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While conventional wisdom has long held that Republicans, and particularly evangelicals, are the staunchest allies of Israel in the U.S., the latest bloody exchanges between the state and Hamas militants have revealed fault lines in that critical base of support. Rather than close ranks to back Israeli attacks on Gaza, some right-wing influencers have turned on each other. For instance, Islamophobic conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and pro-Russia MAGA influencer Jackson Hinkle, who mere weeks ago appeared to have a friendly relationship on X (formerly Twitter), are now sniping at each other over the conflict. Loomer, who is Jewish, has endorsed...

Thousands of convicted felons will be eligible to vote in Florida after a federal court ruled that a law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting is unconstitutional. The law, SB 7066, required people with past convictions to pay all outstanding legal fees, costs, fines and restitution before regaining their right to vote. The law undermined Floridians’ 2018 passage of Amendment 4, which restored voting rights to more than a million people who completed the terms of their sentence, including parole or probation. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle found that conditioning voting on payment of legal financial obligations a person is...

The absence of one of the best women’s soccer players in the nation from the national squad that just won the World Cup has prompted questions as to whether she didn’t make the team because of her openly professed Christian faith. Jaelene Hinkle, 26, “has been called the top left defender in the U.S. game,” according to The Washington Times. Fox News noted Hinkle “helped her team win the NWSL championship and previously helped it win a title in 2016 when it was known as the Western New York Flash.” But none of that apparently mattered to the women’s team....

Jaelene Hinkle’s decision not to play for the U.S. women’s national soccer team last summer was, she said, a simple one. Because of her religious beliefs, and a decision by U.S. Soccer to highlight LGBTQ pride month with special jerseys during their June 2017 friendlies, Hinkle declined a call-up from the team, something she said she had dreamed about her entire life. “I just felt so convicted in my spirit that it wasn’t my job to wear this jersey,” Hinkle said in an interview with “The 700 Club,” a Christian talk show, that was published this week.

January 22, 2007 | Day One at the PETA-Kills-Animals trial began with a whimper but ended with an unexpected bang. At the very end of a day consumed by the mundane business of pre-trial motions and jury selection, defense lawyers for PETA employees Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook asked Hertford County (NC) Superior Court Judge Cy Grant to schedule one final defense motion -- a request "to exclude evidence of other crimes" from the trial. Asked by Judge Grant for her take on this legal maneuver, District Attorney Valerie Asbell explained: "The other crimes, the other things they're seeking to...

PETA Animal-Cruelty Trial Date Finally Set On November 13th, nearly 18 months after their arrest, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will face a felony Superior Court trial on animal-cruelty charges in Hertford County, North Carolina. The defendants, Andrew Benjamin Cook and Adria Joy Hinkle, were each indicted on 22 counts of Cruelty to Animals and 3 counts of Obtaining Property By False Pretenses. The Honorable Cy Grant will be presiding. Police in Ahoskie, North Carolina arrested Cook and Hinkle on June 15, 2005 near a shopping-center dumpster, from which they recovered 18 dead pets...

A former Carbon County man who allegedly bilked 30 investors out of $3.6 million made an appearance Tuesday in federal court to seek bail. Richard H. Hinkle, 39, formerly of Weatherly, is facing 59 counts of wire fraud and money laundering related to an alleged "Ponzi" scheme between January 1999 and February 2004. His purported victims include residents of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties. A grand jury indictment issued Feb. 16, 2004, says Mr, Hinkle, who operated Cornerstone International Savings Bank and Investment Bank out of Grenada, induced people from Pennsylvania and Illinois to invest in overseas financial ventures. He pledged...