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Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles comfortably wins primary days after train stabbing uproar

Charlotte, North Carolina, Mayor Vi Lyles overwhelmingly defeated four challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary as she and other Democrats face backlash for the murder of a young woman on the city’s transit system. Lyles won over 70% of the votes cast by residents in the liberal-leaning Charlotte. Her closest challenger was Brendan K. Maginnis, who […]

NATO condemns Russia’s ‘reckless’ behavior after Poland drone incursion

Several European leaders, including those of Poland, have expressed outrage at the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace overnight on Wednesday. Polish F-16s and Dutch F-35s, Italian airborne early warning aircraft, and a refueler from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Multinational Mult-Role Tanker Transport aircraft fleet responded to the threat, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte […]

LA elementary school materials push gender transitions despite Trump order

(The Center Square) – Despite a Trump administration executive order defunding gender ideology in public education, Los Angeles Unified School District materials instruct elementary children how to be transgender activists, warn parents that failing to support “gender-affirming care” could endanger their children, and the district allows students to socially transition at school without parental notification, […]

California mother says daughter killed herself after being transitioned by school

(The Center Square) – Abigail Martinez lost her 19-year old daughter Yaeli to suicide in 2019 and blames the public school system for pushing gender transition on her daughter. Martinez, a Salvadoran, Christian immigrant who raised four children in California, lost custody of Yaeli for not affirming her gender transition, and says the transition was […]

Trump wants death penalty for ‘animal’ who killed Iryna Zarutska

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Decarlos Brown Jr. deserves the “death penalty” for killing a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina in August. A man, whom police identified as Brown, was caught on video stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train on Aug. 22. The release of the security footage over the […]

Harris depicts tense relationship with Biden team in new book: ‘His team didn’t get it’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote about her tense relationship with former President Joe Biden‘s White House team in the first excerpt of her new book, which revolves around her short-lived presidential campaign. She complained that Biden’s team did not give her the support she needed and, at times, bluntly sabotaged her in the run-up […]

Missouri House approves redistricting plan that would give Republicans another seat 

The Missouri House passed legislation on Tuesday redrawing the state’s political map in a move to boost the Republican Party’s congressional power. “This is a superior map. … It better represents the state of Missouri,” said state Rep. Dirk Deaton, who sponsored the proposed new congressional map. “The constitution is clear that we can alter […]

Bondi says federal troops will go to ‘a city who wants us there’ rather than Chicago

Attorney General Pam Bondi indicated that Chicago may not be the next city after Washington, D.C., to undergo a federal takeover. In recent weeks, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have denounced the idea of cooperating with armed troops and federal agents entering the city to crack down on crime. Bondi said […]

Thune to let GOP senators nix ‘bad apple’ nominees under new Senate rule change

EXCLUSIVE — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is assuring his conference that senators won’t lose their power under a rule change that lets the Senate bundle nominees into one large vote. In an interview, Thune said he has agreed to three or four “protocols” that will govern how leadership moves a batch of nominees […]

House NDAA debate to stoke GOP divide over foreign wars

House Republicans’ divisions on how the United States should engage in foreign wars will be on full display on Wednesday as the House prepares to vote on a handful of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act. The defense bill, which has a topline of $892.6 billion in spending, is facing nearly 300 amendments that […]
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