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Authorities in India's southern state of Karnataka demolished a 20-foot-tall statue of Jesus, which had been standing in the village for 18 years, claiming it was built on land earmarked by the government for an animal pasture. The administration in the Kolar district said last week's demolition of the statue next to St. Francis Xavier's Church in Gokunte village. The Karnataka High Court had ordered the destruction, but local Christian leaders said the case was still pending. Bengaluru Archbishop Peter Machado condemned the statue's demolition, stating that the church possessed ownership documents for the land where the statue sat. According...

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Embattled Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón's staffers say he was shamed into changing his stance on 'outlier' juvenile sentencing because of a bombshell report that suggested one of the criminals he advocated for had little remorse. He flip-flopped on his famously reformative approach to justice last week after jailhouse audio recordings obtained by Fox News captured transgender pedophile Hannah Tubbs bragging about her light sentence in a juvenile facility. Tubbs was sentenced to two years in jail for molesting a 10-year-old girl inside a restaurant bathroom. After the top prosecutor became aware of troubling comments Tubbs made in...

Moscow, February 21, Interfax - Kiev is continuing to harass parishioners and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "Kiev is continuing to prepare a crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate," he said in an address to the Russian nation. Putin noted that this is not an emotional but a document-based assessment. "The Ukrainian authorities have cynically turned the tragedy of the church split into an instrument of state policy. The current leadership of the country does not respond to the requests of the Ukrainian citizens to repeal...

Microsoft has revealed it operates a planet-scale distributed scheduling service for AI workloads that it has modestly dubbed "Singularity". Described in a pre-press paper [PDF] co-authored by 26 Microsoft employees, Singularity's aim is described as helping the software giant control costs by driving high utilization for deep learning workloads. Singularity achieves that goal with what the paper describes as a "novel workload-aware scheduler that can transparently preempt and elastically scale deep learning workloads to drive high utilization without impacting their correctness or performance, across a global fleet of AI accelerators (e.g., GPUs, FPGAs)." The paper spends more time on the...

China has doubled down on its response to accusations from the Morrison government over its military conduct, delivering a stern warning to Australia. On Monday, Beijing rejected claims from Canberra it had acted in a dangerous manner by shining a laser at an Australian aircraft in waters off the Northern Territory and instead flipped the accusations, saying it was Australia who was in fact the aggressor towards its naval vessel. And on Tuesday, in response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisting Australia's air force had every right to be in close proximity to the vessel, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Wang...

In a report by Bakersfield ABC affiliate KERO-TV, gas station customers expressed being overwhelmed by the extremely high gas prices. They’re too damn high,” one customer told reporters, adding it’s made commuting much more difficult as she normally fills her tank three times a week. Another customer remarked he’s paying over $110 to fill up his 25-gallon tank, with yet another customer saying his 30-gallon tank would cost $150 to fill up. In addition to high demand, the expensive fuel cost is directly correlated to the price of crude oil hitting $99 a barrel as fears increase the Biden administration...

<p>CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A woman is under arrest in a violent assault of a Wendy’s employee in December.</p><p>Aneeja Smith was charged with felonious assault.</p><p>The incident happened at 7:18 p.m. on Dec. 10 at Wendy’s in Glenway Plaza in Westwood.</p>

"I was handed this by a young girl today who asked me to open it when I got home. This is who they are" Tweet By Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters After He Visited The Freedom Camp Protest In Wellington. On Wednesday morning the theme of mainstream media is of increased violence at the Freedom Camp protest that began as a Freedom Convoy protest to New Zealand's capital city of Wellington. Yesterday there were intense police movements around the protest including the the erection and or movement of concrete barriers as a means to cause distress to...

On Tuesday, an overwhelming 97.9 percent of the prosecutors in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office union (ADDA) voted YES to endorse the recall of Soros-funded L.A. District Attorney George Gascón. These people are “front-line prosecutors tasked with implementing George Gascón’s policies,” ADDA noted in a press release about the vote. The vote occurred after more than 30 cities within the County of Los Angeles issued votes of no confidence in the District Attorney amid a skyrocketing crime wave in the city. L.A.-based Fox News reporter Bill Melugin reported on Twitter that the union had a record turnout rate...

Nick Howland (REP) 51.87% 68,210 Tracye A. Polson (DEM) 48.13% 63,285 ------- This is a 12 point swing from 2018 results. Gillum, Nelson and Biden each won Duval County as well.

Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) stated that the sanctions against Russia announced by President Joe Biden “cannot be the end of it” and called for the sanctioning of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, “so it’s a clear message to Putin, you’re not going to get it online anytime.”

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A Florida woman was charged with murdering her husband by allegedly stabbing him more than 140 times inside the kitchen of their home, a report said. The victim, Melvin Weller, 62, was found by his 41-year-old stepson lying in a pool of blood in his Palm Springs residence on Feb. 11, according to a police report obtained by WPTV. The stepson called the police who later found multiple knives and a meat cleaver in the sink. Weller’s wife, Joan Burke, 61, was lying in her bed and did not say a word when police showed up. She was hospitalized and...

No, no, no, no, no. Dear God, no. Hillary Clinton is seriously mulling a run in 2024. There’s simply no other way to interpret her speech at Thursday’s New York state Democratic Party Convention. Like the Tracy Flick she is, Clinton could barely make it through name-checking Gov. Kathy Hochul before eagerly leapfrogging into national politics. Apologies to Tracy Flick. At least she knew how to win an election. Not enough that Hillary carpetbagged her way into a New York state seat in the US Senate, itself a pretext for her first failed presidential run. Nope, Hillary had to...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was loudly heckled by anti-mandate protesters as she left an event in Westport on Wednesday. She was visiting Westport on Wednesday to attend a briefing on recent flooding in the area, where she viewed a slideshow of the flood's impacts. Protesters outside the building where Ardern was in appeared to be from the group Voices for Freedom. Some protesters interviewed by 1News said they were against vaccination mandates among many other issues. A man was also filmed hurling abuse at media present. The protesters heckled and yelled at Ardern-some swearing-as she left the venue where she...

The Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office reported the start of an investigation into a Tulum restaurant shooting that left two dead. The armed attack happened Saturday night at Art Beach at kilometer 7 of the Tulum-Bocapaila highway. According to preliminary reports, armed subjects arrived at the beach shortly after 9:00 p.m. and opened fire on what appears to be a targeted attack. Two young men were killed and another left with injuries in the restaurant shooting. The injured, an unidentified 24-year-old man, was transferred to hospital by ambulance where he is said to be in stable condition. Elements of the National...

[Catholic Caucus] The FSSP and Pope Francis’ Roller-CoasterThe Wild RideIt took some time for everyone to adjust to the violent overthrow of thirteen years’ pastoral arrangements, policies, and attitudes by Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter Traditionis Custodes (TC), not least because of the way it was promulgated, to come into immediate effect, on a Friday. The implications needed thinking through, canon law advice needed to be considered, the practical possibilities in implementation needed to be worked out. Just as things were settling down, another document came out: the Responsa ad dubia, which presented itself as an interpretation of TC, but in...

President Biden said Tuesday that it is "critical" his administration works to tamp down any rise in gas prices in the U.S. due to Russian troops deployments in Ukraine and Western sanctions against the move.“I want to limit the pain the American people are feeling at the gas pump. This is critical to me,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. He announced that the U.S. would sanction Russian sovereign debt and Russian elites as well as Russian bank VEB and its military bank in response to Moscow's deployment of troops to regions in eastern Ukraine.“As we respond, my...