Some schools in the US are stocking up on AR-15 rifles to be used to tackle a gunman – but critics are worried the measure will lead to more incidents.
The North Carolina school district and sheriff’s office are working together to improve security – with one of the semi-automatic rifles being placed in each of Madison County’s six schools.
Twitter announced in a blog post that it was implementing its civic integrity policy concerning the midterm elections, which will ban users from “manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes.” The policy will punish and diminish the reach of content that Twitter believes could have a detrimental effect on the election. This includes posting misleading information about how to participate, discouraging voters by making false claims about the state of voting sites or law enforcement, making false claims about the outcomes of the election, and creating accounts that falsely claim to be affiliated with a particular political organization.
Here’s what you can expect to see on Twitter as election day approaches in the US:
Prebunks
In the lead up to election day, we’ll share prompts with information about how and where to vote, directly to people’s timelines.
We’re also bringing back prebunks — in English, Spanish, and all other languages supported on Twitter — to get ahead of misleading narratives on Twitter, and to proactively address topics that may be the subject of misinformation. Over the coming months, we’ll place prompts directly on people’s timelines in the US and in Search when people type related terms, phrases, or hashtags.
Left-wing activists have smuggled radical gender theory into more than 4,000 schools.
Radical gender theory has made sudden inroads in America’s schools. Many parents have watched in confusion as their children repeat the movement’s slogans and adopt synthetic sexual identities such as “non-binary,” “pansexual,” and “genderqueer.” The next question for many families is: Where does this surge in left-wing sexual ideology come from? One answer: from a network of professional activists, who have smuggled university-style gender theory into more than 4,000 schools under the cover of “gender and sexuality” clubs, or GSAs.
NHS-backed period guidance has adopted gender-neutral language in advice aimed at “people who bleed”.
The website Bloody Brilliant was created on behalf of NHS Wales and the Welsh Government to offer advice to “people who menstruate”, according to ministerial documents which state that menstruation is “not just a ‘women’s issue’”.
After Mar-a-Lago, the middle ground has been plundered
Thursday 22 May 1856, was a sunny, sleepy day in Washington, D.C. As Preston Brooks, the Democratic Representative from South Carolina’s Fourth District, strolled into the Senate chamber, the air felt hot and heavy. The Senate’s business had wound down; the galleries had almost emptied. Brooks glanced up, and waited for the last spectators to leave. It was important, he thought, that no ladies were present to watch what he had planned.
Hydro One says it is investigating an issue affecting power to Toronto Hydro and its downtown customers on Thursday.
The hydro company tweeted about the outage just before 1 p.m.
“We’re currently experiencing a large outage in downtown Toronto and working together with Hydro One to address it,” Toronto Hydro said.
It was back on New Year’s Day 2008 that Yaser Said brutally murdered his two daughters, Amina, 18, and Sarah, 17, in Irving, Texas. On Tuesday, he was finally convicted of capital murder and received an automatic life sentence. But throughout the trial and all the coverage it received, it was clear that virtually no one is willing to tell the truth about why Said killed his daughters, or to face the unpleasant reality that murders of this kind could quite easily happen again in America.
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch filed suit in a federal court demanding that the Department of Justice unseal the search warrant that formed the legal basis for the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Largo;
“Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President Biden,” the group’s motion stated.
Riots resulting from gas shortages would make anti-lockdown protests look like a “children’s birthday party”, one official has said.
Gas shortages in Germany brought about by a combination of long-term government mismanagement and Russia’s war in Ukraine are likely to prompt mass riots that will make previous anti-lockdown demos look like a “children’s birthday party”, an official has claimed.
A new survey finds more Canadians report a strong attachment to their primary language than to other markers of identity, including the country they call home.
The survey, which was conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, found 88 per cent of respondents reported a strong sense of attachment to their primary language, whereas 85 per cent reported the same for Canada.
There’s a reason that you don’t kick a (metaphorical) sleeping giant. It’s a big mistake.
Raiding the private home of President Donald Trump was like kicking that sleeping giant. If people weren’t already fired up to come out to kick the Democrats out, this just made them more energized to do so.
Attorney General Merrick Garland will make an in-person statement on Thursday afternoon after growing calls from Republicans for him to speak out about the FBI’s unannounced search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
It’s not clear what the attorney general will be discussing.
The FBI’s nine-hour raid of Mar-A-Lago on Monday appears at first glance to have been a desperate fishing expedition. But there was something hidden at the former president’s estate that so disturbed the Feds that they felt compelled to take drastic action.
The unprecedented raid at the former president’s estate was carried out without warning. It was allegedly prompted by two ‘inside sources’ who fed the federal agents a tip.
Jagmeet Singh is making rumbling noises. The NDP leader is beginning to sound like a person who has doubts about his closest political ally and his deal with him.
How shall we interpret this? For, there are two Jagmeets. Which Jagmeet is at play here?
A 21-year-old man says he is in a ‘very depressed state’ having been sent to fight against his wishes as parents file complaints to watchdog
Russian soldiers have complained to the military watchdog about being tricked into joining the frontline in Ukraine, a massive leak on Wednesday revealed.
A trove of complaints from troops and their relatives sent to the Russian Military Prosecutor’s Office and obtained by Bellingcat and The Insider revealed what appears to be a wide-spread practice of forcing and tricking soldiers into going to Ukraine.
One unnamed soldier said he was away on military drills on a warship off the Syrian coast when “we were tricked into going to Ukraine: no one asked me if I wanted to take part in the special military operation,” the man said, using the Kremlin’s term for the invasion.
