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The Arizona House passed a law to nullify federal gun control measures last last month, establishing the state as a Second Amendment sanctuary. State Rep. Leo Biasiucci’s Second Amendment Firearm Freedom Act would nullify any new federal gun control laws restricting gun rights, citing the unconstitutionality of the Biden administration’s support for “assault weapons” bans, attacks on online firearms transactions, and forced registry of semiautomatic rifles as NFA items. The law passed the Arizona State House in a 31-29 party line vote in February. “We’re Second Amendment friendly. We love our law-abiding citizens, gun owners,” Biasiucci told the Epoch Times....

Video sent to KSBW 8 by a viewer shows a mountain lion with three cubs in tow. The video was recorded with a trail cam in east Carmel Valley, near Cachagua Road. The viewer said she thinks the video was taken at the end of February.

Prefilled syringes are the safest and standard recommended delivery device for most modern vaccines—so why are covid-19 vaccines being packaged in glass vials in the middle of a global glass shortage?

After the deadly earthquake came the sinkholes… Yes, over 100 sinkholes have opened up in central Croatia after two earthquakes in December. Some holes have emerged under residential houses, forcing occupants to evacuate. A central Croatian region about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Zagreb, is pocked with round holes of all sizes, which appeared after December’s 6.4-magnitude quake that killed seven people and caused widespread destruction. Scientists have been flocking to Mecencani and other villages in the sparsely-inhabited region for observation and study. “These are so-called dropout sinkholes, and they appeared because of the specific geological composition...

Nearly 100,000 migrants were caught and detained after illegally entering the U.S. from Mexico, Reuters reported Friday based on sources, marking the highest number caught in the month of February since 2006. Also Friday, CNN and Axios reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a memo waiving COVID rules limiting capacity at child migrant shelters to deal with the massive flood of children entering the U.S. illegally. The Washington Examiner reported the Biden administration is considering renaming the child migrant shelters “reception centers”. Joe Biden campaigned on reversing President Trump’s strict immigration policies and the migrants are responding...

President Joe Biden reportedly said "Indian-descent Americans are taking over the country" while talking to a NASA official on Friday. Biden made the off-the-cuff remark during a conversation with Dr. Swati Mohan, NASA’s guidance and controls operations head for the Perseverance Mars rover, according to the Times of India.“It’s amazing. Indian-descent Americans are taking over the country — you, my vice president [Kamala Harris], my speechwriter, Vinay [Reddy]," Biden said. "I tell you what. But thank you. You guys are incredible."

New York officials on Thursday confirmed they omitted nursing home resident death data from a report on COVID-19 last year. The report was released by the New York State Department of Health. It claimed that a March 2020 order from state officials wasn’t to blame for thousands of nursing home residents dying from COVID-19. The report received criticism, with one lawmaker saying it contained numerous flaws.

President Joe Biden on Friday extended the national emergency with respect to Iran for another year, according to a White House notice. In a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate President Kamala Harris, Biden said he is extending the national emergency with respect to Iran beyond March 15. The original emergency declaration in Executive Order 12957 was made by President Bill Clinton on March 15, 1995.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A third man has come forward claiming that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Michael Pfleger when the man was a teenager more than 40 years ago. Pfleger was removed from St. Sabina’s parish, pending an investigation into allegations of past sexual abuse. Both of Pfleger’s original accusers – two brothers – shared their story exclusively with CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov. They told her they could no longer keep their secret. I would like people to see there is a dark side to Mike Pfleger,” one of the men told Kozlov in January. The...

Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-Canton) introduced a bill proposing the border wall construction initiated under former President Donald Trump be completed by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). “President Trump fought to bring real border security and was opposed by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. While hundreds of miles of new wall were built under his leadership, the Biden administration has already ceased border wall construction,” Slaton said, reported The Texan.

With only nine deaths from Covid-19, the island’s handling of the pandemic is a testament to the success of its democracy. Taiwan’s successful handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is a model for the world,” announced the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, in a statement on 19 January. With a population of nearly 24 million, the self-styled Republic of China (a de facto independent democracy, but claimed by the People’s Republic of China, which has never ruled over it) has, as it stands, managed to limit case numbers to 941 and deaths to only nine. This is...

Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi confirmed by decree the establishment of the council for the administration of the foundations of the Catholic Church in Egypt. The presidential decree of February 27th published in the Official Journal as provision 80/2021. A similar presidential decree also set up the Board of Directors for the foundations of the Evangelical Christian community in Egypt. The two bodies were oficially launched with Law 190 of 2020. The new presidential decree stipulates that the Coptic Catholic Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak will head the body's Board of Directors, for a period of...

She noticed smoke pouring from the propertyA heroic mum stormed into a burning bungalow while running late on the school run to save the life of a 91-year-old woman. Muriel Heathcote's Blackwell home had caught fire just before 9am on March 4, which caused severe damage. Firefighters were called to the scene to battle the blaze and police closed a stretch of Alfreton Road while the incident was dealt with. Lauren Mottram, was running late as she was dropping off her son at school, when she noticed smoke pouring from the property and quickly ran inside to help the elderly...

Washington D.C., Mar 2, 2021 / 04:00 pm MT (CNA).- Pro-life leaders responded to a recent straw poll of conservative activists where pro-life policies received the least number of votes for the activists’ most important issues. Attendees at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando were allowed to select up to three issues as their top policy priorities for the Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Options included “election integrity,” “immigration/border wall,” and “second amendment.” A mere 16% of conference-goers choose pro-life policies as one of their top three issues, making it the issue that received the least number of...

Woman seeking family roots discovers unexpected connectionKathy Gillcrist always knew she was adopted, but she had no idea just how different her life would’ve been if her birth mother hadn’t made the decision to give her up after she was born. “I had the option to check a little box that says I was an adopted child and I would be interested in finding siblings or other relatives,” said Gillcrist, describing the 23andMe DNA test she took in 2017. The DNA test brought back a first match: her third cousin Susan Gillmor, a successful genealogist in Maine. “We were amazed...

Alice Cooper argued that Gene Simmons’ famous comment about rock being dead applied only in a business sense and that, artistically, the genre was “where it should be.” Kiss member Simmons made headlines in 2014 when he claimed that rock music had been “murdered” by technology and attitudes in the modern world. “Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed, and now it won't, because it's that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs," he said at the time. Primis Player Placeholder In a recent interview with NME, Cooper countered Simmons’ statements. “I would like him to...

The front-door windows of St. Anne's Catholic Church in Tucumcari were vandalized a few hours before a service took place there Saturday evening. According to a Tucumcari Police Department report, officer Justin Garcia was sent to the church at 306 W. High St. about 3:30 p.m. Saturday after parishioner reported the damage. Edward Perea said someone had called him after seeing the damage, and he went there to find the front doors' stained-glass windows had been broken. Garcia had Perea open the door to see whether any objects or anyone was inside the church. None was found. The total value...

The popular fruit pizza from new Belmont restaurant Poppies Pizzaria.Although Poppie’s Pizzeria has only been open for a month on Smithville Road in Dayton, the most popular item offered at the Belmont restaurant has already earned it more than a few loyal followers. And the dish almost did not exist at all. According to Poppie’s Pizzeria founder David Cox, the idea for a decadent fruit pizza came about during a trip to an emergency room. “So, I cut my finger outside of work, and I had to go to the hospital,” Cox said. “And the orthopedic doctor asked if...

During his State of the Church address Wednesday, which replaced his Shepherds’ Conference for men in church leadership that was postponed due to “ongoing litigation" and "threats" from the state, MacArthur urged evangelicals to stop forming alliances with non-Christian groups to promote religious freedom because they don’t need it. “The Gospel offends the sinner and seeks to break the sinner’s comfort and contentment by bringing him into stark realization of the eternal judgement of God. Evangelicals have become like Peter. They are looking for alliances with Satan that they think somehow can aid the Kingdom,” MacArthur said. I told our...

Don Pietro Leone: THE COUNCIL AND THE ECLIPSE OF GOD - PART IV In Part IV of ‘The Council and the Eclipse of God’, Don Pietro explains how the Council attacks the very notion of Truth, how this is the basis of all its false teachings and how Decartes’s Philosophy of Doubt permeates the Council’s documents. F.R. The Council and the Eclipse of God Beatissimae Vergini Mariae humillime dedicatum,Quae cunctas haereses sola interemisti in universo mundoPART IV TRUTH – part 2Rene Descartes (1596-1650): Father of Modernist Thought - his philosophy begins with Doubta) The Fullness of Truth The Council...