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One of the two major administration agenda points for Joe Biden's regime, during the four years he was in the White House, was abortion. The other was transgenderism.
On abortion, he promoted it everywhere he could, in the United States and around the world.
He tried to impose abortion requirements on unwilling targets of his political agenda, and one of those was the community of emergency room physicians.
Biden's administration simply reinterpreted a federal law, which actually provides protections for the "unborn child," to insist that emergency room physicians had to perform abortions, essentially on demand by a patient.
Now President Donald Trump has reversed that reinterpretation.
His administration announced it is revoking a "guidance" to hospitals that ordered them to do "emergency abortions" for women, on the condition that was "necessary" to stabilize their medical condition.
It was in 2022, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the faulty Roe v. Wade precedent that incorrectly created a constitutional "right" to abortion that the Biden administration retaliated.
Its guidance said to preserve abortion access for cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an immediate abortion, ER doctors must commit abortion.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, of SBA Pro-Life America, said the move was one of the ways Biden tried to push abortion into states where there are legal and constitutional limits.
"Democrats have created confusion on this fact to justify their extremely unpopular agenda for all-trimester abortion. In situations where every minute counts, their lies lead to delayed care and put women in needless, unacceptable danger," she said.
Lawyers with the ADF also confirmed they had filed a voluntary dismissal of a lawsuit against the Biden actions.
The case, Catholic Medical Association v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, argued that the Biden orders under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act overstepped Biden's statutory authority and violated members' conscience rights.
"Doctors—especially in emergency rooms—are tasked with preserving life. The Trump administration has rolled back a harmful Biden-era mandate that compelled doctors to end unborn lives, in violation of their deeply held beliefs," said ADF lawyer Matt Bowman.
"Emergency room physicians can and do treat life-threatening conditions such as ectopic pregnancies, and every state allows doctors to do whatever is necessary to preserve the life of a mother. Now, doctors will be able to perform their life-giving duties without fear of government officials forcing them to end life and violate their beliefs."
It was Biden's HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, who claimed he could override state laws regarding abortion to demand ER doctors perform the procedures.
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A scandal that has sullied, perhaps forever, the reputations of the Pulitzer prizes, the New York Times and the Washington Post, is going to be further explored, after a ruling from the Florida Appellate Court that rejected the defendants' attempt to have the case brought by President Donald Trump dismissed.
The scenario that triggered the legal defamation case is that the Pultizer board awarded a prize for reporting to the Times and Post on their work "exposing" the Russian collusion conspiracy about Trump's campaign in 2016.
The problem is that the conspiracy theory was based on fabrications, and the reporting portrayed those ideologies as fact. And then when the truth was revealed, Pulitzer officials didn't recall, and the publications didn't reject, their prizes.
It was Trump himself who went to social media to note the decision to allow the case, filed in Okeechobee County, Florida, to continue. He charges that the Pulitzer decision to refuse to rescind the awards which essentially honored "fake news" constituted defamation.
"A large swath of Americans had a tremendous misunderstanding of the truth at the time the Times' and the Post's propagation of the Russia Collusion Hoax dominated the media," according to the complaint. "Remarkably, they were rewarded for lying to the American public."
President Trump made the announcement on TRUTH Social.
Pulitzer officials said they were "evaluating" their next step. It's one of a multitude of cases brought by Trump against media and other organizations, some of which already have been settled with huge payments to him.
It was ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller who investigated, for years, those claims. And found no evidence to support the allegations.
Pulitzer officials claimed the publications' reports were "deeply sourced" and "relentlessly reported," even though the claims were based on lies and fabrications.
Trump, on social media, responded to the attacks by the publications and the new court decision.
"BREAKING! In a major WIN in our powerful lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board regarding the illegal and defamatory 'Award' of their once highly respected 'Prize,' to fake, malicious stories on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, by the Failing New York Times and the Washington Compost, the Florida Appellate Court viciously rejected the Defendants' corrupt attempt to halt the case. They won a Pulitzer Prize for totally incorrect reporting about the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax. Now they admit it was a SCAM, never happened, and their reporting was totally wrong, in fact, the exact opposite of the TRUTH. They'll have to give back their 'Award.' They were awarded for false reporting, and we can't let that happen in the United States of America. We are holding the Fake News Media responsible for their LIES to the American People, so we can, together, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"
As explained by the Gateway Pundit, Trump's case "challenges the legitimacy of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to fake news, The New York Times and The Washington Post, for their coverage of the debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax."
It was documentation from the Senate Judiciary Committee that confirmed the reports by the publications were "not only dishonest but also as an early attempt to fuel the baseless Russiagate narrative," the report said.
Eventually, evidence showed failed Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton's' campaign "orchestrated the Trump-Russia collusion hoax."
Despite the evidence the stories were fraudulent, the Pulitzer officials refused to retract the honors.
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A church in Toms River, New Jersey, with plenty of space as it owns 10 acres of land, proposed building a 17-bed overnight shelter as a way to reach out to the needy and help the community.
So officials in the town retaliated with their own plan to confiscate the land and turn it into pickleball courts.
"It is clear that this is being done in retaliation for the church making an application for a homeless shelter," Harvey York, the church's lawyer, told Fox News.
Citing the constitutional standards regarding protections for freedom religion as well as the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, he said, "I don't know that you'll find a lawyer who will say, 'Oh, yeah, they have every right to do this; they're going to win.'"
It is the Christ Episcopal Church that has found itself in the middle of the city's bull's-eye.
And York said while some residents are happy with the idea, "the majority" is shocked and dismayed.
The church had suggested an outreach to the area's homeless with an overnight shelter.
"It didn't take long for neighbors to become concerned," York explained and the result was an ordinance pending before the town council to condemn and take the land, which now already holds the parish house, auditorium, school, sanctuary and deacon's residence.
"Any governmental agency has the right to condemn property for governmental purposes. That's clear. However, the township has never thought of this as a recreational site," York said. "For them to say they need recreational land flies in the face of the facts and their master plan."
He said city officials need to "mind their own business and stay out of the religious affairs of the community."
The report said the church originally proposed its plan in 2023, an agenda that met all state and local regulations.
Litigation is expected, and Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University, said the case could put before the U.S. Supreme Court the "infamous" Kelo v. City of New London case in which the justices decided the government could confiscate land from one party, under its eminent domain, and give it to another party.
In the Kelo case, city officials in New London confiscated property from a private resident to give it to Pfizer for a major development.
Turley noted the ultimate failure of that scheme.
"After all the pain that the city caused its own residents and the $80 million it spent to buy and bulldoze the property, it came to nothing. Pfizer later announced that it was closing the facility — leaving the city worse off than when it began," he explained.
He said the new case does include the possibility of "public purpose" for the land, but still is clouded with the questions over "a pretextual rationale" for the city's decisions.
"There are ample reasons to be concerned about the actions in this case if they are a form of retaliation for the church's shelter plan," he said.
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A lawsuit against the government over the shooting by a Capitol police officer of an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest what many saw as an unfair election result, apparently has been settled.
Reports say the settlement to the family is for just about $5 million, with about one-third going to lawyers who advocated for her.
A RedState report said the government apparently has agreed to those details to resolve the fight.
"Two people briefed on the matter said the Justice Department has agreed in principle to pay just under $5 million to Babbitt's family, with about one-third to go to their attorneys, who include the conservative group Judicial Watch and Alexandria, Virginia, lawyer Richard Driscoll. The two people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a pending court matter," the report said.
The case had been seeking $30 million.
The legal case alleged the police officer involved, Michael Byrd, used excessive force and unjustly caused the woman's death.
The case was brought on behalf of Ashli Babbitt's husband, Aaron.
"Lt. Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby. Ashli posed no threat to the safety of anyone. Not one member of Congress was in the lobby, which was guarded by multiple armed police officers," RedState commented.
WND reported earlier when it was documented that a settlement was being pursued.
At that time, Department of Justice Lawyer Joseph Gonzalez and Robert Sticht, representing Babbitt's husband, Aaron, confirmed the settlement was in process.
Byrd shot and killed Babbitt as she was part of a group of protesters who had entered the Capitol and ended up near the House chamber.
The filing described that Byrd "negligently discharged his firearm and failed to warn Babbitt or de-escalate the situation. The suit also alleged negligence on the part of other officers near the Speaker's Lobby at the time of the shooting as well as the U.S. Capitol Police and the Capitol Police Board in failing to properly train Byrd in tactical decision-making."
Babbitt was an Air Force veteran but was killed during the protests that day.
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One of the Democrats' lawfare goals in their coordinated campaign of criminal and civil cases against President Donald Trump over the last eight or nine years has been to make it so costly for him that he'd walk away.
The "fraud" case brought against Trump by leftist New York Attorney General Letitia James, in which the "victims" said they lost no money and would like to do business with Trump again, is a case in point.
That case resulted in a penalty, from a leftist judge whose family ties to the issue never have been resolved, of a penalty of nearly half a billion dollars, despite there being no damages in the case.
That's on appeal at this point. Meanwhile, James has come under federal investigation for possible fraud herself.
But now a Courthousenews report confirms that Trump might be able to recoup the legal expenses that one case cost him.
That would be the Georgia case in which leftist officials accused Trump of interfering in the 2020 elections.
The report confirmed that Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed two tort reform bills into law that were supported by the general assembly's Republican majority and business leaders from across the state.
"Senate Bill 244 allows criminal defendants to recover attorney fees and legal costs if the prosecutor of their case is disqualified for misconduct and the case is dismissed," the report noted.
In the "interference" case, a panel from the Georgia Court of Appeals decided that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office should be removed from prosecuting the president's case.
There's no current activity in the case as Georgia Supreme Court has been asked to take up an appeal by Willis.
"If the high court upholds the disqualification of Willis — which was ordered due to an 'appearance of impropriety' stemming from her relationship with the case's former special prosecutor, Nathan Wade — the costly reimbursements would fall on local taxpayers' pockets," the report noted.
Its cause would further be traced back to Willis' case, and the actions she took regarding her lawfare against Trump.
The report explained Kemp's signature also set up a new process for people who have been exonerated for crimes they did not commit, calling for administrative law judges to rule on wrongful conviction compensation cases.
The reported noted Trump's campaign spent about $2.7 million in the case in which he was wildly accused of racketeering and a long list of other felonies.
The Georgia Republican Party also reportedly paid $2 million in fees for Trump's co-defendants.
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Already multiple trillions in foreign investment in the United States had been secured by the administration of President Donald Trump, most of that in his first 100 days in office.
Then this week there was announced an economic plan with Saudi Arabia worth about $600 billion.
Then on Wednesday the White House announced a pact with Qatar worth "at least $1.2 trillion."
It's "another win for America" in Trump's campaign promises to bring back "Made in America" and his predicted "new Golden Age of prosperity."
Already, his tariffs program has secured a long-term agreement with the United Kingdom and a promising temporary agreement with China.
"By securing these investments, President Trump is spurring a manufacturing renaissance, driving economy growth, and creating high-paying jobs across the nation," the White House stated.
While critics and other doomsayers predicted Trump would trigger, immediately, a recession with his economic actions in pursuit of a fair world trade market for Americans, the nation's stock market today is just about where it was before the campaign was launched.
Several parts of Trump's deal with Qatar involve manufacturing, as there is a $96 billion agreement for Qatar to acquire up to 210 American-made Boeing 787 Dreamline and 777X aircraft powered by GE Aerospace engines.
The report said it's Boeing's largest-ever widebody order, and the White House calculated that it will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually.
Other deals involve liquid natural gas production, and quantum technologies.
It also "advances" Qatar's defense investment in the U.S., locking in its procurement of state-of-the-art equipment from two leading U.S. defense contractors, Raytheon and General Atomics.
Both of those deals involve drone technology.
Further, the two nations agreed on a statement of intent "to further strengthen our security partnership, outlining over $38 billion in potential investments including support for burden-sharing at Al Udeid Air Base and future defense capabilities related to air defense and maritime security."
Other chapters of the agreement involve goals in the Qatar National Vision 2030 which opens opportunities for U.S. businesses in a number of ways.
Billions also are forecast to be invested in U.S. hotels and tourism, information technology, advanced manufacturing, financial services, and oil and gas.
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At a time in an age when legacy media corporations are uniformly pro-liberal, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, pro-Democrat, it just got worse.
But this time, Americans are noticing.
The results of a new Rasmussen polling confirm that a plurality of voters, 44%, agree with the idea that it's not possible to hate the media "enough."
It is the Washington Examiner that was given the poll results.
It explained, "Forty-nine percent believe news bias is getting worse, while, by a margin of 44% to 29%, likely voters agree with the statement: 'No matter how much you hate the media, it's not enough.'"
"Younger voters, older people, Hispanics, Republicans, independents, and even Democrats cited pro-Democratic bias in agreeing that they just can't hate the media enough," the Examiner reported.
Actually, the report confirmed, "Bias in the media has been around forever, and political bias has exploded since President Donald Trump hit the presidential stage. Recent presidents have tried to fight it, but with little luck. Former President Barack Obama, for example, tried to skip over the media and use social media as his direct outreach to voters. Trump's team, which often criticizes the legacy liberal media, has moved to add center-right outlets to the White House press pool for balance."
Even so, consumers still believe, by large numbers, that the media still favors Democrats.
Democrats, by a 43% to 24% margin, agreed that media organizations favor their party over Republicans.
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There have been outbreaks of Christian revival in America over recent months. Evening services turned into days-long prayer events. Churches launching 24-7 prayer campaigns that actually have people praying around the clock. Even similar worship programs that have been going on for months now.
And now there's a new sign of a revival spirit developing: Thousands of people baptized in the "largest synchronized baptism" in the nation.
That's according to a report from CBN.
The publication called in "another sign of the incredible spiritual movement shaping America."
It was when thousands stood on the shores of Huntington Beach and got baptized for the "world to know" they had decided to commit their lives to Jesus Christ.
The Baptize California campaign's first event, last year, saw some 12,000 baptized, through the coordinated work of some 300 churches.
"This year 7,752 people were baptized in the ocean and baptismal horse troughs throughout the day. Over the course of the 10-hour event, nearly 30,000 people worshipped Jesus and witnessed hundreds of lives changed through the gospel message," the report said.
Mark Francey, a pastor at Ocean Church, told CBN, "Jesus Christ is working again from the beaches of California, awakening a generation, uniting the church to reach the ends of the earth."
Hundreds of churches have joined in the effort.
CBN noted, "One powerful redemption story that took center stage was of Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano. Gravano was once the notorious underboss of the Gambino crime family, but recently gave his life over to Jesus Christ."
He explained in a video he released, "I ran with the streets, led one of the most powerful crime families in America…but none of that gave me true peace. I always believed in God but this time, it was different. This time, I surrendered."
Ocean Church launched what then was called Baptize SoCal in 2023, and that event involved some 280 churches and 4,166 people being baptized.
The plan always has been to expand across the nation.
Francey told CBN, "God is not done with America and California. If this can happen in California, it can spread across America."
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President Donald Trump has rolled out the first of the trade agreements he's been pursuing, expressing confidence that it will solidify trade between the two nations "for many years to come."
On Truth Social, he announced, "The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come. Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!"
Detractors immediately nit-picked the announcement, pointing out that trade with the U.K. already is an accepted part of American business, and the 2024 trade value reached about $262 billion.
Leading the activity were cars, pharmaceutical products, scientific instruments and aircraft.
A report at the Washington Examiner noted the announcement followed Trump's revelation that this was his goal with his tariff announcement weeks ago.
And more deals are predicted by the Trump administration.
Trump, in fact, said multiple other deals are in "serious stages of negotiations."
Trump already has accepted an invitation from King Charles III for another state visit to the U.K.
At the time the invitation was delivered by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he said, "The answer is yes. On behalf of our wonderful first lady, Melania, and myself, the answer is yes, and we look forward to being there, and honoring the king, and honoring, really, your country."
The American stock market reacted negatively to the announcement of the tariffs weeks ago, but since then largely has rebounded.
Just days ago, Trump said he had "potential" agreements worked out with India, South Korea and Japan.
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Her status as a well-known media elite didn't seem to help as CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell's D.C. husband's restaurant was raided by ICE agents Tuesday.
The Trump administration has been working to remove illegal aliens from the food industry, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.
"Restaurants in the DC, including Chef Geoff's in Northwest and Millie's in Spring Valley[,] were subject to I-9 audits by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, today, per ICE official and DHS official," CBS News's Nicole Sganga reported on X. "Restaurants were delivered 'notices of inspection' and asked to question employees about their work authorization."
The restaurant, Chef Geoff's, is owned by O'Donnell's husband, chef Geoff Tracy. According to Fox 5 in D.C., no one was taken into custody as a result of the raid.
O'Donnell herself is not without controversy. She faced criticism last year for what critics said was her partisan moderation of the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz.
Norah O'Donnell says, "Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the historic rainfall."
No, this is a debatable point, and the increased temperatures that presumably would come from burning fossil fuels should lead to… pic.twitter.com/tfmYmYH2hX
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 2, 2024
The CBS anchor has also drawn backlash for her "toxic behavior" in the workplace, including frequent outbursts and reported berating of dressing-room stylists.
Earlier this year, O'Donnell delivered an emotional farewell as she signed off from her role on "CBS Evening News." After five years as anchor and managing editor, O'Donnell stepped down amid significant organizational changes at the network.
President Trump has prioritized the crackdown on employers in so-called sanctuary cities.
During the first 100 days of Trump's second term, ICE agents "arrested 66,463 illegal aliens and removed 65,682 aliens, including criminals who threaten public safety and national security," the agency said in a press release last week.