Over 345,000 Children’s Cups Recalled Due to Lead Contamination

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Over 345,000 Children’s Cups Recalled Due to Lead Contamination

(Headline USA) More than 345,000 children’s cups are being recalled due to lead levels that exceed the federal content ban, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

Soojimus is recalling 8-ounce and 12-ounce models of its Cupkin Double-Walled Stainless Steel Children’s Cups — sold in various colors on Amazon and the Cupkin website from 2018 through earlier this year.

Consumers in possession of the recalled Cupkin cups are urged to stop using them immediately and contact Soojimus for a full refund.

According to Cupkin, liquid in the now-recalled cups is “not exposed to lead due to the double walled construction.” The exposure to lead can occur if the cup bottoms are mistreated, the brand said.

Lead was not detected during the products’ initial development, the brand added.

Soojimus and Amazon will be directly contacting all known purchasers of the recalled Cupkin cups, the CPSC said Thursday. To receive a refund, consumers can submit photographs of the cups showing their destruction and fill out a form on Cupkin’s website.

Kang, a cofounder of Cupkin, said that their manufacturer initially confirmed no lead was used in the cups’ glass beads, which are placed at the bottom of the products for vacuum sealing. But the manufacturer later admitted fault, he said.

Health officials maintain there is no safe level of lead, which can harm brain development in young children. Kids can be exposed to the metal through bits of old paint, contaminated dust and sometimes drinking water that passes through lead pipes or lead cups.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Journalist and Professor Arrested for Buying Child Porn

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Journalist and Professor Arrested for Buying Child Porn

(Headline USA) A former Washington state newspaper editor was arrested on allegations of paying 10 to 14 year old girls in exchange for sexually explicit images.

Steve Smith, 73, was executive editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane from 2002 to 2008. Washington State Patrol detectives arrested Smith Thursday on 10 counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, KHQ reported.

He declined a jail interview with The Spokesman-Review Thursday evening. At a hearing Friday, he was ordered held on $25,000 bond. The Associated Press was unable Friday evening to locate an attorney who could speak for Smith.

An account in Smith’s name for a mobile cash payment service was linked to an investigation into children using social media to send sexually explicit photos of themselves in exchange for money sent to them via the app, according to court documents.

The victims, 10-to-14-year-old girls, sent images to an Instagram account and received money through a cash app account. Internet activity of both accounts were traced to Smith’s Spokane home, the documents said.

Chat conversations showed Smith was aware of the girls’ ages, the documents said.

He had a “very large amount” of images depicting child sexual abuse and was actively downloading more when investigations searched his home Thursday, the documents said, adding that when a detective asked if he knew why they were there with a search warrant he replied, “yes, it’s probably from what I have been downloading.”

After leaving The Spokesman-Review, Smith served as a journalism clinical associate professor at the University of Idaho, specializing in teaching journalism ethics. He retired in 2020.

The nonprofit news organization FāVS News, which has employed Smith as a columnist since 2020 and recently named him managing editor, said Friday that he’d been suspended indefinitely following the arrest.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

MURDOCK: GOP Capitulating to Left’s Corrupt COVID Caveats for Voting

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MURDOCK: GOP Capitulating to Left’s Corrupt COVID Caveats for Voting

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Why are so many Republican knuckling under to Democrats’ “temporary” election rules changes?

Crafty Democrats used 2020’s COVID-19 catastrophe to change the way Americans pick our leaders. Democrats filed hundreds of lawsuits to demand mass mail-in ballots, early voting, late arrivals of ballots, and other “emergency” measures.

They argued that the coronavirus was just too dangerous for traditional, in-person voting. The George Floyd riots were too important to let these microbes stand in the way, Democrats like former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio argued. And yet, this virus was so deadly that it merited a Mao-worthy revolution in voting practices.

Now, as the 2024 election looms, COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror. Previously ubiquitous masks disfigure the faces of only a few germophobes and diehards. Social distancing has gone the way of “The Hustle.” And yet Democrats’ “one-time” ballot procedures are becoming permanent. Shamefully, top Republicans now bow before them, as if in worship.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s otherwise admirable Republican governor, has launched Secure Your Vote Virginia. He wants GOP voters and their cross-party supporters to cast their ballots early, mail them in and practice ballot trafficking, with voters handing their ballots to party activists, free of the adult supervision found at polling places.

“I need your early vote this year,” Youngkin stated, who hopes to flip the state Senate red midway through his gubernatorial term. “We can’t go into Election Day down thousands of votes.”

The Republican National Committee is taking this thinking from coast to coast. Last month, it unveiled Bank Your Vote, an effort to “encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where legal.”

WRONG!

All of this is premature, at best.

At worst, it’s totally illegal.

While Virginia can do whatever it wants with state and local elections, it is bound by federal law, as is the RNC’s plan. Federal Election Day is “the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year.”

This is not a passage from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack nor a line that Mark Twain wrote for Ulysses S. Grant. It’s the law.

Specifically, 2 U.S. Code § 7 governs congressional elections, and 3 U.S. Code § 1 covers presidential ballots. These statutes invoke November—not October or September.

Also, voting anywhere other than in person, behind a curtain, destroys something sacred: the secret ballot.

Voting at home, by mail or through ballot traffickers demolishes voters’ confidence that they, and only they, know how they voted. Absentee ballots potentially allow spouses, relatives, bosses and even door-to-door political activists to pressure voters into casting their ballots one way or another.

“No heart medicine for you, Grandpa, until we inspect your ballot.”

Rather than surrender to the Democrats’ COVID-era assaults on U.S election norms, Republicans should fight ferociously in local, state and federal court to reverse these “one-time, special measures.”

The GOP should follow the lead of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

PILF is suing in a North Dakota federal court to kill its law that allows ballot to arrive 13 days after Election Day.

“Election Day has ceased to be a day,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams.

“Instead, we have election month because states accept ballots that arrive days and even weeks after Election Day,” Adams continued. “Not only does this lead to distrust and chaos in the system, but it also violates federal law. PILF is fighting to end this lawlessness and restore the day in Election Day.”

(Full disclosure: PILF is representing me in a federal lawsuit designed to overturn New York City’s law that allows foreign citizens to vote in local elections.)

If such relentless, robust litigation succeeds, Americans can look forward to a return to election integrity.

And if such lawsuits fail in the U.S. Supreme Court, then—and only then—Republicans should accept the Democrats’ permanent attacks on America’s voting system.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

Globalist CEO Says ‘World ID’ Is Coming ‘Whether You Like It Or Not’

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Globalist CEO Says ‘World ID’ Is Coming ‘Whether You Like It Or Not’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Alex Blania, CEO of Worldcoin, a company that wants to scan the irises of every person on planet Earth to create a global system of authentication, stated that a global form of ID is coming “whether you like it or not.”

Worldcoin was co-founded by Sam Altman, who also happens to be the CEO of OpenAI, the company that created the infamous large language model ChatGPT, Breitbart reported. Altman previously expressed his desire for ChatGPT to “break capitalism” by enabling the more “efficient allocation of resources.”

Among the previous investors in Worldcoin was a disgraced “Crypto kingpin” Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the news source added.

Worldcoin uses technology that scans the irises of people around the world. That data is then used to grant access to the company’s ecosystem and distinguish between real people and bots.

Worldcoin’s success will in part be driven by the success of AI in impersonating people, a field that Altman’s OpenAI is also closely tied to, Breitbart said.

Eventually, anyone who wants to use the internet will need to be authenticated by Worldcoin or “something like it,” Blania recently stated.

“Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will need to verify [you are human] on the internet, whether you like it or not,” he said.

To achieve the globalist goal, both Blania and Altman invented a device that would allow them to scan the eyeballs of people.

“To do this, they invented a physical device called ‘The Orb’ that can scan your eyeball. The goal is for The Orb to eventually scan every eyeball of every human who walks the Earth,” Coindesk reported.

“And at some point, if all goes well, everyone will have access to open-source and decentralized financial tools.”

Watchdog Urges Judge to Reject Hunter-Joe Plea Deal in Damning Letter

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Watchdog Urges Judge to Reject Hunter-Joe Plea Deal in Damning Letter

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The non-profit research group Marco Polo has issued a dire letter to the presiding judge urging them to “reject the plea deal” proposed for Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden. 

The letter, signed by Marco Polo Founder Garrett Ziegler, former federal prosecutor Robert Costello, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, raises serious concerns about the proposed agreement and highlights alleged prosecutorial misconduct during the federal investigation of Hunter. 

“Marco Polo, has spent nearly two years examining a copy of a laptop which belonged to the U.S. president’s son, Robert Hunter Biden (“Biden”). This work resulted in a comprehensive Report on the Biden Laptop,” the letter stated, before rightfully highlighting the authenticity of the infamous laptop. 

The watchdog group, which first gained notoriety after unleashing the content of the infamous “Laptop from Hell,” vehemently opposes the plea deal agreed upon by the Biden-led DOJ and Biden, citing what they believe to be “numerous inappropriate and likely illegal acts” during the investigation, including alleged threats made by Biden’s prosecutors. 

Additionally, Marco Polo’s damning report, along with other entities, exposes multiple instances of potential crimes by Hunter and his associates over several years, questioning the lack of accountability for these alleged crimes.

These concerns have been echoed by prominent Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress, with Sen. Ted Cruz saying, “The reason the Hunter Biden investigation is a matter of public concern is because it raises the question, is the president corrupt? Did he receive bribes from foreign nationals? Is he compromised?” 

Giuliani and Costello, both familiar with the events surrounding the laptop, have joined Marco Polo in opposing the proposed plea deal. Costello, who obtained the laptop initially, and Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor himself, bring their expertise to bear on the examination of various federal crimes allegedly revealed in the laptop. 

The letter emphasizes the judge’s authority to reject the plea deal, contending that the “nature of the crime(s), as well as the interests of the victim(s), and the community” should be taken into account. Marco Polo’s report details evidence of approximately “459 violations of state and federal laws and regulations” on the laptop, including alleged business-related, sex-related, and drug-related crimes. 

The case is set to be heard next Wednesday, July 26.  

Read the full letter here. 

DeSantis Launches New Campaign ‘Reboot’ to Catch Trump in Polls

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DeSantis Launches New Campaign ‘Reboot’ to Catch Trump in Polls

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., is planning a campaign reboot because of his drop in popularity in the polls, an official on his team said.

During the last few months, DeSantis and his campaign have been dropping in polls, which led to him tying with businessman and another presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, whose approval was nowhere near the approval of DeSantis, the Post Millennial reported.

Despite the stagnating polls and financial troubles in the campaign, Generra Peck, an official of DeSantis’s campaign, stated that DeSantis is “ready to prove [the establishment] wrong again,” adding that people should “buckle up” for things ahead.

“It’s the third reboot in just under eight weeks. All campaigns reboot, but they don’t reboot every two or three weeks,” pollster Richard Baris said during his conversation with Jack Posobiec on Friday.

“So the real question is, is this really a reboot? Because we’ve heard this before.”

Around a dozen staffers were recently fired by DeSantis and Peck has been under pressure to perform. In addition to that, campaign financing also has been low.

The publication reported that 70% of donors to his campaign have already given the maximum amount that can be donated, while 15% of the donors are smaller and have given less than $200. On the other hand, both Donald Trump and Ramaswamy have brought in over half their financing from smaller donors.

In addition to all of the problems, morale on the DeSantis campaign is “downright low,” a source reported, saying that the “entire campaign is on the brink.”

To solve these problems, DeSantis decided to do more interviews and public events with “corporate media” outlets, with him appearing this week on CNN to do an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper.

People can also expect fewer staged events and more on-the-ground and “intimate” activities with voters, the news source reported.

DOJ Plans to Sue to Make Illegal Immigration Easier

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DOJ Plans to Sue to Make Illegal Immigration Easier

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden DOJ has announced its plan to file a lawsuit against the Texas government to challenge its efforts to control the rampant flow of illegal immigration into the country.

The DOJ claims that Texas’s new actions to curb unlawful border crossings, including the placement of floating buoy barriers in the Rio Grande, violate federal law and would worsen the already bad humanitarian situation on the southern border.

“The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the DOJ wrote in a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The letter, written by Assistant Attorney General Todd Kimm and Jaime Esparza, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, warned that the federal government could take immediate action.

“This floating barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns,” the federal officials claimed. “Thus, we intend to seek appropriate legal remedies, which may include seeking injunctive relief requiring the removal of obstructions or other structures in the Rio Grande River.”

The Texas government pushed back against the Biden administration’s threats, arguing that the measures were needed.

“Texas has the sovereign authority to defend our border, under the U.S. Constitution and the Texas Constitution,” said Abbott in a fiery tweet on Friday. “We have sent the Biden Administration numerous letters detailing our authority, including the one I hand-delivered to President Biden earlier this year.”

Abbot further torched the Biden administration for allegedly inflicting the current border crisis. “The tragic humanitarian crisis on the border was created because of Biden’s refusal to secure the border,” Abott added. “His open border policies encourage migrants to risk their lives crossing illegally through the Rio Grande, instead of safely and legally over a bridge.”

Hunter Biden Threatens MTG for Showing Graphic Pics of Sex w/ Hooker

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Hunter Biden Threatens MTG for Showing Graphic Pics of Sex w/ Hooker

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An attorney representing embattled First Son Hunter Biden has issued a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) demanding an investigation after the exposé of sexually explicit images of Hunter during a congressional hearing. 

The attorney, Abigail Lowell, has brought attention to potential violations of House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. 

“This week, your colleague has lowered herself, and by extension the entire House of Representatives, to a new level of abhorrent behavior that blatantly violates House Ethics rules and standards of official conduct. If the OCE takes its responsibilities seriously, it will promptly and decisively condemn and discipline Ms. Greene for her latest actions,” Lowell wrote in the letter to OCE, according to the Hill.

The controversy stems after Greene presented what she believed to be evidence of alleged evidence of Hunter’s alleged wrongdoings in business tax write-offs. The evidence included pornographic photos depicting Hunter with prostitutes and alleged trafficking activities. 

“Here is proof Hunter Biden paid prostitutes through his law firm, OWASCO PC, and trafficked his victims across state lines in violation of the Mann Act,” Green said in a tweet featuring the video. “Not only that, IRS whistleblowers confirm Hunter Biden committed tax fraud by deducting payments to prostitutes from OWASCO’s taxes.” 

Video footage of Greene’s presentation went viral on social media platforms, with prominent conservative personalities touting Greene’s action and Democrats raising concern about decorum.  

Hunter’s attorney claimed the OCE must rebuke the conduct, echoing Democrats’ remarks. In the letter, Lowell added, “Now more than ever, the House has a duty to make loud and clear that it does not endorse, condone, or agree with her outrageous, undignified conduct and brazen violations of the standards of official conduct that do not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.” 

As reported by the Hill, the OCE is a non-partisan entity within the House of Representatives created in a bid to probe claims of congressional misconduct by elected officials. If wrongdoing is found, reported the Hill, they could refer matters to the Ethics Committee. 

Greene has not reacted to the letter but took to Twitter to share a clip of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld reporting on the now-viral presentation

Fired Black DEI Director Says College Was Targeting White People

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Fired Black DEI Director Says College Was Targeting White People

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A black ex-DEI director who was fired by her community college in California for not being woke enough filed a lawsuit last week accusing the school of “illegally targeting white people.”

De Anza College, a public community college in the San Jose area, fired Tabia Lee, a tenured faculty member, in March after she said she questioned “antiracist orthodoxy” while she was still working there, the Daily Wire reported.

This led to Lee filing a lawsuit against the college on July 10, saying that a hostile DEI department is “illegally targeting white people on the basis of race.”

The complaint indicated that Lee was accused of “whitesplaining” and not being the “right kind of black person.”

“She happens to be black, but first and foremost, Dr. Lee is a teacher dedicated to humanism and civil rights,” the complaint stated.

“She teaches that people should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. De Anza is hostile to this concept.”

In a letter to Lee, the community college district told her that the official reasons for why she was fired were a “persistent inability to demonstrate cooperation in working with colleagues and staff,” her “unwillingness to accept constructive criticism” and “no expectation on the part of the Tenure Review Committee… that improvements in these two critical areas can ever be achieved.”

However, Lee exposed the hypocrisy of the woke college by showing that it wasn’t her who was unwilling to “accept constructive criticism.”

“… the way that they behaved was what they claim other people do to marginalized people. They literally marginalized me as an individual, and they shunned me and they worked really hard to push me out,” she said, adding that she was called a “b****” and “dictatorial.”

She also claimed she was accused of being disrespectful to a BLM founder and supporting white supremacy.

Lee then added that the reason why she was treated this way was because she questioned and objected to some of the DEI department’s initiatives.

Among the things that led to the “tolerant” treatment from the Left were her objecting to the college’s land acknowledgments for an American Indian tribe, trying to spearhead a “Jewish inclusion” event on campus, refusing to join a “socialist network,” declining to use the “gender-neutral” term “Latinx” and asking why “Black” was capitalized but not “white.”

Time Grants Fawning Cover Story to Fetterman for Missing Weeks of Work

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Time Grants Fawning Cover Story to Fetterman for Missing Weeks of Work

(Headline USA) Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., was featured in a glowing cover story by Time magazine’s Molly Ball that praised him for taking weeks off of work to battle depression.

The story, titled “How John Fetterman Came Out of the Darkness,” uncritically paints Fetterman as a champion for mental health and ignores the many ways his cognitive decline has affected his ability to perform his job.

Fetterman admitted during the interview that he didn’t even want to attend congressional orientation after winning the election, and that his wife, Gisele, had to force him to go.

“Think of the insanity of that,” said Fetterman, who had previously served as Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor and had a stroke shortly before the primary in which he secured his senatorial nomination.

“I work for two years. And at the end of that, after nearly dying, after the most infamous debate in American politics, I was going to not show up for orientation,” he continued. “That’s what depression does.”

Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February after purportedly being diagnosed with clinical depression. He said that his humiliating debate with Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz was the “trigger” for his downward spiral.

“The debate lit the mitch,” he said twice before finally correcting himself, “Lit the match.”

Fetterman said he knew he needed to debate Oz but that the result was catastrophic.

“I knew that the voters deserve to have what, what the stroke has done to me—transparency that way,” he said, adding that afterward he knew he was a “national embarrassment” and a “debacle.”

“I knew at that moment that I was going to be considered—consider myself—like, a national embarrassment,” he said.

Fetterman also revealed that, shortly before he was checked into Walter Reed, he believed he experienced another stroke.

The doctor overseeing Fetterman’s treatment at the time described him as “passive, very flat, very unemotional, almost mute.”

Ball, the author of the puff piece, may best be known to conservative audiences for her notorious February 2021 Time story gloating about the secret cabal that conspired to manipulate the 2020 election in favor of Democrat Joe Biden.

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