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The city of Philadelphia will pay Catholic Social Services a $2 million settlement and reinstate their foster care contract after the Supreme Court unanimously found in June that the city had discriminated against the group due to their religious beliefs. Most of the money will be used to pay Catholic Social Services’ [CSS] legal fees, and CSS will receive $56,000. As part of the settlement, CSS will be exempt from Philadelphia’s nondiscrimination ordinance, and will receive a contract for $350,000 for foster care. Additionally, CSS will have to state on its website that, while it does not work with same-sex...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Largo man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly used a machete to threaten Pier 60 employees when he was told the bathrooms were closed. Documents show Thomas Clement, 64, of Largo, was at a Pier 60 store in Pinellas County when he began to yell profanities at store workers. An arrest affidavit says Clement began yelling after store employees told him the bathroom was closed. Clement, seated in a wheelchair, then pulled out a 12″ machete before waving it around as he threatened employees. Several minutes later, Clement was arrested and charged with disorderly...

CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was arrested Sunday after police say she walked into a Citrus County home and undressed herself before hugging and sitting on multiple people, including several who were 65 years or older. Police say Heather Cruz, 35, of Dunnellon, Fla., walked into the Citrus County home through a side door. Once inside, Cruz allegedly removed her clothing and exposed her genitalia before she grabbed and hugged the homeowner. When Cruz was told to stop, documents say she sat on the lap of two other residents while naked, saying “you like it” to one...

Public safety officials fear the nation's 911 centers will continue to languish in the analog era, after Democrats slashed proposed funding for a digital makeover in their social spending bill. Why it matters: The potentially life-saving ability for people to send texts, pictures or videos to 911 centers, and for centers to seamlessly share data with each other, remains out of reach for many of the country’s 6,000 centers. What's happening: The House Energy & Commerce Committee advanced a proposal that would have spent $10 billion on next-generation 911 centers in September, but that funding was reduced to $470 million...

Republicans ridiculed President Biden's energy secretary on Wednesday after she admitted she did not know how many barrels of oil were consumed each day in the United States. 'How incompetent is the Biden administration?' asked Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee. 'Biden’s energy secretary doesn’t even have a rough idea of how many barrels of oil the U.S. uses in a day.' A day earlier Jennifer Granholm appeared in the White House briefing room to trumpet the administration's moves to release 50 million barrels of oil from the nation's strategic reserve as it sought to ease crippling gas...

Moscow, November 22, Interfax - Russian President Vladimir Putin has noted the highest regard to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in the country and outside of it. Putin bestowed on him Russia's highest state award, the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, on Saturday, on the patriarch's 75th birthday. "Your Holiness, it is a great and tremendous honor for me to commend your merits and work for the good of our Motherland and to decorate you with Russia's top award - the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, a particularly revered educator and missionary...

WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic University of America (CUA) has hung paintings of Jesus Christ bearing the features of George Floyd in two campus locations, according to reports. The image, called “Mama” in an apparent reference to words Floyd can be heard saying before his death at the hands of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin last year, portrays the Blessed Virgin cradling Jesus’ body. It was hung outside both the Mary, Mirror of Justice chapel at CUA’s Columbus School of Law and the university’s campus ministry office. CUA is the only university within the U.S. to have been established by the...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that the Biden administration is “trying to help people deal with the consequences of rising prices, whether it’s increasing the SNAP benefit or whether it’s making sure that the child tax credit is available to folks or whether it’s rebuilding the infrastructure of this economy” to fix supply chain issues. Vilsack said, “I think it’s — the key here is that we’re also trying to help people deal with the consequences of rising prices, whether it’s increasing the SNAP benefit or whether it’s making sure that the child...

As Republicans have rushed to rally around “affordable, accessible daycare,” I have asked a lot of those Republicans the same question. What do Republicans believe to be the best — BEST — environment for a child to be raised? Or at a daycare, or at home by their mom or their dad or aunt or grandma, etc? Republicans, I thought, were always supportive of stay-at-home parents because it is most beneficial for a child. Yet here we are, doing what we can and incentivizing moms and dads to spend less time raising their kids. But here we have a President...

The school called every single family that was affected, vowing to be “totally transparent,” according to the Charles City Press. However, parents who have spoken to The Iowa Standard said there was no mention of the fact students were not allowed to leave the room when they asked during the reading. The Charles City Press reports there will be a special board meeting Monday afternoon to discuss the matter. The district told The Charles City Press two teachers are on leave and being investigated. One parent downloaded the story and listened to it. “It’s pretty intense,” the parent said. “The...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Happy Thanksgiving 2021!! ~ GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies' militaryand family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation Washington, D.C. October 3, 1863 By the President of the United States of America. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from...

Call to action. We need as many patriots as possible to urge their state AG's to sign onto Mike Lindell's Supreme Court case. Info and sample email are found at the link. If you prefer to write your own email, be civil but firm. This may or may not change anything, but it's the least we can do. https://fix2020first.com/

resident Donald Trump on Wednesday granted an attorney-client privilege waiver to longtime friend Bernard Kerik, opening the door for the former New York Police commissioner to testify before the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Kerik had informed the committee Tuesday he wants to cooperate but needed more time to resolve attorney-client privilege issues because he worked for Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Trump said he was waiving his privilege claims for Kerik, hoping the former top cop will present evidence of election irregularities gathered during Kerik's work. "The Unselect Committee issued a subpoena to Bernie Kerik, an American...

There were five key arguments the court ruled could not be presented to the 12-juror panel who will decide the fate of the three white men charged They included Arbery's mental health records and criminal history, and the fact that trace amounts of THC were found in his blood after his death The judge also refused evidence claiming Arbery was known as 'The Jogger' because he would jog to convenience stores, and run out with stolen goods

The Prime Minister’s Religious Discrimination Bill, which will allow room for religious schools to refuse to hire gay teachers, is “necessary” to protect people with faith from the “bots, bigots and bullies” of the “cancel culture”. Scott Morrison has personally introduced the Bill to the House of Representatives on Thursday, saying people shouldn't be “cancelled or persecuted or vilified” because of their beliefs. The Bill, which seeks to protect people who prescribe to a faith or religion, as well as those who do not, from discrimination, has been described as Mr Morrison as “sensible and balanced”. He said discrimination against...

A CBS contributor on Wednesday morning told viewers to have appetizers in the garage while taking rapid Covid tests before Thanksgiving dinner if they don’t feel comfortable asking guests for their vaccine papers. “It might be a difficult conversation before people step into your house to say, ‘whoa, wait a minute, where’s your card? What’s your status?’ before you walk into my home,” CBS Mornings’ co-host Nate Burleson said.

Author and attorney Gyasi Ross savagely attacked Thanksgiving, demanding white Americans “return the land” taken and claiming they developed myths to feel good about themselves when in reality they brought “genocide and violence” to natives. Ross says whites fearlessly kill Native and black Americans today through “state-sponsored violence” against minorities and modern slavery through imprisonment, and says the celebration of “white supremacy” continues to plague the country.

When people got reinfected with Covid-19, their odds of ending up in the hospital or dying were 90% lower than an initial Covid-19 infection, according to a new study. The study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine found that there were few confirmed reinfections among 353,326 people who got Covid-19 in Qatar, and the re-infections were rare and generally mild. The first wave of infections in Qatar struck between March and June of 2020. In the end about 40% of the population had detectable antibodies against Covid-19. The country then had two more waves from January through...

What is contained below is a guide that came down to civilian personnel at the military base I work at. There was no mention that this information is classified or confidential, so I wanted to share this with everyone here. Keep in mind that this information is for Air Force civilian personnel, but could be applicable to other branches as well. I tried to remove all specific contact information, so if you want the actual document with ALL of the information it contains, FreepMail me with your email address and I'll send it to you. Be warned, it's a long...

DENVER - A federal judge has ordered two lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump to pay more than $180,000 in attorney’s fees for defendants Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook and others, saying the lawsuit was intended to manipulate "gullible members of the public" and helped spur the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The now-dismissed suit relied on baseless conspiracy theories spread by the former president and his supporters. It named elected officials in four swing states, Facebook and Denver-based Dominion, whose election machines were at the center of...