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Pope Francis, a leading advocate of Doormat Christianity, is at it again. Although it is traditional for papal podiums to depict the crucifix, during his recent visit to the island of Malta, Pope Francis ditched the cross lest it offend Muslim migrants. As the archdiocese of Malta openly admitted, “The podium will not be adorned with a crucifix, given that the majority of migrants are Muslim.” Instead, the podium backdrop used by Francis consisted of recycled plastic bottles with red blobs meant to highlight the two primary reasons Francis was visiting Malta — to defend migrants and the environment. “When...

Nothing has revealed the class divide in the U.S. quite like runaway inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. But in addition to the economic impact the staggering incompetence of the Biden administration is having on the working class, there is a political one; it's undeniably driving working class voters even further from the Democrats and toward the GOP. But it's not all good news for conservatives. The recent Amazon vote to unionize could be a precursor to something less appealing to the Right: a nascent rebellion among the vast armies of service workers who for decades have inhabited the lower economic...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said the political atmosphere is good for Republicans heading into the midterms but warned that the party could bungle its chances if “unacceptable” candidates win their primaries but go on to lose in November.

Whoopi Goldberg will be taking a break from her duties on “The View” in the coming days – an absence that co-panelist Joy Behar attributed to filming obligations for an acting gig.

1:30 President Joe Biden’s approval rating is nine percentage points lower than former President Donald Trump’s approval four years ago, according to Rasmussen Reports. Biden’s approval stood at 41 percent on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Fifty-eight percent disapprove. Four years ago — in the same point of the presidency on April 12, 2018 — Trump saw a 50 percent approval rating, which is nine points higher than Biden’s current figure:

A judge in Washington D.C. denied on Tuesday federal prosecutors' motion to detain the two men impersonating federal agents because he says he isn't convinced that there are links to Pakistan intelligence. He also claimed that deleting social media posts wasn't proof that the other defendant would tamper with evidence, as federal lawyers argued. I am going to 'deny the government's request that the two defendants be held pending trial,' Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said during proceedings Tuesday. The decision comes after it was revealed in proceedings earlier Tuesday that Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Sher-Ali, 35, were 'inadvertently...

Authorities released the name of a person of interest in the Brooklyn subway attack on Tuesday. They identified him as Frank James during an evening news briefing. NYPD officials said they were looking for him to determine his connection to the attack that injured 28 people, including 10 people shot.

SIALKOT(Punjab, India): A man climbed a mobile tower in Sialkot on Sunday after an argument with his wife. According to details, a man named Omar Hayat, a resident of Sadiqabad in Sialkot, climbed the mobile tower after an argument with his wife. Upon receiving the information, four rescue teams rushed to the spot so that the man could be taken down from the pole. Rescuers successfully pulled the man out of the mobile tower. Neighbors of the Sialkot man said that Omar Hayat is addicted to drugs and he usually gets out of control. Earlier, a man allegedly climbed a...

Indian military rescuers with helicopters lifted to safety on Tuesday (April 12) the last of almost 50 passengers who had been trapped mid-air since a fatal cable-car collision two days earlier, police said. The collision on the pilgrim cableway directly killed one person, and another fell to his death on Monday when trying to climb on to a rescue helicopter, a police officer in Jharkhand state's Deoghar district told Reuters. Most of the almost 50 survivors in the dangling cars were rescued on Monday. But three were not lifted to safety until Tuesday, said Mr Subhash Chandra Jat, the police...

Petition at Jesuit college calls bishop ‘bigoted’ for asking Catholic middle school to remove gay pride, BLM flagsA group centered at the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross are chiding the local bishop for threatening to remove the 'Catholic' designation of a school flying gay pride and BLM flags. WORCESTER, Masschusetts (LifeSiteNews) — Students, faculty, and alumni of the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross petitioned the administration to disinvite Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester from this year’s graduation ceremony due to his request that a local Jesuit middle school remove its gay pride and Black Lives Matter flags.Catholic News...

An LGBTQ reporter who goes by "they/them" pronouns is peeved that MSNBC "misgendered" them during a segment on women who face online harassment. On Friday, Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz and 19th News reporter Kate Sosin sat down for a joint interview and spoke about how viral attacks have impacted their work as well as their personal well-being. Sosin later took to Twitter to object to being labeled a female. "I really did not want to get into this, but I don't know what to do. It's been five days since @MSNBC pubbed this piece on gender-based harassed facing journalists...

NOTE: A hat tip to my friend Leo in NJ for this. He got it from somebody else. Spread the word. How many coal fired power plants are there in the world today? Green New Deal? Just look at this... The EU has 468 - building 27 more... Total 495 Turkey has 56 - building 93 more... Total 149 South Africa has 79 - building 24 more... Total 103 India (thanks) has 589 - building 446 more... Total 1035 Philippines has 19 - building 60 more... Total 79 South Korea has 58 - building 26 more... Total 84 Japan has...

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WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump "authorized" the Jan. 6 assault on the building by convincing "vulnerable" people like his client that the election was stolen. Dustin Thompson, a 38-year-old from Ohio, is the third Jan. 6 defendant to face a trial by jury after the convictions of Guy Reffitt and former police officer Thomas Robertson. Samuel Shamansky, at attorney for Thompson, told jurors on Tuesday that his client had "snatched the coat...

Standing outside Gable Sporting Goods in Douglasville, where Gov. Brian Kemp said he bought his daughter Lucy’s first handgun, the governor signed a bill that allows Georgians to carry concealed handguns without first getting a license from the state. Making good on a 2018 campaign promise, Kemp signed Senate Bill 319, referred to by backers as “constitutional carry.”SB 319 allows a “lawful weapons carrier” to carry a concealed handgun everywhere license holders currently are allowed — meaning guns would still be prohibited in places such as the secured areas of airports or government buildings that have security at the entrance,...

Embattled Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin resigned Tuesday evening just hours after he was indicted by federal prosecutors in Manhattan on a five corruption-related charges that alleged he attempted to trade a state grant for campaign contributions. “I have accepted Brian Benjamin’s resignation effective immediately. While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as Lieutenant Governor,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said. SNIP Hochul — who picked Benjamin as her running mate last year — announced his departure after spending much of the day dodging questions about his arrest Tuesday morning.

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The NYPD has located the U-Haul believed to have been used in Tuesday morning's subway shooting abandoned in the street in Brooklyn, five miles from the scene of the crime - but the gunman responsible remains at large. The shooter has not yet been publicly identified and he remains on the loose hours after opening fire on a busy northbound N train as it approached 36th Street in Sunset Park. Investigators believe they know who he is, having identified the suspect after finding a credit card at the scene that was also used to rent the U-Haul cargo van, two...

#BREAKING #brooklynsubway FED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TO ME: “Subject was a previous FBI Guardian Lead out of NM, interviewed multiple times and eventually closed out in 2019.” Allegedly this means the suspect was the subject of FBI inv and known to them.— Naveed Jamali (@NaveedAJamali) April 12, 2022

The United States has supplied Ukraine with thousands of Javelins, the anti-tank missiles that have become the iconic weapon of the war, but the U.S. inventory is dwindling. The United States has probably given about one-third of its stock to Ukraine. Thus, the United States is approaching the point where it must reduce transfers to maintain sufficient stockpiles for its own war plans. Production of new missiles is slow, and it will take years to replenish stocks. The Russians have numerous armored vehicles, but their supply of trained crews and level of morale are declining. Will Ukrainian anti-tank weapons inflict...