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[Catholic Caucus] Pro-LGBT archbishop of DC has long record of supporting liberal causes August 30, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Wilton Gregory is this week’s Bishop of the Week for Faithful Shepherds, a website launched by LifeSiteNews in 2018 that encourages bishops to remain faithful to Christ by enabling laity to email, send personalized postcards, or call their bishops to urge them to uphold the Church’s perennial teachings. Archbishop Gregory was recently installed as the archbishop of one of the most politically important sees in the U.S. — the Archdiocese of Washington. Prior to his high-profile appointment, Gregory was archbishop of...

Law enforcement officers in Virginia have seized enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people, busting a massive three-state drug ring as part of what they called "Operation Cookout." Thirty-five suspects were arrested, and four others are on the run. "This opioid crisis is not an issue that is happening someplace else, or to someone else. It's happening right here in Norfolk," said G. Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. In total, authorities seized over 30 kilograms of fentanyl, 30 kilograms of heroin, five kilograms of cocaine and over $700,000. It's the largest drug takedown in Virginia...

The administration has tried every tool at its disposal to tighten the nation's immigration policies — including the so-called "public charge" rule that makes it harder for immigrants to get green cards or visas if they use a wide range of public assistance. It also has pushed to ramp up enforcement, carrying out the biggest workplace raids in at least a decade. At the same time, many of the administration's efforts have been stalled or blocked by Congress, the courts, or state and local officials. Below is a look at what the White House has accomplished on immigration — and...

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Aging late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart does not shy away from the fact that he is killing babies. But he tries to legitimize his life-destroying career with words like “care” and “compassion.” He even offers to allow women to cuddle with their dead baby and take their footprints before he disposes of their body. A brochure on Carhart’s website provides details about his late-term abortion practice in Bethesda, Maryland. He touts himself as a specialist in “second and third trimester abortion care,” and advertises abortions after 28 weeks – long past the point when an unborn baby is viable. “Abortion is...

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died from a toxic mix of the powerful painkillers fentanyl and oxycodone along with alcohol in an accidental overdose, a medical examiner in Texas said in a report released Friday. The 27-year-old Skaggs was found dead in his hotel room in the Dallas area July 1 before the start of what was supposed to be a four-game series against the Texas Rangers. The first game was postponed before the teams played the final three games. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office issued a technical report that said Skaggs died as a result of "mixed...

Shirley Temple Black (actress, born April 23, 1928, Santa Monica, California; died, February 10, 2014, Woodside, California) From the start, Shirley Temple had what the camera loves: bright eyes and a curly top, a magical presence and irrepressible charm -- and an amazing talent. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, proclaimed that "as long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right." She was the star of more than forty motion pictures, most of them made during the 1930s before she had celebrated her 12th birthday. Shirley Temple became a unique symbol of American movies and a joyous tonic...

A Humboldt Park man was found guilty Friday of aggravated battery charges for stabbing a man who confronted him about his purported membership in a white nationalist group outside a concert at Northerly Island in 2017. Brushing aside claims of self-defense during a two-day bench trial, Judge William Hooks on Friday found that Thomas Christensen badly overreacted to a “sophomoric” confrontation with a 30-year-old fellow concertgoer who called him out as a member of the white nationalist Proud Boys, and got in a scuffle that left Christensen with cut on his lip and scalp. “The reaction of the defendant to...

Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case New IG Report Confirms Comey Crimes but DOJ Drops Ball JW Takes on Another Dangerous Sanctuary Policy in California Chris Farrell to Host “On Watch” on the One America News Network Court Grants Significant New Discovery in Clinton Email Case We have won a significant victory in our pursuit of the truth about Hillary Clinton’s misuse of official email and the Deep State’s efforts to cover it up. A federal judge granted us seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s...

While prosecutors routinely recite their full knowledge of and compliance with their Brady obligations, in truth they often scoff at them and continue to play games to win convictions at all costs. Meanwhile, the defense does not know what the defense does not know. This problem was demonstrated dramatically in the prosecution of United States Senator Ted Stevens. In fact, it was the prosecutorial misconduct in that case that led this Court to adopt the Brady order it now routinely enters in every criminal case. Unfortunately, the government learned nothing from the rebukes in Stevens. It has engaged in even...

GOP Rep. John Shimkus announced Friday he will not seek reelection for Illinois’s 15th Congressional District next year. Shimkus, who has served in the House since 1997, said while his tenure in Congress has been “an honor of a lifetime” he is looking to spend more time with his family. “As Illinois candidates begin to circulate petitions next week, now is the time for me to announce that I will not be seeking re-election. … Serving in Congress has been a blessing, but it has also been a sacrifice for my wife Karen, and our boys,” he said in a...

Democrat Dan McCready has a narrow advantage over Republican Dan Bishop heading into the final days of the Sept. 10 redo election in North Carolina’s 9th District, according to a new bipartisan poll for Inside Elections. The survey, conducted Aug. 26-28 by Harper Polling and Clarity Campaign Labs, showed McCready with a 46-42 percent advantage over Bishop, and two third party candidates receiving a combined 3 percent. When leaners are included, McCready’s advantage extended to 49-44 percent. In Nov. 2018, McCready finished behind Republican Mark Harris 49.3-48.9 percent, but a winner was never certified or seated in Congress because of...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account on his own platform appeared to have been hacked Friday afternoon as his page began posting a stream of racist and vile messages. "We're aware that @jack was compromised and investigating what happened," an official Twitter corporate account tweeted. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond when asked for comment. Dorsey's account on Friday afternoon began posting racial slurs and other odd messages. He retweeted one user who wrote, "nazi germany did nothing wrong." "Follow @taytaylov3r or Twitter hq is blowing up," read another of the tweets posted on Friday. Dorsey has more than 4.2...

Victims Of The Charleston Church Mass Shooting Can Sue Over Background Check Failures That Let The Shooter Buy A Gun, A Court Ruled Survivors and family members of victims of the July 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, can sue the federal government over failures in the national background check system that allowed the shooter to buy a gun, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A lower court judge previously had dismissed the case, finding the government was immune from the claims raised by the Charleston survivors and victims' families. The US Court of...

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died of a deadly combination of alcohol and drugs, an autopsy conducted by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner shows. Skaggs, 27, was found dead July 1 in a Southlake hotel while the Angels were in town to play the Texas Rangers. The autopsy and toxicology report released Friday show Skaggs had a combination of fentanyl, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone in his system.

Madeleine Westerhout, President Donald Trump's personal assistant, who has been described as a gatekeeper to the president, resigned on Thursday after leaking to the press earlier this month. Several White House officials had long suspected her of disloyalty to the president. A former staffer for the Republican National Committee and Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, she had reportedly cried when it became clear Trump had won in 2016. "She was a spy from day one who sought to use her proximity to the president to curry favor with his detractors," a former White House official told CBS News. Westerhout's resignation came...

Mumps has swept through 57 immigration detention facilities in 19 states since September, according to the first US government report on the outbreaks in the overloaded immigration system. The virus sickened 898 adult migrants and 33 detention center staffers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its report Thursday. New cases continue as migrants are taken into custody or transferred between facilities, the report said. As of last week, outbreaks were happening in 15 facilities in seven states. In response to the report, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox said medical professionals at detention facilities screen all...

A 16-year-old student at a Colorado high school was informed by the school district Wednesday that he was not allowed to return to classes until the school could conduct an investigation into an anonymous tip that he had posted "threatening" content online. Current Time 0:11 Duration 0:51 Trump Slams 'Totally Fake' Washington Post Report That He Floated Pardons For Border Wall Construction In a story that has gained national attention from conservative sites, including RedState, the parents of a junior at Loveland High School learned Wednesday that their son could not appear on campus until the Thompson Valley School District...

James Comey hatched plan to leak memos earlier than he claimedJames Comey was already plotting to share memos summarizing his conversations with President Trump with a pal who later leaked the info to the media before his supposed middle-of-the night epiphany about the president’s claim that he had “tapes” of their conversations. The discrepancies in his timeline, outlined in the Justice Department’s watchdog’s scathing, 83-page report on his behavior, create more uncertainty about Comey’s version of events. Comey told investigators that Trump’s tweet about supposed Oval Office “tapes” caused him to snap awake “in the middle of the night” and...

WATCH: ANTIFA Terrorist Attempts to Stab Marine Veteran During Last Weekend’s Portland Rampage ANTIFA has become America’s top domestic terror threat.