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One of the largest migrant caravans is headed towards the US. According to a Fox News report, a caravan organizer said Mexican authorities let a group of nearly 10,000 depart from Tapachula, Mexico on Monday. The migrants are making the dangerous trek in anticipation of the Biden administration ending the Trump era public health order Title 42 at the border. “We consider we are around 9,500,” said caravan organizer Luis Villagran. “People keep on joining. In the first police check there were approximately 100-150 national guard, INM, state police and they let us through freely.” One Migrant said Biden “promised...

At best, the political messaging behind Biden’s ‘plan’ would do little to solve Americans’ pain. More likely, it would make the problem worse.In an op-ed in last week’s Wall Street Journal, President Biden’s ghostwriters outlined what the title of his column called a “plan for fighting inflation.” After reading the article, five simple words come to mind: “Hold on to your wallet.”At best, the political messaging behind Biden’s “plan” would do little to solve Americans’ pain. More likely, it would make the problem worse. Here are the major components of his agenda.Step 1: Change the SubjectThe column began with a...

After bending over backwards to appease and please LGBT activists, Amazon is still beset by complaints it’s not doing everything they want.On the first day of June, Amazon headquarters in Seattle hosted its annual LGBTQ Pride celebration, only to be interrupted by transgender employees protesting the company’s “transphobic” policies. If that takes a moment to process, you’re not alone. Amazon was one of the first major companies to include transgender medical services in its health plan. Currently, the company covers full transition services and a wide range of elective and cosmetic surgery coverage for transgender employees, including rhinoplasty, liposuction, multiple...

Bipartisan investigations are a rarity in Washington, D.C. The constituencies likely to be affected or to suffer collateral damage are usually enough to derail them from gaining momentum. Affix the term "disinformation" to the claim in need of investigation, and the chances of a genuine inquiry plummet from hardly ever to "forget about it." Such is the current trajectory of the need to explore the origin of COVID-19. We now know that intelligence officials and top diplomats studied the issue in the spring of 2020 and concluded that the virus "most likely" came from a lab. In keeping with their...

China’s top disciplinary watchdog announced on May 31 that it has removed a former top official in eastern Jiangsu Province from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the regime’s public office.Zhang Jinghua, former deputy CCP chief of Jiangsu, was accused of “faking economic figures for personal promotion and meddling in market activities in violation of relevant rules,” among other charges of corruption, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in a notice on May 31. It did not provide any specifics for the accusation.Zhang is one of the most recent CCP members of the 19th central committee—the CCP’s...

Vladimir Putin and his allies have taken to Russian media to blast NATO nations for continuing their support for Ukraine, warning “armed conflict will be drawn out” if the US and European countries continue to send arms to Kyiv. US President Joe Biden last month pledged a massive supply of short range missiles to Ukraine as the war-torn nation continues to skirmish with Russian troops in key locations in the east and major capital cities. And UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has since vowed to send long-range missiles to Ukraine. As the seesaw battle raged on for the strategically important...

A Republican lawmaker from Texas is determined to file legislation to ban drag shows in the presence of minors just days after video surfaced online showing children attending a show in Dallas over the weekend. Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Mineola, tweeted on Monday that he plans to introduce legislation aimed at 'protecting kids from drag shows and other inappropriate displays.' The announcement came after videos surfaced online showing children attending a drag show at a pride month event in Dallas over the past weekend. The event in Dallas, titled 'Drag The Kids To Pride,' invited parents to bring their kids...

Over the weekend, Russia also destroyed a major Ukrainian grain export terminal in Mykolaiv (southern Ukraine). Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s grain infrastructure came after last week saying it was open to allowing grain exports via “humanitarian corridors” from Ukrainian ports has heightened global supply concerns. Tensions between Russia and the West are escalating as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow would strike new targets if the U.S. supplied long-range missiles to Ukraine, according to Russian state media. The news comes as Russia attacked Kyiv this weekend. The airstrikes followed days after the U.S. announced $700 million in aid to...

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A former Anglican bishop of Rochester who converted to Catholicism late last year has warned against the danger of viewing the synod as a “democratic process”. Speaking to The Irish Catholic newspaper, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali said that the Anglican communion has sometimes been “misled” by this kind of thinking and that while consulting laity and clergy is fine, bishops must make sure to “effectively exercise their teaching authority”. Once considered a possible future archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Nazir-Ali was received into the Catholic Church last September and granted the title of ‘monsignor’. Msgr Nazir-Ali said that the Church of England...

President Biden late Monday issued a statement on the 78th anniversary of D-Day, after failing to mention the historic day in any of his earlier remarks. His tweet is timestamped at 8:45 p.m. ET, by which time it was the early morning of June 7 in Normandy, France. [cut] Last year, the Biden White House failed to issue any kind of statement on the anniversary.

Just a third of Catholics report the church has had an influence on their political views. Most Catholics support abortion rights and feel that Catholic politicians who do so should be allowed to receive Communion.The attitudes of many conservative Catholic bishops in the United States are not shared by most Catholics. A majority of lay Catholics support abortion rights, oppose denying Communion to politicians who support abortion rights, and favor greater inclusion of LGBT people. On May 20, the archbishop of San Francisco announced that he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of...

The split-screen of a smug and triumphant Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann walking free from D.C. federal court, and a harried and bewildered former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro being hauled before it, following his account of a harrowing arrest and detainment, ought to be ingrained indelibly in the American mind. It sends an unmistakable message: We can get you anytime, anywhere, on any grounds we choose. You can’t touch even a single one of ours. If by some strange occurrence one of ours is brought before a court, the judge and jury will be rigged against...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 5, 2022 / 16:41 pm Pro-abortion activists disrupted Joel Osteen's sermon at the televangelist's Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday, stripping down to their undergarments and shouting expletives and pro-abortion slogans before they were escorted out of the building. The Twitter account TX4ABORTION posted videos of the incident, the latest in a series of pro-abortion demonstrations targeting churches in recent weeks. The demonstrations are in response to a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion last month that suggested a conservative majority on the court is poised to oveturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973...

LOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Cardinal Timothy Dolan visited a church and led a service two weeks after statues were beheaded and smashed at a Catholic church on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Our Lady of Sorrows Church on the Lower East Side is missing two of the three shepherd children who were said to have witnessed an appearance of the virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Two weeks ago, someone entered the church's garden and smashed the statues, decapitating the two little girls. Cardinal Timothy Dolan joined the parishioners Tuesday night as they rounded the...

Laura Logan dropping Truth Bombs all over the 'Official' narrative.

President Joe Biden has reportedly not provided security for his three-year-old granddaughter Navy Joan, whom his son Hunter Biden conceived out of wedlock with former stripper Lunden Roberts prior to the 2020 campaign. According to the Daily Mail, Lunden Roberts has been sounding the alarm after she has received multiple threats from her ex-fiancé — cage fighter Princeton Foster.

Tokyo — As the U.S. gun control debate intensifies, some Americans are looking overseas for ideas on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world. There were more than four firearm homicides in the U.S. per 100,000 people during 2019, compared to almost zero in Japan. As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, Japan's strict laws on private gun ownership have surprising origins in the United States. She met Raphael, a well-known Japanese YouTuber who decided to take skeet shooting lessons. Despite being ex-military, he had to jump...

(Video at the link) The news here is that the Russian superyacht "Amadea" had fled to Fiji to avoid sanctions and Fiji has consented to the seizure and forfeiture of the ship to United States authorities. Amadea becomes the first Russian superyacht to fly a US flag. About the superyacht Amadea: Amadea is a motor yacht with a length of 106.1m. The yacht's builder is Lürssen from Germany who delivered superyacht Amadea in 2017. The superyacht has a beam of 18.0m, a draft of 4.1m and a volume of 4,402 GT. The Amadea features exterior design by Espen Øino International,...

When the 2022 NFL season officially starts in September, the professional football league will welcome its first transgender cheerleader. In a recent Instagram post, Justine Lindsay, a 29-year-old Black trans woman, announced she would be joining the Carolina Panthers’ cheerleading squad, the TopCats. The news was first reported on by BuzzFeed over the weekend.