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A New York district attorney apologized after a recent outburst directed at a police officer who pulled her over for speeding. Body cam footage caught the moments Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley encountered a police officer in Webster after she was caught speeding. She has since released a video apology, the New York Post reported Monday, “Last Monday I failed you and the standards that I hold myself to, and for that I am so sorry. What I did was wrong, no excuses. I take full responsibility for my actions,” Doorley said in the video: I didn’t treat this...

As the crowed swarmed me, one student yelled, “He’s subhuman!” Another student shouted, “I can’t wait for Hamas to come to your door … al-Qassam is going to kill all your friends for no reason.” I pointed with pride to the red Kippah, Jewish skullcap, that adorned my head. It was soon forcefully ripped off by a “peaceful” student who dug his nails into my scalp as he pulled it off, along with some hair. This was one of three assaults I was subjected to at Columbia University. I am a “professional Jew.” It takes a lot to unnerve me....

The Left’s winter of discontent appears to be transitioning into a summer of rage as college campus unrest heats up with the warmer weather. Well-funded and well-organized anti-Israel protests are spreading from one college campus to another. And they are becoming a feature in America’s Democrat-run cities as mobs of radicals have been able to shut down roads, bridges, busy intersections, and businesses with impunity. Unlike in 1968 when similar student unrest was eventually met with force when protests got out of line, most of America’s institutions have become willingly or unwillingly helpless in the face of this chaos. There...

President Joe Biden’s approval rating average (38.7 percent) in the 13th quarter is the lowest of any president recorded, Gallup polling found on Friday. Biden’s terrible approval numbers of his 13th quarter in office, which began on January 20 and ended April 19, suggests he will have a difficult time winning reelection. Presidents historically need to average around 50 percent to win reelection. “Jimmy Carter is the only other president with a sub-50% average in his 13th quarter. Three of the four prior presidents who had 13th-quarter approval averages below 50% lost their reelection bids, with Obama the exception,” Gallup...

According to The Independent, for the first time, an anti-slavery helpline in the United Kingdom has reported suspected forced surrogacy. The anti-slavery charity Unseen released UK-wide data ahead of its annual report, which is expected to be released within a week. Calls to the helpline have increased “significantly” for the fourth year in a row, and the number of potential slavery victims has risen 30%. Unseen also noted that three women who contacted the helpline in the last year are potentially victims of forced surrogacy. It defined forced surrogacy as forcing or coercing a woman into carrying a child for...

The UK will not take back asylum seekers who have crossed into Ireland as the Rwanda deportation scheme gets going, Rishi Sunak has said. The Irish deputy PM has said people are crossing from Northern Ireland because they fear being sent to east Africa. Irish ministers are preparing emergency laws to override a recent Irish court ruling that banned returns to the UK. But the prime minister said the UK was "not interested" in accepting people back from Ireland. "We're not going to accept returns from the EU via Ireland when the EU doesn't accept returns back to France where...

Explanation: Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most familiar was the Moon, seen on the upper left in a crescent phase. The rest of the Moon was faintly visible by sunlight first reflected by the Earth. The bright planet Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, is seen to the upper left. Most unusual was Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, below the Moon and showing a stubby dust tail on the right but an impressive ion tail extending upwards. The featured image, a composite of several images taken consecutively at the...

SHOULD CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS BE A PART OF K-12 SEX-ED? California law requires K-12 students to receive comprehensive sexual health and HIV-prevention education. Should that education include information about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers? Some California schools already do so — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced earlier this month that his office sent a letter to one such center, Modesto Pregnancy Center which provides sex ed curriculum materials to Modesto City Schools District, demanding that it provide proof that the center provides medically accurate and unbiased sexual health education to public school students. A California Republican lawmaker has introduced a...

Why is it that our establishment is more than happy to allow violent people to sneak into the country via the English Channel. hello 0:03 there why is it that our establishment 0:06 is more than happy to allow violent 0:09 people to sneak into the country via the 0:12 English 0:13 [Music] 0:21 Channel neither the French nor the UK 0:24 governments want you to see this because 0:27 it would ruin their cozy little 0:28 arrangement of caring newcomers across 0:31 the channel and into the 0:33 UK but if the UK public got the hint 0:36 that...

An illegal alien is accused of killing 27-year-old Jacques Price, the father of a five-year-old boy, in a hit-and-run crash in the sanctuary county of Montgomery County, Maryland. Gilver Yuviny Zelaya Diaz, a 42-year-old illegal alien, was arrested and charged with Price’s death after prosecutors alleged that he hit the young father, who was skateboarding at the time, and then fled the scene of the crash. On April 8, prosecutors said Diaz was driving without a license when he struck Price who was skateboarding. Diaz allegedly fled the scene, leaving Price dead on the ground.

A small-scale jet engine compact enough to fit on a tabletop is helping to make the future of aviation more sustainable, according to NASA engineers currently involved in tests that could help pave the way toward new aircraft propulsion systems of the coming decades. The DGEN380 Aero-Propulsion Research Turbofan (DART) is less than 4.5 feet in length, making it half the size of engines on moderately sized aircraft, and NASA engineers are now using the miniature engine to help to reduce costs associated with using a full-sized jet engine for research and testing purposes. Currently, experiments with the small jet...

Auditors have slammed a homelessness nonprofit in San Francisco for being 'careless and irresponsible' with $240 million of taxpayer money, in the latest scandal to rock California's bloated charity housing sector. HomeRise, one of the city's main providers of homeless housing, 'misused' funds, lacked financial controls and engaged in other practices that 'heightened the risk of fraud,' says a damning city report. It's the latest in a slew of revelations about waste in California's so-called 'homelessness industrial complex' — a gravy train of funders, officials, and shelter owners more keen on swallowing public funds than solving the problem.

Afroman reprised his 2000 hit song, “Because I Got High,” with a new version making fun of Hunter Biden. Baste Records posted on X on Friday about Afroman’s new song, “Hunter Got High,” sharing a link to the full video on YouTube. Hey Hunter! Roll another one of those congressional blunts, brotha,” the video starts, as Afroman and an actor portraying Hunter Biden pull up smoking in the back of a black SUV. “He was gonna get his laptop fixed, but Hunter got high,” Afroman sings. “He shoulda let Hillary bleach the whole hard drive. But Hunter got high, Hunter...

It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere. Maybe it’s also time to rethink drinking? Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods have thrown cold water on that. “Drinking less is a great way to be healthier,” said Dr. Timothy Naimi, who directs the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Guidelines vary a lot from country to country but the overall trend is toward drinking less. The United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Holland and Australia recently reviewed new evidence and lowered their alcohol...

As usual, ‘HistoryLegends’ provides an excellent summary of recent battles in Ukraine and does an excellent tactical analysis. He’s good at separating the on-the-ground realities from all the noise in the media. All wars, if they last long enough, will evolve. The Ukraine-Russo war has evolved to the point that each side is doing its best to attack the enemy’s infrastructure including “dual use” infrastructure such as refineries and railway stations and support facilities.

Nancy Pelosi slammed former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson for backing Donald Trump in the race to the White House on Sunday. Earlier this month, shortly before the first of Trump’s four criminal trials began, Truss claimed that the “world was safer” when Trump was in office. She claimed a “strong America” under the presumptive Republican candidate was needed now more than ever. In January, her predecessor, Johnson – once dubbed “Britain Trump” by the ex-president himself – said Trump’s return to the White House could be “just what the world needs”.

All but two Massachusetts House Democrats voted against an amendment to provide statewide shelter priority to U.S. military veterans over migrants. On Friday, all 25 Massachusetts state House Republicans were joined by two others across the aisle in voting for Amendment 698 as part of House Bill 4600. The amendment introduced by Republican Minority Leader Bradley Jones, titled "Homeless Veterans Prioritization for Shelter Assistance," failed on a 27-129 roll call vote. 01:17 Massachusetts Asks Citizens to Take in Migrants Amid State of Emergency By Nick Mordowanec Staff Writer FOLLOW 72 All but two Massachusetts House Democrats voted against an amendment...

Leaders of the First Unitarian Church of Dallas cut the ribbon Friday on a new pregnancy resource center that aims to provide comprehensive reproductive health information and to act as a foil for crisis pregnancy centers. The Truth Pregnancy Resource Center is a direct reaction to Texas’ strict abortion bans that made the procedure illegal in all cases but those that threaten the life of the mother. Abortion clinics around the state shuttered, limiting access to women’s health care providers in regions already known to be maternal care deserts. Doors down from the now-closed Southwestern Women’s Surgery Center, which offered...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Tennessee bill that would authorize the death penalty as a punishment for rape of a child sits on Gov. Bill Lee's desk. This bill allows prosecutors to go after the death penalty when it comes to heinous crimes against children, like sexual assault of a child under the age of 12. It passed both the House and the Senate last month. Legislators say the person convicted would have to be 18-years or older. Supporters believe this would act as a deterrent. Critics say it might make it harder for the victim to come forward, especially...

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