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EL PASO, TX - New reporting indicates over 400 migrants have been brought to the U.S. by an Islamic State group-affiliated human smuggling network.

Over 150 of them have been arrested, but the whereabouts of over 50 migrants remain unknown, according to officials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it is looking to arrest them on immigration charges when they are found.

“Sometimes there’s no information on individuals. I mean, it’s quite common where there’s just nothing you have, there’s no criminal conviction, there’s no threatening information or whatever on these individuals or maybe these individuals are from an area that is of particular concern but that pops up later on when you get the information later,” ICE acting director Patrick Lechleitner said. Click here to read more.

 

The Department of the Interior published a guide to “inclusive language,” exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that tells bureaucrats to avoid gendered terms like “husband,” “son,” and “daughter,” and even instructs them to use the “they/them” pronouns for individuals rather than assume someone’s gender.

The 24-page document, called the U.S. Department of the Interior Inclusive Language Guide and published this month “for official use only,” details what terms bureaucrats should use or avoid when discussing gender and sexuality.

The guide includes a list of 104 different terms that the Interior recommends bureaucrats replace with alternate, approved words. “Husband” and “wife,” for example, should be replaced with “spouse, partner, significant other,” the federal agency says. “Daughter” and “son” should also be replaced with “child” or “kid” according to the guide, which even asks bureaucrats to replace “cockpit” with “flight deck.” Click here to learn more.

 

PHOENIX, AZ - Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley said a temporary election worker’s alleged theft of a “digital magnetic key” from the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on Thursday “raises serious questions about election security in Arizona” that demand answers.

KTAR News noted that Walter Ringfield, 27, was arrested on “theft and criminal damage” charges after allegedly stealing the items. He was out of prison on probation for a previous felony charge when he allegedly committed the crime. According to court documents, Ringfield was captured on surveillance video walking past a desk and multiple tabulators just after 5 p.m. local time on June 20.

The surveillance video then shows Ringfield stopping at the desk, grabbing a lanyard with the security fob and keys attached, and placing them in his pocket, court documents say. Click here to read more.

 

DENMARK - Denmark will introduce the world’s first emissions tax on agriculture from 2030, requiring farmers to pay for greenhouse gases released by their cows, sheep and pigs.

The Danish government said the aim is to lower greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030.

“We will take a big step closer in becoming climate neutral in 2045,” Taxation Minister Jeppe Bruus said. Bruus said he hoped other countries would follow suit and implement a similar tax. Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - Anyone who has called the Internal Revenue Service knows it can be frustrating to get help. Taxpayers successfully reached a human about 31% of the time this tax season, according to the agency’s own taxpayer advocate.

Despite this, the IRS rated its service a score of 88%, up from a dismal 4% during the lows of the pandemic, when getting help at the agency was like winning the lottery. Erin Collins, head of the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service, said Wednesday that while the improvement is notable, these high marks are nothing to brag about.

The IRS rating covers just 35 of its 102 customer-service numbers and doesn’t count the many callers who hang up in frustration or get sent to recorded messages, said Collins in her midyear report to Congress.

For the 2.1 million people who called the agency’s collections phone line, for instance, less than one-fifth reached a representative, with an average hold time of about 10 minutes, according to Collins’s report. There is also no information on what happens after the representative answers the phone or how often taxpayers’ issues are resolved.  Click here to read more.

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LANSING, Mich - MISO’s 2023 Regional Resource Assessment depicts what the system operator calls a “resource gap” between accredited capacity (supply) and future load (demand) for most of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is not shown on this chart as it falls under a different subdivision of MISO territory, though it too has a resource gap.

The orange bars, for “demand load,” represent what MISO projects as the Lower Peninsula’s electricity demand. The system operator has multiple scenarios, and the chart represents the one with the lowest demand.

Even at that lowest estimate, Michigan’s supply is multiple gigawatts below meeting expected demand. When the quantity supplied is less than the quantity demanded and prices are fixed (as they are in Michigan), a shortage results. There will be blackouts.

What’s behind the insufficient supply? Utilities are replacing dependable sources of energy with less dependable ones. “Controllable, dispatchable resources are being retired and replaced primarily with weather-dependent, non-dispatchable, and variable generation types to achieve carbon reduction goals. These weather-dependent generators are increasing reliability risks,” a senior representative of MISO told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy, Climate and Grid Security last September. Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON (TND) — Supply chain backlogs, reminiscent of what we faced in the pandemic, appear poised to make a comeback as getting goods from around the world is getting more difficult.

This time, the international shipping industry is facing a slew of problems all at once. The chaos now causing global shortages and rising prices.

The world's busiest ports are experiencing traffic jams as ships sit offshore waiting to unload cargo. Meanwhile, workers in the U.S., Germany and Canada are threatening to strike as they demand higher pay and better working conditions. A severe drought hit Central America leading to extremely low water levels in the Panama Canal limiting the number of ships that can pass through.

Perhaps the biggest contributor to the ongoing problems is the situation in the Red Sea where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels continue their attacks on commercial ships crippling commerce through the important Suez Canal. Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - The CIA interfered in the 2020 election by colluding with the Biden campaign to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story, a congressional report found Tuesday.

“It’s inappropriate for a currently serving staff officer or contractor to be involved in the political process,” former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell acknowledged to Congress during its investigation of the incident. The House Judiciary report on Monday alleged three key facts about the CIA’s involvement in the 2020 election:

• High ranking CIA officials, up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the Hunter Biden statement prior to its approval and publication. Because several former senior intelligence officials signed the statement, the PCRB sent the draft statement to the CIA’s then-Chief Operating Officer (COO) Andrew Makridis, who said he subsequently informed then-Director Haspel or then-Deputy Director Vaughn Frederick Bishop that the statement would be published soon. Senior CIA leadership had an opportunity at that time to slow down the CIA’s process for reviewing publication submissions and ensure that such an extraordinary statement was properly vetted. Click here to read more.

 

KEY WEST, Fla. – The Key West Library will be reading a book that teaches children how to be a drag queen during their “Pride Month Storytime” event Friday.

According to the library, story time is typically for children ages 0-6. The book that will be read during Friday’s story time is titled “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish,” written by Drag Queen and founding member of Drag Queen Story Hour “Lil Miss Hot Mess.”

In a WNET Education YouTube video aimed at children, Lil Miss Hot Mess explained what a drag queen is before reading the book aloud and dancing along. The book encourages children to act out the dance moves.

“I wrote this book because I wanted everyone to get to experience the magic of drag, and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how we can feel fabulous inside of our own bodies,” Lil Miss Hot Mess explained. Click here to read more.

 

LOS ANGELES, CALIF - An anti-Israel mob descended on the Adas Torah synagogue in Los Angeles Sunday in a display that turned violent as keffiyeh-clad activists attacked a Jewish woman on the street.

The video capturing the beating also shows a masked woman spraying a Jewish man with what appears to be mace.

The chaos on Sunday began when anti-Israel agitators gathered outside the synagogue and attempted to block its entrances. Congregants then exited the building to counter-protest.

As the Los Angeles Times reported, only one arrest was made. The arrested individual was reportedly carrying a “spiked flag,” ostensibly meant to be used as a weapon.

Other videos show police escorting an anti-Israel couple out of their car — alongside their keffiyeh-clad toddler — as the woman, holding her own keffiyeh, flipped off congregants who emerged from the synagogue to stage a counter-protest. Click here for more.

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LANSING, Mich - The Michigan House of Representatives passed a budget that could put hundreds of child care providers out of business. And it would jeopardize access to quality preschool for many disadvantaged families who need it most. This is despite the state’s claim that parents need greater access to pre-K.

A provision in the House budget would remove the requirement that at least 30% of Great Start Readiness Program funds be allocated to certain community-based organizations that provide early education services. These include private nonprofits, federal Head Start programs and other community child care providers. These providers enroll nearly 20% of Michigan’s four-year-old preschoolers. Click here to read more.

 

NEW YORK, NY - A consumer research group surveyed electric vehicle (EV) owners all around the world and found 46 percent of American EV owners regret their purchase and are “very likely” to switch back to the internal combustion engine (ICE).

Around the world, 29 percent of EV owners said they will go back to the ICE. The top concerns are the lack of  a reliable charging infrastructure, the costs involved in owning an EV, and anxiety about long-distance trips. Philipp Kampshoff, leader of the consulting firm Center for Future Mobility, told Automotive News he was surprised by the 49 percent number in the U.S.  “I didn’t expect that,” he said. “I thought, ‘Once an EV buyer, always an EV buyer.'” Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan is demanding that the Stanford Internet Observatory turn over all information related to a congressional subpoena before its expected closure. In a letter to the observatory’s attorney on Monday, obtained exclusively by National Review, Jordan says the committee still expects SIO to comply with an ongoing subpoena despite media reports that the center, which studies so-called online misinformation, is effectively closing down. 

In a report released in November, the House Judiciary Committee and its Weaponization Select Subcommittee found that researchers working for a partnership between the observatory and the University of Washington — the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) — had worked with federal officials and social-media companies to violate the free-speech rights of conservatives. Click here to read more.

 

ORLANDO, FL - Hooters - known for its scantily-clad waitresses - is the latest restaurant chain to abruptly shutters locations.

Like other struggling chains such as Red Lobster, Hooters is blaming the rising cost of rent and food.

A raft of closures happened over the weekend, while others were in recent weeks. They include locations in Florida, Kentucky, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia.  The company is not thought to be in as dire financial situation as Red Lobster, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

In fact, bosses said the 41-year-old brand 'remains highly resilient and relevant,' and highlighted a new range of Hooters frozen food which is being sold in supermarkets across America.

CHICAGO, IL - Army and National Guard accused of abandoning 24-year-old soldier with “debilitating heart condition” that internal memo “linked” to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. New military records confirm the soldier's heart injury was "In Line of Duty,” and details her account of "complications since receiving the second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine." Moderna did not respond to our questions. Army Specialist Karoline Stancik now faces over $70,000 in medical debt. Click here to watch Catherine Herridge’s exclusive report.