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ROME (AFP) - American billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday (July 2) broke his silence on the Twitter social media site, which he plans to buy, posting a picture of himself with Pope Francis. "Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday," Musk tweeted next to a photograph of him and four of his children with the Argentinian-born pontiff. The location and details of the meeting were not specified by the Tesla and SpaceX boss, while the Vatican did not comment on his private audience with Pope Francis. Last week, Musk said that his US$44 billion (S$60 billion) move to take over Twitter remained...

Two brothers, ages 14 and 11, were arrested after police said they broke into a Florida gun shop and stole 22 firearms and ammunition. The juveniles were taken into custody on Wednesday on numerous charges including 22 counts of grand theft of a firearm, one count of armed burglary, one count of criminal mischief, and one count of resisting without violence, the Cape Coral Police Department said at a news conference. The 14-year-old was also charged with violating his probation. NBC News is not naming the suspects because they are minors. The arrests come amid a nationwide debate on gun...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that his Republican colleagues in the House are “coming down on the side of” the killers of our kids by not supporting the Democrats’ gun reform legislation. Anchor Joy Reid said, “We saw the House Judiciary Committee holding a contentious debate over a package of new gun bills. The Protecting Our Kids Act raises the age on firearms and attempts to crack down on large-capacity magazines.”

Most Americans believe children should not be able to choose their own “preferred pronoun” that does not align with their biological sex, according to new polling. A late May Harvard-Harris poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe children should be called the pronoun that aligns with their biological sex, and 60 percent believe preferred pronouns are an “excessive measure that does more to confuse kids about their sex.” Conversely, 41 percent of Americans believe “kids should be able to pick their pronouns” and 40 percent believe calling children by those pronouns “prevents discrimination.” The only three demographic groups that...

CNN’s Jim Acosta got into a heated exchange with a National Rifle Association (NRA) board member on Sunday afternoon over actions to counter gun violence following last week’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. “I’m 51 years old,” Acosta said. “This has been going on for decades, and it just seems to me that the NRA just has to look into its soul.” “I’m sorry to say it that way, sir, but you and your other board members need to look into your souls and see what can be done for these kids. These kids who keep dying over and over...

A parental rights watchdog is calling on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to redact an online curriculum that it believes encourages withholding information from parents about their child’s mental and physical health.In an email sent to a board member about language included in textbook publisher Goodheart-Willcox’s instructional material, Moms for Liberty alleges that it undermines a parent’s ability to access health information about their child. The Epoch Times reviewed a copy of the email and the portion of the textbook in question. “Goodheart now does not comply with the law,” wrote Mary Lowe, chair of the Tarrant County...

BLAINE, Minn. — The carnival at the Northtown Mall in Blaine was shut down Saturday night by police after officers found people fighting each other on and around the Ferris wheel. According to an official with the Blaine Police Department, officers arrived at the mall at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on a call of a reported fight at a carnival being held in the mall's parking lot. When the first officer arrived, they saw people fighting while riding the Ferris wheel and a large group of kids ran away. Police say about 100 juveniles ran into the mall through the...

Police released video of a shooting in Prince George's County where a young boy and a teenager were shot. The shooting happened around 6:20 p.m. in the City of District Heights. The video shows a a dark van and a second dark vehicle stopping in the street near a group that is hanging out. Several people from those cars then fired shots at the group before driving off. A young boy and a teen were injured in the shooting, and a dog was killed. The minors are expected to survive. “Opening fire on a group of children and teens with...

If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Via Twitter, popular account Libs of TikTok posted an Amazon staff meeting where the team described author and commentator Matt Walsh’s kids’ book “Johnny the Walrus” as “traumatic” and “problematic.” The book is about a kid named Johnny who believes he is a walrus, even cladding in spoons for tusks and tube socks for fins to resemble the aquatic mammal. Initially, his mother thinks it’s a phase he will outgrow. However, society pressures her to allow Johnny to transition into a walrus,...

Tens of thousands of kids in the United Kingdom have been driven into clinical depression by coronavirus lockdowns, a study has found. Lockdowns hoping to curb the spread of the Chinese coronavirus have driven tens of thousands of kids in the United Kingdom to clinical depression, a study published on Wednesday has suggested.

During an interview on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that took place before the capture of the suspect in the New York subway attack, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) dodged why some children in New York have to wear masks in school while he didn’t wear a mask at an event in DC by stating that he is focused on catching the suspect in the subway attack. Adams was willing to discuss the symptoms he was feeling with his current coronavirus case Co-host Bill Hemmer asked, [relevant exchange begins around 12:10] “You were not...

(Go to the site to see the video)On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) said that rich people already get to have a say in what their children learn in school, because “If they don’t like what their children are learning, they pick them up and they put them somewhere else. It is those of us who don’t have the means to move that our children are being subjected to this.” Sears said Democrats “better start listening to parents. Because the children do belong to the parents, not the...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that “he’s right” when asked if he agrees with his husband Chasten Buttigieg’s quote that the “Don’t Say Gay” law “will kill kids” while discussing Florida’s recently passed “Parental Rights in Education” law. Co-host Ana Navarro said, “The first thing I want to say is I am so sorry that you have become the butt of jokes by some really stupid, stupid people when it comes to your paternity.”

As the battle between The Walt Disney Co. and Florida rages on, the co-founders of Moms for Liberty are calling for a boycott, saying “Disney has severely underestimated Florida parents.” On March 28, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law. House Bill 1557, inaccurately branded by liberal opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, prohibits Florida educators from teaching anything about sexual orientation or gender identity to children in Kindergarten through third grade. The law goes further, enabling parents to sue if they believe schools or instructors have violated the law. A week...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she has tested positive for COVID-19. In a Tuesday statement, the Democratic South Florida Congresswoman confirmed she had recently contracted the virus....

We don't know if we'll ever get over running into dogs on the daily. They're so adorable, fluffy, and precious! But as you get older, you're supposed to keep your cool when you see a dog. Whoever made that rule was clearly not a dog person. From now on, we'll be taking our dog social cues from this excited toddler. TikTok user @lilskrimp posted a video of an excited toddler meeting a good pup. The adorable clip has over 1.8 million views and 372.4K likes. The caption reads, "I too, have the same reaction when I see my dog." We...

Kids surrounded by advanced technologies are very much adept at the idea of having and also making smart toys.Kids playing with conventional toys is passe. With their environment well surrounded by advanced technologies like Alexa, smart security gadgets attached to their bodies, smart classrooms, etc., they are well adept at the idea of having smart toys. Taking this trend further, companies are making programmable robots for kids to channel their interest in playing with toys into a more beneficial area, ie., developing critical thinking which is very much required to build a programmable robot. Here we list out the top...

The Supreme Court found, in Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997), that the Constitution, and specifically the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, protects the fundamental right of parents to direct the care, upbringing, and education of their children. However, the Left never let a silly thing like the U. S. Constitution stand in the way of "progress" and "change."

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week stated 90% of Americans no longer need to wear face masks indoors, including in K-12 schools. Yet through mandates or local guidance, young children — who face the lowest risk of COVID complications — are still being forced to mask for hours a day across the country, including in New York, California and DC and its suburbs, in some cases even outdoors. In America’s great unmasking, 2- to 5-year-olds are excluded even as the harms from masking them continue to come to light. ... Many places in Europe, including the United...

Pfizer Shot Protected Fewer Than 2 In 10 Kids, NY Health Dept Admits.Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine protected just 12 percent of children aged five to 11 against COVID-19 infection, according to a study conducted by the New York State Department of Health. The study focused on how the vaccine protected children against the Omicron variant of the virus during the strain’s December 13th through January 24th surge. The 12 percent figure – which translates to the vaccine conferring roughly one in 10 children with protection against the variant – comes amidst several states and schools rolling out vaccine mandates...