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(bodrumsurf/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Republican-dominated state legislature in Arizona voted Thursday to strip Democratic secretary of state Katie Hobbs of her election-related authority and diverted that power to Republican attorney general Mark Brnovich. The measure, which the House passed late Thursday, now goes to Republican governor Doug Ducey’s desk for his signature. The legislation transferred
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Mark Janus stands outside of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., February 26, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) This past weekend marked the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME ruling, which guaranteed the First Amendment rights of government employees, allowing them to opt-out of unions by withholding once-compulsory dues and fees —
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Crooked Manhattan DA Cy Vance won’t charge the Trump Organization with crimes related to “hush money” payments and real estate value manipulations according to the former president’s personal lawyer. It was reported last week that New York prosecutors were considering bringing charges against the Trump Organization amid claims employees illegally ‘received tax-free perks such as
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California State Capitol in Sacramento. (rschlie/Getty Images) California attorney general Rob Bonta announced a ban on state-funded travel to five states on Monday, citing new laws in those states pertaining to transgender people. The California legislature banned state-funded travel to states with laws deemed discriminatory toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Bonta cited examples
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An Arkansas police officer is dead after a suspect struck him with his vehicle and dragged him during a traffic stop, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. What are the details? Pea Ridge Police Officer Kevin Apple, a 23-year law enforcement veteran, stopped a vehicle Saturday morning after having received a call to be on the lookout
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I cannot say that this comes as a great surprise. Via the Wall Street Journal: The number of unemployment-benefit recipients is falling at a faster rate in Missouri and 21 other states canceling enhanced and extended payments this month, suggesting that ending the aid could push more people to take jobs. Federal pandemic aid bills
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Fox News host Chris Wallace confronted a Republican lawmaker Sunday over whether Republicans — not Democrats — are responsible for defunding the police. Interestingly, Wallace’s line of questioning followed an interview with a White House official who made that exact accusation: that Republicans should be blamed for defunding law enforcement. What happened? During an interview
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks before signing legislation passed by the House during an enrollment ceremony to memorialize the people killed in the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Fla, on Capitol Hill, June 16, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There’s lots of agreement in Washington these days that Congress is broken. But
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A Washington man led local authorities on a chase and ended up jumping from a 50-foot cliff to avoid being captured, according to reports. Police, however, were still able to arrest the suspect and take him into custody on several related charges. What are the details? Deputies from the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office received an
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(Natural News) The engineered spike proteins from SARS-CoV-2 can be STOPPED by a common “weed” that is exterminated from lawns every year. A German university study found that the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) can block spike proteins from binding to the ACE2 cell surface receptors in human lung and kidney cells. The water-based dandelion extract,
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Katie Hobbs/Twitter  Arizona lawmakers voted Thursday to strip power from controversial Secretary of State Katies Hobbs. The measure was inserted into major budget legislation last week. Yahoo News reported: The Republican-controlled state Legislature in Arizona voted Thursday to revoke the Democratic secretary of state’s legal authority in election-related lawsuits, handing that power instead to the
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A customer and employee wear masks at a Walmart store in North Brunswick, N.J., July 20, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Three tiers: essential, inessential, and expendable Over a year ago, seeing the immediate effect that quarantines, shutdowns, and lockdown policies were having on Western democracies, I put out my futile prayer: “Let’s Never Get Used to
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Former President Donald Trump took the stage at his first rally since leaving the White House on Saturday in Wellington, Ohio. In front of thousands of supporters, Trump took aim at “woke” military generals, President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, and critical race theory. “The Biden administration issued new rules pushing twisted critical race theory …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told Americans who are worried about skyrocketing violent crime rates to calm down, and their concerns about the surging violence is just “hysteria.” In Ocasio-Cortez’s backyard of New York City, shooting incidents spiked 73% in May compared to the same time in 2020, and in June are up 107% compared to
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