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Italy says it’s working to intervene diplomatically with Russia to allow Ukrainian ports to open amid a growing global wheat and food supply crisis, given some 30% of the world’s wheat comes from war-ravaged Ukraine and Russia. This culminated in a Thursday phone call between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wherein the Italian leader is believed to have pressed Putin to order his military to unblock Black Sea ports. A statement from the Kremlin following the call said “Vladimir Putin emphasizes that the Russian Federation is ready to make a significant contribution to overcoming the food...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California parole panel recommended the release of Patricia Krenwinkel for the first time Thursday, more than five decades after she and other followers of cult leader Charles Manson terrorized the state and she wrote “Helter Skelter” on a wall using the blood of one of their victims. Krenwinkel, 74, was previously denied parole 14 times for the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969. She helped kill grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary the next night in what prosecutors say was an attempt by Manson to start a race...

The Walt Disney Co. used its Disney+ This Is Me gay pride special last year to encourage kids to support the gay and transgender activist group GLSEN, which promotes LGBTQ awareness in kindergarten through 12th grade. Disney+’s This Is Me: Pride Celebration Spectacular, which debuted last year on YouTube and Facebook, featured an assortment of drag queen performers, including host Nina West, as well as gender non-conforming celebrities. The show offered performances of popular Disney songs re-imagined with LGBTQ themes. During the special, Nina West — real name, Andrew Levitt — encouraged viewers to support GLSEN (pronounced “glisten”). “Disney+ is...

When Border Patrol radios crackled with a request for aid from local Uvalde police on Tuesday, it was nothing out of the ordinary. Agents often act as first responders to emergencies in their communities. The alert on Tuesday, however, was horrific: a gunman had entered Robb Elementary School. Customs and Border Protection agents were among the first to respond to the mass shooting, in which at least nineteen children and two teachers were killed. That response speaks to the outsized role CBP has in small towns near the border, like Uvalde. A CBP official told Texas Monthly that as emergency...

As FOX 5's Tom Fitzgerald found out, it seems a lot of people who work from home say they have no plans to go back to the office anytime soon. A new survey from The Pew Research Center shows surprisingly that a core group of American workers aren't returning to the office. The survey cites research that says on a national level, people are working remotely about 39% of the time as of April. That’s compared to around after 62% in mid-2020 at the height of pandemic. Locally, D.C. residents said they worked from home 42% of the time, while...

The law enforcement response to the horrific school shooting at an Uvalde elementary school has been facing severe criticism after it was revealed that the shooter was alive inside the building for an hour without being taken out by police. During this time, one brave mother drove 40 minutes from work, was handcuffed for trying to enter, talked police into freeing her, breached the perimeter, and went in and got her children out of the building. Police officers also reportedly entered the building and rescued their own children during this time. When questioned about the response by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer,...

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke on Friday will attend a rally outside of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual summit in Houston alongside several organizations following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this week.

The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays suspended their usual game coverage on Twitter to draw attention to gun violence within the United States. Typically, the two organizations’ Twitter accounts post live states about the game being played. Instead, they posted statistics about gun violence on Thursday. The move by the two Major League Baseball teams comes in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.

Uvalde police are facing new criticism over first-hand accounts and videos showing them handcuffing and restraining frantic parents, who were urging them to storm the Robb Elementary school building amid the massacre. 'The police were doing nothing,' Angeli Rose Gomez told the Wall Street Journal. 'They were just standing outside the fence. They weren't going in there or running anywhere.' Gomez has two children in second and third grade and she reportedly drove 40 miles to the school after hearing of the attack. She was one of the desperate parents who encouraged police with increasing urgency to enter the school....

Strains of a "superpower" bacteria that could cause the world's next deadly pandemic have been discovered by scientists in Antarctica. Researchers found that the bacteria have a built-in resistance to antibiotics that could make current treatments useless. The Chilean researchers made the discovery during research into how climate change could affect the spread of bacteria that had been frozen in ice for thousands of years. They warned that climate change means the bacteria will have the potential to spread beyond polar regions, with potentially catastrophic consequences. ...

The Covenant Fellowship Scotland, a think tank of evangelicals within the Church of Scotland, issued a statement:…”The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in converting an overture permitting ministers and deacons to officiate at same-sex marriages into an Act of the Church, has acted in a way which is both unbiblical and sinful…But we must nevertheless point to the complete absence of any compelling or persuasive biblical evidence that might permit ministers and deacons of the Church of Scotland to officiate at same sex marriages.”Members of the General Assembly in Edinburgh voted to change church law following years of...

The Intifada of the "innocent" - Israel Hayom Gonen Ginat, Oct 16, 2015 (Original in Hebrew), https://www.israelhayom.co.il/interactive/amp/article/321333 ___ Tel Aviv-Gaza Lately, in my spare time - and because of my situation I have quite a few - I have been conducting theological debates with Muslims on Facebook. I am increasingly convinced that this should be the plane on which we will conduct the confrontations between us. It turns out that it can be made fun. Although once a day I am blocked, but there is no shortage of other pages where discussions can take place. For example, if we are...

CLAIM: During Wednesday’s opening dialogue, Jimmy Kimmel said, “There was an armed guard in Uvalde.” MOSTLY FALSE: On Wednesday authorities tentatively indicated there was an officer at the school, but on Thursday they said there was not. Kimmel did not wait for the facts.

NEW YORK — Catholic New York, the biweekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York, will cease publishing in November, the archdiocese announced on May 19. “We know that this is a painful decision for many, beginning with the excellent team who have dedicated themselves to producing an outstanding, award-winning periodical — one of the best, if not the best, Catholic newspapers in the country,” said Msgr. Joseph LaMorte, vicar general and moderator of the curia, and John P. Cahill, chancellor of the archdiocese. All 13 employees of the newspaper will lose their jobs, according to the announcement. “I’m so...

The push for transforming single-family-home neighborhoods into dense, multi-income communities continues in California as the idyllic Alameda is being forced to add more than 5,000 new homes between 2023 and 2031. The small island city currently has a population of 78,000 and residents were angry at a recent meeting to discuss the proposal, required by state law.

New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Thursday promised to veto another redistricting map proposed by the Republican legislature. “The citizens of New Hampshire will not accept this map, which moves both members of Congress into the same district. Our races have to be fair, which is why I will veto this map,” the governor claimed.

Rome Newsroom, May 19, 2022 / 09:54 am Pope Francis formally launched an international educational movement on Thursday in the presence of U2 singer Bono. The pope inaugurated the Scholas Occurrentes International Educational Movement on May 19 during a meeting with young people at Rome’s Pontifical Urban University.The 85-year-old pope sat in a wheelchair as he watched student presentations, before engaging in a question-and-answer session. Bono asked Pope Francis about the role of women and girls in tackling the climate crisis. The pope replied by pointing out that people speak of “Mother Earth,” not “Father Earth,” and indicating that women...

No, I haven't lost my mind, and no, I'm not trolling my fellow Normals. To quickly sum up where we are right now, PJ Media's Kevin Downey Jr. pulls no punches: I bet Don Lemon only prays when there is a mass shooting. “Please, God, let the gunman be white.” The lefty sitzpinkler at CNN came up with snake eyes yesterday because the shooter is Hispanic. That changes the narrative for the left. Here is their playbook: When the shooter is white, the problem is “white supremacy.” White people are evil and here is the proof. When the shooter is...

@IAPolls2022 PA Senate Update (est. Remaining 5,846 via NBC) Mehmet Oz 419,555 (+940) David McCormick 418,615 Betting Market: Oz is 93% favorite

'They are violating not just women, but trans people and non-binary people in this country.'(LifeSiteNews) – In an hour-long Instagram video, pro-abortion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ranted against “fundamentalist Christians” who oppose killing babies via abortion. The pro-abortion movement has become increasingly angry since Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked. The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the leaked draft, which the court said is not necessarily its “final position.” On May 19, Ocasio-Cortez embodied this anger during her hourlong rant against the pro-life movement in an Instagram video....