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Socialist New York Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has argued that people who steal basic products such as toothpaste and soap are driven by “biological need” and should not be thrown in jail. Gallagher, a Brooklyn Democrat and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, made the remarks Thursday during a press conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court. The event was organized alongside Court Watch NYC, which said it had monitored 360 arraignments over four days and found that more than half involved misdemeanor offenses. “Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty-people who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who were…

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) in Texas has scrapped plans to install Islamic foot-washing stations as Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered an investigation into the matter. DFW told Fox News on Friday it had been reviewing a proposal for the project but accelerated that review after news of the plans broke, drawing much criticism. The airport’s statement read: DFW was in the process of evaluating an internal proposal to add a set of ablution washing stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, the international terminal. Like all proposed projects, the airport ultimately considers the operational benefits, customer…

More than a fifth of all farmland in the conflict zone has been damaged, according to the country’s Agriculture Ministry Lebanese families are struggling to make ends meet as the country’s long-running financial crisis deepens amid Israeli attacks that have devastated homes and farmland, RT correspondent Steve Sweeney reports from Beirut.Gasoline prices soared by around 25% in February, while food and rent costs spiked by around 20% last year, adding pressure in a country where more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line, according to World Bank estimates.Many Lebanese are also grappling with unpaid wages, Sweeney…

RNC Chairman Joe Gruters was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest host Jackie DeAngelis to talk about the upcoming Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. This will be the first time the GOP will be holding a midterm convention. “Let’s talk a little bit about the messaging at this crucial event. Messaging is front and center,” DeAngelis said. “The DSA voters, their heels are dug in, but you’ve got independents, you’ve got your base, you’ve got moderates that you still can sway. So, what is the tone gonna be, and what do you want to communicate to people out there…

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said he lets a bot keep him company on long drives across his home state, chatting with the voice of artificial intelligence as it does legwork on some of his favorite issues. Tuberville, who is running for governor and crisscrossing Alabama hunting for votes, said Friday he talks with the chatbot about Medicare and Medicaid and learns a few things as he motors down the road. “It’s kind of like you can sit there and talk to an expert,” Tuberville told the Washington Post in the newspaper’s story about AI’s expanding role in Congress. But he…

MILAN (AP) – Thieves stole four works attributed to the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina from a regional museum in the Sicilian city of Messina on the Italian Ferragosto holiday, the news agency LaPresse reported Sunday. The thieves bypassed alarm and security systems Saturday evening at the MuMe regional museum to make off with three of the five surviving panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych, dated from 1473, as well as the double-sided panel depicting the Virgin Mary and dead Christ in Pietà, which was removed from an armored display case, LaPresse reported. “We are devastated by what happened.…

Former Democrat-turned-Independent Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema has been open in court about her sexual relationship with a former bodyguard who is now her boyfriend. Sinema has been embroiled in a legal battle involving Matthew Ammel and his ex-wife, Heather Ammel, TMZ reported Thursday. The ex-wife’s lawyers recently grilled Sinema about the relationship between her and her ex-husband, the outlet continued: According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ, the former politician testified during her deposition that her romance with Matthew, who was married and working as her bodyguard, started in late May 2024 when they were in California. Kyrsten said,…

Pfizer’s Albert Bourla Remember this? In November 2021, Pfizer’s CEO, Albert Bourla, said people who dare to “spread misinformation’ about Covid vaccines are “criminals.” Albert Bourla, a veterinarian who was born in Greece, attacked the First Amendment and used his platform to intimidate Americans. Bourla said people who circulate misinformation about Covid jabs and dare speak ill of his product are “criminals.” “Those people are criminals,” Bourla told Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe nearly five years ago. “They’re not bad people. They’re criminals because they have literally cost millions of lives.” Bourla issued a veiled threat, warning Americans that life won’t return…

A former British police officer has been convicted of posting offensive content on Facebook after he reposted an image mocking Islam, sparking accusations that blasphemy laws have returned to the United Kingdom. Retired police officer Stephen Gray, 65, has been found guilty by the Newton Aycliffe magistrates’ court of breaching Section 127(1)(a) of the Communications Act 2003 over a post he reshared on Facebook, which was deemed to be “grossly offensive”. According to The Telegraph, Gray was reported to the Durham Constabulary for two Facebook memes by a non-Muslim neighbour of his, whom Gray had previously been in a separate dispute with.…

On August 15, 2026, Scottsdale Gun Club celebrated crumbling NFA requirements by selling a suppressor to Sheriff Jerry Sheridan and one to Sheriff Mark Lamb for $17.76 each. Both men are members of Gun Owners of America, and therefore fall under the plaintiff protections handed down on August 5, 2026, in Jensen v. ATF, by U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix. This opened the door for plaintiffs–including Gun Owners of America members and others in a consolidated case–to transfer suppressors and short barrel rifles and shotguns without complying with NFA registration requirements. Sheriff Mark Lamb, AWR Hawkins, Sheriff Jerry Sheridan…