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"Age Attestation on Computing Devices" (Colorado State Bill 26-051) would require age verification on all Operating Systems (both Open Source and proprietary), with fines for violations.

KEY POINTS -Bitcoin tumbled more than 5% on Tuesday, falling below $63,000, before paring some of the losses. -Analysts said the drop reflected “tactical de‑risking.” -Escalating tariff tensions and broader geopolitical risks weighed on the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin tumbled more than 5% on Tuesday to fall below $63,000, as investors continued to grapple with escalating tariff tensions and broader geopolitical risks. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $62,964.64 amid investor pressure to move away from risk assets. Bitcoin pared some of the losses and was trading 1.5% down at $63,290, as of 5.58 a.m ET....

This is a truly Bizarro World story out of deep blue Prince George’s County, Md. Back in December, some 100 families living in the Marylander Condominiums complex were told they would have to leave their homes because the building was deemed “unfit for human habitation.” Last week, a Maryland judge signed a final eviction notice, which could leave many of these families homeless. Why? Turns out that the complex has been besieged for years by a nearby homeless encampment that is “a haven for gangs, drugs, and prostitutes” and has “vaporized property values and caused millions in damage, scaring away...

On Feb. 13, property theft detectives with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office received a report regarding a theft involving a package that was never delivered two days prior, authorities said in a Facebook post. An investigation into the alleged theft resulted in authorities identifying 27-year-old Tyran Jackson, a FedEx delivery driver, as a suspect in the case. Authorities also learned the missing package was located inside a storage unit at the 10500 block of Perkins Road in Baton Rouge, according to police. While executing a search warrant for the storage unit, investigators discovered approximately $62,000 worth of stolen...

24 February 2026 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent St. Matthias Catholic Church Sterling Heights, MI Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 55:10-11The word that goes out from my mouth does not return to me emptyThus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in...

The delusion that a person can change his or her sex through drugs and surgery is now facing significant financial risk as the juvenile victims of this medical scam are pursuing damages for what was done to them. In New York, a now 22-year-old woman has won a $2 million judgment--$1.6 million in damages and $400,000 for future medical care--against the hospital and doctors who filled her full of puberty blockers since she was 13 and cut off her breasts when she was 16. President Trump has cut off federal Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide so-called "gender-affirming...

SUNRISE, Fla. (WFLA) — A woman was arrested in Broward County, Florida, after allegedly leaving her two young kids with an Uber driver for hours, according to authorities. An arrest report said that the Uber driver picked up 32-year-old Emily Sabogal and her two young children, ages 3 and 4 years old. The Uber driver told police that Sabogal had a cup of what he believed to be liquor. At one point during the ride, the Uber driver said that Sabogal grabbed his phone and canceled the ride. She then gave him $10 and asked him to stop the vehicle....

The USA men's hockey team is anxious to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night, according to gold medal game hero Jack Hughes and his brother, Quinn. The USA women's gold medal hockey team declined an invitation, citing scheduling conflicts. The men's team captured its first gold since 1980 thanks to Jack Hughes' overtime heroics during a 2-1 win over Canada. (snip) "We're so proud to represent the U.S. and when you get the chance to go to the White House and meet the President, we're proud to be Americans and that's so patriotic," Jack Hughes...

ATLANTA, GA — While speaking at the Rialto Center for the Arts as part of promotion for his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, California Governor Gavin Newsom wowed a black audience by putting some hot sauce into his purple drank. "See? I'm exactly like you," Newsom said. "It doesn't get more delicious than some hot sauce in your purple drank, am I right? This isn't pandering. Back home, we call this drink a 'Newsom.'" The audience was surprised by the governor's choice of drink and unsure whether or not he was being genuine. Newsom...

A newly released CIA document reveals a chilling blueprint to manipulate minds through covert drugging experiments. The report, added to the CIA's reading room in 2025, details the government's once top-secret Project Artichoke that ran from 1951 to 1956, focusing on behavior control, interrogation techniques and psychological manipulation. The seven-page document, titled 'Special Research for Artichoke,' with an attachment labeled 'Suggested Fields for Special Research Relative Artichoke,' outlines proposals to develop chemicals capable of altering human behavior. It discusses drugs designed for both immediate effects, like truth serums and long-term influence, potentially administered through food, water, alcohol or cigarettes. Researchers...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider urges Pope Leo XIV: Grant ‘the episcopal consecrations of the SSPX’Vatican correspondent Diane Montagna publishes Bishop Athanasius Schneider's ‘Fraternal Appeal’ to Pope Leo, urging permission for the planned SSPX consecrations for the unity of the Church.Editor’s note: The following text is the full Fraternal Appeal of Bishop Athanasius Schneider to Pope Leo XIV on Vatican relations with the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, originally published by Diane Montanga on February 24, 2026.(LifeSiteNews) — The current situation regarding the episcopal consecrations in the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has suddenly awakened the entire Church....

The life I'm describing sounds like complaining about a prize. The Bucket List Is Someone Else's Idea Of My Life My Wife And I Are In The House Together All Day NowThe Friends I Thought I'd See More Are Just As Busy As I Am I Have More To Give Than Anyone Is Currently Asking For

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” Matthew 6:7–8Prayer is so essential to our spiritual lives that we should strive to live in a state of constant prayer, all day, every day. However, saying prayers is very different from truly praying. Jesus begins by teaching that...

Starship Block 3 just entered a new testing phase and SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 12. NASA’s Starliner Crew Flight Test report classifies the mission as a Type A mishap and confirms no crew will fly again until full requalification. Artemis II faces delay after a liquid hydrogen leak during SLS wet dress rehearsal was resolved, only for a helium repressurization anomaly in the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage to trigger rollback to the VAB. Starship Ready for Its Toughest Test Ever Starliner Years-Old Design Flaw NASA Missed | 14:47 Scientia Plus | 54K subscribers | 11,966 views | February 23,...

Around 2,500 years ago in Siberia, a young woman experienced a serious head injury, underwent surgery to reconstruct her jaw, and received a primitive prosthetic during the procedure, CT scans of the woman's mummified remains reveal...In 1994, archaeologists with the Russian Academy of Sciences excavated a small cemetery consisting of five low mounds on the Ukok Plateau. One mound held the undisturbed burial of a woman who was around 25 to 30 years old when she died. She was lying on a wooden cot and was wearing a wig. But because her burial lacked significant artifacts and only a part...

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed a 10 percent tariff on all goods not covered by current exemptions, returning to the global rate first announced by President Trump after the Supreme Court struck a blow to the bulk of his emergency import taxes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released a notice on Monday night showing imports would “be subject to an additional ad valorem rate of 10%,” despite Trump suggesting on Saturday that the rate would increase to 15 percent.

Her father decided to have her born by way of an anonymous egg donor and a surrogate mother. His obsession about having a figure skating daughter was clear: ‘I spared no money, no time,’ Alysa was intentionally created for a single-parent household; she will never know what it means to have a mother. Is this a fair and ethical decision to make?

This is such a great all-American story on top of the great all-American golds won by our Olympic hockey teams in Milan. Between Karma handing out a few lessons of her own to whiny alphabet soup sex skaters who then come in 13th, pissy free stylers who don't come in at all, and greedy snow vixens who toss over the country of their birth to compete in the freeskiing events under the flag of a repressive, authoritarian Communist regime... ...there were some really irritating moments. And the press was doing everything it could to keep raining on the red,...

We’re not sure what the actual flex is for Courier Newsroom -- a literal fake news organization heavily financed by the George Soros empire -- to be co-hosting a supposed rebuttal to President Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address aimed at “bring[ing] together elected officials, cultural figures, journalists, veterans, and organizers for a live counter-address focused on defying Donald Trump's abuses of power[.]” Last week, the radical leftist anti-Trump group DEFIANCE.ORG put out a press release boasting of its supposedly star-studded speaker lineup for its boycott titled, “STATE OF THE SWAMP: The Rebuttal to the State of the Union.”...

Cartel warfare has threatened to spill into California as a Mexican border city was engulfed in violence following the killing of a notorious drug kingpin. Suspected narco-terrorists torched vehicles at the border wall in Tijuana, a stone’s throw from San Diego, set up roadblocks and targeted local businesses on Monday. Haunting footage showed a major highway that runs parallel to the United States completely shut down while cops cautiously inspected a burning car. Violence has also spread farther up the west coast, with local media reports detailing attacks in parts of Baja California and as close to the US as...