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Keynote Address on the future of American Foreign Policy from renowned Surgeon and United States Senator for Kentucky, Rand Paul, at the "Up From Chaos: Conserving American Security" Conference in Washington D.C. Setting the Stage: Russia has invaded Ukraine, the world is in chaos, and Washington’s decades-long, failed, bipartisan foreign policy consensus is to blame. Since the end of the Cold War, American elites squandered our peace dividend and chose instead to pursue endless and aimless engagement abroad. Their failures led to costly misadventures in the Middle East, dire miscalculations in Europe, and irresponsible naïveté in East Asia. We must...

Law enforcement personnel have allegedly assaulted residents in Shanghai over apparent breaches of the locked-down city’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions, according to footage circulating on the Chinese internet. In one video, at least eight people wearing white protective gear—including six who are said to be police officers—repeatedly punch and kick a young Shanghai resident on the street outside the Lianyang community in the Songjiang district. The man buries his head in his hands while being beaten, and later runs from the officers before being chased down and beaten again. The video, apparently recorded from a nearby apartment, went viral on China’s...

Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer said during a Republican Study Committee (RSC) meeting that there is a slam dunk case to indict Hunter Biden on charges of tax evasion, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Schweizer, the author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, spoke to the RSC members about his book, which focuses on how American elites and lawmakers became rich to America’s detriment. The Red-Handed author said during the meeting that although the book documents many elites that sell out to China, it principally focuses on President Joe...

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley downplayed the effect of kicking out troops from the military for not complying with the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate, even amid threats from China and Russia and recruiting difficulties in the Army. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a Navy veteran, asked Milley Tuesday at a House Armed Services Committee hearing if it was worth sacrificing the military’s total number of troops for vaccine mandates.

Twitter will be a better place with Tesla CEO Elon Musk driving away left-wing censorship from the platform, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told "America Reports" Tuesday. Twitter announced earlier in the day that Musk will join Twitter's board of directors, after purchasing a 9.2% stake in the company. The move comes roughly a week after the billionaire criticized Twitter for a lack of commitment to free speech. Paul, an outspoken critic of Big Tech censorship, said he hopes Musk's spot on the board will bring a new "ethos" to the company. "We've already seen some on the left wigging out...

Hundreds of Chinese surgeons and medical personnel have been accused of killing death row prisoners by removing their hearts for transplant even before the inmates had been officially declared dead, in a new academic paper. The findings, according to study co-author and PhD researcher Matthew Robertson, were that Chinese surgeons might have carried out a final coup de grâce in an execution process that began in front of a firing squad or through lethal injection. Even if the prisoner survived that trauma, removing vital organs would cause certain death. China considers data on the death penalty a state secret, but...

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, and Catholic Charities CEO Sally Blount will each offer remarks.Chicago - (April 5, 2022) – The Archdiocese of Chicago will join with the Muslim community to mark the end of the Ramadan fast at the 23rd Annual Muslim-Catholic Iftar dinner and program on Tues., April 5, 2022, from 6 – 8:15 p.m. at the Islamic Foundation North, 1751 O’Plaine Rd., in Libertyville. Sponsored by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC), the annual interfaith Iftar commemorates breaking the Ramadan fast, observing maghrib prayer and sharing a festive dinner and program. The...

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A NASA astronaut who just returned from the International Space Station says his Russian counterparts who boarded the ISS wearing yellow and blue spacesuits were not doing so to support Ukraine. Mark Vande Hei, who returned to Earth on March 30 after nearly a year in space, said the yellow and blue colors represent the university the Russian cosmonauts attended. "I think the folks that wore them had no idea that people would perceive that as anything to do with Ukraine," Vande Hei said in a press conference Tuesday. "All three of them happen to be associated with the same...

‘Before discussing the next Conclave, it is necessary to shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI and the question of the manipulation of the 2013 Conclave, which sooner or later ought to be the subject of an official investigation,’ said Archbishop Viganò.(LifeSiteNews) – In a new interview, former U.S. Papal Nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò spoke of the need “to shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI” and called for an “investigation” into potential “manipulation of the 2013 Conclave.” Archbishop Viganò’s comments came in a wide-ranging interview conducted with veteran Vatican journalist, Aldo Maria Valli, released April 5...

Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki raised eyebrows during a meeting where he reportedly said Pope Francis was "out of touch with reality." The Cologne archdiocese said the remarks were not intended to be disrespectful.A high-level church meeting with Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki ended on a sour note for some participants on Saturday, after the controversial archbishop caused a stir with his remarks on the pope, news agency dpa reported. Woelki has faced mounting criticism in recent months over his handling of reports of sexual abuse in Cologne — Germany's largest Catholic archdiocese. The cardinal offered to resign as archbishop in March,...

HONG KONG—Lu Jiaying hasn’t tested positive for Covid, and hasn’t experienced any symptoms. But at 7 p.m. on Sunday, the 34-year-old technology worker and resident of central Shanghai, was ordered to board a bus for a mass quarantine center. Nearly 16 hours later, Ms. Lu, still aboard the bus in a head-to-toe protective suit, hadn’t eaten a bite, sipped any water or gone to the bathroom, a casualty of the chaos that has seized China’s biggest and most prosperous city amid a surge in Covid infections.

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady’s security detail. The two men – Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36 – were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening.

Join 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. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said he hopes the top official at the Democratic National Committee seeks help following a bizarre Wednesday morning rant in which the party official called the Arkansas senator a "little maggot-infested man." Asked about the comment from DNC chair Jaime Harrison on MSNBC's Morning Joe, a spokesman for Cotton said he didn't even know who Harrison was until hearing his comment this morning but is now concerned about his well-being. "While Senator Cotton was not familiar with Jamie Harrison before this morning," a Cotton spokesman told the Free Beacon, "he wishes him the best and...

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Prelate Defends Pope After Maltese BacklashFrancis triggers outrage in Malta with provocative spiel on immigration ALLETTA, Malta (ChurchMilitant.com) - The archbishop of Malta has rushed to defend Pope Francis after the pontiff's comments on immigration triggered a fierce backlash on Maltese social media. Abp. Scicluna helps Pope Francis on his Malta visit Archbishop Charles Scicluna, the island's controversial pro-LGBTQ+ prelate, compared the islanders' rejection of Francis' message to the Jews rejecting Jesus and crucifying Him. "Good Friday was the moment where Jesus was rejected up to the assassination. We didn't like the message, so we killed the messenger," Scicluna told...

A Jesuit-run middle school in Massachusetts could lose its Catholic designation if it ignores the local bishop’s call to stop flying Black Lives Matter and gay pride rainbow flags outside its building. The Nativity School of Worcester, in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been displaying the flags for more than a year, the Boston Globe has reported, but Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester only recently learned about them, a diocesan spokesman told CNA Monday. The middle school, which is privately run and not part of the diocesan school system, has a predominantly African-American and Latino student body. Students attend the school tuition-free....

Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will not coast to reelection, with the latest poll putting her just four points ahead of her Republican challenger, Rep. Lee Zeldin. The poll from Republican consulting firm Big Dog Strategies showed that Hochul holds a slim four-point lead over the congressman – 35 percent support versus Zeldin’s 31 percent. The poll also showed that Zeldin leads disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo by six points in a hypothetical matchup. According to the New York Post, Hochul will face a fierce battle for reelection. “Zeldin led Hochul by more than 35 points in the Syracuse region...