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Something shocking happened on NPR on Friday. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed a pro-life activist in Texas, Rebecca Parma of Texas Right to Life. It was less shocking that it was hostile throughout. He tossed questions like “Wasn’t your strategy actually to stop abortions in a way that is unconstitutional at the moment?”
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Martha Sepúlveda, a 51-year-old Colombian woman suffering from ALS, plans to become the first individual in that country without a terminal prognosis to die via legally permitted euthanasia, according to The Washington Post. Until this year the nation had just permitted euthanasia for individuals with a life expectancy of half a year or less, according
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The Department of Justice announced on Friday that there would be no civil rights charges against the police officer who shot Jacob Blake, an incident taken up by Black Lives Matter activists. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey shot Blake seven times as he resisted officers’ commands during a domestic disturbance call on Aug. 23, 2020.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky issued a scathing statement lambasting Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and saying he would no longer help them in future budget deals. McConnell expressed his anger and frustration after Schumer attacked Republicans on Thursday after a deal was reached to raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion
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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) is defending language he used in a church message describing homosexuality and transgenderism as “filth” as state Democrats express outrage at his comments and at least one lawmaker has called for him to resign. The lieutenant governor told WRAL-TV on Friday he is “unashamed” of language he used
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The Biden administration refused a request from former President Donald Trump to claim executive privilege over documents being sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. White House counsel Dana Remus said in a letter Friday to Archivist of the United States David Ferriero that they would not seek to
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So, it turns out that Karina Ruiz, the Latina dreamer who filmed herself accosting senator Krysten Sinema (D-Nevada) aboard an airplane about her stance on immigration reform, is an immigrant rights leader, as per a Telemundo News report about nationwide protests calling for an immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.  In previous reports
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Video shows a California doctor being escorted out of the UCLA Medical Plaza in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The UCLA anesthesiologist is vehemently against vaccine mandates and proclaims that he is “willing to lose everything” to defend his position against mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19. Dr. Christopher Rake — an anesthesiologist with UCLA Health
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President Joe Biden on Thursday falsely claimed that individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 “cannot spread” the virus to others. What are the details? The president was speaking in Elk Grove, Illinois, touting his administration’s implementation of vaccine mandates for federal workers and active-duty military and push to mandate large businesses when he made the questionable remarks.
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Nearly 200,000 COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits are being recalled over concerns of reporting false positives, according to ABC News. What are the details? Australian-based test manufacturer Ellume is recalling the at-home test kits out of concerns over abnormally high rates of false positives. Ellume was the first FDA-authorized company to sell COVID-19 testing kits
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On Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported that Google and it’s subsidiary YouTube, starting in November, would end monetization of any content that engages in supposed “climate change denial.” The tech giant announced it would not tolerate anything that went against “well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” As Free Beacon’s
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Vice President Kamala Harris offended the Jewish community after she falied to push back against a student who characterized Israel’s actions against Palestinians as “ethnic genocide.” CNN reported that the Vice President’s office is in damage control mode, putting out a statement that Harris had been “unwavering in her commitment to Israel.” In this clip,
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At the blog Legal Insurrection, Stacey Matthews (aka Sister Toldjah) picked on PolitiFact for its incredibly lame Twitter criticism of Sen. Charles Grassley at a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 4, which Democrats call the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.” In his usual Jimmy Stewart way, Grassley told leftist Assistant Attorney General Kristen
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The New York Times issued a lengthy correction after numerous mistakes in an article about coronvirus vaccinations for children, including the egregious exaggeration of coronavirus hospitalizations among U.S. children. The article by Apoorva Mandavilli documented how the U.S. is forging ahead on full vaccination for children while other countries are experimenting with just one shot
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently tweeted that he believes parents should determine what their kids are taught at school, but Nikole Hannah-Jones pushed back, noting that parents are not the only people who fund public schools. She also claimed that Pompeo loathes having “an informed citizenry in a multiracial democracy.” “Believe it or
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