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Two NYPD officers were reportedly shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem Friday evening. NBC New York reports that the shooting occurred “on West 135th Street between Malcolm X Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.” The New York Post notes that the incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. and observed that the domestic incident was “between a mother and son.”

Join together 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.

There is no longer any doubt that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Tony Fauci, lied repeatedly to Congress last May that NIAID has “unequivocally” never funded gain-of-function research at the Chinese Wuhan laboratory broadly suspected of being the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. A letter to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., from the NIH’s principal deputy director, Lawrence A. Tabak, clearly says otherwise. About $600,000 in NIH funding had been funneled to Wuhan through a New York-based nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, run by Dr. Peter Daszak, one of the most vocal opponents of the...

A Cuban student enrolled at Syracuse University said he was stunned by the way his fellow students perceived socialism. Justo Antonia Triana studies Classical Civilization and Political Science and writes poetry, articles, and narratives in both Spanish and English. He also moved to America in 2019 after his father filed for a family reunification after leaving Cuba five years earlier. In a column for The College Fix, Triana highlights the most startling thing he found in his new home: A sharp misconception about politics in Cuba. "Many could only think of the palm trees on a beach, but the first...

The hits keep coming for ol’ senile Joe. After his disastrous press conference, where he caused an international incident and claimed our upcoming elections would be “illegitimate,” Biden got the bum’s rush from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The new Chancellor has turned down an invitation from Joe Biden to discuss the Ukraine situation, German magazine Der Spiegel reported today. I mean, what’s left to say, at this point, right? Here’s what Richard Grenell said: “The new German Chancellor refused an invitation from Biden to talk Ukraine. And Blinken’s Assistant Secretary of State for Europe even used to get paid from...

The Limits of DialogueWhy Francis has been so tough on traditionalistsIn December Rome’s Congregation for Divine Worship responded to queries from bishops about Pope Francis’s new restrictions on the pre-Vatican II liturgy. The fury and contempt that greeted this response were to be expected—more of the same that followed Traditionis custodes, the motu proprio in which those restrictions were announced last July. But this time the familiar objections from traditionalists found an echo of sorts among some more liberal-minded Catholics.The Thomas Merton scholar and Bellarmine University theologian Greg Hillis, for example, wrote in America about the apparent contradiction between the...

Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party wanted the 2024 presidential election to be the last election in America. Wilson said, “They’re trying to throw so much friction into voting and all the sand into the machine, especially in communities they don’t feel will be reliable voters for them. So they are not going to bitch and moan about early voting in a red county. ”

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DANVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A truck carrying about 100 monkeys was involved in a crash Friday in Pennsylvania, state police said as authorities searched for at least three of the monkeys that appeared to have escaped the vehicle. The truck carrying the animals crashed with a dump truck in the afternoon in Montour County, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Andrea Pelachick told the Daily Item. The truck had been on its way to a lab, Pelachick said. Authorities have asked residents who might see the monkeys to call state police at 570-524-2662. It was unclear if any people or animals were...

Reported Cases: The current 7-day moving average of daily new cases (744,616) decreased 5.0% compared with the previous week. (peaked Nationally on 13 Jan) Variants: Omicron 99.5%, and Delta 0.5% New Hospital Admissions: The current 7-day daily average was 20,990. This is a 1.1% increase from the prior week. (peaked Nationally on 15 Jan) Deaths: The current 7-day moving average of new deaths (1,749) has decreased 0.3% compared with the previous week. Vaccinations: 75.3% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose. 63.2% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated. (87.3% of Adults have at one, 73.8%...

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Wednesday for abortion to be added to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Speaking to members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Jan. 19, Macron said that the rights charter, ratified in the year 2000, needed to be revised. “Twenty years after the proclamation of our Charter of Fundamental Rights, which enshrined, among other things, the abolition of the death penalty throughout the Union, I hope that we will be able to update it, in particular to be more explicit about environmental protection or the recognition of the right to abortion,”...

The Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations now has a news program released in multiple languages on YouTube. The Orthodox View is released on Tuesdays and Thursdays in five languages: English, Russian, Serbian, Arabic, and Greek, reports the DECR. The program aims to answer several key questions: How does the Christian worldview influence the world? How are religion, culture and society connected? What’s going on in Christendom and what’s the difference between Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism?

Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party was building a “dystopian, bizarre authoritarian police state.” When asked about a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to create a police force to investigate election fraud, Wilson said, “Look, if Ron DeSantis forms his own election police force, he needs to start in the Villages, a Republican hotbed, where the only cases of voter fraud in the 2020 election in Florida came from. They were all Republicans. They were all Trump supporters. But I’m going to promise you if he does get his way...

One Covid shot to rule them all, one Covid shot to find them, one Covid shot to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The article was part of the periodical’s Jan. 15 edition, but was published online Jan. 13.ROME — Almost 60 organizations have criticized an article supporting the passing of an Italian bill to legalize assisted suicide, which was published last week in the Catholic, Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica. A group of 57 associations, mostly based in Italy, have signed a statement voicing their opposition to the article, titled “The Parliamentarian Discussion on ‘Assisted Suicide.’”The article was part of the periodical’s Jan. 15 edition, but published online on Jan. 13. La Civiltà Cattolica, founded in 1850 and published twice a month,...

He wrote this song in 1955 and the record was released in 1956. A classic of the fifties doo-wop genre.

We got a story coming out next week, a follow-up to our Fauci story on Covid, and man, this one involves children,” he said. “You won’t want to miss this.” Just when we thought nothing we could learn about Fauci would shock us after learning of scandal after scandal that the bureaucrat has brought upon himself, it’s hard to fathom even worse things coming out. But something tells me this new revelation is going to be a blockbuster. “You won’t want to miss kids… I can’t say more,” he continued. “But parents are going to be outraged, and of all...

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Father Peter Williams says the Diocese of Burlington is trying to remove him as pastor of his parish because he will neither be tested regularly for COVID-19 nor be masked. He is asking his parishioners to testify on his behalf, because he says the diocese, and his family, are trying to prove that he is physically and mentally unfit for the job. The priest, who is not vaccinated against COVID-19, is pastor of Holy Family parish in Springfield, Vermont, 120 miles southeast of Burlington. “Being more of the ilk of a patriot and being one who is in support of...