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Pope Francis attends Indigenous ‘healing dance’ to ‘Mother Earth’ during Canada trip'We are the people of Mother Earth, hi, hi,' the master of ceremonies said during the dance.MASKWACIS, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – During the first full day of his visit with Canada’s Indigenous communities, Pope Francis attended a “healing dance” that appeared to direct worship to “Mother Earth.” Prior the ritual, which took place in Maskwacis, Alberta this morning, the Master of Ceremonies for the event explained that a “healing dance” was about to occur, while outlining that the drum involved is “the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the drum is life.”READ:...

Ukrainian military officials have claimed a “turning point” in the battle to retake the southern region of Kherson, saying they will use western weapons to liberate by September the first major city captured by Russian forces. Sergiy Khlan, an aide to the administrative head of the Kherson region, said in an interview with Ukrainian television on Sunday: “We can say that a turning point has occurred on the battlefield. We are switching from defensive to counteroffensive actions.” “We can say that the Kherson region will definitely be liberated by September, and all the occupiers’ plans will fail,” he added. Helped...

Jewish community representatives voice alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating “peoples of mixed-race.” In a speech in Romania’s Transylvania region, which has a large Hungarian community, the 59-year-old ultra-conservative prime minister criticized mixing with “non-Europeans.” Terming Orban’s speech “stupid and dangerous,” the International Auschwitz Committee calls on the EU to continue to distance itself from “Orban’s racist undertones and to make it clear to the world that a Mr. Orban has no future in Europe.”

The DCCC told Fox News on Monday that it plans to spend $425,000 on a new ad buy to boost Republican challenger John Gibbs against Meijer, who was one of the 10 House Republicans that voted to impeach former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol. The ad buy appears to be an effort by national Democrats to help Gibbs win the primary in hopes of setting up a more favorable general election showdown for Democratic candidate Hillary Scholten, who is running unopposed in the primary.

As it turns out, Hutchinson's decision to testify before the committee came after the former aide had made a complete reversal on her beliefs about President Trump, the January 6 committee, and what happened on that day more than two years ago.As Mollie Hemingway and Tristan Justice reported in an exclusive at The Federalist, messages show an entirely different set of beliefs exhibited by Hutchinson than she showed in her performance before the January 6 committee's media circus.Covering December 2020 through May 2021, the messages obtained by The Federalist are damning for Hutchinson's media-heralded credibility — and the J6 committee...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hunter Biden's iCloud account was hacked by 4chan users revealing all his personal texts, contacts as well as pictures and videos. In the fallout, truly shocking images of Hunter Biden are now being seen by the public — including photos of Hunter fully clothed and not smoking crack. "That doesn't even look like him. Gotta be a fake!" commented Twitter user John Kirk after seeing the picture. "Once again, they'll do anything to try to cover up the Biden's son acting up, thinking we'll fall for it again." Experts have confirmed that the photos have indeed not...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A week after a Charleston judge barred West Virginia from enforcing an abortion ban law dating to the 19th century, lawmakers in the state’s Republican majority hurried to advance similar legislation that would criminalize abortion with few exceptions. The legislation, which breezed through the House health committee Monday, closely mirrors the 1800s-era abortion ban. It bars abortion in almost all cases and makes performing the procedure a felony. Physicians who provide abortions could face three to 10 years in prison. Speaking during the committee meeting, Democratic Del. Barbara Fleischauer said passing such a bill would bring...

By Byun Duk-kun WASHINGTON, July 26 (Yonhap) -- The United States and its allies will take appropriate steps to hold North Korea accountable should the recalcitrant country conduct a nuclear test, a National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson said Tuesday. John Kirby, NSC coordinator for strategic communications, also noted the North may continue to be ready to conduct a test. "We have been very clear that North Korea could be ready to conduct a nuclear test. That is something we said very, very openly," Kirby said in a press briefing, held virtually. "These tests have in the past and if they...

Republican Kari Lake, a former Fox 10 Phoenix news anchor, maintains a comfortable double-digit lead over her closest opponent in Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial primary, according to a poll.In the Data Orbital poll released Monday, 43.5 percent of respondents said they would vote for Lake – who is backed by former President Donald J. Trump – if the election were held when they were polled. The next closest candidate, Karrin Taylor Robson, took 32.4 percent of the response, placing her 11 points behind Lake. All remaining candidates failed to eclipse the five percent mark, as 4.7 percent of participants said they...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Thousands of women around the country are being forced to face a terrifying new reality in which they actually have to use one of the dozens of cheap, readily available methods of birth control in post-Roe America. "For the first time, my habit of having unprotected sex with a different Tinder date every week to fill the empty hole in my soul may have consequences," said local concerned woman Sandra Tibbensburg. "I can't be bothered to stop at the gas station and pay three bucks for a pack of Trojans every time I go to a...

Kamala Harris opened up a roundtable meeting Tuesday afternoon with disability advocates by announcing her name, sex, gender identity and what she was wearing. 'I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit,' the vice president said at the top of the meeting. The event was to mark the 32nd anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act. She said that the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month is particularly concerning to her due to the effects it could have on Americans with...

Join RSBN as we cover LIVE the America First Policy Institute Annual Policy Summit 2022 from Washington D.C. Watch has many notable speakers and politicians in a powerhouse lineup to discuss America First Policies. Featuring: Newt Gingrich, Kellyanne Conway, Lou Holtz, Dr. Alveda King, and many more! Coverage begins July 26th at 7:30 AM ET. Tune in at 7:30 AM ET on July 26, 2022.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Indianapolis Public Schools to allow a 10-year-old transgender girl to rejoin her school’s all-girls softball team while a lawsuit continues against a state law that bans transgender females from competing in girls school sports. U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson in Indianapolis issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday on behalf of the girl, finding that she “has established that she has a strong likelihood of succeeding on the merits” of her claim. “She has also established that she would suffer irreparable harm for which there is no adequate legal remedy,” Magnus-Stinson wrote in her...

Attorney General Merrick Garland left open the possibility that former President Donald Trump could be prosecuted in connection with inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in an exclusive interview Tuesday with NBC News. "Look, we pursue justice without fear or favor," Garland told NBC News' Lester Holt, when asked whether indicting a former president would "arguably tear the country apart." ..more at link

A Rhode Island sports bar apologized on Monday after sharing a meme on Facebook making light of Anne Frank’s death at the hand of the Nazis. “It’s hotter than an oven out there… and I should know,” read the Atlantic Sports and Bar’s Friday post over a picture of teenage German-Dutch diarist Anne Frank, who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. The post was seeking to make a joke about the heatwave rolling through Rhode Island. The restaurant came under immediate criticism from social media users, some of whom called for a boycott of the restaurant until it issued...

Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Two years ago this month, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) rose before dawn to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise on July 8th, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that has become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video detailed Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The comet...

U.S. — Thousands upon thousands of fans have come together in celebration that their beloved franchise is finally being adapted into a live-action series. Unfortunately, they all forgot it's the year 2022, and they don't make them how they used to. "Normally, I'd be overjoyed to hear that Rings Of Power was being made into a series, but then I realized it's going to be nothing like Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy from 2 decades ago," said diehard Tolkein fan Wesley Brummette. "Instead, it's going to be created by a woke, soulless corporate boardroom that only cares about their profits."

WASHINGTON (AP) — By one common definition, the U.S. economy is on the cusp of a recession. Yet that definition isn’t the one that counts. On Thursday, when the government estimates the gross domestic product for the April-June period, some economists think it may show that the economy shrank for a second straight quarter. That would meet a longstanding assumption for when a recession has begun. But economists say that wouldn’t mean that a recession had started. The definition of recession that is most widely accepted is the one determined as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread...

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- A new study looked into the severe hit being absorbed by Russian GDP amid wartime sanctions from the West. - Businesses are leaving Russia in droves, and foreign companies that have left previously accounted for 40% of GDP, the authors wrote. - "There is no path out of economic oblivion for Russia as long as the allied countries remain unified in maintaining and increasing sanctions pressure."Western sanctions are weighing on the Russian economy as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth month, and the country's sinking GDP makes a full economic recovery difficult to envision, according to a new...