Free Republic

As many as 9,000 Ukraine civilians could have been executed by Russian forces and buried in mass graves outside Mariupol, according to local leaders. Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko revealed the grim development Thursday and called the site of the atrocities in the nearby village of Manhush “the new Babi Yar,” a reference to the Ukrainian Holocaust site where tens of thousands of Jews were killed in World War II. “Then Hitler killed Jews, Roma and Slavs. And now Putin is destroying Ukrainians. He has already killed tens of thousands of civilians in Mariupol,” ....Meanwhile, Russia continued to shell humanitarian corridors...

In the video titled “I Crashed My Plane,” Jacob can be seen diving out of the civilian aircraft and popping his parachute. He claims in the video the airplane malfunctioned while it was flying over the Los Padres National Forest in California. The video was reportedly met with some skepticism, with some believing the crash was staged. The FAA agreed it seemed "odd" Jacob was wearing a parachute at the time of the crash, the NYT reported. Furthermore, according to the FAA's letter, authorities took note that Jacob didn't make an attempt to contact air traffic control, and also didn't...

In a leaked recording of Kevin McCarthy on a call with Liz Cheney and other House Republicans, the Minority Leader told Cheney that he would counsel Trump to resign back on January 10, 2021. “I think [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign,” McCarthy said he would tell Trump before further adding, “what he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.” Liz Cheney had pressed McCarthy about whether Trump could possibly choose to resign on his own: “Is there any chance? Are you hearing that he might resign? Is...

Craig and Kelly Robinson, former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother and sister-in-law, have sued their children’s school for alleged racial bias, CNN reported Thursday, after their two children were disenrolled from the school. The Robinsons in their suit state that the prestigious University School of Milwaukee notified the couple that their children — ages 9 and 11 — would not be permitted back at the school for the 2021-2022 school year. A portion of the letter sent at the end of last school year and obtained by CNN said, “We cannot continue a relationship with your family.” The Robinsons said...

Bonola frequented an Austin coffee shop in Forest Hills where he allegedly used to leave “creepy” love notes for baristas. Female workers were so fearful at his advances that they called cops on him multiple times. “He would come up to us and ask for coffees and tell us that we looked pretty and make comments about how we look,” former barista Oliwia Pikulinski, 21, told New York Post. “He was creepy, he stalked people… It was known. Everyone knew he was a weird individual, especially in the Starbucks on Austin Street." Bonola would visit the shop several times a...

WARNING—Graphic footage: Fox News host voices his concerns over the crime spike on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight 16 minutes

Spanish officials are investigating the mysterious deaths of a Russian gas executive, who was found hanged outside his Spanish villa, and his wife and daughter who were both discovered hacked to death inside the property. Investigators are said to be working on the assumption that Sergey Protosenya, 55, killed the two women with an axe and knife, before taking his own life in the courtyard of his Lloret de Mar villa on Spain's Costa Brava. However, local reports said evidence does not conclusively point towards this explanation, as no suicide note was found in the property and it appeared steps...

Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to Portland, Oregon to talk about infrastructure and improvements. Biden is underwater in Oregon, a state he supposedly won in 2020. 63% have a negative opinion about Joe Biden according to a new Oregon Public Broadcasting poll. Biden repeated his favorite lies: Putin’s gas price hike Biden claims he spent time in the “foothills of Tibet” with Xi Jinping (Washington Post gave Biden 3 Pinocchios) Rising Gas prices were a discussion at the dinner table when Biden was a child (gas prices were flat Biden’s entire childhood) Joe Biden bizarrely claimed he wrote the original...

According to representatives of Almaya Munnettam, a laity organisation of the archdiocese, of the total 340 churches under the archdiocese, only five witnessed the Mass in the new format.KOCHI: Even after Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, urged the priests of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese to conduct the uniform Mass in the churches on Easter, vicars of a majority of the churches and parishes didn’t on Sunday. According to representatives of Almaya Munnettam, a laity organisation of the archdiocese, of the total 340 churches under the archdiocese, only five witnessed the Mass in the new format. “The majority of...

...To finance the Proposed Transaction or a Potential Offer, entities related to the Reporting Person have received commitment letters committing to provide an aggregate of approximately $46.5 billion as follows: (i) A debt commitment letter, dated April 20, 2022 (the “Debt Commitment Letter”), from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and certain other financial institutions party thereto as commitment parties (collectively, the “Commitment Parties”) pursuant to which the Commitment Parties have committed to provide $13 billion in financing to the Reporting Person and related entities as follows: (a) a senior secured term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of $6.5...

Cardinal insists priestesses, homosexuality contradict divine revelationVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Cardinal George Pell is asking Pope Francis to rein in heretical German bishops by reinforcing Catholic teaching on the all-male priesthood and the depravity of sodomy. "Undoubtedly, the Holy Father will speak, will have to speak, on this matter to clarify and reiterate the tradition," Pell told Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview released Thursday for the Catholic Herald's new Merely Catholic podcast. Successor of Peter"I have great confidence in the successor of Peter," the cardinal insisted. "Unlike the Orthodox and the Anglican churches,...

Good Friday of this year also marked the third anniversary of the terrible fire that inflicted so much damage on the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. The English-language YouTube channel of the news service France24 has done annual updates on the progress of the restorations, which are quite interesting: in this year’s, we get to see among other things the internal workings of the church’s famous organ, being fixed by restorers located quite far from Paris, and the recent discovery of both a tomb in the floor and some parts of the original roodscreen, which was demolished in the 16th...

During an interview aired on Thursday’s edition of CNN+’s “The Source with Kasie Hunt,” White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci reacted to the CDC’s transportation mask mandate being struck down in court by stating that “we are concerned…about courts getting involved in things that are unequivocally public health decisions. I mean, this is a CDC issue. It should not have been a court issue.”

It is unclear why the decree was published yesterday when its restrictions are valid only until the end of the month. VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican will still be asking for COVID papers, at least until the end of the month. Yesterday Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State for the Holy See, affirmed in a decree that the Vatican will maintain all its current COVID requirements despite the relaxing of mandates throughout Europe, including Italy. According to the National Catholic Register, Parolin claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic “requires specific extraordinary and exceptional measures to counter it and ensure...

Amid a feared takeover bid from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Twitter’s board of directors threatened to fight back with a “poison pill” strategy, allowing it to flood the market with new shares if Musk buys more than 15 percent of the company. Fending off Musk’s $43 billion offer by creating more shares could dilute the value of shareholders’ stock — but Twitter’s 10 board members own just a tiny portion, Musk noted in an April 16 tweet: “The Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders.” That same day, even Twitter...

Philadelphia's indoor mask mandate is coming to an end. "Due to decreasing hospitalizations and a leveling of case counts, the City will move to strongly recommending masks in indoor public spaces as opposed to a mask mandate," a spokesperson with the Philadelphia Health Department told NBC10 Thursday night. "Given the latest data, the BOH voted to rescind the mandate." The spokesperson did not reveal if the decision was effective immediately but said more details will be revealed on Friday.

[T]he teams at CERN were able to make a number of updates and improvements to the particle accelerator to support new, next-generation science during the scheduled shutdown. As the most powerful accelerator in the world, the LHC can generate hundreds of millions of particle collisions every second. Although the LHC has led to new physics research throughout both of its previous, successful runs, teams at CERN hope to push their explorations with the new upgrades implemented during the shutdown. Included in these improvements, CERN has increased the power of the LHC's injectors, which feed the beams of accelerated particles into...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is expected to meet with Donald Trump Jr. in the coming days, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Trump Jr.'s appearance is voluntary and comes after the committee invited him to speak with their investigators, sources told ABC News. The panel has not subpoenaed him. Trump Jr. would become the latest member of the Trump family to meet with the committee. In recent weeks, the panel interviewed Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both of whom served as senior White House advisers to former President Donald Trump. An attorney...

Pastor Tracy Fortin and some entrusted congregants testified to screening admission the church's entrance after media reports of the church flaunting COVID rules, and after health officials entered the church without a warrant on two prior occasions. Although COVID restrictions are largely gone, The Church in the Vine as a legal entity and the church's co-lead pastor, Tracy Fortin, are standing trial on charges of obstruction of a public health officer this week in an Edmonton courtroom. Fortin and the church stand accused of preventing a provincial health inspector from barging in to inspect the church as Sunday services were...

The United States will provide the government of Ukraine with another $500 million in direct economic assistance, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday. "Today, the United States is announcing that we intend to provide an additional $500 million in direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government," Biden said. According to him, the government of Ukraine will be able to use this money to stabilize the economy, support the population and pay salaries to employees. He said that, thus, the total U.S. economic support to Ukraine over the past two months amounted to $1 billion.