Despite Claiming to Respect Verdict, Biden Quietly Echoes Trump’s Complaints

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Despite Claiming to Respect Verdict, Biden Quietly Echoes Trump’s Complaints

(Headline USA) The Biden family’s inner circle reportedly was “stunned” by a Delaware jury’s decision to convict Hunter Biden on all three felony gun charges this week.

Though the president publicly vowed to respect the outcome of the case and its legal proceedings, Politico reported that he has privately bemoaned the charges against his embattled son, which now could land Hunter in jail.

“If I weren’t running for re-election, he would have gotten the plea deal,” Joe Biden remarked to one of his aides, referring to a plea deal offered to Hunter by the Justice Department that was thrown out by the judge overseeing Hunter’s case.

Ironically, Biden and his fellow Democrats have sought to attack former President Donald Trump’s complaints over the lawfare attacks being waged against him.

After Trump’s recent conviction by a kangaroo court in Manhattan, Biden released a statement downplaying any notion of malfeasance and insisting that the verdict was fair and should be respected.

Hunter Biden’s legal team was also shocked by the jury’s decision in the Delaware case, according to ABC’s Jonathan Karl. Hunter’s lawyers reportedly were confident that the case would result in an acquittal or at least a hung jury.

“The one-word response I got from a very close friend of Hunter Biden’s is stunned, absolutely stunned,” Karl said on Tuesday. “This is a clear blow to President Biden and one that is not simply a political or legal blow, but a deeply personal one.”

Karl also suggested that Joe Biden might be more open to issuing a pardon to Hunter, despite his previous pledge not to do so.

“I’m sure there are some interesting conversations happening right now inside the Biden family and at the White House,” Karl said.

In a statement after the jury’s verdict, Joe Biden said he was “so proud” of Hunter despite his son’s felony conviction.

“As I said last week, I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today,” he said. “As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.”

‘Pride’ Month Features U.S. Debut of New Sexually Transmitted Ringworm

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‘Pride’ Month Features U.S. Debut of New Sexually Transmitted Ringworm

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) As the LGBT community celebrates “Pride” month, a new and unique sexually-transmitted disease that results from same-sex contact has appeared in America, NBC News reported.

Calling to mind last year’s outbreak of monkeypox, swine flu and malaria, the sexually transmitted version of ringworm—a fungal infection—is transmitted specifically by gay sex.

The patient contracted the fungus told officials that he had traveled to England, Greece and California, having gay sex with various men all along the way.

When he arrived home, he had developed a red, itchy rash that covered his groin and buttocks, spreading even down his legs. The fungal infection is officially known as Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VII, and has not appeared in the United States until recently. In France, however, 13 cases were reported last year.

The particular patient reportedly took four months to recover.

According to Dr. Avrom Caplan, an assistant professor of dermatology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, while the report should raise concerns among populations having gay sex, the general population need not worry about this specific type of ringworm.

“There’s no evidence that this is widespread, or that this is something that people really need to be worried about,” he said. “But if people are having itchy eruptions in areas like the groin, and it’s not getting better, see a doctor.”

Clinicians and health experts warned that—like bacterial infections—people may become resistant to anti-fungal medications, ultimately meaning that each fungal infection has a greater risk of causing harm.

“We think a lot about antibacterial resistance, but this is a very important time for us to think about anti-fungus resistance,” said Mahmoud Ghannoum, a professor of dermatology at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland.

Tractor Supply Accused of Going Woke to Celebrate ‘Pride’ Month

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Tractor Supply Accused of Going Woke to Celebrate ‘Pride’ Month

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Outdoor retail outlet Tractor Supply allegedly went woke this “Pride” month, providing their employees with documents encouraging child sex changes, linking to the Trevor Project and forcing trainings focused on LGBT issues.

The company promoted a training campaign called “You Belong Out Here LGBTQ+,” according to investigative journalist Robby Starbuck, who posted several bombshell pieces of evidence via X that appeared to show internal documents and photographs.

“Our mission [is] to educate and promote acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community and allies by creating a diverse, inclusive, and supportive environment that aligns with Company values where all Team Members, vendors, and customers can feel safe as their whole selves,” said the memo describing the “You Belong Out Here” campaign.

The document explained that Tractor Supply planned to implement an outreach program for employees, customers and local communities.

It also provided links to the Human Rights Campaign, Parents of Friends of Lesbians and Gays, the Trevor Project, a gay rights health program and the National Center for Transgender Equality.

The Trevor Project, an outreach program intended to support LGBT youth, has been an occasional source of controversy amid accusations that it supports grooming and encourages sexual impropriety on chats between teenagers that may or may not be monitored by the organization’s staff. It also has hinted that it supports underage prostitution as a means of income for homeless LGBT teenagers.

Backlash has previously ensnared organizations such as Major League Baseball, which was accused of redirecting teens to a sexually explicit chatroom via a supposed “crisis line”

Tractor Supply also reportedly created a diversity calendar so employees could join in celebrations of the woke religion’s most sacred days.

The company, moreover, has a history of donating to LGBT charities, including the Oasis Center, a local health center that has a campaign to “create community for LGBTQ+ youth in Tennessee,” called “Just Us.”

“We also provide individual and group therapeutic support, helping youth talk about gender identity, sexual orientation, and anything else they’re going through,” the website said. The group is specifically geared towards middle and high school aged children.

Internal televisions in the Tractor Supply break rooms showed the pride flag as well.

Employees reported that office employees removed the image from the slideshow.

Walmart also advertised their internal pride campaign, called “Pride Always.”

Despite seeing the massive public backlash against Target last year, Walmart insisted on keeping the merchandise.

“I think we have merchandise that we sell all year that supports different groups. I’d say in this particular case, we haven’t changed anything in our assortment,” the company’s Chief Merchandising Officer Latriece Watkins said.

Southern Baptists Narrowly Reject Formal Ban on Churches w/ Any Women Pastors

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Southern Baptists Narrowly Reject Formal Ban on Churches w/ Any Women Pastors

(Headline USA) Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches.

The measure received support from 61% of the delegates, but it failed to get the required two-thirds supermajority. The action reversed a preliminary vote last year in favor of the official ban.

But it still leaves the Southern Baptist Convention with its official doctrinal statement saying the office of pastor is limited to men. Even the opponents of the ban said they favored that doctrinal statement but didn’t think it was necessary to reinforce it in the constitution.

Opponents noted that the SBC already can oust churches that assert women can serve as pastors—as it did last year and again Tuesday night.

The vote was perhaps the most highly anticipated of the annual meeting, reflecting years of debate in the United States’s largest Protestant denomination. It was the final day of the SBC’s two-day annual meeting in Indianapolis, where Southern Baptists have also elected a new convention president and approved a nonbinding resolution, cautioning couples about using in vitro fertilization.

In the resolution, messengers urged couples to “consider the ethical implications” of reproductive technologies like IVF. It has become a prominent issue in the wake of a IVF controversy in Alabama, which shielded IVF providers from prosecution and civil lawsuits after a state Supreme Court ruling said frozen embryos are children.

The SBC resolution agrees that embryos are children, regardless of location in or outside the womb. The resolution expressed alarm over the fact that IVF treatment commonly produces surplus embryos that are frozen, with “most unquestionably destined for eventual destruction.”

While not outright opposing IVF, the resolution also denounces medical experimentation on frozen embryos as well as any use of “dehumanizing methods for determining suitability for life and genetic sorting.”

It expresses sympathy with couples struggling with infertility but urges them to weigh the issues. It also encourages couples to adopt frozen embryos.

Some messengers gave impassioned defenses of the technology, saying it helped couples bring children into the world, but others said the destruction of frozen embryos outweighs any benefits from IVF.

“Right now we’re trying to open the conversation, remind Southern Baptists of our long-held beliefs of the sanctity of human life,” said Kristen Ferguson, chair of the committee on resolutions. “So in the future, we fully anticipate that you may see much stronger language … but we are not speaking to that at this time, because Southern Baptists aren’t ready to speak to that yet”

Earlier in the day, the much-watched proposed amendment, which received preliminary approval last year, would have formally excluded churches that have women in any pastoral positions, from lead pastor to associates, or even affirms them in that role.

Supporters believe it is biblically necessary, estimating hundreds of Southern Baptist churches have women in those roles.

Since 2000, the SBC’s nonbinding statement of faith has declared that only men are qualified for the role of pastor. It’s interpreted differently across the denomination, with some believing it doesn’t apply to associate pastors so long as the senior pastor is male.

The rejected amendment would have said any church deemed in “friendly cooperation”—the official term for SBC affiliation—must be one that “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”

Opponents argued the convention already has the power to remove churches over this issue, and the amendment will have unintended consequences, including disproportionately affecting Black Southern Baptist congregations, which tend to have women on their pastoral staffs.

But the motion went swiftly to a vote after only brief debate.

Ryan Fullerton, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, said the measure is “not about preventing women from exercising their gifts” in the church, in roles on church staff such as “children’s ministers.” But he said the Bible is clear that the office of pastor is for men.

Spence Shelton, pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, argued the measure was unnecessary.

He noted that the convention voted to affirm the ouster of a historic Virginia church Tuesday and two other churches last year, including the California megachurch Saddleback, which all have women pastors and affirmed they could hold top pastoral positions.

The stated citation for ousting those churches was an existing part of the constitution—that they don’t have a faith and practice that “closely identifies” with the Baptist Faith and Message, the document approved in 2000 that includes the affirmation that the pastoral position is reserved for men.

“Y’all, we have shown the mechanisms we currently have are sufficient to deal with this question,” Shelton said.

Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia and author of the amendment, cited a report that there are about 1,800 women pastors working in the denomination. He cited Bible verses limiting the pastoral office to men while saying women can serve in other roles.

“Our culture may see this prohibition as harsh, but our God is all wise, and wrote this word for the flourishing of both men and women,” he said.

Law said in a statement afterward that while the result is disappointing, he took heart that supporters were in the majority, “and that is something we can build on.”

Dwight McKissic, a black pastor from Arlington, Texas, who supports women in ministry under a male pastor’s leadership, applauded the rejection of the amendment.

In a post on X, he said that God loves women “too much to allow unbiblical restrictions, that violates local church autonomy, to disallow women from receiving and deploying spiritual gifts. … Male supremacy didn’t rule the order of the day.”

The denomination can’t tell its independent churches what to do or whom to appoint as a pastor. But they can say which churches are in and which are out.

Last year, Southern Baptists refused to take back Saddleback, one of the convention’s largest congregations, and a small Kentucky church after the denomination’s Executive Committee ousted them over the issue.

Both churches, which had women in top pastoral positions, appealed their ouster to the 2023 annual meeting and were overwhelmingly rejected by the delegates.

A similar scenario played out in Indianapolis on Tuesday, when messengers voted overwhelmingly to kick out First Baptist Church of Alexandria in Virginia, which has a woman in an associate position and also asserted that women can hold the top job.

Delegates also elected a North Carolina pastor and longtime denominational statesman to be the next president of their convention in a contest between six candidates that went into two run-off votes.

Clint Pressley, who is senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, will be the next Southern Baptist Convention president after winning 56% of votes in the final run-off race.

The SBC president—one of the most prominent faces of the conservative evangelical network of churches—presides over the annual meeting and appoints members to the denomination’s committees.

Pressley earned a master of divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisiana, one of the SBC’s official seminaries. He has led Hickory Grove since 2011 after pastoring churches in Alabama and Mississippi. Pressley was first vice president of the SBC in 2014-15 and served on numerous other denominational boards.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

BREAKING: Feds Fomented Plot to Shoot up ‘Bad Bunny’ Concert and Spark Race War

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BREAKING: Feds Fomented Plot to Shoot up ‘Bad Bunny’ Concert and Spark Race War

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In what appears to be an FBI-fomented conspiracy along the lines of the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot, the Justice Department claimed Wednesday that it has foiled a mass shooting that was designed to spark a race war.

According to the DOJ, the defendant, Mark Adams Prieto, 58, of Prescott, Arizona, plotted to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities to incite a race war prior to the 2024 United States Presidential Election.

However, the DOJ’s own press release admits that two undercover FBI sources—an informant and an agent—had active discussions with Preito about a shooting plot.

“Prieto had discussions with two [FBI sources] to devise a plan to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities to incite a race war prior to the 2024 United States Presidential Election. Prieto did not know the individuals were working with the government, but instead believed that they shared his racist beliefs and wanted to commit a mass shooting to incite a race war,” the DOJ said.

And the charging papers against Preito make the case look even more dubious.

For instance, the FBI informant had been spying on him for the last three years, meeting on at least 15 different occasions.

It was last October when the informant told his handlers that Preito allegedly was talking about a mass shooting. The FBI then conducted four undercover surveillance operations against Preito. Charging papers don’t say what the informant or undercover agent told Preito.

It was during the third undercover surveillance op at a March 23 gun show where Preito allegedly cemented plans to shoot up a “Bad Bunny” rap concert at State Farm Arena in Middletown, Atlanta that coming May.

The next day, Preito allegedly sold an AR-15 rifle to the undercover agent to use in the attack.

At the fourth surveillance operation on April 17 at another gun show, Preito allegedly said he wanted to delay the attack.

At a fifth gun show on May 5—the FBI doesn’t describe it as a surveillace op because it wasn’t recorded—Preito purportedly said he was going to leave “next week” to conduct his recon of Atlanta.

Preito was arrested on May 14 and was indicted Tuesday on Firearms Trafficking, Transfer of a Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime, and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm.

Each conviction for Firearms Trafficking and Transfer of Firearm for Use in a Hate Crime carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. A conviction for Possession of an Unregistered Firearm carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.

Preito’s defense attorney has already criticized the DOJ’s case.

“The basis of nearly all of the Government’s allegations, both in its Complaint and its Memorandum, consist of statements that were allegedly made by Mr. Prieto to the UC and CHS. The Government is simultaneously and confusingly stating that Mr. Prieto’s statements should be believed and that they cannot be believed,” said defense attorney Alicia LaPado in an attempt to release Preito on bail, which was unsuccessful.

“It is picking and choosing which statements to deem credible to suit its theory of the case.”

Preito’s case has yet to be docketed, and it’s unclear when his next court date is.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Entrapment in Play as Appeals Court Looks at Whitmer Kidnap Plot

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Entrapment in Play as Appeals Court Looks at Whitmer Kidnap Plot

(Headline USA) An appeals court is raising major questions about the trial of two key figures in a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor — and putting federal prosecutors on the defensive as the government tries to preserve the dubious guilty verdicts.

After hearing arguments in May, the court took the uncommon step of asking for more written briefs on the impact of a trial judge’s decision to bar evidence that might have supported claims of entrapment made by Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.

Fox and Croft are in prison for being the “ringleaders” of an FBI-fomented conspiracy to try to snatch Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. Prosecutors said a ragtag band of anti-government extremists had hoped that an abduction at her vacation home would spark a civil war around the same time as the presidential election.

Defense attorneys wanted jurors to see more communications between FBI handlers, undercover agents and paid informants who had fooled Fox and Croft and got inside the group. They argued that any plan to kidnap Whitmer was repeatedly pushed by those government actors.

But at the 2022 trial, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker greatly restricted the use of certain text messages and audio recordings under his interpretation of evidence rules.

“Trials are about telling your story, giving your narrative, trying to persuade,” Croft’s appellate lawyer, Timothy Sweeney, told the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which posts audio on its website.

“When you’re denied the ability to use the rules of evidence where they benefit you, that is an unfair trial. … This case needs to be reversed and sent back for a new trial for that reason,” Sweeney said.

He might have Judge Joan Larsen on his side. She was the most aggressive on the three-judge panel, at one point seeming incredulous with the government’s stance on an important legal precedent at play in the appeal.

“Oh, come on,” she told Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler. “Really?”

Larsen said defense lawyers wanted jurors to see that “government informants were just pounding” Fox and Croft.

“Make a plan, make a plan, make a plan — you’re just sitting around. You’re all talk, you’re no action, make a plan,” she said. “Surely that’s relevant.”

Kessler said any error by Jonker to keep out certain messages was harmless.

“They were talking about doing this before they ever met the informants,” he said. “Adam Fox said we need to take our tyrants as hostages two weeks before he had ever met a government informant. Barry Croft had been talking about it much longer.”

Lawyers met a Monday deadline to file additional briefs. Sweeney and co-counsel Steven Nolder said there were dozens of examples of excluded evidence that could have bolstered an entrapment defense.

The error “infested the entire trial,” they said in asking to have the convictions thrown out.

Kessler, however, said Fox and Croft didn’t need to be egged on by informants or undercover agents. He noted that weapons and bomb-making material were discovered after the FBI broke up the operation with arrests in October 2020. Whitmer, a Democrat, was never physically harmed.

The jury would not have been convinced that “Fox or Croft were ‘pushed’ against their will into conspiring to use explosives or conspiring to kidnap the governor,” Kessler said.

It’s not known when the appeals court will release an opinion. Another issue for the court is an allegation of juror bias.

Prosecutors had a mixed record in the overall investigation: There were five acquittalsamong 14 people charged in state or federal court. Fox, 41, and Croft, 48, were convicted at a second trial after a jury at the first trial couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

ICE Arrests 8 Suspected Tajikistani Terrorists w/ ISIS Ties in 3 Major Cities

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ICE Arrests 8 Suspected Tajikistani Terrorists w/ ISIS Ties in 3 Major Cities

(Headline USA) Eight people from Tajikistan with suspected ties to the Islamic State group have been arrested in the United States in recent days, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The arrests took place in New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The suspected terrorists, who entered the U.S. through the southern border, were being held on immigration violations, said the sources, who were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The nature of their suspected connections to ISIS was not immediately clear, but the individuals were being tracked by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF. They were in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which made the arrests while working with the JTTF, pending proceedings to remove them from the country.

The individuals from Tajikistan entered the country last spring and passed through the U.S. government’s screening process without turning up information that would have identified them as potential terrorism-related concerns, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a statement confirming the immigration-related arrests of “several non-citizens” but did not detail specifics. The agencies noted that the U.S. has been in a “heightened threat environment.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray deflected from the open-borders concern, which has been the de-facto policy of the current administration, by claiming that the U.S. is facing accelerating threats from homegrown violent extremists as well as foreign terrorist organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

The linking of the domestic terrorism concerns with the Hamas attack marks a stunning departure in its own right as Wray has often implied that the threat from domestic violent extremists is linked to white nationalism—a canard that has rarely borne out in reality and appears to have resulted in the nation’s top law enforcement agency prioritizing partisan politics and political correctness over the pursuit of legitimate criminal concerns.

Nonetheless, with the November election nearing and outrage over the Biden administration’s border policies becoming clearer, panic that a terrorist attack could throw the delicate political dynamic further into turmoil has led the Democrat leadership and its deep-state flunkies at least to appear to get serious about the legitimate external threat.

At one recent congressional hearing, Wray conceded that officials were “concerned about the terrorism implications from potential targeting of vulnerabilities at the border.”

The Biden administration in August said that it had detected and stopped a network attempting to smuggle people from Uzbekistan into the U.S. and that at least one member of the network had links to a foreign terrorist group.

“The FBI and DHS will continue working around the clock with our partners to identify, investigate, and disrupt potential threats to national security,” the agencies claimed.

Although President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order that nominally reinstated some of the tougher Trump-era policies, empowering immigration officials to put tighter limits on the number of people allowed to swam across the southern border, experts noted several loopholes that, in fact made the order meaningless.

Notably, the limits applied only to certain countries, none of which were the countries where immigration has been a major concern; and it did not apply at all on the northern border. Even the number admitted before the quota set in was set inordinately high, still allowing what would amount to millions of illegals to enter the country on an annual basis.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Troubled Kids Kept in Federally Funded ‘Warehouses of Neglect,’ Senate Probe Finds

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Troubled Kids Kept in Federally Funded ‘Warehouses of Neglect,’ Senate Probe Finds

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Senate Finance Committee released on Wednesday a report revealing systemic taxpayer-funded child abuse and neglect in youth residential treatment facilities, which are intended to provide temporary care for children with acute behavioral health needs.

The Senate committee also held a hearing over the matter on Wednesday.

The Committee said its investigation into four major RTF operators revealed that children in these facilities are regularly subjected to physical, sexual, and verbal abuse; inappropriate restraints and seclusions; unsafe and unsanitary conditions; and lack of necessary behavioral health care.

For instance, the report cited 13 separate instances involving nine separate children for whom staff employed both seclusion and chemical restraint concurrently. According to the report, chemical restraint describes the use of a medication, such as an antipsychotic or benzodiazepine, to sedate a person, while physical restraint refers to a manual hold which restricts a person’s normal movement.

The report also described grotesque child rape, such as when a staffer molested a girl.

The report, which examined conditions at RTFs run by Universal Health Services, Acadia Healthcare, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare, found that these harms are not isolated exceptions—but rather inherent to a Medicaid- and child welfare-funded model.

“It’s clear that the operating model for these facilities is to warehouse as many kids as possible while keeping costs low in order to maximize profits. Too often, abuse and neglect is the norm at these facilities, and they’re set up to let this happen,” Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Meanwhile, Wyden has promised legislation to address the issue.

 “These findings demand bold action. In addition to recommendations in the report that facilities, states, and federal agencies can implement now, I’ll be introducing legislation in this Committee’s jurisdiction in the coming months to raise health and safety standards, require real oversight and enforcement, and invest in the community-based services that are proven to actually help kids.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Four Tops Singer Sues Hospital That Refused to Believe His Claim, Ordered Psych Exam

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(Headline USA) The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group.

Alexander Morris, 53, filed a lawsuit Monday against Ascension Macomb–Oakland Hospital in Warren, Michigan, alleging racial discrimination and other misconduct during an April 2023 visit for chest pain and breathing problems.

Hospital staff “wrongfully assumed he was mentally ill when he revealed his identity as a celebrity figure,” the lawsuit says.

The Four Tops started in the 1950s and had hits such as “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)″ and “It’s The Same Old Song.” The group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

Morris is not an original member, but he joined the group in 2019.

The lawsuit says a nurse finally believed Morris was in the Four Tops and the psychological exam was canceled.

The hospital offered a $25 gift card as an apology, but Morris refused to accept it, the lawsuit says.

“We remain committed to honoring human dignity and acting with integrity and compassion for all persons and the community,” the hospital said in response to the lawsuit. “We do not condone racial discrimination of any kind. We will not comment on pending litigation.”

Morris talked publicly about the incident last year, saying he had returned to Detroit, his hometown, and was “being told that I’m insane or schizophrenic.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden Lifts Ban on Arming Ukrainian Neo-Nazis

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Biden Lifts Ban on Arming Ukrainian Neo-Nazis

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) As President Joe Biden compares average MAGA supporters to neo-Nazis at home, his administration is apparently set to arm a literal neo-Nazi unit in Ukraine.

The Washington Post reported Monday that the Biden administration has lifted a ban on arming Ukraine’s infamous Azov Battalion after a review found “no evidence” that it’s involved in human-rights violations.

The Azov Brigade was reportedly founded in 2014 amidst the CIA-backed coup in Ukraine to fight pro-Russia separatists in the Donbas. In 2015, it was absorbed by Ukraine’s National Guard.

“The military unit’s founder, Andriy Biletsky, is known for his neo-Nazi and white supremacist rhetoric,” antiwar.com explained in a Tuesday article.

“In 2014, Biletsky was also the leader of an ultra-nationalist organization known as the Social National Assembly (SNA), which dissolved in 2015.”

Headline USA has documented Azov’s ties with U.S. neo-Nazis.

One of the more prominent U.S. neo-Nazis, Blood Tribe leader Christopher Pohlhaus, went as far as briefly planning a compound in Maine to train American extremists to fight for Ukraine against Russia.

However, it’s doubtful whether American neo-Nazis will be keen to fight in Ukraine now that their brothers can receive U.S. arms. But as it became increasingly clear last year that hundreds of thousands of white Ukrainian males have been sent to the slaughter for the benefit of Western war hawks, Pohlhaus abandoned his plans to build a compound and said he and his friends are less zealous in their support for Biden’s proxy war.

“I will still continue to support the struggle of the people there,” Pohlhaus reportedly said on Telegram last November.

“I’m not going to allow our guys, my guys’ efforts and blood to go towards [the war].”

The Guardian reported in January that Pohlhaus’s sentiment is shared by the wider neo-Nazi movement, which is now more focused on Israel and more local issues.

“Within the wider web of neo-Nazi militancy, Ukraine chatter has all but evaporated with the conflict in Gaza and domestic issues outshining what was once a well-followed world event,” the Guardian reported.

“In September, a prominent far-right publication, linked to the disbanded American neo-Nazi terror group Atomwaffen Division, boldly declared that the war not only ‘doesn’t matter anymore to us,’ but it would ‘like to refocus’ on American issues,” the Guardian added.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

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