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Republican attorneys general issue warning letter to Target about Pride merchandise

CBS NEWS – Seven U.S. state attorneys general sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning that clothes and merchandise sold as part of the company's Pride month campaigns might violate their state's child protection laws. Republican attorneys general from Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and South Carolina signed the letter, writing that they were "concerned by recent events involving the company's 'Pride' campaign." The attorneys said that they believed the campaign was a "comprehensive...

Can you get a DUI while mowing your lawn?

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — Two things define summer for many West Virginians—beer and mowing the lawn, but can those two things legally mix? Under the West Virginia Code §17C-5-2, a person who “drives a vehicle on any public highway or private road in this state while he or she is in an impaired state” will be charged with DUI and can be fined up to $1,000 for a first offense. But an amendment made in...

California Promises Free Care for 11,000 Inmates as They Leave Prison

KFF HEALTH NEWS – California has agreed to improve health care for newly released prison inmates who are disabled, including through a series of measures that advocates say will help almost everyone trying to make the transition from incarceration. Attorneys representing inmates say proper care during the transition from prison has long been lacking and can lead to homelessness. A recent study found that 1 in 5 Californians experiencing homelessness came from an institution such...

Most States With Highest Rates Of Smoking Have Below Average Cigarette Taxes

An average smoker in “Tobacco Nation” goes through about 53 packs in one year, compared with an average of 29 packs in the rest of the US, a difference of about 500 cigarettes per person each year.

Death toll rises to 7 in fungal meningitis outbreak; 161 more at risk

ARS TECHNICA – Three more people in the US have died from fungal meningitis in an outbreak linked to tainted surgeries in Mexico, bringing the total deaths to seven, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The total case count remains unchanged from an update earlier this month, with 34 cases in the US: nine confirmed, 10 probable, and 15 suspected. Health officials are investigating 161 others who may have been exposed. The outbreak is...

North Carolina megachurch exits Southern Baptist Convention after expulsions over women pastors

AP – Less than a month after finalizing the ouster of one of its largest churches for having women pastors, the Southern Baptist Convention has lost another of its biggest congregations. Elevation Church — a North Carolina-based megachurch that draws thousands of worshippers to its multiple campuses and has wielded a strong influence on contemporary Christian worship music — sent notice to the SBC on June 26 that it was withdrawing its affiliation. Elevation's letter didn't...

Hamburgers to housing: McDonald’s lot development breaks ground

San Francisco is racing to fulfill a state-mandated goal of building 82,000 new homes in eight years, more than half of which must be affordable to low- and moderate-income.

Florida’s new DeSantis-backed laws address immigration, Medicare and more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally will face tough punishments and gun owners will have more freedoms when more than 200 new Florida laws take effect Saturday, many of which Gov. Ron DeSantis will highlight as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. DeSantis has taken a hard line on illegal immigration as he campaigns, saying he'll finish the Mexican border wall his one-time supporter, Donald Trump, promised to build....

Government finally releases COVID documents. What they omitted is even more suspicious

BASED POLITICS | Opinion | We’ve been fighting both the Chinese and US governments for information on COVID-19’s origins for over three years now—a mission of paramount importance as evidence suggests that the US did fund its creation via corrupt animal torture practices that are still ongoing in numerous other labs. Which of course would mean we’re all in danger of the next thing being created and leaking. To be clear, the animal torture I’m referring to here...

Governor’s sex ed curriculum proposal, explained

WBUR – Massachusetts education leaders will vote this morning on advancing Gov. Maura Healey’s recently proposed updates to the state’s sex education curriculum. The new proposal — which is five years in the making — would be the first update to the state’s existing health curriculum framework since 1999. It also doesn’t need approval from the Legislature, where previously proposed updates have stalled. According to a report last year by the group SIECUS, Massachusetts is one...

Lowell Weicker, Senator Whose Star Rose During Watergate, Dies at 92

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a liberal Republican who earned a national reputation for pugnacious political independence — first as a young United States senator during the Watergate hearings and later as a third-party governor of Connecticut — died on Wednesday at a hospital in Middletown, in central Connecticut. He was 92. His family announced his death in a statement. Mr. Weicker was an obscure junior senator from Connecticut and a member...

Gov. Kathy Hochul Declares New York a Sanctuary State for ‘Trans’ Kids

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) With the leftist stroke of a pen, New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul turned the state into a sanctuary for transgender children and their families, shortly before she attended the infamous “We’re coming for your children” Pride March on Saturday. The legislation will prohibit New York authorities from cooperating with other states’ investigations into parents who want to physically mutilate their children through surgeries, drugs and hormones, Timcast reported. “A police...

Mama Mia! NYC rules crack down on coal, wood-fired pizzerias

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules that would order eateries using the decades-old baking method to slice carbon emissions by up to 75%.

Tranny Biden Official Wants to Extend ‘Pride’ Month to Entire Summer

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) After a “Pride Month” featuring naked perversions and heathen themes in parades and festivals across the country that were met with widespread criticism, the Biden administration’s military attache for transgenders, Admiral Richard “Rachel” Levine, declared that the month-long celebration should be extended to a “Summer of Pride.” The administration’s assistant health secretary, Levine posted the message on the official U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Instagram account, celebrating “Pride Month” and demanding more. “Happy...

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