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Officials in Pennsylvania say they have a person of interest after a 9-year-old boy was found dead under a lawn chair. Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli confirmed the identity of Azuree Charles, who had been reported missing, in a press conference on Thursday, captured by WTAE. More than 30 officers from the New Kensington Police Department, Pennsylvania State Police and other surrounding areas were briefed and stepped in to help find the missing child, who Ziccarelli said died of homicide. "This is a horrible tragedy for our community here at New Kensington and our county at large," Ziccarelli told...

While China has said it would sit out sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, many of the country's tech firms have begun backing away from doing business in Russia. That’s according to a Friday (May 6) report by the Wall Street Journal, which said the Chinese government has called for businesses to resist pressure from the U.S. and other countries. Nevertheless, sources close to the matter told the Journal that several major Chinese companies are quietly cutting back on shipments to Russia, where they’ve dominated the market in a number of products. These companies include computer maker Lenovo...

President Joe Biden has given Amazon, for which billionaire Jeff Bezos serves as chairman of the board, a $10 billion federal contract despite having pledged to American union workers not to reward corporations accused of union-busting tactics. For years, Amazon has been accused of trying to prevent its warehouse workers across the United States from unionizing amid reports that the corporation has put its workforce in dangerous scenarios under ruthless shipping quotas.

No cheese for you at this Waffle House! A customer at a Waffle House in downtown Atlanta claims a waitress pulled a gun on him after he asked for cheesy eggs Wednesday morning. A man named Candy Franklin found himself staring down the barrel of a loaded gun after pointing out his eggs weren’t what he ordered. “It all happened over cheese eggs,” Franklin told the local Fox station. “At first, they didn’t bring them to me. Then they brought me normal eggs and I said that I ordered eggs with cheese on it. It was all a normal dispute...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- A Syracuse man was stabbed multiple times by a 68-year-old man inside a Burger King on Syracuse’s North Side Friday morning. Around 8:30 a.m., Lamar Anderson, 40, entered the Burger King, at 623 Butternut Street, and started a fight with a 68-year-old man, according to a news release from Syracuse police. The fight escalated and Anderson began punching the man, police said. Anderson also stole the man’s cane and began beating him with it, they said. As the assault continued, the older man stabbed Anderson repeatedly in an attempt to stop the attack, police said. Anderson suffered...

And what has happened to Chief Justice Roberts, anyway? Old Joe Biden said Tuesday that Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was “really quite a radical decision” and “a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence,” but as usual, he was lying. Alito’s decision appears to be carefully reasoned, firmly based on what the Constitution actually says, and written with a full recognition of the nature and importance of judicial precedent. What is unprecedented is the leak that has allowed us to evaluate this decision before the Court has actually ruled on the case at hand, Dobbs...

City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting, Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced. But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: at least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full time faculty, the teachers' union says. And while those aren't technically layoffs themselves, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many...

One would not think it'd be possible for President Joe Biden to have a higher approval rating than Vice President Kamala Harris, but it's indeed true. Harris sank to a mere 28 percent rating by the end of Biden's first year in office. Authors of "This Will Not Pass," a 473-page book depicting Biden's short catastrophic time, as the president told by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burn, reveal that Kamala Harris has been seeking political advice from MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. Scarborough, whom former President Donald Trump once labeled a "total but job with bad ratings,"...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A Knoxville woman was arrested and is facing DUI and assault charges after an incident on Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 6:05 p.m. officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a home on Neubert Road. Officers spoke with the complainant before arriving on scene who told officers his ‘baby momma’, later identified as Ashley Rogers, arrived at his home highly intoxicated with her 2-year-old child in the backseat. The complainant was not home at the time. Officers spoke to Rogers daughter, who was inside the home at the time who told officers Rogers had called saying she...

An interesting assortment of items for "patriot support" is attractively displayed in the Patriot Hangout, a new store in Suite 3 of Sunset Village at 296 W. Sunset Ave., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Owner Mike Marquardt said the items show support for law enforcement, the military, first responders and Constitutional rights with a focus on the Second Amendment. Included are clothing, bumper stickers, flags and many accessories including a Lifevac anti-choking device. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Phone 808-797-2611. Check www.patriothangout.org.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Mother's Day, former First Lady Michelle Obama announced she's honoring her mom with a new exhibit at the Obama Presidential Center. The exhibit, called "Opening the White House," will include replicas of spaces at the White House, like the Blue Room and South Lawn; featuring some of the artists, athletes and performers that visited during the Obamas' time in office. On Friday, Mrs. Obama released a video announcing the exhibit will be named in honor of her mother, Marian Robinson, who lived with the former first family at the White House. The Obamas...

A grand jury in Dallas County, Texas, indicted three police officers for allegedly assaulting protesters in the wake of the George Floyd murder. The grand jury handed down multiple indictments against two Dallas Police Department officers and an officer from the Garland Police Department, WFAA ABC8 reported. The two Dallas officers were previously charged in February.

“The Good Shepherd and His Flock” (John 10:22-30; Acts 20:17-35; Revelation 7:9-17) Today is the Sunday in the church year known as “Good Shepherd Sunday.” You’ll notice that on this day all of the readings, the psalm, the hymns--all carry the theme of the shepherd and his flock, the sheep. And this will strengthen our faith today and give us life and hope for the future, as we see what God’s word says about “The Good Shepherd and His Flock.” The first thing we need to do is to identify who this shepherd is and who are his flock. The...

China is closely studying Russian's invasion of Ukraine and is likely adjusting its long-term plans for gaining control of Taiwan based on the lessons from the war, CIA director Bill Burns said Saturday. "Clearly the Chinese leadership is trying to look carefully at what lessons they should draw from Ukraine about their own ambitions and Taiwan," Burns told a Financial Times conference. Burns said he thinks Beijing has been "surprised" by the poor performance of Russian military forces as well as the tough resistance coming from the entire Ukrainian society. "I think they've been struck by the way in which...

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr was adamant that the person who leaked a drafted opinion on abortion from the Supreme Court should be behind bars. The leaked draft opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which was published by Politico last week and later confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, revealed Justice Samuel Alito had written that the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling must be overruled to "return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives." Roberts noted that it did not, however, represent the current or final opinion of the court. Barr called the...

Abstract Many social movements face fierce resistance in the form of a countermovement. Therefore, when deciding to become politically active, a movement supporter has to consider both her own movement’s activity and that of the opponent. This paper studies the decision of a movement supporter to attend a protest when faced with a counterprotest. We implement two field experiments among supporters of a right- and left-leaning movement ahead of two protest–counterprotest interactions in Germany. Supporters were exposed to low or high official estimates about their own and the opposing group’s turnout. ...Academically speaking, the right-leaning movement we study can more...

Are they still calling this “consumer reparations”? https://t.co/bGfpI0JW9a— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) May 7, 2022New video of the latest smash and grab at an eye glasses store. This one at the MrEyeDr in Alexandria. Employees say they were after the high-end brands - $20,000 lost in products and damage. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/o2Jx4hR1qA— Casey Nolen (@CaseyNolen) May 6, 2022

[Catholic Caucus] Why Ecclesia Dei Communities Should Avoid Concelebrating the Chrism Mass: A Response to Michael Charlier The following article was first published at OnePeterFive and is reprinted here with permission.—PAKIn the news cycle recently there has been much coverage of Pope Francis’s statement to a group of French bishops that all priests in a diocese, regardless of affiliation, should be present to concelebrate the Chrism Mass with their bishop each year (see this article). As a result, the ever-simmering question of concelebration has once more come to a boil.Respected German traditionalist Michael Charlier wrote an article (translated at...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- As COVID-19 cases continue to slowly rise in Chicago, city health officials say the city is now at "medium risk" level, and they recommend people resume wearing masks indoors again. The Chicago Department of Public Health also said Chicagoans should make sure they are up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters, get tested if they're exposed to the virus, and continue to follow isolation and quarantine protocols if they test positive.

The left failed to defeat Kavanaugh in 2018, but they did not shed their radicalism — they only got more strident. When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to the news media, it came as a shock. How could such a thing happen? Are the norms that keep our government together unraveling? For those who have followed the Supreme Court over the last several years, there is unfortunately more continuity to outrageous behavior than is often recognized.Immediately after the leak, we learned that the sort of left-wing...