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e-mail 19 View comments New York City has elected black former policeman Eric Adams as mayor, making the Democrat the next leader of America's biggest city. The result was called by Associated Press shortly after the polls closed at 9pm Eastern Time, with less than 30 per cent of the vote counted. Adams already had a 50 point lead, CNN reported. The centrist Democrat trounced Republican rival and volunteer crime fighter Curtis Sliwa in the liberal-voting bastion to become just the second African American to lead the Big Apple. Sliwa, who founded the vigilante group Guardian Angels, showed up to...

Democrats are about to include a tax break in their $1.75 trillion social spending plan that will overwhelmingly benefit higher earners.On Tuesday, Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey wrote on Twitter that the provision had been added into the plan. A Democratic aide familiar with negotiations told Insider that Democrats were eyeing a five-year tax break that runs through 2025, a development first reported by Punchbowl News. The break would also be retroactive to this year. The SALT deduction allows taxpayers to deduct their state and local tax totals from their federal obligation. Under Trump's 2017 tax plan, the previously...

Haven't watched FOX since Nov. 3. I enjoy seeing pain. pPease remember it ain't over yet so should we watch the lefties grasping for straws?

@RandPaul I was proud to endorse @GlennYoungkin. His win tonight is a clear and much needed signal for personal freedom and that parents are the deciders of their children’s education and future.

"While the exterior of the new church will not exactly replicate the Istanbul cathedral, as there are a number of later additions to the building, the interior will be an exact replica, at 2/3 the size of the original."Over the past 25 years, the Church of St. John Chrysostom in the tiny village of Godenovo in the Russian Yaroslavl Province has become a major pilgrimage center. The church is home to the famous Godenovo Cross, known to work innumerable wonders both in antiquity and today. On feast days, more than a thousand pilgrims can easily descend upon the church, which...

The United States Navy just dropped a big hint about its newest F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter in a recently-released U.S. Navy document. U.S. Navy document, titled Navy Aviation Vision 2030-2035, sheds some light on the Navy’s newest fighter, the 6th-generation Boeing F/A-XX. Although there is only a single, small, grainy image of the F/A-XX in the document, we can nevertheless glean a few details about the airframe. The design is unlike any previous U.S. Navy aircraft design. The fighter features canards just to the rear of the cockpit and a novel hybrid delta-lambda wing shape. In contrast to previous F/A-XX concept...

Four months after a Supreme Court decision in its favor, archdiocesan Catholic Social Services (CSS) is “back 100%” in providing foster care placements for the City of Philadelphia. “We receive referrals a couple of times each week,” said James Amato, archdiocesan Secretary for Catholic Human Services. “We’re back in the mix and back on board.” In June, the high court ruled unanimously that the city’s March 2018 suspension of its contract with CSS violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The case originated with the city’s move to freeze all new foster care placements...

With the first results being reported in closely watched Virginia, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, is trailing his Republican rival, Glenn Youngkin. Follow along for the latest results and analysis. LIVE Results: Va. Governor Candidate Party Votes Pct. Glenn Youngkin Rep. 1,142,461 55.0% Terry McAuliffe Dem. 919,606 44.3 Source: A.P. | 64% est. votes reported

ROME, Italy (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-LGBT priest Fr. James Martin, S.J. has openly criticized the U.S. bishops, accusing them of concentrating too much on the abortion issue. Martin made the comment during an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published yesterday. During the discussion, Martin, the editor of Jesuit magazine America, argued that American bishops’ stance on refusing Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians like U.S. President Joseph Biden is “politically motivated.” “…[T]hey think about one issue only, abortion, over all others,” he said. This accusation comes just a few days after a controversial meeting between Pope Francis and President...

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologized for comparing those who do not agree with his views on climate change to politicians in the 1930’s who ignored the rise of Nazi Germany. In a statement published on twitter on 1 Nov 2021, the Most Rev. Just Welby wrote: “I unequivocally apologise for the words I used when trying to emphasise the gravity of the situation facing us at COP26. It’s never right to make comparisons with the atrocities brought by the Nazis and I’m sorry for the offence caused to Jews by these words.” His statement came in response to criticisms...

Authorities investigating a series of possible jetpack sightings over Los Angeles believe they may have identified an explanation for the mysterious reports - one that requires no fuel, no engines, and no high-flying technology. "One working theory is that pilots might have seen balloons," the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Aviation Administration said in statements, after NBC Los Angeles obtained police video and photos that appear to show a human-shaped inflatable toy floating thousands of feet above Beverly Hills. The crew aboard an LAPD helicopter captured the images last year, about two weeks after the second reported sighting of...

Have you had your COVID-19 vaccination? This has become a loaded question with implications beyond health. A Pennsylvania lawsuit argues that receiving or declining a vaccine has become a political act, and when employers compel employees to get vaccinated, they are forcing employees to engage in political speech, a violation of the First Amendment, the freedom of speech. You May Also Like The suit was filed in October in federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by attorney Bruce L. Castor, Jr. of the law firm Van Der Veen, Hartshorn & Levin, on behalf of his clients Pennsylvania Informed...

In this historic fleet news update, we are reporting on the November 2021 sinking of USCGC Alert. For the map of museum ships: https://www.hnsa.org/map-view/ For our previous video on threatened museum ships: https://youtu.be/h_kkoY52JzU To support USS The Sullivans and their efforts to drydock that ship: https://buffalonavalpark.org To support Battleship New Jersey, go to: https://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/v...

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Union Pacific railroad said there was a rash of cargo container break-ins as the containers were being hauled by train near downtown Los Angeles, as officials are trying to clear the backlog of cargo at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Thousands of boxes as far as the eye could see were strewn along the railroad tracks near Valley Boulevard and North Mission Road in Lincoln Park in footage captured by NewsChopper4 Monday. Several container doors were wide open - including a FedEx container with boxes tipping over. The section of the track is bordered by homeless encampments...

A whistleblower has come forward with damning revelations about how vaccine-maker Pfizer ‘falsified data’ and manipulated clinical trials. Brook Jackson, a former clinical trial auditor who was fired after raising her concerns, came forward with inside information and documented evidence about Pfizer’s operations in a stunning new BMJ investigation conducted by Paul Thacker. The disturbing report sends up red flags that the FDA and Pfizer are engaging in massive fraud against the American people to justify vaccine mandates. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was ‘fully authorized‘ with much fanfare by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August, despite liability shields and...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Children’s screen time has doubled during the pandemic — and it hasn’t gone down since, according to new research. Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco say youngsters are spending almost eight hours a day looking at smartphones, tablets, and televisions, compared to less than four hours before COVID. Concerningly, this figure does not include the time spent on computers for school work. Researchers focused completely on recreational activities like playing video games, chatting on social media, texting, surfing the internet, and watching or streaming movies and TV shows. Along with contributing to a more sedentary...

Per @vpapupdates, Republicans have picked up HD-28 in suburban Fredericksburg. That is +4 on the night. Republicans need only 2 more seats to flip the chamber, and realistically, could end the night with 52-53 seats. With 52 seats, R's will have full control of judicial appointments.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot As I have said in the past, Christianity, by definition, is apocalyptic in nature. I don't just mean apocalyptic in the original sense that it is revelatory (it is), but also in the sense, as most people assume it means- the end of the world. Hebrews 1:1-2 states, God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days...