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The Central Intelligence Agency said it will create a top-level working group aimed at China, calling Beijing “the most important geopolitical threat” America faces today. The formation of China Mission Center announced on Oct. 7 aims to address “the global challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China,” CIA director William Burns said on Thursday, adding that such challenge “cuts across all of the Agency’s mission areas.” A senior CIA official said the agency will hire Mandarin speakers and mobilize Chinese specialists globally. The new working unit will “further strengthen our collective work on the most important geopolitical threat we...

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Downers Grove, IL – A women who was in pain with signs of shock after an abortion insisted that the Access Health Center abortion facility in Downers Grove, Illinois, call an ambulance for her after the abortionist suggested that she make her own way to the hospital. According to 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue, the nurse who called for an ambulance told the dispatcher that the woman was drifting in and out of consciousness and could not get up. She also described the woman as weak, pale, and clammy, but without serious bleeding. However, the nurse also gave conflicting...

The NeverTrumpers at The Dispatch actually tried to pass off a George Soros-funded group attacking The American Conservative Union as “nonpartisan.” Dispatch staff writer Andrew Egger wrote a propaganda piece promoting how “federal investigators are currently looking into possible criminal campaign-finance misdeeds at ACU during [Chairman Matt] Schlapp’s tenure.” Egger said the investigation followed complaints alleging campaign finance violations against the ACU, Teneseee State Senator Brian Kelsey (R-District 31) and others by the “nonpartisan watchdog organization, the Campaign Legal Center [CLC]” in 2017. Here’s the problem: calling CLC nonpartisan is ridiculous. CLC has been funded with at least $12,782,400 from...

By having F-35B stealth fighter jets successfully flying from a modified helicopter destroyer in a recent test, Japan now in de facto has an aircraft carrier in its arsenal, the first since the country brought disaster to the world in World War II, was defeated and vowed not to have aggressive weapons. The move, driven by Japanese militarist forces to break free from the pacifist Constitution and supported by the US to contain China, is a dangerous one, and the US should know better and learn from the lessons of history, Chinese analysts said on Thursday. After receiving modifications, the...

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Luke 11:5-13 Friends, our Gospel today is about prayer and the power of prayer. This excerpt from Luke is filled with wisdom in regard to the proper attitude of prayer. What is prayer, and how should we pray? Prayer is intimate communion and conversation with God. Judging from Jesus’ own life, prayer is something that we ought to do often, especially at key moments of our lives. Well, how should we pray? What does it look like? You have to pray with faith. Have you noticed how Jesus says before working a miracle,...

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, posed maskless with invitees at his “art” exhibit in Los Angeles on Friday despite local health rules. “In Los Angeles County, everyone 2 years of age and older must wear a mask in all indoor public places and at outdoor Mega Events, whether they have been vaccinated or not,” Los Angeles County’s website states.

A US nuclear powered submarine struck an object underwater in the South China Sea on Saturday, according to two defense officials. A number of sailors on board the USS Connecticut were injured in the accident, the officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, according to a statement from US Pacific Fleet. It's unclear what the Seawolf-class submarine may have hit while it was submerged. "The submarine remains in a safe and stable condition. USS Connecticut's nuclear propulsion plant and spaces were not affected and remain fully operational," the statement said. "The incident will be investigated." The US Navy did...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) — When the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped record-breaking rain on the East Coast this month, staircases leading into New York City’s subway tunnels turned into waterfalls.</p><p>In Philadelphia, a commuter line along the Schuylkill River was washed out for miles, and the nation’s busiest rail line, Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor running from Boston to Washington, was shut down for an entire day.</p>

The teenage gunman who opened fire in an Arlington, Texas, school on Wednesday has been released on bond, a day after pulling a gun from his backpack and shooting a 'bully', a teacher and one other girl. Timothy George Simpkins was being held on a $75,000 bond on three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but the 18-year-old walked out of Tarrant County Jail on Thursday afternoon. Simpkins said nothing as he strode out of the jail in a blue t-shirt, matching baseball cap worn backwards, and jeans. It's unclear why he has been charged with aggravated assault...

Sen. Lindsey Graham told a reporter Thursday he is “upset” with Republicans for caving on debt ceiling negotiations. “I’m upset with us [Republicans] because we had a strategy to make them [Democrats] pay a price to raise the debt ceiling,” a Fox News reporter tweeted Graham’s comments. “We blinked and why? Because two people are normally made more or threatening to change the rules of the Senate,” he said of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

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Some car dealerships are charging thousands of dollars in "market adjustment" fees on top of the "manufacturer's suggested retail price" for new vehicles. Supply chain issues continue to plague the auto industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in vehicle shortages on dealers' new car lots. There is currently a shortage of computer chips that the auto industry relies on for the production of new vehicles. U.S. auto sales are reportedly down by 14% in the third quarter compared to same time last year. A representative for Edmunds, a leading vehicle information resource for consumers, told Just the News that many...

To paraphrase Animal House, Andy Jassy hasn’t dropped the big one — yet — but he put it in play this week. After years of deteriorating relations with their home city of Seattle and its ultra-progressive city council, Amazon’s CEO made it known that the online giant may look for greener pastures. Citing the city’s hostility toward their presence, Jassy suggested that the suburbs are looking better and better for a new home to its 50,000-employee home base (via Instapundit):The world’s largest online retailer is by far the biggest private employer in Seattle with more than 50,000 workers. That distinction...

President Joe Biden’s administration is considering providing tariff exemptions for more than 500 products made in China — a potential boon to corporations who continue offshoring to the communist country. This week, United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai said the administration would continue to preserve tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese products first imposed by former President Donald Trump.

SINGAPORE: China‘s refining giant Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it has jointly certified the country’s first carbon-neutral crude oil cargo with shipping giant Cosco Shipping and China Eastern Airlines . The 30,000-tonne cargo was produced by Sinopec in Angola and shipped by Cosco Shipping to an east China-based Sinopec refinery for processing, Sinopec said. To offset the carbon dioxide produced during the process from crude production to shipping to consumption by vehicles and airplanes, the three state firms bought Chinese Certified Emissions Reductions credits. These credits that will go to investing in carbon-reducing projects such as tree planting, solar, wind...

* Vanessa Gelman, Pfizer Senior Director of Worldwide Research: “From the perspective of corporate affairs, we want to avoid having the information on fetal cells floating out there…The risk of communicating this right now outweighs any potential benefit we could see, particularly with general members of the public who may take this information and use it in ways we may not want out there. We have not received any questions from policy makers or media on this issue in the last few weeks, so we want to avoid raising this if possible.” * Gelman: “We have been trying as much...

Opus Dei have an ‘indirect complicity with the destructive course’ of Pope Francis: psychologistIn the second part of LifeSite's interview with Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, he referred to 'symptoms of over-compliance to the homosexuality policy of this Pope' in Opus Dei, and called for Opus Dei to apologize for Bishop Bonnemain’s grievous misbehavior as a member of Opus Dei.'(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Gerard van den Aardweg, a Dutch psychologist and expert in questions of homosexuality, has given LifeSiteNews an interview, in which he discussed, in a first part, the errors about same-sex unions as promoted by the Swiss bishop Joseph...

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments. Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

In a disturbingly selfish but honest admission, British actress Jameela Jamil said she aborted her unborn baby because her life “matters more than an unborn human.” Eastern Eye reports Jamil (“The Good Place,” “How to Build a Girl”) shared her abortion story recently when she criticized Texas for its new heartbeat law. The pro-life legislation went into effect Sept. 1, prohibiting abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, and pro-life leaders say as many as 3,000 babies have been saved from violent abortion deaths so far. Jamil slammed the abortion ban, claiming “hatred” and “control” of women are behind...