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Gov. Larry Hogan believes some House Republicans are “whitewashing” the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The two-term Republican governor appeared on CBS News Chief Correspondent Major Garrett’s podcast The Takeout this week, where he shared his thoughts on the investigation into the insurrection. “We have to get to the bottom of exactly what happened [on January 6]. And there’s no whitewashing,” Hogan said to Garrett. “We need to get all the facts and find out exactly what happened. But there’s no way to just overlook this and say it didn’t happen. The nonsense about ‘these were just peaceful...

There are 716 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 452 on July 16, officials said. The county also reported four new deaths, bringing the total to 24,628 fatalities since the pandemic began early last year. On Saturday, L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer warned that the Delta variant was "one of the most aggressive and infectious respiratory diseases known and currently makes up over 80% of sequenced cases in L.A. County." Although cases remain at a lower point than they have been during any of the previous surges, the rate of increase between July 3 and 16 was...

Until the vax at all cost crowd comes clean on the fact that natural immunity is much better and that those with prior infection should not risk the shot, they will have no credibility on anything they say.— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) July 25, 2021

As tensions rise in neighbouring Afghanistan, the local Catholic community opens a convent dedicated to Saint John Paul II. During the inauguration, the Virgin of Luján, patroness of Argentina, was carried in procession, an unusual event for Central Asia.Buenos Aires (AsiaNews) – Tajikistan celebrated National Unity Day on 27 June. This year’s observance coincided with the opening of the country’s first Catholic monastery of contemplative life, an unusual occurrence in Central Asia. The Virgin of Luján, patroness of Argentina, was carried on a platform during a short but meaningful procession marking the event. The “religious family” of the Institute of...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended efforts to permit federal funding of elective abortions, and cited her own Catholic faith while doing so. A draft spending bill that was recently approved by the House Appropriations Committee would allow for federal funding of elective abortions in Medicaid. It excludes the Hyde Amendment, federal policy since 1976 which prohibits funding of most abortions in Medicaid. In remarks at her weekly press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Pelosi said she supports a repeal of Hyde because it is “an issue of health, of many women in America, especially those...

Participants in the Russian Orthodox Church’s 10th General Church Congress on Social Service have proposed a plan for the phased removal of abortions by request from the compulsory medical insurance system. The Congress was held May 13-15 with the participation of representatives from 165 dioceses throughout Russia and abroad, sisters and clergy from Sisters of Mercy branches, the heads of Orthodox social projects, and social workers. The forum’s final document was approved by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and published yesterday. “Taking into account Germany’s experience, where payment for an abortion at the expense of insurance is provided only when there...

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Montenegro has registered the first same-sex partnership in the staunchly conservative country that is striving to join the European Union, authorities said Sunday. The announcement is seen as a major step forward for the LGBT community in Montenegro, which has suffered harassment and isolation in the past. The strongly patriarchal nation last year passed a law allowing same-sex partnerships as part of reforms needed to move closer to EU membership. Government Minister Tamara Srzentic says she is proud that the law has been used. “Today is an important day for the LGBTQ community in Montenegro,” Srzentic...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signs a ban on so-called conversion therapy during a ceremony at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Walz said conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to "convert" LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations, is a "byzantine, tortuous practice." He said his order empowers state agencies to ensure that no Minnesotans under age 18 are subjected to it, and that insurance companies and state health plans don't cover it. “There’s no place for hate in this state, there’s no room for division,” Walz said at a...

Goodell’s plan is to include two pregame national anthems at marquee events — the traditional one, which I guess now is explained as the “white” anthem, and the new addition and largely unknown “black” national anthem. To think that Goodell is dense enough to believe that such a separate-but-equal public relations scheme will promote good will as opposed to divisiveness. Why doesn’t Goodell have NFL stadiums further divide by race? Have race-specific entrances, water fountains, concession stands, parking lots, rest rooms? His anthem plan resurrects such long-gone racist history."

Provincetown officials on Sunday approved a temporary indoor mask mandate after a COVID-19 cluster stemming from an influx of visitors around Independence Day has now impacted more than 500 people across multiple states. In an emergency virtual meeting Sunday evening, the popular Cape Cod community’s Select Board voted to authorize Town Manager Alex Morse to order an indoor mask requirement until the COVID-19 testing positivity rate dips below 3%. When that happens, indoor masking will fall under an advisory, which Morse can lift once the positivity rate falls below 2%, officials said. The town’s Board of Health made the initial...

The #1 question I get from people is “what’s up with President Trump and the vaccine?” People are very confused because for years President Trump was very vocally against vaccines, or at the very least very skeptical of them. Now he proudly touts pushing what appears to be the most deadly vaccine of all. So what gives? Trending: RINOs Booed Off-Stage At President Trump’s Arizona Rally Well, if you can believe him, Bill Gates has the answer. A newly resurfaced video from 2018 shows Bill Gates claiming that he (Gates) talked President Trump out of investigating vaccines. Yes, really. And...

Republicans are blasting a provision in the federal defense budget that would require women to register for the military draft. ​ The ​Senate National Defense Authorization Act, approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, contains an amendment that would compel women between the ages of 18 to 25 to sign up for the Selected Service, just as men that age are required to do. Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, an Iraq War veteran known as a hawk on defense issues, and Josh Hawley of Missouri voted against the proposal.

Turns out not building a wall is almost as costly as building one. President Joe Biden is spending at least $3 million a day on contractors “to watch steel rust in the desert,” Senate Republicans have found — as he tries to put a stop to former President Trump’s planned wall along the US-Mexico border, despite the ongoing crisis there. “President Biden is paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting, while at the same time we’ve seen a 20-year high number of migrants crossing our open border,” said Sen. James Lankford (R.,...

And what is MTD exactly? Ms. Barna answers: “The moralistic perspective is we’re here to be good people and to try to do good…The therapeutic aspect is everything is supposed to be geared to making me feel good about myself, ultimately to make me happy. Deism is the idea that God created the world but has no direct involvement in it. Basically, according to MTD, there is a distant God who just wants everyone to be nice, and the purpose of life is to be happy. American ‘Christians’ who have adopted this philosophy have… elevate[d] personal definitions of right and...

The Baltimore Police Department is requesting federal police officers to combat violent crime in the city. "The ask is for federal agents to come help us," Baltimore police Commissioner Michael Harrison explained this week, according to WBAL-TV. "Certainly, police officers will answer citizens calls for service. But I think what the bigger picture meant is federal agents will be on the streets of Baltimore. Not specifically patrolling, but on the streets helping, working side by side with police officers to help fight violent crime." The federal government has yet to agree to the plan but it is believed that up...

Think of YouTube nowadays and what is the first thing that comes to mind? For many people it is censorship. It started out slow with a lot of people thinking, “Oh, Alex Jones was shut down but it will go no further.” Well, they were wrong. Alex Jones was merely Censorship Patient Zero and we are all now the new Alex Joneses (keeping up with the Joneses?)In the past two or three years, YouTube censorship has gotten egregious to the point of absolute absurdity. In addition, channels that are punished for being in violation of their guidelines often have the...

A new poll indicates that 1.8 million Americans have turned down job offers in order to stay on unemployment insurance. Morning Consult surveyed 463 out-of-work American adults at the end of June. 13% — roughly one in eight — said that they had refused job offers while unemployed because they “receive enough money from unemployment insurance without having to work.” Others said that child care obligations, worries over COVID-19, and a lack of job flexibility limited their willingness to take new positions. Because 14.1 million adults were collecting benefits at the time of the survey, Morning Consult calculated that roughly...

The Ostracism of the Old Liturgy Must End at Last! By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger"It is also important for awareness raising in matters of liturgy that the ostracism of the form of liturgy valid until 1970 must cease at last.Anyone today who supports the continuation of this liturgy or participates in it is treated like a leper; this is where all tolerance ends.There has never been such a thing in the whole of history; in doing so, one is also ostracising the whole past of the Church. How can one trust its present when it is like this?Frankly, I also do...

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If you want the more-advanced version of the rear-wheel steering system on the Mercedes-Benz EQS, and you live in Germany, prepare to pony up to unlock the software. It will cost you about $575 a year to get an over-the-air update that will unlock the 10-degree rear-wheel-steering system. Unless you sign up for a three-year subscription, in which case you’ll pay a bit over $1,300, which is a bit of a discount in terms of per-year rate.