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Joe Biden Signs Bill Potentially Banning TikTok, Bundled with Ukraine-Israel Aid

President Joe BidenΒ signed into law WednesdayΒ a $95 billion war aid measureΒ that includes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that also includes a provision that would force social media site TikTok to be sold or be banned in U.S.

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Biden campaign to stay on TikTok even after president signs law to force sale or ban app in US

The Biden campaign will stay on TikTok, even after President Biden signed a bill into law that would force its China-based parent company to sell the video sharing social media platform or face a ban in the United States, Fox News has learned.

Poll: Only 21% of Voters 'Strongly' Approve of Biden, 49% 'Strongly' Disapprove

Only 21 percent of voters "strongly" approved of President Joe Biden, while 49 percent "strongly" disapproved, a recent Rasmussen poll found, raising reelection concerns for the president.

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TikTok Faces U.S. Ban as Bill Set to Be Signed by Biden

By: Simon Kent Β·Β Simon Kent

The U.S. Senate approved a bill late Tuesday night that could see TikTok banned in America over national security fears.

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Biden mocked for admitting 'we can't be trusted' in latest gaffe: 'Agreed, Joe'

President Biden accidentally suggested that his administration, rather than Donald Trump, can’t be trusted during a rally in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday.

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George Conway: I'm Donating $929,600 to Biden Because Trump Is a 'Threat to Democracy'

By: Pam Key Β·Β Pam Key

Attorney George Conway said Tuesday on CNN's "Out Front" that he was donating $929,600 to President Joe Biden's reelection campaign becauseΒ former President Donald Trump is a "threat to democracy."

The post George Conway: I’m Donating $929,600 to Biden Because Trump Is a β€˜Threat to Democracy’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Israel Sends Lawmakers to Visit Taiwan as China Champions Hamas

An Israeli parliamentary delegation visited Taiwan last week, led by Boaz Toporovsky, a sitting member of the Israeli Knesset and chairman of the Taiwan-Israel Friendship Group.

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Republican Senators Demand Biden Officials 'Protect Jewish Students,' 'Restore Order' at Colleges

Most Republican senators are demanding federal law enforcement and the Department of Education β€œact immediately to restore order” on college campuses where anti-Israel and antisemitic protests have broken out, especially at Columbia University.

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Judge Juan Merchan’s β€˜Manifestly Unfair’ Gag Order on Trump Comes Under Serious Legal Scrutiny

New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan could fine former President Donald Trump up to $11,000 for violating a gag order that his legal team argues prevents him from defending himself publicly in a case where a Democrat district attorney is seeking to put him in jail.

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Exclusive: Trump Campaign Rips Biden for Morehouse College Address in Same Atlanta Neighborhood as Chick-Fil-A Visit

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is lighting up President Joe Biden for only accepting an invitation to give the commencement address at Atlanta’s Morehouse College because it’s in the same neighborhood Trump visited when he made an iconic stop at a Chick-fil-A recently.

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Mark Hamill: β€˜Biden Is the Best President We've Ever Had'

By: Paul Bois Β·Β Paul Bois

Mark Hamill came out swinging for Joe Biden this week by declaring him the "best president we've ever had."

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NBC News Poll: Trump More 'Competent' than Biden, Lifts 21 Points Since 2020Β 

Former President Donald Trump is more "competent" and "effective" than President Joe Biden, up about 21 points since 2020, an NBC News poll reveals.

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Report: Mike Johnson Apologized to Joe Biden for Eye Rolls During SOTU

House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly apologized to President Joe Biden for rolling his eyes at the president's angry SOTU address in March.

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Qatar Says It Will Host Hamas as Long as It Is 'Useful and Positive' to Do So

The Islamist government of Qatar confirmed on Tuesday that it is open to continuing to host the leadership of the jihadist terror organization Hamas as long as doing so is "useful and positive."

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Biden Faces Uncommitted Ballot Test in Pennsylvania Democrat Primary

President Joe Biden faces another uncommitted ballot test Tuesday in Pennsylvania as more than 500,000 voters, including in other key swing states have already cast protest votes against him in Democrat nominating contests across the country.

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Mayorkas to Reporter Asking About Action on Border: 'What Executive Action Are You Suggesting That We Take'?

During a portion of an interview with NBC News aired on Monday’s β€œNBC Nightly News,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a question on why President Joe Biden hasn’t taken executive action on the border by saying,Β β€œWhat executive action

The post Mayorkas to Reporter Asking About Action on Border: β€˜What Executive Action Are You Suggesting That We Take’? appeared first on Breitbart.

PAC Using Music, Culture to Target New Voters for Trump

A hybrid political action committee (PAC), focused on messaging through music and culture, is launching to target groups of Americans previously chilly to the Republican Party and get them to vote for Donald Trump for president.

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These 2 States Are Poised to Scrap Fractured Electoral College Systemβ€”in Different Ways

The only two states that apportion Electoral College votes in presidential races by congressional district are poised to scrap what makes them unique.Β 

In these systems, presidential candidates get one electoral vote for each congressional district they win in the state. Unlike in other states, the Democratic, Republican, and other party candidates could end up splitting a state’s electoral votes among them.

The usually blue Maine and generally red Nebraska each had one battleground congressional district that would sometimes draw presidential candidates.

But the Maine Legislature moved to give its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular voteβ€”regardless of who carries the state.Β 

Nebraska lawmakers are considering becoming like 48 other states with winner-take-all elections, meaning the candidate who captures the majority of the state’s popular vote takes all of the state’s electoral votes. Nebraska’s changeβ€”if adoptedβ€”would affect the 2024 presidential election, while the Maine change likely wouldn’t.

Last week, Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced she would let a bill making Maine the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact become law without her signature after it narrowly passed the state Legislature.Β 

Maine Joins National Popular Vote Compact https://t.co/e6tvfYRH6H via @democracynow

β€” NationalPopularVote (@NatlPopularVote) April 21, 2024

Under the multistate compact, Maine agrees to give its four electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote. The states that make up the compact thus far represent a combined 209 electoral votes. Those votes will only activate when the compact reaches the required 270 electoral votes needed to elect a president.Β 

Meanwhile, Nebraska’s Republican Gov. Jim Pillen is considering calling a special session of the state Legislature, which already adjourned on April 18, to adopt a winner-take-all system for the state’s five electoral votes.Β 

Pillen said he would only call a special session β€œwhen there is sufficient support in the Legislature to pass it.”

Prominent conservative commentators such as Charlie Kirk and Mark Levin have supported the change in Nebraska.

JUST INβ€”The Great One, Mark Levin, gets behind turning Nebraska into a winner-take-all electoral college state.

The coalition is growing. Listen to @marklevinshow break down why this is critical ahead of November? pic.twitter.com/97PbsKAp3P

β€” Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 9, 2024

Maine enacted its rule to divide its electoral votes by congressional district ahead of the 1972 election. It took another 20 years for Nebraska to follow suit, which it did ahead of the 1992 election.Β 

However, split votes have been rare.

The first time Nebraska had a split came when Democrat Barack Obama won the swing Nebraska district in the Omaha area in the 2008 election, the first time since 1964 that a Democrat won an electoral vote in the state.Β 

In 2016, Republican Donald Trump won Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, which includes most of the state outside of Portland or Augusta, netting one electoral vote from the state. He was the first Republican since 1988 to win a Maine electoral vote.Β 

In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden captured Nebraska’s 3rd Congressional District and its electoral vote.

The post These 2 States Are Poised to Scrap Fractured Electoral College Systemβ€”in Different Ways appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Democrat Adviser: Two Reasons Biden Faces 'Tougher' Electoral College Path to 270

President Joe Biden faces a much "tougher" path than his opponent to obtain the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidential election,Β longtime Democrat adviser Doug Sosnik wrote in the New York Times.

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Dershowitz: Biden Made 'Same Kind of Moral Equivalence He Complained About in Charlottesville,' He Wants Mob's Vote

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s β€œHannity,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz stated that President Joe Biden’s response to antisemitism on college campuses is β€œthe same kind of moral equivalence he complained about in Charlottesville,” and won’t

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Joe Biden Condemns 'Antisemitic Protests', Also People 'Who Don't Understand' Issue 'with the Palestinians'

President Joe Biden condemned "antisemitic protests" happening on college campuses, while attempting to see the perspective of Palestinians, during an Earth Day event on Monday held at Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia.

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Biden Sees Very Fine People on Both Sides of Campus Antisemitism

President Joe Biden condemned antisemitism on college campuses on Monday -- but equivocated, saying that he also condemned those who did not understand the Palestinians' point of view.

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Report: Joe Biden β€˜Winner’ of 118th Congress After Steamrolling Speaker JohnsonΒ 

Biden's steamroll of Johnson is a sore reminder of how Republicans often decline to use their capacity to push conservative policies popular with the base, perhaps fearing they will lose reelection. Democrats, in contrast, often use their power withoutΒ qualms.Β 

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Nolte: Bidenomics Drives House Prices to Another Record High

By: John Nolte Β·Β John Nolte

The already insane cost of purchasing a home has hit a new high, thanks to the ongoing horror show that is Bidenomics.

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Michael Douglas on Biden’s Mental Acuity: People Say He’s Sharp as a Tack

By: Pam Key Β·Β Pam Key

Actor Michael Douglas said Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that people say President Joe Biden is as "sharp as a tack" while discussing the president's age.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Plans for You to Not See Donald Trump on Platforms Before Election

In a significant shift from its previous approach to elections, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is distancing itself from politics, which could have a profound impact on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. An analysis of posts by the Trump and Biden campaigns show both have faced a 60 percent drop in engagement between 2020 and 2024 on Facebook.

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Papua New Guinea PM Angrily Slams Joe Biden over β€˜Cannibals’ Claim

By: Simon Kent Β·Β Simon Kent

U.S. President Joe Biden's claimΒ his uncle β€” an American World War II pilot β€” had been eaten by β€œcannibals” in Papua New Guinea after crashing on the Melanesia island chain was firmly rejected Sunday byΒ Prime Minister James Marape.

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Top Faith Leaders, Conservatives Gather to Reject Biden’s Failed Two-State β€˜Solution’ for Israel

As President Joe Biden and his Democratic colleagues continue to undermine the U.S.’ longtime strategic alliance with Israel, a recent event saw top faith leaders, Republican lawmakers, and conservatives gather to underscore a unified stance against the failed two-state solution, while promoting the idea of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as integral to Israel, grounded in a religious and political opposition to Palestinian statehood.

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Palestinian Ruling Party Admits: Hamas Steals Aid, Kills Aid Workers in Gaza

Fatah, the "moderate" ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, has admitted on live television that Hamas steals humanitarian aid and kills aid workers in the Gaza Strip.

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Pritzker: Not Sure if Biden Should Debate Trump Who 'Lies and Lies and Lies'

By: Pam Key Β·Β Pam Key

Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he was concerned about a presidential debate because former President Donald Trump "lies and lies and lies."

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Exclusive: 700 Chinese Migrants Apprehended at California Border in One Week

An unofficial report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection reviewed by Breitbart Texas revealed that nearly 700 migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were apprehended entering the San Diego region in the third week of April. Β Since the fiscal year began in October, more than 26,000 migrants from the PRC have been apprehended.

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Analyst: Biden, Blinken Endanger U.S. Soldiers with Sanctions on IDF Troops

The Biden administration's reported decision to sanction a religious unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for alleged past human rights abuses will come back to haunt the U.S. as other countries do the same to American units.

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Alexander Vindman Celebrates Sending Ukraine $60B in Aid from House Floor

Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer and Army officer who sparked the impeachment of former President Donald Trump over Ukraine aid, celebrated Congress's passage of a bill to send $60 billion more to Ukraine on Saturday.

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EXCLUSIVE: She Survived a Death Camp. Facing Biden DOJ Charges, She Is Prepared to Die in Prison

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNALβ€”Eva Edl turned 10 years old in a World War II-era death camp.

She believes she may die in a United States prison.

Charged by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, Edl faces up to 11 years in prison and $350,000 fines. She is about to turn 89 years old.

β€œWhen I was indicted, I began to prepare to die there,” she said thoughtfully in a phone interview with The Daily Signal. β€œRight now, I am ambivalent. … I’m doing the best I can to get ready. Haven’t talked to a funeral director yet.”

β€œI’m just being sensible,” she added. β€œThere’s no guarantee that I survive it.”

Drawing on her brutal experiences with communism in what was then Yugoslavia, she refuses to underestimate those who have the power to oppress her, recalling how her mother couldn’t believe they were in danger until it was too late.

β€œWe haven’t done anything wrong! Who would harm us?” she remembered her mother saying.

β€œThen our whole people was destroyed,” Edl said. β€œWe hadn’t done anything wrong, as far as I know.”

As Danube Swabians, an ethnic German-speaking group, Edl and her family were rounded up in the aftermath of World War II by soldiers under the direction of Yugoslavia’s communist leader, Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito.

The cover of a book by Leopold Rohrbacher describes the eradication of the Danube Swabians. β€œA People Eliminated: The Extermination of Danube Swabians in Yugoslavia.” Edl says: β€œThe two pictures on the cover are the only two photographs we have. We were not liberated by any army, which would have been able to document the atrocities. The picture of the little girl was taken in Austria after her grandmother was able to escape with her. The little girl’s name was Herta GΓ€rtner.” (Photo: Eva Edl)

She described how she was shipped off in cattle cars to a concentration camp in Yugoslavia at age 9: β€œWe were packed body to body, and being a small child, I could hardly breathe. We had no food, no water … .”

The camp (named Gakowa, or Gakovo, according to Edl) was β€œprimitive,” she said, and its purpose was the extermination of the Danube Swabians. Many of those in Gakowa with Edl died from starvation or disease and were buried in mass graves.

She slept on straw. She had her one dress. Very little food.

β€œYou couldn’t wash your clothes because all you have is that one dress,” she explained. β€œSo, you were filthy. And then we had diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, and rats and anything you could imagine, and we had no toilet facilities to contain all that. We had an outhouse. Well, how do you have masses of people with diarrhea just go to one outhouse? So, you know what happened. And filth and disease went rampant.”

Eva Edl’s family in the summer of 1944. Eva (top right) was 9 years old at the time. (Photo: Eva Edl)

Her mother, forced to work as a slave laborer in the fields, escaped and smuggled herself into the camp in a wagon full of corn, determined to find her young daughter among the thousands of prisoners, Edl says. Soldiers poked through the load of corn with bayonets, just barely missing her mother.

Edl’s mother finally found her young daughter lying on a pile of rancid straw, starving, too weak to walk, β€œfestering” with lice and other creatures.

The scene was so horrific that it caused Edl’s mother to rush outside and vomit, although Edl did not learn this until years later. At the time, she was so weak she could barely register her mother’s presence, and she could scarcely recognize her mother, thin and emaciated as she was. But it seemed to Edl a miracle that they had been reunitedβ€”even in a concentration camp.

β€œI just couldn’t believe it was her,” she explained. β€œIt took a while.”

Edl’s stories of her time in the death camp feature many brave women: her grandmother, who voluntarily chose to go to the concentration camp with her in order to protect her; her mother, who repeatedly risked death to reunite her children and get them safely to the United States; and her sister, who, forced by a soldier to dig her own grave, looked him in the eye and dared him to kill her. (He didn’t, according to Edl.)

So, it should come as no surprise that Edl, after she came to the United States in 1955 and was exposed to a human rights crisis she had never before heard of, decided that she must do whatever was in her power to save lives.

Eva Edl poses with her husband, two daughters, and son, in the spring of 1990, just after her husband was diagnosed with lung cancer. (He died six months later.) Edl says she has 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, β€œseven living, three in heaven.” (Photo: Eva Edl)

Edl took an English course around 1968, and during the course, someone brought up whether or not the United States should legalize abortion. (Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that there was a constitutional right to abortion, did not come about until 1973.)

β€œI didn’t know what [abortion] meant,” Edl said. She was blown away by the explanation she received. As she spoke with The Daily Signal, she reflected that an unborn baby is not a tumor, but a life. No one should have the ability to just end a baby’s life, she said.

β€œI tried to speak up in that subject, but I must have done a very bad job because I don’t think I convinced the person that I was speaking with. And after that, I just brought the subject up all the time because it bothered me that people would actually think of killing their own children.”

During the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, she first learned that abortions don’t take place in a secretive, underhanded fashion; rather, that unborn babies are aborted within abortion clinics, places that openly advertise their gruesome services. Edl was shocked.

Hundreds of pro-life protesters demonstrated outside the convention beginning in July 1988. In October 1988, police arrested about 400 protesters in connection to those demonstrations, The New York Times reported.

It was during that time period, after discussing the matter with her husband and getting his blessing, that Edl joined the protesters as they prayed outside an abortion clinic in Atlanta and attempted to dissuade women from going inside and aborting their babies.

β€œWe are doing what we are condemning others for,” Edl says she told her husband at the time. β€œThis is what people should have done for us.”

She was arrested that day with many others, led by Operation Rescue leader Randall Terry.

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry Prays outside a Boulder, Colo., abortion clinic on Oct. 7, 1990. (Photo: Glen Martin/The Denver Post/Getty Images)

Edl says the police treated them brutally, dislocating the arms of many of the protesters arrested. The pro-life activists had been warned that police were prepared to be brutal, she explained, and to avoid any appearance of accosting police, the activists crawled on their knees rather than walked.

β€œI was weeping the whole time,” she said. β€œI must have left a trail of tears … .”

She was inconsolable that America would even consider aborting its unborn.

β€œAmerica, in my eyes, was this country of justice and opportunity and everything that is good,” she said. β€œA beacon for us, over there, that didn’t know what all that meant, because we had nothing but oppression from whoever was ruling us at the time.”

When an officer put his hand on her shoulders, she froze, as she had been instructed.

β€œI heard somebody say, β€˜Just use your nightstick,’ and I thought, β€˜Oh, Lord, here they come. They’re going to club me.’ They just put the club, the nightstick, behind my arms. They hung me on it and nearly dislocated my shoulders, and just threw me on the bus. Other people got their shoulders totally dislocated; others got their heads bashed in. Some ended up in the hospital.”

That was her first β€œrescue”—the term that pro-life activists use for their attempts to stop abortions from taking place at an abortion clinic. Under the FACE Act, such activity is considered a crime.

The FACE Act prohibits use of force, obstruction, or property damage intended to interfere with β€œreproductive health care services.” Though it theoretically protects houses of worship and pregnancy resource centers, as well as abortion clinics, the Biden administration’s Justice Department has largely used FACE to prosecute pro-life activists like Edl.

The Rev. Flip Benham of Dallas, a member of the Christian Defense Coalition, prays with Eva Edl of Aiken, S.C., alongside the Rev. Cal Zastrow as they gather in front of a Senate office building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 6, 2001. (Photo credit: Mike Theiler/AFP/Getty Images)

Since 2022, the year the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Justice Department has hit a total of 40 pro-life activists with FACE-related charges at five different rescues, or β€œblockades” as the DOJ calls them.

Edl describes a rescue in the following way: β€œWe would put our bodies in front of the entrance of the abortion clinic, which I call the β€˜death camp,’ so nobody could come in and kill the babies.”

Since that October 1988 incident, Edl says, she has been part of more than 50 rescues throughout the United States. She also says that she has been arrested about 50 times.

Now, she faces prison time.

β€œTo the best of my knowledge, I am facing around 11 years in prison and $350,000 fines,” she said.

The Justice Department has thrice charged Edl with violating the FACE Act, first for an β€œAugust 2020 blockade” of a Sterling Heights, Michigan, abortion clinic; second for an April 2021 β€œblockade” in Saginaw, Michigan; and third for a March 2021 incident at a Nashville, Tennessee, abortion clinic. The DOJ charged eight defendants in the Sterling Heights incident and 11 defendants in the Nashville incident.

Edl maintains that she never committed any violence against those at the abortion clinics. (The DOJ would not respond to requests for comment about its charges against her.) She says that her actions are completely justified, given that she is trying to save the lives of babies about to be aborted.

β€œLet me liken it to something,” Edl explained thoughtfully as we discussed her arrests around the country. She referred back to her time in Gakowa. β€œWhen we were rounded up to be killed, we were placed in cattle cars, and our train was headed toward the extermination camp. What if citizens of my country would have overcome their fear, and a number of them stood on those railroad tracks between the gate of the entrance to the death camp and the train? The train would have to stop. And while the guards on those trains would be busy rounding up the ones that were in front of the train, another group could have come in, pried open our cattle car and possibly set us free, but nobody did.”

She has heard stories that people stood by the roadside and wept as the cattle cars went by. β€œBut that didn’t help us any,” she said.

β€œSo, when we place our bodies between the woman and the clinic, we buy time to get our sidewalk counselors the opportunity to speak with women, and hopefully open their hearts with love for their babies and let their babies live,” the death camp survivor said.

β€œAfter all,” she added, β€œwe offer them everything there is, including adoptions. I’ve offered to adopt babies on the spot … we’re standing between the killer and the victim.”

Congress passed the FACE Act in 1994, and then-President Bill Clinton signed it into law that same year. Spearheaded by the now-deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., the legislation was a response to attacks on abortionists and abortion clinics. Pro-life advocates made sure that the legislation included clauses stating that it also protects churches and pregnancy resource centers.

In recent months, some conservative lawmakers and activists have called for the legislation to be repealed, arguing that it has been weaponized against pro-life activists.

They point to the large number of DOJ FACE charges against pro-life activists, noting that hundreds of churches and pregnancy resource centers have been attacked by pro-abortion vandals since the May 2022 leak of the draft Supreme Court opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade would soon be overturned. The DOJ has charged only five pro-abortion vandals in connection with attacks on Florida pregnancy centers and an Ohio pregnancy center.

It appears that no vandals have been charged with FACE for attacking churches.

Eva Edl, a supporter of a brain-damaged Florida woman, Terri Schiavo, prays moments before being arrested for trespassing for attempting to take water into the Woodside Hospice for Schiavo on March 23, 2005, in Pinellas Park, Florida. A federal judge the day before had rejected a request from the parents of Schiavo to reinsert her feeding tube in a different sort of right-to-life case that made national news at the time. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Edl, who has followed the FACE Act and its application since its inception, said she was arrested in Kennedy’s office when she went to talk to him about it in the 1990s.

β€œInstead of talking to us, he had us arrested,” she said of Kennedy.

She believes that she and her fellow pro-life activists are being targeted through the FACE Act because they β€œare in the way of [the Biden administration’s] agenda.” She has lived through 13 presidents in her lifetime, and she says that Biden is the worst of them.

Edl and the other defendants accused of violating the FACE Act have said that they are not allowed to show images or pictures in their trials. They are not allowed to say that they acted in order to save livesβ€”the lives of unborn babies.

At the end of the day, however, she seems very at peace about the possible penalties. She’s getting her affairs in order. She had a bench trial in federal court in Nashville, where a federal judge found her and several others guilty of violating the FACE Act.

Edl and the other three defendants face a maximum of six months in prison, five years of supervised release, and fines of up to $10,000 in this case, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.

She will be sentenced July 30, she said. And her next trial is in federal court in Detroit on Aug. 6.

β€œI feel very strongly, because of my background, that human life is sacred,” she said simply. β€œGovernment does not have the authority to permit what God forbids.”

β€œAnd murder is forbidden by God.”

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Edward Snowden calls on Biden to veto FISA renewal after Senate vote

Edward Snowden called on President Biden to veto the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as the bill is now on its way to his desk for his signature.

Capehart: Lefty Protests Are Putting Pressure on Biden 'To Get Something Done' on Israel, But He's Not Thinking Politics

On Friday’s β€œPBS NewsHour,” Washington Post Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart said he believes that β€œthere are no political considerations involved” in President Joe Biden’s policy towards Israel, but left-wing critics of the administration’s approach are putting pressure

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Joe Biden Faces Enthusiasm Gap on Campaign Trail

Enthusiasm for President Joe Biden on the 2024 campaign trail appears to pale in comparison to the enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump.

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Speaker Mike Johnson Celebrates Democrats Seizing House: 'We're Happy'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to force President Joe Biden's priority of Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.

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Canadian Border Sector Sets New Record for Migrant Apprehensions in March

By: Bob Price Β·Β Bob Price

Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a record-setting number of migrants who illegally crossed the Canadian border between ports of entry in March. The number of migrants arrested in the first six months of this year nearly doubled the same period last year.

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Kaine: Things Seem to Be De-Escalating After Israel Launched Strike Biden Urged Them Not to

On Friday’s broadcast of β€œCNN This Morning,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that President Joe Biden β€œstrongly urged Israel to avoid any response” to Iran’s attack on Israel, but β€œthe fact that both Israel and Iran are downplaying” Israel’s response

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Biden Administration Announces Anti-Oil Restrictions on 13 Million Acres of Alaskan Petroleum Land

The Biden administration has announced restrictions on oil and gas leasing on over 13 million acres of an Alaskan petroleum reserve to conserve land valuable to the "Alaska Native people" and "important fish and wildlife," as Republican lawmakers protest the "illegal" move.

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White House defends Biden's claim his uncle was eaten by cannibals: 'We should not make jokes'

During Friday's White House press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended President Biden's cannibalism comment about his Uncle Bosie and called out Donald Trump in the process.

Jesse Ventura: I Could Beat Both Biden and Trump

By: Pam Key Β·Β Pam Key

Former Minnesota Reform Party Gov. Jesse Ventura said Thursday on CNN's "OutFront" that he could beatΒ bothident Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical match-up.

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Biden Dumps Trump Title IX Changes, Stiffer Protections for LGBTQ Students, but Bypasses Trans Issue

Joe Biden's Department of Education has revamped Federal Title IX rules to eliminate much of Donald Trump's additions and strengthen protections for LGBTQ students, but took a pass on including new language to address the issue of states banning transgender athletes.

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Migrants Use Ramp to Drive Over Outdated Arizona Border Barrier

By: Bob Price Β·Β Bob Price

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents observed a red SUV driving over an outdated border barrier to cross from Mexico into Arizona on Monday. The migrants used a vehicle ramp to dive over the fencing bars.

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Joe Biden Formally Endorses Speaker Mike Johnson's Ukraine Funding Scheme

The Biden administration on Friday formally endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) scheme to fund Ukraine's border defense.Β 

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Narcan and Liberal Drug Policies Worsening Drug Crisis

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Liberal drug laws and government-funded interventions to make drug use safer normalize drug use and fuel the drug crisis.

Last year, 112,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, and American taxpayers are funding the crisis. Millions of dollars in Biden’s $1.9 Trillion pandemic Relief Bill went towards funding so-called β€œharm reduction” programs, which help people use drugs more safely but do not encourage them to stop using. This year, Biden-Harris allocated $39.4 million toward the President’s Unity Agenda, which includes harm reduction programs.

Meanwhile, a congressional committee discovered that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been subsidizing the companies that provide the precursor chemicals to Mexican drug cartels, who manufacture fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other drugs, which they smuggle through the Southern border. So, American taxpayers are not only funding the drug crisis but also funding China.

A backlash among liberals against the β€œwar on drugs,” which they consider a racist failure, has caused a number of jurisdictions to take the opposite approach, liberalizing or decriminalizing drug use. Some have intentionally increased access to alcohol by allowing to-go sales and lowering taxes. Tax revenue has been one of the arguments Democrats use when trying to convince Republicans to legalize and tax marijuana, which is now legal in at least 37 states. But now, even those taxes are being removed because they were preventing some people from obtaining drugs.

Rather than trying to convince people that sobriety is the better way, liberal drug and alcohol programs have shifted their focus toward β€œharm reduction,” which seeks to mitigate the public health risks of drug use without stigmatizing users or requiring them to stop. By definition, removing the stigma means normalizing. It also nullifies the deterrent effect for first-time users who will believe that they can use drugs and still be a productive member of society, despite the evidence to the contrary.

As part of harm reduction, there has been increased funding for the distribution of Narcan and other overdose reversal medications, as well as programs that provide sterile drug paraphernalia and teach people how to use drugs safely β€œwithout requiring them to stop or reduce their use.”

Narcan is now available without a prescription, and last year, approximately 22 million doses were distributed in the US and Canada, at taxpayer expense. Narcan and other interventions only decrease the number of deaths, not the number of overdoses, which is many times higher.

Overdosing has been made β€œsafer” by these drugs. They do not resolve the drug crisis. Even worse, by decreasing the number of deaths, the interventions allow the problem to disappear from the front page. Deaths remain on people’s minds; addiction doesn’t. Removing the lethality also removes the deterrent for young people.

The Democrats are disinterested in stopping drug use, so by legalizing drugs, they can claim to have reduced crime. In many American cities, irrespective of the law, progressive prosecutors refuse to prosecute what they consider low-level drug crimes.

A good example is the state of Oregon, which voted in 2020 to liberalize drug laws, decriminalizing possession of small amounts of even hard drugs. The measures were passed by the Democrat-led legislature, and the police stopped arresting offenders. Instead, officers gave users a ticket and a slip of paper with a phone number they could call to get into a treatment program. Records show that Portland police handed out 7,000 of these slips, but only a few hundred users ever made the call.

Marijuana was already legal in Oregon, so tax money from marijuana was put towards treatment programs. Three years later, the drug crisis in Oregon was worse.

Advocates for liberal drug policies argue, β€œthe criminal justice system didn’t effectively treat addiction.” They also said it disproportionately harmed people of color. By ceasing drug arrests, they hoped to be able to decrease the racial disparity among prisoners. Decriminalization also brought down the crime rate by no longer counting drug offenses. However, other forms of crime increased, perpetrated by people trying to get money for drugs.

Before decriminalization, Portland’s violent crime rate was below the national average. By 2022, Portland saw a record number of homicides. This dropped off a bit in 2023, and there were claims that other crimes dropped as well, but traffic fatalities increased to record levels, while shoplifting arrests increased by 88%. Portland’s property crime rate is higher than the national average and rose steadily until 2023, when it came down slightly. But it is still higher than pre-drug legalization. And most predictably, from 2019 to 2022, the rate of opioid deaths increased by 241%.

While many sources claim that overall crime rates have dropped in cities that legalized drugs, the statistic is misleading. This is evidenced not only by Oregon, but also by other municipalities that decriminalized drugs or liberalized enforcement and have seen an increase in drug use, overdoses, and certain kinds of crime. This has been true in Seattle, where the claim was that overall crime was down, but there was an increase in homicides and auto thefts.

San Francisco has seen an increase in drug-related crimes, as well as the prevalence of dealers and violence. Crime is up in New York, where the liberal governor wants to deploy the National Guard to keep order in the subways. Philadelphia is now known as the capital of the Xylazine zombie drug crisis, and Los Angeles is a fentanyl hub, experiencing rampant shoplifting, theft, and an increase in property crime.

One way that the statistics are being misrepresented is that many of these cities are claiming a decrease in violent crime in 2023, and this may be true, but only because 2022 experienced a severe spike in crime. This may have been the final effects of lockdowns and COVID restrictions which, in some cases, were not completely eliminated until the middle or end of the year. However, in most cases, the 2023 numbers are not lower than 2020 or pre-drug-liberalization figures.

No matter how they try to spin it, drug usage and deaths are up. In 2020, 27 million Americans reported being drug users, including marijuana, opioids, or amphetamines. Last year, the number climbed to 37.3 million. About 10% of Americans now have problems with alcohol abuse, and 6% are drug addicts. Most heartbreaking, nationwide, 22 teens are dying each week of drug overdoses.

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Cuellar: Biden Can End Catch and Release of Migrants Through Alternatives to Detention Under Current Law

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s β€œThe Story,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) called for the Biden administration to expand the use of Title 8 and use it for people in the Alternatives to Detention program and that β€œwe

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Minneapolis Fed Pres: Biden Spending on Chips, Infrastructure 'Is Inflationary' and There Are 'Cross-Purposes'

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s β€œYour World,” Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari stated that stimulus spending was β€œa contributor to the high inflation that we’ve seen.” And β€œthe spending on infrastructure, the spending on new chip

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Granholm: We'll Do 'What We Can' on Gas Prices, We Have SPR, Telling Companies to Lower Price as Tools

On Thursday’s broadcast of ABC’s β€œThe View,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that β€œwe’re going to be doing what we can” to address the uptick in gas prices and said that the tools to do so are releasing from the

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Exclusive: Knesset Member Vows Israel Will Strike Back at Iran With or Without U.S. Support

Israel is β€œfighting for America too” and Iran’s declarations of its ambitions to destroy the U.S. should be taken seriously, according to Israeli lawmaker Ohad Tal, who vowed that Israel will act to protect its citizens and combat the Islamic Republic of Iran regardless of U.S. support, while lamenting that Israel has become β€œtoo dependent” on America.

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Poll: Trump and Biden Virtually Tied in Key Swing State of Wisconsin

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are virtually tied in the key swing state of Wisconsin, the latest League of American Workers/North Star Opinion Research survey found.

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Nolte: Donald Trump Enjoys Double Digit Gains with Voters Aged 18-29

By: John Nolte Β·Β John Nolte

Among this age group, Joe Biden’s job approval rating sits at just 31 percent. Her Vice Fraudulency Kamala Harris has a job approval rating of just 32 percent.

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