Former first lady Melania Trump spoke out about her pro-abortion views in a short clip promoting her upcoming memoir, saying “there is no room for compromise” on the issue of women being allowed to abort their unborn children. Melania said she has “carried” her pro-abortion views “throughout [her] entire adult life,” a break from her husband’s pro-life record while he was in office. Her remarks on abortion come less than five weeks before the 2024 election as Democrats are focusing on the issue to motivate their base. https://t.co/ZCTwZSqZND pic.twitter.com/Y9MT3uj97b — MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) October 3, 2024 Paragraphs of Melania’s memoir published by The Guardian on Wednesday go into more detail on her support for abortion. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” Melania writes, adding, “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.” Melania is not the only first lady to disagree with her Republican husband’s views on abortion. Daily Wire host Michael Knowles pointed out on X, “It is a sad, strange fact of history that, for as long as abortion has been a major public issue, every Republican FLOTUS has supported it.” Former President George W. Bush’s wife Laura said in 2010 that she supported Roe v. Wade remaining the law in the U.S., and during George H.W. Bush’s four years in office, former first lady Barbara Bush answered “yes,” when she was asked if she is “pro-choice.” Nancy Reagan said she’s “somewhere in the middle” on the issue of abortion. “I don’t believe in abortion, but on the other hand, I believe in a woman’s choice, so it puts me somewhere in the middle, but I don’t know what you call that,” she said. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Former President Trump’s appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, an accomplishment Trump has touted, saying, “Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.” The Republican nominee has pushed back against some pro-life laws recently, however. During the 2024 campaign, Trump criticized a near-total abortion ban in Arizona and a six-week abortion limitation in Florida, arguing that the laws are too extreme. In her book, Melania writes about disagreements between her and her husband, including on some aspects of immigration policy, The Guardian reported. She writes that “occasional political disagreements between me and my husband” are “part of our relationship, but I believed in addressing them privately rather than publicly challenging him.”

An Algerian national in France who raped a child has been granted refugee status after claiming he would be persecuted in his home country due to his trans identity. The criminal, referred to in court documents as Medhi F., was convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old minor in 2019 and sentenced to four years in prison, Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD) reported. In addition, Medhi F. was supposed to be deported from France. But in 2020, Medhi applied for asylum from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), claiming he couldn’t return to Algeria because he would face persecution as a trans-identifying male. OFPRA refused his request, citing a section of the French code that states that refugee status can be refused or terminated if the person asking “has been convicted in France … either for a crime or for an offense constituting an act of terrorism or punishable by ten years’ imprisonment, and his presence constitutes a serious threat to French society.” Mehdi appealed his case to France’s National Court of Asylum (CNDA), which in 2023 overturned the OFPRA decision. The CNDA maintained that Medhi needed to meet two conditions to be excluded from refugee status: A conviction and posing a threat to society “on the date of the decision,” JDD reported. The CNDA decided that the conviction was indisputable but that Mehdi no longer posed a threat to French society, writing that he had “voluntarily committed himself from the start of his detention to numerous treatment protocols and professional integration procedures that justified the reduction of his sentence, that he had obtained in 2021 the judicial lifting of the additional sentence of banishment from the territory pronounced against him, that he had expressed regrets and a desire for social and professional integration, and that he benefited from psychiatric monitoring and associative support.” A psychiatrist in 2022 also determined there was “no evidence supporting the hypothesis of a possible recidivism,” though it is unclear how the psychiatrist made that determination. OFPRA disagreed with CNDA’s decision and took the case further to France’s Council of State, the country’s highest court for cases involving public administration. On July 15, 2024, the Council of State ruled in favor of CNDA, stating that convictions “cannot in themselves legally justify a decision refusing or terminating refugee status” and that “the time that has elapsed and the entire behavior of the person concerned since the commission of the offenses” should be taken into account. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! OFPRA appealed the Council’s decision, but it was upheld on Monday, with judges ruling that Mehdi – who is currently doing some form of transition – is correct to fear persecution in Algeria for his trans identity, and the fear is serious enough to grant him refugee status in France, JDD reported.

The man accused of drinking four beers before crashing his car into an SUV and injuring several children in Texas last week is an illegal immigrant from Honduras, federal immigration officials told The Daily Wire.  Dallas police arrested Jose Luis Castro Alvarado, 20, on Saturday after they said he ran a red light at around 10:00 p.m. and crashed into an SUV, seriously injuring six children. According to police, Alvarado allegedly admitted to police that he had consumed two beers before the crash, but a passenger in his vehicle said they each drank four beers just before the crash.  One of the children injured, a 4-year-old child who was thrown out of the vehicle, is in critical condition, according to Fox 4. He suffered multiple fractures and a lacerated liver. An injured 5-year-old required jaw surgery.  Alvarado, a citizen of Honduras, was charged with two counts of collision involving injury, two counts of collision involving serious bodily injury, and two counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle. He is currently being held at the Kays Tower detention center in Dallas. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told The Daily Wire that Alvarado illegally entered the United States around September 22, 2021, near La Joya, Texas, which is about 500 miles south of Dallas. ICE said he entered “without being inspected, admitted, or paroled by an immigration officer.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! Alvarado cannot be released from prison because ICE placed a detainer on him after Dallas police took him into custody.  Police said that Alvarado denied being under the influence of alcohol but that his eyes were bloodshot when they arrested him, according to an affidavit on the incident obtained by Fox 4.  After the accident, investigators said that Alvarado ran from the scene, and a police K-9 located him hiding in the bushes in a nearby neighborhood. Police said he did not stop to check on the victims of the crash before fleeing.  Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled House passed a measure that would deport non-citizens convicted of DUIs, though the legislation stalled out in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Paleontologists named a giant fossil Pachyrhinosaurus skull unearthed in Alberta, Canada, “Big Sam.” They have been painstakingly digging for a year to remove this intact skull, which is in a bonebed discovered more than 50 years ago. It is only the second adult Pachyrhinosaurus head from the bonebed thus far. @cbcedmonton After nearly a year of digging, Paleontologists near Grande Prairie, Alta., have pulled a 272-kilogram pachyrhinosaurus skull from the ground. The team from the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum named the specimen “Big Sam” and noted that it’s uniquely preserved because it was found upside down, indicating the dinosaur was lying on its back when it died. Before extracting the skull, museum curator Emily Bamforth joined CBC’s Radio Active to share her excitement for the discovery. #Alberta #dinosaur #paleontology #pachyrhinosaurus #discovery #science #museum #dig #fossil ♬ original sound – CBC Edmonton – CBC Edmonton The Alberta bonebed has provided a museum of fossils. The discoveries allow paleontologists a unique look into the herd life of extinct dinosaurs. The head is roughly the size of a baby elephant, weighs almost 600 pounds, and is fully intact. It was upside down as if the dinosaur had fallen asleep on its back. Most other skulls of this type have damage and crushing, so this skull’s intact state is a big win. The Pachyrhinosaurus is a smaller cousin of the triceratops. From Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, Emily Bamforth describes the head of the Big Sam fossil: “They had this big, bony bump called a boss. And they had big, bony bumps over their eyes as well.” Working with fossilized remains, artists have created drawings of what the Pachyrhinosaurus may have looked like. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The Big Sam fossil is now at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, where researchers will study the specimen. Unlike previous skulls, the intact skull will provide a wealth of knowledge about the Pachyrhinosaurus. This find’s ability to fill in our knowledge gaps about the animal makes it astonishing. The Alberta bonebed has already provided a plethora of fossilized remains but is still “one of the densest dinosaur bonebeds in North America.” To extract the Big Sam fossil, paleontologists had to untangle a cluster containing about 300 other bones. The Alberta bonebed is the gift that just keeps giving! You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Paleontologists Finally Unearth The Elusive “Big Sam” After A Year Of Digging appeared first on InspireMore.

Merlin is a pig with a huge personality. This amazing talking pig lives with his “Mom,” Mina Alali, who works daily to improve his vocabulary. Mina also has a dog, a cow, rats, a pigeon, and a bearded dragon. Yes, you may label her on the eccentric side. But Merlin? He is all attitude, especially when this opinionated pig throws temper tantrums. @mina.alali istg he’s going through his teenager phase. he’ll be listening to my chemical romance in no time ♬ original sound – Mina Alali We’ve told you about Merlin before. His Mom was teaching him to read, and he was a quick study. Mina uses the talking buttons that many pet owners are using. The buttons are programmed with phrases that allow the animal to communicate. In Merlin’s case, his unique button cues are more complex than those of most animals. The video begins with Merlin in mid-tantrum. After being told no, Merlin tries some backtalk, hitting the “I can” button several times. Mina holds firm, so the pig slowly walked off to have a tantrum. He went into the bathroom, politely closing the door. He can’t reopen it, so he twangs the spring on the doorstop to annoy Mina. That doesn’t make her give in, but she does open the door for him. Image from TikTok. On another occasion, when Merlin wanted a vegetable snack, Mina quickly complied. However, that wasn’t enough for the hungry pig, who immediately requested another vegetable snack. When Mina refused, the pig slowly walked off to have a tantrum in the bedroom. Mina talks to Merlin just like a parent with a child, scolding him that it’s not nice to shut the door in her face. He continues shutting the door in Mina’s face with pure teenage defiance. This Mom has her work cut out for her. Please share Merlin the pig’s temper tantrum. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Sassy Pig Throws Hilarious Tantrum Every Time Mom Says “No” appeared first on InspireMore.

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A post shared on Facebook claims to show Iranians celebrating Hezbollah leader Sayed Nasrallah’s death. Verdict: False The video predates the killing of Nasrallah by nearly two months. It appears to be connected to an Iranian singer. Fact Check: Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon on Sept. 30, seeking to target Hezbollah militants, according to […]

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