Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Emergency Abortion Guidance

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Thursday after the Department of Health and Human Services reiterated guidance this week that says doctors are required to perform an abortion if a pregnant woman’s life is in danger.

“President Biden is flagrantly disregarding the legislative and democratic process—and flouting the Supreme Court’s ruling before the ink is dry—by having his appointed bureaucrats mandate that hospitals and emergency medicine physicians must perform abortions,” the lawsuit, which names Health Secretary Xavier Becerra and other officials as defendants, says.

Becerra issued the guidance to health care providers on Monday, writing in a letter that under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, physicians “must” provide an abortion if it is the “stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve” an emergency medical condition.

“When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life and health of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted,” Becerra wrote in the letter.

Paxton said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that the administration’s interpretation is too wide and mandates “abortions under a whole new range of circumstances.” (Read more from “Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Emergency Abortion Guidance” HERE)

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World Health Organization: Gender ‘Beyond Non-Binary’

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The World Health Organization has insisted that mankind was not created by God as male and female but instead displays many genders on a spectrum.

However, that’s apparently no longer good enough for the United Nations organization, which now says in its “gender mainstreaming manual” that gender goes “beyond non-binary,” reports Fox News.

The WHO websites states the updated guidance will focus on “highlighting and expanding on the concept of intersectionality, which looks at how gender power dynamics interact with other hierarchies of privilege or disadvantage, resulting in inequality and differential health outcomes for different people.”

It will emphasize “going beyond non-binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender and sexual diversity, or the concepts that gender identity exists on a continuum and that sex is not limited to male or female.”

After the WHO was accused of helping China cover up its role in the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. under Donald Trump withdrew its membership from the organization. President Joe Biden has rejoined the WHO. But Republicans in Congress are trying to curb its authority. (Read more from “World Health Organization: Gender ‘Beyond Non-Binary'” HERE)

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Ivana Trump, Ex-wife of Former President Trump, Has Died

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Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 73, the family told ABC News.

The former president said she died at her home in New York City.

Ivana Trump was Donald Trump’s first wife. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. . .

Manhattan paramedics, responding to a call for cardiac arrest, found a 73-year-old woman in the Upper East Side apartment where Ivana Trump lived just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the FDNY.

In a statement on his platform Truth Social, the former president remembered Ivana as a “wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.” (Read more from “Ivana Trump, Ex-wife of Former President Trump, Has Died” HERE)

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Worst Poll Yet: Only 18% Want Biden 2024

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One in five Americans want President Joe Biden to run for reelection while the vast majority say it is time for Biden to call it quits, a Yahoo News/YouGov survey released Thursday found.

While he is not even halfway into his presidency, Biden is struggling to find mass support for reelection come 2024. According to the survey, just 18 percent, overall, believe Biden should run again.

Yahoo! describes the figure as “the lowest number to date.” Further, it reflects a seven point drop from the number who said he should run in May.

Perhaps what is more, just 35 percent of Democrats — an eight point drop since May — believe Biden should run for reelection. Only nine percent of Republicans and 12 percent of independents say Biden should run again. (Read more from “Worst Poll Yet: Only 18% Want Biden 2024” HERE)

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Woke Judge Faces Calls to Quit for Telling Criminal: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Where the Cops Are Because I Don’t Know if I’m Going to Walk Away Alive’

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By Daily Mail. A woke Las Vegas judge is facing calls from a police union to resign after brazenly telling a criminal in her courtroom she didn’t know if she would ‘walk away alive’ from cops.

Judge Erika Ballou told a defendant that he should have walked away from officers, after being arrested for committing battery against an officer in Nevada while on probation.

Footage of the exchange shared by KLAS shows Judge Ballou, who is black, saying: ‘You’re the one making the decisions not to walk away from cops. You’re a black man in America.

‘You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are. Listen to me.

‘You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are cause I know I don’t, and I’m a middle-aged, middle-class black woman. (Read more from “Woke Judge Faces Calls to Quit for Telling Criminal: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Where the Cops Are Because I Don’t Know if I’m Going to Walk Away Alive’” HERE)

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American Judge Kidnapped and Held for $36,000 Ransom After Hiring Two Prostitutes While Vacationing in Rio de Janeiro: Four Suspects Are in Custody, Including Two Men Who Posed as a Police Officer

By Daily Mail. An American judge vacationing in Rio de Janeiro hired two prostitutes before he was kidnapped and held for ransom by two men who were posing as police officers.

The magistrate, whose name has not been released by Brazilian authorities, arrived in the tourist hot spot July 3, according to police reports.

The judge said he had known the two women, identified as Shayna Monteiro and Beatriz Freitas, from his previous trips to Rio de Janeiro. He reached out to the women and invited them Monday to an apartment he rented out in the Copacabana sector.

Monteiro and Freitas left the apartment around 11:30 am but returned an hour later, accompanied by Erivaldo da Silva and Alef dos Santos, who followed them into the judge’s pad and identified themselves as members of the Civil Police force.

Once inside the apartment, da Silva and dos Santos claimed that the women were underage and that he was being placed under arrest.

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The Left Is Doing Its Best To Make Self-Defense A Crime

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The same left-wing prosecutors who let rioting run rampant and let repeat offenders out on low bail also want to make it difficult for you to defend yourself.

We don’t yet know all the details about an apparent fatal stabbing of an agitated man by bodega clerk Jose Alba in New York City last week, but we do know that the clerk was quickly charged with murder and initially held at Rikers Island on $250,000 bail while video surveillance seems to indicate he likely acted in self-defense. Surveillance videos show the unnamed girlfriend of Austin Simon, the man Alba killed who had a history of felony arrests and was out on parole, becoming upset with Alba when her card was declined and threatening to “bring my n– down here and he gonna f-ck you up.”

Another video shows Simon walking behind the counter to Alba, shoving him, and getting in his face before Alba stood up and appeared to try to walk past Simon, at which point the two wrestled until Alba eventually stabbed the other man. “I don’t want a problem,” Alba told Simon when he walked in, according to the New York Post. Further footage appears to show the girlfriend pulling out a knife of her own and slashing Alba, although she has not been charged.

After outrage over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s decision to charge Alba, who has no prior criminal record, with murder, and his pursuit of such a high bail while Alba languished at Rikers, the bail amount was reduced — but the charges have so far not been dropped. In the meantime, GoFundMe deleted a fundraising page for Alba’s defense, in a move that has become common for the platform when its leaders don’t agree with a cause.

A fearless citizen with the will and means to defend himself is a threat to left-wing bureaucrats who want to boss him around — like they did when they knocked on doors sniffing out “unauthorized” religious services and gatherings during Covid lockdowns, or when they allowed lawless riots to hold cities hostage during the summer of 2020. Bragg’s decision to crack down on what appears to at least potentially be a strong case of self-defense may not have been an intentional ploy to criminalize self-protective autonomy, but it does follow a long string of actions and attitudes on the left that are hostile to the idea of a law-abiding citizen using a lethal weapon to protect himself and his property. (Read more from “The Left Is Doing Its Best To Make Self-Defense A Crime” HERE)

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NYT Poll Shows ‘Staggering’ Amount of Americans Believe U.S. Heading in Wrong Direction

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A New York Times/Siena poll released Monday found that only 13% of American voters believe the country is on the right track.

The results are the lowest uncovered by New York Times (NYT) polling since the 2008 Great Recession, according to the outlet. Only 27% of Democrats believe that the country is going in the right direction, along with 5% of Republicans, the NYT found.

Americans are technically more pessimistic about the future of the nation than during the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns and shortly after the events of Jan. 6, one Twitter user noted. Previous polls typically find that voters aligned with the party in power are more “upbeat,” but this is no longer the case, according to the NYT. . .

Sixty-four percent of Democratic voters want a new standard-bearer instead of President Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential campaign, the NYT found. A national cohort of voters gave Biden a 33% job-approval rating, according to the poll. (Read more from “NYT Poll Shows ‘Staggering’ Amount of Americans Believe U.S. Heading in Wrong Direction” HERE)

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Joe Biden’s Deputies to Enable Abortions for Migrants Raped on Way to Texas

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Present Joe Biden’s border officials have decided they will transport detained migrants who want abortions to U.S. states that allow abortions, according to the Wall Street Journal.

“Why are these [detained] women pregnant in the first place?” asked Rosemary Jenks, the policy director for NumbersUSA. “If they want abortions,] they could have been impregnated on their way here, probably by [members of the] cartels … that is probably a significant portion of the cases,” she told Breitbart News.

The Wall Street Journal reported on July 12 on the policy adopted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency:

The memo is from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Tae Johnson and is addressed to Corey Price, head of the agency’s enforcement division.

“This memorandum serves as a reminder of existing ICE policies and standards requiring that pregnant individuals detained in ICE immigration custody have access to full reproductive health care,” the memo states. “This is also a reminder that, pursuant to existing ICE policy, it may be necessary to transfer a detained pregnant individual within an area of responsibility (AOR) or to another AOR, when appropriate and practicable, in order to ensure such access.”

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NIH Officials Repeatedly Warned Bosses In 2016 About Funding Dangerous ‘Gain Of Function’ Research In Wuhan Lab

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Officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) repeatedly warned that EcoHealth Alliance might be conducting “gain-of-function” (GOF) research, according to new emails published by Judicial Watch.

EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based nonprofit which helped funnel taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for bat-based virus research, was warned they weren’t in compliance with NIH guidelines and were facilitating research that violated a pause on GOF experiments, the emails show. Despite red flags noted by officials at NIH and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as early as 2016, EcoHealth continued to send money to WIV for years.

“They have proposed work for the next year of the award that may be subject to the gain-of-function funding pause,” NIAID official Erik Stemmy wrote to NIH official Carine Normil in May 2016, referring to work EcoHealth was conducting. “We received a warning that one of the publications [redacted] listed from the past year is non-compliant,” EcoHealth chief of staff Alexa Chmura separately replied to Normil. (Read more from “NIH Officials Repeatedly Warned Bosses in 2016 About Funding Dangerous ‘Gain of Function’ Research in Wuhan Lab” HERE)

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Bidenflation Soars! Market Now Sees 100 Basis Point Fed Hike This Month

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The bigger-than-expected increase in the pace of inflation in June has sent expectations for a rate hike at the end of the month into warp speed.

Fed funds futures are now pricing in a nearly 80 percent probability of a full percentage-point rise at Federal Open Market Committee meeting concluding two weeks from Wednesday, according to the barometer of the contracts maintained by the CME Group.

As recently as Tuesday, the market was pricing in a 92 percent chance of a 75 basis point hike. One week ago, prices implied a zero percent change of a 100 basis point hike.

A basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point. So a 75 basis point hike indicates a 2/3 of a percentage point increase and a 100 basis point hike indicates a hike of one percentage point.

Reporters on Wednesday pressed Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic on how far the Fed would go. (Read more from “Bidenflation Soars! Market Now Sees 100 Basis Point Fed Hike This Month” HERE)

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