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FIRST ON FOX: A fledgling dark money climate group poured millions of dollars last year into disruptive activist protests that blocked busy highways and destroyed famous artwork in cities across the world, according to tax filings obtained by Fox News Digital. The Beverly Hills, California-based, Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) - which has been funded in large part by Hollywood actors and producers since it was founded in 2019 - raised $6.1 million in 2022, a 165% increase from the $2.3 million it raised in 2021, the tax filings showed. The sharp increase in funding led to CEF sending $5 million...

A Hollywood director helping to bankroll Just Stop Oil has been accused of hypocrisy over his lavish holiday home in Ireland – 5,000 miles from his Los Angeles base. Oscar winner Adam McKay, whose films include the Big Short and Don't Look Up, is one of a group of multi-millionaires behind the Climate Emergency Fund. The Beverly Hills-based fund raises cash from its mega rich supporters and distributes it to 'disruptive' activists, including handing almost £1million to help Just Stop Oil wreak havoc in the UK. Mr McKay is a director of the fund and has donated over £3.2million to...

Christian group Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) has set its sights on bringing the children of Portland to Christianity. CEF’s Good News Club is targeting kids at typical summer locations such as pools and parks to join the group amidst harsh criticism. Oregon is known as the least religious state in the nation from Gallup polls in 2008 and 2012 which is why CEF chose the location for its outreach. And as the current law stands, the Good News Club does not need parent consent forms to approach children in public spaces, as they do for schools. According to the AP,...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An evangelical Christian group plans to try to convert children as young as 5 at Portland apartment pools, public parks and dozens of other gathering spots this summer -- a campaign that's got some residents upset. They've banded together in recent weeks to warn parents about the Child Evangelism Fellowship's Good News Club, buying a full-page ad in the local alternative weekly to highlight the group's tactics. "They pretend to be a mainstream Christian Bible study when in fact they're a very old school fundamentalist sect," said Kaye Schmitt, an organizer with Protect Portland Children, which...

At the Goldman Sachs annual meeting on Friday, I had an unplanned exchange with CEO Lloyd Blankfein about Goldman's support of Jesse Jackson, who was at the meeting and kept popping up to speak. Jackson was acting adversarial toward Blankfein, even though Goldman Sachs is one of Jackson’s largest financial supporters. In hopes of ending this charade, I asked Blankfein to clarify the relationship between Goldman and Jackson as that of donor and recipient. Blankfein said he didn't know if Goldman supported Jackson. I challenged him by asking, "You do not know?" and "You give Jackson's group six-figure sums and...

San Diego, CA -- A preliminary injunction hearing is set for tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. PT before federal district Judge Irma Gonzalez on Child Evangelism Fellowship's ("CEF") lawsuit against the San Diego City Schools. Liberty Counsel filed suit on behalf of CEF in June because the District charges discriminatory fees for use of school facilities by Good News Clubs, which are religious, after-school clubs for elementary school children sponsored by CEF. CEF is represented by Mathew Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel, and Mary McAlister, litigation attorney for Liberty Counsel. In July 1999, Child Evangelism Fellowship of Greater...

Court Upholds After-School Bible Club's Equal Access RightsBy Jim BrownJuly 6, 2004 (AgapePress) - The three-judge panel of a federal appeals court has ruled that an evangelical group's plan to distribute fliers to students in Maryland elementary schools is not an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. That decision reverses a lower court ruling blocking the access of Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) of Maryland to the Montgomery County Public Schools' take-home flier program. CEF is a respected national organization that has provided its "Good News Clubs" program for more than 60 years, offering Bible stories, songs, games and other fun activities...