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#10 High School Track Coach in Indiana Forbids Student-Athletes to Gather for Prayer Before Meets - Cortney Weil for Blaze Media
high school track coach in Indiana has forbidden members of his team to gather for student-led prayer before meets, a new federal lawsuit claims. The case relates to the girls' varsity track and field team at Lake Central High School in St. John, Indiana, near the Illinois border, about 20 miles southwest of Gary. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court earlier this month, before a meet in late February, Coach Ron Fredrick became upset when he saw several members of his team gathering together for prayer during warm-ups. "Don’t let me see you do that again," he allegedly warned them. The coach's alleged statements were soon reported to administrators at Lake Central School Corporation and LCHS athletic director Chris Enyeart, who reportedly promised in an email to a concerned parent that he would "look into this situation."
#9 Google’s Woke AI Wasn’t a Mistake. We Know. We Were There. - Francesca Block and Olivia Reingold for The Free Press
t was a display that would have blown even Orwell’s mind: search for images of “Nazis” and Google’s AI chatbot shows you almost exclusively artificially generated black Nazis; search “knights” and you get female, Asian knights; search “popes” and it’s women popes. Ask it to share the Houthi slogan or define a woman, and Google’s new product says that it will not in order to prevent harm. As for whether Hitler or Elon Musk is more dangerous? The AI chatbot says that it is “complex and requires careful consideration.” Ask it the same question about Obama and Hitler, and it will tell you the question is “inappropriate and misleading.”
#8 Hong Kong Lawmakers Unanimously Approve Security Law, Giving Government More Power to Curb Dissent - Kanis Leung for AP News
Hong Kong lawmakers unanimously approved a new national security law Tuesday that grants the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019. The legislature passed the Safeguarding National Security Bill during a special session. The law will expand authorities’ ability to prosecute citizens for offenses including “colluding with external forces” to commit illegal acts as well as charge them with treason, insurrection, espionage, and disclosing state secrets, among others. It comes on top of a similar security law Beijing imposed in 2020, which has already largely silenced opposition voices in the financial hub. Critics worry the new law will further erode civil liberties that Beijing promised to preserve for 50 years when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997...
#7 Brazil’s Bolsonaro is Indicted For 1st Time Over Alleged Falsification of His Vaccination Status - Mauricio Savarese for AP News and Fox 59
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was formally accused Tuesday of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store. The federal police indictment released by the Supreme Court alleged that Bolsonaro and 16 others inserted false information into a public health database to make it appear as though the then-president, his 12-year-old daughter, and several others in his circle had received the COVID-19 vaccine. Police detective Fábio Alvarez Shor, who signed the indictment, said in his report that Bolsonaro and his aides changed their vaccination records in order to “issue their respective (vaccination) certificates and use them to cheat current health restrictions.”
#6 Trump Sues ABC, George Stephanopoulos For Defamation After Host Accused Him of Rape in Mace Interview - Isabel Keane for The New York Post and Collin Rugg on X
Former President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, claiming his reputation was tarnished by the anchor saying multiple times on-air that Trump had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Trump filed the lawsuit in federal court in Miami on Monday over a viral interview between US Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Stephanopoulos on “This Week” on March 10, according to The Hill. The suit takes aim at Stephanopoulos’ questioning for saying Trump had been found “liable for rape” when a jury in a Manhattan civil case last year only found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law... The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that a man’s challenge to his former placement on the No Fly List can move forward, finding the government failed to show his lawsuit is moot. Yonas Fikre, a U.S. citizen who previously resided in Sudan, claimed his placement on the list was unlawful and sued the FBI. The government later removed him from the list and signaled it was unlikely he would be readded. It then contended that Fikre’s lawsuit was moot as a result and should be tossed. The government warned that not declaring lawsuits like Fikre’s moot at the onset could require the government to disclose classified information. The Supreme Court rejected that assertion, enabling Fikre’s case to move ahead. “Necessarily, our judgment is a provisional one,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the court’s opinion... U.S. consumers have come to increasingly rely on the near ubiquity of convenience stores and big-box retailers. Many of us depend on these stores being open practically all day, every day, even during some of the biggest holidays. After all, Black Friday beckons retail stores to open just hours after a Thanksgiving Day dinner in hopes of attracting huge crowds of shoppers in search of early holiday sales... A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” were returned to their owner nearly 20 years after the iconic shoes were stolen from a museum in the late actor’s hometown. But “No place like home?” Not exactly. The memorabilia collector who owns the iconic footwear immediately turned them over to an auction company, which plans to take them on an international tour before offering them at auction in December, an official with Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Monday...
#5 Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Against Government in No Fly List Case - Zach Schonfeld for The Hill
#4 Texas Pulls $8.5B From BlackRock in Stunning Blow to ESG Movement - Thomas Catenacci for Fox Business
The State of Texas is terminating a massive $8.5 billion investment with trillion-dollar asset manager BlackRock over the state's determination that the firm is engaged in a boycott of energy companies. In an announcement first shared with FOX Business, Texas State Board of Education Chairman Aaron Kinsey said the so-called Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) had delivered a notice to BlackRock on Tuesday, informing the New York City-based firm of the action. According to Kinsey, the move was made in accordance with a 2021 state law that seeks to distance the state and its large public purse from financial institutions boycotting the oil and gas sector...
#3 TJ Maxx and Marshalls Follow Costco and Target on Upcoming Closures - Jena Warburton for The Street#2 Navarro Sticks To Principles, Heads To Miami Prison For Four Months - Wendi S Mahoney for UncoverDC
Former Trump advisor, Dr. Peter Navarro, held a press conference on Tuesday before turning himself into federal prison in Miami. When asked whether he was afraid, he stated he was only afraid of one thing: the way the DOJ has weaponized and politicized the justice system. The inequities extend to the absurdity of juries in D.C., now so blatantly stacked against him and all the J6 defendants. It is almost impossible to get a fair trial in the District because it is so Left-leaning. No defendant has been able to get a single judge to grant a change of venue request...
During the pandemic, ICAN witnessed many instances where state and federal public health entities falsely referred to COVID-19 vaccines released under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) as “approved” or “safe and effective” in direct violation of federal law and the conditions of the vaccines’ EUAs. ICAN’s attorneys sent two petitions to the FDA demanding it either enforce the terms of its own EUAs that prohibit advertisements with this illegal language or rescind the advertising restrictions entirely. FDA chose to do neither...
#1 FDA Refuses to Enforce EUA Advertising Restriction — But Also Insists it Must Keep the Provision! - ICAN and Aaron Siri and The HighWire on X
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Stolen 'Wizard of Oz' Ruby Slippers Will Go On An International Tour and Then Be Auctioned - Jim Salter for ABC News and Inside Edition
