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PORTLAND, OR - Two female athletes declined to stand on the podium next to a transgender athlete during the awards ceremony for the high jump at the Oregon state track and field championships on Saturday night.
Reese Eckard of Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson of Tigard High School stepped down from their positions on the podium in protest of the trans competitor from Ida B. Wells High School.
Eckard finished fourth in the high jump, and Anderson finished third; both female athletes defeated the trans athlete who tied for fifth. An event official then gestured for Eckard and Anderson to move away from the podium after they stepped down.
This was the first year in which the trans athlete competed in the girls category. He had competed in boys’ events in both 2023 and 2024.
The protest is part of a growing trend as of late, which has seen female athletes use their platform to voice dissent against the intrusion of trans athletes into girls’ and women’s sports. Click here to read more.
BOSTON, MASS - A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House "Squad" members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to "free" Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats.
Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez's shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum "fully justified," "eminently defensible," and "morally righteous." It also urges readers to "give pause to the zionists" and "GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA," a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Facial recognition technology (FRT) is no longer science fiction. From unlocking our phones to streamlining airport security, FRT has been quietly integrated into daily life. Most of us don’t bat an eye when we see FRT-enabled cameras providing an extra layer of security at a sporting event, but when this powerful tech is used in policing, the conversation gets a lot more complicated.
Law enforcement agencies must approach this innovative technology cautiously, considering both benefits and risks. Following are five key considerations.
We often think of facial recognition as a new innovation, but it’s already firmly entrenched in many areas of public and private life. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, over two-thirds of police agencies use FRT in some capacity, though the predominant applications include facility and computer systems access. From unlocking smartphones to scanning faces at border crossings, FRT is part of a growing web of biometric security many of us now take for granted. As of mid-2024, for example, Customs and Border Protection had processed more than 540 million travelers using facial recognition. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - June 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark parental rights decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters.
That historic opinion recognized “the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.” It also famously declared that “the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.”
Sadly, despite that—and even now—many federal programs continue to encroach on parental rights.
Though parents have a fundamental right to raise and educate their children, and America’s history and tradition recognize the integrity of the family and parents’ rightful role as their children’s primary decision-makers, many courts have failed to properly treat parental rights as constitutionally protected. Instead, they have eroded parents’ rights by not applying the highest level of legal protection. That has contributed to the problems that still exist with many federal programs. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C — After years of rising prices and limited inventory, the housing market is undergoing a major shift: Sellers now far outnumber buyers.
As of April, the U.S. housing market had nearly 500,000 more sellers than buyers — the largest seller surplus on record, according to a new Redfin estimate.
Aside from the start of the pandemic in April 2020, homebuyers haven’t been this scarce since at least 2013, the earliest year for which Redfin has data.
As recently as February 2024, the number of buyers and sellers was roughly balanced, but the gap has steadily widened over the past year. Redfin now expects home prices to drop 1% by the end of 2025.
The online real estate brokerage highlighted three factors tilting the balance of power toward buyers: recent economic uncertainty, high home prices and a mortgage rate lock-in effect that is beginning to ease. Click here to read more.
