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<p>You can tell, whatever Valerie Jarrett or any of these other people say, this girl gets it, but for the quick action by the officer, she might not be here, you can almost hear the weightiness of the thought in her head as she tells the officer. She knows the first officer saved her....</p>

Jennifer Pritzker, whose family owns the Hyatt hotel chain, is the world's first and only openly transgender billionare. The army veteran lives in Tennessee but hinted she might leave the state if lawmakers pass legislation restricting transgender rights. The state is one of many across the country currently considering anti-LGBTQ+ bills. “As a transgender woman, these unnecessary and hurtful laws are personal to me. As a businesswoman, my larger concern is the impact they will have on Tennessee’s reputation and, ultimately, economic well-being, as businesses and tourists turn elsewhere,” Jennifer Prtizker said at a video news conference hosted by the...

Lawyer and liberal pundit Alan Dershowitz accused Rep. Maxine Waters of using KKK tactics to intimidate jurors in the Derek Chauvin murder trial. “The Klan would march outside of courthouses and threaten all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person,” Dershowitz said in an interview on Newsmax. Waters traveled to Minnesota and announced that if the jury didn’t reach the verdict she and the crowd of protesters wanted, they would get “more confrontational.” “We’ve got to stay in the streets, and we’ve got to demand justice. I am hopeful that...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Proud Boys leader charged in connection with the Capitol Riot will remain in jail. Judge Michael Harvey determined that Charles Donohoe will remain in jail stating that his release would pose a danger to the community, according to Politico. Donohoe was indicted in March on conspiracy charges in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that killed several people including a Capitol Police officer. The man is the third Proud Boys leader ordered to remain in jail while they challenge conspiracy charges in connection to the Capitol riot. On Monday,...

Students who have been exposed to interpersonal trauma—physical assault, sexual assault or unwanted sexual experiences—prior to college are more likely to engage in risky alcohol use. But romantic relationships mitigate these effects of trauma on a student's drinking behavior, according to a new study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.

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A Michigan state lawmaker being busted for driving drunk — in a car with “ELECTED” vanity plates — told cops that arresting him would not “be good,” since he controls the department’s budget, a police report shows. Rep. Jewell Jones (D-Inkster) told Michigan state

Authorities say a Southern California man is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick up the poisonous reptile using barbecue tongsA Southern California man is recovering after he was bitten by a rattlesnake when he tried to pick up the poisonous reptile using barbecue tongs, authorities said. The man spotted the snake Saturday evening near his home in the Sycamore Creek community of Corona and was worried about it coming into contact with children, according to a statement from Riverside County Animal Services. When he tried to remove the rattler using the tongs, the...

Democratic activist Stacey Abrams said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that voters should vote for Democrats because Republicans “will not stop men from murdering women of color.” She also accused Republicans of not taking action to “protect our environment” or hold police officers “accountability for their actions.” Abrams said, “What we saw happen in Georgia in 2020 and again in 2021 has, indeed, led to hysteria from Republicans. But the reaction should not be to hold on to power by diminishing the power of citizenship. It should be. Let us evaluate our policies and do our best to convince these...

The country wants an end to sectarian strife. Can the leader of the Maronite church deliver?In an address from the balcony of his limestone residence in the town of Bkerke, Lebanon, at the end of February, Lebanon’s senior Catholic prelate, Cardinal Bechara al-Rai, made it clear he believes his country is on the brink of collapse—and the key to rescuing it involves disarming Hezbollah. “There does not exist two or several states within one land,” Rai said before a crowd of hundreds of people, who had gathered despite the pandemic. “There does not exist two or more armies within one...

The global medical community has been asserting that “a pandemic is being caused by a virus, SARS-Cov-2.” But what if the virus doesn’t exist? People have been asking me for a step-by-step analysis of a mainstream claim of virus-isolation. Well, here it is. “Isolation” should mean the virus has been separated out from all surrounding material, so researchers can say, “Look, we have it. It exists.” I took a typical passage from a published study, a “methods” section, in which researchers describe how they “isolated the virus.” I sent it to Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and he provided his analysis in...

A rare and extreme tsunami ripped across an Alaska fjord three years ago after 180 million tons of mountain rock fell into the water, driving a devastating wave that stripped shorelines of trees and reached heights over 600 feet, a large team of scientists documented Thursday.The October 2015 cataclysm in Taan Fiord in Southeast Alaska appears to have been the fourth highest tsunami recorded in the past century, and its origins - tied to the retreat of a glacier - suggest it’s the kind of event we may see more of due to a warming climate..The new study even bluntly...

A couple of times a month, our office requires us to have “coffee clutch” meetings via Zoom. A manager facilitates these and comes prepared with a topic. The meetings are meant to be social in nature and to help maintain some bonds among employees since we went on work-from-home over a year ago. For the most part, these meetings are insipid and painful. Not once have I enjoyed them or found any redeeming value in them whatsoever, especially if this one really sarcastic guy who thinks like I do is not there due a scheduling conflict. Today the manager running...

Across China, multiple celebrations mark the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Catholics and other believers can choose among a panoply of seminars, conferences, trips, visits, and exhibits. For Mgr Ma Yinglin, without the Communist Party there would be no New China, no socialism with Chinese characteristics, and no happy life for people today.Rome (AsiaNews) – The centennial of the founding of the Communist Party of China is being celebrated under the banner of “knowing, thanking, listening, following the Party”. Catholics can choose among a number of seminars, conferences, trips, visits, and exhibits, after the Council...

A Bulgarian court has ruled that His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia visited Bulgaria in March 2018 more as a politician than a cleric. Therefore, it found no slander or offense against religious sensibilities in the words of then-Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valery Simeonov who called the Patriarch a KGB agent in response to the Russian primate’s own controversial statements. The Sofia District Court gave its ruling on March 17, reports the Balkan Observer. On March 3, 2018, Bulgaria celebrated the 140th anniversary of the San Stefano Peace Treaty that provided for the establishment of an autonomous...

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In a message marking Earth Day, Pope Francis urged world leaders to “act with courage, operate with justice, and always tell the truth to people,” so that the destruction of the planet can be prevented before it is too late. “The adversity we are experiencing with the pandemic, and which we already feel in climate change, must spur us, must push us to innovation, invention, to seek new paths,” the pope said April 22. The pope’s video message was played during an Earth Day live stream on YouTube organized by EarthDay.org, which oversees the event held annually on April 22...

Pope Francis Commits to Ecumenism But Catholic Tradition rebukes errorIn a letter marking the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint, Pope Francis called for a renewed commitment to ecumenism, according to the Church's "irrevocable" commitment to the task of ecumenism.Pope Francis invited everyone to "ask the Spirit to guide our steps and to enable everyone to hear the call to work for the cause of ecumenism with renewed vigor." Vatican News reported that the pope has reminded the faithful that "ecumenism is not something optional."As Catholics faithful to the Church Magisterium, we may find...

Obsessively cleaning surfaces to get rid of COVID-19 germs is typically unnecessary “hygiene theater” and may go more harm than good by contributing to a false sense of security, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. “CDC determined that the risk of surface transmission is low, and secondary to the primary routes of virus transmission through direct contact droplets and aerosols,” Vincent Hill, Chief of the Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, told CNN during a CDC-sponsored telephone briefing. Thorough disinfecting surfaces is appropriate when someone with coronavirus has been in the space during the past 24 hours, Hill said. But...

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