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OPEC+, the world's leading oil producers, have agreed on Sunday to extend a slight boost in output. The 23-member group, which also includes Russia, is now set to boost output by 400,000 barrels per day each month, starting with August. It all follows their prior agreement this spring, when they chose to boost oil output bit by bit starting in May, after having slashed it more than a year ago when the pandemic caused demand in crude to plummet. (more at link) Sunday's decision was made in order to help fuel a global economic recovery, the Vienna-based group said in...

Abp. Viganò: On the Unfolding Passion of the ChurchThe duty of Catholics today Editor's note: In the following letter, Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò is responding to and building upon the recent Duc in Altum blog article "While the Pope Is in the Hospital" by Aldo Maria Valli. Dear Dr. Valli,I was moved when I read your reflections on the state of the Church and on the "migration" of Catholics from a dying reality to a new, more combative and guerilla dimension, as you wrote, using an image taken from a well-known radio meditation given by the young Joseph Ratzinger. Pope...

Christie Brinkley, who has been gracing magazine covers for nearly five decades, is often asked about her beauty secrets. But Brinkley, 67, says her best tip isn’t about beauty and has nothing to with products or special diets. It’s about all gratitude, she says. “Every day, I count my blessings,” Brinkley tells CNBC Make It. “Because some days can be better days than others but by the time I finish counting my blessings, I feel like it’s a pretty good day.” Taking time each day to practice gratitude gives her added health, energy and productivity, she says. “I always tell...

Hello Folks! Good day and God Bless! My wife and I are thinking of starting a family. But she needs a book that will help her take those steps. Unfortunately we are not to thrilled with some of the title we are to finding. Usually from people that are promoting being childless, single mother, feminist agenda or anti motherhood type authors and books. I am wondering if you have any good recommendations on a book that can help us make that decision and put family in a positive light, rather than anti family style of writing? Thank you for your...

Dogs really are “man’s best friend” and “get” humans in a way other animals simply can’t relate to. Sorry “Game of Thrones” fans, a new study finds even the dog’s closest relatives — wolf pups — don’t gel with people the same way. Researchers from Duke University say 14,000 years of domestication plays a big part in this. In fact, man’s best friend has actually evolved to understand human gestures and look to humans for help in a way that no other animals do. Study authors, who compared wolf pups raised by humans to dogs who had barely any contact...

For the past few weeks, as the mainstream media ramped up their efforts to panic the public over the “delta variant” of the coronavirus, many others remained unafraid and alert. We have now been told by the ruling class’ puppets why they are panicking the masses: and we were right. They are now admitting that “officials” and the rulers need to get more people vaccinated. The real propaganda push has only just begun. Checkout the headlines: “You have to get vaccinated in order to be protected from Covid-19, the delta variant and any other variant that might come down the...

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly reportedly threatened to sue a Politico reporter over an article revealing that sales for his “History Tour” with former President Trump were low, citing conversations with venue ticketing officials. Politico’s Daniel Lippman on Friday reported that tickets for the tour, which has four stops scheduled at locations in Texas and Florida this December, went on sale June 14, though venue officials said sales have so far been slow compared with other events held at the arenas. [cut] However, Trump and O’Reilly have both pushed back on Politico’s reporting, with Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington saying...

Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses op-ed that calls out the Democratic Party as 'the party of wealth,' suggesting Republicans need to make the argument that they're 'the party of the middle class.' Wokeness comes from the elites who are wealthy and who cannot be effected personally by the policies they promote such as defund the police, or radical energy policies that drive up fuel prices.The elites have enough money that they can buy their own protection without relying on police.Similarly they are wealthy enough that fuel prices and inflation do not effect their life style These woke...

A veteran adjusting to civilian life got a loveable service dog to help her through "ruff" times.After more than three years of serving abroad, veteran Mac McQueary returned to the U.S. But she had trouble acclimating to everyday life. "I didn’t know how to survive in the civilian world, and the difficulties that I faced, I basically ran from," McQueary said. "The before was lonely and sometimes dark. And now there’s a light." Then, she was told about K9s for Warriors, which pairs service members with service dogs. And it doesn’t cost the veterans a single cent. McQueary was introduced...

Poland’s long-running dispute with the European Union over the rule of law escalated on Friday after Małgorzata Manowska, the chief justice of the country’s Supreme Court, said the institution would refuse to comply with new orders issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Earlier this week, the CJEU ruled that Poland’s system for disciplining judges, introduced in 2017 under the conservative-nationalist Law and Justice party, contravenes EU law. It ordered the suspension of the disciplinary chamber which forms part of Poland’s Supreme Court. CJEU found that the chamber “does not provide all the guarantees of impartiality...

His name is David Weiss. He is the US Attorney for Delaware. He smothered the investigation into the Hunter Biden laptop. Politico wrote a glowing piece about him. Last summer, federal officials in Delaware investigating Hunter Biden faced a dilemma. The probe had reached a point where prosecutors could have sought search warrants and issued a flurry of grand jury subpoenas. Some officials involved in the case wanted to do just that. Others urged caution. They advised Delaware’s U.S. Attorney, David Weiss, to avoid taking any actions that could alert the public to the existence of the case in the...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Sunday accused the Biden administration of being "in bed with Big Tech," making the argument that comments made by White House press secretary Jen Psaki last week have only strengthened former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing Facebook and Twitter of censorship. "I kind of wonder if Jen Psaki is on the payroll of Donald Trump because her press conference strengthened President Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech," Cruz said in an appearance on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures." "It makes clear that everything we thought about the Biden administration – about their willingness to trample on...

Local officials have the right to reimplement mitigation strategies to stop the spread of COVID-19 amid a surge in cases fueled by the delta variant, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday. "Unfortunately we're seeing rises, particularly among the unvaccinated in many parts of the country now," Murthy told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

It wasn’t easy to ruin California, but the Democrats have accomplished it. California’s descent is reflected in the most basic marker of third-world status: it can’t keep the lights on. My colleague Isaac Orr writes:The abject failure of Califonia’s energy policies is becoming more apparent every day. The Golden State has taken the lead in shutting down reliable coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants and jumping feet first into a grid powered largely by unreliable wind and solar. ***An overreliance on wind and solar has resulted in a grid that is so unreliable that the California grid operator, the...

[Catholic Caucus] ITE MISSA EST: The AftermathSo here we are, a mere 24 hours (at this writing) after the nuclear detonation of the laughably entitled “Traditionis Custodes” (TC). I am reminded of the messages scrawled onto the casing of the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki: “Here’s to you!” wrote one Art Josephson of Chicago “Here’s to you!” said Bergoglio as he dropped his bomb on a rapidly growing liturgical revival, led by young people, that ever more clearly exposes the terminal morbidity of the vast ecclesial dystopia over which he presides. The Novus Ordo was already dying out...

Researchers say lingering symptoms could put a strain on health care systemsWhile some health experts say the emergence of the COVID-19 Delta variant may soon lead to a spike in deaths, researchers say severe cases of the virus may not be the only cause for concern. Researchers from the University of Zurich say over a quarter of people who were infected with COVID-19 in 2020 reported feeling lingering symptoms up to eight months after they were first diagnosed. They say the existence of long-term physical and mental health problems could put a strain on health care systems around the world....

A single father recently diagnosed with potentially fatal cancer is auctioning off a signed Tom Brady rookie card to provide for his daughters. Scott Weaver’s autographed 2000 Playoff Contenders Rookie Ticket was consigned to Heartland Sports Cards and Memorabilia where it will be auctioned off. The card is numbered 40/100. The bid has already gone over $116,000 as of Tuesday. The bidding ends on July 25 at 10:00 p.m. EST. Weaver told Sports Collectors Daily that the card became in his possession in late 2003 or early 2004 when “he purchased a “surprise box” of football cards on eBay for...

Tucked away in the northwest corner of Missouri is a small, dusty town 46 miles north of St. Joseph with a decades-old secret. This past weekend marked the 40th anniversary of the killing of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore. And despite there being dozens of witnesses, no one has ever been arrested or charged in connection with McElroy’s murder. In short: no one saw anything. Ken McElroy died in a hail of gunfire on the morning of July 10, 1981, while sitting in his truck outside a local tavern. He was known as the town bully, but they may be...

She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided. “We twins now,” the smiling 6-year-old told Andrea Courtney. It was one of the last times the two talked. Nyiah was fatally shot Friday night while walking to her nearby home with her mother, father and older sister in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington. Police said the shots came from a gray, four-door sedan passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, striking Nyiah, her mother and four others, among the latest victims in a city struggling...

Writer Paddy Chayefsky was near the end of a decade-long slump in his career when The Hospital was released in 1971. Comes the time, comes the man – America was in turmoil as the social and political tumult of the '60s looked to be metastasizing into something bleaker and perhaps permanent with the new decade. Chayefsky was a writer known for eloquent and ambitious takes on personal despair, and the zeitgeist allowed him to broaden his loquacious and angry monologues to include a broader panorama – a society having a nervous breakdown. Sidney "Paddy" Chayefsky was the child of Russian...