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School abuse scandals that have triggered France to weigh new law
Topic: Children and Family
Source: France 24
French lawmakers are set to debate a bill aimed at protecting children and combatting violence in schools. The legislation was drafted in the wake of a parliamentary investigation into the Bétharram abuse scandal, which exposed decades of mistreatment at a Catholic-run school in southwestern France. It also comes at the same time as Paris investigators probe allegations non-teaching staff recruited by the city mistreated or abused children at dozens of shcools across the capital.

Judges: Pentagon Ban on Transgender Troops Is Illegal
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: AP News
Appeals court panel largely upholds last year's ruling on policy. A Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, a divided panel of federal appeal court judges ruled on Monday. The majority opinion by a three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit largely upholds a March 2025 ruling by US District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, DC, the AP reports. Reyes concluded that President Trump's executive order to exclude transgender troops from military service likely violates their constitutional rights. The Monday ruling won't immediately go into effect, allowing the administration time to ask the full appeals court to hear the case.

Judge Rejects Bill Cosby's Bid for New Trial in LA
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: USA Today
Judge upholds multimillion-dollar civil verdict for Donna Motsinger . Bill Cosby's bid to undo a multimillion-dollar civil judgment in Los Angeles has hit a wall, the Los Angeles Times reports. A county Superior Court judge on Friday refused Cosby's request for a new trial, leaving intact a jury's decision that he owes $19.25 million in damages to Donna Motsinger, who says he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1972. (USA Today reports the amount owed is $59.25 million, citing $40 million in punitive damages that were also awarded.) Judge Bradley S. Phillips ruled Cosby hadn't shown any procedural problems that would have undercut the fairness of the trial and said the damages were not unreasonably high. Phillips wrote there was enough evidence to back the jury's conclusion that Cosby's actions caused Motsinger's harm.

The Ongoing Legal Battles in Teen Transgender Cases
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Prescott News
Parents who say they were separated from children for refusing to affirm transgender identity are still fighting states in court. Their cases are ongoing, and they fear losing custody of their children by violating court gag orders. Accounts such as Lyaschenko’s are surfacing in legal battles across the nation, pitting states against parents and parents against courts or each other. On April 2, Lyaschenko testified in New Hampshire, where the legislature was considering a bill that would ban Child Protective Services from removing minors from parental custody solely because they wouldn’t support so-called gender transitions. New Hampshire is not the only state considering such laws. A similar bill is working its way through the Ohio Legislature, after reports that Cuyahoga County was implementing a program tracking the sexual and gender identity of children as young as 5.

Finding Sheba: The Search for an Ancient Queen
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Aish Ha
Few biblical tales have stirred the imagination across cultures as powerfully as the legendary meeting between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Told in the First Book of Kings (10:1–13), the story describes a mysterious monarch who traveled from a distant land with caravans of gold, spices, and precious stones to test Solomon with riddles and witness his famed wisdom... Yet, despite the vividness of the episode, the identity and location of her kingdom remain one of the Bible’s enduring mysteries. The two most widely accepted views place Sheba either in southern Arabia (present-day Yemen) or in Ethiopia...

US Teachers' Union Urges Schools To Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Axios
The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers' union in the U.S., released a 10-point plan to introduce AI and screen-time guardrails in classrooms. The plan would limit AI use and ban screens for students in prekindergarten through second grade "unless there is a compelling reason," such as supporting students with special needs.

Low and Falling Fertility Means Social Security’s Funding Problems
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Cato Institute
Are Worse Than Expected. Social Security’s long-term shortfall is likely significantly worse than projected. In 2025, the Social Security Trustees estimated that the program faces a 75-year funding shortfall equal to $27 trillion in present-value terms. But those projections rely on unusually optimistic assumptions about future US fertility rates. The Trustees are likely understating Social Security’s insolvency problem by assuming Americans will start having far more children than current trends suggest.

ICE Out of Our Colleges campaign kickoff
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: National Campaign for Justice
Schools and colleges should be places where all students can learn, grow, and build their futures -- not traps for deportation. Yet, every single day, immigrant students and families across the country are being forced to live with uncertainty and fear. DACA recipients are facing renewal delays that put their futures at risk. Students are navigating growing attacks on immigrant communities and higher education while ICE continues to threaten the safety of our neighborhoods, colleges and public schools. That’s why Communities for Our Colleges, a project of the National Campaign for Justice, is kicking off...

Gaza Devastation Drives Surge in Child Marriages
Topic: Children and Family
Source: AP News
'I thought I was protecting them,' says one desperate widow who married off daughters, 13 and 14 In a tented camp in Gaza, one mother's desperate calculation is playing out across an entire war zone. The AP follows "Majda," who lost her husband and eldest son to Israeli airstrikes and, fearing hunger, harassment, and homelessness, agreed to marry off her 13- and 14-year-old daughters to men who promised shelter and support. "I thought I was protecting them," she said. "Fear was slaughtering me." Instead, the girls describe repeated rapes, beatings, miscarriages, and high-risk pregnancies—abuse they eventually fled, only to be pressured back to their husbands.

Taliban child marriage law has NO minimum age for girls
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Daily Mail
The Taliban has introduced a new family law with no minimum age for marriage, prompting warnings from rights groups that the rules risk normalising child weddings in Afghanistan. UN Women's special representative in Afghanistan, Susan Ferguson, said the new legislation represented 'another serious development' in the erosion of women's rights nearly five years after the group returned to power. The agency warned the rules failed to establish a minimum age for marriage and mark a departure from laws in force before the Taliban takeover in August 2021, when Afghanistan criminalised forced child marriage

Zelenskyy alleges Russia is abducting Ukrainian kids and training them to fight
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CBS News
[Ed: I do not believe anything Zelensky says but this story is making the news.] Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CBS News in an exclusive interview that his government has evidence that Russia is abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight against fellow Ukrainians. It is an allegation that may constitute a war crime, according to the International Criminal Court. This is the first time that Zelenskyy has publicly made this accusation, which goes beyond the documented evidence that Russia has a state-sponsored program of taking Ukrainian children to camps for reeducation or "Russification." "When these children grow up and they push these boys to the battlefield," Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy said "yes have evidence"

Dem lawmakers gripe about the 'economic violence'
Topic: Women's Health
Source: FOX News
,,,of not being paid to stay home from work when menstruating. Rep. Adelita Grijalva used the phrase while promoting a bill that has 28 Democratic cosponsors and zero Republicans. "Forcing a worker to choose between paying her rent or losing a day's pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice. It’s economic violence," Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., said during a press conference on May 21.

Platner Staffers Bodycheck Journalists Asking Questions About His Sexting Scandal
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Townhall
More mayhem has been unleashed by the Graham Platner campaign amid his massive sexting scandal that broke just yesterday. Staffers from the Platner campaign physically interfered with reporters who attempted to question the candidate about the breaking news.

The FCC Wants Warning Labels for Shows With 'Transgender' Content
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reason
But free speech advocates are pushing back. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering new content ratings for TV shows that depict or discuss gender identity. Doing so would be well outside the FCC's legal authority, and some free speech organizations warn that such a request could constitute a violation of the First Amendment. At the direction of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, broadcasters developed content ratings for TV shows, patterned after the ones for movies. The TV ratings span TV-Y (appropriate for all children) to TV-MA (mature audiences only), plus more specific content labels for suggestive dialogue, bad language, sexual content, and violence. They also established the TV Parental Guidelines Oversight Monitoring Board (TVOMB) to administer the new ratings.

Seattle To Declare "State Of Emergency" To Protect Transgender Refugees?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Seattle is flooded with trans people relocating from red states, and they're demanding emergency provisions as "refugees"...
The ultimate claim to victimhood is the claim that a group of people are "refugees" from mass persecution or "genocide." The political left covets this victim status more than anything else because, within first world liberal societies, refugees have immediate political capital and access to easy money. Within every leftist narrative there is an agenda for power and a life without adult responsibility. It is perhaps ironic that thousands of progressive activists and LGBT advocates are leaving red states over imaginary oppression after they spent years attacking conservatives for escaping blue states over very real medical tyranny. At least conservatives never called themselves "refugees."

Black People Are Not Children, Nor Are They Special
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Townhall
To hear Democrats talk about black people is a mix of arrogance, racism and more condescension than could be crammed into the Grand Canyon. What do I mean by that? It’s pretty simple, really: the left simultaneously insists black people are perpetual victims with economic hardship thrust upon them by “systemic racism” and the sole builders of everything good and superior to everyone else. None of it is true, but all of it is designed to manipulate. Democrats, even black Democrats, treat the average black American like they’re a child and special; neither is true. They’re just people, like everyone else.

Makerfield: a tale of two social-media histories
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
This by-election has revealed the warped morals of the cancel-culture left. So another Green Party candidate has stood down to spend more time with his anti-Semitism allegations. Yesterday, a mere nine hours after being announced as the Greens’ man in the Makerfield by-election, Chris Kennedy withdrew, citing ‘personal and family reasons’. Shortly after, The Times revealed Kennedy had shared social-media posts suggesting the firebombing of Jewish-run ambulances in Golders Green was a ‘false flag’ – staged, presumably, by those sneaky Zionists.

X Users NUKE Communist Seattle Mayor
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Gateway Pundit
After She Posts This Absolutely Humiliating Photo of Herself Trying to Pander to Muslim Men. Marxist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson’s attempt to pander to her Muslim constituents on one of their holy days ended up backfiring in spectacular fashion. On Saturday, Wilson posted a very curious Instagram image of herself celebrating Eid al-Adha, with an all-Muslim male audience looking on in the background. It was as if the men were looking at potential prey, knowing that communists like her are useful idiots. Wilson, though, was totally clueless.

"It's All So Tiresome": UK's Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Off-Guardian
...the report wails about “a wave of radicalized children” who pose “a real risk to society”... The UK government’s “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they’re going to have to do something about it. I know, I was shocked too. The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day. It’s a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.