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Senate Democrats on Friday introduced a bill to remove statues of Confederate figures and other defenders of slavery and segregation from display in the U.S. Capitol after a broad bipartisan majority of the House passed it last month. The bill would remove 11 statues of Confederate figures currently on display in the Capitol, including ones of Confederate President Jefferson …

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The federal government will appeal a judge’s decision Friday to halt all new applications to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Joe Biden said Saturday morning, as the nine-year-old initiative offering protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children face legal peril and an uncertain political fate. Houston-based federal …

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A Texas man who thought vaccines were “poison” died from COVID-19 after spending 17 days in hospital on a ventilator. Alan Scott Lanoix, a father of three boys from Katy, Texas, was too afraid to get a coronavirus shot and believed he had some level of immunity after he was exposed to the virus at …

The sister of a man who died from COVID-19 after calling vaccines ‘poison’ wants people to get shots in her brother’s memory Read More »

Back in February, I wrote about the national grocery chain Kroger’s announcement that it was closing low-performing stores in Seattle and Long Beach, California, after the two cities passed laws requiring grocery stores to pay their front-line workers additional $4-per-hour “hero pay” during the pandemic. “Giant corporations love to use splashy intimidation tactics like this …

Kroger closed grocery stores rather than give workers a $4 raise. Now it’s padding shareholders’ pockets with a $1 billion stock-buyback scheme. Read More »

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is pushing back against a new requirement to wear masks in indoor public spaces regardless of vaccination status that is set to take effect Saturday night. The country’s most populous county is instituting the new mask mandate amid a surge in cases but Villanueva says the move contradicts guidelines from the Centers for …

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Former Vanderbilt and Princeton professor Dr. Carol Swain sat down with “Fox & Friends First” Friday to discuss the decision made by the NFL to again play the “Black National Anthem” before kickoff.  The NFL made the decision last year to play the song following a turbulent summer filled with riots and social unrest.  DR. SWAIN: I …

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The National Guard is warning that its readiness and future training will be at risk if the $521 million cost of the mission to protect the Capitol after the January 6 rioting isn’t reimbursed. “Without reimbursement funding, there is significant impact on National Guard readiness if we’re not able to resolve this in a timely manner,” Army …

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Virginia Beach police are investigating a post on social media about the school board. Members say it is just the latest example of the negative rhetoric they face every day. Members say they are tired of being berated and harassed. “I need to know,” one speaker said during a meeting last month. “I’m pissed off.” …

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Terrifying videos show the moment two women were flung off a swing and sent hurtling off the edge of a 6,300-foot cliff in Russia’s Dagestan region. The videos, which were filmed in June but have recently been widely shared on social media, show one of the swing’s chains suddenly snapping. The women then appear to …

Heart-stopping video captures the moment 2 women were flung off a swing on the edge of a 6,300-foot cliff. Miraculously, they both survived. Read More »

Public schools in Texas are one step closer to no longer being required to teach about various American civil rights movements in social studies classes. Bloomberg reports that on Friday, the state Senate voted 18-4 to pass Senate Bill 3, which drops requirements for teachers to include lessons on Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony, the history of Native Americans, the writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and …

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