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Apple is working to fix what the company said was a bug that displayed the Palestinian flag emoji when some iPhone users typed in “Jerusalem” in text after it sparked controversy on social media amid the Israel-Hamas war. Some iPhone users in the U.K. noticed the device’s keyboard would display the Palestinian flag emoji among a list of prompts when a user typed the word “Jerusalem.”

Schoolchildren are converting to Islam in German schools as Christian students feel like outsiders and are desperate to try and fit in, a new study has warned. 'More and more parents of German children are turning to counselling centres because the Christian children want to convert so that they are no longer outsiders at school,' a state security officer told German tabloid Bild.A study by the Criminal Research Institute of Lower Saxony found that 67.8 per cent of the surveyed students believe that the Koran is 'more important' than the laws in Germany. Nearly half of them (45.6 per cent)...

A constitutional battle is shaping up over whether the U.S. government can force the owners and top employees of small businesses to send their addresses and photo IDs to federal financial crime investigators. The Biden administration has appealed a decision by a federal judge in Alabama, who ruled this month the Corporate Transparency Act exceeded the powers granted to Congress by the Constitution. The government says the information collected from small businesses will ferret out shell companies and help law and intelligence officers foil human smugglers, drug traffickers and terrorists. The appeal has a good chance because courts rarely strike...

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade’s worth of its internal email — and that of thousands of Securence clients — in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minn., U.S. Internet is a regional ISP that provides fiber and wireless Internet service. The ISP’s Securence division bills itself “a...

On Tuesday, February 6, the Uttarakhand government tabled the much-awaited Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state assembly. The bill included various provisions, including a complete ban on polygamy and child marriage, a standardised marriageable age for girls across all faiths, and a uniform process for divorce. These proposals, geared towards promoting gender equality and social harmony, will be discussed during the ongoing special four-day assembly session, which commenced on Monday and will run until Thursday. The draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) covered a wide range of aspects of civil life. It includes suggestions regarding inheritance rights, compulsory...

A video of Nabil Absi, a Muslim man originally from Algeria but lives in Quebec, Canada, has stunned many. The video showed the man dressed in Catholic priestly attire and walked right into a Catholic church during mass. He went close to the priest, spread his Islamic prayer mat and performed the Islamic ritual to the shock of the congregants who watched him while also reciting their Christian hymnal song simultaneously.The video showed the man dressed in Catholic priestly attire and walked right into a Catholic church during mass. He went close to the priest, spread his Islamic prayer mat...

In a recent interview on Bradley Martyn's Raw Talk podcast, American entrepreneur and author Patrick Bet-David shared thought-provoking insights regarding demographic trends, particularly the contrasting birth rates between Muslim and non-Muslim populations in the United States. Bet-David expressed concern about the potential consequences of these demographic shifts, suggesting that within a few decades, Muslims might hold significant political influence in the United States.Bet-David highlighted a key statistical difference in birth rates between Muslim and non-Muslim communities. According to his observations, Muslims, on average, have 2.9 children per woman, while Christians and non-Muslims have an average of 2.1 children. Bet-David contends...

Oregon has the second highest rate of homelessness in the nation, trailing only California, according to a new federal count of homeless individuals in 2023. And Oregon has the highest rate of families with children and unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness of any state. The lack of affordable housing is a significant factor.The new count found there are 48 unhoused Oregonians for every 10,000 people in the state – or 20,142 unhoused people total. Experts agree the numbers are likely an undercount. The phenomenon is not new, but it is quickly getting worse.

Oregon has more LGBTQ+ people per capita than any other state, according to a report from The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles and shared by the Advocate. You don’t have to look far to find representation in Oregon. After Governor Kate Brown became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected as governor in the history of the United States in 2016, Governor Tina Kotek became one of the first two openly lesbian governors in 2022.

Oregon’s U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden will block the nomination of a new director for the National Security Agency until the agency publicly discloses whether it is purchasing, storing and using electronic data on everyday Americans. Wyden has asked the agency to disclose this information since 2021, but he’s intensifying pressure in the lead up to a vote on nominating Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh to lead the NSA, as well as a key vote from Congress this week on whether to extend or reform a major foreign surveillance law set to expire at the end of the year. Wyden said the...

Several gold bars discovered by federal agents in Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's residence as part of a high-profile bribery investigation can be traced to a violent robbery a decade ago. According to a sprawling indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors in September, Menendez and his wife allegedly played a role in a years-long bribery scheme that involved the Egyptian government and local businessmen including Fred Daibes, a wealthy New Jersey real estate developer. Prosecutors revealed they retrieved multiple gold bars from Menendez's home which were allegedly used as payment in the scheme. At least four of the gold bars...

Susceptibility to misinformation and disinformation likely to have played part in Leave vote.New research from the University of Bath’s School of Management finds that higher cognitive ability was strongly linked to voting to Remain in the 2016 UK referendum on European Union Membership.The study shows that cognitive skills including memory, verbal fluency, fluid reasoning and numerical reasoning, were correlated with how people decided to vote. Lead author Dr Chris Dawson, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, said: “This study adds to existing academic evidence showing that low cognitive ability makes people more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation. People...

A Democratic Congressional Candidate is 'reclaiming her sexuality' after a clip of her working at a Manhattan BDSM dungeon was leaked. Courtney Casgraux, 41, is a self-described 'international businesswoman' who is running for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's first district. The single mother of a teenage son was exposed in a video leaked on Reddit for working as a dominatrix in Manhattan during hers 20s and 30s. Casgraux would charge clients $500 for playing the dominant role in BDSM activities. The California native returned to the BDSM industry when she began working at Donatella's...

Israel must allow and even encourage the arming of citizens, but must also make a better law enforcement policy to crack down on illegal weapons. Once upon a time, before October 7, I thought that allowing civilians to buy and own guns was definitely not a desirable step. There are many cases in which such a weapon could be used to harm innocent people, lead to the murder of women suffering domestic violence, cause unnecessary bullet discharges, and more. . . . However, following October 7 and the atrocities perpetrated that day against unarmed and harmless civilians, including gang rapes,...

Georgia, Oregon and Washington election officials have all received some forms of threats over the past few weeks. A letter, post-marked from Portland, read “Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.” and it included the three arrows symbol (Leftist antifascists/Antifa). At least one letter had powder. For instance, this photo (obtained by the Taxpayers Association of Oregon) from this summer in Athens, Greece during their elections shows an anarchist flyer calling for people to burn the ballot boxes. In 2019, Greek anarchists actually burned...

Prospective lawyers no longer need to pass the bar exam to become licensed in Oregon following a decision Tuesday by the state Supreme Court.The Oregon State Bar can now license law school graduates who submit a portfolio of their work practicing law for an independent evaluation as an alternative to the traditional exam, a change the leader of Willamette University’s College of Law has pushed for years. The court unanimously approved the new Supervised Practice Portfolio Examination, which will allow graduates to complete 675 hours of legal work supervised by an experienced attorney. That’s the amount of time most people...

A common microbe found in sewage, marine sediment, soil, and the GI tracts of pets and farm animals may play a defining role in multiple sclerosis, according to a new study. The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that a toxin produced by certain C. perfringens bacteria may be the long sought-after trigger that degrades the blood-brain barrier and kicks off the relentless inflammation and brain cell degradation characteristic of MS. “If this is the environmental trigger for MS, we can now start talking about a vaccine, monoclonal antibodies, or some other therapy,” says Rashid Rumah, co-author...

With the 2024 election just a year away, the Oregon Secretary of State signed a contract with an AI-powered threat intelligence program to “identify, advise, and combat harmful MDM information online.” The contract was signed today, October 27th. OFA Media reached out to the Oregon Election’s Division communication team for comment, but haven’t received a response. According to sources, the platform is a company called “Logically Intelligence” whose mission is to “reduce the harms associated with mis- and disinformation” and “provide analysts with content analysis tools to detect harmful online narratives and threats at speed and at scale.” Here’s an...

A person riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots. The San Francisco-bound flight on Sunday diverted to Portland, where it was met by law enforcement officers. . . . . “We’ve got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit. And he — doesn’t sound like he’s causing any issue in the back right now, and I think he’s subdued,” one of the pilots said on audio captured by LiveATC.com. “Other...

The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal for lack of standing of an action, brought before the 2022 general election by former Republican nominees for Governor and Secretary of State of Arizona, alleging that Arizona’s use of electronic tabulation systems violated the federal Constitution. The gravamen of Plaintiffs’ operative complaint is that notwithstanding safeguards, electronic tabulation systems are particularly susceptible to hacking by non-governmental actors who intend to influence election results. On appeal, Plaintiffs conceded that their arguments were limited to potential future hacking, and not based on any past harm. The panel held that because Plaintiffs are no longer...