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The legacy of labor rights activist César Chávez continues with the first family bringing renewed focus to it amid national debate over raising the federal minimum wage. On Wednesday, First Lady Jill Biden is visiting Delano, California, for an event with organizations that include the Cesar Chavez Foundation, United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation, the Los Angeles Times reported. Chávez helped unionize farm workers by co-founding the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. Former President Barack Obama supported César Chávez Day with presidential proclamations. California has made March 31 a state holiday,...

A dead gray whale was found Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay, near Crissy Field. Amir Ali Bigdeli was taking his usual morning walk, right by St. Francis Yacht Club in Crissy Field, when he spotted the whale’s body floating in the water. He snapped a picture of the whale, which he estimated to be over 40 feet long, a few hours after his walk. Bigdeli, who lives in the Marina district, told SFGATE that he spoke to swimmers in the San Francisco Bay, and found that the whale may have died recently. “According to the swimmers who were close...

Diocese: Priest’s Omission of Palm Blessing in Protest over Vatican Ruling ‘Reprehensible’50-year-old Fr. Mignani, pastor of Santa Caterina Parish in Bonassola, said during his homily March 28, “if I can’t bless same-sex couples, then I won’t bless palms and olive branches either."ROME — A Catholic diocese in Italy has described a priest’s refusal to bless palms on Sunday because of the Vatican’s rejection of blessings for same-sex unions as “reprehensible.”The Diocese of Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato said that the matter was being addressed according to Church norms.Fr. Giulio Mignani, a priest in the north-western Italian diocese, made headlines after he refused to...

CNN was slammed for a blanket statement in a news story that it is “not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth.” “This is in a NEWS article at CNN: ‘It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.’ This is beyond farce. This is CNN,” radio show host Jason Rantz tweeted on Wednesday.

Viganò: Where Are The Prelates Who Have Celebrated Mass in Saint Peter's For Years?Francis' Anti-Mass decree legitimises worldwide abuses because similar prohibitions have been enforced for decades without being explicitly formulated, Archbishop Viganò writes on AldoMariaValli.it (March 31).In most sacristies, priests who want to say Mass are forced into passive concelebrations. For Viganò it is "useless" to object that saying Mass is a "right of every priest."Modernists detest the simultaneous celebration of several Masses and the celebration towards God, Viganò explains because for them, the Mass is "a dinner.”He decries the cowardly and complicit silence of many prelates: “Where is...

ATLANTA (AP) — Some of Georgia’s most prominent corporate leaders on Wednesday began to more forcefully criticize the state’s sweeping new election law, acknowledging the concerns of civil-rights activists who say the measure threatens the democratic process. ... Speaking later on CNBC, Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey called the legislation a “step backward.” “It does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity,” he said. “This legislation is wrong and needs to be remedied.”

Democrats in New York are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $27,000 apiece in direct payments for financial hardships related to the coronavirus pandemic. Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is in talks with state lawmakers to create something called the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer direct payments to “undocumented immigrants and formerly incarcerated individuals” who missed out on work opportunities amid the pandemic. “Right now discussions are around eligibility and access,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos told the outlet. The state would set aside $2.1 billion...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- Waukegan's Board of Education met Tuesday night as it considers changing the names of two of its schools, Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Daniel Webster Middle School. Jefferson, who was the nation's third president, owned slaves. Webster was a former senator who supported slavery. Renaming committees were formed for each school, and included people in the community, students and staff. The school board heard concerns from the public Tuesday night over one of the finalists in the running to be the new name for Thomas Jefferson Middle School. The country's first Black President and First Lady,...

CHICAGO (CBS) — The carjacking crisis in Chicago is getting worse. Police said there have been 352 carjackings in the city so far this year, and only 62 arrests. Authorities say a 14-year-old girl was behind at least four of the carjackings. The 14-year-old girl, whom we are not identifying because of her age, appeared in court Wednesday with her family. She is facing four felony charges accusing her of involvement carjackings. One of the victims was Uber driver Carolyn Andrews – who still can’t get back in the driver’s seat without thinking about it. “One jumped behind me so...

It is an extraordinary thing when a movie becomes so meaningful, timeless, and impactful, that it remains relevant and popular while its audience grows with each new generation. In the case of Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, there are a multitude of reasons for that. The Ten Commandments has two significant components that work in its favor. For one; consider the source. The Biblical book of Exodus explicitly chronicles the sovereignty of God, as well as His intercessory involvement in freeing His chosen people, the Hebrews. It is an integral part of Hebrew history, and plays a vital...

A top U.S. border official said on Tuesday he expects more than a million migrants will arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, a sign of a growing humanitarian challenge for President Joe Biden on the southwest border. If the figures reach 1 million, it could mirror a similar increase in border crossings in 2019 during Donald Trump’s presidency, when nearly 978,000 migrants were taken into custody. Border Patrol arrested about 100,000 migrants in February, the most in a month since mid-2019. More migrants typically cross between April and June, Raul Ortiz, deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, told...

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CHICAGO — The city has seen a “quantum leap” in cases since a month ago — meaning Chicago has to puts reopening plans on pause, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday. On March 1, the city was seeing an average of 295 confirmed cases per day. But as of Wednesday, an average of 498 confirmed cases are being reported each day — a 68.8 percent increase since the start of the month. Just since a week ago, daily new cases are up 37 percent. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 across Illinois and Chicago’s positivity rate are also rising. Deaths...

"In an era when everyone is online, everyone is a public figure." — Bill Maher on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Mar. 26 That's 100 percent correct. Social media gives everyone and anyone a broadcast studio that can potentially reach millions in a viral minute. And that means everyone is a potential target for the woke brigade as it continues to add scalp after scalp to its trophy room. How utterly ridiculous is our country getting thanks to an increasingly woke media that is replacing the isms in going from journalism to activism? Consider Exhibit A: The Washington Post...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — A Florida man is calling for 1 million people to mark "one year of mask tyranny in Broward County" with a march in Fort Lauderdale. The "Million Maskless March" will be held April 10 near Las Olas Beach in Fort Lauderdale. Organizer Chris Nelson wrote that the event will be a "celebration of freedom" and recognize those who have "faithfully endured" the county's mask mandate. The protest, billed as a non-partisan event, will also include a mask burning, according to organizers. Other organizers listed on the protest invite include Nelson's ReOpen South Florida, UnMasking America and...

JUST IN: Key eyewitness will plead the 5th if called to testify. Atty for Morries Lester Hall, who was inside Cup Foods & the SUV w/ #GeorgeFloyd asks for subpoena to be quashed. Otherwise he will "invoke his 5th amendment privilege against self-incrimination.

We are going to end up at the end of March 2021 this evening. Shortly it will be the beginning of April 2021.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (WFLA) – A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday accused of stabbing her roommate multiple times over $60 of her own stimulus money, WFLA reports. Samantha Clark, 46, is facing a charge of attempted murder after allegedly attacking her 77-year-old roommate Dale Neary after an argument relating to $60 of Clark’s federal stimulus money, police said. The elderly man was taken to the hospital where he is in serious condition but expected to recover. Police caught up with Clark blocks away from her home and said the 46-year-old appeared to have taken narcotics, WFLA reports. Clark was arrested...

India’s economy has bounced back amazingly from the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown over the last one year, but it is not out of the woods yet, according to the World Bank, which in its latest report has predicted that the country’s real GDP growth for fiscal year 21/22 could range from 7.5 to 12.5 per cent. The Washington-based global lender, in its latest South Asia Economic Focus report released ahead of the annual Spring meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that the economy was already slowing when the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. After reaching...

Parkland parent Andrew Pollock joins me to discuss how mass shootings can be prevented.