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New York City has been spending heavily on sending drag queens into its public elementary schools, dropping more than $200,000 on appearances since 2018. Just last month, records show the city paying $46,000 to send Drag Story Hour NYC to public schools, libraries, and street festivals, according to the New York Post. Some parents say the programs were booked without their consent, while city officials have responded with outrage, according to the Post. The news comes as debates rage across the country about how gender identity and young children should interact. In 2022 alone, Drag Story Hour NYC has made...

In a shocking display of “pride,” the startup food delivery service PostMates decided to focus its attention on the act of anal sex as a way to celebrate June’s Pride Month, which highlights LGBTQ+ people.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida man is accused of cutting his roommate with a pocketknife during a fight that began with an argument over a Toaster Strudel, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. A deputy was called out to the Knightshade student living community near the University of Central Florida shortly after midnight on Monday, June 6. According to the report, a resident told an Orange County deputy that he was "stabbed" by his roommate after the two were arguing over "past incidents where someone ate a ‘Toaster Strudel’ that did not belong to them." He was treated...

The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations can cause "immediate and irreparable injury," including, "gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members," as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and "increased incidence of depression." The investigations, carried out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), come after state Attorney General Ken Paxton released a non-legally binding opinion earlier this year declaring providing gender-affirming...

Ashooting that began inside a Kansas City barber shop and left an employee injured was allegedly carried out by a customer who was unhappy with his haircut. Witnesses told police that they overheard an argument involving Dickens about the haircut he got at the shop the day prior. After the shooting started, he told police, he retrieved a gun from his car and went around the corner to find Dickens standing over the victim while pointing a handgun at him. The witness said he pleaded with Dickens to stop. Then there was some sort of malfunction that caused the clip...

Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arrested last Wednesday at his home near Briarwood Hirsch is suspected in the deadly shooting of Zhiwen Yan, 45, on April 30, according to a statement from the NYPD Cops found eight guns while searching Hirsch's wife's home Cops apparently found his refrigerator packed to the gills with sweet and sour duck sauce 'He's a hoarder. And when you open the refrigerator, it's like, condiments — there's duck sauce, soy sauce, ketchup' The Queens man arrested on suspicion of murdering the longtime delivery driver of a local Chinese restaurant over a dispute about duck sauce apparently...

GenevaNorth Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a UN body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics. This year North Korea has tested a flurry of ballistic missiles -- also banned by UNSC resolutions -- and appears to be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test for the first time since 2017. It gained the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament because it rotates alphabetically among its 65 members. "The DPRK remains committed to contributing to global peace and disarmament and...

<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A mother is accused of firing shots at six children, injuring a 12-year-old boy at a house in North Memphis.</p><p>Latorya Lemons, 35, is being held on a half-million-dollar bond on six charges of aggravated assault, six counts of felony reckless endangerment and two counts of violating bail conditions.</p>

The United States Embassy to the Holy See raised a pride flag Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of Pride month.The official social media accounts for the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See boasted of their celebration of Pride month on Wednesday, posting a photo of the rainbow banner adorning their historic office building in Rome.(snip)Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment on the potential offense the flag could cause in the Vatican, and why the department did not fly pride flags in other, more volatile countries that actively outlaw homosexuality such as Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia.

A rural Mississippi church was vandalized with pro-abortion graffiti Monday, the latest in dozens of attacks against churches and pro-life organizations in recent weeks. The walls, doors and windows of Mt. Avery Missionary Baptist Church in Columbus, near the Alabama border, were found covered with pro-abortion slogans and what appears to be a drawing of a sexual assault, WCBI News reports. St. Elmore Armistad, a deacon at the church, said someone noticed the graffiti Monday afternoon and called him, according to the Associated Press. “Why us? That’s the first thing I wondered,” Armistad said. “You hear about things like that...

A man threw a rock at a mom and her children after he became impatient waiting at a Burger King drive-thru in Oklahoma, police have said. Officers in Edmond, north of Oklahoma City, said the man started yelling at the family as the woman was checking her order at the drive-thru on May 22. Police spokesperson Emily Ward told local TV station KFOR: "He began yelling to go and move. She hollered back, 'I'm looking at my food and then I'll go.' But before that could even take place, he went around her up over the median and left." The...

Even if you think children should be able to pause puberty and take hormones, shouldn’t you at least want to make sure the drugs are safe?“Don’t do it,” yelled Dr. Anthony Fauci in August. “There is no evidence whatsoever that that works!” Fauci, of course, was referring to the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. For the moment, set aside that Fauci should have been fired years ago and has a long record of misleading and politicizing “science.” He and pretty much everyone else in America’s public health infrastructure pointed out that ivermectin had not been approved for treating Covid...

Joe Biden and Democrats weren’t kidding about their pledge to transform public institutions into gender dysphoria contagion zones. K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. “It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of...

The U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force is searching for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, who is wanted for the May 11 murder of 25-year-old cyclist Moriah "Mo" Wilson. The Austin Police Department (APD) issued a warrant on May 17 for Armstrong's arrest. The 34-year-old resident of Austin, Texas, is suspected of killing Wilson, who is originally from Vermont but traveled frequently and was in Austin for a bike race at the time of her death. Police responded to a 911 call from an East Austin residence on the 1700 block of Maple Avenue last week. The caller said her...

A retired gastroenterologist wrongly prescribed sex-change treatments to seven transgender patients, one of which was just nine years old, a tribunal has heard. Dr Michael Webberley provided puberty blockers and hormones via GenderGP, an online gender clinic which he ran with his wife and fellow GP, Dr Helen Webberley. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found him guilty of various charges after he was accused of failing to provide good clinical care to seven patients between February 2017 and June 2019. In a number of cases, he had attended to patients after restrictions had been placed on his wife’s...

A troubled teenage girl who was provided drugs to transition into a man after an hour-long consultation at a 'gender clinic' is now fighting to reclaim her adult life as a woman. Tanya, not her real name, changed genders at the age of 18 while dealing with bi-polar, autism, anxiety and depression. Now aged 21, the still young woman struggles with suicidal thoughts every day as she works to reverse the transition process. Tanya's devastated mum Judith Hunter blames sections of the transgender community for bending her daughter's fragile mind to suit their agenda. Ms Hunter told Daily Mail Australia...

Thomas Bakondy, Ainsley’s dad, told me that he has sent a number of NTEB articles to school board member Tom Edwards, an openly-gay “married” man, and that Edwards has led the charge with drafting policies that allow children to choose their pronouns without parental consent or notification. So what did the longtime NTEB-reading Bakondy family do? They did exactly as we are always calling people to do, to respectfully push back against this rising tide of darkness and preach Jesus! Kudos to you, Bakondy family, that’s real front lines stuff, keep it up. Another NTEB’er named Kim wrote to me...

While investigating a Vancouver, Washington man for the possession and distribution of child pornography, police discovered that Stephen Sharp had taken a video of himself urinating into the milkshake mix at a local Arby’s where he worked...