LOS ANGELES — Over one in four California children ages 12 through 17 now identifies as “gender non-conforming,” according to a recent study by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In other words, more than a fourth of the state’s boys do not accept the fact that they are male, and similar numbers of girls refuse to accept being female. But if policymakers in the Golden State get their way, this is only the beginning of another revolution that will make the “Sexual Revolution” seem tame by comparison. And they are getting their way — and then some.

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Mexico Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said on June 17 — following the rescue of nearly 800 migrants packed into semi-trailers — that the government operation will send a message to human traffickers that the authorities are getting serious about combating human trafficking.

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“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he’s certain that one or more of the previous 44 presidents before Trump, was, like Buttigieg, a gay man.

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American journalist Glenn Greenwald — who became famous in 2013 for a series of reports in Britain’s Guardian newspaper based on classified documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden exposing the U.S. and British global surveillance programs — is now directing critical attention to Brazil’s justice minister, Sergio Moro. Greenwald now writes for and co-edits The Intercept, an online publication that he founded in 2013 with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras (who collaborated on Snowden’s revelations with Greenwald) and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the Oregon Court of Appeals’ ruling that permitted that state’s bureau of labor to punish yet another Christian bakery.

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With a field of 24 candidates and still more than a year before the party’s national convention, the question of who will be at the top of the Democratic ticket on Election Day 2020 is far from decided.

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Politicians have long understood the perks of maintaining a close relationship with the press.

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If you live in California, you’d better run out and buy all the ammunition you can afford (after you finish reading this article, of course).

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he was fulfilling a campaign promise on Friday when he signed into law a bill prohibiting local municipalities from adopting “sanctuary city” laws. The new law, which becomes effective next month, also requires law-enforcement officials in the state to “cooperate” with federal ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials when they present a “detainer request” on individuals being held on criminal charges in the state. The new law also provides sanctions for law-enforcement officials who don't comply.

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