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Dicastal North America makes wheels for Ford, GM, Stellantis and others The FBI raided western Michigan wheel manufacturing outfit Dicastal North America on Monday. The Chinese-owned manufacturer is a major supplier of automotive wheels and has been operating in Greenville, Mich., since 2015, the local Daily News newspaper reported. The FBI has not released any information about the raid apart from acknowledging that it was executing a warrant at the company's Michigan location. According to the Detroit Free Press, agents sent employees home and seized office

Former Vice President Mike Pence endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson over Kari Lake, who is supported by former President Donald J. Trump.

[Catholic Caucus] Abp. Naumann criticizes Pope Francis for supporting pro-abortion politicians Biden and Pelosi‘There is no excuse.' Biden ‘should not keep presenting himself as a devout Catholic,’ said Archbishop Naumann.(LifeSiteNews) — The former chair of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, has criticized Pope Francis’ support of pro-abortion politicians as “doing exactly what he warns others not to do.”Speaking to German newspaper Die Tagespost in an interview released July 13 but conducted earlier this month, Archbishop Naumann of Kansas City addressed the issue of abortion and Catholic politicians, noting also that “many” baptized Catholics are “not really part...

ROME — The Vatican’s equivalent of foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said Tuesday that Pope Francis will “definitely go to Ukraine,” possibly as early as this summer. Archbishop Gallagher said the pontiff will visit Kiev, perhaps following his July 24-30 trip to Canada. “It will be a question of seeing how Pope Francis feels after his trip to Canada, let’s see,” the prelate said at the Rome presentation of the upcoming August meeting of the Communion and Liberation movement in the northern Italian city of Rimini. “I cannot say at the moment” whether Francis will go to Moscow, the archbishop...

Trump-Endorsed Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake gave an excellent interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room yesterday, responding to the lawless Biden Regime’s lawsuit over a new law requiring voters in Arizona to prove their US Citizenship.The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday morning that the Department of Justice is suing Arizona to ban safeguards that prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections. The Democrats will stop at nothing to allow cheating in our elections.Lawless Biden Regime Sues Arizona To Block Law Requiring Voters to Prove US Citizenship to Vote“Lawless Biden Regime Sues Arizona To Block Law Requiring Voters to Prove US...

The Department of Health and Human Services said a federal law from 1985 allows women who face medical emergencies to get abortions, regardless of new state bans.The Biden administration said Monday that federal law allows women access to abortion in emergencies, even in states that banned the procedure after last month's Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The Department of Health and Human Services said that in cases of health emergencies, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act — a 1985 law that ensures access to emergency care regardless of a person’s ability to pay — takes priority...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Altus Air Force Base, OklahomaAltus Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma. The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's mission is to provide C-17 Globemaster III, KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus formal initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3,000 flight crew and aircraft maintenance students annually.The 97th Air Mobility Wing plans and executes C-17,...

VLADIMIR Putin is weaponizing the "Jihad for Islam" to justify his war in Ukraine in a bid to gather support from the allied Chechen forces.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 14:56 pm The pastor of a Catholic church in Bethesda, Maryland, targeted by an arson attack over the weekend has clarified that the fire did not reach the parish’s tabernacle. A video posted on the YouTube channel of St. Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic Parish appeared to show the tabernacle engulfed in flames. However, Father Samuel Giese told CNA on Monday that the flames were only reflections in a window behind the tabernacle from pews in front of the altar. “There was no fire in the sanctuary,” Giese later told “EWTN News Nightly.”The...

"AHS is rescinding the Immunization of Workers for COVID-19 Policy, effective July 18,2022. As a result, workers will no longer be required to be immunized for COVID-19 as a condition of employment," read the email title "Immunization Policy Update" sent Monday afternoon to the staff of Alberta Health Services. The email was provided to Rebel News by a long-time AHS employee. The email from interim AHS CEO Mauro Chiles, published in full below, makes no reference to rehiring or compensating anyone terminated for resisting the now-defunct COVID policy...

Be careful: what is dissent today, can change’ the Pontifical Academy for Life wrote in defense of its recently published book.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Pontifical Academy for Life has defended its recent book promoting contraception, writing on Twitter that theology requires “progress” as part of a natural process. The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV) recently published a book, Theological Ethics of Life. Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges, which is a collection of essays taken from a three-day interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the PAV. LifeSiteNews reported on the text, noting how the book advocates for contraception and artificial insemination as if...

The gunman who killed three people in an Indiana mall yesterday fired 24 rounds from a legally owned rifle after waiting in the mall bathroom for an hour, and was killed two minutes after he started shooting by a Good Samaritan. Jonathan Sapirman, 20, is the gunman responsible for yesterday's attack at the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana. He had recently been evicted from his apartment, according to his family. Sapirman waited in the mall bathroom for an hour before he opened fire in the food court using a Sig Sauer 400M rifle that he legally purchased in March this...

Part of the fun of reading Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World is that you get to put yourself in the dictator’s shoes. In the book, Xi is an allegory for the Chinese Communist Party in the 21st century. Xi’s “lines” break up the writing with dark humor, a satirical jab at western elites’ blasé attitude toward an advanced, totalitarian regime with overtly-manipulative goals. The book invites you to see through the bad guy’s eyes and imagine just how easy it was to subvert the free world into totalitarianism using the response to a perfectly banal virus....

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Cupich strongly rumored to be planning to remove community of Latin Mass priests from ChicagoA prominent Chicago Catholic has gone on record to address the story that has created so much concern in the past few days. (LifeSiteNews) — A prominent Chicago Catholic has told LifeSiteNews that, in a further move to destroy the traditional rite in his diocese, Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, has instructed the traditional Institute of Christ the King to close down all public Masses by the end of July of this year. He will remove their other faculties by August...

Despite false claims that pro-life pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) are ‘fake clinics,’ PRCs have saved over 800,000 lives from the violence of abortion in just the past five recorded years (2016-2020). This information comes from a report entitled, “Saved Impact at U.S. Pregnancy Help Centers,” published by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI).“Approximately 3,000 [pregnancy help centers] PHCs form the foundation for a network of pregnancy help including adoption agencies, maternity housing, Alternatives to Abortion state funding programs, newer state-level initiatives like Her PLAN (Pregnancy and Life Assistance Network) and more,” CLI stated in its release.According to CLI, the “Lives Saved...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- The Idaho Republican Party has rejected adding language to their platform to allow an abortion to save the life of the mother. KMVT-TV reported that a majority of the roughly 700 delegates from around the state rejected the change to the party's existing platform during its three-day convention that wrapped up Saturday. The platform does not have the force of law but states the party’s position it wants Republicans in elected office to follow. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court last month triggered a 2020 Idaho law banning all abortions except...

If there is one consistent fact about electric vehicles, it’s that they are unreliable. Now their charging stations have come into question as well. In Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, many companies have implemented charging stations in their parking lots. All of them are not fully functional, however. Chris Lane, a Basalt resident who owns two electric cars, highlighted a couple of issues with the local charging stations: Cables are ripped out, attachments are damaged and screens are cracked. If there is a mechanical problem with any one of these stations, it automatically shuts down, Aspen Daily News reported. “I...

Last week Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) voiced the commonly held belief that the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country was wrongly decided — yet popular Twitter personalities twisted his words to tell a more sinister story. Yet that is an oversimplification of the senator’s comments on the subject on his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1548340766920978434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1548465411481432065%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Fprogressives-twist-ted-cruzs-obergefell-criticism-beyond-recognition%2F Cruz, asked what the argument would be for overturning Obergefell v. Hodges, replied that the decision, like Roe v. Wade, “ignored two centuries of our nation’s history.” “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states,” he...

At least 12 people were shot during a bloody six-hour period across the Big Apple Sunday night, including an innocent 13-year-old girl and her mom and a woman walking her dog. Two others were also stabbed in separate incidents as the bloodshed spanned all five boroughs. The young girl and her 46-year-old mom, who are from San Antonio, Texas, were standing inside a store at Southern Boulevard and Jennings Street in The Bronx when they were struck by gunfire just before 9 p.m., police and sources said. The mother-daughter duo, who appeared to be innocent bystanders, were both in a...

The Gateway Pundit and Cygnal Polling conducted a poll of likely Republican voters in Arizona’s August 2nd gubernatorial and US Senate primary elections.The Gateway Pundit released the poll on Friday.The poll found that Trump-endorsed Kari Lake and Trump-endorsed Blake Masters are both leading their primary competitors by double digits with less than three weeks to go before the Arizona primary elections.Both Trump-endorsed candidates will be tough on the open southern border, inflation, election integrity, and putting America First.The liberal Arizona state media continues to push bogus polls in favor of Kari Lake’s closest trailing opponent, Governor Ducey-endorsed RINO Karrin Taylor...