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Expert: Fraud is 'fundamental' part of child transgender medical field

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
The Epoch Times
Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:56 UTC
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© Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesPeople protest as the Supreme Court hears a case over banning gender procedures for minors in Washington on Dec. 4, 2024.
One of the architects of the Health and Human Services (HHS) review of medical interventions for pediatric gender dysphoria said in a recent interview that fraud is an integral part of the transgender medical field.

​Nearly a year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to protect "children from chemical and surgical mutilation," Leor Sapir, who assembled a team of experts to produce the HHS review, emphasized that doctors relying on unproven gender-affirming guidelines are misleading patients.

​Sapir, an HHS report author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told The Epoch Times there is no solid evidence that puberty blockers, hormones, or surgery benefit children who reject their sexual identity, but that evidence exists that these procedures can cause harm.
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Star of David

Israeli bullets found inside bodies of Iranian children killed in riots: Report


The Cradle.co
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:47 UTC
Iran
© APTOPIXIran
The Iranian supreme leader held the US and Israel directly responsible for the violence that swept the Islamic Republic.

Forensic examinations have revealed Israeli military-grade ammunition embedded in the bodies of children killed during recent rioting in Iran, Russian news agency TASS reported on 21 January, citing Iranian security sources.

The source described the case of an eight-year-old girl in Isfahan who was fatally shot while out shopping with her family during the unrest. She was hit in the stomach, chin, and back of the head, with forensic analysis confirming the bullets were Israeli military-grade.

Another incident involved three-year-old Melina Asadi, who was killed on the evening of 7 January 2026 in Kermanshah while returning with her father from a pharmacy. The child was shot from behind, with the source attributing the attack to armed terrorists.
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Eye 1

Riverview Mayor Michael Cornell Jr. charged with sex crimes

Joey Schneider, Chris Regnier
Fox 2 Now
Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Mayor Michael Cornell Jr.
Mayor Michael Cornell Jr.
Michael Cornell Jr., the Mayor for the City of Riverview, has been charged with multiple sex crimes, according to newly-filed court records.

The St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney's Office has charged Cornell with four counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of first-degree sodomy or attempted sodomy, one count of first-degree harassment and one count of possession of child pornography.

In total, Cornell has been charged with nine felony offenses.
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Briefcase

Walz, Ellison, Frey's offices hit with grand jury subpoenas over 'obstructing' immigration enforcement actions

Debra Heine
American Greatness
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:35 UTC
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© Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty ImagesMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz are at the center of a federal probe into impeding law enforcement.
The Department of Justice on Tuesday served grand jury subpoenas to five Democrat-controlled government offices in Minnesota, including Gov. Tim Walz's office, Attorney General Keith Ellison's office, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's office, according to Fox News. The subpoenas are part of a federal investigation into alleged conspiracy to obstruct or impede federal law enforcement in the state.

The FBI is seeking records and communications related to Democrat officials' responses to federal immigration enforcement actions.

Approximately 3,000 federal agents are currently deployed in Minnesota, as part of an immigration operation dubbed "Operation Metro Surge." The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Monday that the operation has resulted in the arrests of 3,000 criminal illegal aliens, "including vicious murderers, rapists, child pedophiles, and incredibly dangerous individuals."

Comment: More from Fox News:
The White House...slammed a mob of anti-ICE agitators who reportedly stormed into a Twin Cities church on Sunday, accusing Walz and Frey of inciting the chaos.

"There is no low these radical leftists won't stoop to," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital Monday morning. "Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have whipped these rioters into a frenzy and turned them loose to wreak havoc on Minneapolis."

"Frey and Walz should be ashamed for inciting such chaos, but the Trump Administration will continue enforcing the law," she added.

Jackson was reacting to a mob comprised of dozens of agitators allegedly storming into the Cities Church sanctuary in St. Paul on Sunday midway through church services, throwing worship into chaos, Fox Digital previously reported. Protesters claimed the pastor was a local ICE official.

Department of Justice officials vowed Sunday to open an investigation into the disruption, specifically probing for federal civil rights violations "by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshipers," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.


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Footprints

Alberta sees large turnout for petition to secede from Canada

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:05 UTC
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
Crowds of Canadian citizens stood in long lines across Alberta for hours this week to sign a petition for a referendum on leaving Canada - officially titled "A Referendum Relating to Alberta Independence." The petition requires at least 177,000 signatures in order to trigger the referendum, which would ultimately decide if the province will separate.

Petitions have 120 days to collect the signatures needed. Pro-separation groups say they could get as many as 1 million signatures, which would be a clear indication that Alberta will leave Canada. Alberta's population is currently 5 million people.

Some petition locations reported as many as 10,000 signatures in a day and the public response is described as "concerning" by critics who want to remain part of Canada's "constitutional monarchy." Alberta is widely considered the most conservative province in the country and has been at odds with the far-left Canadian government (ruled by Ontario progressives).

Comment: An interesting development, though it has been simmering in the background for at least two decades. Alberta certainly has more going for it than Quebec, which tried the same gambit in 1980 and 1995.

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Red Flag

'Willies aren't silly', V&A tells children in book blasted as 'a tool for paedos'

Gabriel Millard-Clothier
Daily Mail
Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:49 UTC
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© Daily MailThe display also included a graphic novel titled Rainbow Revolutionaries, 50 LGBTQ+ People Who Made History – celebrating drag queens and transgender figures and presenting highly contested trans theories as facts to children
Books with graphic illustrations of naked adults and advising 'willies aren't silly' are on display at a top museum's children's reading room.

Parents are furious, with one branding a book at Young V&A in Bethnal Green, East London, 'a useful tool for paedos to groom children'.

It is part of the internationally-renowned V&A museums group chaired by Keir Starmer's chief economic adviser Minouche Shafik and run by former Labour MP Sir Tristram Hunt, put forward for his knighthood by Sir Keir this month.

One picture book, displayed at the front of a reading room used by small children, was entitled It Isn't Rude To Be Nude and had a drawing of a naked man sprawled across the opening two pages.
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Noem names Charles Wall ICE deputy director following Sheahan resignation

Jasmine Baehr
Fox News
Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:45 UTC
kristi noem
© Getty Images/Alex Brandon
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday via X that longtime U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorney Charles Wall will serve as the agency's new deputy director as enforcement operations intensify nationwide.

"Effective immediately, Charles Wall will serve as the Deputy Director of @ICEGov," wrote Noem. "For the last year, Mr. Wall served as ICE's Principal Legal Advisor, playing a key role in helping us deliver historic results in arresting and removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods."

Wall replaces Madison Sheahan, who stepped down earlier Thursday to pursue a congressional run in Ohio. Her departure left ICE leadership in transition at a moment when the agency has faced increasing resistance to enforcement efforts and heightened threats against officers in the field.

The move comes as the Trump administration intensifies immigration enforcement against murderers, rapists, gang members and suspected terrorists living illegally in the U.S., even as sanctuary jurisdictions and activist groups seek to block or disrupt ICE actions.
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Question

Oversold?

Eric Peters
ericpetersautos.com
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:21 UTC
Buy More
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Advertising is based on the idea that it is necessary to persuade people they need to buy things that they'd otherwise probably not buy. Implicit in that is the probability they don't actually need what's being advertised - because if they did
Advertising
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need it, it would not be necessary to persuade them that they do.

They'd just buy it.

Food, for instance. It isn't necessary to persuade people they ought to eat. Hamburger is rarely advertised. Sales on hamburger are - but that's not quite the same thing. People are wanting to buy hamburger, regardless. Maybe they'll buy more if it's on sale. But they'll buy hamburger, regardless.

As far as cars, consider that it is not necessary to advertise heat - or AC. Most people want heat and AC - because it is
All Wheel Drive
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generally considered unpleasant to freeze in the winter and to sweat in the summer. This is why all cars have heat and AC.

How about all-wheel-drive?

A majority - more than two-thirds - of all new vehicles either come standard with AWD or offer it as an option. Not all that long ago, almost no cars even offered AWD. It was a feature sold chiefly by Subaru and Audi. Now it is sold by essentially every car company.

This reflects the tremendous success selling people on AWD.

But do they actually need AWD? Or is it that advertising has persuaded them they've got to have AWD?
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Cult

Left-Wing NGOs Plan "Economic Blackout" Across Minnesota As State Becomes Testbed For Revolution

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:45 UTC
Left-Wing NGOs Plan
The color-revolution risk assessment we delivered to readers in August 2025 has since seen a timeline that has been accelerated, with Democratic Party-aligned dark-money funded NGOs, left-wing militant groups, and anti-Trump labor unions leveraging Minneapolis as a testbed for coordinated socialist resistance activity, including strike actions, boycotts, and engineered social unrest, all aimed at undermining President Trump's legitimacy, authority, and governing capacity, with the end goal of regime change at the White House.

The assessment initially forecasted that selective resistance movements would begin to materialize in 2026, with mass resistance emerging in 2027-28 ahead of the presidential election. That timeline has since accelerated, as Marxist NGOs and unions are funneling personnel and resources into Minneapolis to fuel social unrest, with the hopes of impeding the federal government's deportation operations targeting criminal illegal aliens. Remember, these illegals are either the Democratic Party's current voting bloc or future voting bloc.

Comment: Just what the elites want, keep us divided and fighting each other so we can demand more protections from them.

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Ambulance

Another passenger train crashes in Spain


RT
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:38 UTC
train disaster in Gelida, Spain
© Getty Images / Lorena Sopena Lopez / AnadoluEmergency crews work at the site of a train disaster in Gelida, Spain, January 20, 2026.
A commuter train derailed near Barcelona on Tuesday after a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, killing the driver and injuring all 37 passengers on board, the Spanish emergency services have said.

The crash occurred just two days after a train collision in southern Spain that killed at least 42 people.

Tuesday's incident occurred between the Sant Sadurni d'Anoia and Gelida stations, around 35 minutes outside Barcelona. Two people remain in critical condition, RTVE reported, citing medical officials. Several rail lines in Catalonia were closed earlier due to heavy rain.

"All necessary resources are being mobilized to guarantee the safety of those affected," Catalonia's acting president, Albert Dalmau Miranda, wrote on X.
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