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Early Wednesday morning, federal investigators executed a search warrant at the Manhattan home and office of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The warrant, carried out as part of an ongoing investigation by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) over Giuliani's work on matters related to Ukraine and his business dealings with two indicted Soviet-born associates, marks a significant step forward in the investigation targeting the personal attorney to former President Donald Trump. Giuliani's lawyer, Bob Costello, confirmed the search took place and denied any wrongdoing by Giuliani....

President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress received a less enthusiastic reception than those of his immediate predecessors, according to a CNN instant poll of speech watchers. Roughly half of viewers, 51%, fell in the "very positive" reaction category. A chart showed that is a lower figure than was recorded for former Presidents Donald Trump in 2017, Barack Obama in 2009, and George W. Bush in 2001, whose "very positive" scores in the same poll were 57%, 68%, and 66%, respectively. More than 70% of speech watchers said the speech made them feel more optimistic as...

Swing voters in New Jersey and Virginia are fed up with Democrats pushing cancel culture, a new poll from the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) suggests. The survey of 656 “high propensity persuadable voters” located in two districts in New Jersey and Virginia found that after RSLC digital advertisements targeted Democrats for promoting cancel culture, citizens were more likely to vote for Republican candidates. “The key message of the ad was simple: the cancel culture tactics that drove Major League Baseball to move its annual All-Star Game out of Atlanta will cost Georgia $100 million, hurt the very communities Democrats...

What do the unanswered criticisms of Amoris Laetitia teach us today? (Roberto de Mattei) Five years ago, on 8 April 2016, the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the most controversial document of Pope Francis’ pontificate, was published. This document is the outcome of a process initiated by Walter Cardinal Kasper’s intervention in the February 2014 consistory. Cardinal Kasper’s thesis on how the Church should renew its marriage praxis formed the leitmotif of the two synods on the family in 2014 and 2015. Unfortunately, the final exhortation Amoris Laetitia turned out to be even worse than Cardinal Kasper’s report. While the...

Senator Tim Scott delivers the Republican response to the State of the Union

Brandon Mitchell, juror 52 in the trial of Derek Chauvin, has said that the jury deliberated for four hours as one juror was holding out and needed to be convinced of the former officer’s guilt. “It was just dark. It felt like every day was a funeral and watching someone die every day,” Mr Mitchell told CNN, adding that the jury was shown the video of George Floyd’s death five to six times a day during the three-week trial. “I felt like it should have been 20 minutes,” Mr Mitchell said about the four-hour deliberation. He said only one juror,...

John Maynard Keynes is alleged to have said ‘When the facts change, I change my mind — what do you do, sir?’ I am no fan of Keynes generally, but there is something to be said for that pithy ‘second-thoughts’ comment. It pains me to admit it, but the President’s address to the joint session of Congress put me in mind of Keynes’s observation. After all, was it not a rousing address? Even long-time critics acknowledged it. One described it as ‘a perfect blend of strength and empathy’. I have to agree. That same commentator wrote that ‘Tonight, I was...

A Commons committee is calling on the Public Health Agency Canada (PHAC) and National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) to explain why it has not provided unredacted documents regarding the transfer of deadly viruses to China’s Wuhan laboratory, after the agency and lab missed its 20-day deadline to provide the documents. The Canada-China Relations Committee (CACN) unanimously agreed Monday to summon PHAC president Iain Stewart and NML acting vice-president Dr. Guillaume Poliquin to appear before the committee on May 10, to explain why they have not provided unredacted documents regarding the transfer of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Chinese military-affiliated Wuhan...

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A reevaluation of newer evidence on ivermectin showed that it is still not recommended as a COVID-19 treatment, the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) said Wednesday as two lawmakers gear up to distribute the antiparasitic drug in Quezon City. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said a group of experts, composed of medical societies and the government’s health and regulatory agencies, found a “very low quality of evidence” on the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. The group found “insufficient evidence” to support the use of ivermectin on mild to moderate COVID-19 cases and also recommended against the use of...

President Joe Biden proclaimed that “America is rising anew” and is on the verge of overcoming the historic pandemic. The US leader made the remarks on Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress, which marked his first 100 day in office. Much of Biden’s remarks focused on income inequality, lambasting large corporations for not paying taxes and pointing to the growth of wealth at the top during the pandemic. He called on US companies to “pay [their] fair share” and pledged not to raise taxes on the lower earners. The Democrat president also slammed the...

To say Stacey Abrams has been the recipient of some rather gracious and fawning media coverage over the last three years would be putting it mildly.There is no mainstream news outlet, outside of perhaps Fox News, where you will not find a voluminous amount of puff pieces preaching about how she was supposedly instrumental in “saving” the country from former President Trump in 2020 and how she would have won the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election — if not for that “racist” Republican Brian Kemp’s supposed machinations behind the scenes.But all the media favoritism in the world has not been able...

A cop’s claiming a chocolate store refused to serve him.And he’s not the only one.On Tuesday, a Seattle policeman visited a cafe called Chocolati.He was accompanied by a trainee.Allegedly (apply that term to the whole of this story), the man just wanted a box of chocolates.Hence, he put in his request.The employee’s response, according to the Post Millennial:“No, I won’t serve you.”The afternoon encounter came courtesy of a “white female with green streaks in her hair” who likely lacks a “Fraternal Order of Police” license plate.Indeed, no box was had, and that’s too bad — after all, the company’s website...

The police officer who posted a hilarious video mocking LeBron James has been suspended from his job over the harmless joke. Nate Silvester, a detective in Twin Falls, Idaho, aims to “humanize the badge” with his funny and topical posts on TikTok. According to Silvester’s best friend, Gannon Ward, the city did not find the officer’s video as funny as millions of us did and have suspended him for a week. While he is currently still employed, angry leftists are definitely trying to change that. In the parody video responding to James threatening a police officer who had to shoot...

Anaheim city council stripped a commissioner of his title after comments he made about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus. Council unanimously voted to remove Larry Larson’s commissioner status from the sister cities commission during an April 27 city council meeting. “They’re going to destroy me and my reputation, kick me off sister cities—which you voted to put me on—because I said, ‘China virus,’” Larsen told council. The issue began when the sister city commission, which works to develop Anaheim’s cultural and economic relationships with international cities, considered partnering with Pudong, China on Feb. 22. Pudong is a district within...

The Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) has informed a Senate Commerce subcommittee on transportation that the Biden Administration’s penchant for electric vehicles is starting to get under its skin. The union is recommending that the United States avoid setting any timeline for the proposed banning of internal combustion vehicles because it might cost a staggering number of jobs. Ann Wilson, MEMA’s senior vice president of government affairs, said vehicle restrictions were unrealistic before 2040 and would obliterate entire segments of the auto industry without providing concrete assurances that the environment would be improved. While the latter claim can be...

A Catholic from Zhejiang is fined for hosting Msgr. Shao Zhumin in his private chapel. The prelate, recognized by the Holy See, but not by the Party, is branded as an emissary of a "foreign institution". All attempts by the Party to eliminate pastors and unofficial communities, tearing up the premises of the Agreement between China and the Holy See.Rome (AsiaNews) – An increasing number of unofficial bishops in China are being prevented from carrying out their ministry. Placed under house arrest or detained in other locations, isolated, fined or encumbered in their daily lives render any gathering between the...

A YOUNG bride poisoned her millionaire husband, 77, who bedded 4,000 woman - after claiming she'd be the last he slept with, it's alleged. Saki Sudo, 25, is accused of murdering her 'Don Juan' spouse, who was 55 years her senior, in the Japanese city Tanabe three years ago. Tycoon Kosuke Nozaki, who made his fortune through real estate, agriculture and money lending, married the suspect in February 2018. He was dead within months, according to the news site Tokyo Reporter. Mr Nozaki had boasted about bedding 4,000 women, it's claimed, and in 2016 wrote a book called 'Don Juan...

Statue outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California/ Duke SanchoTwo parishes in the Diocese of Sacramento suffered similar acts of vandalism in the past two weeks. On the weekend of April 17-18, three statues were vandalized outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California. In photos sent by parishioner Duke Sancho to CNA, what appear to be statues of Mary, St. John, and St. Mary Magdalene at the crucifixion scene are each disfigured with black spray paint covering the eyes. Sancho told CNA that a parish men’s fraternity and the pastor Fr. Jonathan Molina organized a project to clean...

The dissident Archbishop of Chicago was acting on his own and not per order of the university or the city.CHICAGO, Illinois, April 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The Archdiocese of Chicago, led by Cardinal Blase Cupich, shut down Masses for University of Chicago students earlier this month and asked students not to attend Mass at a local parish either. “University of Chicago students couldn’t attend Mass this weekend because church officials insisted it’s unsafe to worship when 0.6 percent of young people threatened more by flu contracts COVID-19,” wrote University of Chicago student Evita Duffy in a Chicago Thinker article republished...