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#10 SC Governor: SLED To Evaluate Claim Non-Citizens Given Voter Registration Form - By FOX Carolina News Staff and Rep. Adam Morgan on X
The Governor has asked South Carolina’s top law enforcement agency to investigate a state lawmaker’s claim that voter registration forms were recently being given to non-U.S. citizens. A member of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus said a refugee reached out to him after she received a packet, which included a voter registration declination form, from the South Carolina Medicaid Office. On Wednesday, Governor Henry McMaster asked the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to immediately set up a meeting to evaluate the authenticity of the allegations. “These are very serious allegations,” McMaster wrote in a letter. “The integrity of our elections is indeed a top concern.” The United States House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would expand the federal definition of anti-Semitism despite opposition from civil liberties groups. The bill passed the House on Wednesday by a margin of 320 to 91, and it is largely seen as a reaction to the ongoing antiwar protests unfolding on US university campuses. It now goes to the Senate for consideration. If the bill were to become law, it would codify a definition of anti-Semitism created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Enduring insults, middle fingers, and flying water bottles, about a dozen fraternity brothers stood their ground around the American flag at the University of North Carolina on Tuesday. “These people wanted to tear down the flag, and we were there to protect it,” Pi Kappa Phi member Brendan Rosenblum told NewsNation’s “On Balance.” “Me and my friends did not allow that to happen.” The standoff began when pro-Palestinian protestors raised the Palestinian flag on the pole. UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts, accompanied by police officers, took it down and re-hung the U.S. flag, which was flying at half-staff in honor of the law enforcement officers killed Monday in Charlotte... The Biden administration on Wednesday announced that it would forgive more than $6.1 billion in student debt for 317,000 former students of The Art Institutes, the once-giant chain of for-profit schools. The relief will go to borrowers who enrolled at any of the dozens of Art Institute campuses across the country between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education, which reviewed evidence provided by the attorneys general of Iowa, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, concluded that the schools and its parent company, the Education Management Corp., or EDMC, made "pervasive and substantial" misrepresentations to prospective students about post-graduation employment rates, salaries, and career services... Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday banning cultivated or lab-grown meat in Florida, placing it within a conspiracy by global “elites” to destroy agriculture in the interests of fighting climate change. During a ceremony in the Hardee County Cattleman’s Arena in Wauchula, the governor compared the threat of lab-grown meat to citrus greening and hurricanes. “Those are, though, natural disasters — those are acts of God,” he said. A dish made with Good Meat’s cultivated chicken is displayed at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023, in Alameda, California. “What we’re protecting here is the industry against acts of man, against an ideological agenda that wants to finger agriculture as the problem, that views things like raising cattle as destroying our climate,” DeSantis continued... Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a multistate coalition including Louisiana, Missouri, and Utah to sue the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) of the U.S. Department of Justice for unlawfully attempting to abridge Americans’ constitutional right to privately buy and sell firearms. The ATF’s regulatory restrictions go beyond the authority granted to the agency by Congress. The new Final Rule is arbitrary and capricious and is a flagrant violation of the Second Amendment. Attorney General Paxton is seeking immediate injunctive relief to stop the ATF from enforcing its unlawful edict while the issue is considered fully by the courts... A House subcommittee investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic urged a criminal investigation of EcoHealth Alliance president Dr. Peter Daszak ahead of a Wednesday hearing, releasing a trove of documents about the Manhattan-based nonprofit’s controversial virus experiments in Wuhan, China. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, released a 59-page report and interview transcripts with half a dozen National Institutes of Health (NIH) officials and scientists linked to EcoHealth’s research — including Daszak himself. EcoHealth has received millions in federal grants to conduct research around the globe — including more than $4 million for an NIH project titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” Michael Cohen, who is supposed to be a star witness in NY v. Trump, might have "torpedoed" the case before taking the stand by ranting about it on TikTok while fundraising, according to legal observers. "It is a major problem for prosecutors. It is not a problem for Cohen’s credibility because he has none — he is a convicted perjurer and fraudster whose current ‘defense’ of his fraud convictions is that he wasn’t telling the truth when he pled guilty," former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy told Fox News Digital. ABC News published an article Sunday declaring Cohen’s actions "could be a problem," pointing out that Cohen has chimed in on former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker's testimony, has regularly "railed against Trump," has insisted the jury isn’t "bored" and can profit when followers shower him with gifts... In a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, was found to improve mobility and stiffness in those suffering from osteopenia and osteoarthritis. Curcumin is simply one of the most incredible natural therapeutic compounds known in foods and has been investigated for its effects on everything from cancer to autoimmune disorders...
#9 US House Passes Controversial Bill That Expands Definition of Anti-Semitism - Aljazeera and Rep Matt Gaetz and Rep Chip Roy and Rep Thomas Massie on X
#8 $377K Raised for UNC Frat Bros Who Saved American Flag at Protest - Rich Johnson for News Nation and Outkick and Scott Presler on X
#7 Biden Administration Forgives $6.1 Billion in Student Debt for 317,000 Former Art Institute Students - Annie Nova for CNBC and Joe Pags on X
#6 Desantis Signs Ban on Lab-Grown Meat in Florida, Says ‘Elites’ Are Pushing It - Michael Moline for Florida Phoenix and Gov Ron Desantis on X
#5 Attorney General Ken Paxton Leads Multistate Coalition Suing Biden Administration Over Unlawful Ban on Private Firearms Sales - Ken Paxton Ress Release and Ryan Chandler for KRQE News 13
#4 House COVID Panel Grills Ecohealth Alliance Chief, Demands Criminal Probe Over Virus Research in Wuhan - Josh Christenson for The New York Post and Vigilant Fox on X
#3 RFK Jr. Demands Biden Take ‘No Spoiler Pledge’ To Drop Out Of Race If Polls Show He Can’t Beat Trump - Sara Dorn for Forbes and The Chief Nerd on X
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urged President Joe Biden to take a “no spoiler pledge” to drop out of the race if polls show that Kennedy Jr. would perform better against Trump than Biden in a head-to-head matchup—as polls show he could peel off enough votes from either candidate to sway the results of the decidedly close race. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he would be willing to take a “no spoiler pledge” if Biden also commits to doing the same, pointing to internal polling from his campaign, which it claims shows Trump would win with or without Kennedy Jr. in the race...
#2 Michael Cohen TikTok Videos, Fundraising Stun Legal Observers: May Have ‘Torpedoed Case Against Trump' - Brian Flood and David Rutz for Fox News and Travis Media Group on X
#1 CIA Official Caught Admitting Mike Pompeo, Staff Witheld Info From Trump - Times Now World Desk and James O'Keefe and Lara Logan on X
“So the agencies kind of, like, all got together and said, we’re not gonna tell Trump…Director of the CIA would keep [information from Trump]…” A project manager working in Cyber Operations for the @CIA and an @NSAGov contractor with top-secret clearance working for @Deloitte, Amjad Fseisi, is caught on undercover cameras implicating the highest levels of the intelligence agencies, including “The executive staff. We’re talking about the director and his subordinates,” former CIA Directors “Gina Haspel....And I believe Mike Pompeo did the same thing too,” “kept information from him [Trump] because we knew he’d fucking disclose it.” Amjad reasons, “There are certain people that would…give him a high-level overview but never give him any details. You know why? Because he’ll leak those details...He’s a Russian asset. He’s owned by the fucking Russians.” @mikepompeo
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Analysis Strongly Supports Turmeric Supplementation to Improve Arthritis and Osteopenia - Andy Corbley for Good News Network and JelzFitness and Barbara O'Neill on X
