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New San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins received more than $100,000 in consulting fees from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, a nonprofit connected to the group that backed the recall of her predecessor, Chesa Boudin, newly filed city records show. The previously undisclosed payments, first reported by the San Francisco Standard , are receiving scrutiny because Jenkins said she was serving the Boudin recall team in a volunteer capacity during the campaign. "San Franciscans should be outraged that Brooke Jenkins deliberately misled them," said Rachel Marshall, Boudin's former communications director. "During the campaign, she hid that she was secretly being paid by backers of the recall while garnering public trust by falsely claiming she was a 'volunteer.'" In statements to multiple news outlets, Jenkins said, "I leveraged my career and prosecutorial experience to help provide a new source of income to help support my family and small children." Tom … [Read more...] about Payments received by new SF DA Brooke Jenkins during Chesa Boudin recall draw scrutiny

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 4 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! Twitter users are reacting to a viral social media post that appears to show a young boy pole dancing at a Pennsylvania gay pride event while bystanders cheered him on. "A pride event in PA featured a stripper pole where they taught kids how to pole dance," the Twitter account LibsofTikTok posted on Thursday along with a TikTok video showing a young boy with a rainbow skirt pole dancing after a man with no shirt gave him instructions. "Central PA Pride had a pole set up with an amazing instructor to assist," the caption on the post read. "My kiddo is a natural!" The hashtags on the post seemingly coincide with the Central Pennsylvania Pride Festival that took place in Harrisburg over the weekend. BIDEN TARGETS GOP LAWS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania gay pride event features shirtless instructor teaching children to pole dance

Pennsylvanians are, for the moment, protected from high costs of a "Green New Deal" initiative being pushed by Governor Tom Wolf via executive order. Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued an injunction against further implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI would cause Pennsylvania to join other mid-Atlantic and New England states to "to cap and reduce power sector CO2 emissions." These states strictly limit carbon emissions from electricity producers by forcing them to pay for "credits." This is a tax in everything but name. By Pennsylvania state law, only the legislature—not the governor—can pass taxes. Joining the initiative via executive order is flatly unconstitutional in our state. The governor is no stranger to executive overreach. Last year voters agreed to amend the state constitution to rein in Wolf's emergency powers related to COVID. Here he goes again. But Wolf is a lame duck, and RGGI's ultimate fate may not be … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania Avoids a Disastrous Green New Deal Policy—For Now | Opinion

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 5 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia pleaded no contest Friday to criminal charges that it systematically polluted waterways and residential water wells across hundreds of miles. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Operating agreed to independent testing of homeowners' water and promised to remediate contamination in a settlement of two separate criminal cases brought by the Pennsylvania attorney general. Under a plea deal, the company will also pay $10 million to restore watersheds and streams along the route of its Mariner East pipeline network. A judge heard and approved the plea at a hearing in Harrisburg on Friday. BIDEN OFFICIALS PUSH ELECTRIC … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania pipeline developer pleads no contest in pollution case

A child “came out” as transgender during a “gender reveal” for the 4-year-old at the Vancouver Pride Parade — a situation which follows a recent trend of the radical left attempting to indoctrinate and sexualize children at restaurants, pride festivals, and classrooms. The viral video shows a young girl with a trans flag draped around her like a cape. An adult with a rainbow flag assists the child in the “gender reveal,” as blue smoke popped out of a tube as the child celebrated coming out as a boy. “Once they closed the road, Charlie strutted out with Grammy and they faced the sidelines and after a short struggle, the cannon exploded with blue smoke and biodegradable confetti,” the girl’s mom Alaina Bourrel told South West News Service. “Charlie jumped with joy as the crowd cheered him on. He couldn’t believe the love and support he was shown from the bystanders,” she added: A 4-year-old had a gender reveal and came out as transgender at a pride event. … [Read more...] about 4-Year-Old ‘Comes Out’ as Transgender at Vancouver Pride Parade

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 12 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The judge in a case brought by Gov. Tom Wolf's administration against three counties that aren't reporting mail-in ballots lacking handwritten dates on their return envelopes told lawyers Friday she will rule as quickly as possible. Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer presided over an online conference in the litigation brought by the Department of State under Wolf, a Democrat , against three Republican-majority counties over about 800 mail-in ballots from the May primary. The counties argue the ballots shouldn't be counted because of the legal requirement for the exterior envelope dates, which are not used to determine if voters are eligible or if the ballots are received in time. Wolf sued Berks, Fayette and Lancaster counties a month ago, … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania judge promises to move quickly regarding mail-in ballot dispute

AFP — On February 14, 1989 Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for British writer Salman Rushdie to be killed for writing “The Satanic Verses”, which the cleric said insulted Islam. In a fatwa, or religious decree, Khomeini urged “Muslims of the world rapidly to execute the author and the publishers of the book” so that “no one will any longer dare to offend the sacred values of Islam.” Khomeini, who was 89 and had just four months to live, added that anyone who was killed trying to carry out the death sentence should be considered a “martyr” who would go to paradise. A $2.8-million bounty was put on the writer’s head. – Driven underground – The British government immediately granted police protection to Rushdie, an atheist born in India to non-practising Muslims. For almost 13 years he moved between safe houses under the pseudonym of Joseph Anton, changing base 56 times in the first six months. “I am gagged and imprisoned,” he recalled writing in … [Read more...] about Rushdie: From Fatwa Fugitive to Free Speech Hero