and missiles launched from strategic aviation. Where the air raid alert was declared On the evening of May 24, the launch of kamikaze drones by Russian forces toward Ukraine was recorded. Enemy attack UAVs entered Ukrainian airspace from the northern and southern directions. Just a few minutes later, the Ukrainian Air Force reported a threat of ballistic missile use from the northeast of Ukraine. At present, there are also reports of launches from strategic aircraft. As of now, a nationwide air raid alert...

I chose the name: Mazelit Liel Yocheved, and I converted last night before shabbat services in Delray, Florida.Dear friends,Last night, on the Shabbat of Behar-Bechukotai, the 26th of Iyyar, 5785, I officially converted to Judiasm. After studying Judiasm in Brooklyn for 2 years when I lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, I moved to an area without a temple for almost 4 years to recover from anorexia. But after October 7th happened, I knew I needed to go back.There are many reasons why I’ve converted, some of which I’ll cover in a following essay when the dizzyness and excitment of the...

CNN’s Jake Tapper, one of the biggest shills for Biden and his “sharp as a tack” mental state, is now seeking to profit with a sham exposé of the Democrats’ cover-up with his new book “Original Sin,” co-authored by Axios’ Alex Thompson. An excerpt from the book reveal that Harris lost it after her post-debate interview in an entitled rant about how the Vice President deserves to be treated. “I thought we were better than that,” she allegedly said. Kamala Harris was visibly triggered as she stammered at Cooper’s questioning of Biden’s horrible debate performance in the June 27, 2024...

This follows Senator Chris Van Hollen’s (D-MD) visit to El Salvador last month, where he sipped margaritas with Abrego Garcia. These lawmakers have shown more care for a deported illegal alien criminal from El Salvador than they ever did for Maryland citizen and mother of five Rachel Morin, who was viciously raped and murdered in 2023 by another Salvadoran illegal. Democrats and their mainstream media friends glorified Abrego Garcia as a “Maryland father” and an “innocent” man who was “kidnapped” by the Trump Administration and El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. However, they refuse to mention that he is actually an...

On Wednesday May 21, former US Attorney, New York City mayor, and author of The Biden Crime Family: The Blueprint for Their Prosecution, Rudy Giuliani, joined Steve Bannon’s War Room to discuss his current strategies for prosecuting the Biden family. Giuliani balanced his prosecutorial blueprint with unabashed commentary on Joe Biden’s lack of mental soundness. Then, Giuliani unleashed his evidentiary framework regarding the Biden family’s quid pro quos with foreign nations. “The people who covered this up – it is treason,” Giuliani said.

Amazing movie, amazing messaging, amazing representation of our military. Never so proud to see something like this on the big screen........I am trying to figure out a way to track the uptick in sales for St Christopher medals after millions of people see this movie around the world......how many young people will be wearing them, even if they do not understand the significance?......thank you, Tom Cruise, for leading the way for our young people.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — An 18-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder for a shooting last night in Virginia. Kianmeh Shirinipaziziba, 18, of McLean, Virginia, has been charged in connection with a shooting that took place in the 300 block of Elden Street, according to the Herndon Police Department (HPD). Officers said they received a call around 9:40 p.m. on Friday reporting disorderly conduct. Shortly after, Shirinipaziziba himself called police, saying he encountered the suspect on Elden Street and shot him, said HPD. Shirinipaziziba was taken into custody without incident. After interviews with witnesses, police charged Shirinipaziziba with Second...

Harvard refuses to expel two violent students named Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal, even though there is video proof that they assaulted a Jewish student.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Praying daily since 2015:

The judge who oversaw the trial of Derek Chauvin has given an explosive interview as he spoke out for the first time in four years. Peter Cahill was in charge of proceedings in 2021, when jurors spent three weeks listening to testimony about the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd, an unarmed black man, had been suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill in the lead up to the fatal run-in with Chauvin and three other officers. Restraining Floyd, Chauvin knelt on his neck and back for what officials later deemed was over 9...

Nigel Farage will this week outflank Sir Keir Starmer by committing to scrapping the two-child benefit cap and fully reinstating the winter fuel payment. The Reform leader will appeal to Left-leaning voters in a challenge to Sir Keir in a speech launching his biggest attack yet on the Prime Minister. His intervention is likely to spark a fresh wave of demands from Labour rebels for Downing Street to speed up planned policy shifts on both fronts. Sir Keir is open to scrapping the two-child benefit cap but Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, is understood to be resisting an immediate announcement until...

Another massive Russian drone and ballistic missile attack is being carried out against Ukraine tonight This video shows people trying to escape on foot from a Russian suicide drone in Kyiv