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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 10, 2022 / 05:14 am (CNA). The offices of Oregon Right to Life in Salem, Oregon, were set on fire late Sunday night, the organization announced Monday. “In the late evening on Sunday, May 8, the offices of Oregon Right to Life were attacked. An individual used incendiary devices, one of which exploded and caught the building on fire,” Oregon Right to Life said in a statement posted on its website. “The office was vacant at the time, and no one was harmed. Fire and police departments responded quickly, minimizing damage to the building. The agencies...

Concerned parents are begging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reopen the nation's largest baby formula plant after the nationwide shortage has left their infants hungry and ill. Families from across the America reached out to DailyMail.com, detailing their struggles and pleas for help as store shelves meant to hold formula remain barren and price gouging resellers auction the products online at ungodly mark-ups. One mother, whose six-month-old son has a severe dairy allergy, shared heartbreaking photos of a rash that overtook her infant's back after they were forced to switch formula brands. A father who traveled to...

Harvard Law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump could face criminal prosecution for espionage while discussing reports that the Department of Justice is investigating Trump’s handling of classified material. Tribe said, “When we find all of this apparent top secret information finding his way to unsecured boxes to Mar-a-Lago, it’s very encouraging that the Department of Justice isn’t simply asking who packed the boxes, but what did the president then of the United States on his way out of the Oval Office have in mind in taking that information? Did he do...

Pope Francis penned a letter to the prominent, dissident pro-LGBT priest Fr. James Martin, decrying what was described as the Church's 'rejection' of 'LGBT Catholics.'VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has written a letter to “LGBT Catholics,” delivered via dissident Jesuit priest Father James Martin, declaring that a “selective” Church is “a sect,” and decrying what he styled as the Church’s “rejection” of “LGBT Catholic[s].” The letter was announced May 8, and published May 9 in an article written by Martin for Outreach, which is “a new LGBTQ Catholic resource” he recently set up. Martin noted that he had himself...

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The 90-year-old prelate has been shortly detained together with an academic, a barrister, and a singer and LGBT activist with the pretext of his past activity in the now-defunct 612 Fund.May 11 will be remembered as a crucial and terrible day in the history of the CCP’s attack of human rights and religious freedom in Hong Kong. The police arrested, then released on bail, four former trustees of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. Established in 2019, the fund provided emergency relief, legal assistance, and psychological counseling to pro-democracy protesters mistreated by the police or arrested. It was compelled to disband...

CNN)President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans' rights, from same-sex marriage to contraception access. "It's not just the brutality of taking away a woman's right to her body ... but it also, if you read the opinion ... basically says there's no such thing as the right to privacy. If that holds ... mark my words: They are going to go after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage," said Biden,...

Republicans are sounding the alarm after discovering baby formula is being sent to border facilities while American mothers are facing empty shelves amid massive shortages. And President Joe Biden's administration is struggling to respond, unable to reassure parents when there will be more formula on empty grocery store shelves and where they can turn to for help. GOP Representative Kat Cammack tweeted Thursday two images, one showing full shelves of baby formula and food from a processing center at the southern border and another showing empty shelves where baby formula was supposed to be at an American grocery store. 'The...

Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down. A 50% decrease in pollution particles and droplets in Europe and the U.S. is linked to a 33% increase in Atlantic storm formation in the past couple decades, while the opposite is happening in the Pacific with more pollution and fewer typhoons, according to the study published in Wednesday’s Science Advances.

Shocking video footage captured a woman punching a Philly McDonald's worker who took exception to being called a 'ho' - before the aggressor and her pals stormed the kitchen and attacked staff while shrieking with laughter. The viral video posted to World Star captures the moment the female driver leans over to hand the worker at the drive-thru payment for their order and punches her instead. She and her cronies then marched into the restaurant's kitchen to continue the violence while toting a broom and giant plastic safety cone. Just moments earlier, the driver pulls up to the drive-thru window...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general is pressing countries to maintain COVID-19 surveillance and share information on its transmission and sequencing, saying reduced testing abroad “makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution.” Speaking on Tuesday during a press conference, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that while COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, the world needed to welcome the news “with some caution.”

In remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke about why he was blocking a $40 billion Ukraine bill. Video ...

TheHill.com WIRE White House COVID coordinator: US ‘vulnerable’ to coronavirus without new shots BY ZEKE MILLER | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 05/12/22 7:42 PM ET SHARE TWEET ... MORE Associated Press/Susan Walsh WASHINGTON (AP) — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments. In an Associated Press interview, Jha said Americans’ immune protection from the virus is waning, the virus is adapting to be more contagious and booster doses for...

-Ukrainian troops found Russian military documents in Sumy Oblast, officials said on Telegram. -The abandoned military documents suggested that Putin had plans to seize all of Ukraine. -Russian troops retreated from Kyiv in early April and have since focused on taking eastern Ukraine. Fleeing Russian soldiers left behind key military documents that indicated Russian President Vladimir Putin had plans to seize all of Ukraine, the director of Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation said in a Telegram statement on Wednesday. Ukrainian forces discovered the documents while searching through the northeastern town of Trostyanets in Sumy Oblast, the statement said. Trostyanets,...

,/A>Did Fed Chair Powell just jump straight from ‘denial’ to ‘acceptance’ on his journey through grief at the death of ‘transitory’ inflation? Speaking on MarketPlace Radio this evening, Powell said the central bank has both the tools and resolve to bring down rapid inflation — though he acknowledged that the path to lower price increases could be a painful one. Powell: So you can see that inflation is just way too high here in the United States. And by the way, the same all over the world, really, the global economies all around the world have been hit by a...

"Why are all the grandparents in one bed?" My daughter and I were watching the 1971 classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory when she asked the question I'd been asking myself for years: What's up with that four-person bed? I answered her in the simplest way possible: Because they're poor. Confused, my daughter shot back, "But they're white."

Ukraine’s foreign minister said Thursday that everyone involved in the transportation and sales of grain seized by Russia in occupied areas of the country will face legal consequences. “Russia is a criminal three times over: it bombed Syria to ruins, occupied part of Ukraine, and is now selling stolen Ukrainian grain to Syria,” the ministry’s press service cited Dmytro Kuleba as saying. “I want to remind the participants in this deal: what is stolen has never brought happiness to anyone. Everyone involved in the sale, transportation or purchase of stolen grain is an accomplice to the crime,” Kuleba said. “Your...

Senator Rand Paul has blocked a fast-track senate vote on the additional $40 billion funding package created by Joe Biden and House Democrats. Both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell approved a fast-track vote; however, senator Rand Paul (KY) stood defiant against their effort. Despite the high-profile pressure from the two Senate leaders, Rand Paul refused to move and that means the Senate will have to take procedural steps to overcome his objection, which could take several days. “My oath of office is the US constitution not to any foreign nation and no matter how...

More Hypocrisy: Francis Discovers "Richness" of Other ReligionsWhile using Traditionis Custodes to destroy the "richness" of Catholic liturgy, Francis feigns in his May 12 message for the World Day of Migrants that illegal immigrants represent "an immense opportunity for the cultural and spiritual growth of everyone."He hopes for a "fruitful exchange between different visions and traditions” and "a discovery of the richness present in other religions and forms of spirituality unfamiliar to us." His words are hypocritical since Francis actively suppresses such an "exchange" in his own Church.Francis showed what this "exchange" looks like during his Malta trip, when a...

Top House Democrats wrote letters to the chief executives of four major social media platforms on Wednesday, urging them to preserve and archive content related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that could be potential evidence of war crimes. The lawmakers asked Meta, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok to preserve and archive posts related to the conflict “that may provide evidence of war crimes or human rights violations,” establish a mechanism with human rights-specific organizations to share that content and create a way for content depicting a possible war crime to be flagged by the platforms’ users.