CNN,
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When Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant meets with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday, Gallant is expected to ask for more US weaponry and equipment to support Israel’s war in Gaza, US officials said — an extremely delicate request at a moment when US weapons sales to the country are under intense scrutiny by lawmakers and critics of President Joe Biden’s ongoing support for Israel. Gallant’s meeting with Austin will mark his first visit to the Pentagon as Israeli defense minister and follows his talks Monday with national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Niki Main
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3/25/2024 9:41:07 PM
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Georgia residents are outraged over a titanium mine that could open less than three miles away from the historic Okefenokee Swamp home to 420 different wildlife. The project was proposed by Twin Pines Minerals, which is set to mine the metal used in a range of industrial and consumer products, including paints, plastics and cosmetics. Alabama-based Twin Pines has claimed that it plans to operate nearly 3,000 acres in the southeastern corner, located 2.9 miles from the 640-square-mile swamp's edge. The company's reassurances have done nothing to assuage locals’ anger and determination to protect the largest blackwater swamp in the country, which has largely remained untouched
Jerusalem Post,
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Staff
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Israel is currently trying to find a bypass to obtain weapons and raw materials from non-American outlets to overcome the material gaps of critical combat equipment, KAN News reported on Monday morning.
KAN cites a security official as claiming that the "increasing criticism and delegitimization fueled by both Muslim groups and antisemites endanger the transfer of US-backed ammunition and warfare.
There is concern that the tensions with the US are stimulated by the entry of Israeli troops into Rafah alongside the humanitarian issue in Gaza.[These factors] will affect Americans' willingness to continue assisting Israel with the same intensity."
Sacramento Bee,
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Jenavieve Hatch
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3/24/2024 11:57:07 PM
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The California Department of Public Health is suing El Dorado County and the city of Placervillefor banning needle exchange programs, defying state law and policies.
The state has challenged the actions by both the county’s Board of Supervisors and the Placerville City Council to stop the safe syringe programs, or SSPs. The lawsuit, filed in early March in El Dorado Superior Court, not only spotlights the debate about the effectiveness of the programs but California’s assertion that local jurisdictions are not empowered to overrule state law.
Breitbart,
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Neil Munro
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3/23/2024 2:28:20 PM
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A government report in Canada forecasted a deep civic breakdown in the once-stable society that now suffers from unprecedented levels of elite-imposed migration. The secret and heavily redacted report was prepared by the country’s version of the FBI — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The partial copy was extracted from the agency by an academic lawyer and was published in Canada’s National Post newspaper. The report is titled “Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada,” and features many progressive-approved concerns about claimed global warming in cold-weather Canada.
But the visible sections of the text spotlight several obvious costs of migration
Fox News,
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Greg Norman
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A 20-year-old Mexico resident has pleaded guilty to smuggling seven migrants into the U.S. illegally through sewer pipes in southern California, federal prosecutors say.
Kevin Noe Campos Villa now faces a potential 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following his arrest in January, during which several of the migrants he was escorting had to be rescued from the Tijuana River by San Diego lifeguards, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
Prosecutors say Campos, of Tijuana, was taken into custody by the Border Patrol on Jan. 22 about two miles west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry during heavy rainfall.
Reuters,
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Nidal Al-mughrabi
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Bassam Masoud
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Fighting raged on Saturday around Gaza's main hospital where Israel says it has so far killed more than 170 gunmen in an extensive raid, which the Palestinian Health Ministry says has also resulted in the deaths of five patients.
The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said their fighters were engaged in battles with the Israeli forces outside and around the vicinity of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City, though Hamas denies any presence inside the facility. Israeli troops stormed Al Shifa in the early hours of Monday morning and have been combing through the sprawling complex, which the military says is connected to a tunnel network used as
Independent (UK),
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Meredith Clark
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3/22/2024 6:39:32 PM
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Hermès has been accused of “tying” the purchase of its famed Birkin bags to other Hermès products in a class action lawsuit filed in California. Two shoppers have claimed in the lawsuit filed on 19 March that they were required to purchase “ancillary products” from an Hermès retail store - such as shoes, scarves, belts, or jewellery - before they were given the opportunity to purchase a Birkin handbag. The lawsuit claimed that Hermès sales associates only offer Birkin handbags to customers who have established a sufficient “purchase history” with the French brand. According to the filing, once shoppers “are deemed worthy” of purchasing a Birkin handbag,
New American,
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R. Cort Kirkwood
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3/21/2024 10:13:09 PM
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Plagiarism gumshoe Christopher Rufo has uncovered another case of literary theft at Harvard University. This time, Rufo reported in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, the culprit is one Christina Cross, an assistant sociology professor, who plagiarized her doctoral thesis for the University of Michigan.
Rufo’s story cites a complaint that documents a dozen problematic passages, some of them unattributed verbatim quotes. Cross is the fourth Harvard official outed for plagiarism. Noting that Cross is a “rising star in the field of critical race,” a fraudulent “field” of study, and the author of The Myth of The Two-Parent Home, Rufo reported that “Cross’s 2019 dissertation, The Color, Class, and Context
HotAir,
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Karen Townsend
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3/21/2024 9:54:13 PM
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An academic group, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), obtained some alarming data. In over 200,000 cases, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to file the proper paperwork with immigration courts in Houston, Texas and Miami, Florida. The illegal aliens were issued a Notice to Appear (NTA) at the border, which creates a court date. However, DHS never filed the paperwork with the court. The asylum process can't move forward without filing the proper paperwork with the court. The court date rolls around and the asylum-seeker shows up. The judge doesn't have the paperwork so the case is dismissed.
KARK (Arkansas),
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Alex Kienlen
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Ryan Turbeville
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The affidavit detailing the ATF case against the Little Rock airport executive who was shot and killed by federal agents serving a search warrant at his home was released Thursday. In the heavily redacted warrant affidavit, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claims that According to the warrant, Malinowski purchased more than 150 guns between May 2021 and Feb. 27, 2024, which he then resold. The ATF claims in the affidavit that around six of the guns Malinowski sold were found after being connected to a crime. Undercover federal agents purchased another three from Malinowski at central Arkansas gun shows, the affidavit stated.
USA Today,
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Saman Shafiq
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3/20/2024 7:45:29 PM
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Three Americans are suing the National Park Service over the agency's refusal to accept cash payments to enter parks across the U.S.
The Americans − from California, New York and Georgia − filed the lawsuit earlier this month in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying that the park service is violating federal law by not allowing guests to pay cash to enter various parks, monuments and historic sites.
The lawsuit says the park service's policy violates a U.S. law that says that "coins and currency ... are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues." "Thus, NPS’ refusal to accept U.S. Currency tendered for entrance fees constitutes a