A recent claim on social media suggesting that former President Donald Trump posted about his wife Melania and son Barron attending a Bruce Springsteen concert has been proven false, according to CheckYourFact.
This article clarifies the misinformation surrounding Trump's alleged post and Lara Trump's recent resignation from the Republican National Committee.
The false claim originated from a social media screenshot, allegedly showing Donald Trump's post on Truth Social, where Melania and Barron Trump were said to have attended a Bruce Springsteen concert. This screenshot, however, has been confirmed to be digitally altered.
Further investigation reveals that there is no credible evidence or report supporting the claim that Trump made such a post on any of his social media platforms.
The altered screenshot even misnamed Bruce Springsteen as "Bruce Springstern," adding to the doubts regarding its authenticity.
In related news, Lara Trump, the former president's daughter-in-law, has officially resigned as co-chair of the Republican National Committee. Her announcement was covered by the Associated Press last week.
During her resignation, Lara expressed her intention to possibly run for Marco Rubio's Senate seat in the near future.
Her resignation and potential political ambitions add another layer to the ongoing political narrative involving the Trump family.
Bruce Springsteen, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, has expressed his disdain by calling Trump "mentally ill" in an interview with The Telegraph. This comment reflects the longstanding tension between the two figures.
Donald Trump has also publicly criticized Springsteen. During his campaign, he remarked on Springsteen's support for Vice President Kamala Harris, suggesting it contradicted the musician's public image. This criticism was reported by Newsweek.
The ongoing public discord between Springsteen and Trump adds context to why the false claim about the concert might have gained traction among social media users.
The altered screenshot not only falsely depicted Trump's words but also included a caption mocking the error in spelling Barron Trump's name as "Baron." This caption read: "Wow! Did the model conman dad really misspell his son’s name, or am I seeing things? How can you make that mistake? That’s hilarious! Classic…"
This instance of misinformation has sparked discussions on the credibility of social media content and the ease with which digital content can be manipulated.
The scrutiny of such posts is crucial in an era where misinformation can spread rapidly across platforms, influencing public opinion and potentially impacting political landscapes.
It is essential for social media users and the general public to verify the authenticity of information before sharing it. The case of the fabricated Trump post serves as a reminder of the potential consequences of spreading unverified claims.
As this story develops, it remains a pivotal example of the challenges faced in the digital age, where truth and fiction often collide on social media platforms.
The ongoing efforts to combat misinformation, especially related to political figures and celebrities, are crucial in maintaining an informed public.
Donald Trump has chosen former news anchor Kari Lake to lead Voice of America, a stunning promotion for the fiery pro-Trump personality after she lost back-to-back elections in Arizona.
Voice of America, or VOA, is a federally funded international broadcaster that reaches millions of people around the world.
"I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America. She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Despite its nominal editorial independence, VOA has been known to push liberal viewpoints. Trump's efforts to reform the agency in his first term faced backlash, as he was accused of trying to turn VOA into a MAGA mouthpiece.
The Voice of America website has an article about Lake's nomination listed under the category "press freedom " - alongside stories about murders and terrorist attacks targeting journalists.
Founded in 1942 to battle Nazi propaganda, Voice of America has a $267 million budget and some 2,000 employees. In a post on X, Lake said she was "honored" to receive Trump's trust.
"@VOANews is a vital international media outlet dedicated to advancing the interests of the United States by engaging directly with people across the globe and promoting democracy and truth," she wrote.
I am honored that President Trump has asked me to lead the Voice of America. @VOANews is a vital international media outlet dedicated to advancing the interests of the United States by engaging directly with people across the globe and promoting democracy and truth.
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— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 12, 2024
Lake spent more than 20 years at Phoenix-based Fox affiliate KSAV-TV before pursuing a failed venture in electoral politics.
The pro-Trump personality surged onto the political scene in the 2022 midterm election cycle, becoming known for her brash confrontations with liberal journalists.
Lake narrowly lost a governor's race against Democrat Katie Hobbs, and Lake would pursue a protracted legal challenge claiming the contest was rigged.
This year, Lake lost a second race against Democrat Ruben Gallego for an Arizona Senate seat.
While her abrasive style wasn't what voters wanted, Lake's toughness and broadcasting experience will help ensure that VOA's coverage is fair and loyal to the American people.
The Obama family is about to re-live a harrowing poisoning attempt as the man responsible for mailing a ricin-laced letter comes back into the spotlight.
53-year-old pedophile James Dutschke infamously tried to frame his neighbor, Paul Kevin Curtis, for the shocking crime that grabbed national attention in April 2013.
The Netflix series Tupelo Kings highlights their small-town feud in Tupelo, Mississippi, known around the world as Elvis Presley's birthplace.
Dutschke harbored a grudge against Curtis, an Elvis impersonator who claimed to have uncovered an organ trafficking plot at a hospital where he worked.
Over the course of their bitter rivalry, Dutschke compared Curtis to a Barney the Dinosaur impersonator during an unhinged court appearance - and threatened to sue Curtis for claiming membership in Mensa, a society for high-IQ people.
In 2014, Dutschke pled guilty to sending poisoned letters to President Obama, Senator Roger Wicker (R-Ms.) and Judge Sadie Holland. Her son, former state Rep. Steve Holland (D) defeated Dutschke in a landslide election in 2007.
The letters targeting Obama and Wicker never made it to their targets, but Holland opened hers, although she was not harmed.
The FBI initially arrested Curtis for sending the letters, but he was quickly cleared of wrongdoing and the feds turned to accusing Dutschke of framing his neighbor. In his poisoned letters, he impersonated Curtis by quoting from his online postings: "I am KC and I approve this message."
Later, Curtis pursued a series of civil lawsuits against the feds, accusing them of arresting him without evidence, but the cases went nowhere.
Dutschke was sentenced to 25 years in prison after some dramatic twists and turns in court.
He initially pled guilty, then recanted his plea and offered to "dump the contents of the two remaining letters on a peanut and butter sandwich and eat it and wash it down with a glass of chocolate milk," the AP reported at the time, to prove that the letters weren't dangerous.
Faced with life in prison if the case went to trial, he reversed course and pled guilty again. Dutschke also pled guilty to state charges of molesting underage girls at his Tae Kwon studio.
In a trailer for Tupelo Kings, Curtis blamed Dutschke for burning his house down and tranquilizing his dog, Moo Cow.
“My mama raised me on Jesus, Elvis, and cornbread. And, yes, in that order,” Curtis says in a recent trailer. “I had a peaceful, nice life. But one person hated me and made my life a living hell.”
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The speculation over Joe Biden's plans to protect his Democrat party cronies from prosecution for crimes they may have committed, through presidential pardons, is ramping up. This time it's Bill Clinton confirming that he would be willing to talk with Biden about a preemptive pardon for wife Hillary.
The Hill confirms in a report that Clinton is "open to having a conversation" with Biden about that special benefit.
Bill Clinton's comments came during his appearance on a television talk show.
He was asked, "Do you think it would be wise of President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary Clinton?"
He responded: "I think if President Biden wanted to talk to me about that, I will talk to him about it, but I don't think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. It's a very personal thing, but … I hope [Trump] won't do that."
The report confirmed Biden "has had discussions with his senior team about using the pardon power to protect Trump's critics, who could be targeted in the next administration."
Bill Clinton explained, "They've got a problem with her because first, she didn't do anything wrong. Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third … remember how the emails were such a big issue in 2016? Trump's State Department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified emails on her personal device. It was a made-up phone story."
Bill Clinton previously has blamed the "mainstream media" for his wife's email controversy during the 2016 election.
Clinton created multiple scandals over secrecy during her time as secretary of State for Barack Obama. Those included her decision to physically smash multiple communications devices so that nothing could be extracted from their memories.
Further, she bypassed routine requirements for government officials and set up her own email server in her home and used it for official government business despite being warned it wouldn't be secure.
Ultimately federal agencies determined that 100 emails there "contained information that should have been deemed classified at the time they were sent." That included 65 considered "secret" and 22 considered "top secret."
Then-FBI chief James Comey announced that an investigation showed that Clinton had been "extremely careless" with her communications, but those words technically didn't qualify for a criminal case against her.
During his debate with Clinton during the 2016 race Trump suggested she should be in jail, and he subsequently has made references to her regarding criminal conduct.
But at the time he was elected, Trump chose not to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's behavior.
He said then that would be a "terrible precedent" for the country. Of course, that was before the Democrats launched a long list of lawfare legal cases against him over what experts testified in court was his "ordinary" business operations, his comments about the 2020 election, and more.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The fall of Syria's bloodthirsty dictator, Bashar al-Assad, has obliterated 40 years of the Iranian regime's political, economic and military investment. The state-run newspaper Ham-Mihan described the scale of the loss in its Dec. 9, 2024 edition: "In one week, all political, economic, and military investments went up in flames."
Just hours before the fall of Damascus, the state-run outlet Khabar Online ominously warned: "Their objective is to reach Sar-e Pol-e Zahab (a border city) in western Iran. Based on our assessments, we realized their plans are far more serious than Syria and Iraq. … To prevent the war from spilling into Iran, serious and comprehensive measures at the highest levels must be taken. We are witnessing the defensive pillars of the Syrian army collapse one after the other."
The Assad regime – a 'central pillar' of Tehran's regional strategy
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the Assad dictatorship has served as the cornerstone of the Iranian regime's regional strategy. From Ayatollah Khomeini's war with Iraq in the 1980s to the era of Qassem Soleimani's orchestrated massacres in Iraq and Lebanon, and his indiscriminate killing of tens of thousands of children and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria, the Assad family's 50-year rule was critical to Iran's ambitions.
The phrase "Syria is the central pillar" was famously used in 2019 by Hassan Nasrallah, the now-deceased leader of Hezbollah, quoting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Nasrallah explained:
"If I were to summarize the importance of Syria, it would be in the words of the Supreme Leader [Khamenei]: 'Syria is the central pillar. Today, without Syria, resistance in Lebanon and Palestine would be marginalized. Syria is one of the principals, major and vital components of the body, mind, culture, thought and will of the resistance in the region.'" (Khamenei's website, October 16, 2019)
Billions wasted to keep Assad in power
To prop up Bashar al-Assad's regime, Tehran funneled at least $50 billion into Syria between 2011 and 2019, according to credible reports. These funds, allocated through Qassem Soleimani, came at the expense of the Iranian people, who faced widespread poverty and starvation. Over two-thirds of the population lived in abject poverty while the regime diverted resources to repress and massacre freedom-seekers, children, and civilians in Syria to sustain Assad's grip on power. During Iran's 2017 nationwide protests, demonstrators expressed their frustration with chants like: "Leave Syria, think about us!"
Khamenei's Justification: 'Strategic Depth'
Ali Khamenei has repeatedly described his regime's interventions in the region as essential to maintaining Iran's "strategic depth." On several occasions, he asserted that if the regime did not fight in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, it would inevitably have to confront its enemies "in the streets of Kermanshah, Hamedan, and other provinces in Iran."
In 2016, Khamenei further justified the deployment of Revolutionary Guards and Quds Force mercenaries to Syria, stating: "Those who leave here to stand against the takfiris in Iraq or Syria are, in reality, defending their own cities." (Khamenei's website, June 25, 2016)
The collapse of the 'Central Pillar' shakes Tehran
By Khamenei's own logic, the collapse of Syria – his regime's "central pillar" – and the erosion of its so-called "strategic depth" will undoubtedly have repercussions in Tehran. The fall of Assad signals a critical loss of influence, destabilizing the very foundations of the Iranian regime. If Khamenei cannot protect his key ally in Syria, his ability to maintain power in Iran will be severely weakened.
Mehdi Taeb, a senior official in the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence branch, explicitly acknowledged this reality in 2013: "If the enemy attacks us and tries to take Syria or Khuzestan (Iran's oil-rich province), our priority is to preserve Syria. Because if we hold onto Syria, we can regain Khuzestan. But if we lose Syria, we won't even be able to keep Tehran." (Asr-e Iran newspaper, Feb. 14, 2013)
Conclusion
After the decline of Hezbollah, Khamenei has now suffered another major strategic blow with the fall of Bashar al-Assad – leader of a country Khamenei once referred to as Iran's "35th province." The liberation of the Syrian people and the region from Assad's dictatorship could have been achieved nine years ago, in line with U.N. Security Council Resolution 2254. Yet Khamenei deliberately obstructed this resolution, choosing instead to waste billions of dollars and thousands of lives to prolong Assad's rule.
Without a doubt, the fall of Assad represents a devastating defeat for Khamenei. More importantly, it is a clear indicator of the inevitable and unstoppable movement toward democratic change in Iran.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed he is open to the idea of his nominee to be secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., investigating the long-suspected link between childhood vaccinations and autism.
In fact, reports of autism cases, after being almost insignificant for decades, starting growing in the late 1970s. In 1986 the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was adopted which protected vaccine makers from any liability whatsoever for problems their products caused and since then the cases have exploded.
Trump's comments came during a recent interview with Meet the Press, where he was asked if his nominee would review the facts on the issue. He said he was "open to anything."
"When you look at some of the problems, when you look at what's going on with disease and sickness in our country, something's wrong," Trump said. "I think somebody has to find out. If you go back 25 years ago, you had very little autism. Now you have it."
John Leake wrote at the Substack page for Peter McCullough, who long has pursued the medical evidence about shots, especially those for COVID-19, that, "As readers of this Substack are aware, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has long been concerned about the possible link between childhood vaccines and autism. He found it especially notable that the incidence of autism began to rise rapidly in the late 1980s, shortly after the passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which granted vaccine manufacturers immunity from all civil and criminal liability for injuries or deaths caused by their products."
The report noted "children may receive up to 24 immunizations by age 2 years and up to 5 injections in a single visit."
"Might all of these antigens injected into the bodies of small children result in an inflammatory response that could—in some way that is not yet fully understood— injure their developing brains?"
Leake wrote, "In my experience as a true crime writer, whenever individuals or groups object to a suspicious incident being merely investigated, one can be virtually certain that such individuals or groups are concealing something. It seems to me that all Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. proposes to do is commission unbiased researchers to conduct a proper investigation. What reasonable person who cares about kids would object to such an investigation?"
WND long has reported on the charges that a vaccine-autism link should be investigated.
In fact, in a column published on WND nearly a decade ago, Kennedy himself explained some of the questions that need to be addressed.
There, he cited the case of a defendant in a criminal indictment, for wire fraud and money laundering, that happened "in connection with more than $1 million in research grants he allegedly pilfered from CDC as he was ginning up fraudulent studies to 'prove' that vaccines don't cause autism."
He noted that fugitive, Poul Thorsen, "is one of the co-authors and data manager for two leading foreign studies offered by CDC as the foundation of its claims that vaccines do not cause autism."
One of the suspected factors is thimerosol, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, and a study in Denmark showed that when thimerosol was banned, autism reports increased – but that was linked to new reporting requirements that massively enhanced the population suffering from autism.
Further, he charged that CDC scientists "deliberately manipulated the final dataset [of a study] to prevent public disclosure of the decrease in autism since it did not support the study's conclusion that there was no association between thimerosal and autism."
Kennedy explained, "It would be difficult to overstate the cataclysmic impacts of Thorsen's mischief on global health. The study he is accused of fabricating was an instrumental piece of evidence cited by The Institute of Medicine to justify its infamous 2004 conclusion that thimerosal was not causing autism. IOM's declaration laid the foundation for dismissal of some 5,000 autism cases by the United States Court of Claims (The Vaccine Court). The Madsen et al. 2003 study has been repeatedly cited by public health agencies to justify the inclusion by CDC of thimerosal in 50 million flu shots given to Americans, including pregnant women, and the World Health Organization's (WHO) decision to inoculate 100 million children in developing nations annually with thimerosal preserved vaccines."
The scandal spread worldwide, with Australia banning a film documenting the link between vaccines and autism.
Three years later, WND reported on a video in which two parents tearfully told the story of their tragedy – triplets all becoming autistic within hours of getting a vaccination at the age of nine months.
That came to light just as Mark Green, then elected to the U.S. House but not yet seated, publicly raised the issue of a vaccine-autism link to the national level.
At the time Green, a medical doctor, questioned data from the CDC and other institutions that purport to disprove the vaccine link.
"Let me say this about autism," Green said at the time. "I have committed to people in my community, up in Montgomery County, to stand on the CDC's desk and get the real data on vaccines. Because there is some concern that the rise in autism is the result of the preservatives that are in our vaccines.
"As a physician, I can make that argument and I can look at it academically and make the argument against the CDC, if they really want to engage me on it," Green said.
Jane Orient, M.D., at the time a former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, said the real problems are a lack of adequate research and the medical industry's apparent effort to conceal any link between vaccines and autism.
"We just really don't know [the causes] and we're not doing the research" that is needed, she told WND then.
It was the McDowell family of Michigan on video on Brighteon.com that got tens of thousands of views in just days.
Natural News reported, "The video shows below, healthy triplets all became autistic within hours of vaccination, once again demonstrating that vaccines cause autism. The parents, the McDowell family in Detroit, Michigan, have spoken out publicly against the horrific medical violence being committed against children every day across America through toxic vaccines."
The parents, David and Brenda McDowell, explain in the video:
On June 25th, 2007, we brought them in for the [vaccine] shot… we went in at 10 am. All three. My daughter still has the mark on her leg from the shot… we did the boys as well. By noon, Claire shut completely off. It was as if she was blind, and deaf, and complete failure to thrive, from super super happy, smiley girl to… she had full blown eye contact, and she shut right down. All she did was stare at the ceiling.
At 2:00 we watched Richie shut off. All his mama, dadda, and the furniture walking and everything just shut of. All the giggles, all the smiles, again failure to thrive. They lost all their reflexes… they stopped blinking, yawning, coughing, sneezing, they lost their startle reflex… that was 2:00.
The worst was when we saw the final one shut down. We lost Robbie, he looked like he was hit by a bus. He had a stunned look on his face… he acted deaf, he lost his happiness. They were no longer engaged in anything or anyone. They lost their smiles. They never held hands again, never looked at each other again."
The McDowells explained that they later were informed the vaccine their children got was contaminated and was recalled after it killed a two-year-old.
But they said they were told there was no legal recourse for them.
Some questions have been answered in a recent retelling of the illness that very nearly took one of an award winning actor.
Oscar winner Jamie Foxx has spoken up about his health crisis from last year, detailing his experience with a brain bleed and subsequent stroke, as PEOPLE reported.
"Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was," a Netflix program that debuted on Tuesday, chronicled the Hollywood star's health battles during the past year.
“It is a mystery,” Foxx said explaining his health issues. “We still don’t know exactly what happened to me.”
“April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f**k to do,” he said.
“Before I could get the aspirin I went out,” he said. “I don’t remember 20 days," offering context about the events before and after his almost three weeks of unconscious recovery.
He thanked his sister, “4 foot 11 of nothing but pure love,” for driving him around Atlanta to find a hospital.
They arrived at Piedmont Hospital, where Foxx was informed by a doctor that he was suffering from a brain bleed that had caused a stroke. The actor added that he would not survive without surgery.
Doctors told Foxx he might have a full recovery after the operation, "but it's going to be the worst year of his life," as Foxx said.
Foxx's family chose to keep him out of the spotlight due to his severe vertigo and his daughter's fears that he may become an online meme if people witnessed his condition, he explained.
The actor recalled telling his pal, "Jamie Foxx don't get strokes," in response to his disbelief upon learning he had suffered a stroke on May 4, which left him unable to walk and confined to a wheelchair.
He claims that he was advised to stop acting "arrogant" if he wished to achieve a complete recovery after being sent to Chicago for rehabilitation.
The event took place while filming a Netflix project in Atlanta in April 2023, and the actor's health problems spiraled, tho it was not reported at the time.
His daughter Corinne Foxx posted on social media about her father's "medical complication" while he was in the hospital, but other family members and friends mostly kept quiet about the actor's health, respecting his desire for privacy.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Officials from Louisiana are asking a federal appeals court to protect their ability to have public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments, a key component among the ideas and beliefs on which the nation was founded.
The state already has adopted such plans for its schools, although there is flexibility in the requirement that schools display posters including the Ten Commandments that acknowledge their influence on American law and history.
However, the ACLU sued and a federal judge put a hold on the law.
Now, represented by Becket, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and Louisiana Solicitor General Ben Aguiñaga are asking on behalf of the state for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to protect its rights.
"If the ACLU had its way, every trace of religion would be scrubbed from Louisiana's public square," explained Becket senior counsel Joseph Davis. "Thankfully our Constitution says otherwise: Louisiana is allowed to acknowledge every aspect of our history and culture—including the Ten Commandments."
The Becket report on the dispute explained religious symbols have been a fixture of American public life since before the Founding.
"Just after declaring Independence, the Continental Congress tasked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams with designing a national seal. Though the Great Seal eventually adopted a different design, all three proposed overtly religious designs drawn from the Hebrew Bible," Becket said.
"Over the centuries, many state and local governments have followed the Founders' lead by including religious elements in their flags, seals, and buildings to commemorate history and culture and to acknowledge the beliefs of their citizens. Among the most enduring of these religious symbols is the Ten Commandments, which is even featured prominently on the walls of the U.S. Supreme Court."
Louisiana's law has schools display the Ten Commandments with a context statement explaining the history of their presence in public education.
Schools may choose to incorporate the Commandments alongside other historical documents, like the Declaration of Independence and the Mayflower Compact.
The ACLU's contention is that knowledge of such facts will harm children.
"Yesterday we filed our opening brief in the Fifth Circuit defending Louisiana's Ten Commandments law," said Murrill. "As we have illustrated in our briefs, there are numerous ways for our schools to constitutionally implement the law. And this should not be controversial: As the Supreme Court has said, the Commandments have historical significance as one of the foundations of our law. We look forward to the Fifth Circuit's decision in this case."
The case is to be heard by the appeals court on Jan. 23.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Almost two-thirds of America's abortion industry businesses are breaking federal law by handing out abortion pill chemicals for use after the Food and Drug Administration's deadline of 10 weeks, according to a new report.
It is the "2024 survey: American abortion facilities," done by Operation Rescue that provides the alarming details.
Dispensing those drugs for use beyond the FDA's limit increases "the chances mothers will experience harmful – and potentially deadly – side effects," the report confirms.
Chemical abortions, using mifepristone and misoprostol, accounted for about 56% of all abortions in 2022, and while the FDA originally wanted those drugs not to be used beyond seven weeks of pregnancy, Barack Obama unilaterally changed that limit to 10 weeks in 2016.
But the survey says a large majority of abortion businesses are violating even that.
"Sixty-four percent of abortion clinics have gestational cut-off limits set between 11 and 13 weeks for abortion pills. This range indicates a significant majority of clinics provide abortion pills to women beyond the FDA's limit of 10 weeks," confirms the Operation Rescue report.
"Twenty-six percent administer or mail pills from 7 to 10 weeks, and the remaining 10% that limit the pills to 6 weeks or less are located in states with heartbeat protection laws in place. … The latest gestational age at which pills are administered at clinics nationwide is 13 weeks — three weeks beyond the FDA approved limit."
The complications from that pro-abortion agenda already is evident, explained a report in the Washington Stand.
"Complications of the abortion pill, and doctors' refusal to administer legally sanctioned miscarriage care, claimed the lives of at least two mothers in Georgia: 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman and 41-year-old Candi Miller," the report said.
Operation Rescue confirmed, "We know women are dying from these dangerous abortion pills, especially when taken with little or no medical oversight. If the pro-life movement stands united in holding drug companies and abortion pill suppliers accountable for these egregious deaths, we have the opportunity to win back some ground — which will save preborn lives as well as the lives of their mothers."
It maintains an archive of maternal deaths.
"A 16-year-old black girl underwent a chemical abortion at New York City's Choices Women's Medical Center in 2018, which left her 'sick, sore, lame and disabled.' Her child survived the abortion and was born with 'severe brain injuries' and other 'profound birth defects,'" according to various court records.
The report explained from 2000 to 2021, the FDA confirmed 4,207 "adverse events" from the abortion drug use, "including 26 deaths" and 1,045 hospitalizations.
The flagrant violations are just part of the record of the industry, OR said.
"Abortionists continue to exist as a privileged class of 'physicians' who cannot be touched. Their barbaric work of child-killing is too sacred to ever be lessened by disciplinary actions, meanwhile preborn children and their mothers pay the cost," explained OR chief Troy Newman.
Also revealed was that more than one in four (28%) — or 189 of 674 abortion facilities — hand out the chemicals without the mother actually seeing a doctor.
"Concerning abortion pills, it is deeply concerning to consider the appalling lack of oversight and accountability and the disturbing consequences we are already witnessing," Newman told the Washington Stand. "How many life-altering injuries and unnecessary deaths will be needed to establish standing for a lawsuit that ultimately addresses the dangerously under-regulated drugs?"
The report also noted that after the fall of the faulty Roe v. Wade precedent that fabricated a federal right to abortion, 14 states remain abortion free in 2024: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.
And Florida, Georgia, Iowa and South Carolina have heartbeat protection laws that typically protect unborn babies after six weeks gestation.
Other states, like Colorado, are turning their pro-abortion ideology into an industry, drawing women from surrounding states for abortions.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
A lawsuit over anti-Semitism by officials in the New York village of Atlantic Beach is being revived because they refused to abide by a settlement reached earlier that would have allowed a Jewish organization to operate a center in town, according to a report from First Liberty Institute.
The fight is over scheming by officials there to exclude Chabad of the Beaches, a Hasidic Jewish group, from opening a religious center.
In private messages Mayor George Pappas said, "Very true," when a fellow town official said, "Most people don't want the Chabad and just don't want to say it. Any secular Jew doesn't want them."
The private messaging deteriorated further, with comments like that Jews "procreate" too much, "don't tip" and "are "buying the world."
The town had claimed that it wanted to condemn the property, an old bank, and take it for municipal use, as soon as the Jewish group bought it.
But the lawsuit earlier noted that the property had been for sale for years, and the town never made any effort to acquire it until after the Chabad purchased it.
The legal team explained the newly filed complaint seeking to reopen the case pointed out, "In private communications produced in this case, Village officials freely and frequently engaged in open anti-Chabad and anti-Orthodox sentiment and trafficked in vile antisemitic tropes, including that Jews are 'buying the world,' 'procreate' too much, and 'don't tip.'"
It continued, "These messages reveal that the Village's proffered reason for seizing Chabad's property is and always has been pretextual."
The case came up in 2022, but in 2023 a settlement was reached.
That plan was "subject to several conditions, including the approval of basic building permits. Because the Village refused virtually all of those permits—including the use of the building for religious purposes—the agreement has been terminated and the lawsuit re-opened with an amended complaint," the legal team said.
A federal court already has issued an injunction preventing the village from taking the property, and now the new complaint seeks punitive damages.
"What we once suspected is now confirmed: Village leadership has been driven by blatant, openly expressed religious animus against their Jewish neighbors," said Jeremy Dys, First Liberty Institute lawyer.
"Rather than a neutral act by an unbiased city council, what we now know is that the decision to try to take Chabad's property by eminent domain was driven by a religious hostility to Hasidic and Orthodox Jews that has no place in our country."
When the Jewish group bought the bank, the town demanded to take it for a community center.
"In the two years since Chabad first challenged the attempted taking of its property, the Village has not had a single meeting, presented a single plan, or lifted a single shovel to build the community center it claimed was central to the future of the village. Those claims appear to have been pretext shielding the Village's religious animus," the lawyers explained.
WND reported earlier when U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert imposed a preliminary injunction against any action against the property until the case is fully resolved.
The judge expressed concern over the town's actions: "It is not the taking of the property, but rather the alleged resulting interference with Chabad's constitutional Free Exercise rights, that warrants finding irreparable harm upon the present record."
The judge had noted the town's decision "to acquire the property by eminent domain will burden Chabad's religious exercise by curtailing its outreach mission to the Jewish community and by eliminating its highly visible presence in the Village. Based upon the record evidence, and considering 'the historical background of the decision under challenge, the specific series of events leading to [it], and the . . . administrative history,' as well as statements made by community members, the Village's acquisition decision was made in a manner intolerant of Chabad's members' religious beliefs and which would restrict Chabad's practices because of its religious nature. Thus, the Village's acquisition decision was targeted and not done neutrally, thereby requiring the Court to apply strict scrutiny in deciding whether that decision is constitutionally permissible."