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This week's massacre of 19 students and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas reignited the debate between Republicans and Democrats on how best to prevent future mass murders. Democrats want to outlaw guns. Republicans want to harden the target zones and make it easier for private citizens to carry firearms. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blamed "Democrat opposition to two 2013 bills. One would have appropriated $300 million in federal grants to harden schools to make them safer, to make them more protected. The other directed the Department of Justice to prosecute and put in jail felons...

More than 6.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia first invaded in late February 2022. The European Union has welcomed Ukrainian refugees, allowing them to enter its 27 member countries without visas and live and work there for up to three years. Every day, Europeans have also opened their doors – and pockets – to host Ukrainians and help them find daycare, for example, and other services. But there is still an uncomfortable reality: Ukrainian refugees are also Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political pawns, intended to politically destabilize the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Many...

Deranged Texas killer Salvador Ramos had been trying to buy a gun for at least eight months — and openly chatted about his reputation as a likely school shooter in social media messages posted in the months before Tuesday’s attack, officials announced Friday. “Ramos asked his sister to help him buy a gun” as far back as Sept. 21, Texas Department of Public Safety director Col. Steven McCraw announced Friday as he detailed the killer’s online activity. Then Ramos — who legally bought the rifle he used after turning 18 last week — had numerous group chats on Instagram in...

"God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood pulled out of the annual NRA Convention this weekend in Texas following the Uvalde, Texas mass shooting earlier this week. Greenwood told FOX News, “That weapon killed kids.” FOX News reported: TRENDING: WATCH: Mother of Uvalde Shooter Speaks Out: 'He Had His Reasons For Doing What He Did and Please Don’t Judge Him' Lee Greenwood said Friday that performing at this weekend’s NRA convention would be an “endorsement” just days after the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

Left-wing critics are demanding that HBO “cancel” Bill Maher after accusing the HBO “Real Time” host of delivering an anti-transgender monologue on last Friday’s show. David Kilmnick, who heads the nonprofit LGBT Network, wrote an article in Advocate magazine on Wednesday titled: “Bill Maher Has Gone Too Far With Anti-LGBTQ+ Comments.” Maher was blasted for saying that “we’re literally experimenting on children” by providing them with puberty blockers and other treatments aimed at facilitating gender transitions. He also said that transitioning was becoming “trendy.” Maher hit out at Chase Strangio, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, who cheered...

The shooter had thousands of dollars worth of weapons, an expensive Phone, nkew how to shoot (per the grandpa), etc. The school had teachers and kids from families directly or indirectly related to the border patrol. The "police" milled about, did nothing, and actively prevented concerned parents from saving their children. It took a border patrol "special agent" to neutralize the shooter. What are the chances the shooter had been influenced by the cartel to commit this act? Could there have been such a threat put out to families of cops by the cartel that would have compelled the cops...

On June 1, the Detroit Tigers will host a special “Pride Night” game dedicated to “celebrat[ing] our Pride community partners, friends, and families” at Comerica Park. It’s not the first time the team has hosted a Pride Night — it began hosting a “Pride Pack Day” in 2018, originally scheduled on June 26 to commemorate “the 4-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and the 6-year anniversary of the decision declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in the case of Windsor v. United States,” Outsports reported. But what’s noticeable about this year’s event is that the...

Texas gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke’s emotional outburst during Wednesday’s press conference on the Uvalde School shooting has drawn conflicting responses from either side of the aisle even as he appeared to shift his own stance in the aftermath. O’Rourke interrupted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s press conference, telling the state leadership that they "are doing nothing." Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin responded by calling O’Rourke a "sick son of a b---h" before the latter was escorted out of the auditorium.

Rome Newsroom, May 25, 2022 / 07:55 am Bishop Daniel Flores said on Wednesday that he was sick of hearing people say that “guns aren’t the problem” after a gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “We sacralize death’s instruments and then are surprised that death uses them,” the bishop of Brownsville, Texas, wrote on Twitter on May 25, the day after the shooting. “Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem, people are. I’m sick of hearing it. The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns...

According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, Pope Francis must dismiss the German bishops from their position if they do not distance themselves from the errors of the Synodal Path which they initiated in 2019 and which continues to attack Catholic doctrine. Cardinal Burke does not beat around the bush. Faced with the fact that a certain number of bishops have either come out in favor of changes in the doctrine of the Church – e.g., regarding the evaluation of homosexuality, the celibacy of priests, or the ordination of women – or have not explicitly opposed such proposals within the framework of...

Police in Georgia have released the name of the 17-year-old Taco Bell employee who allegedly brought an assault rifle to work and opened fire on two teenagers in the parking lot, injuring both of them. The South Fulton Police Department said that Marquis Jordan, 17, is a suspect in the case and is the Taco Bell employee who allegedly brought the assault rifle to work, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. No arrests have been made in the case, according to police. The shooting took place at a Taco Bell in South Fulton, Georgia, on early Wednesday morning at around 12:45...

Trial testimony reveals Hillary Clinton personally approved serious election misinformation. Is there an anti-Trump exception to content moderation?(Please go to the site to view the video)Last week, in the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis asked ex-campaign manager Robby Mook about the decision to share with a reporter a bogus story about Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. Mook answered by giving up his onetime boss. “I discussed it with Hillary,” he said, describing his pitch to the candidate: “Hey, you know, we have this, and we want to share it with a reporter… She...

Moscow, May 22, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church has been perplexed to learn about Pope Francis' audience with Pussy Riot producer and publisher of Mediazona (designated as a foreign-agent media outlet by the Russian Justice Ministry) Pyotr Verzilov (designated as a foreign-agent media outlet in Russia), and doubts whether the Pontiff was aware of what kind of person he faced. "I am certainly not sure that Pope Francis was told who Mr. Verzilov is and was told the entire background of his deeds," head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion said during the Church and...

'God save Hungary! God above us all, Hungary before all else!' declared the re-elected Hungarian prime minister.BUDAPEST (LifeSiteNews) – After swearing his prime ministerial oath, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán promised to defend the family and Christian ideals. On May 16, Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán addressed Parliament, giving his vision for the future of Hungary after swearing his prime ministerial oath. In his speech, he took aim at the transgender ideology so much in vogue in North America and western Europe. “We shall protect our families, we shall not let gender activists into our schools, and in Hungary a father...

The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee publicly released a list of alleged sexual abusers, urging churches to use the list "proactively" to protect the vulnerable, in the wake of an exhaustive report into sexual abuse and decades of cover-ups in the denomination. The list, which the committee submitted to Guidepost Solutions as it compiled its 288-page investigative report, runs to 205 pages of names, with some names and claims redacted.

San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler told reporters on Friday that he won't come out of the dugout for the national anthem before games until he "feel(s) better" about the "direction of our country.

Two blazes that grew into New Mexico's largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the agency said on Friday, prompting the state's governor to demand the federal government take full responsibility for the disaster. Forest Service investigators determined the Calf Canyon Fire was caused by a "burn pile" of branches that the agency thought was out but reignited on April 19, the Santa Fe National Forest said in a statement.

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After Zelensky was elected, he tried to imprison Poroshenko but the courts stopped him. This is the president most responsible for elevating extremist nationalists in the government and sending them to do atrocities against ethnic Russians in East Ukraine. Poroshenko is an extremely rich Oligarch as well

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reported a total of 614 cases under investigation in 30 countries. About one-third of the cases, 222, are in the UK, and another 216 have been reported in the US, WHO reported Friday. Before this outbreak, about half of cases of sudden hepatitis — or inflammation of the liver – in young children could not be tied to a known cause. But WHO says the cases being investigated now seem to be different from anything doctors have seen before. The hepatitis comes on quickly and appears to be more clinically severe, with a...