Month: November 2024

Washington Examiner   In a landmark decision for the United Kingdom, British lawmakers have voted in favor of a bill that will allow terminally ill adults to end their lives with assistance in England and Wales. Friday’s decision came after an emotionally and impassioned debate that resulted in the bill passing by a vote of 330 to 275 in the House of Commons. Hundreds of people gathered outside Parliament during the debate. The legislation, which is still to face further scrutiny in Parliament and possible amendments, would allow doctors to assist patients who have less than six months to live to end their lives. READ THE FULL STORY                 

Breitbart   The small rural Canadian township of Emo (population 1,333) is being ordered by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to pay damages after failing to proclaim Pride Month as instructed back in 2020. CBC News reports Borderland Pride tasked Emo with the job of declaring June as Pride Month and ordered municipal authorities to fly an “LGBTQ2 rainbow flag for a week of your choosing” despite the fact they lack an official flagpole. Borderland Pride also asked Emo to “email us a copy of your proclamation or resolution once adopted and signed.” READ THE FULL STORY                 

Yahoo   Coffee futures extended their rampant rally to the highest in more than four decades in New York on global supply worries, threatening to further raise costs for consumers. Arabica beans — the variety favored for specialty brews — climbed as much as 3.9%, hitting the highest since 1977. They’ve jumped almost 70% this year. A severe drought earlier this year in Brazil has fueled worries about the country’s output. That comes on top of concerns about another bean variety produced in Vietnam, after a key coffee belt was hit by dryness during the growing period and heavy rains arrived at the start of harvest. READ THE FULL STORY                   

Axios   With votes still being counted in the 2024 election, at least two dozen ambitious House members are already sizing up runs for higher office in 2026, Axios has learned. This extraordinarily large cohort could cause all kinds of headaches for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as they navigate a razor-thin House majority. Both sides are trying to maximize attendance and minimize early retirements in one of the most closely divided Houses in history. READ THE FULL STORY               

Washington Examiner   Half of voters aged 18-29 have a positive view of the Republican Party compared to 35% who have an unfavorable view, a massive shift from previous years. The youth vote has long been considered a bastion of Democratic support, with Democratic strategists frequently theorizing before this past election that it would be decided by youth turnout — ostensibly guaranteed to vote Democrat. Instead, the youth vote saw a massive shift toward President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans, with an Economist-YouGov poll taken after the election finding the largest support for Republicans in years. The results were a major change from just before the election, when the 18-29 demographic’s favorability rating was 35%-49%, making the latest results a massive swing over just one month. READ THE FULL STORY               

Breitbart   Construction bosses based primarily in Texas are complaining that President-Elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will stop them from hiring and continuing to employ hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in industry jobs. Trump and Vance have vowed to carry out the nation’s largest deportation program in American history, spearheaded by former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Thomas Homan, whom Trump has named “border czar.” “We’re going to go do the job. President Trump has a mandate from the American people,” Homan said recently. “We’ve got to secure this country. We’ve got to save American lives.” READ THE FULL STORY