Yahoo News

HOUSTON — When Texas authorities began charging migrants who crossed into the state from Mexico with trespassing last year, officials quickly encountered a problem: The two small rural counties tasked with prosecuting the cases became overwhelmed.

Among the many issues — crowded jails, a lack of defense lawyers — there were not enough judges, particularly in Kinney County, a border community about 120 miles west of San Antonio where the state’s effort has been most aggressively enforced. Three retired judges were brought in by the state to help, starting in the late summer. Continue reading “Cases Dismissed, Judges Replaced: Texas Struggles to Prosecute Migrants”

Fox News

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, Fox News confirmed, setting President Biden up with the first opportunity to fill a vacancy on the high court.

A source close to Breyer told Fox News that the justice will step down at the end of the current Supreme Court term early this summer.  Continue reading “Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire”

Breitbart – by Matthew Boyle

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi softened her previous criticisms of China’s communist regime as her husband and son scored big business deals in China, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s new book reveals. Continue reading “Pelosi Shifted Her China Stance as Her Family Scored Beijing Deals”

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The Biden administration has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or face regular COVID testing requirements.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration confirmed the withdrawal Tuesday. But the agency said it still strongly encourages workers to get vaccinated. Continue reading “Biden administration officially withdraws vaccine rule”

Fox News

The parents of a 31-year-old in need of a heart transplant at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital said their son has been removed from the transplant list because he has not been vaccinated for COVID-19, according to a report.

The hospital told CBS Boston that its policy is in line with other transplant programs in the U.S. that require the vaccine because it fits under the lifestyle behaviors of the candidates. The statement said it is the hospital’s goal to “create both the best chance for successful operation and also the patient’s survival after transplantation.” Continue reading “Boston patient removed from heart-transplant list because he’s not vaccinated against COVID: report”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In a decision that will likely be welcomed by many New York parents and schoolchildren, along with the countless workers, consumers and tourists in the Empire State, the Supreme Court of New York struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide mask mandate. In its ruling, the court declared the mask mandate “unconstitutional” and “null, void and unenforceable”.  Continue reading “NY Gov Slams State Supreme Court Ruling Abolishing Mask Mandate, Pledges To “Reverse It Immediately””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While President Biden was occupied Friday trying to take credit for a new factory for the production of semiconductors (and all the jobs – construction-related and otherwise – that he said it would create), a federal judge in Texas was issuing an injunction to put the second major piece of Biden’s vaccine mandate on ice.  Continue reading “Texas Judge Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees Nationwide”

Yahoo News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Two California counties violated the Constitution’s right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

Officials in Los Angeles and Ventura counties had separately won lower court decisions saying gun stores were not exempt from broader shutdown orders aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus early in the pandemic. Continue reading “California’s COVID gun store shutdowns ruled illegal”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The FBI on Wednesday raided the home and campaign office of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), a frequent critic of President Joe Biden.

According to the Texas Tribune, FBI spokesperson Rosanne Hughes said authorities were “conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity,” and had appeared to seize evidence from the Democratic lawmaker’s home. Continue reading “FBI Raids Home, Campaign Office Of Democrat Biden Critic Rep. Henry Cuellar”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Last week’s eruption of the volcano near the Pacific island nation of Tonga was 600 times more powerful than the nuke dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. As a result, the eruption was so loud that many Tongans went deaf after the first explosion.

“The first explosion…our ears were ringing and we couldn’t even hear each other, so all we do is pointing to our families to get up, get ready to run,” Marian Kupu, a journalist on Tonga, told Reuters.  

Continue reading “Volcanic Eruption Was 600 Times More Powerful Than Hiroshima, Many Tongans Went Deaf During Explosion”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

The U.S.-funded United Nations is providing cash to help job-seeking migrants trek up through South America, Central America, and Mexico, says Todd Bensman at the Center for Immigration Studies.

“It is definitely organized,” Bensman told Breitbart News on Monday during a reporting trip to Tapachula in southern Mexico, where migrants arrive after crossing Central America:  Continue reading “UN Funds Migrant Wave Flooding to the U.S.”

The Dossier – by Jordan Schachtel

I wanted to turn your attention to a handful of premier art masterpieces that have appeared overnight in Washington, D.C.

The artwork is a brilliant Soviet-style mockery of Joe Biden and Anthony Fauci COVID Mania regime. And seeing it appear in downtown Washington, D.C., the home of America’s ruling class and unquestioning COVID compliance, is the perfect setting for these absolute gems. Continue reading “Rogue street art appears overnight in D.C., mocks Biden & Fauci’s COVID regime”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering

President Joe Biden complained about the number of guns sold in the United States after an armed terrorist suspect took four hostages at a Texas synagogue on Sunday.

“There’s so many guns that have been sold of late; it’s just ridiculous,” Biden said when asked by reporters on Sunday about gun control after the incident. Continue reading “Joe Biden Complains About ‘Ridiculous’ Number of Gun Sales After Synagogue Terrorist Incident”

Fox News

A man suspected of shooting two deputies in Georgia last week was apprehended Sunday following a nearly week-long manhunt, authorities said.

Tyler Keith Henderson, 25, was on the run for more than five days before he was taken into custody by authorities in Thomas County, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Continue reading “Georgia man accused of shooting 2 deputies is arrested following 5-day manhunt”

Eat This Not That – by Michael Martin, October, 2021

Many Americans are feeling day-to-day consequences of the global supply chain issues caused by the COVID pandemic: Rising prices, delayed shipments, shortages of certain goods. Pharmacies have not been spared from the COVID-related crunch. In fact, news outlets throughout the country are reporting that one critical shortage is causing long lines at pharmacies nationwide. Continue reading “Shortages of This at Pharmacies May Mean Longer Lines”

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A Southern California man was arrested after he recently attacked workers at a coronavirus vaccination clinic, allegedly calling them “murderers” and falsely accusing the staffers of causing the covid pandemic, according to police and clinic officials.

Two staff members with Families Together of Orange County were injured in a Dec. 30 attack on the group’s mobile clinic in Tustin, Calif., the organization said in a news release Wednesday. Families Together said one of the members “sustained serious injuries and was sent to the hospital in an ambulance” but that both workers “are expected to make a full recovery within a few days.”  Continue reading “Man arrested on charges of attacking vaccination clinic, injuring staffers he called ‘murderers’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Security officials in Kazakhstan admitted they’ve killed dozens of anti-government rioters in the large main city of Almaty, after alleging the protesters attempted to storm and take control of several police stations. Authorities have labeled the massive fuel protests which have brought the country to the brink of collapse as fueled by “terrorists” and manipulated by “outside interference”.  Continue reading “Dozens Killed As Kazakh Police Battle For Control Of Streets In ‘War Zone’ – Banks Being Looted”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Defunct biotech corporation Theranos, whose founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, used the United States government’s H-1B visa program to employ dozens of foreign workers “akin to indentured servitude,” reports reveal.

This week, a federal grand jury convicted Holmes on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud which include defrauding wealthy investors like the DeVos family out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Continue reading “Theranos Used ‘Indentured’ H-1B Foreign Visa Workers to Keep Fraud Scheme Operating Under Secrecy”

Breitbart – by Nick Gilbertson

Mayo Clinic fired 700 employees on Tuesday because they were not vaccinated by its Monday deadline.

Employees had until Monday to receive their first dose of  coronavirus vaccine if they were not granted a religious or medical exemption, according to the Star Tribune. The organization says it greenlit the majority of exemption applications. Continue reading “Mayo Clinic Terminates 700 Unvaccinated Employees at Locations Nationwide”

Breitbart – by Katherine Hamilton

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Joe Biden’s mask and vaccine mandates for Texas Head Start programs, saying there is a “substantial likelihood” Heath and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra “issued the rule unlawfully.” Continue reading “Federal Judge Blocks Biden’s Mask, Vaccine Mandates for Texas Head Start Programs”