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Bed Bath & Beyond files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy after last-ditch efforts fail

The company has warned since January that it may have to file for bankruptcy due to its shockingly poor sales during the 2022 holiday season. The home goods retail store's last-ditch efforts to raise cash to cover costs failed this weekend.

"Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. today announced that it and certain of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey to implement an orderly wind down of its businesses while conducting a limited marketing process to solicit interest in one or more sales of some or all of its assets," the company wrote in a statement.

"The Company’s 360 Bed Bath & Beyond and 120 buybuy BABY stores and websites will remain open and continue serving customers as the Company begins its efforts to effectuate the closure of its retail locations," the statement continued.

Special Operations Forces Evacuate
U.S. Embassy Personnel From Sudan

The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan was evacuated Saturday by U.S. special operations forces (SOF) as nine days of ongoing fighting between two rival factions presented increasing danger to the people working there and their dependents.

No one was injured in the rescue and the aircraft involved, including three Night Stalker MH-47 Chinook helicopters, took no fire either entering or leaving Khartoum, LTG D.A. Sims, Director of Operations, Joint Staff J3, told reporters, including from The War Zone, during a late night press briefing Saturday. The evacuation was ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden.
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The widespread fighting has caused significant civilian deaths and injuries. There’s been substantial damage to essential infrastructure, including, importantly the civilian airport in the heart of the city.

Chinese 'rent-a-womb' industry using
American surrogates is a national security threat

Wealthy Chinese nationals hiring American women as surrogates to bear children as U.S. citizens represent a growing national security threat, a Heritage Foundation researcher said.

"We have no idea who these children are," Emma Waters, a Heritage research associate and visiting fellow with the Independent Women’s Forum, told Fox News. "So should they come back and get involved in research in academia or purchase contracts or even apply for jobs in sensitive areas, we don't have clear tracking to show that these U.S. citizens actually had a far more complicated background and path to the United States."

A growing number of Chinese citizens already past childbearing age are hiring American surrogates since the method of reproduction is illegal in China, according to Waters. While many of these Chinese individuals are well-intentioned in their pursuit of parenthood, the practice creates a long-term pathway for Beijing to further infiltrate U.S. industries undetected, she said.

"We know that the Chinese government has infiltrated our social media with TikTok, defense contracts, farmland, entertainment and Hollywood," she added. "It seems like a really obvious continuation of that is having U.S. citizens who are fully Chinese."

Several of America’s largest defense contractors were discovered maintaining ties with the Chinese government last year. Similarly, Beijing has heavily invested in Hollywood film agencies and has purchased hundreds of thousands of acres of U.S. farmland.

Public-Service Strike: Union Stepping up Picketing Efforts Starting Monday

Canada’s biggest federal public service union is preparing to ramp up its ongoing strike by moving picket lines to strategic locations such as ports on Monday, as both sides continued to accuse each other of poor communication.

In a Sunday interview with The Canadian Press, Public Service Alliance of Canada National President Chris Aylward said civil servants need to further affect the economy to push Ottawa for a solution.

“We’re trying to have picket lines across the country in some strategic locations where it’s going to impact the government, and we’re actually going to be escalating those actions … whether that’s ports across the country, or anything like that,” he said.
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Picket lines have so far largely been confined to government buildings, constituency offices and landmarks such as Parliament Hill.

Aylward said Ottawa presented a revised contract proposal on Saturday following a public tit-for-tat over a breakdown in communications, adding the union responded that same day.

As of 2 p.m. Sunday, the union said it had not heard back from the federal Treasury Board. Yet the office of Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, the Liberal minister overseeing the negotiations, said it had submitted a second offer Saturday at 8:30 p.m. and was waiting for a reply.

Israel arrests Jordanian lawmaker on arms-smuggling charges

Israeli authorities have arrested a Jordanian lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the occupied West Bank, Jordan's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

The lawmaker has been identified as Imad Al-Adwan. Jordanian media reports Al-Adwan was arrested Saturday at the Allenby Bridge border crossing while trying to enter the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Sinan Majali said Jordanian officials were following the case "to find out the merits of the situation and address it as soon as possible."
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"The Jordanian parliament has long been a stage for the worst kind of anti-Israel vitriol. Now, it appears one of its members has shifted from speech to action," Joe Truzman, Research Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said in a statement.

"This would continue a major breach of both the word and the spirit of the almost three-decade peace treaty between Jordan and Israel. Amman should make amends, and publicly, fast."

Trump on Stopping School Shootings:
If Just 5 Percent of Teachers Armed,
‘You’re Not Going to Have a Problem Anymore’

“More than anything else it’s mental health and a lot of it is caused by drugs — the drugs are flowing in,” Trump told Breitbart News. “We had it down to about a 32-year-low at the border. I heard today they’re 10 times higher than just three years ago. Can you imagine that? But I think more than anything else it’s mental health, by far. And a lot of that mental health is caused by drugs.”

In his speech to the NRA gathering, Trump called for a tax credit to allow teachers who are qualified to get firearms so they can protect vulnerable students at schools nationwide. Trump told Breitbart News that if just 5 percent of the nation’s teachers — many of whom are military or law enforcement veterans familiar with firearms — then school shootings would end.

“So you have teachers that are military vets — and I’m talking about people that know how to handle firearms, because that’s a talent,” Trump said. “Police officers. But you have teachers that are very good with firearms. You don’t need many. I would say 5 percent — that would be a lot. You could never hire that many security guards. They have every bit as much talent in many cases — they’re champion shooters and everything else. If they qualify at a very high level, I would let them take arms in with them. They also have the added asset of loving the students. They love the students.