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Dallas police are investigating reports of shots fired at an airport Monday morning. A brief snippet of police audio said officers were responding to the active shooter situation, but the shooter "is down." A traveler shared a photo on social media, tagging local news outlets, showing crowds being rushed out of the Dallas Love Field Airport due to a suspect shooter in the building.

FEAST OF SAINT JAMES, APOSTLE MATTHEW 20:20–28 Friends, today in our Gospel, the mother of James and John asks Jesus on their behalf for high places of authority in his kingdom. Ah, there is the voice of ambition. Some people don’t care at all about money or power or pleasure—but they care passionately about honor. A lot of people can identify with James and John. They want to go places; they want to be movers and shakers in society. Perhaps a number of people reading this reflection are filled with these emotions. But Jesus turns the tables on them: “You...

Dallas police are investigating reports of shots fired at an airport Monday morning. A brief snippet of police audio said officers were responding to the active shooter situation, but the shooter "is down." A traveler shared a photo on social media, tagging local news outlets, showing crowds being rushed out of the Dallas Live Field Airport due to a suspect shooter in the building. CANADA POLICE RESPOND TO ‘MULTIPLE SHOOTING SCENES’ WITH HOMELESS VICTIMS; ‘LONE’ GUNMAN IN CUSTODY Dallas Police on scene at an active shooting situation at Dallas Love Field Airport. Dallas Police on scene at an active shooting...

So far, no space exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the rocket. NASA has discovered the crash site of a "mystery rocket body" that collided with the Moon's surface earlier this year. The impact left behind a widespread "double crater," meaning it wasn't the average rocket. However, since its crash landing, none of Earth's space-exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the mysterious projectile, leaving NASA scientists baffled as to who was behind its launch. New images shared on June 24 by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the unusual impact site. After a rocket body impacted the Moon last year, NASA's...

A Moscow TV presenter and executive once dubbed Vladimir Putin 's “top television propagandist” is quitting his post and leaving Russia amid the war with Ukraine, say reports. Ultra-loyalist Russian news site RIA FAN reported that Sergey Brilev, 49, was terminating his role as a Vesti programme host, and "will leave the post of deputy director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company”. He will also leave Russia, according to reports.

As economic data indicate that the United States is heading for a recession, the White House published a blog post last week that appeared to dismiss the rule-of-thumb recession definition. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit entity generally recognized as the country’s business cycle scorekeeper, defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and lasts more than a few months.” Though the group examines economy-wide data such as employment, real personal income, and personal consumption expenditures to help determine the length of business cycles, the marketplace has developed a rule-of-thumb...

Russia’s planned big-ticket arms sales in Africa are expected to take a hit as a result of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, U.S. defense and intelligence officials told Foreign Policy, depriving the Kremlin of a major revenue source as the five-month war continues to devolve into a bitter stalemate. The Defense Department and U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia’s severe losses of high-end equipment in Ukraine, including hundreds of tanks and helicopters disabled by American- and European-provided shoulder-fired rockets, will begin to cause significant slowdowns in the Kremlin’s arms deliveries into Africa, which could give inroads to Russia’s competitors, such...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News he thinks former President Donald Trump will make another run for the White House in 2024 and he would support the 45th president in such a campaign. “America is going to be much better off if President Trump is our nominee,” Jordan said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak, “and if he wins, and that’s what I’m for. I’ve been for that. Since he left on January 20th, I wanted him to run in 2024. I think he’s going to. I think he is the right candidate.”

Critical elements of one of the most cited pieces of Alzheimer’s disease research in the last two decades may have been purposely manipulated, according to a report in Science.But a neuroscientist in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University professor Matthew Schrag, said in a Science article that he and other reviewers have identified as many as 10 papers on the protein that deserve deeper scrutiny. The report also cited other prominent researchers who have had difficulty replicating results of the studies on the specific proteins.“I focus on what we can see in the published images, and describe them as red flags, not final...

Disturbing video released by the NYPD Sunday shows a man being hit by a car and then robbed as he lay splayed out on the ground, struggling to survive. The 39-year-old victim was walking on the sidewalk at 898 E. 169th St. in the Bronx when a black, four-door sedan slammed into him around 6:40 a.m. Saturday, according to police. The video shows the victim being thrown into the air before he lands on the street. Two men who were in the vehicle that hit him got out and went through his pockets, taking his belongings, cops said. “The individuals...

Ivan Fedorov, the Mayor of Melitopol, in an Quote from Fedorov: "It is worth noting one thing that I have heard from more than one person. The occupiers say that if they leave Melitopol, and the fact that they are already implying this is good, they say: ‘If we leave the city, everything is mined, everything will be destroyed.’ And this is definitely not about ensuring the security of our infrastructure." According to Fedorov, the Russians have now captured the entire infrastructure of the city. "Today they can be in one school, tomorrow they will be in another, and they...

Above, a map of Thacker Pass, where a Chinese-dominated firm is set to mine U.S. lithium. It could ship it to China for processing -- but there are doubts whether it will all return. July 20, 2022 A Chinese-dominated mining company has procured millions of dollars in American subsidies to extract lithium in the United States – but, given a dearth of U.S. processing capacity, the mineral is likely to be sent to China with no guarantee that the end product would return as batteries to power President Biden's envisioned green economy. Critics say the scenario would increase U.S. energy...

As the imposition of a tax on the use of fossil fuels is debated in Pennsylvania and Virginia, along comes an analysis showing the failure of such efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide in the name of saving the planet. Under a multi-state compact known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), Virginia already taxes producers of electricity on the basis of how much carbon dioxide they emit in burning fossil fuels — mainly coal and natural gas. Efforts to have the state withdraw from RGGI appear to have stalled. Pennsylvania officially entered RGGI July 1 and would begin...

Several individuals connected to a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign plot to cast Donald Trump as a covert Kremlin collaborator are working in high-level jobs within the Biden administration—including at least two senior Biden appointees cited by Special Counsel John Durham in his “active (and) ongoing” criminal investigation of the scheme, according to recently filed court documents. Jake Sullivan, who now serves as Biden’s national security adviser, and Caroline Krass, a top lawyer at the Pentagon, were involved in efforts in 2016 and 2017 to advance the Clinton campaign’s false claims about Trump through the media and the federal government, documents...

Secret Service investigators have discovered metadata showing text messages were sent and received on at least 10 agents' phones but were deleted Investigators were working to determine whether the content of these texts contained information about the Capitol insurrection Those text messages, members of the House select committee investigating January 6 say, should have been preserved amid an ongoing probe The agency says the text messages may have been deleted accidentally amid a months-long data migration of its phones It also now says it never received a copy of a Congressional letter asking it to preserve all records related to...

QUESTION: Hi Martin, thank you as always for your incisive explanations of what’s going on in the ever-roving mind’s eye of SOCRATES. In your July 24 interview with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog, you started to explain that a form of “Great Reset” is necessary–because taxpayers’ $ has been spent hog-wild and wilder for 90 years, with no intention or capacity forever repaying. Question 1: What is the “simple Reset” financial solution you started to explain on Greg’s show? One that presumably does not involve badgering Russia into more than a conventional proxyish war. Question 2: Would you please explain how...

The Biden administration plans to launch an initiative providing temporary I.D. cards to migrants awaiting decisions on their immigration proceedings so they can more easily access services and government benefits. Illegal immigrants and asylum-seeking migrants awaiting final decisions on their cases often have difficulty getting housing, healthcare and transportation without identification cards. In order to relieve some of these obstacles, and serve as a mutual benefit to the government, officials are now considering a pilot program that would provide I.D. cards while incentivizing checks ins and more frequent communication with law enforcement throughout immigration proceedings, two sources familiar with planning...

Joe Biden’s presidency now a ‘theatre of the absurd’ Sky News Australia host James Morrow says Joe Biden’s presidency is now a “theatre of the absurd”. Mr Morrow said President Biden’s “doddering incompetence” has serious consequences.

ROME — Pope Francis has demoted the leader of the conservative Opus Dei group from bishop to priest, revoking the structure ordained by Saint John Paul II. In an apostolic letter ironically titled “Ad Charisma Tuendum” (In defense of the charism), Pope Francis reversed measures enacted by Saint John Paul II in 1982 that ensured that the Opus Dei personal prelature would always be governed by a bishop, thus guaranteeing a certain degree of independence and flexibility. Francis has transferred the oversight of Opus Dei from the Congregation of Bishops to the Dicastery for the Clergy in a move widely...

WACO, TX — After a steady exodus of people fleeing to Texas to escape oppression under Governor Gavin Newsom's rule, there has been a sudden outcry for a return to the ‘coastal paradise' amid rising temperatures in the Lone Star State. "Some ‘Promised Land' — did we escape just to perish in this heat?" A local reporter interviewed sweating former Californians outside a Bucc-ee's in the KWKT Fox 44 segment on the crisis. The "So You Wanna Go Back To Cali?" segment documents the Californian refugees crying out for a return to slavery, with most remembering it fondly: "Would it...