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As 2025 enters its final months, battles over the legalization of assisted suicide continue to advance toward uncertain outcomes. The battlefields include the British House of Lords, New York State, and the Australian State of Victoria. Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick on the expansion of “access” to assisted suicide in Canada, where the effective date has been moved to March 17, 2027 for “medical aid in dying” (MAID) to become available for people whose “sole underlying condition is a mental illness.” Altogether, the pending proposals and arguments on their behalf illustrate what Wesley Smith calls the “slippery slope” of...

The Agriculture Department has $5.5 billion in backup funds for food stamp benefits but says it can’t use them.With the nation’s primary anti-hunger program on the verge of running out of money, more than two dozen states and D.C. sued the Agriculture Department on Tuesday to force it to make billions of dollars in contingency funds available to help feed the most vulnerable individuals and families. SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program commonly known as food stamps, needs $9.2 billion to pay benefits in November. The Trump administration has said there’s no money for next month because of the government...

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray The assailant in the mass stabbing that occurred in Britain earlier today has been identified as a 22 year old asylum seeker from Afghanistan who snuck into the country on a truck. He killed a man walking his dog and also stabbed a teen and another victim.

Cue the Sinatra music!On Monday, MSNBC’s parent company Versant — the name of the company consisting of seven cable news channels Comcast no longer wanted to be tied down to — decreed the much-lampooned name-change for the far-left hot take factory to MS NOW would commence on Saturday, November 15, bringing to an end the network that launched on July 15, 1996.Along with the tacky name and cheap-looking logo of a waving flag with two stripes set on a blue or white background, Versant said the marketing campaign behind MS Now would be “Same Mission. New Name.” How exciting.A press...

President Donald Trump and his administration are undoing a Biden-era immigration provision that would have facilitated abortions for children. The Daily Signal reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is terminating rules and programs that violate the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal taxpayer dollars for abortions. The move includes ending a rule change from 2022 affecting the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a division of HHS that deals with unaccompanied children (UACs) encountered crossing the border. The Biden administration issued a requirement that ORR facilitate UACs with “access to medical care, including transportation...

Republican Winsome Sears, a staunch pro-life advocate, is locked in a tightening race against pro-abortion Rep. Abigail Spanberger for Virginia governor as Election Day on Nov. 5 approaches. Recent polls are showing the contest narrowing amid fierce debates over protecting unborn children from abortion up to birth. Pro-life leaders are rallying behind Sears, warning that a Spanberger victory could enshrine unlimited abortions in the state constitution, devastating thousands of babies and devaluing human life. The race has drawn national attention as Virginia’s off-year election serves as an early barometer for 2026 congressional battles, with Sears positioning herself as a defender...

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https://babylonbee.com/news/due-to-depleted-bullpen-jason-bateman-to-start-game-4-for-dodgersLOS ANGELES, CA — After Monday night's epic 18-inning marathon Game 3 severely depleted their bullpen, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that actor Jason Bateman would take the mound for the team in Game 4. Though superstar Shohei Ohtani had initially been scheduled to pitch, last night's extra-long game led the club to rethink its strategy heading into Tuesday night's game, instead signing the Arrested Development star and lifelong Dodgers fan to make the start. "We just didn't have anyone else who could do it," said Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts. "We were going to send Shohei out there, but he's...

The alleged connection between the Mafia and two former NBA players -- Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and longtime veteran Damon Jones -- began the way such things often do: through a little-known intermediary. That's one of the ways organized crime finds its way into locker rooms and athletes' inner circles -- by degrees, through introductions that seem harmless enough. What starts as a friendly poker night or an invitation from a trusted acquaintance can, before long, become something else entirely -- a sticky web of influence and, soon enough, obligation, former prosecutors and those who study the Mob say....

President Donald Trump declared that he will escalate his military deployments in major cities to curb crime, a move that has met with controversy. The president addressed American service members in Japan on Monday, touting the strength of the U.S. military and his administration’s approach to foreign and domestic security. “We’ve just approved the biggest budget in the history—one over a trillion dollars,” he said. Trump further highlighted the excellence of the U.S. Navy and celebrated the longstanding alliance with Japan’s government. A core theme of the president’s speech was restoring law and order and protecting public safety it American...

Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans. Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans. Protesters cheer during a rally against redistricting at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Aug. 7, 2025. | Michael Conroy/APA fiercely independent governor in New Hampshire, an octogenarian iconoclast in Nebraska and a Kansas Republican who bucked his party on transgender legislation have unwittingly formed a national bulwark against President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push.Despite threats and force, Trump’s team is finding there are some state-level Republicans who simply won’t budge on...

We spoke to the Dogs of Chernobyl program to find out what's going on. Three blue dogs were pictured in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone on October 6, 2025. Image courtesy of Clean Futures Fund Dogs with blue fur have been spotted snooping in Chernobyl, the restricted area surrounding the epicenter of the infamous nuclear disaster. Rest assured, the dogs have not changed color due to any freakish mutation from decades of radiation – the explanation is likely to be far more mundane, if not a little bit gross. Speaking to IFLScience, researchers from the Dogs of Chernobyl program confirmed that...

Tallahassee, FL — Over the last three or four weeks, Florida abortionist Kirk Brody has reportedly failed to show up and commit abortions at any of the usual All Women’s Health Center locations currently associated with him. When Michele Herzog of Pro-Life Action Ministries Central Florida took notice of this, she did a little digging and quickly found out why. Documents provided to Operation Rescue reveal Brody’s Florida license was suspended indefinitely in early September – a direct result of another suspension of his medical license in Tennessee. In September 2024, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered an immediate...

Senate Republicans cited a call by the American Federation of Government Employees to pass a funding extension in an attempt to pressure Democrats to relent. The effort fell flat.Senate Democrats refused on Tuesday to budge after the largest federal workers’ union pleaded with lawmakers to reopen the government and Republicans moved to take advantage of the split.The day after the American Federation of Government Employees said it was “long past time” to end the government closure, which is entering its fifth week, all but three Democratic-aligned senators voted against taking up a Republican temporary spending bill.Republicans pounced on the statement...

On the heels of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new generic abortion drug, a large national survey by McLaughlin & Associates made public today finds 7 in 10 likely voters – including 57% of liberal voters – approve of requiring a doctor visit to receive a prescription for abortion drugs. Similarly, 7 in 10 voters agree it “makes sense” to bring back safeguards that were removed by Biden’s FDA. Although the majority of voters in the survey identified as pro-choice, voters across the board also have “significant doubts” about the safety of the FDA’s current policy...

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A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, an attorney for the teacher said Tuesday as trial opened in the woman’s $40 million lawsuit.Abby Zwerner, a first-grade teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, was shot in the hand and chest in January 2023 as she sat at a reading table in her classroom. Zwerner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital, required six surgeries and does not have the full use of her left hand. A bullet remains in...

In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 World Series was watched by an average of seven million Canadians. That’s more than one-sixth of the entire population of Canada. Game 2 clocked in at 6.6 million viewers. Per Sportsnet, the Canadian rights holder for all Blue Jays games, Game 1 of the 2025 World Series is now the most-watched Blue Jays game ever per average viewer. Game 2 ranks second. It’s another marker for astounding viewership numbers in Canada this postseason for the Blue Jays:...

UPS has since last year reduced its work force by 48,000 employees, the company said on Tuesday, in a cost-cutting drive aimed at bolstering profits and winning back investors.The Atlanta-based delivery company, which had nearly half a million employees at the start of the year, said 34,000 positions were cut this year among its drivers and warehouse workers, mostly in the United States. The other 14,000 came out of management's ranks in cuts that began last year.UPS's stock price has long lagged the wider stock market, putting pressure on its leaders to deliver stronger profits. News of the work force...

https://babylonbee.com/news/phil-vischer-releases-new-veggietales-episode-with-evil-orange-character-who-deports-mr-luntU.S. — Real-world current events spilled over into children's entertainment once again, as VeggieTales released a new episode with an evil orange character who deports Mr. Lunt. The episode, titled "Man, Orange Bad," depicts the VeggieTales world being thrown into chaos after the newly elected President Orange enacts aggressive immigration policies that result in the longtime character Mr. Lunt being detained and deported back to his home country. "It's like a part of the fabric of the community has been uprooted," says Bob the Tomato in the episode. "We had no idea, but Mr. Lunt, as it turns out, has...