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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in light of the recent release of the $1.5 trillion spending package, U.S. Senator Rand Paul renewed his calls for the Senate to pass his Read the Bills resolution (S. Res. 20), which would provide sufficient time for legislation to be thoroughly reviewed. Dr. Paul’s resolution would require bills, amendments, and conference reports to be filed for 1 day for every 20 pages before they can be considered, while leaving legislators room to act in emergencies. “Do you think there is a single person in the U.S. who believes that Congress is filled with speed readers...

ROME – Closing itself off even more from the international community, the government of Daniel Ortega declared the papal representative to Nicaragua “persona non grata” and expelled him. Polish Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua, was forced to leave the country following his “de-facto expulsion” and is currently in Rome, Crux has been able to confirm. The nunciature published a short note on March 7 simply saying that the Polish prelate had “absented” from the country the previous day. The Vatican is expected to release a statement before the end of the week to clarify the circumstances...

Some 12 missiles were fired from Iranian territory and fell near the US consulate in Erbil in northwestern Iraq on Saturday night. The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Service announced that 12 ballistic missiles were fired from "outside the borders of Iraq and the Kurdistan region, specifically from the east," according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA). Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) accounts shared videos reportedly shared by Iranian civilians showing missiles being fired from Iran at the time of the attack, with at least one of the videos being geolocated to a site in Khasabad in the East Azerbaijan province of Iran.

The announcement came from Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Quomas. Last week, Vatican sources confirmed a papal visit to Timor-Leste. For the Bishops’ Conference, “interreligious dialogue is fundamental”.Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas plans to invite Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb to Indonesia. He made the announcement during the national conference of the Interfaith Commission of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia, held in Bali from 6 to 9 March. The Commission’s president, Archbishop Yohanes Harun Yuwono of Palembang, and its secretary, Father Agustinus Heri Wibowo, were present at the meeting. Minister...

The bad news is the propaganda from the global media and intelligence apparatus is astronomical surrounding the Ukraine narrative. The good news is that most Americans can sense the background manipulation,

THE VISIT A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned. "We want to see the president", the man said softly. "He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We'll wait," the lady replied. For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become...

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” MSNBC Economic Analyst Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, said that we’re dealing with a potential stagflation problem where “address both an inflation problem and potentially a growth problem at the same time” for the first time since the early 80s, and that while he isn’t predicting a recession, he “wouldn’t be shocked if we had one somewhere down the line” because stagflation oftentimes causes recessions.

During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of ABC’s “Start Here” podcast, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky defended the extension of the transit mask mandate by stating that transportation corridors have “a lot of international travel that it’s hard to disentangle.” And people “may not have their own independence to be able to make a choice as to whether and how they use these transportation corridors.” Host Brad Mielke asked, [relevant exchange begins around 5:00] “If someone is safe to go maskless, right now, in a small, crowded theater. Because it’s a green county, why isn’t that person safe to go...

Neighbors dispute 🤣 pic.twitter.com/3AF2hWB8wf— shimon abramovitz (@ultrarainman) March 9, 2022

Eager fashionistas got physical outside a Manhattan store as they vied for a spot in line to buy a hotly anticipated clothing collaboration between Burberry and Supreme, according to videos and witnesses. One video posted early Thursday outside the Dover Street Market at 30th Street and Lexington Avenue shows tensions flaring among those in line waiting to snag the latest pricy wares from the British fashion brand and popular New York street wear label. “I’m still standing right here,” one man yelled at another in line, the footage shows. A second clip showed several men scrapping violently against a door...

Chernobyl still running on backup generators, Ukrainian staff held captive by Russian troop Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was still powered by backup generators Saturday, three days after external power was cut. Ukrainian workers at the site have been held captive around the clock for two weeks, Ukraine’s nuclear energy regulator Energoatom told the UN’s nuclear watchdog. “The plant’s staff of 211 technical personnel and guards have still not been able to rotate, in effect living there since the day before Russian forces took control,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday in a press release. The Russian military...

PRING HILL, Fla. - A Spring Hill man is accused of calling 911 to have the methamphetamine he recently purchased from a man he met at an area bar tested because he believed it was really bath salts. According to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Eugene Colucci made the emergency call around 7 p.m. on Thursday. Deputies say Colucci told them that he is an experienced drug user who's used methamphetamine in the past and knew what it should feel like. When it didn’t produce the expected sensation, he decided to call authorities. Colucci then produced two small baggies,...

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — A woman is facing DUI charges after deputies found her with a car full of deodorant spray. The Martin County Sheriff's Office says 31-year-old Katherine Theodore huffed multiple cans of the deodorant before getting behind the wheel on Sunday. Deputies pulled her over on SE Federal Highway and Carroll Street and noticed a stack of empty Right Guard deodorant spray cans in her car. The sheriff's office said she also appeared impaired. and that a strong scent of the spray was in her car. According to the sheriff's office, Theodore initially said she sprayed the deodorant...

A couple of undercover videos released by Project Veritas featuring New York Times national security correspondent Matthew Rosenberg has caused quite a stir at that newspaper because Rosenberg had some very critical things to say about his colleagues, specifically what he considers to be their silly drama queen overreactions to the January 6 events at Capitol Hill.The conundrum of the Times is that even though Rosenberg's criticisms caused a lot of outrage among much of their staff, executive editor Dean Baquet urged the staff at a meeting of their Washington D.C. bureau on Thursday to keep calm and not allow...

Hailey Bieber said she was hospitalized for experiencing "stroke like symptoms" earlier this week. The model and wife of Justin Bieber explained the scary situation to her fans in an Instagram post to her stories on Saturday. "On Thursday morning, I was sitting at breakfast with my husband when I started having stroke like symptoms and was taken to the hospital," she wrote. "They found I had suffered a very small blood clot to my brain, which caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed it on its own and I recovered completely within a few hours....

The $1.5 trillion omnibus bill has plenty of inflationary spending, and the honorable members of the legislature didn’t leave themselves out. As part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill released Wednesday, the $5.9 billion fiscal 2022 Legislative Branch funding portion would substantially boost the office budgets of House members to pay staff more… This legislation would provide $774.4 million for the Members Representational Allowance, known as the MRA, which funds the House office budgets for lawmakers, including staffer salaries. This $134.4 million, or 21 percent, boost over the previous fiscal year marks the largest increase in the MRA appropriation...

At 2 a.m. local time on the second Sunday of March, clocks around the country will "spring forward" one hour to 3 a.m., marking the start of daylight saving time and the end of standard time. For decades, this shift has cost Americans a valuable hour of their weekend that they won't see again until clocks move back during the first Sunday of November. But an end to the tradition may be closer than ever before. According to USA Today, the federal government first enacted daylight saving to conserve coal during World War I in the spring of 1918. But...

Iraqi State TV, Sky News Arabia, and the Jerusalem Post are reporting explosions in Erbil, Iraq following apparent rocket fire into the city. The attack is reportedly near an under-construction U.S. consulate. The news is breaking on Twitter, and some of the details are still in flux, but most outlets report that Kurdish satellite channel k24 suffered a hit. Sky News Arabia reported that “the headquarters of the US embassy, ​​which is being built in the city of Erbil, northern Iraq, was targeted with five long-range missiles.

The Ukraine war is good news for Democrats because it distracts from their unpopular domestic issues, an article in Politico magazine argues. “Dems catch a break from the culture wars: War in Ukraine and the domestic economic fallout have given Democrats a chance to focus there instead of on other issues that dominated 2021,” read the headline on the lead story by David Siders and Elena Schneider in the Saturday morning layout at Politico’s website.

In the movie Bourne Identity, the big reveal near the end has the antagonist explaining to hero Jason Bourne that he was sent in to kill an inconvenient world leader. The reason he was sent in instead of just using SEAL Team Six or a CIA sniper was because they needed it to look like the leader was killed by his own men. They arranged to get super-human weapon Bourne on the leader’s yacht so that when he was killed, it would appear as if someone in his crew pulled the trigger. Doing this would keep the United States from...