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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration does not plan to levy billions of dollars in fines against companies that allow access to TikTok in the U.S., as is stipulated by law if a ban of the popular app goes into effect on Sunday, according to two administration officials.

The administration has decided to defer implementation of the law banning TikTok in the U.S. to the incoming Trump administration, the officials said, effectively not enforcing it during the final 36 hours of President Joe Biden’s term in office.

“Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement,” a White House official said.

The move is aimed at trying to ensure there is no disruption in TikTok users’ access to the app in the U.S. before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, despite the ban. It comes as the Supreme Court could rule at any time on whether to uphold the ban. Click here to read more.

 

LANSING, Mich - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spoke Wednesday at the Detroit Auto Show, urging lawmakers to create more taxpayer-funded jobs programs, just weeks after a new study found such programs often fail to create jobs.

The governor encouraged a divided Michigan Legislature to renew a taxpayer-funded jobs program that’s set to disappear in a year.

Whitmer also urged legislators to develop a long-time solution for road maintenance, as her $3.5 billion bonding plan ended in December without completing her campaign promise to fix the roads. Her plan only fixed state trunkline roads, not local and county roads.

“Losing both (a road program and a jobs program) without better, more comprehensive replacements will throw us off track,” Whitmer said. Click here to read more.

 

A convicted pedophile and illegal migrant was released from a Connecticut prison last month after his sympathetic parole board mulled how to best help him avoid deportation.

The Trump administration, the parole board decided, would not be able to get its act together fast enough to deport the illegal migrant pedophile before his 30-day immigration detainer runs out. “They can’t elect a Speaker of the House,” one board member scoffed.

Guerino Magloire, 52, was serving five years in prison for felony second degree sexual assault against a child between 13 and 15 years old. He was convicted of sexually assaulting the child on March 11, 2020, just as pandemic lockdowns were starting, and he was sentenced in November the next year.

During his parole hearing on New Year’s Eve, Magloire said he cannot promise he will not offend again. Click here to read more.

 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — University professors and students in Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion programs at universities and put limits on how race and gender can be discussed in the college classroom.

The complaint asserts the new law violates the First Amendment by placing viewpoint-based restrictions on educators’ speech and classroom lessons. Plaintiffs also argue the law is intentionally discriminatory against Black students because it targets concepts related to race and racism, limits programs that benefit Black students and eliminates campus spaces dedicated to student organizations that support Black students.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP and professors and students at the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare the law unconstitutional and block the state from enforcing it. Click here to read more.

 

MT. JULIET, Tenn. — A homeowner was surprised when her pizza wasn't delivered by a pizzeria employee but by a team of police officers.

According to the Mt. Juliet Police Department, officers received an alert from one of their license plate reading cameras that identified a car as belonging to a 34-year-old man who had an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court regarding drug charges.

Officers pulled the vehicle over and arrested the driver, but quickly realized he was a pizza delivery driver and was on his way to a customer's home to complete a delivery.

“The Alabama Legislature’s censorship of important discussions about race and gender inequalities and its attack on so-called DEI programs are an affront to the constitutional rights of Alabama faculty and students,” Antonio L. Ingram II, Legal Defense Fund senior counsel, said in a statement about the lawsuit. “The harms are particularly salient for Black, LGBTQ+, and other faculty and students of color, whose histories and lived experiences have been dismissed, devalued, and undermined on their campuses.” Click here to read more.

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Crash Survivor Begs for Help Finding Dog Thrown From Car. They need your help to find their goldendoodle.

A Michigan family is pleading for help after a devastating car crash left a woman seriously injured and their beloved dog missing.

Scott Harris and his wife, Kate, were driving to Easter dinner when a pickup truck blew through an intersection, slamming into their vehicle and sending it rolling into a ditch. "All I really remember is the airbag going off," Scott said. "Next thing I knew, Kate was hanging above me in her seatbelt."

Kate suffered broken ribs, a fractured skull, punctured lungs, a sprained neck, and numerous other injuries. She remains hospitalized, facing a long recovery. "She’s a tough gal," Scott said. "But it would lift her spirits so much to have Winnie back."

During the crash, their four dogs were thrown from the vehicle. While three were quickly found, their 2-year-old Goldendoodle, Winnie, bolted across a cornfield and disappeared. "Winnie is super friendly but probably scared," Scott said. "If anyone can gently approach her and call her name, she might come to you."...

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson accused of not complying with subpoena

LANSING, MIch - The Michigan House Oversight Committee’s rare decision to issue two subpoenas against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has intensified, with House Speaker Matt Hall claiming today that Benson has explicitly refused to comply. The subpoenas, authorized on April 15 in a 9-6 party-line vote, demand election training materials that Republicans say Benson has withheld, escalating a months-long clash over transparency and election security.

The dispute began in November 2024, when Rep. Rachelle Smit (R-Martin), then minority vice chair of the House Elections Committee, requested training materials provided to local election clerks to ensure compliance with new laws, including a 2022 constitutional amendment expanding early voting. Benson’s office provided hundreds of documents but withheld others, citing sensitive election security information that required redaction. The standoff prompted Rep. Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay Township), chair of the Oversight Committee, to issue subpoenas—one ...

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The teal line is low income Mississippi reading scores. They continue to go up. The orange line is Michigan low income student reading scores. Michigan continues to go in the wrong direction.

The teal line is low income Mississippi reading scores. They continue to go up. The orange line is Michigan low income student reading scores. Michigan continues to go in the wrong direction.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Washington state home loan program promises to counter racial discrimination by limiting the ethnicities of those eligible for its services.

The Covenant Homeownership Program is a product of the state’s 2023 Covenant Homeownership Act, which received bipartisan support in the state legislature. That law directed the Washington State Housing Finance Commission to conduct a study on ways to reverse “racial disparities in home ownership.”

“The Covenant Homeownership Act acknowledges the State government’s role as both an active and passive participant in generations of discriminatory policies and practices that created barriers to credit and homeownership for historically marginalized communities in Washington and that these discriminatory actions continue to impact these communities today,” the study reads. Click here to read more.

 

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - The hits keep coming for one of the most infamous global organizations of our time.

The World Economic Forum (WEF), once the most prestigious international networking (and progressive political advocacy) group in the world, is facing a crisis that threatens to take down the whole organizational entity.

Klaus Schwab, the founder and 50-plus-year uncontested head honcho of the WEF, resigned from the organization without warning on Sunday. This caught onlookers by surprise and led to a plethora of intrigue about what exactly is happening at the outfit that hosts the annual high-profile confab in Davos, Switzerland.

Well, now we know what’s been causing a ruckus behind the scenes.

The World Economic Forum launched an investigation against Schwab after whistleblowers came forward with a plethora of serious allegations against both Mr Schwab and his wife, Hilda, who had long been intimately involved with the organization. Click here to read more.

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Senate Democratic Minority Leader Jason Pizzo announced his abrupt departure from the Democratic Party Thursday in a scorching and emotional speech during session.

“The Democratic Party in Florida is dead,” Pizzo said. “It craves and screams anarchy, and then demands amnesty. That’s not OK.”

izzo told senators that he “FedEx’d” his voter registration change in Broward County. His new affiliation will be “No Party Affiliation.”

“Partisanship holds us back rather than propels us forward,” he said. “Less gets done, not more more so than most […] Have I been blessed? I’ve been blessed with an incredible family and friendships who parade love, loyalty and sacrifice more than any one person deserves.”

“The party that my dad volunteered for with JFK, when he was 18 years old in 1960, is not the party today,” he said.

“I hope the members of the Democratic Caucus will elect a new leader, for, today, I have FedEx’d my voter registration form to change my party affiliation to No Party Affiliation,” the senator said. “Our constituents are craving practical leaders, not political hacks.” Click here to read more.

 

PHOENIX, AZ - Our communities are the building blocks of society. Whether neighbors, churches, family, or the family we create from our friends, our communities shape who we are. They also serve as core support systems. It is through these connections that we know what it means to be human.

For 25-year-old Austin Davis, his love for his community is the driving force behind everything he does. Austin has spent the past five years running Arizona Hugs, a group that provides meals and support for Tempe’s homeless population. He didn’t wake up one morning and decide on a whim to get into charity work; his call to serve arose organically as he built personal relationships with the homeless community. While attending Arizona State University, Austin would skate to class and around town, which is how he got to know the folks he lovingly refers to as his “homies.” Click here to read more.

 

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A former Indiana elementary school teacher received her sentence for an incident involving a special needs student being forced to eat his own vomit.

Sara Seymour pleaded guilty to neglect of a dependent, which led to prosecutors dropping the charge of failure to make a report.

Seymour was sentenced to a year in jail, but she will not spend any additional time behind bars because she is getting credit for time served and the rest of the sentence was suspended to probation.

This sentence stems from an incident in 2023 where a 7-year-old special needs student threw up in the cafeteria.

A fellow school employee said Seymour instructed the child would have to eat the vomit.

All five of the staff members present during the incident were either fired or resigned from the school.

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Wednesday April 24, 2025
 
 
 

GREAT BRITIAN - Just when you thought things couldn’t get more crazy – It does get more crazy.

I have previously reported on how a company called Make Sunsets have been spraying TOXIC chemicals in the air in order to block out the sun.

But now Britain is about to do the same.

Within the next weeks the British government will be giving the green light to conduct experiments to dim sunlight to stop global warming they say.

They are considering field trials which include spraying particles into the atmosphere in order to block out the sun, and the government has set aside a whopping £50 million for this.

Other ideas they have include creating certain clouds to allow more heat to escape from earth. Click here to read more.

 

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF - The tragic deaths of two American teenagers at the hands of an illegal alien was “completely preventable,” according to a top Department of Homeland Security official.

Illegal alien Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano was deported from the U.S. twice before being “convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, which resulted in the death of a young American couple,” Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary, told The Daily Signal. “This criminal illegal alien should have never been in our country.”

Ortega-Anguiano was sentenced to 10 years in prison after crashing into a vehicle on a freeway in Orange County, Calif., in 2021, claiming the lives of Anya Varfolomeev and Nicholay Osokin, who were both 19 at the time.

The parents of the teens were informed on Easter Sunday that the man responsible for their children’s deaths will be released from prison early. Click here to read more.

 

CHINA- President Donald Trump mocked China on Tuesday for its pollution, which represents a sizable share of the world’s waste.

Trump posted a series of photos to his Truth Social account that showed islands of floating bottles, plastics, and other waste in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The president called the mess “A Gift from China.”

China is one of the foremost polluting countries, commonly ranking near the top on lists of nations that produce the most waste that finds its way into the natural environment. China was number four on a list of “highest ocean plastic waste polluters in 2025” put together by the United Kingdom’s GreenMatch.

China produces 71,000 metric tons of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean, according to GreenMatch. China ranked just behind Malaysia, which produces 73,000 metric tons. The Philippines and India took the top two spots at 360,000 metric tons and 130,000 metric tons, respectively.

 

LANSING, MICH - A Michigan dentist with 40 years of experience is challenging a 2020 directive from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that requires all health care professionals to take implicit bias training to keep their professional licenses.

Kent Wildern, a dentist who practiced in Grand Rapids, was forced to surrender his license after he refused to complete the hotly debated social training.

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs implemented new rules in 2022 that compel more than 400,000 health care professionals to complete two hours of implicit bias training every renewal cycle.

Michiganders licensed by the state across 26 occupations ranging from medical practice to santitary services to acupuncture must complete the training to renew their professional licenses. Veterinarians were exempted. Click here to read more.

 

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison is trying to explain his support for a Muslim children’s organization that is being prosecuted for massive fraud.

Federal prosecutors have been investigating the Minneapolis-based Somali organization that was supposed to be raising funds for children but instead turned into the most expensive fraud concerning COVID funding in the entire nation, where 47 Somali immigrants have been charged with stealing $250 million in federal COVID funding.

Yet, Ellison took a meeting with representatives of that charity even as it was being investigated and now, in an op-ed, he is suddenly claiming, “as for the meeting — if I had had any way of knowing beforehand who those people were and what they’d done, I never would have agreed to it.”

But his claim is hard to square with his past statements on this very group, not to mention a recently released recording of a meeting he took with them. Click here to read more.

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WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the extent to which parents can opt their children out of public school instruction in which LGBT-themed books are read as part of the curriculum.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning in the case of Mahmoud, Tamer, et al. v. Taylor, Thomas W., et al. The case centers on whether public school parents in Montgomery County, Maryland — the state's largest school district — have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to exempt their children from lessons that feature LGBT ideology.

Eric Baxter of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty argued the case on behalf of a diverse coalition of Christian, Muslim and Jewish parents, saying in his opening arguments that "petitioners deserve complete preliminary relief" from the school district because it won't allow them to opt their children out of such instruction. Click here to read more.


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DENTON COUNTY, TX - Tributes poured in for Denton County Precinct 3 Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell and her husband, Fred, as more details emerged Tuesday about a stabbing that police say led to the arrest of the couple’s grandson Monday morning at their home in Lewisville.

Fred Mitchell, 75, died from his wounds soon after the incident, police said, while Bobbie Mitchell, 76, is expected to recover after undergoing surgery.

The couple’s 23-year-old grandson, Mitchell Reinacher, is suspected of stabbing his grandparents and is facing charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police have not said what might have led to the deadly attack but an arrest-warrant affidavit for Reinacher provided some details of the chaos and violence at the Mitchell residence early Monday. Click here to read more.

 

ST. PAUL, MN — A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill in the Minnesota House of Representatives that would classify mRNA vaccines and products as "weapons of mass destruction" and criminalize their manufacture, distribution, and possession.

"It's a shot across the bow of the biotechnology industry, which has taken advantage of its unique liability protections and the fear generated by emergency to fast-track novel gene-altering treatments which are not fully understood," Rep. Walter Hudson (Albertville), one of the bill's authors, told Patch.

"These treatments were coerced under threat of lost employment and social censure, rather than offered under the longstanding ethical norm of informed consent."

Hudson said the bill "would need significant amendment to become law" but described its "bold opening position" as an effort to "provoke productive conversation about these issues" and ultimately "arrive at a reasonable legislative response." Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former White House Chief Medical Adviser and a prominent figure during the COVID-19 pandemic, has seen a significant increase in his wealth since retiring from government service, according to the government watchdog group Open the Books.

"He was the highest-paid bureaucrat when he was working for the federal government, he was making $480,000 as his final salary. He’s actually doing even better post-retirement," said Rachel O’Brien, Public Policy Editor at Open the Books.

Open the Books obtained Fauci’s financial disclosure, revealing that his household earned more than $3.5 million in 2023. This included multiple six-figure deposits, though the sources of these deposits were not detailed in the documents. Fauci reportedly had several paid speaking engagements and sold his memoir to a subsidiary of Penguin Random House for approximately $5 million. Click here to read more.

 

HOOVER, Ala. - Nearly two years after faking her own disappearance, Carlee Russell has paid less than $1,000 in restitution to the City of Hoover.

A Jefferson County judge appeared satisfied with Russell as she briefly stood before him in court Tuesday for a probationary review, during which it was reported that she had paid roughly $500 so far to Hoover in $50 monthly installments.

That judge also confirmed Russell has successfully completed her supervised probation.

Russell has been ordered to pay nearly $18,000 to the city for expenses related to the two-day search for her.

While Russell is said to be making restitution payments to the city of hoover in a timely manner, prosecutors say the amount of time it’s taking is frustrating.

An attorney for Russell told reporters following the court appearance that it’s been difficult for her client to find work due to the widespread media attention of her disappearance. Click here to read more.

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