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[Catholic Caucus] Toward a Religion with No Doctrinal or Moral PrinciplesHow does it feel?How does it feel?To be on your ownWith no direction homeLike a complete unknownLike a rolling stone?i> — Bob Dylan, 1965They do not call it “change.” They call it a “paradigm shift.” This is what someone says when they want to make you think that nothing is changing, when in fact everything is going to be different. I am talking about the “Final Report” of Study Group 9, released May 5, 2026. In response to the Synthesis Report of the First Session of the XVI Ordinary Assembly...

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Mike Sarraille joins 'Varney & Co.' to discuss Iran’s Basij force, escalating Middle East tensions and Fox Nation’s new season of "The Unsung of Arlington". The video is keyed to start at the segment on the unsung heroes of Arlington. I was unaware of this project which gives faces and stories to the heroes buried at Arlington, one by one. This very important undertaking honors the lives and the value of the gift given by so many, sacrificed to protect and defend our Country over decades.

Is it just me, or does it feel like we're setting up to let this guy go free? The latest update in the Luigi Mangione case is a pretty discouraging one. Officers apparently did not follow protocol when they searched Luigi's backpack at the McDonald's where he was arrested. So nothing from the backpack can be admitted as evidence. BREAKING: Judge Carro just ruled the McDonald's backpack search ILLEGAL in the Luigi Mangione case: "There wasn't a search warrant at that time.""So it's the bullet magazine his cell phone, his passport, his wallet, and a computer chip will not be...

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), a big fan of Kennedy and MAHA, is angling to replace Cassidy — a Kennedy nemesis — atop the influential Health Committee next year if Republicans retain control of the Senate… Marshall founded a MAHA caucus to promote Kennedy’s push to combat chronic disease… Under Cassidy, the panel never held votes on three Kennedy-backed nominees, and the impasse led to the withdrawal of all three nominations… An OB/GYN before wading into politics, Marshall has criticized vaccine mandates and supported nutrition-forward health reforms, including a focus on chronic disease prevention. In a September hearing, Marshall endorsed Kennedy’s...

‘Taken together, you see a playbook not used since Elijah Cummings and the IRS targeting scandal days,’ PILF’s Logan Churchwell said. Recent stinging redistricting losses not withstanding, Democrats at least outwardly remain confident about their chances to take back the House in November. And the left-wing legal apparatus is laying the groundwork to go to war on election-integrity warriors the minute they have a friendlier Congress to work with. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has been tracking the left’s playbook as Democrats line up their targets for the next session of Congress. “You are going to see a nationwide...

“WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday that it is creating a $1.7 billion fund to compensate prosecuted allies of the Republican president after he moved to drop his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Donald Trump's case over the leak of his tax returns. ”

I have read some truly evil things in my life... Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, comes close to what I read in the search warrant for Joshua Gilliam and Ronald Lynch. These two married men have 5 BOYS, in North Carolina. They have been arrested for r*pe, child p*rnography, and grooming. The victims are a 5-year-old and a 15 year-old... but police say many many more charges are coming. ...but it gets worse. Last year... in May of 2025, the NC State Bureau of Investigation sent Harnett County a cybertip about Ronald Wayne Lynch, possible child se*ual abuse material. NO...

Organ meats sit on the butcher’s shelf at a fraction of the price of premium steaks, yet most Americans walk right past them. Liver, heart, and kidneys deliver more vitamins and minerals per dollar than almost anything else in the grocery store, but cultural squeamishness and decades of convenience marketing have rendered them nearly invisible on American tables. Even as the Make America Healthy Again movement highlights these nutrient powerhouses, the rejection persists — a telling symptom of how far we have drifted from sensible, stewardship-minded eating. Beef liver, often called nature’s multivitamin, provides extraordinary levels of vitamin B12, vitamin...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday told lower courts to take another look at a pair of cases involving whether private individuals and groups can sue to enforce a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits discriminatory voting practices. In brief orders, the high court set aside lower court decisions and sent the cases back for further proceedings in light of its landmark ruling last month weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. At issue in the disputes is who can bring lawsuits in federal court to address potential violations of...

The recently completed £1 billion European headquarters of Goldman Sachs in Farringdon Street is situated on the exact footprint of the first medieval Blackfriars monastery. It was built for mendicant Dominican friars in 1224. They moved 50 years later to their main home near today’s Blackfriars station, a few hundred yards down the same street on the opposite side of the River Fleet. The Dominicans established a priory in Holborn, London in 1223, and dedicated the church to Our Lady and St John the Evangelist. In 1276, Edward I gave them permission to move to a site between the River...

[Lots of Charts at link] Confirming our Sunday preview, overnight China reported growth data which slowed across the board in April with investment resuming declines, retail sales missing sales and growing at the weakest rate in 4 years while industrial production rose at the slowest pace in three years, calling into question Beijing’s reluctance to add stimulus to the economy as a global energy crisis hits factories and consumers across the world. China’s Monday data dump of official data on Monday painted a picture of an economy where booming exports no longer offset deteriorating consumption at home, prompting analysts at...

One of President Donald Trump’s former Border Patrol goons has been on a tirade against his administration, claiming officials are retreating from the mass deportation crackdown that was initially promised. Greg Bovino retired as Border Patrol “commander-at-large” earlier this year amid backlash for his leadership in Minnesota, where two protesters were shot dead by federal agents.

The federal judge in the Luigi Mangione murder trial ruled Monday that a gun and notebook allegedly linking him to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson can be shown to the jury. The ruling is a blow to the defense, who argued the items were seized illegally because police had not obtained the required search warrant. CNN’s Kara Scannell reported from the New York City courthouse: “This was a key ruling in this case. And it came after the suppression hearings occurred in December,” Scannell said, continuing: The judge saying that the search of Mangione’s backpack at the McDonald’s...

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey taunted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to “bone up on the rules” as he stares down the second indictment against him and once again stood by his decision to reopen the Hillary Clinton email probe in late 2016. Comey, who was indicted late last month for allegedly threatening to kill President Trump in a May 2025 Instagram post calling for “86 47,” chided Blanche for telling the public the case is about more than that social media post. “I don’t talk about the case because the federal court rules require you not,” Comey...

Russia has unleashed rare attacks on international civilian shipping approaching Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea on Monday, hitting at least two vessels in the Odesa region, including a cargo ship owned by a Chinese company and crewed by Chinese nationals, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukraine’s navy said one strike hit the KSL Deyang, a Chinese-owned cargo ship with a Chinese crew sailing under a Marshall Islands flag, as it approached ports in the region and posted images showing scorch damage to the ship’s hull. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that a Russian drone had struck a vessel owned by...

THIS is the shocking moment a UK phone shop worker offered to take £3,000 in cash in exchange for a small boat migrant crossing. Criminals are using a network of UK-registered businesses to receive payments for smuggling, a BBC Local documentary has found. The Smuggling Business: Undercover, available on BBC iPlayer from tonight, has exposed a network dealing with illegal Channel crossings. These businesses included a mobile phone shop in South-East London, alongside firms in Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridgeshire. Going undercover to film staff at the shop in Woolwich, the BBC found that nearly £3,000 in cash could be...

Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo agreed with analyst Ryan Payne’s take that the Federal Reserve may now have to raise interest rates to combat persistent inflation in a striking assessment given President Donald Trump’s public months-long campaign to pressure the central bank to cut rates. Bartiromo had just rolled back a clip from her interview with investor Jeffrey Gundlach on Sunday Morning Futures in which she floated whether newly-appointed Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh might raise interest rates, to which he replied that a “hike” was an “odds on bet.” Trump had berated and attacked Warsh’s predecessor Jerome Powell for...

Describing the city as a 'very homogenous place by national standards', Howison noted that New Ulm trails behind state and national averages for its diversity. 'They’re somewhat out of step with the larger demographic trends,' Howison said.

Last week, in the wake of the Democrats losing the redistricting battles, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “We will beat the far-right extremists. We’re going to win in November, and then we’re going to crush their souls as it relates to the extremism that they are trying to unleash on the American people.” To Politico, this is a sign that Democrats had “ditched the niceties,” calling it “a marked reversal from years of high-minded Democratic rhetoric.” MS NOW reports that “Democrats say they are done playing defense.” “Niceties”? “High-minded rhetoric”? “Playing defense”? When have Democrats ever been like that?...

"I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what you expect… 150k stools images." The poop database comes from an app called PoopCheck, an app made by a company called Soft All Things that purports to use AI to analyze images of one’s stool in order to give you a “daily gut health score.” With that in mind, here there is an estimation of pricing options: • 10,000 unreviewed images (AI-validated) — $3,000 • 5,000 fully human-reviewed & annotated (on top of AI validation) — $4,000 The appliance giant Kohler endured a security ****show when a researcher showed...