German authorities reportedly detained climate change activist Greta Thunberg over the weekend at the site of a coal mine expansion project that will raze the village of Lützerath. Footage from the weekend showed police forcibly removing Thunberg and other activists from the site. https://twitter.com/Dzienus/status/1614350235932790786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1614350235932790786%7Ctwgr%5Ed6f63596942fdcce9b1cb73a4686468d7a129cbb%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanewsnation.com%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fgreta-thunberg-arrested-during-violent-far-left-climate-protest%2F ALN-affiliate America News Nation reported on the controversy involving Lützerath: For more than two years, climate activists have been squatting in the village in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia to oppose its destruction to make way for an enlargement of the Garzweiler coal mine. On Saturday, Thunberg joined them, addressing a massive crowd in the…
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A car hit Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., and her husband as the couple crossed the street in a crosswalk in Portland, Oregon. Bonamici received a concussion and a laceration to her head. Bonamici’s communications director, Natalie Crofts, shared the news on Saturday. Crofts added that the representative’s husband was treated for minor injuries. Health care professionals expect Bonamici to make a full recovery. She’s not expected to attend public events while she recuperates. CNN further reports: Bonamici was first elected to the House in 2012 after winning a special election to succeed Democrat David Wu, who resigned following allegations he made…
The Trump Organization has received the maximum financial penalty under the law for evading taxes. A New York judge ordered the former president’s family business to pay a $1.61 million penalty Friday morning, following its December conviction for running a 15-year tax fraud scheme carried out by its executives. (RELATED: Longtime Trump Org CFO Heads to Rikers Island) New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) praised the decision, saying it proves “that no one is above the law, not even Donald Trump or his business.” https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1613917572017143811 Per The New York Times: The sentence, handed down by a judge in State…
Multiple outlets have reported tonight that Biden aides discovered a second trove of classified documents from the days of the Obama White House. The newly disclosed documents were in Biden’s possession at a separate location from the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Per Fox News: A source told NBC News, which first reported the development, that aides to Biden have been searching for additional documents that contained classified material in other locations that may have been used by the president. The development comes after a separate batch of classified documents were recovered from Biden’s private office located at the…
The U.S. Army has released training materials to help soldiers adjust to using open bay showers alongside transgender service members of a different assigned sex at birth who haven’t undergone sex reassignment surgery. There are other scenarios outlined in the Army’s new training, as explained by The Daily Caller. Among them include the appropriate responses when a soldier reveals he’s pregnant. “Understand that Soldiers who have transitioned gender may remain susceptible to medical conditions associated with their birth gender,” the materials state. The Daily Caller’s Micaela Burrow has more on the new Department of Defense (DOD) guidance: President Joe Biden restored an…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is lifting a nationwide ground stop on domestic flights. A widespread computer outage kept commercial pilots from receiving flight and safety updates. FAA technicians had restored the Notice to Air Missions System by 9 a.m. ET, and some flights have resumed. The Department of Transportation is conducting a full-scale investigation. Officials say “there is no evidence of a cyberattack at this point.” As Fox News reports: At 8 a.m. Eastern, there were more than 2,500 delayed flights within, into or out of the United States, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, exceeding the number…
Allen Weisselberg has learned his fate after pleading guilty to tax fraud charges during his tenure as the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer. Weisselberg, 75, admitted to helping the Trump family business avoid paying taxes for 15 years by failing to report and pay taxes on compensation for top executives. He will spend the next five months in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island penitentiary. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1612897621563117574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1612897621563117574%7Ctwgr%5Ebb43031b1f607eb14d8c3ca1ca2f9c6bea82b768%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Famericasnewsdesk.com%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fformer-trump-cfo-sentenced-to-five-months-in-prison%2F ABC News has more: A Manhattan jury found the Trump Organization guilty last month of criminal tax fraud for paying the personal expenses of some executives without reporting them as income, and of compensating them as independent contractors…
After members of the House Freedom Caucus pushed his speakership bid to the brink, more moderate Republicans have begun scrutinizing Kevin McCarthy. Specifically, they’re demanding more details about the rules package deal the speaker struck with his detractors. At least several Republican fear McCarthy ceded far too much power to the so-called hardliners in his caucus. The Washington Times explains: Some Republicans in Mr. McCarthy’s slim majority could balk at ambiguous details of his concessions to members of the conservative Freedom Caucus unless more of the backroom negotiations are brought to light. Among the deals that are known is a…
ICYMI, the Justice Department admitted the quiet part out loud. That’s not according to a conservative government watchdog but Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. In a speech celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Gupta said the decision to controversially prosecute pro-life activists through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act came as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Gupta called the decision a “devastating blow to women throughout the country” that increased the urgency of the DOJ’s work “to ensure continued lawful access to reproductive services.” The…
Abortion rights activists have scored a significant victory in deep red South Carolina. In a 3-2 decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court struck down the Palmetto State’s six-week abortion ban, saying it didn’t give women sufficient time to obtain an abortion and violated the right to privacy. The ruling means that the deliberate termination of pregnancy is protected up to 20 weeks gestation under the state’s Constitution. As Fox News reports: Writing for the majority, Justice Kaye Hearn said, “We hold that the decision to terminate a pregnancy rests upon the utmost personal and private considerations imaginable, and implicates a…