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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a bill on Wednesday empowering the state’s investigations agency to probe accusations of voter fraud, a power previously held only by the secretary of state. Kemp said the measure would help ensure secure and fair elections in the state, however critics say it was an unnecessary expense that served only to undermine voter confidence amid former President Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Newly obtained correspondence shows the deposed Bishop of Arecibo repeatedly denied allegations that he had been disobedient to Pope Francis, and says he attempted to resolve some issues of disagreement between himself and other Puerto Rican bishops in the months before he was removed from office. “Offering my resignation would be the same as declaring myself guilty of something of which I am consciously innocent, and would imply becoming an accomplice in a way of proceeding that is foreign to the Church.” “That I have been … disobedient to the pope is a totally false statement. However, in an unacceptable...

The Alumni Rainbow Community of Notre Dame held ‘ND LGBTQ+ Alumni — Past, Present & Future — A Celebration of Our Community’s Journey’ on the Indiana campus earlier this month.SOUTH BEND, Ind. — ­A new alumni group launched at the University of Notre Dame celebrated same-sex civil marriage and transgenderism on the Indiana campus over the April 8-10 weekend — with the Catholic university’s official sponsorship. The Alumni Rainbow Community of Notre Dame (ARC) held its “ND LGBTQ+ Alumni — Past, Present & Future — A Celebration of Our Community’s Journey” event from Friday to Sunday. “We encourage everyone who...

Leaked internal communications by Twitter employees reveal woke employees are overtaken by despair and anger about Elon Musk’s month-long effort to acquire Twitter.Musk announced he would purchase the company for $44 billion on Monday. The deal concludes a month-long saga that began with Musk first tweeting out polls and his thoughts about the decline of free speech on Twitter.

A Catholic priest was among four people sentenced on Monday over the shooting of a bishop-elect in South Sudan. A judge at the high court in the capital Juba issued the sentences on April 25 after Father John Mathiang Machol, Moris Sebit Ater, Laat Makur Agok, and Samuel Makir were found guilty of “participating directly or indirectly” in the attempted assassination of the now Bishop Christian Carlassare of Rumbek. Justice Alexander Sebur Subek gave Father Mathiang a seven-year jail term in connection with the attack on the Italian-born member of the Comboni Missionaries, who was shot in both legs on...

New York (CNN)Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General's Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel the real estate company's assets that they described as being as complex as a "Russian nesting doll."

A man believed to be high on psychedelic mushrooms went airborne in his parents’ car after slamming into an embankment at a Georgia gas station on Sunday night. The dramatic scene in the city of Kennesaw was caught on camera and capped off an apparently wild night for Noah Washington, 23, who told police he was “tripping” on six magic mushrooms at the time of the crash, according to Patch. Washington also told officers he believed he was being followed by assassins, though he could not describe their vehicle, the outlet reported.

Russian sanctions on Big Tech companies are an increasingly regular event, particularly with regard to companies' promotion of LGBT ideology.(LifeSiteNews) – In what has become a regular occurrence, a Russian court has fined social media companies Meta and TikTok for posts that promoted LGBT ideology. News outlets reported April 26 that Meta – the parent company of both Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – had been fined four million rubles ($53,000) by a Moscow court. The Tagansky Moscow Court reportedly levied the fine over the company’s refusal to remove posts from Instagram which promoted “non-traditional sexual values to minors.” Meanwhile, Chinese-owned...

Upstate New York has become one of the most concentrated hubs of rising Covid-19 cases in the U.S., driven in part by a highly contagious sub-variant that was recently identified, according to health officials and researchers.

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that many Republicans did not believe in democracy and were more comfortable with violence than voting. Discussing the January 6, 2021 House investigation, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “What’s amazing, what you learn from the texts is how deep into the executive branch of government Republican members who were reaching to try to overturn the result of the 2020 election.”

CHICAGO — The Chicago City Council narrowly approved Wednesday Mayor Lightfoot’s plan to handout prepaid gas and mass transit cards to Chicago residents. The vote was 26 to 23.

CINCINNATI — The first step on the pathway to a new Bengals lease has been taken and last season's fan of the year is happy to see it happen. "We've invested in that, both of these stadiums," said Jim Foster, commonly known as "Bengal Jim" referring to Great American Ball Park and Paul Brown Stadium. "They have to be maintained or it's going to cost us more."

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that “most of us understand the difference between a hotel ballroom” where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be held without a mask mandate and airplanes and that the main purpose behind the Biden administration’s appeal of the transportation mask mandate ruling is “making sure there’s clarity on the public health authority that the CDC has.”

The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Christian right wants religious freedom to be bigoted against the LGBTQ community. The panel was discussing the Supreme Court, who seems inclined to rule for a Washington state high school football coach who lost his job after he refused to stop praying on the field after games.

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ NFL Saluting Our Troops! NFL players Andrew Beck, tight end for the Denver Broncos, Demetric Felton Jr. running back for the Cleveland Browns, and Kenny Moore II, cornerback for the Indianapolis Colts, visit Airmen and Guardians from the 13th and 213th Space Warning Squadrons at Clear Space Force Base as a part of a USO tour Salute to Service. Clear team members, civilians, active-duty Space Force, and Alaska Air National Guard provided a tour of their 24/7 missile warning, missile defense, and space domain awareness mission and had...

A traumatized man is being bitten to shreds in his own home by Britain’s most venomous spiders — but no one will help him. Russell Davies is in so much agony from hundreds of bites all over his body he is sleeping in a tent outside his Southborough flat. The false widow is said to have a bite as painful as a wasp’s sting and Russell’s body is covered in them. The 55-year-old tenant’s skin is so sore he has been forced to stop working as a chef.

The computer system for the Yuma Regional Medical Center has been down for two days. It is extremely difficult to obtain any medical records or to accomplish the simplest medical procedure.All has been shut down because of a cyber attack. From YRMC press release on Facebook : YUMA, Ariz. (April 26, 2022) – Out of an abundance of caution, following an attempted cyber attack that occurred on Monday afternoon, all YRMC computers systems were powered down and moved into downtime mode, which is a manual process. Effective blocks to the attempted attack have resulted in no patient information being compromised....

High-ranking Democrats are now publicly admitting that President Joe Biden’s insistence on ending the public health authority known as Title 42 at the United States-Mexico border has created a “big problem” for them ahead of the midterm elections in November. Weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that on May 23 the Biden administration would end Title 42. The authority was first issued by Trump in 2020 and has allowed federal immigration officials to quickly return illegal aliens to their native countries after they cross the southern border.

Senator Josh Hawley has been an outspoken critic and skeptic of Twitter during his time as a Senator. Yesterday, Hawley sent a letter to Elon Musk following his purchase of Twitter. Hawley congratulates Musk on his acquisition and expresses that he is hopeful that Musk ensures the platform is committed to maintaining free speech on the platform. Hawley drags on Twitter for avoiding accountability for its shady policies regarding content moderation, viewpoint discrimination, suppression of content, and company security. Hawley draws attention to his most important request against Twitter, which was to conduct a “third party audit and release all...

London (CNN Business)Hundreds of Budweiser employees in the United Kingdom could go on strike, threatening to create a shortage of some of the country's most popular beers. The UK staff of the world's biggest brewer have refused to accept the company's new pay package. According to GMB Union, the offer from the Budweiser Brewing group, the UK arm of Anheuser-Busch InBev, was a 3% increase for 2022 and 3% for 2023 with increases in overtime rates. But with UK inflation hitting 9%, the union says the pay raises will actually amount to an overall pay cut for the workers. A...