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Democrats Tank FISA Warrant Requirement
A measure requiring federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence failed to pass the House of Representatives today. The measure received 212 votes for and 212 votes against.
But it was largely Democrats who sank the warrant requirement. House Democrats voted against the measure 84–126, while Republicans voted for the measure 128–86.
MAGA Republicans have been the ones leading the charge for Section 702 reform, which they see as part of reigning in an unaccountable FBI and “deep state.”
For more than a decade, activists and some lawmakers have been pushing to require warrants for searching the Section 702 database for information about American citizens.
Requiring a warrant to search Americans’ communications “is something the Constitution ALREADY requires,” pointed out former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, calling on people to “vote out every person who voted no” on the warrant requirement.
WATCH: After barrage of 40 rockets showers North, Israeli jets strike Hezbollah compounds
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the launches.
No injuries were reported in Israel as a result of the rocket fire.
This rocket fire comes after nearly 48 hours of quiet on the northern front, raising suspicion at a time when the threat from Iran is at the forefront of people’s minds.
DC National Guard whistleblowers to say they WERE ready to be deployed on January 6 on Trump’s orders hours but were held back by the Pentagon in bombshell testimony contradicting Capitol riot committee’s story
Whistleblowers from the Washington D.C. National Guard will tell Congress that Donald Trump did want them deployed during the Capitol riot and the Army delayed telling them to mobilize in a bombshell hearing next week.
DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal that at least three officers will appear Wednesday before a House subcommittee to claim their stories were also ignored by the Democrat-led January 6 committee, because it didn’t fit their narrative.
The hearing will aim to further prove that Acting Defense Secretary at the time Christopher Miller did give advance approval of D.C. National Guard deployment at the direction of then-President Donald Trump.
‘Revolutionary Suicide’: UCLA Psychiatrists Cheer Self-Immolation in Leaked Audio
The talk, “Depathologizing Resistance,” was delivered on April 2 by two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, under the auspices of the department’s diversity office and UCLA’s Health Ethics Center, according to slides and emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The remarks centered on the suicide of Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. serviceman who set himself on fire in February to protest U.S. support for Israel—or, as Izar put it, “indigenous Palestine.”
The talk reflects the erosion of what was until recently a bedrock medical norm: From the American Psychiatric Association to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, all professional mental health bodies warn against glorifying self-harm, lest it inspire others to harm themselves.
At UCLA, Izar and Moustafa, who are practicing psychiatrists, argued that self-immolation is a reasonable response to geopolitical events and that the taboo against it serves “the interests of power.”By “perpetuating the stigma of self-immolation,” they said, psychiatrists “discredit” resistance to “power structures” like “colonization,” “homophobia,” and “white supremacy,” framing legitimate acts of protest as signs of psychiatric dysfunction.
Multiple injuries after man intentionally crashes semi-truck into Texas DPS office: Officials
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Multiple people suffered “serious” injuries after a man allegedly intentionally crashed a semi-truck into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in Brenham on Friday, officials said.
A suspect is in custody, according to Texas DPS.
The suspect had been denied a commercial driver’s license on Thursday and “returned today with intent to harm,” Washington County Judge Mark Keough said in a statement on social media.
Bodycam Footage of Suspect Who Ambushed Nevada Officers 3 Times Before Being Fatally Shot
Iran prepares attack on Israel; Jerusalem approves plan to counter-strike Iran TV7 Israel News 12.04
1) Iran pledges to strike Israel – with a looming attack that may put both countries on a course of direct collision.
2) Jerusalem emphasizes its unwavering determination to achieve all of its goals vis-à-vis Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
3) The United States, France, Britain and Germany, among others, voice Ironclad support for Israel versus Iran – while China and Russia call for restrain.
Supreme Court Justices Warn People Not to Take Ruling Too Far
The court handed down their decision in the case, which advocates have warned could have far-reaching effects on property development, on Friday, largely siding with a California man named George Sheetz who challenged his county’s traffic impact mitigation fee as unconstitutional.
Sheetz, who sought to build a single-family home in 2016, was ordered to pay a $23,420 fee. That fee is part of a program to help fund the construction of new roads, as well as the widening of already-existing ones, to help the county, comprised of areas near Lake Tahoe and Sacramento suburbs cope with a population boom.
However, several justices cautioned that their ruling applies only to the circumstances brought in this case, and should not be taken too far.
One of those warnings came from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote a concurring opinion alongside Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.
The ruling does not “address or prohibit the common government practice of imposing permit conditions, such as impact fees, on new developments through reasonable formulas or schedules that assess the impact of classes of development rather than the impact of specific parcels of property,” Kavanaugh wrote.
DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe
President Biden used campaign donations to help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel’s probe into his handling of classified documents, according to two people familiar with the matter and an Axios review of campaign finance records.
The payments, made through the Democratic National Committee, are at odds with the Biden campaign’s recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees.
The DNC — which has been collecting the biggest donations to Biden’s re-election effort — paid more than $1.5 million to lawyers or firms representing Biden during the probe, according to the committee’s financial filings.
The Biden team increasingly has attacked Trump for using campaign donations to pay for his myriad legal fights.
“You’re REFUSING An Interview?” FBI Agents Turn Up At Trump Supporter’s Home! – Stay Free #344
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Suspect dead after shootout with police had been arrested, released in March, records show
The 18-year-old suspect killed in a shootout that also killed a Memphis Police officer and wounded three others had been arrested just over a month ago, but was released from jail, records show.
A source close to the investigation confirmed the 18-year-old’s name was Jaylen Lobley.
Shelby County court records show Lobley was arrested March 5 and charged with two counts of auto theft, unlawful possession of a weapon, prohibited weapon – machine gun, and two counts vandalism related to broken car windows and key reprogrammer in his possession.
Records show Lobley’s bond was set, then reduced, on March 7. However, the amount is not listed.
Lobley’s case was continued on April 2 and he was set for a preliminary hearing April 30 in Judge Ronald Lucchesi’s court, online court records show.
Chasing Trump – TRAILER – SHEDDING light on the backgrounds of the prosecutors overseeing each case
Chasing Trump” is scheduled to hit theaters on April 17, two days after a New York court begins jury selection for the first of four trials against Trump.
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Producers say the film will shed light on the backgrounds of the prosecutors overseeing each case.
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Watch Chasing Trump trailer as allies accuse prosecutors of corruption
House passes FISA renewal without added warrant mandate for US data
A bill to renew a key federal government surveillance tool passed the House of Representatives on Friday, teeing it up for a Senate vote about a week before it’s set to expire.
A modified version of the original bill passed a procedural hurdle late on Thursday after a group of 19 conservative privacy hawks sunk the House GOP’s chance at passing it earlier this week.
An unusual political scene unfurled as members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus cheered for progressive Squad members voting in favor of the amendment.
The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America (RISA) Act is a compromise effort between the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees aimed at narrowing who can access communications collected, and making it a crime to misuse that data.
WATCH: Eight Alleged Armed Robbers Flee Jewelry Store When Owner Appears with Shotgun
ABC 7 reported the attempted robbery occurred in broad daylight, around 12:30 p.m.
Phuong Jewelry is family owned and the 69-year-old mother was working at the time of the allegedly robbery.
ABC 7 noted: “Surveillance shows 69-year old mother Diane ducking for cover and screaming for help as those eight individuals smash nearly every single case and ransack the shop. With no security guard on duty at the time, Diane’s 76-year-old husband comes storming in wielding a firearm which scares the suspects away.
Democrat-run Oakland saw crime rise exponentially in 2023.
On February 2, 2024, CNN observed that police data showed “Robberies grew 38% last year in Oakland, …burglaries increased 23%, [and] motor vehicle theft jumped 44%.”
Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Refuses to Say Whether Men and Women ‘Are Physically Different’
The question asked to Cardona during the budget hearing was in reference to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announcing on Monday that they are blocking males who identify as females from playing in women’s sports.
During the hearing, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) questioned Cardona about the importance of Title IX before questioning him on the physical differences between men and women, according to the Daily Caller.
“Would you agree that Title IX was necessary to help establish women’s sports because women can’t fairly be expected to compete on biological male teams?” Harris asked Cardona.
While Cardona initially attempted to skirt the question, after being asked by Harris not to filibuster, he agreed that Title IX is important.
Harris then asked Cardona if he would “agree that women are physically different from men.”
Israel kills son of Hamas leader inside his car in West Bank raid
Israeli forces shot dead the son of a former Hamas leader in the West Bank on Friday, claiming the son served as the head of the terrorist group’s infrastructure in the region.
Mohammad Omar Daraghmeh was fatally shot inside his car during an early morning raid on the West Bank city of Tubas, according to the Telegraph.
Photos shared online showed a bullet-riddled Kia allegedly belonging to Daraghmeh — whose father, Omar Daraghmeh, also a Hamas leader in the West Bank, died in prison in Israel last October.
Separately, the IDF has reported that the head of Hamas’ internal security in northern Gaza was killed in an airstrike Thursday, according to the Times of Israel.
Judicial Watch: FBI Considered Labeling Ashli Babbitt A Terrorist Following Death By Capitol Police On J6
The information emerged from 62 redacted documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
“It is beyond belief that the Biden FBI gave Ashli Babbitt’s killer a free pass while engaging in a malicious months-long ‘criminal’ investigation of Babbitt herself,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton stated.
The watchdog group is pursuing a $30 million wrongful death suit on behalf of Babbitt’s family. In a court filing last week, it was revealed that the Biden DOJ is trying to move the case from California to Washington, D.C. in hopes of having a judge and jury that would be more sympathetic to prosecutors.
Judicial Watch argued that a courtroom in the Capitol would be a “hostile forum” given the subject matter of the case.
Biden Admin Successfully Pressured Snopes to Change Fact Check on Gas Stove Ban
In an email to White House assistant press secretary Michael Kikukawa, Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) communications director Pamela Rucker Springs boasted about her “tough letter’ to the Snopes writer.
“Sent over tough letter to this writer yesterday when the initial claim was rated as ‘mixed,’” she said, linking to an updated fact check.
Kikukawa praised the change as “so helpful.”
Snopes had assigned a “mixture” rating to claims that the Biden administration was contemplating a ban on gas-powered stoves.
Statements by Richard Trumka Jr., a member of CPSC, also influenced the report.
Trumka Jr. said a ban was “on the table,” adding that the PSC was weighing regulations “drastically reducing emissions or banning gas stoves entirely.”
But Snopes downplayed Trumka Jr.’s pronouncements and changed its fact check rating to “false” after receiving an email from the Biden regime.
Energy prices soar almost 30 percent under Biden — 13 times faster than previous 7 years: analysis
Since January 2021, electricity prices have soared 29.4% — 50% more than overall inflation — rising 13 times faster than the previous seven years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Cost of electricity is soaring under the Biden administration according to the Labor Department’s consumer-price index despite the President crowing that his climate agenda is reducing costs.REUTERS
News of the astronomical increase in electricity came in the wake of March’s Consumer Price Index, which showed US inflation rose 3.5% in March.
And gasoline prices, while down from their 2022 peak, are still 52.1% higher today than when Biden took the White House, Fox Business reported.
Meanwhile, Biden, through one of his major legislative achievements — the Inflation Reduction Act — has allocated billions of dollars into clean energy alternatives.
Scandal-ridden mayor jeered for telling ‘Black and Brown communities’ not to fight her at contentious meeting
Henyard, the self-described “supermayor” of Dolton, a Chicago suburb, and Thornton Township Supervisor, has recently been dubbed the “worst mayor in America” by critics after being accused of misdeeds ranging from weaponizing police raids to spending taxpayer money on luxuries in Las Vegas.
Most recently she has also come under fire for an alleged sexual assault by one of her allies during the Vegas trip, where the alleged victim claims to have been fired after speaking out.
While Henyard has repeatedly condemned media coverage for allegedly misrepresenting her conduct to the country, one South Holland resident, Curtis Watts, said, “No, ‘madam supervisor,’ we are not brainwashed. We are fed up.”
Multiple people spoke about the sexual assault allegations, arguing that it demonstrates that Henyard fails to protect women.
California GOP leaders call for accountability after state can’t account for $24B spent on homeless crisis
California GOP leaders are calling for more accountability after an audit released earlier this week indicated that the state spent around $24 billion to tackle the homeless crisis over the past five years but did not consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money did anything to actually improve the problem.
The state auditor’s report found that despite roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities, according to the state auditor’s report.
It also failed to collect and evaluate outcome data for these programs due to the lack of a consistent method, the audit found.
California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher laid the blame squarely on the Newsom administration.
“This is standard Gavin Newsom – make a splashy announcement, waste a bunch of taxpayer money, and completely fail to deliver,” Gallagher said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Californians are tired of the homeless crisis, and they’re even more tired of Gavin’s excuses. We need results – period, full stop.”
IDF eliminates Hamas terrorist who took control of aid trucks in Gaza
In a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation on Thursday, an IAF aircraft eliminated Hamas military operative Ridwan Mohammed Abdallah Ridwan, who was responsible for Hamas’ internal security operations in Jabalia, the IDF said on Friday morning.
Ridwan’s role in the terrorist organization included giving orders to Hamas operatives, where he would direct armed terrorists to take control of humanitarian aid trucks that were located in the northern Gaza Strip.
According to the IDF, “his elimination degrades Hamas’ capabilities to attack and take control of humanitarian aid in the area of Jabalia,” located in Northern Gaza.
Afghan national on terror watch list in federal custody after being released at border
Fox News’ Madeleine Rivera provides details on the apprehension of an Afghan migrant who is on the terrorist watch list.
WATCH: Migrants scuffle with NYC police
Fox News’ Todd Piro reports the latest on the incident.
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