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[ad_1] The families of two Black infants who died in a 1960s government RSV vaccine trial have filed a federal lawsuit, alleging researchers enrolled the children without parental knowledge or consent. The suit also claims tissue samples from the deceased babies later contributed to the development of modern RSV vaccines. The families of two Black infants who died during a 1960s experimental RSV vaccine trial have filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S., alleging government researchers enrolled the babies in a dangerous medical experiment without their parents’ knowledge or consent, The New York Times reported. The lawsuit, filed May 22 in the…

[ad_1] Russian Frigate Admiral Grigorovich. (Credit: Russian Defense Ministry) The Russian military said on Tuesday that a Russian warship fired warning shots toward a British yacht in the English Channel, an incident that occurred two days after British Royal Marines boarded and seized an oil tanker that had departed Russia. According to Newsweek, the incident on Tuesday occurred about 20 miles south of the Isle of Wight, with the two vessels about 500 yards apart. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the yacht was on a course that would bring it dangerously close to the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich. The ministry said that the yacht ignored warnings,…

[ad_1] A Wyoming man stabbing a wounded coyote, after running it over, flinging it in the air and kicking it. (Screengrab from a video posted by Cowboy State Daily.) …He lives by death, by killing the wild things of the air and earth. It’s not good enough. But you have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted…A man who lives by death, by killing, but who…

[ad_1] Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jewish man living in University Heights, Ohio, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case after a five-year legal battle with local officials over hosting small prayer meetings in his home. The conflict began in 2021 when the city issued a cease-and-desist notice, claiming he needed a special zoning permit to use his residence as a “place of religious assembly.” Grand applied for the permit but dropped the application after finding it would have reclassified his home as a house of worship, forcing his family to move out. Grand’s lawyers claim the city…

[ad_1] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during a meeting with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Israel, April 12, 2021. (Credit: Pentagon / Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reaffirmed his position that Israel won’t withdraw from southern Lebanon and end its war in the country despite the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding that calls for an end to the conflict. “We will restore security and prosperity to northern towns,” Netanyahu said. “That requires maintaining the security zone in southern Lebanon; it requires that we not leave there, as long as Israel’s security needs require it.”…

[ad_1] Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900 held in “East Woods” on East 24th Street in Austin. Photo: Austin History Center. Let’s talk about the holiday America is celebrating today. Ready for an uncomfortable truth? I’m not sure we should be. This won’t take long. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops set foot in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved Black people that they were free…more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Yeah. Let that sink in. For generations after Black Texans—and later Black communities across the country, thanks to the Great Migration—marked the occasion with church services,…

[ad_1] The Ninth Circuit held argument last week in a very interesting case on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the computer hacking statute, Amazon.com Services v. Perplexity AI, No. 26-1444.  The basic issue: If an Amazon user wants to use an AI agent to help make purchasing decisions on the user’s behalf at Amazon, but Amazon doesn’t want users to do that, has the AI company committed a federal hacking crime if Amazon tells the AI company to stay away but the AI company continues to make its services available to the Amazon customers? Perplexity AI’s main brief is…

[ad_1] Andrew P. Napolitano on the form of government U.S. citizens will be celebrating next month, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Ultimate Fighting Championship fanfare on June 13 ahead of the UFC – Freedom 250 fights the following day outside the White House. (White House/ Austin DeSisto) By Andrew P. Napolitano The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three…

[ad_1] IN SHORT Russia blames NATO for driving escalation in the Baltic region Ukraine is falsely portrayed as seeking a war with Belarus EU budget rules are framed as political retaliation against Bulgaria LAST WEEK IN REVIEW This week’s pro-Kremlin FIMI narratives again sought to invert reality and recast Russia and its allies as victims. One false claim portrayed the NATO Gallant Boar 2026 exercise as preparation for a NATO invasion of Kaliningrad, despite its stated defensive purpose of protecting the Suwałki Gap. Another narrative alleged that Ukraine is trying to provoke a new war with Belarus, ignoring Belarus’ military…

[ad_1] USS Abraham Lincoln transits the Arabian Sea (Source: CENTCOM) US Central Command announced on Thursday that the US military was lifting its blockade of Iranian ports in line with the Memorandum of Understanding signed by President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to bring an end to the conflict between the two nations. “Today, US forces lifted the blockade on all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas, in accordance with the President’s direction. American forces are not impeding the transit of vessels to or from Iranian ports. All US military blockade enforcement efforts have ceased,” CENTCOM said.…