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President Donald Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, visited Texas Friday to survey the results of last weekend's flash floods that left more than 100 dead, and at least that number still missing.
Drainages through the Texas hill country filled with water 20 and even 30 feet deep in a matter of minutes after a deluge estimated at 10 inches to a foot of rain fell in a matter of hours.
Dozens of victims were from Camp Mystic, a Christian camp for girls along the banks of the Guadalupe River, which rose from a depth of about a foot to an estimated 34 feet in the dark.
Cabins, homes, cars, people all were swept away.
The victims include at least 36 children in a county that had declined to install early-warning monitors after failing to secure state funding.
Trump expressed support for a new effort to take on that project.
Reuters reported he said, "After having seen this horrible event, I would imagine you'd put alarms up in some form."
Melania Trump promises prayers for the families hit so hard.
"My deepest sympathy to all of the parents who lost beautiful young souls," she said. "We are grieving with you. Our nation is grieving with you. We just met with the wonderful families."
The president said, "The first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support, and the anguish of our entire nation, in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood."
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An expert is warning about possible danger ahead for American jurisprudence because of the cash – millions of dollars – that a foreign interest is putting into the pockets of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The warning comes from Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, in a column reprinted at the Gatestone Institute.
The corporation is the German publishing giant Bertelsmann, who in America has brand names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and more.
That German company, the column explains, is an "ex-Nazi foreign corporation" that is "pushing deeply destructive products."
"Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund," the report noted.
Its impact on the Supreme Court has developed over recent years, as Justice Ketanji Jackson "received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year" in deals connected to the conglomerate.
And Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance, it said.
And "Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million."
"Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice [Clarence] Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice's 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can't even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices."
The warning noted that the millions are coming "from an avaricious foreign publisher which has deluged Supreme Court justices with millions of dollars in generous publishing deals."
"Penguin's payouts previously made headlines when five Supreme Court justices, including Jackson and Barrett, had to recuse themselves from a case involving allegations of plagiarism by racist Hamas supporter Ta-Nehisi Coates whose works, including a book describing 9/11 firefighters as 'not human to me', were widely backed and promoted by Penguin," the report explained.
"The current Supreme Court is so badly conflicted over its Penguin cash that it can no longer decide cases involving it," Greenfield explained.
That's even as Bertelsmann "has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's 'How to Be an Antiracist', Robin DiAngelo's 'White Fragility', Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Between the World and Me', and, during WWII, 'The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth' all came out of Bertelsmann," he explained.
His warning continued, "Supreme Court justices used to write on mainly legal matters (with notable exceptions such as Taft and Douglas) and reserved their memoirs toward the end of their lives. Newly minted justices like Jackson signing memoir deals is an obvious cash-in and Justice Sotomayor, after publishing a memoir no one was asking for 'My Beloved World', began writing children's books.
"Would Penguin really be publishing Sotomayor's feeble efforts at writing children's books, 'Just Help!: How to Build a Better World', 'Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You' and (coming soon) 'Just Shine!: How to Be a Better You' if she weren't a Supreme Court justice?"
While "judges putting their names on things to make money is not illegal," Greenfield noted, "What happens when Bertelsmann triggers a court case with major legal implications and once again a quorum of justices can't be found to sit on it?
"Then the woke mega-publisher will have officially bought America's legal system."
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During the 2016 presidential election, a jokester went online and told Democrats to "Save Time, Avoid the Line" and vote online.
WND reported the joke was by Douglass Mackey, who for the joke was convicted in New York state of "election interference."
But he appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the decision, arguing that if the government's case against him stands, the results necessarily would criminalize not just political misinformation and satire, but also "lies about also whether and for whom to vote. Such a sprawling political speech code is in the teeth of every applicable canon for reading criminal laws, and grossly offends the First Amendment."
Now a report in the Washington Examiner reveals his conviction has been overturned.
"A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered a lower court to enter a judgment of acquittal after finding that trial evidence brought by Biden-era federal prosecutors failed to prove Mackey conspired with others to influence the election at the time," the report said.
"The government was obligated to show that Mackey knowingly entered into an agreement with other people to pursue that objective," Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote in the unanimous opinion, which was joined by Judges Reena Raggi and Beth Robinson. "This the government failed to do."
There were claims Mackey tricked some 5,000 people into voting by text or social media, even though there was no process to accommodate those attempts.
Prosecutors claimed that there were social media platform groups discussing interfering with voting rights, but they could not show Mackey ever engaged with those.
"The government failed to offer sufficient evidence that Mackey even viewed—let alone participated in any of these exchanges," the opinion said. "And in the absence of such evidence, the government's remaining circumstantial evidence cannot alone establish Mackey's knowing agreement."
WND also reported that a "progressive activist told Trump supporters to vote by text, but she was not prosecuted.
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Outrage continues to build among President Donald's Trump supporters over the Justice Department's conclusion there was no client list for pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, with some Trump fans urging the ouster of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Among them is journalist and Trump ally Laura Loomer, who refers to Bondi as "Blondi."
"Please join me in calling for Blondi to RESIGN!" Loomer said on X. "How many more times is this woman going to get away with Fing everything up before she is FIRED?"
Loomer also noted: "How come Blondi didn't sign her name to her own memo about the Epstein Files? She needs to resign. This is going to suppress the vote in 2026. The American people and MAGA base will not tolerate being lied to.
"I hope President Trump fires Pam Blondi if she lacks the SHAME to resign. I called for her resignation the day of Binder Gate. 5 months later and Blondi is still an abomination. Epstein raped kids on her watch when she was [Florida attorney general]. Is this what this is about? Her horrendous professional record?"
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the Trump administration was being truthful and transparent in connection with the Epstein case, saying: "The Trump administration is committed to truth and to transparency. That's why the attorney general and the FBI director pledged at the president's direction to do an exhaustive review of all of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and his death. And they put out a memo in conclusion of that review.
"There was material they did not release because, frankly, it was incredibly graphic and it contained child pornography which is not something that's appropriate for public consumption.
"But they committed to an exhaustive investigation. That's what they did and they provided the results of that. That's transparency."
About three hours later, Trump himself posted a message on Truth Social praising the FBI and its top officials, though not specifically mentioning the dropping of the Epstein matter.
"The FBI, under the direction of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is back to the basics: Locking up criminals, and cleaning up America's streets," Trump said.
"We have the Greatest Law Enforcement professionals in the World, but "Politics" and Corrupt Leadership often prevented them from doing their job. That is no longer the case, and now, they have been unleashed to do their jobs, and they are doing just that. Keep it up — MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN!"
But Trump supporters on Truth Social responded fiercely to the president's message, with numerous objections, including:
"MAGA BEGS TO DIFFER WITH YOU, DAN, KASH AND PAM. DIDDY WALKS THEN THIS?? WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND TO HEAR FROM YOU NOT A TRUTH POST…. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT."
"Trump I have been extremely loyal to you! I'm very pleased with almost everything you're doing, but I absolutely draw the line on this one! If you are who I think you are … brave, big heart, and will stand ten toes down for what's right, then bring the truth to light!! Release the info no matter what!!! If you don't stop/expose what happened on that island and what is a huge problem in our country for these children then who will?! Somebody is being blackmailed!!! God put you in your position for a reason!!! if you do what's right your supporters will always stand by you!!!"
"We have been BETRAYED by the man who insists FULL LOYALTY. Trump, you BETRAYED us. Maybe Elon sees something we don't!
"Trump is mistaken if he thinks the American people are just going to 'move on' from the Epstein client list. This is too big – it's not going away."
Tuesday morning, Tucker Carlson released an interview in which he said: "I never thought that I would be offering an apology to Jeffrey Epstein.
"I think of all the times I've maligned that guy, all the times I accused him of crimes, of blackmailing people, of trafficking children to powerful figures around the world on behalf of global intel services. And then I learn yesterday from Attorney General Pam Bondi that's totally untrue. The guy killed himself after … 36 days in prison for no reason.
"He was a billionaire. He had no clients. He'd done nothing wrong, other than get like naughty massages 20 years before. And the guy killed himself. … And then his best friend … Ghislaine Maxwell, doing 20 years in prison for no crime. There are no victims!"
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, appeared on "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News Monday night to say the Deep State "has taken this bull by the horns and they probably destroyed" the Epstein files.
In response to President Trump's praising of the FBI, the bureau's Deputy Director Dan Bongino said: "We are doubling down. No letting up."
Alex Jones of Infowars also blasted the Justice Department, noting: "Next the DOJ will say 'Actually, Jeffrey Epstein never even existed.' This is over the top sickening."
Best-selling author and analyst Tom Renz said: "This is horrific. It's hard to believe the DOJ will ever do anything real if they won't even protect against child r@pists.
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A shooter, armed with a rifle and wearing tactical gear, tried an ambush of U.S. Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, and was shot and killed, authorities reported.
"The Department [of Justice] has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and will bring the full weight of the law against those responsible," explained Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Police reported the shooter wounded one officer, but he was in stable condition.
The dead man was identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, and reports revealed no known motive yet.
But they said it was a "targeted" attack on federal officers.
A report at the Washington Examiner explained border czar Tom Homan said on Fox News that attacks on ICE officers increased since last year by 690% as of July 4.
He blamed, in part, leftist rhetoric constantly being unleashed by opponents of President Donald Trump who are in Congress.
"We have senators, we have congresspeople, that compare ICE to the Nazis, compare ICE to racists, and it just continues. The public thinks, 'well if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can't we,'" he said.
From Jan. 21 to June 20 of last year there were 10 attacks on ICE agents, the report said. This year during the same time, there have been 79.
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A majority of the judges on a state supreme court's bench have exercised what has been determined to be their "personal preference" to overturn a "duly enacted" law banning abortion.
The details are documented a report at the Federalist, which pointed out the minority dissent in the case before the Wisconsin state Supreme Court noted even judges are supposed to follow the law, even if they don't like it.
The report explained, "In a decision deemed judicial activism and a 'power grab' by pro-life and judicial experts, the leftist-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to nullify the Badger State's longstanding law barring abortion."
The 4-judge majority claimed "the legislature impliedly repealed" an 1849 law that made abortion a felony. There was no specific repeal.
The new interpretation of the law, unchanged by the legislature in the state, is abortion is allowed – through a certain time period.
Chief Justice Jill Karofsky actually "repeated the leftist lie that women, such as Georgia woman Amber Thurman, lost their lives 'because they lived in states that severely restrict abortion care,'" the report confirmed.
However, both of the women cited by Karofsky died after taking the dangerous chemicals involved in a do-it-yourself abortion pills, and the report noted that medical malpractice also was involved in their deaths, a factor ignored by Karofsky.
"In her dissent, Justice Annette Ziegler scolded the majority and the concurring chief justice for prioritizing the 'profoundly personal way in which we might determine our respective positions on abortion' over 'how a court is required to interpret the law,'" the Federalist explained.
She cited the legal standard that, "It is the court's duty to adhere to the law whether we 'like' the answer or not."
The majority, she explained, took part in "a jaw-dropping exercise of judicial will, placing personal preference over the constitutional roles of the three branches of our state government and upending a duly enacted law," the report said.
"In this dangerous departure from our constitutional design, four members of the court make up and apply their own version of implied repeal, failing to hew to any semblance of traditional judicial decision-making or jurisprudence."
Andrew Bath, of the Thomas More Society, explained, "This decision is nothing short of a judicial power grab. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken it upon itself to erase a law that elected representatives deliberately preserved for over 175 years — even while Roe v. Wade rendered it unenforceable.
"The majority abandoned sound legal reasoning in favor of political activism, mocking the very concept of judicial restraint. This is a betrayal of the rule of law and a devastating blow to the state's longstanding commitment to protecting the most vulnerable."
Such judicial radicalism isn't a surprise, as the original Roe decision creating a "right" to abortion was adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court majority with an absence of any link to the U.S. Constitution back in 1973. It was overturned just a few years ago.
And Kelsey Pritchard, of SBA Pro-Life America, told the Federalist that the lives of unborn now are at risk because of an "activist ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court."
"Babies with heartbeats and who can feel pain have no legal protection in the state of Wisconsin where abortion through the fifth month is now the law of the land as dictated by four justices on the court," Pritchard said.
Bath described the court's activism as "legislating from the bench — an egregious violation of our constitutional system of separation of powers."
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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is coming under fire for his perceived anti-Trump coverage of the catastrophic flash floods that killed dozens in Texas on Saturday, reporting "significant staffing shortfalls" at federal weather stations.
During his "This Week" broadcast on Sunday, Stephanopoulos said to his correspondent Mireya Villarreal on the scene in Kerr County, Texas: "We're also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region."
Villarreal replied: "You know, George, as of right now, the local county officials really didn't want to address that just yet. What they are telling us is they expected between four and six inches of rain. That is what weather experts told them. The National Weather Service as well.
"They also knew that in remote locations, they might get anywhere from eight to ten inches. But this amount of rain, in such a short amount of time, it was very difficult to navigate. And when the Department of Homeland Security secretary was here just yesterday, she acknowledged this was an issue. She was going to take these concerns to the White House as well and try and see if there was anything they could do to revamp the system. She says the president is committed to it."
Cullen Linebarger at the Gateway Pundit noted of Stephanopoulos' staffing claim: "This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again."
According to the NBC-TV affiliate in Dallas, there were actually "extra staffers" on duty: "NWS Meteorologist Jason Runyen said the National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra staff on duty during the storms.
"Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during clear weather, they had up to five on staff.
"'There were extra people in here that night, and that's typical in every weather service office – you staff up for an event and bring people in on overtime and hold people over,' Runyen said."
Abigail Jackson, the White House deputy press secretary, blasted Stephanopoulos' claim as "absolute fake news," as she shared a news report from Wired, headlined: "Meteorologists say the National Weather Service did its job in Texas."
This is not the first time Stephanopoulos has been accused of major factual errors. In fact, ABC News was forced to pay President Trump $15 million last December after the anchor had claimed multiple times on air that Trump was "liable for rape" in former columnist E. Jean Carroll's case against the president.
During a March segment of his morning show, ABC's "This Week," Stephanopoulos got into a heated exchange with the Republican lawmaker, with Mace calling him out for "shaming her." At the time, Stephanopoulos questioned Mace about Trump being found liable for defamation and battery in Carroll's case against him, refusing to listen to Mace as she repeated that she was a victim of rape herself.
"You're idiots! Stephanopoulos is an idiot, and so are his producers," Megyn Kelly of SiriusXM Radio said at the time. "Because let me tell you, in all my years at Fox, never mind my short stint at NBC, the producers have a couple of main jobs. One is to arm the anchor with facts. Fail. OK, fail there. And two is to protect the anchor. You protect the anchor. So if the anchor is out there saying something colossally stupid, usually if you have a great producer, they'll get in your ear to say, 'No, it's this. No, it's that. Be careful.'"
Kelly added about Stephanopoulos: "He's been there a long time. It doesn't make him any more respectable. He's a partisan hack. He started off as a partisan hack, and he remains one. He's just too ballless to own his partisan nature, wants us to believe that he's straight and narrow now, notwithstanding all those years helping Bill Clinton."
The death toll from the flooding across Central Texas climbed Sunday to nearly 70.
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"President Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill delivers on the commonsense agenda that nearly 80 million Americans voted for – the largest middle-class tax cut in history, permanent border security, massive military funding, and restoring fiscal sanity," explained White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
"The pro-growth policies within this historic legislation are going to fuel an economic boom like we've never seen before. President Trump looks forward to signing the One Big, Beautiful Bill into law to officially usher in the Golden Age of America."
Her comments came minutes after the House of Representatives passed 218-214 the "One Big Beautiful Bill."
"Again and again, Democrats tried to block historic tax relief, increased border security, higher wages, an expanded Child Tax Credit, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security, savings accounts for newborns, and so much more — but again and again, President Trump and Republicans fought and won for the American people," the statement said.
Signing is scheduled for Friday.
A major provision is one that strips "forced taxpayer funding of the Big Abortion industry."
"Defunding the abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, marks the greatest pro-life victory since the Dobbs decision. For the first time in history, Congress is halting forced taxpayer funding of Big Abortion in the Medicaid program for one year. This will save lives and strip over $500 million from Big Abortion's coffers. Combined with last week's Supreme Court decision empowering states to do the same, this represents tremendous progress toward achieving a decades-long goal that has long proved elusive," said SBA Pro-Life America chief Marjorie Dannenfelser.
""For decades, Big Abortion has siphoned off billions in tax dollars to prop up a scandal-ridden industry built on abortion and partisan politics. Planned Parenthood alone commits over 400,000 abortions a year while services like cancer screenings continue to plummet — all while pocketing over $2 million every day from taxpayers."
"The American people should not have to continue subsidizing the abortion industry – and now, thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, they won't be," said Jennie Bradley Lichter, president of March for Life Action. "We joyfully anticipate President Trump signing this landmark legislation, which ensures that Americans' hard-earned tax dollars are not being used to prop up an industry whose business model is built on ending human lives, misleading pregnant women into thinking that abortion is their only option, and delivering substandard healthcare that they then charge to the government.
"For years the majority of Americans have said they reject this status quo. Women deserve better – America deserves better – and we thank President Trump, Speaker of the House Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader Thune, as well as all of the other pro-life champions in Congress who brought this bill across the finish line."
Carol Tobias, of National Right to Life, added, "We applaud pro-life members in Congress and pro-life leadership, including House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, for keeping their promises to the American people and delivering a bill that prevents taxpayer funds from subsidizing the abortion industry. For decades, Americans have made it clear that they do not want their tax dollars funding abortion. Today, Congress delivered.:"
Other organizations and groups had specific comments about how they are affected.
Consumer Energy Alliance President David Holt said, "This legislation unleashes affordable, reliable and cleaner energy for families and small businesses across the country, and gives the U.S. the edge in the global AI race by ensuring that always-on, reliable baseload power like nuclear and natural gas can be developed at speed and scale.
"Critically, this bill ensures offshore lease sales for Gulf of America and Alaska, which were intentionally delayed and drowned in red tape under the Biden Administration. That kept money out of the U.S. Treasury and Gulf States, and impeded the ability for companies to appropriately plan future energy development."
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said, of the "huge victory, "This legislation addresses many of the legislative priorities that President Trump promised to Americans during his campaign for President. Although the bill is not perfect, as none are, nor does it include several provisions of the original House version, I voted in favor of the largest tax cut in history, ending the Biden-era invasion of our southern border, and reducing wasteful and abusive spending of taxpayer dollars.
"Americans are tired of having a government that they are afraid of, and want a government they can be proud of. This Reconciliation package scales back the size and scope of federal agencies, cuts red-tape, brings more accountability, and cuts fraud, waste, and abuse. This bill is a good start, but Congress still has a lot of work to do; as we must continue to move back to a government that is small in size, limited in scope, and dedicated to preserving the rights and liberties of the American people.
"Last November, voters gave the President and Congress an unprecedented mandate to govern, and to tackle the very challenges that this bill addresses. With this historic legislation, Americans will be keeping more of their hard-earned money and paying less for food and fuel, while enjoying a level of safety not seen in years, as our southern border becomes more secure. With President Trump's signature, the Big, Beautiful, Bill will usher in the Golden Age of America and put our great country back on the path to prosperity."
Article III Project founder Mike Davis said, "This is an historic and monumental victory for President Trump—and real Americans in real America. And a major loss for Trump's opponents and doubters. Trump sealed his standing as one of America's most consequential presidents. And his second term is just getting started."
Democrats and other leftists universally blasted it.
"This is a direct attack on the health and well-being of low-income individuals and families," said Mara Youdelman of the National Health Law Program. "The bill cuts nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid. It will force states to slash eligibility and services, causing individuals to lose coverage and communities to lose the providers they depend on. And all of this is done to fund tax breaks for corporations and the ultrarich."
Joseph Geevarghese, of Our Revolution, organized originally by leftist Bernie Sanders, claimed, "Republicans have passed the most dangerous legislation of our lifetimes. This bill hands billionaires and corporations a trillion-dollar tax break, paid for by ripping health care from 17 million people, gutting funding for rural hospitals, slashing clean energy investments, and cutting food assistance for millions of children."
He charged it is the "largest transfer of wealth from working- and middle-class Americans to the ultra-wealthy in our nation's history."
The National Nurses United union went to extremes, claiming, "Lawmakers have effectively signed the death warrants for millions today. It will steal money from safety-net community hospitals and reproductive health care clinics, like Planned Parenthood. It will kick people off their health insurance. It will effectively punish people for getting sick or injured, making us all sicker and less healthy."
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At least partly because of the exhaustive promotions of transgenderism during Joe Biden's term in the White House, the fight over boys in girls sports and men in women's showers right now is white hot.
Lawsuit abound, confrontations happen regularly and fullscale battles are erupting over tax money being used for the unscientific ideology, as being male or female is embedded in the human body at the DNA level, and does not change.
Activists claim that boys who say they are girls have every right to be in competitions set up for girls because they believe they are girls, in apparent defiance of federal laws that require fairness for girls and women with their own events and President Donald Trump's order that the U.S. government recognizes two genders, male and female.
Some states, like Colorado, have gone so far into the agenda that officials discussed taking away the rights of parents who don't support children who may be coached by leftist teachers and counselors into the ideologies.
Now the Supreme Court is stepping in.
It has agreed to hear arguments in two cases in which extremists are seeking to overturn state laws that protect girls and women in their sports.
"Women and girls have overcome decades of discrimination to achieve a more equal playing field in many arenas of American life – including sports," explains a petition from the state of Idaho, which is in one of the cases.
"Yet in some competitions, female athletes have become bystanders in their own sports as male athletes who identify as female have taken the place of their female competitors – on the field and on the winners' podium."
In a stunning development that happened in just the past few days, the University of Pennsylvania signaled its own defeat in its transgender agenda.
The school has confirmed it is issuing apologies to women it forced to compete alongside a male swimmer, William "Lia" Thomas, and change with him in locker and shower rooms.
It further is removing the "wins" Thomas recorded in competition, and moving those who female swimmers who were in second place as a result.
The government also announced Tuesday that Penn is adopting strict definitions for male and female competitors under White House guidelines.
It happened after the Trump administration suspended $175 million in federal funding to the school, giving university officials an incentive to reach a resolution.
The Supreme Court will hear cases from West Virginia and Idaho.
West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey asked the court to hear a case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled against the state regarding its law protecting fairness in women's sports. And Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador is asking the high court to uphold his state's Fairness in Women's Sports Act after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stopped the law from going into effect.
"McCluskey said, "It's a great day, as female athletes in West Virginia will have their voices heard. The people of West Virginia know that it's unfair to let male athletes compete against women; that's why we passed this commonsense law preserving women's sports for women. We are confident the Supreme Court will uphold the Save Women's Sports Act because it complies with the U.S. Constitution and complies with Title IX. And most importantly: It protects women and girls by ensuring the playing field is safe and fair."
Labrador said, "Idaho's women and girls deserve an equal playing field. I am thrilled the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case. For too long, activists have worked to sideline women and girls in their own sports. Men and women are biologically different, and we hope the court will allow states to end this injustice and ensure men no longer create a dangerous, unfair environment for women to showcase their incredible talent and pursue the equal opportunities they deserve."
Kristen Waggoner, of the ADF, which is working with the states, said, "Women and girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. But activists continue their quest to erase differences between men and women by forcing schools to allow men to compete in women's sports
"This contradicts biological reality and common sense. We should be seeking to protect women's sports and equal opportunities, and West Virginia's and Idaho's women's sports laws accomplish just that."
The laws simply say males are not allowed in sports for females.
Just weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Tennessee was allowed to ban minors from receiving "treatments," for transgenderism, including chemicals and body-mutilating surgeries.
In Idaho, two men sued to be allowed into women's sports. In West Virginia, a parent sued on behalf of a male child being allowed in girls sports.
An eventual ruling will have vast impact on dozens of states where transgender activists have demanded to have their way with the state laws regarding access to sports.
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A payment of an immediate $16 million plus another sum that is expected to push the total well beyond $30 million will be made by Paramount Global and CBS to President Donald Trump to settle his lawsuit charging the broadcast corporation with election interference.
What happened was CBS substituted a coherent answer from another part of the interview for a rambling, incoherent rant delivered by Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris during an interview during the heat of the 2024 campaign.
A report from Fox News said the $16 million will cover legal fees, costs of the case and contributions to a future presidential library, or charitable cause, to be determined by Trump alone.
"There is an anticipation that there will be another allocation in the mid-eight figures set aside for advertisements, public service announcements, or other similar transmissions, in support of conservative causes by the network in the future, Fox News Digital has learned. With these considerations, CBS would pay well in excess of the $15 million ABC paid Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit last year. Current Paramount management disputes the additional allocation."
Further, the report said, CBS will update its editorial standards to include a new rule: the prompt release of full, unedited transcripts of future presidential candidates' interviews," what has been referred to as the "Trump Rule."
Trump's legal action had demanded $20 billion over the election interference inflicted on his campaign by "60 Minutes."
"With this record settlement, President Donald J. Trump delivers another win for the American people as he, once again, holds the Fake News media accountable for their wrongdoing and deceit. CBS and Paramount Global realized the strength of this historic case and had no choice but to settle. President Trump will always ensure that no one gets away with lying to the American People as he continues on his singular mission to Make America Great Again," an official with Trump's legal said told Fox.
The report said CBS "is not acknowledging any journalistic wrongdoing."
"The settlement will include a release of all claims regarding any CBS reporting through the date of the settlement, including the Texas action and the threatened defamation action," Paramount confirmed.
It was Bill Whitaker who asked Harris why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn't "listening" to the Biden-Harris regime. When the clip first aired, Harris was widely mocked for a "word salad," often nonsensical rants for which she has become well-known.
Later, on primetime, her answer was different, and more concise.
Critics charged CBS with trying to help Harris in the election by shielding her from her own statements.
Fox reported, "It was widely believed that Paramount Global controlling shareholder Shari Redstone wanted to settle the suit ahead of a planned multi-billion-dollar merger with Skydance Media in hopes of preventing potential retribution by Trump's FCC, which has the authority to halt the transaction."
Trump, earlier, said, "They cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena. Kamala Harris, during Early Voting and, immediately before Election Day, was asked a question, and gave an answer, that was so bad and incompetent that it would have cost her many of the Votes that she ended up getting."
The FCC also was looking into whether CBS News violated the commission's "news distortion" policy.
ABC also settled a defamation lawsuit in December with then-President-elect Trump for $15 million, for a incident when George Stephanopoulos repeatedly and incorrectly asserted Trump had been found "liable for rape" in a civil trial last year. ABC additionally paid $1 million for President Trump's legal fees.