By Jason Gonzales – Chalkbeat

More than 100 students rallied at the Colorado Capitol on Thursday to show support for a bill that would ban the sale of semiautomatic firearms that can use detachable magazines. Continue reading “Over 100 Colorado students rally at Capitol to support gun restriction legislation”

By Jack Poulson – The Grey Zone

One of the two U.S.-based contractors set to operate a Gaza checkpoint, Safe Reach Solutions, is a shell company of the Wyoming-based generational wealth management firm Two Ocean Trust, LLC.

Continue reading “Gaza checkpoint contractor is shell company of ‘generational wealth management’ firm”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

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The UK’s government continues to use last year’s Southport killings which led to widespread protests to promote online censorship, as a supposed panacea for the society’s ills. Continue reading “UK Gov Pushes Censorship, Blaming Online Content for Southport Killings”

By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally thanked President Trump on Thursday for signing an Israel First, America Last executive order calling on the Department of Justice to prosecute Americans for so-called “anti-Semitism.” Continue reading “Netanyahu Thanks Trump for Executive Order on ‘Fighting Antisemitism’”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

Statista’s Anna Fleck reports that, according to the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, the costs attributed to defense equipment, personnel, operations and maintenance came to nearly $1.3 billion in 1993 and rose to nearly $2.4 billion in 2023.

Infographic: Military Spending Has Almost Doubled Since the Early 90s | Statista Continue reading “Global Military Spending Has Almost Doubled Since The Early ’90s”

By Katie Daviscourt – The Postmillennial

Illegal immigrant indicted in West Virginia for killing 32-year-old woman, setting her body on fire

A grand jury indicted an illegal immigrant from El Salvador in connection to the death of Samantha Dailey, 32, of Charles Town, West Virginia. David Antonio Calderon, 46, has been accused of killing Dailey in Jefferson County and then setting her body on fire in a field in neighboring Berkeley County. The murder occurred in May 2024, The Spirit of Jefferson reported. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant indicted in West Virginia for killing 32-year-old woman, setting her body on fire”

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

Israel’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities created life-threatening danger for women and girls since October 2023, with the rate of miscarriage having increased by up to 300 percent, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed. Continue reading “HRW: Israel’s Blockade Causes 300% Rise in Miscarriages in Gaza”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

American students are performing poorly in reading and math skills, failing to regain lost ground during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests administered to fourth graders and eighth graders.

“The most notable challenges evident in the 2024 data are in reading comprehension. Reading scores dropped in both fourth and eighth grades since 2022, continuing declines first reported in 2019, before the pandemic,” said a Jan. 29 statement from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which administers the tests. Continue reading “American Students’ Reading Scores Decline, Show Little Improvement In Math”