Federal appeals court rules Obama-era DACA program illegal, buts says 600,000 already in US can stay
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled that while the Obama administration lacked the authority to create the immigration policy, which affects over 600,000 people, it didn't dismantle the program, and people can continue benefiting from the policy.

Firearms dealers now required to provide buyers' addresses to feds for denied transactions
Newly implemented measures also mandate that the FBI pass on the personal information to local law enforcement.

Stop the attacks against peaceful, pro-life Americans
In the past five months, hundreds of attacks have targeted churches, pro-life organizations, and pregnancy centers.

FBI charges multiple individuals for peaceful protests at abortion center
With guns drawn, the FBI raided the home of a protest leader. The event in March 2021 was reportedly peaceful, with participants lining the inside hallway of a shared general medical office building that, in one area, houses the Carafem abortion facility.

New York has more than 3 million voters lacking proof of identity: Analysis
The state of New York has more than 3 million individuals on its voter rolls missing key identifying documents to prove their identities, according to a recent analysis.

DC Council Moves to Let Noncitizens Vote
D.C.'s move toward noncitizen voting comes after New York City last year passed similar legislation to allow the city's 800,000 noncitizens to vote. That bill was overturned in June by a state court, which ruled it violated the New York Constitution.

Overwhelming majority see violent crime as 'major problem': Poll
A Politico/Morning Consult poll revealed that 77% of Americans saw violent crime as a major problem, while a further 17% saw it as a minor problem. Only 2% did not see violent crime as an issue.

Los Angeles Residents Offer New Cops Huge Rent Subsidy
The program awards new LAPD hires huge rent subsidies of up to $24,000 over two years for housing in the Los Angeles area. The money is not coming out of the LAPD budget, but from private donations.

Ron DeSantis fans go wild as Florida gov speaks behind presidential seal
Some believed they were getting a glimpse two years into the future as DeSantis spoke while Biden stood off to the side.

Camera captures Biden trying to sniff another victim as DeSantis gives hurricane update
As DeSantis was giving an update on Hurricane Ian, Biden is seen behind him, grabbing a woman's hand and then, apparently, trying to sniff her.

Biden caught on hot mic saying, 'No one f***s with a Biden' during review of hurricane damage
"No one f**** with a Biden," he said while grinning.

SUV carrying Harris crashes in Washington tunnel
Secret Service had misreported the crash as a "mechanical failure."

Trump implores GOP to focus on crime as midterms near: 'People are afraid to walk outside'
45th president predicts black and Hispanic voters will migrate to GOP in November.

Blake Masters, Mark Kelly in statistical dead heat in Arizona Senate race
A CBS/YouGov survey found Kelly with 51% support, a narrow lead over Masters' 48%. That 3% difference is within the poll's +/- 3.8% margin of error.

Red wave alert: DeSantis up big in governor's race
DeSantis has an 11-point lead over Charlie Crist, and all three Republican candidates lead their Democratic rivals by double-digit margins, according to a Wednesday Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy poll published by Politico.

Moderator Stumps Arizona Dem Gov Candidate Katie Hobbs On One ‘Specific’ Lesson Learned From Hispanic Community
Hobbs was stumped by the question and struggled to name anything specific, but mentioned she has a sister-in-law who is Latina and also tried to say a few words in Spanish.

The Stock Market Made Nancy Pelosi Rich. Now, She Wants To Ban Her Colleagues From Trading.
House speaker's fortune has grown $140 million since 2008, thanks in part to her husband's trades

Oregon Dem Governor Candidate Wants Safe Havens for Meth Users
The Democratic candidate for Oregon governor wants to create safe havens for meth users in Portland, even as drug overdoses spike statewide.

Louisiana Hits BlackRock With Massive Divestment For ‘Blatantly Anti-Fossil Fuel Policies’
Louisiana state Treasurer John Schroder announced his state will divest funds from BlackRock due to ESG policies.

White House Pivots On Key Oil Issue In Just About 24 hours
A White House statement released Wednesday said Biden will “continue to direct releases from the [strategic petroleum reserve] as appropriate.” Tuesday afternoon, Jean-Pierre said, “We’re not going to be considering new releases at this time.”

OPEC tells Biden to shove it, cuts oil production by 2 million barrels per day
A statement from the White House said the OPEC+ announcement served as “a reminder of why it is so critical that the United States reduce its reliance on foreign sources of fossil fuels.”

Biden's energy policies costing U.S. economy $100 billion a year: Study
A new analysis finds the U.S. would be producing significantly more oil and natural gas today if Trump policies had continued.

Lettuce at $8? Inflation in Australia is hurting everyone from restaurant owners to diners
In Sydney’s food mecca, Chinatown, menu prices at longtime restaurant Mother Chu’s have risen between 20% and 30% since the start of the pandemic.

Lebanon financial crisis: The people robbing banks to get their own money
A Lebanese Member of Parliament has held a sit-in to demand money from her frozen account. Her action comes after more than a dozen people have raided banks to get access to their own cash.

Tyson Foods joins exodus from Chicago
Tyson Foods announced it will be moving corporate staff from offices in Chicago to Arkansas.

NY mayor rips into Biden after dozens of migrant kids secretly flown to small town
An upstate New York mayor ripped into President Biden and his team after dozens of migrants kids were secretly flown to his small town by the feds last week, telling The Post: “This seems clandestine.”

Here are the nuclear weapons Russia has in its arsenal
Putin is now threatening to use nuclear weapons to defend the Ukrainian territory that Russia has illegally annexed.

NATO warns Russia: Putin would 'regret' any use of nuclear weapons
“The response will be such that the Russians will regret what they have done,” Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO’s military committee, said Wednesday.

How Putin might use a nuke — and how we should respond
While some in the West have expressed fears of WWIII, Putin seems unlikely to take such a profound escalation at this point. This leaves open the option of using tactical nuclear weapons against cities, key facilities or choke points, or actual forces in Ukraine.

'I refuse to comply,' says Russian journalist, days after escaping house arrest
“Since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, I refuse to comply with the measure of restraint imposed on me in the form of house arrest, and I release myself from it as of September 30, 2022,” Marina Ovsyannikova posted to Telegram.

Russia Claims Front ‘Stabilized’ as Ukraine Pushes on with Counteroffensive
Russian officials sought to allay concerns Wednesday that Ukraine could achieve a major breakthrough in its ongoing counteroffensive amid reports that Kyiv’s forces were advancing in both the south and east of the country.

Putin Makes Chechnya's Kadyrov an Army General
Kadyrov, a former warlord who rules Chechnya with widespread violations of human rights, said Putin had "personally" informed him of the decision. The rank of colonel general is the third-highest command rank in the Russian military hierarchy.

US considering offering to analyze underwater audio recordings to aid Nord Stream pipeline sabotage investigations
The US Navy’s processing of the sonar signatures – the term for the unique underwater sounds – provided by Sweden and Denmark could boost the investigations by providing a more detailed picture of what was in the area at the time of the pipeline explosions and what caused them.

Nobody Wants Biden’s Boosters — But He Forked Over Billions To Pfizer And Moderna For Them Anyway
Biden burned more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds on new COVID-19 shots hardly anyone wants.

Multiple Massachusetts colleges extend mask mandates indefinitely
“It is clear that the current levels of infection have taxed our campus health care system and residential services to the limit.”

California lawyer: Grassroots effort nixed bill to allow teens to get COVID shot without parents' OK
The Democrat state senator who sponsored the bill pulled it from getting a final vote when it became clear he was 41 votes short.

Kylie Jenner Says She Regretted Naming Her Son Wolf Immediately After Signing His Birth Certificate
She described feeling overwhelmed when it came time “to sign the birth certificate,” noting that her son needed some kind of identification “or else they register him without a name or Social Security number.”

Work to resume on Alec Baldwin's 'Rust' film after settlement in fatal shooting suit
"The filming of Rust ... will resume with all the original principal players on board, in January 2023."

Ex-‘Scrubs’ producer Eric Weinberg faces 18 counts for alleged sex crimes
A former co-executive producer of the television show “Scrubs” was slapped with 18 felony counts in connection with the alleged sexual assault of five women he lured using his Hollywood resume.

Inside Amazon’s free video strategy
Amazon has been doubling down on original content for Freevee, its ad-supported video service, which has seen a lot of growth thanks to a deep integration with other Amazon properties.

The New York Times finds out that not everything is a conspiracy theory
The impulse among establishment media to dismiss every concern about election security as a conspiracy theory ignores the fact that fraud and other problems do exist, and it leads to some awkward reporting corrections.

The New York Times makes up its own climate science to attack Florida
The NY Times claims that Florida’s Republican leaders “don’t want to discuss the underlying problem that is making hurricanes more powerful and destructive.” In reality, hurricanes are not becoming “more powerful and destructive.” There is no evidence for that claim.

Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation primetime debut is a ratings flop: Nielsen
Cuomo fared poorly in the 25-to-54-year-old age demographic most coveted by advertisers, drawing just 8,000 viewers.

Taylor Lorenz blasts Washington Post colleague over ‘absurd, insensitive’ COVID tweet
Taylor Lorenz, the Washington Post’s controversial technology and online culture columnist, slammed one of her colleagues at the newspaper for an “absurd, insensitive” tweet about COVID — just months after a Post reporter was fired for tweeting criticism of co-workers.

Iran protests: Schoolgirls heckle paramilitary speaker
A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves and chanting "get lost, Basiji." Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.

Biden To Ease Sanctions On Socialist Venezuela
Biden is reportedly preparing to ease sanctions on socialist Venezuela to allow a U.S. oil company to resume production there.

JK Rowling Takes Apart ‘Genderists’ For Excusing ‘Paedophilia Apologist’ Trustee Of Children’s Charity
“You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn’t even notice,” she said. “Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won’t last.”

'Gender affirming medicine' studies for kids draw new scrutiny with possible DOJ involvement
The University of Washington mischaracterized its own research, refused to proactively correct the resulting false reporting because of the "overwhelming amount of positive coverage."

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs bill to prevent child sex changes at children's hospital
"It is wildly inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to be used for condoning, promoting, or performing these types of controversial procedures on healthy children," said Governor Stitt.

Wedding venue investigated for refusal to host LGBT ceremonies over Christian faith
A wedding venue in Michigan was found to have violated one of Grand Rapids' human rights ordinances after the owners refused to host LGBT ceremonies because of their religious beliefs.

NYU’s firing of Professor Maitland Jones Jr. should frighten every American
New York University fired Maitland Jones Jr. because his organic chemistry course was “too hard.” Students revolted because they feared, according to the New York Times, that “they were not given the grades that would allow them to get into medical school.”

Vox: The White House’s AI Bill of Rights looks to curb AI bias
The White House released a “blueprint” for an AI Bill of Rights that outlines how the public should be protected from algorithmic systems and the harms they can produce — whether it’s a recruiting algorithm that favors men’s resumes over women’s or a mortgage algorithm that discriminates against Latino and African-American borrowers.

Outsourced censorship: Feds used private entity to target millions of social posts in 2020
Biden administration gave millions in tax dollars to groups after election, records show. Election Integrity Partnership says it had 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove, or restrict content.

Can Republicans Ever Fight Big Tech? Last Week Gave Us Our First Clue
The right must stop rushing like a battered wife to bail out the corporations that continue to wield their massive private power against ordinary Americans.

Musk, Twitter could reach deal to end court battle, close buyout soon
Elon Musk and Twitter may reach an agreement to end their litigation in coming days, clearing the way for the world’s richest person to close his $44 billion deal for the social media firm.

A Twitter Employee Exodus Could Be Just Around the Corner
Twitter could be quickly downsizing if the just-revitalized sale to Elon Musk goes through, with the New York Times reporting Twitter employees say they will quit if Musk buys the company.

Activist who stormed NFL field alleges assault against players who stopped him
The animals rights protester was tackled, on the field, by players for the L.A. Rams. After he was released by security, he ran to the police to file a report claiming that he was assaulted.

Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times
An internal report alleges a previously unknown pattern of likely widespread cheating by Hans Moke Niemann, the player whose September victory over Magnus Carlsen has rocked the chess world.

Gisele Bündchen ditches wedding ring amid Tom Brady divorce lawyer news
Photos show the supermodel out with her kids, but without her wedding ring on Tuesday in Miami.

Raccoons Cause 2 Power Outages In 3 Days In Texas Town
A raccoon found its way to the electrical grid substation in Seguin, Texas, on Saturday night, causing a citywide power outage.