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#10 Sam Ash to Close All 42 Stores as Beloved Music Chain Goes Out of Business - Ariel Zilber for The New York Post, and The Kevin Dalton on X
The iconic family-owned chain of music stores that attracted everyone from rock stars to wanna-be guitar heroes — will shut all of its stores after 100 years in business, the company said. Derek Ash, the great-grandson of founders Sam and Rose Ash, said the company has struggled to attract customers to its 42 brick-and-mortar locations around the country, which include three in New York City. “There are so many choices, and to maintain a store with that much selection is very difficult.” Derek Ash, the company’s chief marketing officer, told The New York Times, which first reported the closures... Florida filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday after it released a rule barring healthcare providers from discriminating based on “gender identity” or “sexual orientation.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the rule on April 26 as a part of the Affordable Care Act and bans healthcare and insurance providers receiving federal funding from denying care because of a patient’s gender identity or sexual orientation. Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody of Florida announced that her office had filed a lawsuit against the department for attempting “to force Florida to violate its own law “barring doctors from performing sex-change procedures on minors, according to a press release... Federal prosecutors are offering a $10 million reward for the arrest of the federally indicted leader of a Russian cybercrime group. In the indictment, unsealed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the government charges 31-year-old Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev of Voronezh, Russia, with 26 crimes as the leader of the LockBit ransomware group. LockBit is one of the most active ransomware groups in the world. It licenses its software, which holds users’ data or devices hostage until a ransom is paid, to affiliated cybercriminals for a fee and a percentage of the paid ransom... Six suspected squatters were arrested outside an Atlanta-area home worth more than a half-million dollars — and thanks to a new law, they may soon be gone for good. The house at 4300 Caveat Court in the Hampton Oaks neighborhood of South Fulton, Georgia, was supposed to be vacant. It's estimated worth, according to Zillow, is $518,400. But on Christmas Day 2023, several squatters allegedly took advantage of the vacant home and moved in as though they owned it. Neighbors knew no one should be living in the home, but there was little they could do about the alleged squatting because, at the time, Georgia law treated squatting as a civil matter... The progressive left has spent months lying to the American people about the true target of protests in the streets and on college campuses. They’ve wept, supposedly, for Palestinian women and children; they’ve harangued, constantly, about “Zionist” racists. But when a mob gathered Monday to burn an American flag at a memorial statue in New York City, they let the truth come out. According to the New York Post, a gang that was part of a larger protest using the annual Met Gala as a news hook for the left’s latest tantrum gathered around the “107th Infantry Memorial.”There, at a site that honors the fallen of war more than a century ago — a site already defaced with scrawls supporting Hamas terrorists who slaughter Jews in the name of a fiction called “Palestine” — they burned the flag those men died for... The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to review former President Donald Trump's application to appeal Judge Scott McAfee's ruling to keep embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the case. Judge McAfee's order in March said that special prosecutor Nathan Wade had to be removed in order to keep Willis from disqualification in the Trump election interference case in Georgia. Willis and Wade were alleged to have had an "improper" affair. Trump and several co-defendants alleged Willis and Wade were romantically involved prior to his hiring and that she financially benefited from the relationship. Both Willis and Wade denied those allegations... The Cuomo brothers are trying to fool the American people. Chris Cuomo stood for vaccine passports & shaming the unvaccinated. Andrew Cuomo forced New Yorkers to roll up their sleeves, shut down businesses, killed off the elderly and more. Don't be fooled. Chris and Andrew Cuomo are radical left-wing Big Pharma propagandist. - Breanna Morello Pfizer has paused its trial of a drug for a rare muscle-wasting disease after a child died suddenly. The boy, who was between two and four years old, suffered cardiac arrest after receiving the one-off gene therapy last year. Pfizer has not determined exactly what happened or whether the death was caused by the treatment, called fordadistrogene movaparvovec. The New York pharma giant said the pause would allow it to investigate the death 'while protecting the safety of the participants, which is our top priority.' AstraZeneca is withdrawing its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, months after the pharma giant admitted the drug could cause very rare, but life-threatening, injuries. The British-Swedish drugmaker has already withdrawn its EU marketing authorisation for the vaccine, branded Vaxzevria since 2021. The authorisation is the approval to market a drug in EU’s member states. The withdrawal was due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” against new variants of the novel coronavirus, the company said... A true wunderkind. A 15-year-old Indiana student is set to become the youngest-known college graduate in the Hoosier state — and he did so while earning his high school degree at the same time. Khaya Njumbe will receive his bachelor’s degree in general studies from Indiana University Northwest on May 8 with dreams of becoming a doctor, according to the university. Njumbe started studying at IU Northwest when he was only 12, taking online and in-person classes while maintaining extracurricular activities, such as playing piano and learning Chinese...
#9 TikTok Sues Us to Block Law That Could Ban the Social Media Platform - AP World News, and Patrick Bet-David for X
TikTok and its Chinese parent company filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new American law that would ban the popular video-sharing app in the U.S. unless it’s sold to an approved buyer, saying it unfairly singles out the platform and is an unprecedented attack on free speech. In its lawsuit, ByteDance says the new law vaguely paints its ownership of TikTok as a national security threat in order to circumvent the First Amendment despite no evidence that the company poses a threat. It also says the law is so “obviously unconstitutional” that its sponsors are instead portraying it as a way to regulate TikTok’s ownership...
#8 ‘We Will Not Stand By’: Florida Sues Biden Admin To Block New Trans Healthcare Rule - Kate Anderson for The Daily Caller, and Not the Bee on X
#7 Leader of Lockbit Hacking Group Unveiled, Hit with Federal Charges - Nolan Stout for Courthouse News Service, and 60 Minutes and Allal Atlanta on X
#6 6 Suspected Squatters Arrested Outside $500K Atlanta Home Less Than 2 Weeks After New Law Criminalizing Squatting Took Effect - Cortney Weil for Blaze Media
#5 Stop Calling Them 'Pro-Palestinian Protesters' - They Are Anti-American Insurgents! - Joe Saunders for The Western Journal, and Jason Miller on X
#4 Georgia Court of Appeals to Review Trump’s Bid to Disqualify Da Fani Willis - Brianna Herlihy for Fox News, and Kyle Becker and Joyce Alene on X
#3 The Cuomo Brothers Are Trying to Fool the American People on COVID - Breanna Morello, Craig Kelly, Mary Ellen Belding, Shannon Joy and Chief Nerd on X
#2 Pfizer Pauses Trial for Experimental Gene Therapy Drug After Child Participant Dies Suddenly - Connor Boyd for Daily Mail, and Chuck Callesto on X
#1 AstraZeneca Withdraws Covid Vaccine Worldwide After Admitting it Can Cause Rare Blood Clots - Arpan Rai for The Independent, and Dr. Simon Goddek, Concerned Citizen, Prof Norman Fenton and Dr. Clare Craig on X
And Now for Something Special
Indiana Teen, 15, Set to Become Youngest College Graduate in State’s History: ‘The Sky is the Limit’ - Richard Pollina for The New York Post, News for Buffalo and Kevin Teasley on X
