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#10 Supreme Court Rejects Pornography Industry Plea to Block Texas Age Verification Law - Breccan F. Thies for The Washington Examiner
The Supreme Court rejected an emergency plea from the pornography industry to stop the enforcement of a Texas age verification law imposed on pornography sites, allowing the Lone Star State to continue the policy it enacted to protect children. The order from Justice Samuel Alito came down Tuesday without explanation or a public dissent, but it left in place the law that prompted Pornhub, one of the most trafficked pornography sites in the world, to cease operation in Texas. In mid-April, the adult industry trade organization Free Speech Coalition joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union to ask the Supreme Court to stop the law, arguing that the law aimed at stopping children from viewing pornography actually harms the rights of adults. The pornography industry said the laws violated the First Amendment rights of adults by asking them to submit personal information to use the pornography websites...
#9 Kaiser Permanente Says Data Breach May Affect 13.4m Customers - Aislinn Murphy for Fox Business and Tessa on X
Kaiser Permanente said it is notifying members after a recent data breach potentially affected millions of accounts. The healthcare conglomerate recently disclosed a large data breach of its Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and reported the incident to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in mid-April. A page on the HHS website described the event as an "unauthorized access/disclosure."The number of people potentially impacted by the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan breach totaled 13.4 million, according to the HHS. The company said in a statement that while it was "not aware of any misuse of any member’s or patient’s personal information," it would still alert those individuals "out of an abundance of caution." They included both current and former customers... The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use... At the start of April, we penned a lengthy report for premium subs discussing why artificial intelligence data centers, the electrification of the economy, and onshoring trends will result in a major upgrade of the nation's power grid. We followed the note up on Monday with a report titled Everyone Is Piling Into The "Next AI Trade." Now, BlackRock Chairman and Chief Executive Larry Fink has jumped on the "Next AI Trade" theme at a World Economic Forum event on Monday... West Virginia school board "punished" a group of middle school girls who protested a biological male competing against them at a track meet earlier this month, according to a legal complaint. What's the background?Cellphone video showed girls from Lincoln Middle School staging a protest in the shot put ring at the Harrison County Middle School Championships on April 18; one by one, they stepped into the ring and then quickly stepped out without making attempts... White House communications staff has had to correct President Joe Biden’s public remarks at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024, a review of official White House transcripts shows. The White House releases an official transcript anytime the president gives a speech or takes questions. Communications staff frequently correct, add to, or alter Biden’s official remarks in order to either bring them into compliance with official White House policy or, in some cases, reality, a Daily Caller analysis showed. In several cases, official statements had to be changed to convey the exact opposite of what Biden actually said. Through 118 statements, speeches, and chats with reporters spanning from Jan. 1 to April 24, the White House has officially updated its transcript with corrections to what the president said out loud at least 148 times... Three owners of an independent laboratory have been charged for their alleged roles in a $36 million fraud scheme. The three men allegedly submitted false claims for COVID-19 testing to healthcare benefit programs, including Medicare and the Health Resources and Services Administration's COVID-19 Uninsured Program, according to an April 24 Justice Department news release. The alleged scheme occurred between November 2018 and June 2023. They also allegedly paid illegal kickbacks and bribes to patient recruiters who arranged for healthcare providers to refer the tests to their lab, Innovative Genomics. Residents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have finally won a legal battle to create a new town called St. George. "This is the culmination of citizens exercising their constitutional rights. We voted, and we won," attorney Andrew Murrell, one of the leaders of the St. George movement, said in a statement following the Louisiana Supreme Court's decision. "Whether you are for or you are against St. George, now is your opportunity, a historic opportunity, to create a city from the beginning, from the ground up," he said. "It's your ideas, it's your policies, it's your way of life and now you can come together and put those out there and have someone accountable to you." While universities across the country have let anti-Israel demonstrators take over their campuses, the University of Florida has taken a different approach. Not only will school administrators not think twice about removing disruptive agitators from university property, but a UF spokesman tacitly fired off an insult at pro-Hamas American lost youth on Monday. Nine people were arrested in Gainesville after protesters chose to ignore warnings from the school in regard to what would and wouldn’t be allowed on campus... Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data is revealing the more than 45 cities in the U.S. that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via a controversial parole program for four nationalities — with the vast majority entering the U.S. via airports in Florida. During an eight-month period from January through August 2023, roughly 200,000 migrants flew into the U.S. via the program. Of those, 80% of them, (161,562) arrived in the state of Florida in four cities: Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa Bay, according to DHS data obtained via a subpoena by the House Homeland Security Committee and provided to Fox News...
#8 DEA Will Move to Reclassify Marijuana in Historic Shift - Breitbart for AP and ZeroHedge on X
#7 Blackrock’s Larry Fink Jumps on “Next AI Trade,” Warning World Will Be “Short Power” - Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge
#6 School Board ‘Punished’ Middle School Girls Who Protested Biological Male Competing Against Them at Track Meet: Complaint - Dave Urbanski and Riley Gaines on X
#5 White House Officially Claims Biden Has Made 148 Mistakes During 2024 Public Remarks - Reagan Reese for The Daily Caller and Planet Ponzi on X
#4 Lab Owners Charged in $36M COVID-19 Testing Fraud Scheme - Andrew Cass for Beckers Hospital Review
#3 Louisiana Will Form a New City of Almost 100,000 People After Battle Made It to State Supreme Court - Jeffrey Clark for Fox News and Leading Report on X
#2 University of Florida Puts Columbia to Shame with 'Perfect Statement' After Arresting Agitators: 'Not a Daycare' - Johnathan Jones for Western Journal and Christopher F. Rufo on X
#1 DHS Docs Reveal Where Paroled Migrants Under Controversial Biden Flight Program Are Landing - Adam Shaw and Bill Melugin for Fox News and April Color, Florida Voice and Sean Hannity on X
And Now for Something Special 
Wildlife Photographer Wakes Up From A Nap Under A Tree With… A Sleeping Cheetah Against Him - WECB Radio and Renato Cordera on YouTube
Imagine dozing off under the shade of a tree after a taxing day out in the sun, only to wake up to the gentle nudge of a wild cheetah snuggling against you. This isn’t the start of a fable or a campfire story. It’s what happened to Dolph Volker, a wildlife photographer and animal enthusiast, during one of his volunteering stints at Cheetah Experience, a sanctuary for endangered species in South Africa. Dolph’s journey with animals began much like anyone’s affection for their pets. After the loss of his beloved dog, Dolph found a renewed mission in life: advocating for animal rights and raising awareness about endangered species. His commitment led him to Cheetah Experience, where lions, leopards, servals, and of course, cheetahs find refuge from the threats they face in the wild...
