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“She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled” (Proverbs 9:3-5 KJV).

Lyra makes a compelling case that European nations will collapse without food, oil, gas, and raw materials from Russia, while Russia is so close to self-sufficient that it can survive without anything from anybody. If he is right, then Germany, France, the UK, and others are basically committing suicide by toeing the deep-state line on Ukraine.

America’s faithful are bracing — some with cautionary joy and others with looming dread — for the Supreme Court to potentially overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and end the nationwide right to legal abortion. A reversal of the 49-year-old ruling has never felt more possible since a draft opinion suggesting justices may do so was leaked this week. While religious believers at the heart of the decades-old fight over abortion are shocked at the breach of high court protocol, they are still as deeply divided and their beliefs on the contentious issue as entrenched as ever. National...

Summary: The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation will hold an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on "Systematic and mass grave violations of the international humanitarian law as well as other war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military personnel and militia and discovered in the course of ongoing special military operation of the Russian armed forces.

Michigan’s attorney general is standing her grounds and refuses to enforce what she calls a “Draconian law,” which would make abortion illegal in Michigan if Roe v. Wade is overturned. “Let’s be clear, women in my state and states all over America are going to die because of this position,” Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said during a Sunday, May 8 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Nessel joined host Chuck Todd to discuss the Supreme Court’s draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade. The draft says that a majority of the court is prepared to overrule the landmark 1973 decision,...

Sunday Morning A frontline in the fight over abortion sunday-morning May 8, 2022 / 9:12 AM / CBS News Never mind that Justice Samuel Alito's leaked opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade was a draft, not a final decision; its impact was like a hurled grenade. Once detonated, it ignited all the pent-up passions surrounding the expected end of Roe, after nearly 50 years. The news was a shock, but not a surprise. "In 2019 we got a preview and a dry run of what living in a post-Roe reality was gonna look like," said Yamelsie Rodriguez, president and...

Disney's silence on a leak suggesting the US could end nationwide legal abortion has triggered speculation it has learned to keep quiet after meddling in a controversial new Florida law. Protests have sprung up throughout the country in big cities as well as small towns since Politico released a draft decision last week showing that the conservative Supreme Court majority would put an end to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling giving women a constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies. But Disney - which has previously spoken out against laws that would prohibit abortions - has yet to issue a...

A New York court halted the use of a DNA crime fighting tool that has helped crack cold cases and put murderers behind bars, but has also raised privacy and racial discrimination concerns, because state lawmakers never approved the practice. Known as familial DNA searching, the technique allows law enforcement agencies to search the state’s DNA databank for close biological relatives of people who have left traces of genetic material at a crime scene. A panel of judges on a mid-level appeals court ruled Thursday that regulations for the technique were invalid because a state committee implemented them without consent...

A group of smash and grab robbers raided a Virginia eyeglass store and stole more than $20,000 of products. This week, Fairfax County released in-store surveillance footage of four men raiding a MyEyeDr. store near Richmond Highway in Alexandria at about 6.30pm on April 19. The suspects are all black men and are believed to be between the ages of 17 and 23. A fifth suspect, who was the group's getaway driver, is also wanted by police. The men are believed to have fled in an older-model black Toyota Camry with tinted windows and black hubcaps. Detectives are following up...

Celebrated author Margaret Atwood says ‘enforced childbirth is slavery’ in response to the leaked draft decision from the Supreme Court that could potentially overturn the Roe v. Wade. Atwood, 82, has seen her seminal work The Handmaid's Tale - and the recent TV adaptation - become oft-cited by liberals warning of the consequences of conservative policies on social issues. Activists will often dress like characters from the show at protests. In an edited extract from her new book Burning Questions published in The Guardian Sunday, Atwood made the point that anti-abortion laws could force women to choose 'illegal' forms of...

Green Bay Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy has a monthly column on the team website where he answers questions from fans and shareholders. It generally appears to be softball questions like any fun events planned for the shareholders meeting and the Paul McCartney concert was awesome, but for some reason this month's edition also featured an absolutely wild letter from a shareholder named Marilyn. She does not waste time getting to her point. Via Packers.com: A question from Marilyn, a longtime Packer fan and shareholder: "Out of the 11 players drafted by the Packers in the 2022 NFL Draft...

Calvinist Libertarian Ingram Spencer is in jail in Australia. He is a candidate for Federal Parliament in the election where voting concludes on May 21. Ingram'ss party has not disendorsed him. People in Australia think that you can solve a problem if you do not talk about it. They hope a problem which is ignored will go away. I think that almost every human solution to a human problem starts with discussing it. Hymn singer Tim Renouf lights a candle for Ingram. Awareness helps.

CNN — When two pink vertical lines on a pregnancy test stared back at Taylor Esche last summer, she was contemplating her options before even leaving her bathroom. On paper, Esche, 28, and her now fiancé seemed to be perfect candidates for parenthood, she tells CNN: Esche is a business owner, her fiancé is a lawyer and the two own a home together in Nashville, Tennessee. But the results of a positive pregnancy test last June didn’t bring the excitement they expected. They didn’t feel ready or properly equipped to welcome a child into the world, Esche says. So, the...

Judge limits some Durham evidence ahead of Sussmann trial "Circumstantial" evidence shows Sussmann is connected to the data gathering effort, the judge said. A federal judge is limiting some of the evidence Special Counsel John Durham can use during the trial of Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann to show a "joint venture" involving Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, Democratic operatives and others.

During an online meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven countries earlier, Kishida had announced that Japan will ban Russian crude oil imports "in principle" as part of a G-7 campaign. "[For Japan] oil imports contribute to a long-term, inexpensive and stable energy supply," Kishida told reporters. "We will take steps to phase out imports in a way that minimizes the adverse impact on people's lives and business activities." "We will consider how to reduce oil imports and the timing of the suspension based on actual conditions," he added. Regarding alternative energy, the prime minister said that "we...

Bitcoin continues to fall, extending its losses from the past week. The largest cryptocurrency by market value dropped 4% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko, breaching a key support level and hitting a daily low of $34,406. It’s currently trading at around $34,519, down 9% in the last seven days and down 40% year to date. Ether, the second-largest, is also in the red, down 6% in the last day and down 7.4% in the last week. Overall, the cryptocurrency market is taking a hit, down 4.2% in the last 24-hours. Though weekends are typically bad for Bitcoin...

China's armed forces carried out another round of exercises near Taiwan last week to improve joint combat operations, the People's Liberation Army said on Monday, after the Chinese-claimed island reported a spike in activity. Taiwan has complained for the past two years about frequent Chinese military activity near it, mostly concentrated in the southern and southwestern part of the island's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ. Taiwan's air force scrambled planes on Friday to warn away 18 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone, and reported further incursions on Saturday and Sunday, though with fewer aircraft. read more The...

A Portland-area trans woman is among a group of three trans suspects and a man who have been convicted and sentenced on May 6, 2022, over their role in a transgender porn production company that victimized a seven-year-old. Tools used in the child sex abuse video included neck collars, sex devices and a cage. The pedophile convicts ran Rosy Hills Productions and called it a “family-owned transgender pornography production studio specializing in amateur, BDSM and taboo fetish content.” Marina Volz, 32, formerly known as Matthew Volz, of Vancouver, Wash. (near Portland, Ore.), was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Volz...

Fewer Americans are moving than ever before, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau data — but a new report says the people who are taking the plunge are flocking to some familiar cities.Houston, Las Vegas and Phoenix topped this year's edition of truck rental company Penske's annual Top Moving Destinations report, which uses data from its one-way consumer truck rental reservations to compile a list of the country's 10 most popular cities for movers. More generally speaking, the Sun Belt led the way, with Dallas, Austin and San Antonio also ranking highly.Eight of the 10 cities made the list in...