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A federal judge refused Friday to free Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from jail while he awaits trial on charges that he plotted with other members of his far-right militia group to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said federal prosecutors have presented “compelling if not strong” evidence against Rhodes, who has been the group’s leader since its 2009 founding. Rhodes poses a “clear and convincing danger” to the public, the judge said during a remote hearing. “His ability to communicate, organize are his greatest weapons,” Mehta said,...

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Gilda Radner gained wide recognition in 1975, as one of the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on the first season of Saturday Night Live. She was the first performer to be cast in the show, and co-wrote much of the material she performed. Gilda Radner's audition/screen test for "Saturday Night Live" (video)

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police arrested scores of demonstrators and towed away vehicles Friday in Canada’s besieged capital, and a stream of trucks started leaving under the pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions. By evening, at least 100 people had been arrested, mostly on mischief charges, and nearly two dozen vehicles had been towed, including all of those blocking one of the city’s major streets, authorities said. One officer had a minor injury, but no protesters were hurt, interim Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell said. Police “continue to push forward...

WASHINGTON — The 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence contained items marked as classified national security information, the National Archives and Records Administration said Friday. The agency said the matter has been referred to the Justice Department. In a response to a Feb. 9 letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, the National Archives confirmed reports that Trump took government records with him down to Florida when he left office in January 2021.

Deputies are on the search for two men who tried breaking into a home at gunpoint while posing as Sacramento Municipal Utility District employees. On Jan. 23, two men were captured on surveillance video impersonating SMUD workers at a home along El Sur Way in the Arden area. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said the men told a woman they were investigating a gas leak. When they got into her gated yard, one of the men held the woman at gunpoint and threatened to kill her if she did not let them inside. The woman managed to push the man...

The Pacific Grove Feast of Lanterns annual event has permanently ended. The Feast of Lanterns board voted unanimously to cancel the event indefinitely, the board president told KSBW 8. “We know we can start something new that can carry on the positive qualities and core values of the feast of lanterns. But with a new name and new adventure,” said board president Christine Gruber. The Feast of Lanterns organizers plan to work with the community to develop another community event in the future. This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another...

Ottawa Police Horses Trample Protestors Increasing Tensions Between Protestors and Police

[Catholic Caucus] Concerning a Certain Diocese and the Dangerous Latin Mass (A Letter from Screwtape) My dear Wormwood,I want to applaud you with regard to the work you have undertaken in one of the Enemy's foremost dioceses in the Americas. For far too long that detestable place has flourished virtually unchecked by us. But since the enthronement of our beloved Pachamama in Rome events have gone better than I expected! These humans never cease to amaze me with how easily corruptible they are.Now let us discuss this opportunity you have with the promulgation of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes...

President Joe Biden announced Friday he was fully convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine and attack their capital city. “As of this moment, I’m convinced he has made the decision,” Biden said during his latest assertion of a coming Russian offensive. “I have reason to believe that.”

"A North Carolina dad dropped the mic at his school board meeting. Love seeing moms and dads speak out like this." (CRT)

Malaysian researchers found that treatment with the anti-parasite drug ivermectin did not prevent patients with COVID-19 from becoming severely ill in a randomized clinical trial published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal on Friday. The researchers said their findings do not support the use of ivermectin for patients with COVID-19. The study enrolled 490 patients with mild to moderate illness at 20 hospitals and a COVID-19 quarantine center in Malaysia. Everyone received standard care; half the group also received ivermectin. Severe disease developed in 21.6% of the patients given ivermectin and in 17.3% of those who received only standard care,...

A woman who pushed a 74-year-old man off a Las Vegas bus in March 2019, causing his death, has pleaded guilty to an abuse charge. Cadesha Bishop, 28, was initially charged with murder and accused of pushing Serge Fournier off a parked bus near Fremont and 13th streets. Fournier landed on his head about 8 feet from the bus doorway, and died about a month later, according to Bishop’s arrest report.

“Sharing in Your Father’s Character” (Luke 6:27-38) Listen to the things Jesus tells us to do today: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.” Sounds like a tall order! Are you up to it? Well, I’m going to say yes!...

Images of dry lake beds, scorched forests and charred buildings, and drought-stricken farmland from the American West have been published in newspapers worldwide as a megadrought intensifies. Many have wondered just how severe the current drought is, and perhaps, that question can be answered in a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. A new peer-reviewed study titled “Rapid intensification of the emerging southwestern North American megadrought in 2020–2021” says the last 22-year dry period is the worst since the Vikings and Mayans ruled parts of the world, or about 1,200 years ago. “Anyone who has been paying...

It didn’t need to be this way. The Liberal years from 2015-2017 broadly fulfilled the promise of the first Trudeau mandate.... Then, imperceptibly at first, the great scourge of our political age began to make appearances within the Trudeau Liberals: identity politics. With astonishing speed, opponents of government action could quickly be labelled racist, misogynist, homophobic or any other of a litany of insults intended to personally scar opponents and discredit them as the worst society has to offer, without addressing the substance of their argument.... While Trudeau talked tolerance and openness, his actions were marching towards control and conformity.......

A yearslong staffing crisis in the state medical examiner’s office in Baltimore is leading to unprecedented delays in autopsies, an emergency request to federal officials for help and now a legislative push for more workers. To deal with “bodies piling up,” one lawmaker said the statewide agency that investigates sudden and unexpected deaths has turned to a ready source of labor — contractors “flown in from out of state” and recent retirees earning $850 per autopsy. State officials say that labor pool is vital to clearing cases. But lawmakers and union representatives deride the vacant positions across state government generally...

Armed with a smartphone and a Twitter account, every day she makes national news by prating pure blather and blatant baloney, the latest drivel popping into her head. The media reports on her wherever she is, dutifully bannering her words front and center. In Texas, campaigning for a Democrat House candidate, she muses about turning blue a state that she does not understand, where Hispanics from Mexico, Guatemala, and other locations have been flocking to the GOP in major shifting voting patterns unlike her Puerto Rican base in the Bronx and Queens. Heckled during one campaign stop, she responds with...

[Catholic Caucus] USCCB seminary norms won't include proposed background databaseA U.S. bishops’ conference draft policy update on seminary formation does not incorporate a call to build a national screening database of applicants to seminaries and religious orders. Advocates say a database could help flag problem seminary applicants before they are accepted, by tracking rejected applications from seminaries or religious orders, along with those applications deferred or withdrawn.The database was proposed to the U.S. bishops’ conference by an Ohio seminary nearly six years ago, but there has been no apparent move toward adopting it. It has not been included in the...