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Vice President Kamala Harris appeared tongue-tied during a Wednesday speech at the White House as she was discussing federal investments in workforce development. Harris was listing off the Biden administration's efforts to bolster job development and widen access to different career paths when the subject of transportation improvement tripped her up. 'With your help, we are creating good paying jobs in small towns and big cities. Jobs for nurses and doctors, jobs for steel workers, pipe fitters and engineers,' the vice president said.(Snip)In particular, workers from underrepresented backgrounds.' On the issue of bettering transportation access for workers, Harris said: 'Together, we are expanding access to transportation.
Associated Press,
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New York—A former CIA software engineer was convicted on Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history. Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.(Snip)The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools
New York Post,
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Lee Brown
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California cops found an elaborate homeless bunker filled with more than $100,000 in stolen goods and guns. San Jose police on Tuesday shared photos of some of the loot stashed in the underground encampment—including three shotguns and boxes of ammo. The main bunker had wooden beams, walls and a ceiling, with electrical wires the force said appeared to be “plugged into somebody else’s source.” “The stolen tools, equipment, and firearms will be returned to the victims,” the force said, noting that already “approximately $100,000 worth of stolen goods were returned to the owner/victim.”(Snip)Wide swaths of California have seen a rise in crime linked to homeless people
New York Daily News,
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Muri Assunção
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All five major social media platforms received failing grades regarding the safety of LGBTQ users, according to a new report released by GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization. The organization released Wednesday the findings of its second annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), an analysis of LGBTQ user safety across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok. After evaluating the five platforms on 12 LGBTQ-specific indicators—including policies on misgendering or deadnaming; actions to restrict harmful content; prohibition of harmful advertising; option to add gender pronouns on user profiles; as well as a commitment to protect LGBTQ users from harm—GLAAD found that all five of them received scores
Breitbart Politics,
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Spencer Lindquist
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), joined by Senators Lumis, Daines, and Lankford, demanded answers on the National Education Association’s (NEA) plans to spend $140,000 to make an “enemies list” in a letter obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.(Snip)
The letter also notes the enemies list would consist of groups that “actively working to diminish a students’ right to honesty in education, freedom of sexual and gender identity, and teacher autonomy.” The Senators also blasted America’s largest labor union, which has over three million members working in public education, for being “more concerned with advancing a ‘social justice’ agenda instead of meeting the needs of children and students
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
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Tyler Estep
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Jason Lary, founding mayor of Stonecrest, will serve nearly five years in prison for pocketing COVID-19 relief money meant for the businesses, churches and people of the city he helped create.
Lary will also pay nearly $120,000 in restitution and forfeit at least one piece of property.(Snip)The mayor initially denied the allegations but had announced his resignation by Jan. 4 of this year. And a day later, he pleaded guilty to it all: Creating shell companies and using personal connections to funnel more than $900,000 in relief funds meant for small businesses and churches to himself.(Snip)“Mr. Lary has been humbled, humiliated, isolated and treated
Washington Times,
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Matt Delaney
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A California bill signed into law Tuesday will allow residents to sue the manufacturers of guns that are used in crimes. A 2005 federal law prevents gun manufacturers from civil litigation when their products are used in crimes. The office of Gov. Gavin Newsom said the new state law uses an exemption to the federal law that allows firearms makers or sellers to be sued for violating state laws on the sale or marketing of guns. “To the victims of gun violence and their families: California stands with you. The gun industry can no longer hide from the devastating harm their products cause,” Mr. Newsom said in a news release.
Washington Times,
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Ramsey Touchberry
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Lawmakers in Washington want to give the U.S. more power to confront OPEC for allegedly colluding to hike global oil prices, but the effort faces stiff opposition and also contrasts with President Biden‘s plan to ask the cartel’s Saudi leader this week to increase oil production. The legislation, an antitrust measure dubbed the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act or NOPEC, would arm the Justice Department with the power to sue OPEC or other countries that do business with it. The bill has been kicked around Capitol Hill for decades but garnered new interest ahead of Mr. Biden‘s trip this week to the Middle East,
Guardian [U.K.],
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Fiona Harvey
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Governments should put a moratorium on the use of biofuels and lift bans on genetic modification of crops, a green campaigning group has urged, in the face of a growing global food crisis that threatens to engulf developing nations. Ending the EU’s requirement for biofuels alone would free up about a fifth of the potential wheat exports from Ukraine, and even more of its maize exports, enough to make a noticeable difference to stretched food supplies, according to analysis by the campaign group RePlanet. About 3.3m tonnes of wheat were used in 2020 as feedstock for EU biofuels, and Ukraine’s 2020 wheat exports came to about 16.4m tonnes.
New York Post,
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Jack Hobbs
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A Uvalde police officer has come under scrutiny after new security footage from the Robb Elementary School shooting shows him checking his phone with what appears to be a “Punisher” lock screen.
The horrifying video—which was released Tuesday by the Austin American Statesman—filmed the cop in the hallway of the elementary school during the active shooting pulling out his phone, which flashed the logo on the screen of the Marvel anti-hero, Newsweek reported. “The cop at #Uvalde holding back and checking his phone, which features an American flag punisher background is the perfect summation of modern day American policing,” tweeted Matt Karolian.
KTLA-TV [Los Angeles, CA],
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Travis Schlepp
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Following multiple robberies, including some that ended in bloodshed, 7-Eleven franchises across Los Angeles were encouraged to close Monday night. The motivation to close up shop for the evening came from 7-Eleven’s corporate leaders and communicated through a statement provided to KTLA. The statement reads: “Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones. We are gathering information on this terrible tragedy and working with local law enforcement. Right now, our focus is on Franchisee, associate and customer safety. With that in mind, we have encouraged stores in the Los Angeles area to close tonight.” The statement follows a devastating night and morning of violence
Washington Times,
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Jeff Mordock
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President Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador tried to put on a happy face amid tensions between the countries in an awkward White House meeting Tuesday. The meeting included Mr. Biden appearing to stifle a yawn and Mr. Lopez Obrador taking a not-so-subtle swipe at high gas prices that are walloping Americans.
“While we’re waiting for prices of gasoline to go down in the United States, we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the border to go and get their gasoline on the Mexican side at a lower price,” Mr. Lopez Obrador said, reminding Mr. Biden that
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A paranoid multiple felony Latinx drug dealer who twice forfeited his bond walks into a grocery store wearing a ski mask and a backpack, then opened fire and killed a black security guard. The felon is then killed by a second security guard, and his sister says it's all the guards' fault for profiling him. Of course, none of this would have happened if the government kept crazy criminals behind bars where they belong.