California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, alleging the president &#8220;is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis&#8221; after he deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to quell anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The lawsuit argues that President Donald Trump unconstitutionally called in the National Guard and infringed on Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s role without there being a clear threat of &#8220;invasion&#8221; or &#8220;rebellion,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/09/california-newsom-trump-lawsuit-national-guard/">reported</a>. Trump deployed the National Guard, a power typically exercised by governors, on Saturday as anti-ICE protests turned into riots and agitators attacked federal, state, and local law enforcement and set fire to cars in the street.
“Let me be clear: There is no invasion. There is no rebellion,” California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta said. “The President is trying to manufacture chaos and crisis on the ground for his own political ends.”
Newsom <a href="https://x.com/GavinNewsom/status/1932147258033934643">added</a>, &#8220;This is a manufactured crisis. He is creating fear and terror to take over a state militia and violate the U.S. constitution. The illegal order he signed could allow him to send the military into ANY STATE HE WISHES. Every governor &#8212; red or blue &#8212; should reject this outrageous overreach. There’s a lot of hyperbole out there. This isn’t that. This is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism that threatens the foundation of our republic. We cannot let it stand.&#8221;
On Monday, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-newsom-bass-should-thank-him-for-deploying-national-guard-to-keep-our-citizens-safe?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Newsom%2C+Bass+Should+Thank+Him+For+Deploying+National+Guard+%E2%80%98To+Keep+Our+Citizens+SAFE%E2%80%99">defended</a> his decision to send National Guard troops to Los Angeles, saying that the city “would have been completely obliterated” without his action.
“The very incompetent ‘Governor,’ Gavin Newscum, and ‘Mayor,’ Karen Bass, should be saying, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR,&#8217;” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114654277401980803">wrote</a> on Truth Social. “Instead, they choose to lie to the People of California and America by saying that we weren’t needed, and that these are ‘peaceful protests.&#8217;”
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In his order to deploy the National Guard, Trump <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406">cited</a> U.S. Code Title 10, Section 12406, which allows the president to call in the National Guard under invasion from a foreign nation, a rebellion &#8220;or danger of rebellion&#8221; against the U.S. government, or if &#8220;the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.&#8221; The statute has not faced much judicial scrutiny, according to Bonta, but he said he feels confident that the courts will side with California.
Trump could also point to the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to federalize the National Guard and deploy the U.S. military to quell domestic disorder or violence. Asked about invoking the Insurrection Act on Sunday, Trump <a href="https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-speaks-to-reporters-in-morristown-new-jersey/660975">replied</a>, &#8220;It depends on whether or not there&#8217;s an insurrection.&#8221; At the time, he said that the current situation didn&#8217;t amount to an insurrection, adding, &#8220;But you have violent people and we&#8217;re not going to let them get away with it.&#8221;

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California Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Says President ‘Manufactured Crisis’

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A man who exceeded the weight limit for a water slide at Walt Disney World is now suing the park, citing injuries he sustained during his visit to the amusement park.
Eugene Strickland filed the complaint on May 29, per <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/334-pound-man-sues-walt-disney-world-over-injuries-sustained-on-waterslide-that-allegedly-didnt-support-his-weight/">the New York Post</a>, and is seeking $50,000 in monetary damages.
The plaintiff claimed he suffered “catastrophic” injuries after riding the Downhill Double Dipper at Disney’s Blizzard Beach Waterpark in July 2021. It says he “became momentarily airborne&#8221; and hit “exhilarating speeds,” which caused “permanent catastrophic injuries as a result.”
He claims this caused his inner tube to come out from underneath him and made him “land with force onto the hard plastic surface of the slide.&#8221;
Strickland claims he weighed 334 pounds at the time of the incident, but the weight limit for the ride was 300 pounds. It’s not clear based on the lawsuit whether he was aware of the weight restrictions when he got onto the ride.
The Disney World website describes the attraction as “side-by-side high-speed slides.”
“A retractable starting gate is all that stands between you and victory. Anticipation builds as you and your opponent wait on inner tubes at the top of twin enclosed waterslides. Suddenly, the gates retract—and you’re off,” the ride description says. “Disappear into a black hole and plummet 50 feet downhill at exhilarating speeds. Hurtle through darkness, then emerge just in time for the big splashdown.”
The plaintiff claims to have “suffered serious bodily injury and resulting pain and suffering, disability, scarring, disfigurement, mental anguish, [and] loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life” that he still grapples with today.&#8221;
Strickland also claims Disney World is negligent for failing to establish safe premises, which resulted in his injuries.
In a <a href="https://people.com/man-suing-disney-world-over-alleged-water-slide-injury-11746095">statement</a> to People on behalf of Strickland, Morgan &amp; Morgan founder John Morgan and attorney Alberto Oliveri said, “Our client was severely injured on a ride at Disney’s Blizzard Beach. He has filed a lawsuit alleging that it was the defendant’s lax safety measures and oversight that contributed to those injuries. We are pursuing justice for him and working to hold Disney accountable for their alleged negligence.”
This isn’t the only water park-related lawsuit <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/26/us-news/long-island-mom-scarred-at-disney-by-mammoth-wave-lawsuit/">pending</a> against Walt Disney World. A Long Island mother is seeking $2 million for injuries she allegedly sustained from a “mammoth” wave at Typhoon Lagoon.

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Man Sues Disney For Water Slide Injury, Says He Exceeded Weight Limit And Hit ‘Exhilarating Speeds’

Man Sues Disney For Water Slide Injury, Says He Exceeded Weight Limit And Hit 'Exhilarating Speeds'

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Motown singer Smokey Robinson is counter-suing four women who accused him of sexual assault in a cross-complaint filed on Wednesday.
The 85-year-old recording artist was hit with a lawsuit from four former employees earlier this month. The unnamed plaintiffs are seeking $50 million for charges including rape and sexual abuse, which they said occurred between 2007 and 2024, per <a href="https://apnews.com/article/smokey-robinson-sexual-misconduct-investigation-la-72bebfd2659f2c8b324557395ceb37bc">The Associated Press</a>. 
Now it’s being reported that Robinson and his wife, Frances Gladney, are suing the women for $500 million.
&#8220;The Robinsons did not abuse, harm, or take advantage of plaintiffs; they treated plaintiffs with the utmost kindness and generosity,&#8221; the lawsuit says, per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/smokey-robinson-hits-back-500-million-lawsuit-against-sexual-assault-accusers">Fox News</a>.
The singer said he treated the women as his “extended family” and claimed to have given them gifts, including concert tickets, vehicles, and money, during their tenure, as the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/entertainment/smokey-robinson-sues-his-accusers-for-elder-abuse-defamation-in-500m-countersuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. As proof, Robinson provided screenshots of friendly text exchanges and images of his wife on a tropical vacation with one of the accusers. The celeb said he footed the bill for the trip.
The singer’s lawyer, Christopher Frost, previously described the lawsuit as representing “unadulterated avarice.”
“We feel confident that a determination will be made that Mr. Robinson did nothing wrong, and that this is a desperate attempt to prejudice public opinion and make even more of a media circus than the Plaintiffs were previously able to create,” Frost said at the time of the original lawsuit being filed.
Meanwhile, the attorney representing the four plaintiffs says the women kept quiet due to fear of humiliation and losing their employment.  
John Harris said his clients believe Robinson to be “a serial and sick rapist and must be stopped.” 
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“Having to tell their [spouses] and children of these despicable actions left them filled with shame and embarrassment. So throughout their dreadful experiences with Mr. Robinson, all four women remained silent,” he said.
Robinson is a legendary singer, songwriter, and record producer who played a key role in shaping the Motown sound as the frontman of The Miracles. He also served as a songwriter for artists like The Temptations (Robinson cowrote the single “My Girl”) and Mary Wells, for whom he wrote “My Guy.” 
With a career spanning more than six decades, he’s known for timeless hits like “Tracks of My Tears” and “Cruisin&#8217;.”

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Smokey Robinson Files $500M Lawsuit Against Rape Accusers

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A “Horizon” stunt performer is suing Kevin Costner and film producers for what she’s describing as “a violent, unscripted, unscheduled rape scene&#8221; directed by Costner in the film.
Stunt performer Devyn LaBella filed the sexual harassment lawsuit in the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County on Tuesday, citing an alleged incident from 2023 during the filming of “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2.”
LaBella claims she was hired by the production company as a stand-in for lead actress Ella Hunt &#8220;during physical scenes&#8221; and that during that time, her SAG agreement terms were violated. Those include a ban on “any last minute requests for nudity or simulated sex.&#8221; The terms also require producers to give a 48-hour notice and get the performer&#8217;s permission for any changes to intimate scenes, along with providing an intimacy coordinator for sex scenes, People <a href="https://people.com/horizon-stuntperformer-files-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-against-kevin-costner-and-film-producers-11742855">reported</a>.
Per the complaint, LaBella was slated to cover Hunt’s non-intimate scenes on the day in question. But when Hunt arrived on set, the actress learned that Costner had requested new scenes which would require actor Roger Ivens to climb on top of her, &#8220;violently raking up her skirt.” 
Hunt was allegedly upset by the &#8220;ad hoc and violent nature of the sudden script change request&#8221; and refused to film the new scenes. After she left the set, Costner is said to have asked LaBella to stand in, which she agreed to without knowing why Hunt had departed without filming, per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/05/28/kevin-costner-horizon-stunt-performer-lawsuit/83895723007/">USA Today</a>.
The lawsuit says LaBella did not know that &#8220;involvement in the impromptu shot would go beyond standing in as a standard body-double.&#8221;
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&#8220;She was not warned or prepared for Mr. Ivens to perform or engage in any action on top of her and first learned that Ivens would mount her and violently pull her skirt up when he was already on top of her doing so,&#8221; the complaint says. 
It added that Costner directed Ivens to &#8220;repeatedly perform a violent simulated rape&#8221; on LaBella &#8220;without proper notice, consent, preparation, or appropriate safeguard measures in place, such as the project&#8217;s intimacy coordinator being called in.&#8221;
LaBella further asserted that Costner provided &#8220;no clear direction of when the scene began or ended,&#8221; and said she was &#8220;never given the opportunity to prepare for or consent to participate in this scene, much less to object to it.&#8221;
The stunt double said the incident was &#8220;especially humiliating&#8221;  because &#8220;she was menstruating at the time, compounded by the fact that between takes, Mr. Ivens&#8217; hands rested on top of the bundled-up skirt above her vagina.&#8221;
The complaint also says the scene was &#8220;broadcast publicly on monitors for the entire crew to witness,&#8221; but asserts the &#8220;set should have been closed&#8221; due to the content being filmed.
LaBella is suing for an unspecified amount of money over the alleged incident and has asked for a trial by jury.
&#8220;Horizon: An American Saga &#8211; Chapter 2&#8221; is the second part in Costner’s passion project, a four-part Western film series he wrote, directed, and financed with his own money. The first installment premiered in June 2024. &#8220;Chapter 2&#8221; was initially slated to debut in August 2024, but the sequel was pulled from release after the first chapter struggled at the box office, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-costners-second-part-of-western-saga-pulled-from-theaters-ahead-of-august-release">reported</a>.
&#8220;Chapter 2&#8221; was shown at the Venice International Film Festival in September, but so far, it is not scheduled for a theatrical release as initially planned.

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Kevin Costner Sued For ‘Violent, Unscripted’ Rape Scene In ‘Horizon 2’

Kevin Costner Sued For 'Violent, Unscripted' Rape Scene In 'Horizon 2'

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Harvard University filed a lawsuit on Friday in the United States District Court to challenge the Trump administration’s revocation of Harvard’s capacity to enroll students from abroad.
The lawsuit from Harvard <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/05/Harvard-Visa-Complaint.pdf">claimed</a> Noem’s revocation was a “blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”
On Thursday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem alerted the public of the revocation, writing on X:
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This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus. It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.
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This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus. 
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments… <a href="https://t.co/12hJWd1J86">pic.twitter.com/12hJWd1J86</a>
&mdash; Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem/status/1925612991703052733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In her letter to Harvard, Noem noted:
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As I explained to you in my April letter, it is a privilege to enroll foreign students, and it is also a privilege to employ aliens on campus. All universities must comply with Department of Homeland Security requirements, including reporting requirements under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program regulations, to maintain this privilege. As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8221; policies, you have lost this privilege.
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In April, Harvard sued the Trump administration after the administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funding.
On May 5, Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote Harvard University president Alan Garber, “The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these &#8220;students&#8221; come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE?”
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“These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?” she continued. “Harvard University has made a mockery of this country&#8217;s higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor.”
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>: <a href="https://t.co/XmMimXfkX0">pic.twitter.com/XmMimXfkX0</a>
&mdash; Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) <a href="https://twitter.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/1919517481313427594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A liberal billionaire with a long history of funding left-wing organizations has been accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a former employee, according to a new lawsuit.
Hansjorg Wyss, the 89-year-old Swiss billionaire who has dumped heaps of cash behind liberal organizations in the United States, stands <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/hansjorg-wyss-halter-ranch-lawsuit-20327267.php">accused</a> of harassing a former employee of a winery in Paso Robles, California, that he owns.
Madison Busby, a former project manager at Halter Ranch Winery, alleges that Wyss groped her, exposed himself to her, and told her stories about his sexual activities, including “his many sexual affairs outside his marriage.” The lawsuit goes on to claim that Wyss, who critics say <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-aims-to-close-loopholes-to-ensure-u-s-elections-are-free-from-foreign-influence">supplied</a> a left-wing dark money organization with hundreds of millions of dollars and poured <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/memo-reveals-100-million-effort-by-clinton-foundation-donor/">another $100 million</a> into an effort to bolster the Democrat Party&#8217;s electoral chances, even suggested that Busby and her husband engage in group sex with him and another woman.
Then, Busby says, the leftist billionaire retaliated against her after she rejected his sexual advances. Busby’s lawyer says that Wyss’ harassment of his client caused her emotional distress and financial damage in the form of lost wages.
“Madison has suffered severe emotional distress from the harassment which took place over the course of many years, and also from lost wages and then future damages,” Busby’s attorney John Ly said. “She’s been harmed immensely.” The complaint alleges that Wyss even admitted to Busby in 2022 that “if you ever went after me for sexual harassment, you would win.”
Halter Ranch denies the claims of the lawsuit against its owner. “The allegations in the complaint are not true and we intend to vigorously advance the facts that surround their time at the winery and their departure,” the winery said in response to the complaint.
Busby and her husband Bryce Mullins lived in a house on the Halter Ranch property, the complaint says, adding that Wyss would stay at the house with them when he was in town. But when the couple got married and had a baby, they moved into a smaller house on the property that wasn’t large enough for Wyss to stay with them on his trips. Then Wyss charged the couple $1,650 a month in rent instead of the usual $300 per month, the lawsuit says.
Then when Busby voluntarily resigned and filed her complaint against Wyss, Mullins’ employment at Halter Ranch was allegedly terminated.
Mullins filed a claim of his own, alleging that Wyss failed to honor an agreement that would have provided Mullins with equity in Halter Ranch that eventually would have been worth $30 million.

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Left-Wing Mega-Donor Accused Of Sexually Harassing Employee

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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>
&mdash; Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1915591397521969386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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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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Fairfax County School Board Member Embezzled Corporate Funds For Strip Clubs And Campaign, Lawsuit Says

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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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The People Versus John Oliver: The Murky Ethics Of Modern Comedy

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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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Columbia Anti-Israel Group Reactivated Instagram Account Just Before Oct. 7 Attack, Lawsuit Says

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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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