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The International Legal Forum (ILF), an Israel-based legal group, submitted a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute Palestine for torture. The submission comes as a UN body is set to release conclusions of a separate torture inquiry Friday. “The Palestinian Authority are yet to be held accountable under the law for
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On her Wednesdy MSNBC program, The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle welcomed the Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens and left-wing Prof. Jason Johnson to discuss the state of the nation which included the former accusing the GOP of being a “white extremist party” and the latter accusing the Supreme Court of being “absolutely illegitimate.” Stevens went
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On Tuesday, a group of House Democrats introduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization (TERM) Act, which would impose term limits on Supreme Court justices and, they say, will “restore legitimacy and independence to the nation’s highest court.” “The legislation […]  would authorize the president to nominate Supreme Court justices every two years — in
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New York Times pop culture reporter Reggie Ugwu, the paper’s podcast specialist, celebrated a left-wing SCOTUS-centered one, with an emphasis on vulgarity, in “The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court.”   Ugwu snuck in unchallenged praise for the left-wing activist podcast keyed to the overturning of Roe v Wade, and forwarded nasty attacks on conservative
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“It ends with China having all of your data,” popular podcaster Joe Rogan said of Americans’ use of TikTok on his show Tuesday. Chinese employees from TikTok’s parent company, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied ByteDance, have direct access to U.S. TikTok user data, NewsBusters reported last month. Rogan cited TikTok’s privacy policies, which say that TikTok
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One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges is under investigation by the Treasury Department for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions with Iran and other countries, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is expected to fine Kraken, a private cryptocurrency firm, for allegedly violating long-standing U.S. sanctions, five anonymous individuals
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Social media is ablaze with a dispute over whether the US economy is in a recession. The debate was prompted by the White House’s statement on upcoming GDP data. The statement claims: While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists
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A CNN legal analyst explained that “major constitutional, legal, political and practical obstacles” exist in turning any potential indictment of former President Donald Trump into a conviction Monday morning. “The committee did not establish a direct line of communication or instruction from the White House to extremist groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud
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There hasn’t been much offensive action by Russian forces in over three weeks, but there might be something big brewing under the surface that glossy TV news reports can’t show you. Ukraine might have begun a genuine counteroffensive against Russia. The front line has remained essentially static since July 3, when Russia completed its conquest
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Abigail Anthony at National Review reports The Associated Press Stylebook, the longtime style manual for most news organizations, has issued a “Topical Guide” for transgender coverage that encourages writers to use “unbiased language” and to “avoid false balance [by] giving a platform to unqualified claims or sources in the guise of balancing a story by
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What’s going to happen in the 2022 midterms? Historically, the party out of power typically wins in midterms elections, meaning that Republicans have that as an advantage. Inflation and economic concerns are also crushing the nation, and voters tend to punish the party in power when things are bleak. So again, the advantage goes to
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