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DES MOINES — Citing “overwhelming” incidents of abuse and "extensive" cover-up that spanned decades, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller issued a report Wednesday detailing 50 complaints his office received about allegations of sexual impropriety by Catholic clergy, non-clergy or spiritual leaders — including 17 victims who had not previously come forward to report abuse to authorities.

Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? is a documentary film featuring experts, activists, parents, and educators discussing the medical and surgical transitioning of children. Run Time approx. 52 minutes. Share now: #DeTransMission

Two home builders who destroyed 36 Joshua trees on their Prescott Avenue property were fined $18,000 in court Tuesday. “It is unlawful to remove these trees. It is a violation that will be investigated thoroughly and prosecuted,” said Patrick Foy, a captain with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The investigation began Feb. 11, when a Morongo Basin resident saw two local landowners uprooting Joshua trees to make way for a single-family home. They had the trees pulled from the ground and were burying them in a hole on the property, according to the prosecutor. “A resident in the...

A leftist assistant professor argued that the U.S. needs to spend trillions of taxpayer dollars to fight climate change. And spending “trillions” is just the “down payment,” according to her perspective. University of California, Santa Barbara Assistant Professor Leah Stokes joined liberal news organization Democracy Now! to push her extremist vision for U.S. spending on what she called the “climate crisis.” Co-host Juan González asked Stokes to address the “state roles, uh, in addressing, uh, the uh, the climate crisis.” Stokes said the “states have an important role to play,” but she pivoted to emphasize her fixation on federal spending....

Ventana Big Sur set a record for the highest per-room sale price when it sold to Hyatt Hotel Group. The $148 million sale comes out to $2.5 million per room, beating the record set in April in Sonoma when Montage Healdsburg sold for $2.04 million. The hotel is located on a 162-acre property in Big Sur and has 59 rooms, 15 cabins and 63 camping sites. According to SFGate, Ventana Big Sur rooms start at $2,000 a night.

A GRAN claimed to be the world’s oldest person has celebrated turning 119 - and puts her long life down to her fatty diet of butter and cheese. Seker Arslan was reported to be even older yesterday in Turkish media after her cake had a large number 120 on top - as even her family appeared uncertain how old she is. She was said to have celebrated the event at home in Amasya, north Turkey, surrounded by her relatives on Sunday. But an ID card offered as proof of her age suggested she was born on June 27, 1902 -...

There is a lot of disinformation floating around about Pennsylvania, audits, and the fight for election integrity in the Keystone State. Almost every day I read an article suggesting that Pennsylvania is about to follow Arizona down the road of really digging into what happened in the November 2020 elections. That is not anywhere close to true. Here is the ground truth from the Keystone State. ..... This is the state of play in Pennsylvania. We are not on the brink of some historic moment in which Republican leaders will stand up, fight for the truth, and push back on...

Brendan Morrow, Staff Writer Mon, June 28, 2021, 7:26 AM Mark A. Milley and Donald Trump Mark A. Milley and Donald Trump BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley reportedly found themselves in a heated shouting match in the Situation Room last year. The account comes via reporter Michael Bender's new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election, as revealed Monday by Axios. According to Axios, the book describes how Milley "repeatedly blew up" at Trump over how racial justice protests should be handled in the summer...

Former VP Al Gore on his message to Donald Trump: "I would say please do the right thing. Acknowledge reality. Stop hurting this country. Stop undermining democracy." 1 min video at link. The Hill Twitter

Any sane, political advisor would tell Joe Biden to stand pat, keep his head down, steer to the center, and hope he can survive his four years. This administration has no mandate for change. None of its core policies, from open borders to defunding the police, to waging war on white people enjoys anything close to majority support. But apparently, there are no sane, political advisors in this administration – only ideologues. Devoid of any contact with real Americans, convinced of their own moral superiority and infused with Marxist ideology, they intend to transform America and destroy the republic as...

All of Sydney is isolated by a raft of restrictions as the states and territories lock up to battle an out-of-control coronavirus outbreak. A rush on Sydney's supermarkets has prompted Woolworths to impose restrictions on shoppers

You Think Zuckerberg’s Massive Investment In RNA Vaccine Development Has Anything To Do With Facebook Censorship Of Vaccine Information? Recently, I posted on my personal Facebook page some video shot outside of a hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The video showed protesters who were opposing the hospital’s decision to require all personnel to get vaccinated against COVID-19. A speaker in the video pointed out that the vaccines being marketed never completed the normal full scope of FDA testing and were being made available pursuant to emergency use authorizations (EAU’s). All of this is undeniably, factually true. Nonetheless, within hours Facebook shut...

...Lindell said the data was brought to him, a private businessman, but did not say how or why. Nor did he say identify U.S. agencies with access to the same data...

A mother-of-three has died after suffering a rare catastrophic reaction to the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab, her family has said. Lucy Taberer, 47, fell seriously ill after getting the jab and developed blood clots in her brain which caused a stroke. Her heartbroken fiance, Mark Tomlin, from Aylestone in Leicester, has since spoken about the devastating impact her death has had on the family including the couple's five-year-old son Orson. He said Lucy, a playgroup leader who had no known health conditions, initially experienced mild side effects in the days after she was vaccinated at the Peepul Centre in Belgrave on...

Aurelian was Roman emperor from 270 to 275 CE. He was one of the so-called Barracks Emperors, chosen by the Roman army during the turbulent period known as the Crisis of the Third Century (235-284 CE). Besides victories against various invading tribes, he successfully restored the Roman Empire by bringing the breakaway territories of the Gallic Empire and Palmyra back under Roman control, which earned him the title restitutor orbis ('Restorer of the World'). In order to defend Rome, he ordered the construction of the Aurelian Walls around the city, many parts of which are remarkably well-preserved thanks to their...

A British-born white influencer has had 18 plastic surgery procedures to look like a member of K-pop band BTS — and now “identifies as Korean.” Oli London — who uses they and them pronouns — on Monday shared a series of videos from a hospital bed to show off the latest round of work in their bid to look like Park Jimin. “Hey guys! I’m finally Korean. I’ve transitioned,” London said in one video, saying they were “transracial” and now “identify as Jimin.” “I’ve been trapped in the wrong body … But finally I’m Korean — I can be myself....

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday defended the “peaceful protest” of Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who on Saturday turned away from the US flag while the national anthem played and covered her head with her T-shirt that read, “Activist Athlete.” Berry said she was “pissed” to hear “The Star-Spangled Banner” after winning a bronze medal at the US Olympic Track & Field Team Trials. “I haven’t spoken to the president specifically about this, but I know he’s incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it represents, especially for...

The Drug Dealers’ President Seizures of fentanyl are exploding nationwide… As soon as Joe Biden got in the White House, he began with astonishing rapidity to dismantle the mechanisms Donald Trump had put in place to control illegal immigration coming across our southern border. The result was a tidal wave of humanity crossing into the United States and overwhelming all our efforts to control it. That’s bad enough, but the ripple effects from Biden’s dereliction of duty are even worse. When you open the border and when our border patrol officers are crushed under a human tsunami of illegal immigrants,...

An 11-year-old girl has delivered a baby — and is believed to be the youngest-ever mom to give birth in the United Kingdom, a report said Sunday. The child, who was 10 years old when she became pregnant, gave birth earlier this month when she was more than 30 weeks along, the Sun reported. “This is the youngest mother I’ve heard of,” Dr. Carol Cooper told the outlet. “Weight affects many hormones. Because children are heavier, puberty is happening earlier these days,” she added. The pregnancy stunned the girl’s family, who were not aware that she was expecting, the outlet...

Washington Post reporter Hannah Dreier published a series of misleading tweets over the weekend accusing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of fumbling the state’s response to the recent building collapse in the town of Surfside. On Saturday, Dreier posted a screenshot of FEMA’s response to the recent building collapse, claiming that it took DeSantis a full 24 hours to approve any form of emergency assistance for the affected area. “There’s a saying in emergency management: The first 24 hours are the only 24 hours,” Dreier stated. “FEMA was ready to deploy to the condo collapse almost immediately, and included the crisis...