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Sunday on Fox News Channel, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) weighed in on the January 6 committee, which has targeted him over his role in the day’s events. McCarthy told “Sunday Morning Futures” that members of the party were “going after their political foes.” He also argued the committee was acting “beyond its legislative scope.

Democrats' gun control measures won't do anything to prevent school shootings, but they will likely succeed in restricting the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Thursday on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: Congressman, which part of tonight's speech did you find most offensive? REP. THOMAS MASSIE: Basically, all of it. I mean, the red flag laws are doing away with due process in this country. We had a hearing today that lasted 10 hours, wherein the Democrats in the House are going to put a smorgasbord of things that don't work in front of senators in...

Republicans have an eight-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. The latest telephone and online survey reveals that if the elections for Congress were held today, 48% of likely U.S. voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 40% would vote for the Democrat. Just 4% would vote for some other candidate, and 8% are not sure. Republicans have gained two points in just one week, the poll shows. The average for various polls conducted last week, shown below, put the two parties closer, 45.8% to 43.7%, but still give...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that those blaming school shootings on a lack of security was the”definition of insanity.” Anchor George Stephanopoulos said, “You’re coming to us from South Bend, the former mayor of that town. Let me ask you, in the wake of this epidemic of gun violence, what would you be doing?” Buttigieg said, “The worst part of the job being mayor is talking to families of people who have lost their loved ones and knowing that nothing you can do will bring those loved ones back. As mayor, as every mayor is...

President Joe Biden is scheduled to appear on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday. The visit would be Biden’s first in-studio appearance on a late-night show since taking office in January 2021 and will be taped at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles... In a tweet Sunday evening, Kimmel wrote “Our very elected President @JoeBiden visits @JimmyKimmelLive Wednesday night. No malarkey.”.. While this is Biden’s first time in-studio interview as commander in chief, he was a virtual guest on NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in December 2021. Kimmel’s show is on ABC starting at 11:35...

When I wrote this piece initially last week, I identified 6 Ukrainian units that filmed themselves rebelling against their chain of command. These “rebellion” videos came on the heels of the surrender of more than 2500 members of the AZOV battalion at Mariupol. Now the number is 12–that is 12 different units in the Donbas. They all voice the same complaints about their chain of command for not properly supplying them with the weapons and equipment they need to fight. This is not your normal troop bitching about conditions. All soldiers in all wars throughout history have passed the time...

More than 250 Republican donors and self-described gun rights supporters penned an open letter this weekend calling for Congress to move on limited gun reform after an elementary school shooting in Uvalde left 19 children and two teachers dead. “Most law enforcement experts believe these measures would make a difference,” said the letter, according to The Texas Tribune. “And recent polls of fellow conservatives suggest that there is strong support for such gun-safety measures.” The letter, which ran as a full-page advertisement in The Dallas Morning News on Sunday, also expressed support for the work of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas),...

Eliminate the impossible, as Sherlock Holmes once said, and the truth, no matter how improbable, lies in whatever remains. Good advice for detectives — and, it turns out, for astronomers. Astronomy is often little more than piecing together scattered clues, carefully eliminating possibilities and arriving at an improbable truth. Take, for example, the announcement of an exomoon discovery back in 2017. Observations seemed to show the presence of large moon, one as big as Neptune, orbiting a gas giant in a distant solar system. But, as the authors of the announcement were careful to state, the discovery was far from...

St. Charles Borromeo, Cheboygan MI.What happened to St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Cheboygan Michigan? According to newspaper accounts St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church had its corner stone laid in 1912. Over seven hundred huddled within the church nave and large choir loft for the very first Mass celebration in the Roman Rite. Another hundred or so were left outside, as standing room within the church’s vestibule was also filled. Every day for over fifty years St. Charles Borromeo Church celebrated its ancient Roman Catholic liturgy. A “Better” Idea for St. CharlesStarting in the mid-sixties, this beautiful ten thousand square...

Tucker Carlson speaks with Nikki Goeser, whose husband was killed in a "gun-free zone" while she sat helpless, forced to keep her firearm in the car. Segment... [3 mins]

A former Republican Congressman said he has left the party after working for the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol saying, 'what I've seen behind the scenes has pushed me further away.' Denver Riggleman, 52, appeared on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday Riggleman worked as a technical adviser for the House select committee that is investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. 'What I've seen behind the scenes has pushed me further away. That the party has moved away from conservative principles to this cult of personality that Liz Cheney is talking...

Former President Donald Trump has surpassed Richard Nixon as the poster child of corruption, according to Watergate sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The pair, famous for how they helped expose the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration nearly 50 years ago, were again published by the Washington Post on Sunday, days ahead of when the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is scheduled to hold the first in a series of summer hearings, calling Trump the first "seditious" president. Whereas "instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in...

Draft proposals circulated by officials of a plenary council underway in Australia include a call to increase lay participation in Church life and governance, in part by petitioning the Vatican to allow lay people to preach the homily in Mass. Proposed measures also include a call to more frequent use of a communal form of the sacrament of penance, despite strict canonical limitations of its use. If adopted by the plenary council, those proposals would see the Church in Australia asking the Vatican for dispensations from canon law governing the liturgical discipline of the universal Latin Church. The proposals are...

In addition, statues of angels on either side of the tabernacle ‘were decapitated and destroyed.’ BROOKLYN, New York (LifeSiteNews) — A tabernacle was ripped from the altar of a Catholic church in New York City and stolen after the consecrated hosts it contained were scattered over the altar. The outrage took place in the parish church of St. Augustine in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Father Frank Tumino, the pastor of St. Augustine and St. Francis Xavier Parish, said he had gone into the church at around 3.50 p.m. on Saturday afternoon to hear confessions when he discovered the altar damaged altar...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 09:13 am At least 50 people were killed and others injured Sunday when gunmen attacked worshippers at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria, according to media reports. A doctor at a hospital in Owo, a town in the Nigerian state of Ondo, told Reuters that no fewer than 50 bodies had been moved to the Federal Medical Center in Owo and to St. Louis Catholic Hospital. The attack took place during a Pentecost Sunday service at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, according to Ondo's governor, Arakunrin Akeredolu. A video posted on...

President Joe Biden and his aides have grown increasingly frustrated by their inability to turn the tide against a cascade of challenges threatening to overwhelm the administration. Soaring global inflation. Rising fuel prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A Supreme Court poised to take away a constitutional right. A potentially resurgent pandemic. A Congress too deadlocked to tackle sweeping gun control legislation even amid an onslaught of mass shootings. In crisis after crisis, the White House has found itself either limited or helpless in its efforts to combat the forces pummeling them. Morale inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is plummeting amid growing...

The first form of artificial refrigeration was invented by William Cullen, a Scottish scientist. Cullen showed how the rapid heating of liquid to a gas can result in cooling. This is the principle behind refrigeration that still remains today. Cullen never turned his theory into practice, but many were inspired to try to realize his idea.

Muslim countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia condemn remarks about Prophet Mohammed made by top officials in India's Bharatiya Janata Party, as calls grow on social media for boycott of Indian goods in Muslim countries. Qatar, Kuwait and Iran have summoned their Indian envoys over insulting remarks on Islam's Prophet Muhammad by two officials of India's ruling party. In a statement on Sunday the Qatari Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Indian envoy to "voice disappointment of Qatar and its total rejection and condemnation to the controversial remarks." Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Soltan bin Saaad Al Muraikhi handed...

Five Tampa Bay Rays pitchers have refused to wear the gay pride logo on their uniforms citing religious beliefs. Jason Adam, Jalen Beeks, Brooks Raley, Jeffrey Springs and Ryan Thompson — of course all saying they accept everyone despite their choice to pass on the gesture. The team wore rainbow-colored sleeve patches this past Saturday where these five opted for their standard unis. Jason Adam was asked to comment on their decision — his response was strong. “So it’s a hard decision. Because ultimately we all said what we want is them to know that all are welcome and loved...

(CNN)Their mission was to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, bug the room and photograph documents. If everything had gone as planned, no one would have ever known. But instead June 17, 1972, became an infamous day. The burglary set off a series of actions that brought down Republican President Richard Nixon -- the only US president to resign. "Watergate is the largest political scandal in American history," John Dean, who was White House counsel to Nixon, told CNN for the Original Series "Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal," which commemorates its 50th anniversary.