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SYDNEY (AP) – The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Under draft laws to be debated by the state Parliament, publicly displaying the IS flag or symbols from other extremist groups will be offenses punishable by up to two years in prison and fines. The state’s premier, Chris Minns, also said chants of “globalize the intifada” will be banned and police would be given greater powers to demand protesters remove face coverings…

The “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting has been identified, although the name of the individual has not been released to the public, CBS News reported. The search for the “person of interest” is underway. WPRI noted that police are checking “possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro was found inside his home with numerous gunshot wounds Monday night and rushed to the hospital, where he died. Law enforcement has reportedly “discovered evidence showing the two may be linked.” On Thursday morning, Breitbart News pointed…

A survey from the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) has found that at least one in three Muslims living in France believe that the Sharia law should be instituted globally. In a follow up to its annual survey of Muslim opinion in France, Ifop released another poll of 1,005 Muslims over the age of 15 to specifically examine “the influence of political Islamism” in the country, notably through the Muslim Brotherhood, which the French government has accused of engaging in a decades-long campaign to undermine Western civilization. According to the survey, 32 per cent of Muslims in France consider Islam…

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule III drug and to promote cannabinoid research. Trump signed the order flanked by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a plethora of doctors, and cancer survivors in the Oval Office. “Today, I’m pleased to announce that I will be signing an executive order to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance with legitimate medical uses,” Trump said. Trump noted that patients have long advocated for…

Established to reward the promotion of peace, the award has long been contaminated by politics and bias WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused the Nobel Foundation of breaking Swedish law when it bestowed its highest honor upon the pugilistic Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.Before he died in 1896, the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel made sure that his last will and testament was straightforward and unambiguous: The Nobel Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who in the preceding year has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing…

Federal prosecutors say the Biden‑era border crisis produced one of the most brazen cybercrime cases in years. The Department of Justice charged 54 alleged members of the Venezuelan terror gang Tren de Aragua with using sophisticated malware to loot millions from U.S. ATMs and funnel the cash back to their criminal network. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska unsealed two sweeping indictments charging 54 individuals for their alleged roles in a nationwide ATM “jackpotting” conspiracy tied to the violent Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA). Prosecutors say the group deployed sophisticated malware to force ATMs across…

President Donald Trump shared that he was both “surprised” and “honored” after the Kennedy Center board voted to rename the venue “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.” During an Oval Office executive order signing rescheduling marijuana, One America News White House Correspondent Dan Baldwin asked Trump for his reaction to the addition of his name to the center shortly after the news broke. “I was surprised by it, and I was honored by it,” Trump, who is chairman of the Kennedy Center Board, said after complimenting the board as “very distinguished.”…

Video game hardware sales in the United States experienced a significant decline in November, reaching the lowest point for the month since 2005. Apparently, Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s Xbox, and Nintendo’s Switch are not on Santa’s list this year. The Verge reports that the video game industry in the United States faced a challenging November as hardware sales plummeted to historic lows. According to market analyst company Circana, spending on video game hardware during the month totaled $695 million, a staggering 27 percent drop compared to the same period last year. This marks the lowest video game hardware spending for a…

Members of law enforcement are “investigating possible connections between the mass shooting at Brown University and the targeted killing of an MIT professor two days later,” according to CBS News. WCVB noted, “Police have identified a person they believe is connected to the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in Brookline earlier this week.” The news of a possible connection between the Brown University shooter and the individual who killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro comes as law enforcement sources indicated they have identified the “person of interest” being sought in connection with…

Donald Trump has claimed that he could pay himself $1 billion in US government money as damages for a raid carried out at his Mar-a-Lago estate by the FBI.Federal agents searched Trump’s property in Palm Beach, Florida in August 2022 as part of an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents during his first term in office. Last year, the case was dismissed by a judge, who ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith did not have the authority to prosecute the president.Trump addressed the issue during his rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Friday, calling the search “illegal”…