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In a sign of momentum for efforts to punt government funding talks beyond the midterms, House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx predicted Thursday that a Senate-approved stopgap spending measure could pass in the House. “I think it will pass on suspension,” the North Carolina Republican told reporters as she presided over a pro forma session of the House. She was referring to an expedited procedure typically reserved for noncontroversial bills that require a two-thirds majority vote to secure passage — a workaround for House GOP leaders who might not be able to bring the measure up under a party-line procedural rule.…

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport/ Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license/ Author: formulanone The bathrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will be getting a makeover. According to project documents, Islamic “Wudu” foot-washing stations will be installed in the facility’s bathrooms at a cost of $300,000. According to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the project “consists of adding Ablution stations to existing concourse level restrooms in Terminal D, one Men’s ablution station in existing men’s restroom and one Women’s ablution station in the existing women’s restroom,” and is privately funded. The Dallas airport is now installing dedicated Islamic “Wudu”…

Dating app Bumble is eliminating its rule requiring women to send the first message to a match, the key differentiator between it and many other online dating platforms. According to a survey, more than two-thirds of women on the platform prefer for men to send the first message. NBC News reports that Bumble announced this week that men will now be able to start conversations with women on the app, ending a feature that has defined the platform since its 2014 launch. The change took effect immediately, according to a company news release. Bumble also extended the window users have…

North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper signed an executive order creating the “task force for racial equity in criminal justice” in June 2020 and appointed then-Attorney General Josh Stein and state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls as co-chairs. The 166-page report lists 125 recommendations aimed at weakening public safety. “North Carolina can reimagine public safety,” the authors wrote in a letter to Cooper, adding their recommendations “provide a framework for meaningful change, but this report is not the first nor final word on what can and should be done to address racial equity in our criminal justice system.” In…

The immigration agency plans to spend up to $20 million on what the DHS calls “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to equip its officers with special gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks to people resisting arrest, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) notice.Known as G.L.O.V.E. (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), the devices are made by Kentucky-based Compliant Technologies and have already been used by some US prisons and police departments.ICE plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million on what the DHS calls “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices,”…

These people are so bold!Margarita Cielo Balbuena cannot speak a lick of English after living in US for 37 years. Demands citizenship! Margarita Cielo Balbuena is a woman who has been in the U.S. since 1989 and cannot speak a WORD of English. That’s 37 years! This week Margarita stood with leftist leaders and demanded amnesty at a Democrat presser about Delaney Hall: Margarita says (in Spanish): “We need a path to citizenship for those of us that have been present at least 7 years in this country.” Margarita does not love this country. She hasn’t even learned our language.…

Socialist councilors at the Spanish town of Albanchez de Mágina decoupled the town’s annual celebrations from their Patron saint’s festivities in what politicians and the town’s residents are denouncing as an attack against their Christian faith. For over four centuries, Albanchez de Mágina, a small agricultural town with roughly 900 residents located in the province of Jaén, Andalusia, holds an annual series of Catholic festivities and events between May 3-6 to honor their Patron, Saint Francis of Paola. Every May 3, the town holds a night-time Procession of the Rosary of the Torches — which precedes the festivities’ main event. On May…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Washington Post Intelligence Lead Global Security Analyst Josh Rogin said that the real story from Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary is “that progressive whatever it is message, is gaining steam, even in Wisconsin, compared to yesterday, compared to last year, and will continue to gain steam.” And Francesca Hong “didn’t lose because of the message, she lost because the voters questioned her electability.” Rogin said, “I think a lot of people are missing the story here. It’s not that she lost, it’s that, weak candidate, without any establishment support, almost won. She got 39% of the vote…

The warning by the former Russian president came after Tokyo protested Vladimir Putin’s first-ever visit to the archipelago The Kuril Islands will forever remain Russian land, with Japan looking for trouble by continuing to stick to its claim over the archipelago, former Russian President Dmitry Medvdev has said.The Kuril archipelago came under Soviet control at the end of World War II following Japan’s defeat and was subsequently incorporated into the USSR. Tokyo, however, continues to claim the four southernmost islands – Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai islets – which it calls its “Northern Territories.” The dispute has been the…

Abdi Daisane (Credit: daisaneformn.com) Abdi Daisane, a Somali-born daycare operator, has won the DFL primary for Minnesota House District 14A, setting up a November showdown in a seat Republicans have held for years. Abdi Daisane, a St. Cloud childcare-business owner, won Tuesday’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 14A with 2,262 votes—62.52% of the total—defeating Paul R. F. Schumacher, who received 1,356 votes. The figures come directly from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s election results. Daisane will face Republican Mike Conway in the November 3 general election. Conway won the Republican primary with 62.25% of the vote. The open district…