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The 15-year-old boy who police say carried out the rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina, that left five dead and two others injured was identified as the younger brother of one of the casualties, according to a report. Austin Thompson was behind the deadly shooting spree in east Raleigh that began around 5 p.m. Thursday, local station WRAL reported, citing anonymous sources. The 15-year-old’s brother, James Roger Thompson, a junior at Knightdale High School, was identified earlier as the youngest of the five deceased victims.

The U.S. Department of Justice told a Florida federal judge on Monday that the Sunshine State's medical marijuana patients had no Second Amendment right to possess firearms since they were breaking a federal law. The DOJ's brief was filed in response to a lawsuit brought by the commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and three Florida residents, who allege a federal rule barring medical marijuana patients from having guns is unconstitutional. In its motion to dismiss the case or secure a favorable judgment, the government countered that the policies being challenged by the lawsuit only apply...

Outdoor clothing brand Patagonia said on Friday that it would post bail for any employees arrested at abortion protests. The company will provide "training and bail for those who peacefully protest for reproductive justice," it said on LinkedIn. The perk applies to both full-time and part-time workers, Patagonia said. Patagonia also said US employees enrolled in its healthcare plans seeking abortions in areas with restricted access can have travel, food, and lodging covered by the company. The company offers protest training and has a policy of bailing out employees arrested at peaceful protests, according to Bloomberg.

Olbermann also blasts Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a 'paralegal' after Supreme Court gun ruling --------------------------------------------------- An enraged Keith Olbermann called for the dissolution of the Supreme Court on Thursday in response to its ruling Thursday that overturned New York's restrictive concealed carry regulations. The far-left, ex-MSNBC host tweeted it has "become necessary to dissolve the Supreme Court of the United States. The first step is for a state the ‘court’ has now forced guns upon, to ignore this ruling. Great. You're a court? Why and how do you think you can enforce yourr rulings? #IgnoreThe Court." Olbermann added, "f---...

Russia’s President Putin has used his speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum to claim sanctions are more harmful to the countries who impose them. He said the European Union could lose more than $400 billion (£326bn) because of sanctions on Russia. Putin also claimed that the EU has lost its "political sovereignty" in its response to the war in Ukraine.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance Thursday endorsing gender reassignment procedures for children. The documents, “Gender Affirming Care and Young People” released by the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and “Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care” released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), support a wide range of procedures including surgeries performed on adolescents. The guidance goes beyond social affirmation and the use of puberty blockers, which the OPA document describes as “reversible” treatments, and extends to treatments that cannot be completely reversed, including hormone therapy and “gender-affirming...

President Biden has been facing a rough week after marking his first year in office. Based on the latest Sunday shows, voters from across all political backgrounds have begun to take notice. On CBS’ "Face the Nation," host Margaret Brennan appeared with a "Listening to America" focus group of voters to discuss issues concerning Americans. Among the six voters on the panel, not a single person claimed that Americans were in a better place than they were a year ago.

A tenured Michigan university professor has been placed on leave after he told students in a profanity-laced video that he didn't want to know anything about them because they were 'just vectors of disease.' Barry Mehler, 74, a tenured history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, posted the 14-minute video on Sunday, a day before the Spring 2022 semester began. In the video, he told students that it didn't matter how hard they worked in his class because he randomly predetermined their grades prior to the semester. 'None of you… are good enough to earn an A...

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that former President Donald Trump should never be president again because he was “at war with the rule of law.”

Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it is “insane” to believe the people rioting at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were not violent. Anchor Dana Bash said, “What polls are showing about Republican voters they overwhelmingly believe the election lies that fueled the Capitol attack and Republican candidates across the country are playing into that belief and trying to win primaries that way. So can American democracy survive when these lies have been so deeply ingrained in your party?”

What if Mike Pence: Assessed his own political status as 2021 neared its end? Considered his bravery on Jan. 6 and wants it as part of his legacy? Looks ahead with dread to a Donald Trump nomination in 2024? Believes in New Year’s resolutions? L If any or all of these scenarios ring true, Pence is going to do the right thing early in 2022 by announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, emphasizing that his party needs to get rid of Trump and campaigning immediately to restore Republicans to sanity.

A staffer for "Squad" Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., referred to Israel as a "racist European ethnostate" on social media. Hussain Altamimi joined Ocasio-Cortez’s office in November as a legislative assistant, posting shortly after a picture of him and the congresswoman on Instagram with the caption "New beginnings." Then, last week, Altamimi targeted Israel in an Instagram story calling the U.S.’s key Middle Eastern ally a "racist European ethnostate." "Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population!" Altamimi wrote on Christmas Eve, according to a screenshot obtained by Fox News Digital.

Children being treated for transgender issues at Sweden’s Karolinska University Hospital have allegedly suffered severe injuries as a result of hormone puberty blockers. Doctors at Karolinska University Hospital have been aware of injuries suffered by children as a result of hormone treatments, however, the injuries were not been made public until this week. Of the 440 children treated at the hospital for gender dysphoria issues and were given hormone blockers, 13 have suffered serious injuries. A girl who wished to become a boy at the age of 10 was put on a regimen of puberty-blocking drugs at the age of...

Please excuse the personal nature of this story but I am getting very desperate and I thought there would be others on here that have dealt with a similar situation who might have advice/suggestions/etc My son married this gal (SWMBO) 10 years ago. As time has gone on she has become more and more: Controlling, domineering, misandristic (hatred of men), you name the pathology. Obviously, sad to admit, my son has completely lost his balls. He works hard and prefers to lay back and let her run roughshod over my 3 grandkids, me, him and whoever else might cross her...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC during an interview on Friday that the spending bill that Democrats are proposing would lower inflation by reducing household costs including health care. “I don't think that these investments will drive up inflation at all. First of all, they're fully paid for and not by imposing higher taxes on anyone earning under $400,000. But by asking corporations, high-income individuals to pay their fair share, and by investing in the Internal Revenue Service so that they can boost compliance which has fallen to low levels,” Yellen said during an interview in Rome, where she is...

The Biden administration has released its plan for combating the next pandemic, warning that a future pandemic could be even worse than COVID-19. In a call with reporters, White House officials described an Apollo-like mission to coordinate all aspects of pandemic response in a centralized command. The administration's plan, which also addresses other biological threats, has several components: creating medical defenses (such as rapid production of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics); establishing early warning systems and real-time monitoring; modernizing public health infrastructure at home and abroad; improving supply chains, personal protective equipment availability and stockpiles; and establishing a pandemic mission control...

Sixty-six progressive Democrats are telling President Joe Biden to open the nation’s border to Afghan migrants because the U.S. bears moral responsibility for the wars in Afghanistan. “After decades of disastrous U.S. intervention, one thing is clear: We have a moral responsibility to provide safe harbor and refuge for the Afghan people,” the August 26 letter, which does not set an upper limit on the inflow of Afghan migrants, states. “The U.S. war in Afghanistan has caused irreparable harm to Afghans,” the letter claims, without mentioning the many hard-fought humanitarian gains Americans delivered or mentioning the almost 2,400 dead Americans...

A rural council in New South Wales, a state on the east coast of Australia, shot and killed multiple impounded dogs over COVID-19 concerns, which prompted a government investigation, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Bourke Shire Council killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at an animal shelter based in the town of Cobar from traveling to pick them up, the council’s watchdog, the Office of Local Government, told The Sydney Morning Herald. WHAT THE ACTUAL Fxxx!?!? They’re SHOOTING all the rescue dogs in Australia because of COVID!!! Who could do that??? That country is trying to be worse than...

San Francisco's homelessness department is seeking $20 million in additional funding to extend an encampment program that already funds tents that cost over $60,000 a year. This week, officials from San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing went before the the Board of Supervisors' Budget and Appropriations Committee and requested $20 million over the next two years to keep six 'Safe Sleeping Village' tent encampments running. The city's six encampment sites provide tents for the homeless as well as three meals a day, around-the-clock security and bathrooms and showers, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The city created the sites...

During a portion of an interview with theGrio released on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that Republicans are blocking federal election legislation “Because they can’t win any other way. They can’t win any other way. So, they have to suppress the vote.” And compared the situation to the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. TheGrio D.C Bureau Chief April Ryan said, “The reality, you just brought up the Republicans, Mitch McConnell is leading the effort saying, no, no, no to voting rights.”