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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement is facing backlash online after promoting a “Trans Period Pride” event at a public library centered on “menstrual equity” and transgender experiences with menstruation. A Tuesday post featuring a graphic with a pink tampon and blue menstrual pad read, “Join MASS NOW and the MA Trans Political Coalition for a consciousness-raising discussion on menstrual equity and the experiences of trans menstruators.” The free event will be held in June at the Boston Public Library’s Copley Branch. The event, which includes a catered dinner and “free period underwear provided to all attendees,” is...

After cruising to the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate in March, James Talarico now appears focused on a different challenge: convincing Texas general election voters he is more moderate than the progressive activist Republicans have spent years watching online. Republicans are already framing the effort as a “moderate media makeover” ahead of what is expected to become the most expensive Senate race in U.S. history. During an interview with CBS News the day after Paxton won the Republican Senate runoff, officially setting the general-election matchup, Talarico was asked about his assertion that there are six sexes and a 2021 statement...

Is it free woolly? Scientists were flabbergasted after discovering that the mammoth backbones that had been housed in an Alaskan museum for 70 years actually belonged to a whale, per a study published in the Journal of Quaternary Science. This archaeological case of mistaken identity began way back in the 1950s, when archaeologist Otto Geist happened upon some bones while traveling through the Alaskan interior, roughly 10 miles North of Fairbanks in a region formerly known as Beringia, The Smithsonian Magazine reported. He assumed the remnants, a pair of growth plates, belonged to the plush pachyderm mammoth based on their...

The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former advice columnist who won more than $88 million in jury awards against President Donald Trump, according to a source familiar with the matter. The investigation, first reported by CNN, is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury during testimony related to her lawsuits against Trump. Specifically, investigators are examining statements Carroll made in 2022 claiming that she had not received outside financial support for her legal battles. That claim later came under scrutiny after Carroll’s legal team disclosed that billionaire Democrat donor and LinkedIn...

New York Attorney General Letitia James was accused by her GOP challenger Friday of misusing a whopping $20 million to hire outside lawyers to do her office’s work. The claims from Republican AG candidate Saritha Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor, came as state Democrats quietly expanded the scope of a $10 million legal defense fund, set up last year to help their embattled comrades like James. “The $10 million legal defense fund set aside for Letitia James’s personal legal troubles is an insult to hardworking taxpayers who are already struggling with the highest costs in the nation,” Komatireddy railed in...

(The Center Square) — A federal judge has overturned a New Hampshire law that required unregistered voters to provide proof of citizenship to cast ballots in state elections. The ruling late Thursday by U.S. District Court judge Samantha Elliott sided with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups who sued to block the law, saying the requirement for new voters to provide a birth certificate or valid U.S. passport to cast a ballot on election day was unconstitutional. “New Hampshire’s interest in election integrity cannot justify the burden on New Hampshire voters based on the evidence in this case,"...

A far-left New York congressional hopeful who just snagged Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement spewed radical and hateful views online — trashing cops, establishment Democrats and calling the US “a f–ing disgrace.” Darializa Avila Chevalier’s disturbing social media history came to light as Mamdani on Thursday night shockingly endorsed her bid to unseat five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY). “I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18 but you out of your mind if you think I’m voting for a war criminal,” she wrote in 2020, using a since-deleted X account. “This country is a f—ing disgrace,” she added. A...

Fans going to the World Cup have complained of being misled about the locations of the seats they were purchasing while Fifa’s public statements and ticket releases have possibly contributed to soaring prices. Sir Keir Starmer said he is urging world football’s governing body to “take action” amid concerns fans are being exploited. The Prime Minister’s intervention also comes after the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey insisted Fifa must answer questions after allegations of “artificially inflating prices” and “misleading fans” over the sale of match tickets earlier this week. Speaking to the Sun, Sir Keir said: “Football...

Can woke leave anything alone? Allie reacts to (Michael Passons and Melissa Greene) former members of the Christian music group Avalon Worship re-releasing “Testify to Love” and proclaiming it was a sexual perversion anthem all along. She explores the rise of AI through a biblical lens, asking whether tools like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude represent exciting new technology or something far more spiritually dangerous. She breaks down what AI actually is (and isn’t), warns against treating it as conscious or godlike, and offers clear biblical guidance on practical, moral, and spiritual pitfalls — from AI-generated sermons and worship music to...

In receiving healing a lot of times people overlook something that seems so simple and yet are so powerful. And that is words, they play a huge role in receiving healing. And we can see that because the scriptures says that words are health-medicine/remedy/healing/cure to your flesh. In Proverbs 16:24 it says, Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Proverbs 12:18 says, There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. Understand, that's when your words are in line with God's word for...

The federal verdict is in, but the local fallout from Spokane’s June 2025 protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still playing out, with another trial set for August 10. A jury panel convicted Justice Forral, Jac Archer and Bajun Mavalwallla II on Thursday of conspiracy to impede or injure federal agents, nearly a year after protests at an ICE facility led to dozens of arrests. The three defendants were among nine protesters indicted by the Trump administration a month after the protest last year. The other six people have already pleaded guilty in exchange for deals that could reduce...

(The Center Square) - ExxonMobil shareholders on Wednesday approved the board of directors’ plan to redomicile the company's legal headquarters to Texas. Shareholders also rejected a proposal made by two proxy advisory firms urging them to vote against the plan and add more automatic voting options to the company’s retail investor voting program. In March, ExxonMobil Corp., based in Spring, Texas, announced its board unanimously recommended its shareholders approve changing its legal domicile from New Jersey to Texas, where its leadership and core operations have been based since 1989. The board hadn’t held a meeting in New Jersey for more...

A lesbian minister in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is canceling her church’s annual Fourth of July celebrations in an act of political protest apparently against the country’s — as well as her own congregation’s — “whiteness.” Rev. Erin Splaine announced to her community Thursday that the Second Congregational Meeting House Society, Unitarian Universalist church would be canceling its customary July 4th celebrations, which include a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. “We came to this decision in large measure because of the recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court,” Splaine wrote...

Paul McCartney has an idea for a posthumous collaboration with Prince. During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years, the Beatles legend shared high praise for the Purple One, specifically naming his 1986 single “Kiss” as a favorite. “He took a lot from Hendrix, but he was a great player,” McCartney noted of Prince’s guitar playing on the tune. “It’s just so simple, again to pull that kind of thing off, you can do a kind of simple thing, and it can just sound simple but not great, but his sounds simply great. He’s a wizard.”...

EXCLUSIVE: House panel says it uncovered new funding links between Biden admin and anti-Netanyahu, left-wing groups. “Our government is sending American tax dollars to NGOs that are undermining our ally—our best ally—the State of Israel,” Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, told JNS. May 29, 2026. Andrew Bernard. The House Judiciary Committee said that it has uncovered new funding links between the Biden administration and left-wing groups that oppose the Israeli government, as well as groups with ties to terrorist organizations A May 29 committee memorandum, which JNS obtained exclusively and which was addressed to committee members from...

Two nonprofits are demanding an investigation into Oregon’s allegedly anti-white education grants. Defending Education and Do No Harm (DNH) filed a joint complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights against Oregon’s education department and Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) on May 28, according to a Defending Education press release. The complaint accuses an Oregon grants program of being racially discriminatory. The U.S. Department of Education, Oregon’s Department of Education, and HECC did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment. “What stands out most about Oregon’s system of public school funding is the...

A chilling tattoo of a human heart clutched by clawed hands may have helped federal prosecutors tie an alleged MS-13 gangster to one of Los Angeles’ most gruesome killings, a court has heard. Prosecutors claim Angel Guzman helped butcher a man while deep inside the Angeles National Forest in 2017 — stabbing him more than 100 times, carving out his heart with a machete, and dumping his body into a canyon, the LA Times reported. Now, Guzman and three other alleged members of the notorious MS-13 Fulton gang are facing federal charges tied to a bloody string of murders that...

At a time when much of Europe’s ecclesial discourse on migration focuses almost exclusively on humanitarian assistance and social integration, Bishop Antonio Suetta of the Diocese of Ventimiglia-San Remo has issued a strikingly direct challenge to Catholics: welcoming migrants without sharing the Gospel is ultimately an incomplete form of charity. In a pastoral letter published on May 24 for Pentecost and titled No Greater Love, the Italian bishop argues that Christians betray their mission if they provide migrants with food, shelter and legal assistance while remaining silent about Jesus Christ. The document, unusual in tone within today’s European ecclesial climate,...

Vice President Kamala Harris acted like a “courtroom prosecutor” in her insistence that President Joe Biden immediately endorse her for the 2024 Democratic nomination after he abruptly ended his bid for a second term, former first lady Jill Biden writes in her forthcoming memoir. In “View from the East Wing,” out June 2, Jill Biden recounts the conversation on July 21, 2024, when the 46th president told his second in command he would be the first commander-in-chief not to seek re-election since Lyndon Johnson in 1968. “Oh my God, Joe. Are you sure?” Jill Biden recalls Harris saying before pushing...

Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., a former teacher and principal known in Congress for her colorful outfits and matching hats, said Friday she will not seek re-election this fall. “This has been a journey, but it’s time. It’s time. And I know all of you are wondering, ‘What is the congresswoman going to do?’ Well, the congresswoman is going to not seek another term,” Wilson said at a ceremony where a street in the Miami area was named in her honor. The street is next to a school that is also named after her. “Even leather wears out,” she said, adding...