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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers concluded their opening arguments in Republican President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate on Friday with a warning that he was a threat to democracy and would abuse his power again if he is not removed from office.

... A doctor in China's Hubei province succumbed to the virus after being infected while caring for the patients, Reuters reported early Saturday. This is likely to be the first case of a medical professional succumbing to the virus...

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon demonstrated his social enlightenment in Davos this week by announcing that the white-shoe investment bank would no longer help companies with exclusively white, male boards go public—as long as its boycott doesn’t hurt business too much. “Starting on July 1 in the U.S. and Europe, we’re not going to take a company public unless there’s at least one diverse board candidate, with a focus on women,” Mr. Solomon said on CNBC Thursday. “We might miss some business, but in the long run, this I think is the best advice for companies that want to drive...

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of babies have survived abortions, and many of them are living in the world today. This week, they posed a question to abortion activists through a new ad, “Can you look me in the eye and say I should have been aborted?” The two-minute ad premiered at the March for Life on Friday in front of hundreds of thousands of people, featuring the stories of abortion survivors Melissa Ohden, Josiah Presley, Claire Culwell and nearly a dozen others. Producer/director Lyric Gillett is the executive director of Faces of Choice, a new organization dedicated to raising awareness of...

An amazing new time-lapse video shows thousands upon thousands of pro-life people marching for life through the streets of Washington D.C during today’s March for Life. It’s always difficult to capture the exact number of people who participate in the March for Life ,the rally and various pro-life events in the nation’s capital throughout the day. But this tremendous video gives you a visual glimpse of the tremendous outpouring of pro-life support for the March for Life as it streams through the streets of the nation’s capital. Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins released a time-lapsed video of...

A coalition of states is suing the Trump administration over new regulations that they say could allow for the online release of blueprints for 3D-printed firearms, which make it easier for anyone to access the files at home and make a functional plastic gun with a 3D printer. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who is leading the effort to block the administration’s rule, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on Jan. 23, seeking an injunction to block the administration from implementing the new rules. Joining him in the federal lawsuit are...

The young prince is returning to the forest. In the latest move to turn its animated classics into live-action features, Disney has set its sights on one of its most storied: Bambi. The studio has hired Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel, Tomb Raider) and Lindsey Beer (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Chaos Walking) to pen the screenplay for the live-action remake. Depth of Field, the production banner run by Chris and Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano and which is coming off the success of indie darling The Farewell, will produce the new iteration.

The top clergyman at one of the wealthiest parishes in the U.S.-based Episcopal Church has abruptly stepped down. William Lupfer The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, rector of Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church since 2015, announced his departure in a January 3 brief letter to church staff, first published by The Living Church. Such an abrupt departure is highly unusual. Stepping down over a holiday break with no announced transition to an interim rector (Lupfer will be succeeded by church vicar Phillip A. Jackson, who will become priest-in-charge) indicates the departure decision was sudden. As of the morning of January 6,...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. Attorneys for about two dozen men suing the church say in court filings that the 276 documents they obtained through discovery show that the NFL team, whose owner is devoutly Catholic, aided the Archdiocese of New Orleans in its “pattern and practice of concealing its crimes.” “Obviously, the Saints should not...

Sex only belongs in heterosexual marriage, a new statement from the Church of England's House of Bishops has declared. In a document responding to the introduction of mixed-sex civil partnerships, the Bishops say: "For Christians, marriage – that is the lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows – remains the proper context for sexual activity. But they also add: "In its approach to civil partnerships the Church seeks to uphold that standard, to affirm the value of committed, sexually abstinent friendships and to minister sensitively and pastorally to those Christians who conscientiously decide...

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have evidence indicating Jeff Bezos ’ girlfriend provided text messages to her brother that he then sold to the National Enquirer for its article about the Amazon.com Inc. founder’s affair, according to people familiar with the matter. The text messages, which were reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, were among the materials turned over to federal prosecutors as part of their investigation into whether American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, attempted to extort Mr. Bezos... ***** The evidence gathered by federal prosecutors includes a May 10, 2018, text message sent from the phone of...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday said politicians should not close ports to desperate migrants, speaking after a court got a green light to pursue an investigation of Matteo Salvini, Italy's anti-immigrant former interior minister. "In the whole world, men and women migrants face risky voyages to escape violence, to escape, war, to escape poverty," Francis said during his weekly general audience at the Vatican. "Many times, they are not allowed to disembark in ports ... they are exploited by criminal traffickers, today! Some politicians treat them like numbers and see them as a threat," he said, partly...

An inmate at a California prison murdered two convicted child molesters by beating them to death with a walking cane, according to authorities. Jonathan Watson, 41, allegedly beat David Bobb, 48, and Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, to death last Thursday at around 2:30 p.m. at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) and State Prison in Corcoran, according to the New York Post. Following the beating, both Bobb and De Luis-Conti who were in critical condition at the time, were transported to hospital, suffering from head wounds. Bobb, who was convicted of committing aggravated sexual assault to a child under...

A young Finnish women who had made pro-globalist posts on social media was found dead at her apartment as blood flowed under her door, leading to police to open an investigation into a suspected murder case. Sanni Ovaska, a young woman from Hameenlinna, a city which lies between Helsinki and Tampere, Southern Finland, was allegedly murdered by her migrant boyfriend, according to local reports. Her boyfriend, who has been named as Hasan Alqina, also reportedly died during the incident. Ovaska had reportedly made anti-white posts on her social media accounts as well as championing a variety of progressive causes. The...

Vanity Triple Lindsey said he’s looking for four votes to keep Hunter from being called as a Witness. He’s said, he’ll stand against Trump. His defenders, say it’s only the Venue that’s Grahamnesty has an issue with, but Lindsey has Telegraphed he will protect Hunter. This week alone, he complimented Schiff on his “presentation” in front of Cameras, and he’s said that he “loves” Joe Biden. Grahamnesty has already said, without seeing Guiliani’s evidence, that he believes it’s likely “Russian Propaganda” and to take it to the FBi and the CIA - not to him. He has laid the groundwork...

In the United States, abortion is the leading cause of death with almost 1 million abortions per year. Coming upon the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision to legalize abortion, has it been worth the cost? Despite the appalling numbers, there are differences among churches about when life must be protected. Below are the top 20 Christian denominations by membership in the U.S. and their stances on abortion. The Catholic Church The Catholic Church opposes abortion. One source writes: “God loves each human life from the instant of his or her conception and entrusts this gift...

Israeli security forces are gearing up for possible rioting on the Temple Mount during Friday prayers, amid calls for demonstrations on the holy site to protest the Trump administration’s plans to release its much-anticipated Middle East peace plan next week. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas, both of which have rejected the peace plan - which has been dubbed the “Deal of the Century” - even before its release, called on Muslims to gather on the Temple Mount Friday to demonstrate opposition to the peace plan.[snip] After the US signaled it would release the plan next week, and that Prime Minister...

With courtiers already alarmed at how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to cash in on their royal connections, this will have them reaching for the smelling salts. I hear that Meghan plans to become more 'politically engaged' now that she and Prince Harry have quit official duties. 'The Duchess is said to be frustrated that she was forced to stay out of politics after getting engaged to Harry,' a royal source tells me. 'She has strong political opinions and will now take advantage of the greater freedom she has to express them publicly.' The source claims that Meghan...

Hong Kong (CNN)Fifteen more people have been confirmed dead in Hubei province from a deadly new coronavirus, according to the provincial health authority, raising the death toll to 41 in mainland China. Authorities in China have imposed indefinite travel restrictions on tens of millions of people across 11 cities in an unprecedented effort to contain the spread, as hospitals at the epicenter of the outbreak struggle to handle a surge in new patients. The virus, which was first discovered in the city of Wuhan in December, has spread to every province in China, except the remote autonomous regions of Qinghai...