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Le Pen’s National Rally Sends Shockwaves
Through France After Electoral Breakthrough

France’s right wing party National Rally (RN) scored a historic success in legislative elections on Sunday increasing its number of lawmakers almost tenfold and cementing the party’s rise from fringe status to the mainstream opposition.
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On Sunday, Le Pen saw that support go one step further. According to estimates, Le Pen’s party will win between 85-90 seats, up from just two in 2012 and eight in 2017, which could make it the second-largest party in parliament. Major pollsters last week estimated just 25-50 seats.
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While in terms of seats Le Pen’s party will be behind the left wing grouping, it will enable the RN to have much more weighting in parliament.

It will, for example, be able to put forward no-confidence votes against the government, send draft legislation to France’s top constitutional courts, lead parliamentary commissions and have much more speaking time in the National Assembly.

 This means a serious threat to Macron's aspirations indeed.

Texas GOP Passes Resolution Declaring Biden ‘Not Legitimately Elected’

“We believe that substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected the results in five key states in favor of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr,” the resolution continued.

“We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States,” it added.

The state’s GOP, the largest in the nation, passed the resolution after delegates sat through a Thursday screening of “2000 Mules,” a documentary directed by conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza.

GOP: the Republican Party.

Colombia elects former rebel Gustavo Petro
to become country's first leftist president

Petro had garnered 50.47% of the votes to Hernandez's 47.25% on Sunday evening, according to preliminary results released by election authorities.
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The former guerilla's victory is a sign of rising discontent in Colombia and the rest of Latin America, as it comes after Chile, Peru, and Honduras elected leftist presidents in 2021.
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Petro, who was jailed in the 1980s for his involvement in the defunct M-19 movement, promised a suite of economic reforms during his campaign, including higher taxes, more government spending, and changes to the country's pension system.

Petro is a senator and former mayor of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia.

Washington, DC shooting: Teenager killed, 3 adults
including police officer injured

A shooting in Washington D.C. on Sunday has left one person dead and several others injured, including one police officer.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News that four people were shot at a Moechella event, including one police officer, who did not return fire at the crowded area.

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee III said later the victims included a 15-year-old, who was pronounced dead at the scene, two adults, and the officer.
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MPD confirms that a juvenile male who was shot at U ST NW did not survive and is now deceased. An MPD officer who was shot is recovering. Another two individuals suffering gun shot wounds are also recovering.

 That shooter should have known better. Now he's paid his debt with his own life.

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Male blood donor who refused to say if he was pregnant turned away

Leslie Sinclair, 66, who is a retired driver for an engineering company, is a committed donor who has given 125 pints of blood in the last five decades.

However, on his most recent trip to the Albert Halls clinic in Stirling, Scotland, he was barred from donating after he said it was unnecessary for him to answer a question on a form asking if he was pregnant as he is a man in his 60s, MailOnline report.

Staff at the clinic said they could not accept his blood unless he provided a response, arguing that it is not always clear if someone is pregnant and the policy is in place to "promote inclusiveness".
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The father of two said he had been giving blood since he was 18 and had never had any issues before.

 They gotta be a bunch of real morons if they even need to ask him if he is pregnant!
Who cares about inclusiveness? He was there just to donate blood just in case a patient needs a transfusion. That patient won't ever ask him anything like that, he or she simply wants to survive.
Biology is a science, it shouldn't be disregarded just as that hospital staff has been doing as of late.
They should have NEVER politicized blood donations at all!

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade Abortion Precedent

By a vote of 6–3 on June 24, the Supreme Court formally overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent which struck down a swath of federal and state laws restricting abortion and largely legalized the procedure nationwide.

The 116-page ruling also reversed the 1992 companion precedent known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which held that states can’t impose significant restrictions on abortion before a fetus becomes viable for life outside the womb.
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For the first 185 years after the U.S. Constitution was adopted, “each state was permitted to address this issue in accordance with the views of its citizens,” but then in 1973 the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Despite the fact that the Constitution does not mention abortion, the court found that “it confers a broad right to obtain one.”

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Chinese Diplomat Says China Is ‘Ready’ to Supply Aircraft Parts to Russia

“We are ready to supply components to Russia; we are organizing such cooperation,” Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui told Russian news agency TASS.

“[Airlines] are currently addressing [it], they have certain channels, there are no restrictions from the Chinese side,” the diplomat added.

Zhang didn’t provide further information on those “certain channels.”

It’s noteworthy that Zhang’s remarks weren’t published on any Chinese official media. Chinese news portal NetEase was the only media that covered the story, but it was removed soon after it was published.

Biden: G-7 Countries Will Ban Russian Gold in Response to Ukraine War

“The United States has imposed unprecedented costs on Putin to deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war against Ukraine,” Biden said. “Together, the G-7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia.”

A formal announcement is scheduled for June 28, according to the White House.

Biden and other world leaders were meeting on the summit’s opening day to discuss how to secure energy supplies and tackle inflation, aiming to keep the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from splintering the global coalition working to punish Moscow.

Ghislaine Maxwell Placed on Suicide Watch

In a June 25 letter to Judge Alison Nathan, one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense attorneys, Bobbi Sternheim, informed the court that Maxwell was placed on suicide watch yesterday by the Manhattan Detention Center (MDC), and that this “recent development” may “require postponement of Tuesday’s sentencing proceeding.”

Sternheim went on to write, “[Maxwell] is not permitted to possess and review legal documents and is not permitted paper or pen. This has prevented her from preparing for sentencing.”

The attorney stated that this was done “without having conducted a psychological evaluation and without justification.”

She went on to say, “Ms. Maxwell was abruptly removed from general population and returned to solitary confinement, this time without any clothing, toothpaste, soap, legal papers, etc. She was provided a ′suicide smock′ and is given a few sheets of toilet paper on request. This morning, a psychologist evaluated Ms. Maxwell and determined she is not suicidal.”

Are they gonna tell us later on that she might take her on life while surveillance cameras suspiciously go offline?

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Boris Johnson quits as UK prime minister
dragged down by scandals

Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would stay on until his successor was chosen.

Bowing to the inevitable as more than 50 government ministers and aides quit and lawmakers said he must go, an isolated and powerless Johnson said it was clear his party wanted someone else in charge, but that his forced departure was "eccentric" and the result of "herd instinct" in parliament.
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A snap YouGov poll found that defence minister Ben Wallace was the favourite among Conservative Party members to replace Johnson, followed by junior trade minister Penny Mordaunt and former finance minister Rishi Sunak.

Conservative lawmaker Tom Tugendhat, chairman of parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said on Thursday he planned to run in the leadership contest.

James Caan, ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Elf’ and ‘Misery’ star, dead at 82

James Caan, the Bronx-born, Queens-raised actor who starred in “The Godfather,” “Elf,” “Brian’s Song,” “El Dorado” and “Misery,” among countless other films, has died. He was 82.

“It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Jimmy on the evening of July 6. The family appreciates the outpouring of love and heartfelt condolences and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time,” a statement on his official Twitter account read.

No cause of death was given.

Caan, who was best known for playing Santino “Sonny” Corleone, the older brother to Al Pacino’s Michael, reflected on the iconic Francis Ford Coppola film for its 50th anniversary earlier this year.

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Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, killed at age 67 in shooting attack as he delivered campaign speech

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IRAN SET TO DELIVER ARMED DRONES TO HELP RUSSIA'S WAR IN UKRAINE,
WHITE HOUSE SAYS

“Our information indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to provide Russia with up to several hundred UAVs, including weapons-capable UAVs,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.

Later on Iran made some comments on that claim. By the way, Putin will be travelling to Iran next week...

IRAN SAYS NO 'RECENT' DEAL TO SEND RUSSIA DRONES
AS IT AWAITS PUTIN VISIT

Iran has responded to U.S. allegations that Tehran was poised to send armed, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia amid Moscow's war in Ukraine, saying that although no recent arrangements had been worked out, longstanding cooperation between the two countries remains intact.

The Kremlin announced on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would travel to Tehran next week.

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Tech Company CEO Charged in Decades-Old Murder of California Woman

A tech company executive was arrested in New York over the weekend in connection with the 30-year-old homicide cold case of Laurie Houts, according to prosecutors.

John Kevin Woodward, 58, the chief executive officer of the online training company ReadyTech, was taken into custody on July 9 at John F. Kennedy airport after arriving from Amsterdam, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said in a July 11 press release.

Woodward has been charged with the 1992 strangulation murder of his roommate’s 25-year-old girlfriend, Houts, the DA’s office confirmed. A recent breakthrough in DNA enabled police to arrest the CEO. If convicted, Woodward faces life in prison.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Refuses to Go, Country’s Crisis Deepens

Fury exploded onto the streets of Sri Lanka’s capital on July 13 following the failure of the country’s leadership to honour an agreement for the president and prime minister to relinquish their positions.

The official resignations of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe occurred, but then were backtracked on.

Rajapaksa, his wife, and two bodyguards chose to flee the island nation’s capital city of Colombo for the Maldives early on July 13, leaving Wickremesinghe in charge as the interim president amid an escalating economic and civilian crisis.

Protesters responded en masse to this decision by storming the office of Wickremesinghe, demanding that he also vacate his post.
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After taking charge, Wickremesinghe promptly declared a state of emergency, which he rescinded hours later.
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Wickremesinghe then declared a nationwide curfew until the morning of July 14 in a desperate bid to stem the tidal wave of unrest within the capital.

Ex-CIA Engineer Convicted in Massive Theft of Secret Info

A former CIA software engineer was convicted Wednesday of federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.

Joshua Schulte, who chose to defend himself at a New York City retrial, had told jurors in closing arguments that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for an embarrassing public release of a trove of CIA secrets by WikiLeaks in 2017.

Schulte watched without visibly reacting as U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman announced the guilty verdict on nine counts, which was reached in mid-afternoon by a jury that had deliberated since Friday.

The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

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NO EVIDENCE HORSEBACK BORDER AGENTS
WHIPPED HAITAN AGENTS

Yet the agents will still be disciplined for last September's incident

This news has yet to be announced on CNN, MSNBC, or other mainstream outlets. But the head of Customs and Border Protection stated this Friday that there was no evidence that the Border Patrol struck any Haitian migrant with their reins or used whips in Del Rio Texas. This announcement completely rebukes the false claims of President Biden and other top Democrats who villified Border agents.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned what she stated was the inappropriate use of what appeared to be whips. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decried the use of whips. And both President Biden and Vice President Harris promoted the false claims - which infuriated the Border agents.

The moment he made that statement, the moment he said that those agents would pay, the moment he convicted those agents without any evidence, without any investigation, there could be no doubt in anybody's mind that these investigators were going to come back with some sort of charge against the agents. They had no choice.

While the core of the complaints against border agents was found to be false, the agency's office found various infractions... way different than what President Biden made claim. Such was the use of denigrating and offensive language against migrants, one agent maneuvering a horse around a child in an unsafe manner, and claims of using unnecessary force to drive migrants back.

After the announcement of the charges, Republicans slammed the CBP claiming the accusations for the disciplinary action was a desperate attempt by the Biden administration save face and justify their initial condemnation of the agents.

Months ago, these agents were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing by DHS’ Office of the Inspector General and the [OPR] through investigations. Border Patrol agents are leaving in record numbers and experiencing devastating impacts on their mental health as a result of the Biden Border Crisis. This is not what they signed up for. Our Border Patrol agents deserve better than this. Full stop.

They were actively CLEARED BACK IN APRIL... but it's clear that matters not. Biden promised they'd be disciplined, period.

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Antifa Summer Camp in Portland Teaches Anarchy to Children

A summer camp in Portland, Oregon, is offering children the opportunity to become budding social justice warriors (SJW) while “reflecting on white supremacy” and learning Black Lives Matter (BLM) chants about putting “killer cops in jail.”

The Budding Roses camp in August for fourth through eighth graders is a project of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation, a political organization promoting the tenets of anarchy that some would argue led to the Portland riots of 2020.