An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iran">Iranian</a> national and member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was charged by federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to assassinate former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Shahram Poursafi, aka Mehdi Rezayi, 45, of Tehran, Iran, allegedly attempted to arrange for Bolton&#8217;s assassination in response to the Trump administration killing notorious terrorist Qasem Soleimani who was the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – Qods Force (IRGC-QF).
Poursafi attempted to pay individuals $300,000 to carry out the assassination in or around the nation&#8217;s capital, the Department of Justice <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/member-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-irgc-charged-plot-murder-former-national">said</a> in a statement.
Poursafi told a confidential human source that if they carried out the mission successfully, he would pay them $1 million for a second target. Poursafi said that surveillance conducted from methods on the ground in the U.S. had already been carried out on the second target.
Poursafi was officially charged with use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot. If convicted, Poursafi faces up to 10 years imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000 for the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, and up to 15 years imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000 for providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot.
Top U.S. law enforcement officials responded to the charges in statement:
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<li>Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division: “The Justice Department has the solemn duty to defend our citizens from hostile governments who seek to hurt or kill them. This is not the first time we have uncovered Iranian plots to exact revenge against individuals on U.S. soil and we will work tirelessly to expose and disrupt every one of these efforts.”</li>
<li>Larissa L. Knapp, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch: “Iran has a history of plotting to assassinate individuals in the U.S. it deems a threat, but the U.S. Government has a longer history of holding accountable those who threaten the safety of our citizens. Let there be no doubt: The FBI, the U.S. government, and our partners remain vigilant in the fight against such threats here in the U.S. and overseas.”</li>
<li>Matthew M. Graves, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia: “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, through the Defendant, tried to hatch a brazen plot: assassinate a former U.S. official on U.S. soil in retaliation for U.S. actions. Iran and other hostile governments should understand that the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners will do everything in our power to thwart their violent plots and bring those responsible to justice.”</li>
<li>Steven M. D’Antuono, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office: “An attempted assassination of a former U.S. Government official on U.S. soil is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated. The FBI will continue to identify and disrupt any efforts by Iran or any hostile government seeking to bring harm or death to U.S. persons at home or abroad. This should serve as a warning to any others attempting to do the same – the FBI will be relentless in our efforts to identify, stop, and bring to justice those who would threaten our people and violate our laws.”</li>
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University Archives is slated to auction off dozens of letters, documents, and other artifacts related to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/american-history">history</a> of the United States in a massive auction next week.
The organization will hold its largest auction ever online on August 17, with 537 lots featuring artifacts from as far back as the first days of the American republic up for grabs, according to a <a href="https://www.universityarchives.com/blogs/news/university-archives-is-excited-to-announce-the-launch-of-its-late-summer-sale-rare-autographs-manuscripts-books">press release</a>.
From the early American collection, the organization is selling a promissory note from Benedict Arnold, a Revolutionary War general who infamously defected to the British. The receipt recorded a transaction that included building supplies, boards, and “parcell staves,” and was most likely penned in New Haven, Connecticut. University Archives will also sell an “enormous pay receipt” signed by Daniel Boone, a frontiersman and folk hero who served in the Virginia General Assembly from 1781 to 1791.
Earlier this month, a team of more than 100 volunteers from the Gloucester County Archeological Society and nearby Rowan University <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/human-remains-artifacts-found-at-revolutionary-war-battlefield-site-in-new-jersey">discovered</a> what appeared to be a mass grave of Revolutionary War soldiers at Red Bank Battlefield in New Jersey. The remains appeared to come from Hessian soldiers, who were German mercenaries hired by the British to battle the Continental Army. “This find is a remarkable discovery because a mass grave was a rarity on battlefields during the American Revolution,” South River Heritage Consulting principal archaeologist and dig site supervisor Wade Catts told reporters.
At its auction, University Archives will also sell a letter written by Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, to Confederate John Taylor Wood, during the former’s exile in Canada after the Civil War. Davis discussed the plight of African Americans in the Deep South.
“The negroes have to a great extent become vagrant and the common complaint was that neither crop or stock could be protected from their thieving,” the letter reads. “The poor creatures are however much to be pitied for their destitution and we who knew their utter inability to govern themselves may well question whether they or those who forced them into their present condition are most responsible for the crimes they commit.”
Among other artifacts up for sale include a document in which President George Washington appointed Irish immigrant Thomas Lowry to serve as the first United States Marshal of New Jersey; a personal check from the early political career of President John F. Kennedy; a receipt signed by Benjamin Franklin on behalf of the Pennsylvania Gazette; a signed first-edition copy of The Babe Ruth Story; and checks signed by Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio.
In another recent auction, artifacts from the wreck of the S.S. Central America — which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gold-pistols-and-gold-rush-pants-heres-what-you-can-buy-from-a-pre-civil-war-shipwreck">sank</a> during a hurricane off the coast of North Carolina in 1857 — were put up for sale. Among the items were jewelry made from gold discovered during the California gold rush, gold miner pants, photographs, bottles, and pistols.
“These incredible artifacts that were in secure storage in three different states are now giving us a glimpse of Gold Rush-era daily life for passengers and crew in the 1850s,” remarked Dwight Manley, of the California Gold Marketing Group of Brea, the organization that owns the objects.

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Here Are The American History Artifacts Up For Sale In A Massive Auction Next Week

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One million registered voters in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California&#8217;s</a> fifth most populous county have the chance in the midterm elections later this year to potentially secede from the state.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/san-bernardino">San Bernardino</a> County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on Wednesday, with one supervisor absent, to add the secession measure to the 2022 ballot in November.
The measure would ask San Bernardino residents: &#8220;Do the citizens of San Bernardino County want the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors to study all options to obtain its fair share of state and federal resources, up to and including secession?&#8221;
&#8220;The last line is the most controversial,&#8221; Curt Hagman, the county&#8217;s chair supervisor, said during the <a href="https://sanbernardino.granicus.com/player/clip/5855">meeting</a>.
While Hagman called the first portion of the question a &#8220;no-brainer,&#8221; assuming almost every resident would want to fight for state and federal resources for the county, he also recognized Californians have repeatedly attempted to split up the state as long as it&#8217;s existed.
David Wert, a county spokesperson, told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-san-bernardino-e09be5fe22b9c84dbbd6a013583ebe6e">the Associated Press</a> a finance team conducted a per-capita comparison of federal and state revenue received by California counties based on data from the state controller, which showed San Bernardino County ranks 36th out of 56 counties for per-capita revenue.
But given the current climate, which many residents up and down the Golden State have experienced recently, the supervisors said last week that “a lot&#8221; of speakers came forward to express their desire to either join Arizona, Nevada, or even form their own state.
&#8220;I was surprised by the idea, and I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s feasible politically or financially to secede from California,&#8221; Supervisor Janie Rutherford said. &#8220;However, I absolutely joined with my constituents who have a growing palpable anger about everything.&#8221;
Rutherford listed a catalog of California residents&#8217; daily issues, from high gas prices and burdensome taxes to the growing homelessness crisis flooding the streets.
She also noted the state&#8217;s &#8220;ineffective justice system, broken schools, [and] the state&#8217;s overreaching counterproductive regulatory schemes, housing and affordability to the ineptness of the state&#8217;s preparation for this drought.&#8221;
&#8220;People pay high taxes, and they do not believe those taxes are coming back to their neighborhoods to address the problems they&#8217;re most concerned about,&#8221; Rutherford said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what we heard from our public last week, and there is nothing crazy at all about being angry about those things.&#8221;
Resident Jose Gonzalez echoed the supervisor&#8217;s sentiments during the public comments, saying he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;like the way things are going here.&#8221;
&#8220;It feels like our money is not being used … and it&#8217;s not helping us,&#8221; Gonzalez said. &#8220;So, if it&#8217;s a better thing to separate from California — a liberal state — then it&#8217;s gonna be better cause that money is not coming to our city.&#8221;
&#8220;We got to do something about it,&#8221; he added.
As extreme as a state divorce sounds, constitutional law governs provisions for a state to separate, join, or create a new form either on its own, with a county, or a portion of another state, county officials said.
State or county officials would need approval from all state legislatures involved, followed by Congress, the Senate, and eventually signed off by the President of the United States before secession occurs.
However, if the county goes through the process, the supervisors expressed concerns about declaring independence from California, such as health and social services, funding for schools, and forming its own National Guard.
But considering San Bernardino County holds a population of 2.1 million people and is larger than 16 other states in the Union, the statistic caught the supervisors’ curiosity about how the county could operate as an economy apart from California.
According to Forbes&#8217; “2019 Best Places for Business and Careers” list, Riverside-San Bernardino Metro <a href="https://indicators.sbcounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2021/04/2019-Economy.pdf">ranked</a> as 5th for job growth out of 200 locations analyzed. The region was the only California metro area included in the top 10.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-san-bernardino-e09be5fe22b9c84dbbd6a013583ebe6e">reports</a> San Bernardino County has more land than Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and Rhode Island combined.
County supervisors must hold another meeting to vote on the secession measure before its final adoption.

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Israel and the United States, though two of the most advanced countries in the world, have much to learn from the other’s example, according to Daily Wire co-founder and Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro spoke at a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Tel Aviv Wednesday on what Israel and the United States should learn from each other in economics, politics, and national identity. Throughout the speech, The Daily Wire co-founder drew on the wisdom of great Americans and Jews such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Rabbi Joseph Be’er Soloveitchik, and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
“Our countries have something profound and vital in common: they are both gifts from God, blessed by Him, founded in liberty and consecrated to the idea that He is present in history, and that He guides history toward His ends,” Shapiro said.
The conservative pundit began with what Israel could learn from America. Israel’s economic system, which Shapiro referred to as a “a dumpster fire,” is hampering the Jewish state’s growth. The “intelligence, hard work, and social capital of the people of Israel” have allowed the tiny nation to compete economically with much larger, more populated, and naturally richer countries. Excessive taxation and heavy regulation are holding the country back, however.
He went on to criticize Israel’s “vast bureaucratization” that has lengthened the process of something such as building a home into a years-long affair when a comparable project in a conservative state such as Florida takes well-under a year. And in addition to red tape, Israel’s unions are another major hurdle to development. Nearly a quarter of Israel’s workforce is <a href="https://en.davar1.co.il/380975/">unionized</a>.
“In the United States, more and more states have been adopting right to work laws designed at taking away special union privileges, freeing up people to work when and how they want. In Israel, public sector unions punch far above their weight politically, and politicians are simply afraid to cross them,” Shapiro said.
Shapiro’s final point of criticism against Israel is against its judiciary branch of government, which Shapiro says “acts as a merger of the executive and the legislative branches.” The judiciary’s role was corrupted after the “supposed constitutional revolution of 1992,” which a “self-selected” judicial branch has taken advantage of to “rule out of bounds perfectly legal acts of the Knesset, leaving an unelected and unaccountable set of oligarchs in charge of crucial national policies in the name of a non-existent Constitution.”
In contrast, the U.S. Supreme Court is held in check by a president who nominates justices and a Senate that confirms them. “In short, America’s governmental system is better than Israel’s, and it’s not particularly close,” Shapiro said.
Shapiro’s criticisms of the United States struck at its national culture, which has been split “between a country that sees the American flag and feels pride, and country that sees the American flag and kneels in shame; between a country that thinks America was always great, and a country that thinks that America has never been great; between a country that believes in absolute truths and accepted moral wisdom … and a country that believes that ‘my truth’ trumps the truth …”
“America has one major thing to learn from Israel: that a nation-state must have, at its heart, a nation. And that means that America must learn from Israel the necessity of common history, common culture, and common destiny,” Shapiro said.
From the shackles of Pharaoh to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Jewish history is rife with tyrants who have sought to destroy the Jewish people. That ever-present danger reinforces the bonds that all Jews share, and evidences the need for a Jewish state in Jews&#8217; historic homeland of Israel.
“[Israelis] realize that the historic tie between the Jews and the land of Israel cannot be severed, even when it is broken; that no matter how much Israel may want to be the same as all other nations, it will never be so,” Shapiro said. “As God told the Jewish people, ‘And I shall take you unto me for a people, and I will be to you God.’”
Americans also share a common heritage and principles that are worth uniting around and are the key to the United States’ rise. Shapiro said:
<blockquote>So, this is what America can learn from Israel: it can remind itself that its exceptionalism, its unique place among the nations, is no coincidence. America can remind itself that it, too, has covenants of fate and destiny. America can remember that it was founded as a nation rooted in certain principles – the principles of Judeo-Christian morality on the one hand and the promises of the Declaration of Independence on the other. America can remember her own history, and refuse to allow it to be undermined. And America can recognize her unique destiny – a destiny explained by Benjamin Franklin in his remarks to the Constitutional Convention of 1787: “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?” Indeed, America has spread freedom to more people than any nation in world history; it has spread prosperity to all corners of the globe; America has liberated hundreds of millions and fed billions. That is because America is the greatest country in world history; America has a special history and a special purpose.</blockquote>
Shapiro ended his speech with a final warning to Israel. The United States is failing from within due to a progressive Left that believes “America is exceptional only in its evil” and preaches a radical, self-centered individualism.
“So perhaps that’s the last lesson America can teach Israel: do not let any of this crap happen here. For the love of God, do not let the Left destroy the covenants of fate and destiny,” Shapiro said. “Cling fast to your principles. Do not be led astray by those who bless themselves in their hearts, saying, ‘I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ Instead, remember the covenants that make the Jewish nation — and the Jewish state — special.”
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The first case of polio in the United States in nearly a decade was identified in New York Thursday.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york">New York</a> State and Rockland County Departments of Health confirmed Thursday that a case of polio had been identified in Rockland County. State health officials said that the virus likely originated outside the U.S., as the particular strain of the virus they identified was transmitted by a person who received an oral polio vaccine, which is no longer used in the U.S.
&#8220;The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the Rockland County Department of Health today alerted the public to a case of polio in a Rockland County resident,&#8221; officials wrote in a <a href="https://health.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/2022-07-21_polio_rockland_county.htm">statement</a> Thursday. &#8220;State and County health officials are advising medical practitioners and healthcare providers to be vigilant for additional cases.&#8221;
The statement notes that the polio virus typically spreads orally, usually through contact with fecal matter from an infected person, or hands contaminated by fecal matter. The disease can also spread through mouth-to-mouth contact or saliva. The disease itself, called poliomyelitis, attacks the nervous system. Symptoms can be mild and flu-like, including fatigue, muscle pain, muscle weakness, fever, and stiffness. In rare cases, it can also cause paralysis and even death. Symptoms do not typically appear for up to 30 days, during which time an infected person can still transmit the disease to others.
The disease became extremely rare with the advent of the polio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vaccines">vaccine</a>. The vaccine was introduced in 1955, and a national vaccination program was conducted in the 1950s and 60s. The last naturally occurring case in the United States occurred in 1979, the statement noted. The last known case was recorded by the CDC in 2013. According to the <a href="https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/weekly-polio-analyses-WPV-20220503.pdf">World Health Organization</a>, there were six cases of polio in three countries in 2021, and there have been just three cases between January and May of this year.
Officials said this case likely originated outside the U.S. in a country that uses an oral vaccine. &#8220;In this case, sequencing performed by the Wadsworth Center – NYSDOH&#8217;s public health laboratory – and confirmed by CDC showed revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus,&#8221; the statement reported. &#8220;This is indicative of a transmission chain from an individual who received the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S., where only the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been given since 2000. This suggests that the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S. where OPV is administered, since revertant strains cannot emerge from inactivated vaccines.&#8221;
State health officials said they were cooperating with Rockland County and New York City Health Officials to continue investigating the case. They are also urging individuals to get vaccinated against polio. Rockland County announced in the statement that it would be opening a polio vaccination clinic Friday, July 22, and a second clinic on Monday, July 25.
&#8220;Based on what we know about this case, and polio in general, the Department of Health strongly recommends that unvaccinated individuals get vaccinated or boosted with the FDA-approved IPV polio vaccine as soon as possible,&#8221; New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said. &#8220;The polio vaccine is safe and effective, protecting against this potentially debilitating disease, and it has been part of the backbone of required, routine childhood immunizations recommended by health officials and public health agencies nationwide.&#8221;

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Britain&#8217;s Prince Harry appeared to take aim at his adopted home during a Monday speech before the United Nations in honor of Mandela Day, lamenting the &#8220;rolling back of constitutional rights&#8221; in the United States.
The <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cloud-cuckoo-land-prince-harry-worth-10m-blasted-after-saying-people-should-quit-jobs-that-didnt-bring-them-joy/">self-exiled royal</a> seemed to be referring to the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization — which resulted in a 5-4 decision overturning landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey — and he called the erosion of rights part of &#8220;a global assault on democracy and freedom.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: At the United Nations, Prince Harry calls out &quot;the rolling back of Constitutional rights in the United States&quot; as part of &quot;a global assault on democracy and freedom.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/RnJNmkPDcp">pic.twitter.com/RnJNmkPDcp</a>
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But critics were not impressed with Harry&#8217;s assessment, and quickly took to Twitter to tell him so.
&#8220;First, sonny, piss off,&#8221; @irishspy <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1549176844175704065">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Second, I believe you come from a nation wherein people can get police visits for saying mean things on the Internet and reading Churchill aloud, so don&#8217;t lecture us about freedom.&#8221;
Mixed martial artist and Special Forces veteran Tim Kennedy added, &#8220;A prince from the British Royal family is telling Americans that they should be disarmed &#8230;&#8221;
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A prince from the British Royal family is telling Americans that they should be disarmed… <a href="https://t.co/o5mFed1fPX">https://t.co/o5mFed1fPX</a> <a href="https://t.co/FIjyBgdmI0">pic.twitter.com/FIjyBgdmI0</a>
&mdash; Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimKennedyMMA/status/1549172770541559808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;To use the British vernacular: &#8216;Sod off you twat!'&#8221; Dr. Sebastian Gorka <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1549145272168636417">added</a>.
Other notable replies included:
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<li>@inezfeltscher: &#8220;Ah yes, I am very interested in this BRITISH PRINCE’s opinions about American democracy.&#8221;</li>
<li>@lahavharkov: &#8220;Sorry Harry, your family lost the right to lecture Americans on democracy after that whole taxation without representation thing.&#8221;</li>
<li>@capeandcowell: &#8220;Oh thank heavens unelected woke ex royalty has chimed in about our constitutional rights.&#8221;</li>
<li>@seanmdav: &#8220;We stopped carrying what emasculated British royals think about our rights 246 years ago.&#8221;</li>
<li>@sethamandel: &#8220;The next war the US and UK will fight will be over who has to keep Harry.&#8221;</li>
<li>@Douglascarswell: &#8220;If I was a direct descendent of George III, I would be careful about lecturing an American audience about the inadequacies of their constitutional rights.&#8221;</li>
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A number also pointed out the fact that Harry — who stepped away from the Royal Family with his wife, American actress Meghan Markle — <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/prince-harry-calls-first-amendment-bonkers-slams-royal-family-for-genetic-pain-and-suffering/">had been critical</a> of at least one of the constitutional rights he claimed were being rolled back.
Speaking to comedian Dax Shepard on his &#8220;Armchair Expert&#8221; podcast, Harry took aim at the First Amendment: &#8220;I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers. I don’t want to start going down the First Amendment route because that’s a huge subject and one which I don’t understand because I’ve only been here a short time. But, you can find a loophole in anything. You can capitalize or exploit what’s not said rather than uphold what is said.&#8221;

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theyre-just-sitting-in-my-closet-olympic-superstar-sells-off-medals-for-greatest-cause-of-all">International Olympic Committee</a> (IOC) has reinstated Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history, as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/olympics">Olympic games</a>.
The IOC is expected to announce Thorpe’s reinstatement on Friday. The Olympic body has already updated its website to reflect Thorpe as the winner of his events at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, according to <a href="https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/jim-thorpes-olympic-record-reinstated">Indian Country Today</a>, the first outlet to report the news. Thorpe’s recognition as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon caps off a decades long push led by Bright Path Strong, a group named after Thorpe’s indigenous name. Thorpe was a member of Oklahoma’s Sac and Fox Nation.
“This is a most exceptional and unique situation,” IOC President Thomas Bach told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/sports/olympics/jim-thorpe-olympics-medal-restored.html">The New York Times</a>. “It is addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the concerned National Olympic Committees.”
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Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. <a href="https://t.co/KpQuvvFpo4">https://t.co/KpQuvvFpo4</a>
&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/1547917672913850369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Thorpe dominated his events at the 1912 Olympic games, but his medals were revoked after officials discovered that he had made $25 a week playing minor league baseball for a short stint before competing in the Olympics. Officials took away Thorpe’s medals, adhering to rules on Olympic amateurism that barred professional athletes from competing in the Olympic games. The prohibition was lifted decades later.
In 1913, Thorpe’s gold medals were awarded to Sweden’s Hugo Wieslander for the decathlon and Norway’s Ferdinand Bie in the pentathlon. The IOC said it consulted with Wieslander’s surviving family and the Norway Olympic committee before reinstating Thorpe as the sole winner of those events, according to the NYT.
After the scandal and with his amateur status revoked, Thorpe became a Major League Baseball player, playing for the New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, and Boston Braves over the years 1913 to 1919. In 1920, he shifted his athletic career to playing professional football instead, which he did until he turned 41. In 1950, an Associated Press poll of sports writers and broadcasters <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/03/29/93401357.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&amp;ip=0">ranked</a> Thorpe as the best athlete of the first half of the 20th Century as well as the best football player.
Thorpe’s family was returned replicas of his medals in 1982 with an understanding that Thorpe’s punishment was unjust. Thorpe’s allies continued to push for his official recognition as the sole winner of his events, however.
“That’s terrific. We have been working with the IOC for almost two years now and asking them to reinstate Jim’s winnings for his decathlon and pentathlon events,” Nedra Darling, executive producer of Jim Thorpe’s biopic, told Indian Country Today.

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One-hundred-year-old World War II veteran Carl Spurlin Dekel considers his service to our nation one of the greatest honors of his life, but worries about the state of our country.
Through tears, Dekel <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/wwii-veteran-marks-100th-birthday-with-celebration-of-patriotism-sacrifice">told</a> FOX 13 Tampa Bay this weekend that our nation&#8217;s decline will lead to others having fewer opportunities and living unhappy lives.
&#8220;People don’t realize what they have,&#8221; the Silver Star recipient said. &#8220;The things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain.&#8221;
&#8220;We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,&#8221; Dekel continued. &#8220;Nobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It’s just not the same and that’s not what our boys, that’s not what they died for.&#8221;
Still, his service was an honor — and something Dekel would do all over again if he were of the appropriate age.
&#8220;Most important thing in my life was serving my country,&#8221; the veteran <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/07/04/100-year-old_veteran_breaks_down_this_is_not_the_country_we_fought_for.html">asserted</a>. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I could take away from that. They shipped me straight out to Guantánamo, which was a Navy base, and put me in a machine gun company.&#8221;
&#8220;It was an honor for me to serve my country and if I had to do it again and I was the same age, I would do it. I guarantee you,&#8221; Dekel said.
After being comforted, seemingly by a FOX 13 reporter, Dekel offered words of hope.
&#8220;You just remember everything’s beautiful and live every day to the fullest. Just enjoy everything you possibly can,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And here I sit at 100,&#8221; Dekel added. &#8220;They tell me I&#8217;m 100. I don&#8217;t believe it sometimes. Because I don&#8217;t need to worry about age. I&#8217;m not going to, I just keep on keeping on.&#8221;
Though the 100-year-old did not elaborate on what specifically has declined in our nation, the U.S. Military as a whole has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure">criticized</a> in recent years.
For example, a retired three-star general in February warned against teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the military, as it would divide soldiers by race, diminish our “warfighting capabilities,” and increase the likelihood of “failure” on the battlefield, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“The tenets of Critical Race Theory – a cross-disciplinary intellectual and social movement that seeks to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States, but which has the unfortunate effect of dividing people along racial lines – undermine our military’s unity and diminish our warfighting capabilities,” <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/opinion/critical-military-theory/">wrote</a> retired Lieutenant General Greg Newbold. &#8220;When we highlight differences or group identity, we undermine cohesion and morale. Failure results.”
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-johnson">Ben Johnson</a> contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-star-general-teaching-critical-race-theory-leads-to-military-failure">Three-Star General: Teaching Critical Race Theory Leads To Military Failure</a>

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Australians living in the United States are &#8220;sickened&#8221; and upset about Roe V. Wade being overturned — despite their home country&#8217;s own limitations on abortion that are based on what territory/state one lives in.
The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently overturned the landmark 1973 ruling as a result of the 6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization. The court said there is no constitutional right to an abortion and returns the issue to the states to pass abortion legislation, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/victory-pro-life-leaders-react-to-overturn-of-roe-v-wade">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
Freelance writer Sophie Hanson, who moved from Australia to New York City in 2019, told <a href="https://www.crikey.com.au">Crikey</a> she was &#8220;sickened&#8221; by the ruling, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10959801/Aussies-react-sickening-decision-Supreme-Court-overturn-Roe-v-Wade.html">Daily Mail</a> reported in a piece published Thursday.
&#8220;The fact that only six unelected people can make a religious-based ruling that impacts half the country is horrid, dangerous and hypocritical,&#8221; Hanson shared, before she repeated the latest lie from the left that &#8220;a gun has more rights in this country than my uterus.&#8221;
Hanson and her husband do not have children, but said the latest move by SCOTUS has made her reconsider living here. She told the outlet that if the U.S. government implemented a nationwide abortion ban, she&#8217;d definitely think about moving back.
&#8220;I am terrified of a future where hardline Christian Republican Mike Pence, who&#8217;s right now calling for a national abortion ban, wins the presidency,&#8221; the writer explained. &#8220;If he does, that might convince me to move.&#8221;
In the state of New York, where the writer lives, abortion is legal and there has been no sign from leaders in that state that will change anytime soon. Other states that have shown no interest in banning abortions include California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado.
Digital strategist Michael Chaitow said America was heading &#8220;in the wrong direction&#8221; after the landmark 1973 ruling was overturned and after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions">court struck down</a> the state of New York&#8217;s restrictions on concealed carry firearms permits.
Chaitow moved to the U.S. in 2019 and said the country was headed to a &#8220;less safe, less equal and less healthy society.&#8221;
Abortions were still illegal in parts of Australia until 2021. It is currently legal in all states and territories in that country, &#8220;under certain circumstances and when it is performed by a registered doctor,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-roe-v-wade-decision-has-put-a-spotlight-on-abortion-laws-what-are-they-in-australia/g5w55ghaj">SBS News</a> noted. However, there are a whole host of &#8220;different rules governing access to the procedure in each state and territory,&#8221; that can be seen <a href="https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-roe-v-wade-decision-has-put-a-spotlight-on-abortion-laws-what-are-they-in-australia/g5w55ghaj">here.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amy-schumer-chelsea-handler-and-more-stars-react-to-overturn-of-roe-v-wade">Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler And More Stars React To Overturn Of Roe V. Wade</a>

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Australians In U.S. Upset Roe V. Wade Overturned, Despite Home Country’s Limitations Based On Where One Lives

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The Supreme Court’s overturning of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">Roe v. Wade</a> Friday caused thousands of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anarchical-and-criminal-actions-arizona-authorities-address-rioting-from-pro-abortion-activists-in-state-capitol">pro-abortion advocates</a> to take to the streets and voice their anger with the decision, but many considered other avenues to show their disapproval of the Roe reversal.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google">Google</a> searches for “how to move to Canada from U.S.” spiked 850% in the hour following the high court’s decision, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/25/after-the-ruling-americans-ask-google-how-to-move-to-canada">according</a> to a report from Axios that cited Google Trends data. People searching “how to become a Canadian citizen” also jumped 550% during the same time period.
Following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold a 2018 Mississippi abortion ban, with five of the justices also deciding to overturn Roe, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-foreign-allies-some-with-stricter-abortion-laws-than-u-s-lament-supreme-court-abortion-decision">called</a> the ruling “a devastating setback.”
“My heart goes out to the millions of American women who are now set to lose their legal right to an abortion. I can’t imagine the fear and anger you are feeling right now,” he <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/trudeau-roe-v-wade-response-00042316">tweeted</a>. “No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.”
The Canadian leader also told reporters at a summit in Rwanda that he was thinking of women specifically in the U.S. affected by the end of Roe. “Today I think of those generations of women around the world and specifically in the United States who fought so hard to gain rights … and are facing this devastating setback.”
Canada holds some of the most radical abortion-friendly laws in the world. The country has no federal restrictions on abortions, and women can abort their unborn child at any stage of the pregnancy. Abortions in the country are also publicly funded, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-foreign-allies-some-with-stricter-abortion-laws-than-u-s-lament-supreme-court-abortion-decision">reported</a>.
Moving to Canada has been a popular consideration for many on the Left when U.S. politics don’t go their way. The new Google search trend echoes similar sentiments by Left-leaning celebrities leading up to and following the election of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> in November 2016.
Celebrities like Chelsea Handler, Lena Dunham, Stephen King, Barbara Streisand, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/celebrities-move-to-canada-if-donald-trump-becomes-president-2016-11#chlo-sevigny-9">others</a> all suggested they would move to America’s northern neighbor if Trump won the election. However, none of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/22/move-to-canada-celebrities-donald-trump">followed through</a> on their commitments.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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Around one in four <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-states">Americans</a> currently living abroad are serious about considerations and plans to renounce their U.S. citizenship, and they name the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taxes">tax burden</a> as the top reason for their desire, a recent survey found.
Many U.S. citizens who have currently taken up residence in another country are hit with taxes from both their host country and their home country, Greenback Expat Tax Services <a href="https://www.greenbacktaxservices.com/blog/2022-us-expat-trends-survey/">explained</a> in a piece accompanying their survey findings.
“The burden of filing U.S. taxes is the top reason expats want to ditch U.S. citizenship, according to the survey, which polled 3,200 American expats living in 121 countries,” CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/17/1-in-4-expats-seriously-considering-renouncing-us-citizenship.html">reported</a>.
Greenback noted that the U.S. has attempted to ease the tax burden of Americans abroad by putting in measures to avoid double taxation. However, U.S. expats still must file tax returns with the IRS every year, and many end up paying U.S. taxes.
“Because the majority of the world’s nations use a system of residence-based taxation, most US expats are required to pay taxes in their host country,” Greenback explained. “Despite this, most also have to pay taxes to the US government on the same income due to the US’s practice of citizenship-based taxation.”
“The US also has rules in place that require Americans to report on foreign financial accounts,” Greenback added. “The rules were designed to safeguard against tax cheats hiding money in offshore accounts. However, these regulations disproportionately impact expats since they are more likely to have overseas accounts.”
The survey found that millions of Americans living abroad were unfamiliar with America’s financial reporting requirements, which could put them at risk of falling into trouble with the IRS. Another concerning aspect of the survey showed that 86% of American expats “feel like their concerns are less likely to be addressed by the US government than US citizens living in the USA,” a finding that Greenback co-founder David McKeegan said “struck” him most.
As of 2020, there were up to nine million Americans living abroad, according to U.S. State Department estimates. CNBC noted that just under 2,500 people revoked their U.S. citizenship in 2021, much fewer than the record-breaking year in 2020 that saw nearly 7,000 Americans decide to renounce their citizenship.

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Justin Bieber&#8217;s tour promoter AEG announced Thursday the cancellation of the rest of his remaining tour dates in the United States through the summer following the singer’s diagnosis with a rare syndrome that has left him with facial &#8220;paralysis&#8221; on one side.
In a statement on Twitter, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-bieber-shares-update-about-this-horrific-storm-im-facing-talks-about-his-faith-following-partial-face-paralysis">28-year-old</a> pop singer&#8217;s tour promoter shared that, in light of what the pop star had been going through, the remaining dates in the U.S. for Bieber&#8217;s Justice World Tour were being &#8220;postponed.&#8221; It comes after the singer revealed that he was diagnosed with a rare condition called Ramsay Hunt syndrome that has left him suffering &#8220;full paralysis&#8221; on one side of his face.
&#8220;In light of Justin&#8217;s ongoing recovery, the remaining U.S. Justice Tour shows scheduled for June and early July, 
including at Summerfest at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater in Milwaukee, Wl on Friday, June 24, 2022 will be postponed,&#8221; a statement from Bieber&#8217;s tour promoter AEG Presents on social media read.
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&#8220;Justin continues to receive the best medical care possible, is upbeat about his recovery, and is looking forward to getting back out on the road and performing for his fans overseas later this summer,&#8221; it added.
On his <a href="https://www.justinbiebermusic.com/tour">website</a>, the only remaining dates for his shows are all overseas starting July 2022 and ending March 2023.
On Monday, the &#8220;Baby&#8221; hitmaker took to Instagram in a now-deleted post where he informed fans that &#8220;each day has gotten better&#8221; as he deals with the &#8220;discomfort&#8221; of the paralysis. Bieber said that through it all, his faith has brought him &#8220;peace,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-bieber-shares-update-about-this-horrific-storm-im-facing-talks-about-his-faith-following-partial-face-paralysis">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;Wanted to share a little bit of how I&#8217;ve been feelin[g],&#8221; the pop star wrote on social media. &#8220;Each day has gotten better. And through all of the discomfort I have found comfort in the one who designed me and knows me.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m reminded he knows all of me,&#8221; he added. &#8220;He know[s] the darkest parts of me that I want no one to know about and he constantly welcomes me into his loving arms. This perspective has given me peace during this horrific storm that I&#8217;m facing.&#8221;
&#8220;I know this storm will pass but in the meantime JESUS IS WITH ME,&#8221; Bieber continued.
He captioned his post, &#8220;By this point in my life I realize storms come and go. Jesus continues to remind me that he is with me in the midst of the storm,&#8221; <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/06/13/justin-bieber-shares-update-after-revealing-face-is-paralyzed/?_ga=2.182487398.1963369964.1655204269-1925252963.1655204269">Page Six</a> noted. &#8220;It&#8217;s not about the storm. It&#8217;s that we are NEVER ALONE AND HE UNDERSTANDS.&#8221;
The &#8220;Peaches&#8221; hitmaker recently shared a video with fans showing his partial face paralysis as he explained why he had to cancel a few concert dates at the time, and revealed the terrifying experience he had been going through, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-bieber-suffering-from-full-paralysis-on-this-side-of-my-face-diagnosed-with-rare-syndrome-cancels-concert-dates">previously</a> reported. The rare disease is connected to having the chicken pox/shingles virus.
In the clip he posted on Instagram, the entire time Bieber was speaking to fans, one side of his face didn&#8217;t move at all, while on the other side, his mouth moved up and down and his eye blinked.
The pop star is married to 25-year-old supermodel Hailey Bieber.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hailey-bieber-details-terrifying-life-altering-mini-stroke-she-suffered-and-procedure-to-close-hole-in-her-heart">Hailey Bieber Details Terrifying &#8216;Life-Altering&#8217; Mini-Stroke She Suffered And Procedure To Close Hole In Her Heart</a>

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