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A 76-year-old woman in Washington, DC just won a lawsuit that forbids her neighbor from smoking marijuana inside his own home. What sounds like a local nuisance case has quietly set a national precedent that could reshape every state where marijuana is legal under local law but still banned federally. For five years, Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd …
🚨 HOLY CRAP: Florida’s truck weighing stations are now IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINTS both for illegal aliens, AND will be making sure the truck drivers can speak English. Every state – FOLLOW SUIT! pic.twitter.com/xFje4k7O7a — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 25, 2025 h/t Flying Elvii
‘ His son is fighting a rare blood cancer, which was only recently diagnosed, but this father says he feels like the teenager was kidnapped after doctors said he needed chemotherapy. They said, ‘We’re taking the boy to Perth, we’re flying him right now to hospital’, and we felt very pressurised,” the father claimed in …
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a poll on X early Wednesday morning, asking users on the platform if failed House Speaker Mike Johnson should be reelected to serve another term as Speaker on January 3, 2025. Poll respondents, most of whom are likely Republican voters, overwhelmingly called for Johnson to be removed from leadership. This …
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s battle with X, formerly Twitter, over a warrant for former President Donald Trump’s account reached the Supreme Court Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell granted Smith’s request for a warrant in January 2023, along with a nondisclosure order prohibiting X from notifying anyone of the warrant’s existence. This allowed …
Israel and Hamas are considering a three-stage deal that would release hostages in Gaza beginning with a six-week cease-fire, according to officials with knowledge of the draft agreement hashed out by international intelligence chiefs in Paris this week. Washington says a deal to free more hostages and stop the clashes in Gaza is closer than …
“Britain, together with its allies, will consider recognizing a Palestinian state This was stated by British Foreign Minister David Cameron at a meeting with ambassadors of Arab states. “We have a responsibility because we must begin to define what a Palestinian state will look like, what it will include, how it will work… While this …
Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, said on Wednesday that it was laying off hundreds of workers, the latest in a number of companies announcing cuts in their workforce this week. But experts tell Newsweek that the job losses do not signal that mass layoffs are set to hit the U.S. economy in the …