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Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical workers soon may be forced to help abort unborn babies or lose their jobs as pro-abortion politicians work to get rid of conscience protection rights. Last year, the Biden administration dropped a lawsuit against a hospital accused of tricking a pro-life nurse into aborting an unborn baby. That decision was only a foreshadowing of things to come. Earlier this month, Christian medical leaders raised alarm a potential new pro-abortion mandate from the Biden administration that could shut down Christian health care throughout the U.S. Now, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials...

JERUSALEM, April 13 (Reuters) - Pressed against a wall in a back corridor of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a stone slab bore testimony only to the graffiti etched on it by multitudes of pilgrims through the ages. But the 2.5 x 1.5 metre stone turned out to be far more precious when its other side was exposed during recent renovations at the church, the traditional site of Jesus's crucifixion and burial. Researchers believe the elaborate looping ornaments they found on the long-hidden part of the slab indicate it was once the decorated front of a medieval high altar...

Alec Baldwin has claimed he's been exonerated over the death of a cinematographer he accidentally shot dead by a new report blasting producers of the film whose set witnessed the tragedy. New Mexican Occupational Health and Safety Bureau officials levied the maximum fine against the producers of Rust, the western movie on whose set Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by Baldwin in October 2021. Executive producers were hit with a $136,793 film - the maximum available. Baldwin himself was a producer, but highlighted a passage in the investigation which said that he was involved in the script and casting...

Moscow, April 20, Interfax - Nearly two-thirds of Russians, or 63%, identify themselves as Orthodox, the share reaches 70% in the group older than 60 and 51% in the group aged from 18 to 30, the Russian Public Opinion Foundation said in a statement published on its website. According to the pollster, 8% of Russian residents are Muslim, including 10% in the group aged from 31 to 45. The total number of Catholics, Protestants and Uniates amounts to 2%, and the same percentage of respondents follows other religions, it said. Twenty-three percent of respondents identified themselves as atheists, including 34%...

A petition against the campaign stated, ‘They’re mocking the Eucharist and the death of Christ in the most sacred time for Christians.’ MADRID (LifeSiteNews) – The Burger King fast-food chain has apologized to Spanish Catholics following a blasphemous Holy Week ad campaign that mocked Christ’s words at the Last Supper. “Take and eat all of it (Tomad y comed todos de él). It’s meat-free,” stated one of the two advertisements included in the controversial Holy Week campaign. They were meant to promote Burger King’s new range of vegetarian options, hoping to appeal particularly to Catholics who do not eat meat...

A soon-to-be father-of-three is being slammed as 'ugly' and an 'a**hole' for his 'alarming' reaction to learning that his third child will be a girl. Expectant mother @kc.fulton and her husband already have a three-year-old daughter and a one-year-old daughter — and they are now expecting daughter number three, which they learned at a gender reveal about a week ago. But while the US-based mom and her toddlers were expressed joy as pink confetti rained down around them, dad was clearly quite unhappy not to get a son and expressed that by repeatedly yelling profanities and storming off. In the...

Audio provided by former President Donald Trump’s team to Breitbart News of the end of Trump’s interview with Piers Morgan proves that Morgan and his team deceptively edited the interview to make it appear as though it was a contentious ending when it was not. A 30-second promotional clip that Morgan released on Wednesday afternoon seemed to show Trump flying off the handle and walking out mid-interview as a righteous Morgan asked him tough questions about his views on the 2020 election. But the full story seems to indicate that Morgan’s team deceptively edited the clips together to make it...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has issued a statement to India Today clarifying the rubles for gas mandate that has created confusion among Russia’s gas buyers, RT has reported on Tuesday. Buyers purchasing Russia’s gas will have to pay Gazprombank, an independent institution. -snip- Buyers can still, therefore, pay in the currency of their choice. But Gazprombank will convert the payment into rubles. Gazprom would then be able to access the funds in rubles, assured that those funds would not be subject to sanctions. “They won’t be able to keep this money in their banks. They will still pay in...

An employee at a Family Dollar store in Texas opened fire on a would-be shoplifter, striking him multiple times and killing him, cops said Tuesday. Antonio Batres, 21, is now facing a murder charge for shooting the 49-year-old man in the back after a “physical altercation” at the Houston Family Dollar on Sunday at about 4:30 p.m., according to Houston police.

"To protect CDC’s public health authority beyond the ongoing assessment announced last week, CDC has asked DOJ to proceed with an appeal in Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., et al., v. Biden, et al. It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health. CDC will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine whether such an order remains necessary. CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health," the statement reads.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki maintained Wednesday that it wouldn’t be a failure of the precautions in place to protect President Biden if he were to contract COVID-19, a situation that the White House has recently acknowledged could happen. “No,” Psaki said during an event Wednesday evening when asked if she would consider Biden contracting COVID-19 a failure of all of the protocols that have been put in place.

I arrive in Detroit now. I will never come to Detroit again. Detroit is America's butt hole. Very disgusting place. Quote Tweet Wei Wu 吴伟 @WuWei113 · 22h Going to Detroit tomorrow see friend. Very excite. 1st time travel to Detroit!!

It looks like the good ole boys in Tennessee don’t want outsiders taking their cake. The state passed a law that prevents outsiders from running for a US House if they haven’t lived in the state for three years. Tennessee Republicans changed the law which prevented President Trump’s pic for the House in the state from qualifying for office. A Trump-backed congressional candidate in Tennessee’s primary race was booted from the ballot after the local GOP voted to remove her because she had only just moved to the state. Morgan Ortagus served as the State Department Spokesperson under former President...

KYIV. April 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine has received Russian proposals at the negotiations and is studying them, advisor to the head of Ukrainian presidential office Mykhailo Podolyak said in a commentary on Wednesday. "Ukraine handed over its proposals on the provisions to the opponents back at the Istanbul round [of talks]. In particular, this concerns security guarantees to prevent attacks on our country from happening in the future. The Russian side has studied the proposals and has presented its stance. Now it's our turn to study, compare and draw conclusions, both political and legal," Podolyak said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...

The CoV Measures Act will be extended until mid-2023. A corresponding resolution by means of an amendment is due in the Health Committee and will probably also be implemented next week by the plenum of the National Council. From the coalition, it was said on APA request, the extension had preventive reasons. Actually, the Measures Act, which regulates exit restrictions, would have expired in the middle of this year. The FPO was then also indignant about the upcoming decision. Health spokesman Gerhard Kaniak said in a broadcast that the OVP and the Greens continued to hang the sword of Damocles...

A Taiwanese television station has apologised after a false report that the island was under attack from mainland China caused panic. In its morning news broadcast on Wednesday, the government-funded Chinese Television System warned in a series of its news tickers that New Taipei City was under attack. “New Taipei hit by guided missiles from the Chinese Communist forces. Ships at the Taipei Port [in New Taipei] exploded, facilities and vessels all destroyed,” read one ticker that ran just after 7am under footage of a worker in full Covid-19 gear disinfecting a workplace at the Presidential Office. There were other...

Russia's attempt to pay for two of its dollar bonds using rubles was deemed a potential default scenario by a derivatives industry watchdog on Wednesday, bringing the country to the brink of its first default in a century. The Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee — a panel within the The International Swap and Derivatives Association — ruled that a "potential failure to pay" event had occurred, Reuters first reported. It is still possible for Russia to avoid a default if it manages to pay bondholders using dollars before a one-month grace period ends on May 4. Russia has become increasingly cut...

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Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appeared in footage captured in the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York cursing at a JetBlue Airways employee over a delayed flight. “What you’re gonna do … It’s three hours late,” O’Reilly said to the JetBlue employee in the video obtained by The Daily Mail and published Tuesday.