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Homeland Security: World Cup operation led to arrests, rescues in Kansas City
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KMBC
Agents said they have arrested 14 people, identified nine victims of human trafficking and recovered eight missing children. "Unfortunately, most of these children are runaways and reported missing from their families or care providers, but they end up on the streets or with these traffickers," Sabatini said. They said most of the children recovered were teenagers, and several were from the Kansas City metro area.

Harvard Medical School Tries Healing Itself
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
The Report includes eleven proposals for reform and states outright that higher education should be devoted to the pursuit of truth. It includes a vital corollary: “HMS should articulate general principles and reasonable boundaries for activism by students and faculty”. The Report makes clear that these reforms will require comprehensive administrative action. In remarkably blunt language, the Report explains what has gone wrong with HMS, describing how HMS has been reshaping itself into an Orwellian dystopia.

Two boys who identify as girls drop lawsuit following SCOTUS ruling
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
A federal judge had granted a court order that allowed the teenage boys to compete against girls while the case proceeded. Two teenage boys who identify as girls withdrew their lawsuit in New Hampshire following a Supreme Court ruling that upheld state bans on boys competing in girls' sports. Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle filed lawsuits against New Hampshire's ban on males competing on female sports teams, and in 2024, they amended their complaint to include a challenge to Trump's executive order last year that aimed to protect females from having to compete against males in sports, the Associated Press reported.

Trump admin launches crackdown on school sexual misconduct
Topic: Children and Family
Source: New York Post
—California districts could lose $50 MILLION in funding. “Our schools must protect America’s children. Parents should never have to wonder whether their kids’ school employs and protects sexual. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is expected to send letters to school districts nationwide Friday reminding them of their obligations under federal law to promptly investigate allegations of sexual abuse and harassment and prevent educators accused of abusing students from quietly moving to other schools, which is colloquially known as “passing the trash.”

Publisher Pulls Lauded Slavery History Book Amid Questions
Topic: Women's Studies, Scholarship, and History
Source: Newser
A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers about details that were central to what reviewers had described as a groundbreaking narrative. The book, “The Grimkes,” and its author, the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, received widespread acclaim when the book was released in 2022 by Liveright Publishing.

State Drops Time Limit in Rape Cases With DNA
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Propublica
Massachusetts' current deadline is 15 years. Massachusetts is preparing to change one of the country's most restrictive deadlines for prosecuting rape. Gov. Maura Healey said she will sign a budget bill that lets prosecutors bring charges at any time if a suspect is later identified through DNA—even after the current 15-year limit for cases involving adult victims has run out. The change would take effect as soon as Healey signs the $63.4 billion spending plan, ProPublica reports, which she's pledged to do by July 11. Healey pushed for the shift after a WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that roughly 47 other states give prosecutors more time in rape and similar sexual assault cases.

UN probe finds mass killings, gang rapes by Sudan’s RSF amount to genocide
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Al Jazeera
A UN Fact-Finding Mission found that the paramilitary’s systematic campaign of violence in Darfur amounted to genocide. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide in the western city of el-Fasher, carrying out mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation as part of an intentional policy, a United Nations investigation has found. The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan released its findings on Wednesday, concluding that the RSF’s systematic campaign of violence against civilians during and after its siege of the capital of North Darfur state amounted to genocide, building on a February report that had already identified hallmarks of the crime.

More Than 2,800 Errors Identified in BC MAID Cases in 2024, Internal Report Finds
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Catholic Register
Page 3 of the “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Oversight 2024 Year End Report” states 4,169 individuals requested MAiD in 2024 — a nearly 10 per cent increase since 2023. However a bar graph from the report, included with this article, indicates a total of 4,190 MAiD cases in 2024. It also indicates the MAiD Oversight Unit found 2,807 errors among 51.9 per cent of “MAiD case outcomes” requiring corrective “follow-up.” The report says “follow-up” means obtaining missing information or clarifying existing information.

‘We will never use them’
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: The Guardian
the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns. A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent. For many public colleges and universities in California, keeping their campuses safe includes owning military-grade weaponry: AR-15s, stun grenades designed to cause temporary blindness and sonic weapons that resonate so loudly they are known in the armed forces as the voice of God.

Democrats Target Collins on Abortion
Topic: Abortion
Source: Politico
$2.5M ad campaign ties senator to Roe v. Wade reversal. Democrats don't currently have a candidate in Maine's Senate race, but they do have a message. A nonprofit allied with a top Senate Democratic super PAC is rolling out a $2.5 million TV and digital blitz in Maine aimed at chipping away at the Republican Sen. Susan Collins' image as a protector of abortion rights, Politico reports. The 30-second spot from Affordable Maine zeroes in on Collins' vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, his role in toppling Roe v. Wade, and her refusal to disavow that vote. The group will also spotlight her support for dozens of Trump-appointed judges who have upheld restrictive abortion laws.

Europe Votes Against Thought-Policing 'Chat Control'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Zero Hedge
Brussels Passes It Anyway... Naturally, the scanning regime won...On Thursday in Strasbourg, 314 Members of the European Parliament voted to reject the return of "Chat Control," the legal regime allowing tech companies to scan the private messages of roughly half a billion Europeans. Only 276 voted to keep it.So naturally, the scanning regime won - thanks to a 'quirky' voting procedure in Brussels that allowed legislation to survive even though most MEPs who cast a vote opposed it. That should alarm anyone who still believes the word "parliament" is supposed to mean something.

Europe’s conservatives revive zombie bill on child abuse scanning
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The fight against online child abuse material has heated up European politics for months, and has gotten everyone from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to tech mogul and X owner Elon Musk to speak up. Child rights groups say the EU bill is critical to protect children from pedophiles and predators. Critics say it comes with serious privacy and surveillance risks. In the latest headache for legislators, lawmakers on Thursday added an amendment to the controversial piece of legislation that would exempt end-to-end encrypted services like WhatsApp and Signal from the scanning rules. In the end, both camps came out disappointed.

Planned Parenthood targets vulnerable Republicans with $47M midterm push
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
Planned Parenthood is investing a near-record $47 million into the November midterm elections aiming to unseat the Republicans who voted to cut off the organization from federal funding last year. The “We Decide” campaign from Planned Parenthood Votes — an independent Super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood — will target ads and voter outreach in battleground House races in Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The funding will also go toward key Senate races in Michigan, where Democrats are likely running against former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, and potentially Maine, even though Sen. Susan Collins (R) voted against the underlying bill that cut Planned Parenthood funding.

California Puts Abortion Pill Reversal on Trial
Topic: Abortion
Source: Washington Stand
Pro-life organization Heartbeat International (HBI) is on trial in a California court for daring to inform women that the effects of the abortion pill can sometimes be reversed. "Heartbeat International is fighting for one thing: The ability to tell women the truth when they call seeking help after taking the first abortion pill and regretting their decision," HBI general counsel Danielle White said in a statement to The Washington Stand. "Women deserve to know all of their options. They don't lose that right after beginning a chemical abortion."

That Gay Cruise Ship Denied Entry Into Turkey?
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Hot Air
Egypt Just Said 'No" Too. The Gay cruise that got rejected from Turkey is now being denied entry into… Egypt… Are people this oblivious about the Middle East and gay rights there? Funny thing the only country they would prob have fun in is Israel… if only they could their biases aside and go.

Seven years later, a campus cancel culture incident heads to trial
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The College Fix
‘Instead of removing the disruptors, the university chose to escort Laffer out of his own lecture‘. Nearly seven years ago, a campus speech hosted by conservative students featuring famed economist Arthur Laffer abruptly ended as vocal leftwing protesters interrupted his talk and campus police got involved. Next week, a jury is scheduled to decide if that shutdown in November 2019 was a violation of students’ First Amendment and equal protection rights. The lawsuit was filed in 2020 on behalf of Young America’s Foundation and College Republicans against the State University of New York at Binghamton administration and progressive student activists involved in the incident.

Pronatalists Want To Boost Fertility W/ Blue Laws & Gov-Enlisted Fertility Influencers
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
The Institute for Family Studies wants to increase America's birth rate. Some of its ideas are a little far out. With U.S. birth rates now below 1.6 children per woman, IFS warns that cultural and sometimes political interventions are necessary to increase the fertility rate, as "the future of liberty for all of us depends on the future of family." And so, in pursuit of "the future of liberty," IFS proposes a litany of social-engineering policies that restrict freedom and empower the government. Many of the proposal's reforms are conventional and similar to the pro-family, big-government politics of Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.): doling out baby bonus money and child caregiver credits, eliminating marriage penalties in tax and benefit programs, and incentivizing more housing. As Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown has noted, many of these top-down pronatalist policies often fall short of meaningfully increasing the birth rate.

“It’s a Constitutional Thing”:
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Jonathan Turley
Rubio Deports Convicted Rapist Protected by Walz and Minnesota Pardon Board Minnesota. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has failed in his extraordinary effort to protect a Laotian rapist from deportation. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that he revoked Tue Lue Vang’s legal status and removed him from the United States. After repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, Vang insisted it was “a cultural thing.” Well, this is a “constitutional thing” that the Secretary of State, not the Governor of Minnesota, determines who may remain in the United States after such a serious offense.

Who is Achraf Hakimi? A look at the controversial Morocco captain
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Yahoo Sports
As Morocco prepares to take on France in a World Cup quarterfinal at Boston Stadium (Gillette Stadium) on Thursday, July 9, in a rematch of a 2022 semi-final, what should be a competitive and hard-fought fixture between two of the world's top teams carries an unfortunate distinction. For the second time in seven World Cup matches in Foxboro, a player will go up against a national team from a country where he is currently facing rape charges. Atlas Lions captain and defender Achraf Hakimi, who plays for Ligue 1 giants and back-to-back Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain, is set to stand trial in France on a charge of rape stemming from an alleged assault in 2023. For his case, the 27-year-old strongly denies the allegations and says he looks forward to his day in court.