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ROME — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial accused prosecutors on Wednesday of defying a court order by withholding pieces of evidence — including an alleged interrogation of Pope Francis — as the pontiff’s own role in a flawed London property investment again came before the court. The Vatican city state tribunal president, Giuseppe Pignatone, said he would rule Dec. 1 on a new defense request to throw out the indictment. Pignatone has already nullified several charges against some of the defendants because of prosecutorial errors. “It’s clear we need more time before starting. If we manage...

Some internet autists have been hard at work tonight. If you remember at the hearing the Assistant District Attorney said the video should be no surprise to the defense team as it played on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News when the former attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse appeared as a guest. But they then had trouble locating the video until... a few days before trial a person of mystery (no name; no address) 'dropped it off' or somehow got it to the prosecution. Here's the new info: Election Wizard @ElectionWiz · 10m ALERT: Based on the work by @Johnmcurtis, @DefNotDarth,...

A cross-shaped display of flags commemorating the lives lost in abortion was targeted by vandals at Saint Louis University, a Jesuit school, soon after it was set up on campus Monday morning. The university’s pro-life group, a Students for Life chapter, set up hundreds of small flags in the shape of a cross. Each flag represented over 800 abortions performed last year in the U.S. The group had received the Missouri university’s permission for the display, which they call the Cemetery of the Innocent. “Within a few hours of it going up, we walked by and someone had torn down...

cant believe the Professor of Rock, one of Youtube's popular music channels interviews Ted Nugent, and his impact on rock. Yeah, his Gibson Byrdland after 4 decades is still alive :)

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman cited "some bilateral differences" between the two Asian allies of the U.S. "that are continuing to be resolved, unrelated to today's meeting" as the reason she appeared alone in front of reporters. Historical grievances between Japan and South Korea resurfaced in September, when a South Korean court ordered assets seized from Japanese industrial group Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to be sold as compensation for women forced to work for the company during World War II. Sherman and her counterparts, Choi Jong-kun of South Korea and Mori Takeo of Japan, discussed North Korea's nuclear program and...

A group of conservative parents in the state of New Hampshire is offering a $500 reward for the first person to catch a teacher in violation of a new law that they say bans the teaching of critical race and gender theory in public schools. “We’ve got $500 for the person that first successfully catches a public school teacher breaking this law,” Moms for Liberty NH tweeted. “Students, parents, teachers, school staff… We want to know! We will pledge anonymity if you want.” The law the group is referring to, “Right to Freedom from Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education,”...

A middle school in Oregon is pausing in-person instruction for two weeks over classroom disruptions that officials say are caused by some students “struggling with the socialization skills necessary for in-person learning.” It comes after the school was forced to provide distance learning over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in spring 2020. The school was able to provide some in-person instruction in the spring of 2021 but still continued with distance learning. “The shifts in learning methods and isolation caused by COVID-19 closures and quarantines have taken a toll on the well-being of our students and...

President Trump shared a statement on “Broken Old Crow, Mitch McConnell” today who is giving the communist Democrats their all they ever asked for: When the Broken Old Crow, Mitch McConnell, agreed to a two-month extension, he allowed the Democrats to get their act together and pass the $1.2 Trillion “Non-Infrastructure” Green New Deal Bill, which is a disaster for America in that only 11% of the money will be spent on REAL Infrastructure, with most being spent on Green New Deal nonsense, with big tax increases. Its actual cost is over $2 Trillion, but the bigger disaster is yet...

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LOS ANGELES - A DoorDash driver in Southern California was seen on surveillance video using a customer's residential building lobby as a toilet after dropping off an order. The building manager of a Brentwood apartment building was contacted by a resident in the building saying that there was feces all over the lobby of the 19-unit building. When the building manager checked the surveillance video, she was shocked to see a DoorDash delivery driver using a trash can in her building's lobby to take a dump. "What I saw… I could not unsee. I was flabbergasted at what I saw,"...

Joe Biden's presidency isn't even a year old, but anonymous Republican foot soldiers with an eye to the 2024 election are already on the attack. Their weapons are stickers, placed like land mines for the mind on gas pumps across America. The stickers include an image of a shirtless, uncombed Hunter Biden with a cigarette dangling from his lips and the words, "Gas prices higher than Hunter Biden." Hunter Biden, the president's son, went public with his addiction struggles in a memoir, "Beautiful Things," published in April (via Associated Press). Supporters of the Republican Party, including allies in the conservative...

EXCLUSIVE: All 50 Senate Republicans on Wednesday morning are expected to formally challenge the Biden administration’s vaccine rule for private businesses under the Congressional Review Act – the official process for Congress to eliminate an executive branch rule. GOP Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana will lead all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in moving to strike down the Biden administration’s rule which mandates employees at private businesses with 100 workers or more to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or be subject to weekly testing and mask-wearing. "President Biden’s vaccine mandate...

If you want to see how out of touch the left is with rural America, look no further than the recent elections in Virginia. The left ignored and marginalized most Virginians, and Republicans experienced huge wins. That same tone deaf rhetoric is now being heard in regards to the urban/rural proposed boundaries of Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District.Big-city Democrats have decried the map as "racist" and the residents of rural Oklahoma as "uneducated" and "uncultured." They have said that the "most vibrant parts of Oklahoma City's urban core are being marginalized" and that big-city voices are "being drowned out by rural...

ANew Jersey grand jury cleared police officers Wednesday of any wrongdoing in a case in which officers shot and killed a couple who killed three civilians and an officer. On Dec. 10, 2019, David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, killed police detective Joseph Seals in a shootout at a cemetery. The couple also killed three people at a supermarket a short time later.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Early Tuesday morning the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed search warrants at four locations in western Colorado. According to Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, the state attorney general’s office and local authorities conducted the searches Tuesday in Mesa and Garfield Counties. The court-ordered search was part of an investigation of alleged election security breaches conducted by Mesa County officials. Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters did confirm her home was searched. A statement was released from her legal defense fund early Wednesday morning stating, “Today large teams of heavily armed federal agents, using...

The FDA has asked a federal judge to make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all of the data and information it relied upon to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. That is not a typo. It wants 55 years to produce this information to the public. As explained in a prior article, the FDA repeatedly promised “full transparency” with regard to Covid-19 vaccines, including reaffirming “the FDA’s commitment to transparency” when licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. With that promise in mind, in August and immediately following approval of the vaccine, more than 30 academics, professors, and scientists from this...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

Defense official says if the Oklahoma National Guard doesn’t comply with COVID vaccine requirements, they will no longer be “maintaining national recognition,” thus, state will no longer have a National Guard, but rather a state militia – VOA Pentagon correspondent.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic New York Rep. Yvette Clarke were reportedly seen Tuesday night at a Washington D.C. bar violating the district’s mask mandate, a video obtained by the Daily Caller shows. In the video, both Pelosi and Clarke can be seen speaking to a small group inside the “crazy golf club” at Swingers in Dupont Circle. Others in the crowd can be seen not wearing a mask either. Pelosi appears to have her arm around Clarke, who is smiling without a mask. Democratic D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday that the indoor mask mandate will...

The state government could have just two weeks to reach agreement with concerned crossbench MPs in order to force through what is expected to be a hugely revamped pandemic management Bill. If the Bill is defeated, deadlocked or delayed on Thursday, the government will face a ticking clock before the current state of emergency – which cannot be extended – expires on December 15. There is only one sitting week scheduled, November 30 to December 2, before that date. But in order to get the Bill through, the government will likely need to make major concessions, such as allowing tougher...