Host Bright Learn discusses the EPA's controversial classification of Berkey water filters as pesticides—targeting their ability to remove viruses like COVID—while exempting similar products, prompting a federal lawsuit and raising concerns about regulatory overreach and access to clean water. For more videos, visit BrightLearn.ai Full length interview on Brighteon.com: https://www.brighteon.com/1ee1fbf0-1ef4-4be7-9bea-e4b080b4f0ba

Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles this weekend sparked mass protests across the city. Some of those protests escalated to violence and President Donald Trump deployed the national guard and marines to the city. The city imposed an overnight curfew on Tuesday to curb vandalism and looting. Voices on the left often argued the protests were peaceful until Trump escalated them through military force, while voices on the right...

Matthew Vogel was finishing up a six-month stint at the South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton, Tennessee, for a parole violation when he was allegedly beaten to death by a cellmate who was serving three life sentences for murder. Vogel's cellmate is accused of bludgeoning him with a drainage cover before stabbing him with a shard of glass from a broken television, killing the 39-year-old one day before his scheduled release in August 2024. And according to a lawsuit filed earlier...

Posts on social media suggest Marines are refusing to enter Los Angeles during protests and rioting, but there is no evidence to suggest that is the case. Protests in L.A. against immigration enforcement began on Friday and are continuing, resulting in some isolated incidents of violence and looting. Tensions escalated when, in response, President Donald Trump announced the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to restore order, without the consent of California Governor Gavin Newsom...

Republican and Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House reconciliation bill on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that due to work requirements in the bill, 3.2 million people would lose all of their SNAP benefits, which provide financial help to low-income people for groceries.  About 42 million people receive SNAP benefits, according to the...

The U.S. economy is showing signs of stability, but a wave of layoffs is sweeping through major companies, including Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Citigroup, Walmart, Klarna, Disney, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery, according to CNBC. Despite a steady labor market, these companies are under pressure to reduce costs due to global uncertainty linked to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. Experts indicate that while government job cuts are decreasing, companies are still feeling...

As the Los Angeles Police Department moved to box in a group of protesters outside the city’s downtown federal building last weekend, several people suddenly rushed the line. Chunks of concrete flew through the air, recalls Martín Hoecker-Martinez. He says a woman then ran up and down the group of bystanders, exhorting others to join the attack. “Whether she recruited people, I don’t know,” says Mr. Hoecker-Martinez, a college physics professor who had been peacefully walking the Los...

The administration of New York Governor Kathy Hochul assigned a senior state government official to participate in back-channel talks led by a Chinese Communist Party bureau allegedly involved in espionage and co-opting foreign political leaders. This individual was slated to deliver remarks on a Zoom call on October 19, 2023 with the CCP’s International Department and several Chinese officials linked to the Party’s political influence organs, according to emails and documents obtained by...

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