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Evictions continue amid rising costsEditor’s note: Today’s stories and photos are part of a continuing T-G series on the growing number of homeless persons in Bedford County.Bedford County Listening Project, a renter’s advocacy group, hosted a “Homeless Warming Party” on Tuesday to bring attention to what the group described as an unfair eviction and the lack of affordable housing in Shelbyville. The term “homeless warming” is a play on a housewarming party. But since many residents, like Cara Grimes, are being evicted from their rentals, more and more people are having to face the possibility of homelessness. As housing costs...

The internet went into overdrive on Saturday after Joe Biden was filmed falling off his bike in front of a crowd of reporters. The moment inspired a flurry of memes and jokes at the 79-year-old president's expense. Biden was not injured in the tumble, aside than perhaps his pride. Donald Trump Jr., called the flub 'a perfect metaphor for the current state of our country'. 'Down goes Biden,' another Twitter user shared. Former Buzzfeed journalist Benny Johnson ,posted a tweet that showed the president riding his bike - with a pair of pink training wheels photoshopped on. 'Biden right back...

ROME – Church leaders in Italy have called life a gift and have urged greater closeness to the sick and suffering after the death on Thursday of Federico Carboni, the first person in the country to successfully avail himself of assisted suicide. Speaking to local papers after Carboni’s passing, Archbishop Angelo Spina of Ancona said, “death must be accepted but never provoked.” “The Catholic Church respects every person and stops in the face of the mystery of suffering and of illness,” he said, saying the church’s role in these cases is “to stay close, to care for in all possible...

The Bishop of Limerick has refused to say if he would ordain a woman priest. The prevarication comes after a survey found that the majority of Irish Catholics would support such a move - upending thousands of years of Church tradition and teaching. Most worshipers also want more respect to be shown to LGBT people and those who are divorced or single parents. Speaking to The Pat Kenny Show, Bishop Brendan Leahy stressed the huge respect he had for women but was unwilling to say if they should be priests: “Anyone who knows me knows I have greatly been influenced...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 17, 2022 / 15:20 pm The FBI is asking for the public’s help as it investigates attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches. “The FBI is investigating a series of attacks and threats targeting pregnancy resource centers and faith-based organizations across the country,” the FBI National Press Office said in a statement shared with CNA Friday. “The FBI takes all threats seriously and we continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners and will remain vigilant to protect our communities.” The FBI confirmed to CNA that those faith-based organizations include Catholic churches. The Washington Times...

India's military is overhauling its recruitment process for personnel below officer rank, aiming to deploy fitter, younger troops on its front lines, many of them on shorter contracts of up to four years, defence officials said on Tuesday. India, which shares a heavily militarised border with Pakistan and is involved in a high-altitude Himalayan stand-off with China, has one of the world's largest armed forces with some 1.38 million personnel. Soldiers have been recruited by the army, navy and the air force separately and typically enter service for a period of up to 17 years for the lowest ranks. Under...

'The decision permits courts to interfere in the internal affairs of religious schools, hospitals, and other charitable organizations.' Yeshiva University argued.NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) – The New York County Supreme Court ruled that Yeshiva University must formally recognize an LGBT student group on the grounds that the Jewish school is not a “religious corporation.” Yeshiva University declares on its website that “our five core Torah values comprise our moral compass and guide us toward a better future,” and that the school is “[r]ooted in Jewish thought and tradition,” with one of its “foundations” being “the importance of enriching and enhancing Jewish...

Tennessee’s Republican Secretary of State was arrested on Friday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after leaving a music festival. On Friday night after leaving the Bonnaroo Music Festival, I was stopped by the Tullahoma Police Department and subsequently arrested for DUI," Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett said in a statement. "Driving Under the Influence is a serious matter, and I regret the circumstances that led to my arrest. I respect law enforcement and will trust the legal process as we move forward." Hargett was booked into the Coffee County Jail shortly after midnight Saturday and released a...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju donated medicine from their “family” stash to help stem a new intestinal disease outbreak in the southern city of Haeju, according to state media. The outbreak is occurring in South Hwanghae Province, the country’s “rice bowl” and a region authorities have highlighted in recent weeks for fighting a drought that could threaten national food production this year. The report in Thursday’s Rodong Sinmun marks the second time Kim has been said to donate his personal medicines to those in need in recent months, as state propagandists have played...

Surveillance footage shows that police never tried to open a door to two classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the 77 minutes between the time a gunman entered the rooms and massacred 21 people and officers finally breached the door and killed him, according to a law enforcement source close to the investigation. Investigators believe the 18-year-old gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at the school on May 24 could not have locked the door to the connected classrooms from the inside, according to the source. All classroom doors at Robb Elementary are designed to lock...

Employees at an Apple store in Towson, Maryland voted Saturday to join a union, a significant achievement for organized labor that could encourage employees at other Apple stores to unionize. The Towson store is the first unionized Apple store in the U.S. The vote is a defeat for Apple, which has opposed unionization efforts, and could energize workers at the company’s other retail locations to move forward with organizing.

I just ordered a Holy Stone HS175D GPS quadrocopter that weighs 215 grams. https://store.holystone.com/products/hs175d I chose one under 250 grams because there are less stringent regulations. The regulations are extremely confusing because they intermingle commercial and recreational and sub-250 gram information so you're not sure what applies where. All I want to do is fly it over my house so I can check the roof and look out over the woods behind my house. I have compiled a checklist of what I need to do to fly it legally. Take The Recreational UAS Safety Test (TRUST).Register the drone with the...

The pet monkey of a drug gang member – dressed up in a bulletproof vest and camouflaged jacket – has been killed in a bloody shootout which also left 11 other cartel members dead. Its owner – a young man in his 20s said to be in Mexico’s notorious La Familia Michoaacana criminal group – was found dead from several gunshot wounds with the monkey lying on his chest. Stunned police came across the bizarre and gruesome scene following a firefight between authorities and cartel members in the town of Texcaltitlan, central Mexico, just over 60 miles southwest of the...

President Biden did a little jig to prove his wellness to reporters hours after he took a spill off his bicycle. Biden, 79, danced his brief two-step on the sidewalk outside St. Edmond Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Del., as he departed the parish’s regular 4 p.m. Saturday evening Mass. “How are you feeling, sir?” a member of the presidential press pool shouted as Biden strolled down the church’s front steps, video shows.

Season 3 episode 2 of McCloud, a 70's tv crime drama starring Dennis Weaver.

FORT WORTH, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - The Fort Worth Police Department Northwest Division is hosting a gun buyback program. Anyone who turns in an unloaded firearm will receive a $100 Visa gift card per gun, no questions asked. The event is from June 27 through 30 at 4561 North Main Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Delaware, June 18 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Saturday he was in the process of making up his mind on easing U.S. tariffs on China and planned to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon.

Joe Biden said he is unpopular because Americans are mentally unwell.Of all the excuses…Joe Biden’s poll collapse continues with the latest CIVIQS poll showing the man who we were told got 81 million votes for president just over a year-and-a-half ago now mired in the low thirties in overall approval with just 21 percent of independents approving Biden’s performance in office.Biden’s disapproval at 56 percent ties his worst approval set earlier this year in January and February.As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported last week, Biden is underwater in 48 states–with only Hawaii giving him an approval over 50 percent (52) and...

President Donald Trump just threw down a challenge to the sham Jan 6th panel demanding he gets equal time to expose what really happened on January 6th.He cited election fraud and the lack of security at the US Capitol as things he would expose.From TruthSocial:The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!). It is a one sided, highly partisan Witch Hunt, the likes...