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#10 Joe Biden Runs Ads Promoting Abortions Up to Birth After Arizona Court Protects Babies - Steven Ertelt on LifeNews and James Singer on X
Joe Biden is running new television ads promoting abortions up to birth on the heels of a ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court protecting babies from abortions. The seven-figure ad buy highlights former President Donald Trump’s record on abortion and says he is responsible for it because he nominated Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe and allowed states to protect babies from abortion. Trump has taken credit for the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. Biden’s 30-second commercial will air on MSNBC and appear online. Here’s more on the commercial...
#9 Watch: Fired CBS Journalist Catherine Herridge Speaks on What Network Did to Her - 'Journalistic Rape' - Rachel M. Emmanuel for Western Journal
In a stunning testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, award-winning former CBS News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge accused the network of seizing hundreds of pages of her confidential reporting files, including information on sources, after terminating her employment in a move Herridge referred to as “journalistic rape.” The testimony was part of a hearing by The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government titled “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources.” Herridge, who had worked at CBS News for over four years and was part of an Emmy-winning team, told Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan that on Feb. 13, she was abruptly fired via a Zoom call. Immediately after, she was locked out of her email and blocked from accessing the office...
#8 New Blaze Media Doc Exposes Shady Stock-Trading From ‘Filthy Rich’ Democrats and Republicans in Congress - Cortney Weil for Blaze Media and American Patriot on X
The latest installment of Blaze Originals documentaries, "Bought and Paid For: How Politicians Get Filthy Rich," drops on Wednesday for Blaze Media subscribers, and it covers a topic that is sure to interest — and infuriate — viewers of all political persuasions: insider stock-trading by members of Congress. In this 30-minute episode, host James Poulos travels to Washington, D.C., the belly of the proverbial beast, to learn the extent of the problem. Even Poulos, a seasoned conservative thinker, appeared shocked by what he learned, noting that "some of the most richly rewarded investors in the world" are members of Congress and that running for Congress would give average Americans their best chance at earning "outsized returns" on stock trades...
#7 WH Expresses Condolences to OJ’s Family, No Mention of Victims - Paul Bois for Breitbart and Off Topic Show on X
The White House sparked controversy on Thursday when it expressed condolences to the family of OJ Simpson without mentioning the families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman – the two people he had been accused of (and acquitted of) murdering before being found unanimously responsible for their deaths in a civil trial. “Our thoughts are with his families [sic] during this difficult time — obviously with his family and loved ones,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing. “And I’ll say this: I know that they have asked for some privacy. And so we’re going to respect that. And I’ll just leave it there,” she added...#6 Forty-Three Senate Republicans Demand Schumer Hold Full Mayorkas Impeachment Trial - Samantha-Jo Roth for Washington Examiner and Steve Lance on X
Six Republicans did not sign the letter, including several who have questioned whether the House had presented enough evidence to prove Mayorkas committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” while enacting President Joe Biden’s border policies, such as Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT). Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Rand Paul (R-KY) did not sign the letter, although it’s unclear why they decided not to be part of the effort. Tuberville has been outspoken about the need for a full Senate trial, while Cassidy said this week that he would not support a measure to table impeachment charges...
#5 California Sees $181 Million Drained From People's Accounts - Alexander Fabino for Newsweek and Carr on X
Nearly $200 million in relief designated for California's low-income families was siphoned from their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) accounts, primarily through unauthorized ATM withdrawals, the Justice Department said. Last Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California, in conjunction with the U.S. Secret Service, announced the arrest of seven people linked to a scheme that drained $181 million from the EBT accounts of California's most vulnerable...
#4 Mystery as Underwater Anomaly Larger Than Texas Spotted off African Coast - Chloe Mayer for Newsweek and Dutchsinse on X
A wave anomaly captured by a weather-mapping system has sparked a global mystery—with some internet sleuths even claiming it proves the existence of aliens. A giant cluster of waves over 80 feet high and spanning 2,000 miles—an area larger than Texas—appeared to move through the ocean off the coast of Africa on April 10 in a journey that lasted about 24 hours before it vanished. Some online commentators said the formation could have been created only by something moving under the surface of the sea—making it an "unidentified submersible object," the ocean equivalent of a UFO...
#3 FDA Commissioner: Ivermectin Has ‘No Benefit’ Against COVID-19 - Zachary Stieber for Epoch Health and Rep Eric Burlison and Dr. Kat Lindly on X
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner on April 11 said that ivermectin does not work at all against COVID-19, just days after his agency deleted social media posts that had urged people not to use the drug as a COVID-19 treatment. “If you look at the randomized trials of ivermectin, and there’s many of them now, there is no benefit of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID,” Dr. Robert Califf said in Washington during a congressional hearing. He also said there were risks to taking the drug...
#2 Biden Says He Is ‘Considering’ Australia’s Request to End Julian Assange’s Prosecution - Tara Prindiville and Summer Concepcion for NBC News and Thomas Massie and Wikileaks on X
President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that he is "considering" a request from Australia for the United States to end the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “We’re considering it,” Biden said in response to a shouted question by a reporter during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House. Assange was indicted on 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of classified U.S. files. American prosecutors said that he endangered lives when he aided U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in unlawfully obtaining diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published...
#1 House Advances Revised Fisa Bill After Floor Revolt, Teeing up Final Vote - Mychael Schnell for The Hill and Mario Nawfal, Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Judiciary GOP and Thomas Massie on X
The House advanced a bill Friday to reauthorize the U.S.’s warrantless surveillance authority, opening the measure up for debate two days after a band of conservatives blocked a previous version of the legislation from moving forward. The chamber cleared the rule — which governs debate for legislation — in a 213-208 vote, teeing up a final vote on a bill that reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years and institutes a number of reforms to the spying powers...
And Now for Something Special 
Dog Who Was ‘Too Friendly’ for Police Academy Steals Hearts During Taiwan Earthquake Rescue Efforts - Bailey Richards for People and Voice of America
A Labrador retriever in Taiwan flunked out of police academy for being too playful. Now, he aids with search and rescue efforts — including those that followed the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the country last week. The 8-year-old pup named Roger was originally trained to be a drug-sniffing dog at the Customs Administration's Detector Dog Breeding & Training Center in the city of Taichung, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency (CNA). But he flunked out for being “too friendly and boisterous,” his handler, Lee Hsin Hung, told the New York Times. So, the canine joined a search and rescue team at the Kaohsiung Fire Bureau. Today, he’s a ranking officer...
