In a reversal from the Biden administration’s policy, the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Justice has stripped the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) — which has been accused of working with Hamas during the October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel — of immunity from prosecution. That decision will enable the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by the October 7 victims&#8217; families to move forward.
In a  letter from the United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres regarding the case Estate of Tamar Kedem Siman Tov et al. v. UNRWA, the text stated:
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The complaint in this case recounts atrocious crimes committed by Hamas on October 7. And its factual allegations, taken as true, detail how the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (&#8220;UNRWA&#8221;) played a significant role in those heinous offenses. Previously, the Government expressed the view that certain immunities shielded UNRWA from having to answer those allegations in American courts. The Government has since reevaluated that position, and now concludes UNRWA is not immune from this litigation. Nor are the bulk of other defendants.
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The lawsuit<a href="https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/001-UNRWAComplaint.pdf"> states</a>:
<blockquote>The atrocities committed by Hamas in the October 7 Attack were not only acts of terror, genocide, and crimes against humanity, they were torts in violation of the law of nations. Because, as detailed below, the Defendants’ actions aiding and abetting those torts in violation of the law of nations, including but not limited to their funding of Hamas, occurred in significant part in the State of New York and in this federal judicial district, this Court has subject matter jurisdiction and venue over Plaintiffs’ claims against these Defendants. Many of the Plaintiffs separately have claims against Defendants for aiding and abetting Hamas’ violations of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (“TVPA”), which requires no such New York nexus.</blockquote>
“The US administration&#8217;s determination that UNRWA lacks diplomatic immunity could substantially facilitate Israel&#8217;s efforts to end the agency&#8217;s operations within Israeli territory,” Israel Hayom <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/25/trumps-doj-strips-unrwa-of-immunity/">pointed out</a>. “The lawsuit presents evidence alleging UNRWA orchestrated a $1 billion money laundering operation that funded Hamas, while simultaneously reducing humanitarian aid to Gaza residents and playing a critical role in the October 7 attack.”
Documents shared with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> last December impelled the media outlet to admit that senior staff at UNRWA schools doubled as members of Hamas’ military wing.
As shown by the detailed records kept by the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, which were seized by Israel, at least 24 people employed by the anti-Israel UNRWA in their schools were members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. “A majority were top administrators at the schools — principals or deputy principals — and the rest were school counselors and teachers, the documents say,” The Times reported. “Almost all of the Hamas-linked educators, according to the records, were fighters in the Qassam Brigades.”
“The Constitution does not grant immunity to foreign sovereigns or organizations. Instead, such immunity &#8216;is a matter of grace and comity on the part of the United States,’” the letter continued. “The interactions among two treaties, one statute, and one proposed convention govern whether UNRWA is entitled to such grace here. First, the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 (‘IOIA’) creates the ‘default rules’ for the immunity enjoyed by international organizations in the United States. Although apparently aimed at many of the same entities that now comprise the United Nations (‘UN’) system, id., the JOIA applies to any ‘public organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress &#8230; and which shall have been designated by the President through appropriate Executive order as being entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided in this subchapter.’&#8221;
“In other words, Congress controls in the first instance whether the United States participates in such ‘public organizations’ and it empowered the President to decide whether to extend immunity to these organizations including ‘at any time to revoke the designation’ entitling the organizations to immunity,” the letter explains.
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The Trump DOJ has reversed the Biden admin&#39;s position and made it clear that UNRWA and its employees are not entitled to immunity for their atrocious terroristic conduct. 
File this under the category of &quot;things that should not have to be said but thank God someone said them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iRVSFZdV4v">pic.twitter.com/iRVSFZdV4v</a>
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A school board member for one of the largest school districts in America allegedly embezzled $175,000 from a company where he worked, and spent the money on luxuries, including strip clubs, as well as to subsidize his campaign for office, a lawsuit alleges.
Democrat Kyle McDaniel is the budget chair for Fairfax County (Virginia) Public Schools (FCPS), which has a $4 billion budget.
A previously-unreported <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25880075-kyle-mcdaniel-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> filed March 13 in Loudoun County court by his employer, flight school Blue Label Aviation, said that McDaniel abused his position as Secretary and Treasurer of the company, with access to its credit cards and bank accounts, to charge “personal expenses related to to personal travel, meals, entertainment and even expenses related to the defendant’s political campaign for the Fairfax County School Board.”
In June 2024, Blue Label’s CEO, Timothy Fischer, confronted him about $120,000 in improper charges, and “the defendant confessed and agreed to pay back the misappropriated funds,” ultimately paying back $50,000.
But in December 2024, Fischer “discovered that, not only had the defendant not ceased misappropriating the company’s funds for his personal use, he had vastly expanded his use of the company’s credit cards and bank accounts for his personal expenses,” charging $160,000 “for everything from vacations with his family, to meals, charges at a local strip club and a strip club in New Orleans, groceries and personal household expenses.”
The Fairfax County School Board <a href="https://community.nsba.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=e3072f16-d5d0-4c4d-b1ed-018796089e8e&amp;Home=%2Fhome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled to New Orleans</a> in April of that year to attend the National School Board Association conference, with expenses reimbursed by taxpayers.
On January 22, McDaniel was confronted and allegedly confessed again, and Fischer gave him the opportunity to resign without paying the money back in exchange for relinquishing his shares in the company and turning over its credit cards, the lawsuit said. McDaniel said he wanted time to consult a lawyer, but within days, Fischer allegedly saw even more unauthorized charges, and terminated him. “Fischer thereafter continued to observe that new, non-business-related charges were being made to the company credit card,” it said.
The company’s board met to approve his resignation, but McDaniel refused to cooperate with removing his name from corporate bank accounts, the suit said. McDaniel also deleted all of his work emails and performed other “suspicious activity,” it added.
The suit alleges embezzlement and misappropriation and says the company &#8220;has been injured in the amount of&#8221; $175,000. It seeks that amount, as well as punitive damages of $350,000, on top of requiring him to turn over his corporate credit cards and remove himself from its bank accounts.
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The lawsuit said that McDaniel had owned a company called Commonwealth Aviation, which in March 2023 became a subsidiary of Blue Label. According to <a href="https://www.vpap.org/candidates/332131/top_donors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance</a> records, Commonwealth Aviation was his school board campaign’s third-highest funder, at $15,369, all spent during or after March 2023.
McDaniel did not return a request for comment.
McDaniel won an election representing the entire 1.4 million-person county as an at-large member on the all-Democrat board. His school board <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/staff/kyle-mcdaniel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bio</a> says: “Kyle McDaniel (he/him) began his term as a Member At-Large on January 1, 2024 … [He] started two companies with his family. As a result of the COVID pandemic, both companies were closed in early 2020. With a newborn at home, he quickly pivoted to aviation and became a professional pilot.”
McDaniel, a white man who is married with children, was elected with help from a national group, the LGBTQ Victory Fund, after claiming he is <a href="https://watermarkonline.com/2023/11/06/more-than-a-dozen-lgbtq-candidates-are-on-the-ballot-in-virginia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bisexual</a>.
His top donor was the Democratic Party, and his second-highest donor was school board chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-board-member-sworn-in-on-stack-of-gay-porn-instead-of-bible" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Frisch</a>, a gay man with no children who held a campaign fundraiser at a drag show, followed hardcore pornography accounts on social media, and was sworn in on a copy of &#8220;Gender Queer&#8221; instead of a Bible.
McDaniel chairs the school board&#8217;s budget committee. The Fairfax County government is facing a $300 million budget shortfall after FCPS spent nearly <a href="https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/06/03/fairfax-county-virginia-public-schools-limited-english-proficiency-and-opportunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$142 million</a> on English as a Second Language in 2024.
This story has been updated.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-largest-school-district-put-a-kink-affirming-bondage-specialist-in-charge-of-reviewing-parent-complaints-about-books">Virginia’s Largest School District Put A ‘Kink-Affirming’ Bondage Specialist In Charge Of Reviewing Parent Complaints About Books</a>

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Late-Night TV may never be the same.
HBO’s John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight,” is facing a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/01/media/healthcare-exec-sues-john-oliver-for-defamation-over-toilet-hygiene-rant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new defamation lawsuit</a> from health care executive Dr. Brian Morley who claims the comedian slurred him “for ratings and profits.” 
In an April 2024 telecast, Oliver played an alleged audio clip of Morley at an administrative hearing <a href="https://ew.com/john-oliver-sued-by-healthcare-official-he-called-out-on-last-week-tonight-11708201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “People have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves and we don’t fuss over [them] too much. People are allowed to be dirty … You know, I would allow him to be a little dirty for a couple of days.”
Oliver’s immediate on-air response: “F*** that doctor with a rusty canoe! I hope he gets tetanus of the balls.”
Morley’s lawyer claims the recording was altered by the program.
Suing comedians for telling the wrong jokes seems an uphill legal battle at best. The First Amendment allows for plenty of creative embellishments, although Oliver’s comments proved highly specific and potentially damaging to the doctor’s reputation.
The courts will have the final say on the matter.
Should Dr. Morley emerge victorious it could have a much larger impact. Yes, “Last Week Tonight” would take a sizable hit, but consider the big picture.
What if other satirical comics have to watch what they say moving forward? Will they require fact-checkers on set? Should Stephen Colbert run his anti-Republican rants by CBS Legal before hitting the stage each night?
Comedians have considerable leeway when it comes to political satire as opposed to everyday citizens. Those wide guardrails matter, allowing for satirists to skewer elected officials without fear of political ramifications.
How far is too far, though? Thanks to the sorry state of modern late night TV, the question matters more than ever.
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The hosts in question, however, bend the truth so regularly it’s often unrecognizable. It’s not a bug but a feature. Yes, Legacy Media outlets warp reality in damning ways, too. The list of Fake News narratives continues to grow in the Age of Trump.
Colbert and co. often walk in lockstep with their journalist pals.
Look no further than the Russian Collusion Hoax™. Yes, the media fed that narrative beast for far too long, but late-night hosts parroted even the most extreme collusion talking points while assuming they had the goods on President Donald Trump.
They didn’t.
CBS’s Colbert hit the lowest low when he called President Donald Trump Vladimir Putin’s <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/you-cant-say-television-colbert-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BLEEP holster.</a> in one incendiary monologue. He also played up the Fake News story known to many as the Trump “pee-pee tape.”
The litigious world leader could have had something to say about that.
Colbert and fellow far-Left host Jimmy Kimmel also defended President Joe Biden from accusations, later confirmed, that he was suffering from dementia-like conditions during the 2024 presidential campaign. Both comedians had seen Biden up close during separate fundraising events.
They must have witnessed his diminished state firsthand. They didn’t share what they saw with their audiences, and Kimmel took that a step further. He used his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” bully pulpit to call anyone who said Biden froze up during his <a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/1140442/joe-biden-freezing-video-fundraiser-jimmy-kimmel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraising effort a liar</a>.
The projection was strong that night.
Other hosts have taken the media’s warped baton and run with it. Take the host of NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” The “Saturday Night Live” alum skewered President Trump in 2017 for <a href="https://time.com/4705083/seth-meyers-trump-meals-on-wheels-budget-cuts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gutting</a> the “Meals on Wheels” program.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fake-news-did-trump-just-kill-meals-wheels-not-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Except Trump didn’t.</a>
Meyers also played down the rampant violence spreading in Portland in 2020, as did some press outlets, in ways that felt like propaganda, not satire. And he wasn’t alone.
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Oliver also downplayed the ongoing violence swirling around parts of Portland, <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/john-oliver-media-portland-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving up this epic distortion</a>.
“Protests had been mostly peaceful there… it’s about one block that was actually starting to see fewer confrontations between protesters and police before federal agents moved in.”
Fake News? It’s beyond debate. But is it worth suing over? That’s where the conversation gets sticky.
What about late-night alum Amber Ruffin? She briefly hosted an ill-fated talk show on Peacock and has written for “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Ruffin recently cited the serially debunked <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amber-ruffin-dropped-white-house-correspondents-dinner-response_n_67eb51c2e4b0ff137ab490b4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Very Fine People” hoax</a> anew during a late-night chat to smite President Trump.
Said hoax claims Trump praised Neo Nazis following a 2017 Charlottesville rally which left one woman dead. The lie proved so brazen even Snopes called it out (albeit several years after the lie gained cultural ground).
It’s not just late-night comedy, of course. Comedians use their considerable platforms to spread lies that could be seen as libelous.
Take <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-burr-goes-full-ahole?row=0&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;author=Ben+Shapiro&amp;title=Bill+Burr+Goes+Full+A**hole&amp;category=News" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Burr</a>, who insinuated Kyle Rittenhouse was a White Supremacist during his Netflix special “Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill.”
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Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two and injuring one during a 2020 fracas tied to the BLM protests. A court of law found him innocent, agreeing with his self-defense explanation. Elements of the press and the Left insisted his actions were racist, even though his victims were white and they couldn’t pin any racially-charged comments to the young man.
Burr picked up that false narrative, saying Rittenhouse was a <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/bill-burr-kyle-rittenhouse-white-supremacist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Supremacist.</a>
“You gotta drop me off like two blocks away so my other racist friends don’t see my mommy drove me,” he cracked in the special, channeling Rittenhouse.
Comedians have more leeway when it comes to politicians, but no one elected Rittenhouse to elected office.
There’s a better solution here, one that doesn’t require legal challenges for First Amendment squabbles. A healthy, robust press would let viewers know that much of what’s said on late-night TV just isn’t true.
Journalists routinely regurgitate late-night jokes. They do the same with “Saturday Night Live” skits. That’s all well and good, but that practice is hollow if it doesn’t include fact checking when appropriate.
If comedians knew they’ve be held accountable for twisting the truth into so many pretzels, they might crack smarter gags that actually speak truth to power.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A male employee of Google who stated he served in such high-capacity jobs as “Global Business Leader” and “Head of Industry-Media Platforms,” has sued the company, alleging he and other male employees were discriminated against because they were men.
The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639423/gov.uscourts.nysd.639423.1.0.pdf">suit</a> from former employee Marco Meier accuses Marta Martinez, the Managing Director of Sales for Google, of making statements such as, “The women on my team have better leadership skills and are better prepared,” and “men are too aggressive and competitive.” The suit alleges that Meier and all the male leaders in Martinez’s department “endured a relentless campaign of hostile and disparate treatment, severe harassment, and discrimination based upon gender.”
“Indeed, over the course of a four-year period, Plaintiff witnessed the nefarious and systematic elimination of each male team leader reporting to Defendant Martinez, all of whom were exclusively replaced with female team leaders,” the suit states.
“Plaintiff and all male team leaders were continuously restricted from providing their insight during meetings, were issued lower performance reviews while female team leaders were provided with higher reviews without basis, were repeatedly denied large-scale influential projects while such projects were provided to lesser qualified female team leaders, and Plaintiffs and all male team leaders were continuously denied promotions &#8230; while female team leaders were rapidly promoted,” the suit claims.
Meier contended that he had submitted two detailed complaints of gender discrimination to Google, but no corrective action was taken or investigation conducted. Instead, he claims he was fired two months after his second complaint was closed after having worked at Google 12 and a half years.
“The accomplishments of Plaintiff were also without parallel which included closing the largest programmatic guaranteed deal in Respondent’s history with Apple,” the suit claims. “All female team leaders were promoted in less that two to three years. In stark contrast, Plaintiff was finally promoted from Level 6 to Level 7 after five and one-half years while Respondent Martinez refused to promote any other male team leaders.”
“Specifically, in or around November 2022, Defendant Google promoted fourteen employees in the Americas to Director positions. However, 13 of the promotions were provided to female employees.”

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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) reactivated its Instagram account just minutes before the terrorist group Hamas began slaughtering innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, a new lawsuit alleges.
Israeli Columbia students and family members of the victims of the October 7 attack are suing numerous anti-Israel groups and individual members, accusing them of “aiding and abetting” the terrorist group Hamas. The <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SGz224raVR8mHMzC6q-6EUiNcBKD6BSK/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed Monday in federal court, names Mahmoud Khalil and others, seeking to hold them accountable for Hamas’ terrorism.
“Defendants in this case are Hamas’ propaganda arm in New York City and on the Columbia University campus,” the lawsuit states in its introduction. “We know this because they advertise themselves as such. Their self-described acts in furtherance of their goals to assist Hamas have included terrorizing and assaulting Jewish students, unlawfully taking over and damaging public and university property on Columbia’s campus, and physically assaulting Columbia University employees.”
The most explosive claim in the lawsuit alleges that the SJP reactived its dormant Instagram account just three minutes before the deadly October 7 attacks began, and included a screenshot of the organization saying, “We are back!” on October 6, 2023. The October 7 attacks began around midnight eastern time. This, the lawsuit alleges, means that the defendants “had prior knowledge of the October 7 attack.”
The 79-page complaint includes a lengthy explanation of how the various campus organization interact, beginning with a 2010 National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) Convention organized by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The convention brought together the SJP chapters operating across American colleges and universities and created the NSJP to “control the management, financing, and messaging of SJP Chapters across the country,” according to the lawsuit.
Another group included in the lawsuit is Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), which purports to be run by Jewish persons who support the Palestinians and the boycott, divest, and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The lawsuit alleges that SJP and JVP created Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) in 2016 to gain support from various student groups for the BDS movement.
Within Our Lifetime (WOL), another organization being sued, allegedly “serves as AMP/NSJP’s chief operating partner and ally throughout New York City as a whole,” according to the lawsuit. People associated with the groups, including Nerdeen Kiswani, Cameron Jones, and Mahmoud Khalil, are also named in the lawsuit. Jones became <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/06/us-news/columbia-student-who-wanted-humanitarian-aid-for-anti-israel-protesters-now-teaching/">Internet famous</a> after standing behind a protester who demanded “humanitarian aid” for violent anti-Israel protesters who took over a campus building last spring, and Khalil is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-rips-censorship-advocates-for-saying-pro-terrorist-foreigners-have-first-amendment-rights">being deported</a> for supporting and promoting the protesters’ violent tactics. Kiswani runs WOL.
About half of the lawsuit contains allegations of activities the plaintiffs claim are pro-Hamas, including the organizations’ “Day of Resistance” and “Day of Rage,” promotion of which includes materials created by AMP/NSJP “and even Hamas itself,” the lawsuit says. The threat from these demonstrations closed Jewish schools and other Jewish institutions for fear of attacks.
It also includes examples of the organizations following Hamas’ orders. For example, when Hamas and other terrorist groups called for the “masses of our people throughout occupied Palestine to escalate all forms of resistance and struggle against the Zionist enemy, targeting its soldiers and settlers,” the NJSP put out a statement the next day saying it would hold a “Week of Action for Gaza.”
The organizations also invited terrorists and their supporters to speak on campus, terrorized Jewish students and prevented them from accessing places on campus unless they publicly disavowed Israel, and set up a “well-supplied” encampment “with identical tents, toiletries, food, and professional signage,” the lawsuit says. The lawsuit also goes into detail about the occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and the livestreams of destruction, including one captioned “Student Intifada at Columbia where students have occupied Hamilton Hall.”
The lawsuit alleges that these and other examples are not simply “individuals and organizations independently exercising their free speech rights to support whatever cause they wish—no matter how abhorrent.” Instead, the lawsuit says, they are organizations and leaders “knowingly providing substantial assistance—in the form of propaganda and recruiting services—to, and in coordination with, a designated foreign terrorist organization, Hamas.”
As such, the lawsuit alleges that the named organizations and individuals should be held liable for Hamas’ terrorism, though such a claim likely has little legal standing.
New York and its universities have allowed anti-Israel activities to go largely unpunished, and the state has anti-SLAPP laws that could strike down the lawsuit quickly if a court determines it was filed to silence criticism of Israel through a baseless legal proceeding. Whether the court would be legally correct in its determination may be up for debate, given the bias of New York judges.

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A woman is suing an Illinois doctor after he allegedly botched her late-term abortion, landing her in the emergency room with baby parts left inside her, a potentially deadly complication.
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle at Equity Clinic in Champaign, Illinois, performed the abortion on her 22-week unborn baby on April 2, 2023, the anonymous woman, who goes by &#8220;Jane Doe,&#8221; said in her lawsuit, filed on Friday.
The lawsuit alleges Kindle botched the &#8220;dilation and evacuation&#8221; procedure, perforating the woman&#8217;s uterus and leaving a significant part of the baby&#8217;s body inside her.
Kindle also allegedly did not administer any drugs to stop the baby&#8217;s heart, meaning he potentially dismembered the baby alive.
The woman, a mother of four living children, endured hours of pain before ending up in the emergency room, where a surgical team removed the rest of her baby and repaired her uterus, according to her lawsuit. She was left with significant physical damage and emotional distress, her suit claims.
Just three months earlier, Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, had <a href="https://www.illinois.gov/news/press-release.25906.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a sweeping abortion and transgender bill that signaled the state&#8217;s support for Illinois abortionists, shielding them from prosecution in other states.
Illinois also has looser restrictions on abortion clinics than other states — it <a href="https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/regulations-on-facilities-and-clinicians-providing-abortions/?currentTimeframe=0&amp;selectedRows=%7B%22states%22:%7B%22illinois%22:%7B%7D%7D%7D&amp;sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not</a> require abortionists to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, and it does not require clinics to meet ambulatory surgical center standards.
Kindle recorded that the woman&#8217;s uterus had been emptied and that he had inspected the &#8220;products of conception&#8221; and determined they were &#8220;complete,&#8221; that is, all parts of the unborn baby had been removed, the lawsuit notes.
The next day, the woman experienced heavy cramping and called the abortion clinic several times over many hours, at one point telling them &#8220;her bottom has a lot of pressure and it is hard to breathe.&#8221;
The abortion clinic told her to take ibuprofen. When that did not relieve her cramping, Kindle told her to take a laxative, the suit says.
Two days after the abortion, the woman told the clinic she had taken a laxative, but her cramping had increased. The abortion clinic told her to take an enema and go to the emergency room, the suit says.
She went to the emergency room, where a surgical team found and removed &#8220;half of a deceased pre-born human being&#8221; in her pelvis, according to medical records cited in the suit. They removed pieces of the fetal skull, which had adhered to her intestine, and they repaired her perforated uterus.
Kindle &#8220;deviated from a reasonable standard of care&#8221; and &#8220;it should have been obvious&#8221; that fetal parts were left inside, said a board-certified OBGYN with 35 years of experience including performing hundreds of abortions, whose letter analyzing the medical records was included in the lawsuit.
The emergency room medical team found &#8220;evidence of severe and intentional trauma&#8221; and signs of infection in her abdomen, according to the operative notes from the emergency room surgery.
The unborn baby&#8217;s body was found mutilated, according to the operative notes.
&#8220;Stumps of both femurs extended from the soft tissue of the torso,&#8221; and the baby&#8217;s arms were missing from the elbow down, the notes state.
&#8220;The skull was crushed and no brain was present. The face was non-recognizable,&#8221; the notes say.
The general surgeon who assisted in the emergency room surgery called Kindle, but the abortionist refused to answer any questions, the lawsuit states.
The woman herself also called Kindle again and asked whether her unborn child had been a boy or a girl. Kindle allegedly told her he would &#8220;look again&#8221; even though he knew the fetal remains had already been discarded and determining the sex would be impossible, which the lawsuit says was &#8220;outrageous, exceeded all bounds of human decency, and is intolerable in a civilized society.&#8221;
The woman is demanding a trial by jury and monetary damages of $50,000 each for five counts of medical negligence and emotional distress.

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Botched Late-Term Abortion Left Woman Hospitalized With Baby Parts Inside, Woman’s Lawsuit Says

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Tech mogul and top Trump ally Elon Musk said he is suing former Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Friday after Bowman called Musk a “nazi” on CNN.
Musk replied to a post on X Friday night, saying he has “had enough” in response to a video of the former New York congressman criticizing Musk and calling him a “thief” and a “nazi.”
“Lawsuit inbound,” Musk said.
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I’ve had enough. Lawsuit inbound.
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Bowman on CNN attacked Musk’s work with President Donald Trump. Musk has been a top ally in Trump’s push to restructure and shrink the federal bureaucracy. The Department of Government Efficiency, an idea originally suggested by Musk, has worked with agencies and departments across the federal government to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from their operations and priorities.
Bowman said Thursday on CNN that the “American people do not trust Elon Musk” because Musk is “incompetent.”
“This shows again that the American people do not trust Elon Musk, and that Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, was challenged in court, the court said the people have to go back, and now the people are coming back. He’s incompetent, he’s a thief, he’s a nazi, and people don’t trust him,” Bowman said.
Bowman’s comments come as Musk’s electric car company, Tesla, is being targeted across the country by vandals. Americans who have bought Teslas and otherwise have no obvious ties to the company have been targeted over a perception of support for Musk.
At least 10 Tesla factories, facilities, and charging stations have been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/tesla-vandalism-not-coordinated-trump-musk-claims-rcna197369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hit</a> by vandals in recent weeks as backlash against Musk grows over his close relationship with Trump. Some of the attacks have included setting Tesla vehicles on fire.
One anonymously-created website <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/tesla-dogequest-website-owner-list-dox-site-link-rcna197112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed</a> the personal information of Tesla drivers in an apparent attempt to drive vandals toward Tesla owners.
“Encouraging destruction of Teslas throughout the country is extreme domestic terrorism!!” Musk posted on <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1902084259197939834" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> this week.
Tesla’s stock price has tumbled significantly amid the wave of attacks on the car manufacturer. The car manufacturer’s stock price problems have been cheered by Democrats, including former vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
“Some of you know this. On the iPhone, they’ve got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day – $225 and dropping,” Walz <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tim-walz-cheers-tesla-stock-tumble-mn-state-employees-pension-owns-over-1m-shares" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a town hall in Wisconsin this week. “And if you own one, we’re not blaming you. You can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off.”
Bowman lost a reelection bid in 2024 in a Democratic primary against Rep. George Latimer, who challenged Bowman over his anti-Israel stance.

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Radical left-wing ice cream brand Ben &amp; Jerry’s said in a federal court filing that they believe their parent company, Unilever, violated the merger agreement with the removal of the company’s CEO David Stever.
The filing submitted late on Tuesday said that any decisions regarding a CEO’s removal must come after a consultation with an advisory committee from the Ben &amp; Jerry’s board, per <a href="https://apnews.com/article/unilever-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-ceo-activism-f0dfc60035b7a3e57e11421f5494c0c7">Associated Press</a>. Ben &amp; Jerry’s asserts that Stever was terminated earlier this month due to his outspoken political activism.
&#8220;Unilever has repeatedly threatened Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s personnel, including CEO David Stever, should they fail to comply with Unilever&#8217;s efforts to silence the social mission,&#8221; the filing <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/03/19/ben-and-jerrys-ceo-political-posts/82548333007/">said</a>.
Unilever issued a statement on the situation on Wednesday.
“Regrettably, despite repeated attempts to engage the board and follow the correct process, we are disappointed that the confidentiality of an employee career conversation has been made public,” a spokesperson for the company said.
Unilever acquired the Vermont-based specialty ice cream brand Ben &amp; Jerry’s in 2000 for $326 million. The relationship between the brand and the parent company has been fraught recently, especially in the current tense political climate.
Ben &amp; Jerry’s has always openly espoused radical left-wing doctrine. In November, the ice cream retailer sued Unilever in federal court in New York, accusing it of silencing Ben &amp; Jerry’s statements in support of Palestinians.
The Vermont-based ice cream maker also said in the complaint that its board intended to release a post mentioning abortion, climate change, minimum wage, and universal health care. The revised lawsuit said that Unilever President Peter ter Kulve “unilaterally barred Ben &amp; Jerry’s from issuing the post because it specifically mentioned ‘Donald Trump.’”
“According to Mr. ter Kelve, despite four decades of progressive social activism—and years of challenging the Trump administration’s policies specifically—criticizing Trump was now too taboo for the brand synonymous with ‘Peace, Love, and Ice Cream,’” the lawsuit says.
Tuesday’s filing was an amendment to the original lawsuit filed in November.
More recently, the company celebrated National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-jerrys-demolished-on-x-for-post-praising-abortion-providers">post</a> on social media.
“Today is National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! We stand with abortion providers today and every day. Learn more and take action now,” the post read, along with a graphic that stated: “Abortion care providers are being threatened across the country. Here’s why we need to stand with them today and every day.”
On the fourth of July in 2023, the company’s official social media account posted, “This 4th of July, it&#8217;s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

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Ben & Jerry’s Claims CEO Was Unlawfully Removed For Radical Left-Wing Activism

Ben & Jerry's Claims CEO Was Unlawfully Removed For Radical Left-Wing Activism

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Actor Ryan Reynolds, husband of “It Ends With Us” star Blake Lively, has filed a motion to dismiss Justin Baldoni’s claims that the actor was mocking him via the use of the character “Nicepool” in “Deadpool &amp; Wolverine.” 
Baldoni and Lively have been involved in a legal back and forth which is scheduled to culminate in a joint trial sometime next year. However, Reynolds was pulled into the fray as Baldoni claimed that Lively’s husband was making fun of him, which he asserted was proof that neither party took Lively’s sexual harassment claims seriously.
Baldoni sued Lively and Reynolds, alleging that they were trying to destroy his career with false allegations. The lawsuit also said Reynolds had verbally berated Baldoni for allegedly “fat shaming” Lively. 
The motion to dismiss states that defamation charges are not valid if Reynolds believes what he has asserted about Baldoni, per a report from <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ryan-reynolds-justin-baldoni-lawsuit-hurt-feelings-1236340790/">Variety</a>.
The “allegations suggest that Mr. Reynolds genuinely, perhaps passionately, believes that Mr. Baldoni’s behavior is reflective of a ‘predator,&#8217;” the motion states. “(T)he law establishes that calling someone a ‘predator’ amounts to constitutionally protected opinion … While Mr. Baldoni ‘may not appreciate being called’ a predator, those hurt feelings do not give rise to legal claims.”
“Mr. Reynolds has a First Amendment right to hold Mr. Baldoni — or any man who Mr. Reynolds believes sexually harassed his wife — in ‘deep disdain,&#8217;” the motion says. “It is, in essence, a burn book filled with grievances attempting to shame Mr. Reynolds for being the kind of man who is ‘confident enough to listen’ to the woman in his life and to hold her ‘anguish and actually’ stand with her.”
Reynold’s legal team also uses Baldoni’s past admissions of wrongdoing as proof that Reynolds should have a negative opinion of him. 
The motion states, “It would be perverse to permit Mr. Baldoni to build an entire brand — complete with a podcast, Ted Talk, and books — off of his confessions of repeatedly mistreating women, only to turn around and sue Mr. Reynolds for $400 million for simply pointing out in private what Mr. Baldoni has bragged about in public.”
Baldoni also has a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-baldoni-files-250m-libel-lawsuit-against-nyt-over-blake-lively-report">$250 million lawsuit</a> pending against The New York Times for the publication of an article that he claims was “rife with inaccuracies, misrepresentations, and omissions.”
The suit accuses the NYT of failing to exhibit “journalistic integrity” because the article’s writers “relied almost entirely on Lively’s unverified and self-serving narrative, lifting it nearly verbatim while disregarding an abundance of evidence that contradicted her claims and exposed her true motives.”

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Ryan Reynolds Files Motion To Dismiss Baldoni Lawsuit, Claims He’s Suing Over ‘Hurt Feelings’

Ryan Reynolds Files Motion To Dismiss Baldoni Lawsuit, Claims He's Suing Over 'Hurt Feelings'

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A California-based delivery driver on Friday was awarded $50 million from a lawsuit against Starbucks after he was burned by a hot beverage that spilled in his lap at a drive-thru.
Michael Garcia sued the popular coffee chain after having to undergo skin graft procedures on his legs and penis, which he says was caused by a scalding hot tea not being properly situated in the cardboard drink carrier. Garcia was burned from one of three venti-sized “Medicine Ball” beverages that he was picking up, per <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/delivery-driver-injury-lawsuit-california-starbucks">The Guardian</a>. According to the outlet, a Medicine Ball is an off-menu item consisting of &#8220;steamed lemonade, hot water, Jade Citrus Mint green tea, Peach Tranquility tea and honey.&#8221; 
Garcia’s attorney, Nick Rowley, said in a press release that Garcia’s “life has been forever changed” by the accident.
“No amount of money can undo the permanent catastrophic harm he has suffered, but this jury verdict is a critical step in holding Starbucks accountable for flagrant disregard for customer safety and failure to accept responsibility,” Rowley said.
The attorney also <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-awarded-50-million-starbucks-hot-tea-rcna196616">noted</a> that “Starbucks offered $30m to settle but wanted confidentiality. We said we would settle for $30m without confidentiality and only if Starbucks agreed to publicly apologize and promise to change policy to prevent this from happening again.”
Starbucks also issued a statement, saying they were sympathetic to Garcia’s pain but also that they planned to appeal the decision. The company said they have “always been committed to the highest safety standards in our stores.”
“We sympathize with Mr. Garcia, but we disagree with the jury’s decision that we were at fault for this incident and believe the damages awarded to be excessive,” Starbucks said in a statement.
The case is reminiscent of the famous 1990s case of a New Mexico woman who burned her legs with a hot cup of McDonald’s coffee. The late Stella Liebeck, who was 79 years old at the time, sustained third-degree burns in her pelvic region and was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, plus endured two additional years of medical treatment. 
Liebeck originally petitioned to settle with McDonald&#8217;s for $20,000 to cover her medical expenses, but the fast food chain declined, which led to her attorney suing for gross negligence. Liebeck was awarded $160,000 for medical expenses and $2.7 million in punitive damages, but that amount was later reduced by the judge. Liebeck and McDonald’s eventually settled for an undisclosed amount.

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Delivery Driver Wins $50M In Lawsuit Against Starbucks After Hot Tea Spilled On His Genitals

Delivery Driver Awarded $50M In Hot Tea Lawsuit Against Starbucks

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Several counties in New York have moved to defy Governor Kathy Hochul&#8217;s order that bans the some 2,000 correctional officers she recently fired from ever working for the state again.
Hochul fired the officers for continuing to strike over the dangerous conditions inside understaffed prisons across the state. The following day, in a widely criticized move, she signed an executive order banning them from future work in New York, including even county governments.
Officials in Chemung County, Oneida County, and Rensselaer County have all indicated that they will outright defy the order or move to challenge it legally to regain control of their hiring processes.
Chemung County has issued a lawsuit this past week over the action, arguing that the order is unlawful. “We are taking this action to protect our ability to staff our jail with experienced personnel and to stand against unconstitutional overreach,” Sheriff William Schrom <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/chemung-county-sues-governor-hochul-192150636.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In Oneida County, the Board of Legislators approved a resolution allowing them to sue New York state over Hochul&#8217;s order. County Executive Anthony Picente said the resolution was approved because lawmakers believe Hochul overstepped, Spectrum News <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2025/03/12/county-accuses-hochul-of-overstepping-in-co-executive-order?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Executive order no. 47.3 is an abuse of the governor&#8217;s authority and discretion, and unlawfully intrudes upon the county’s powers of home rule,” Picente said.
Steve McLaughlin, who serves as county executive for Rensselaer County, said he would outright defy the order, <a href="https://x.com/SteveMcNY/status/1899510158708838650" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it “reprehensible and vicious.”
“Just when you think Hochul can’t get worse, she finds a way,” he posted to X, captioning the executive order signed by Hochul. “Preventing Corrections Officers from seeking employment with counties is reprehensible and vicious but that’s exactly who Kathy Hochul is.”
“Like I do with everything else regarding her idiotic statements and actions, I will ignore this as well,” he said. “I will hire as many as I can here in #RensselaerCounty and I dare you to sue me and the individual CO’s as they seek gainful employment Hochul.”
Hochul&#8217;s decision to fire these officers in the first place has raised alarm, considering the understaffing and low recruitment already plaguing New York prisons across the state. Even before the strike started last month, there were about 2,000 vacant positions inside the prison system.
Hochul has National Guard members &#8212; without proper training &#8212; helping to man the prisons, with no end-date in sight. The governor activated thousands of members on the second day of the strike, and their inclusion has been controversial from the start. In some cases, they’ve been sleeping on gym floors and members have leaked photos of their rough conditions.
Moreover, State Sen. Daniel Stec (R) said that these guardsmen were “activated on state orders,” which makes them ineligible for care from Veterans Affairs if they were to get injured.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vindictive-tyrant-hochul-bars-corrections-officers-she-fired-from-ever-working-for-new-york-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Vindictive Tyrant’: Hochul Bars Corrections Officers She Fired From Ever Working For New York Again</a>

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Former New York Jets star defensive end Mark Gastineau has filed a $25 million lawsuit against ESPN over showing and promoting a clip from 2002 in which Gastineau berated former Green Bay Packers star quarterback Brett Favre for “taking a dive” so New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan could break Gastineau’s sack record.
Gastineau’s lawsuit states that Favre and Gastineau shook hands at the end of the 20o2 confrontation, but ESPN elided that portion of the scene, and showed the clip in 2023 at the Chicago Sports Spectacular as part of the “30 For 30: The New York Sack Exchange” documentary, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/sports/mark-gastineau-suing-espn-for-25-million-over-viral-brett-favre-video/">reported</a>.
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22 years after losing the NFL single-season sack record, Mark Gastineau confronted Brett Favre for ‘taking a dive’ on the record-breaking play.
Catch the latest <a href="https://twitter.com/30for30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@30for30</a>, &#39;The New York Sack Exchange,&#39; on ESPN and ESPN+ starting Dec. 13. <a href="https://t.co/Oz5KRwVcy7">pic.twitter.com/Oz5KRwVcy7</a>
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“During this private encounter November 18, 2023 between Mark Gastineau and Brett Favre, Gastineau was visibly upset and emotional with Favre; however both Mark Gastineau and Brett Favre shook hands at the commencement of this conversation,” the lawsuit avers.
Gastineau’s suit claims that ESPN used the video “without his consent or permission” and led to him having “been attacked on social media with ridicule, scorn and contempt.”
“They will be held accountable for their malicious conduct and pay for misrepresentation of Mark. The Defendant intentionally damaged Mark’s reputation for ratings for ESPN and we intend to hold them accountable,” Gastineau’s attorney, Christopher J. Cassar, declared.
Cassar claimed Gastineau was unaware the confrontation had been recorded and included in the film.
In 2020, Gastineau <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28673657/years-later-former-jets-great-mark-gastineau-wants-full-credit-nfl-single-season-sack-record">told ESPN</a> that Strahan, whose sack of Favre gave him 22.5 for the season, should not hold the record; he had accumulated 22 sacks in the 1984 season, later tied by the Minnesota Vikings’ Jared Allen in 2011 and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Justin Houston in 2014.
“It’s my record, and I want it to be known that it’s my record,” Gastineau said. “I’m not going to say, ‘I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.’ It’s my record.”
“It’s a good record and it took me a long time to get that,” Gastineau added. “It took a lot of work, a lot of work to get that record. So many years I worked my butt off to get it, and I finally got it, and it shouldn’t have been cheapened like it was. It’s like a tarnished record.”

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Former NY Jets ‘Sack Exchange’ Star Mark Gastineau Suing ESPN

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