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Trump wants marijuana dropped to Schedule III, but today’s ultra-potent cannabis, injury data, and psychosis risks demand stricter control, not deregulation.

  December 17, 2025

 

 

 

 

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Brown University shooting victims honored, manhunt continues, and FBI foils pro-Palestinian terror plot targeting California and ICE.

  December 16, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

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Charlotte is spending $3.4 million on a Texas PR firm to “enhance” public perception of CATS instead of hiring roughly 18 additional transit police officers over three years, despite recent stabbings on the light-rail.

  December 15, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

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NC’s death penalty is frozen while 120+ sit on death row; “Iryna’s Law” pushes real justice for victims, not endless appeals and parole games.

  December 12, 2025

 

 

 

 

 

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A recently passed law in Australia bans anyone under the age of 16 from having a social media account – including Facebook, Instagram and X.

  December 11, 2025