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Officials: 'Chelsey Nelson is likely to succeed on her claim'WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Department of Justice (DOJ) is protecting a young female photographer from having to participate in same-sex "weddings" against her conscience. The DOJ filed a "Statement of Interest" in federal court on Thursday explaining that a law in Louisville, Kentucky violates the U.S. Constitution by compelling local Chelsey Nelson to photograph gay weddings. The U.S. brief explains that Nelson "is likely to succeed on her claim that requiring her to photograph weddings against her conscience constitutes government-compelled speech that violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment,"...

The federal government on Wednesday filed a condemnation complaint to survey 104 parcels of land owned by the City of Laredo, up and down the Rio Grande, in order to assess where exactly the border wall should go. Maps included in the lawsuit outline in red the “proposed project area” for the wall... As just compensation for this expansive taking and condemnation, the federal government is offering its standard $100 to access the land. The 104 parcels total about 982 acres, according to the lawsuit. This legal action stems from City Council’s decision in January to deny the feds access...

Is Trump the New Constantine? Blaise Joseph's article comparing Donald Trump to the Roman Emperor Constantine was first published in MercatorNet on March 26, long before he clinched the Republican nomination and went on to defeat Hillary Clinton. At the time, it seemed audacious and improbable. Now it seems prophetic. Christians are unable to speak freely. Religious freedom is under attack. Society is materialistic and immoral. Western civilisation is facing huge threats, from within and without. And apparently the one powerful emerging leader is no saint.You’re thinking America 2016? No. Rome 312.The leader is Constantine, who is vying to become...

A new Orthodox chapel will soon adorn the Antarctic landscape. There are already at least two Orthodox chapels and one church on the southernmost continent, and on February 26, His Eminence Archbishop Kallistrat of Gorno-Altai and Chemal of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated the site for the future construction of a chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, reports the Gorno-Altai Diocese. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, Abp. Kallistrat arrived at the Russian Novolazarevskaya research station located in the southeastern part of the Schirmacher oasis on the coast of Queen Maud Land, about 50 miles from...

Bronx, NY – Over six months after first making a request for public 911 records related to an August 17, 2019, medical emergency at an abortion facility located in Bronx, New York, Operation Rescue finally received a recording of the call and the computer aided dispatch transcript from the New York Fire Department that revealed the nature of the emergency. The recording of the original call placed from Dr. Emily’s Women’s Health Center was disturbing. The caller seemed unprepared for even basic questions that are commonly asked by 911 dispatchers. That caused a delay in dispatching units. The caller was...

Rep. Dan “McCain 2.0” Crenshaw (R-TX) came out with an op/ed this week in National Review arguing that conservatives need to embrace the reality of climate change and propose a government solution to the supposed problem. “With ever-more-extreme “solutions” such as the Green New Deal being proposed, conservatives have quickly taken the bait, falling into the tired political trap set by leftists. But I believe we no longer have to do this. We can fight back against the alarmism with tangible solutions based on reason, science, and the free market,” he wrote. Crenshaw bragged in the op/ed that he is...

Cardinal Re, who was confirmed Dean of the College of Cardinals six weeks ago, sent a letter dated Feb. 26, and publicized Feb. 29, claiming that the China-Vatican deal deal represents the minds of St. John Paul II and of Benedict XVI, and that Cardinal Zen is mistaken in his opposition to the deal.HONG KONG, China — Cardinal Zen on Sunday responded to the claim of the Dean of the College of Cardinals that Benedict XVI had approved a draft agreement with the Chinese government on bishop nominations. Cardinal Zen invited the dean to produce archival evidence which he claimed...

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Breaking News: *Trump Says Rep. Mark Meadows Will Take Over as White House Chief of Staff

I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one....

U.S. Attorneys » Eastern District of Pennsylvania » News   Share Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Pennsylvania FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 5, 2020 PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Neil I. Mittin, 64, of Huntingdon Valley, PA was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $3.4 million in restitution by Senior United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson for his scheme to steal numerous personal injury cases and other legal matters from his law firm between 2008 and 2018.The defendant pleaded guilty to mail fraud in September...

President Donald Trump met with victims and families on Friday in Tennessee after a series of tornadoes hit Nashville and surrounding towns. Reporters were kept away from hearing his full conversations with the group of storm victims and members of their families, but as Trump spoke privately to the group of people, many of them began applauding and shouted “Amen!” according to footage streamed live by White House press cameras. At another point in the conversation, Trump pointed at the sky, as he typically does when referring to God or a loved one who has passed away. “We’re a big...

I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one....

As the US Supreme Court was hearing arguments over a Louisiana law aimed at protecting the lives of babies who survive an abortion procedure, Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) was addressing a mob outside the courtroom. During his rant, he warned Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that "you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions." Presumably, the "awful decision" would be to uphold the state law protecting abortion survivors. After numerous criticisms from both Republicans and Democrats, Schumer attempted to justify what he said by characterizing it as "an expression of...

The journalists at CBS This Morning have a history of featuring the President of Planned Parenthood on their show. They also have a history of tossing softballs to the head of the abortion provider. So it was shocking on Thursday to see Gayle King tell Alexis McGill Johnson that “some would call” the procedure “murder.” To be sure, there were some easy questions about the current case before the Supreme Court, but King caused Johnson to stumble after the Planned Parenthood exec called abortion “one of the safest medical procedures there is.” King shot back: “You would call it safe....

The Philadelphia metropolitan area has a rather large Italian population. Yet despite this, the majority appear unfamiliar with the history of their ancestors in the United States. Such is the case of the forgotten internment camps of Italians during World War II. Years ago, while working on a history project in middle school, my grandfather (long since deceased) told me a story about events that occurred during World War II that the majority are not familiar with. His father, who worked at a Stetson Hat factory that was once located in Kensington, had immigrated to the country from Sicily. After...

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ( Exodus 20:1-3)God spake all of these Words saying… Moses didn’t originate the Ten Commandments, God spoke these Words. He also wrote them with his finger on tablets of stone, and re-iterated every single one of them, save one, in the New Testament. We are not saved by the Law, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have much to say to us and...

PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (AP/WYMT) - Authorities say an FBI agent serving a federal arrest warrant in Kentucky has been wounded in a shooting. Our sister station, WYMT, reports the shooting took place in Pulaski County. The FBI office in Louisville said in a statement Friday that one suspect also was wounded. In a statement, the office said both the FBI agent and the subject are in stable condition. The shooting is being investigated by the FBI’s Inspection Division. The statement said authorities will thoroughly review the shooting as expeditiously as possible.

President Trump criticized Fox News during an interview aired by the network late Wednesday, telling host Sean Hannity he has “difficulties” with some of its programing decisions. Mr. Trump voiced complaints about Fox News near the beginning of a 40-minute phone discussion conducted by Mr. Hannity and shown on the host’s eponymous primetime opinion program. “I have my own little difficulties with [Fox News], if you want to know the truth,” said Mr. Trump. “They put people on that I think are inappropriate and say very, very false things and people don’t challenge them. I think they’re trying to be...

“Most people knew this was a grift,” one campaign official noted, according to Klippenstein’s report. “At our first office meeting, my [director] said, ‘We don’t need to canvass. We can just make calls, right guys?’ And everyone was like, ‘Yeah, that’s sensible.’” . . . The person added: “It was easy enough to fudge the data to make it look like real people put in real volunteer work, when in reality Mike was getting nothing out of it.”