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The career crook whom Mayor Adams dubbed “Recidivist No. 1” as a symbol of the city’s revolving door of criminal justice has been identified as Harold Gooding, a 53-year-old serial shoplifter — who has been arrested 101 times. “How many crimes do you think he really committed? Two hundred? Three hundred? A thousand?” NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri said at a news conference Wednesday. “And guess what? He’s walking around the streets of New York City today, probably committing another crime as we speak.” On Wednesday, sources identified Gooding as the unnamed person at the top of...

Another $1B President Joe Biden’s administration is prepared to send Ukraine a $1 billion weapons package as early as Monday, according to a Reuters report. (snip) The $1 billion weapons package would come just days after the Pentagon announced it would send Ukraine arms and equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense inventory worth up to $550 million. “The United States continues to stand with Allies and partners from more than 50 countries in providing vital security assistance to support Ukraine’s defense of its sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russia’s aggression,” a State Department press release said.

This date in 1549 was disgraced in England by one of the bloodiest battlefield atrocities in that realm’s history: the Clyst Heath massacre. On Whitsunday of that year, two-plus years after the Catholic-except-for-the-Pope king Henry VIII had taken to the grave his restraining orthodoxy, the late king’s reformist archbishop Thomas Cranmer introduced to English churches his magnum opus: the Book of Common Prayer. Rudely replacing the hodgepodge of old services consecrated by tradition, not to mention the Latin tongue in which they were conducted, with the novel vernacular composition of Anne Boleyn‘s house vicar was not wildly popular in the...

A woman who has been classified as a “sexually violent predator” by the state of California is living in Sonoma County, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. Charlotte Thrailkill, 62, a white woman who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall, 130 pounds with blue eyes and red graying hair, is living in Boyes Hot Springs, just north of Sonoma, according to authorities. In 1988, Thrailkill was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, and one count of the same charge but with force, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office. She...

Three of the four people who apparently were hit by lightning near the White House on Thursday have died, Washington, D.C., police said in updates Friday. James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, tourists to D.C. from Janesville, Wisconsin, were killed, police said Friday morning. A 29-year-old man also died, police said later Friday. His name was not immediately released. The Muellers were semi-retired high school sweethearts visiting D.C. for their 56th wedding anniversary, their niece told News4. James Mueller owned a drywall business, Donna Mueller was a teacher, and they had five children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. ..

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for doctors who perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors to be sued at a Wednesday press conference. “They talk about these very young kids getting gender-affirming care,” DeSantis said, who used air quotes while using the phrase. “What they don’t tell you what that is is that they are giving very young girls double mastectomies, they want to castrate these young boys — that’s wrong.” Several of DeSantis’ press reps have questioned the “gender-affirming care” phrase in recent months, arguing that it doesn’t specify the procedures being performed in some cases. And in April, Florida...

Castro, Ortega, Bergoglio. The Pope’s Bad FriendshipsChina and Russia are today invading almost all of the comments on the Holy See’s international policy, in both cases anything but brilliant.But there are other countries in the world where the Catholic Church lives in no less dramatic situations of authentic persecution. And yet the pope is keeping quiet, as in the case of Nicaragua. Or, at the other extreme, he overdoes it in obsequious loquacity, as in the case of Cuba.*His admiration for the Cuban regime has never been something Jorge Mario Bergoglio has kept secret. In the photo above he is...

A Christian pastor of a trendy Miami church has been forced out for allegedly having steamy affairs with three women from his congregation, two while he was still married, DailyMail.com can reveal. David Stocker, 46, was fired from Brave Church in the city's Westchester district in April after its overseeing body – the Peninsular Florida District Council of the Assemblies of God – found him guilty of 'gross sexual misconduct and immoral actions.' The clergyman, who had preached at the church since 2014, is also accused of using the church's credit card to fund some of his illicit encounters, including...

Russia is losing its barbaric war in Ukraine. The only thing working in Moscow's favor these days is the abundance of useful idiots in the West. From my visit to Irpin about a month ago. For anyone having witnessed Russia’s war crimes against the Ukrainian people firsthand, the Amnesty International campaign of victim-blaming is distasteful in the extreme. There’s a scene in Conspiracy where one of the participants at the Wannsee Conference wants to know how many of those present are lawyers. Every single one raises a hand. “My God”, the Nazi official concludes, “It’s even worse than I thought.”...

While Americans aren't lining up to scarf down a bowl of crickets, consuming insects as part of a balanced diet is a critical part to the culture of many other countries around the world. And, the trend could be taking off here in the states, as biologists say edible insects can provide solutions to hunger and climate change. Insects are going from pests to protein packed menu items, with the potential to combat the world's ongoing hunger and climate crises. "They're low in fat. they're high in nutrients, minerals, uh, calcium. uh, so they're good for you." Unlike traditional forms...

An ICU nurse was arrested after she plowed through a red light and killed a pregnant mom, her boyfriend and baby boy, along with three others in a horror crash while she was allegedly drunk and fighting with her partner. Niccole L. Linton, 37, a nurse from Texas who works in Los Angeles, was taken into custody for vehicular manslaughter after police said she slammed her car into five other vehicles while driving at 80 mph by an intersection at Windsor Hills. Eight-month pregnant Asherey Ryan, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene alongside her one-year-old child Alonzo Luchiano Quintero...

Bishop Francis An Shuxin has threatened to withhold the Eucharist from clergy who fail to register with state-sanctioned CCPAAn international Christian group has condemned a Catholic bishop in China for threatening to withhold the Sacrament of Eucharist for clergy if they do not register with the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA). Bishop Francis An Shuxin of the Diocese of Baoding in Hebei province in northern China issued a pastoral letter July 15 stating that all Catholic clergy are required to register with the CCPA immediately or face punitive measures. The prelate said he would not share the Eucharist with...

Video of a young boy spinning around a stripper pole at a ‘pride’ festival in Pennsylvania on July 30 was making the rounds on social media this week. A shirtless man wearing tiny shorts helped the boy, who was dressed in a rainbow tutu, climb the stripper pole.

Courts Continue To Signal Death For 12-Year-Old Archie Battersbee In The UK "All our wishes as a family have been denied by the authorities. We are broken, but we are keeping going, because we love Archie and refuse to give up on him" Hollie Dance, the mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, with a statement following the latest British court ruling... Here in Pennsylvania three children and seven adults died in a fire early this morning... In Canada gun control put on a fast track a ban on the importation of handguns starting in two weeks without the approval of Parliament......

In the fall of 2020, restoration work began on the iconostasis of the Church of St. Barlaam of Khutyn, one of the 11 churches inside the iconic St. Basil’s Cathedral on Moscow’s Red Square. Now, work on the icons is finished and they are being returned to the Holy Protection Cathedral, commonly known as St. Basil’s because it’s home to the relics of St. Basil the Fool-for-Christ, reports RIA-Novosti.

SOCHI. Aug 5 (Interfax) - TurkStream, which has become a key route for Russian gas supplies to Europe, is operating smoothly, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "TurkStream is a key route for Russian gas supplies to Europe nowadays. In contrast to every other route supplying our hydrocarbons, TurkStream has been operating smoothly, rhythmically and without interruption," Putin said in his opening remarks at the Sochi talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday. The pipeline "has been supplying consumers both in Turkey and in Europe," Putin said. "So, I believe European partners should be grateful to Turkey for providing...

Canterbury, England, Aug 5, 2022 / 09:26 am In ecumenical discussions at the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, has said that most Anglicans recognize the pope as “the father of the Church in the West.” Welby said that he is “not proud” of the level of progress made in promoting Christian unity in recent years. He attributed this stasis in part to what he termed “habits of separation” that have been fostered over the last 500 years. Nonetheless, he believes that the majority of the Church of England’s members acknowledge the pope to be “the...

Republican AG candidate Jim Schultz called it 'yet another dereliction of duty' by Keith Ellison 'motivated by his far-left politics.'ST. PAUL, Minnesota (LifeSiteNews) – Minnesota Democrat Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he will not act to defend pro-life laws struck down last month by a district court judge, including a 24-hour abortion waiting period, informed consent requirement, and parental notification requirement. In July, Ramsey County Judge Thomas Gilligan claimed that the measures violated the Minnesota Constitution and “insult” the “intelligence and decision-making capabilities” of abortion seekers. Republican state attorney general candidate Jim Schultz condemned the decision as “judicial activism”...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data finding the monkeypox outbreak is concentrated among men who have had sex with several men, and issued more detailed recommendations on how to avoid exposure to the disease. Among 291 men surveyed, 40% reported that they had two to four partners and 14% reported five to nine partners in the three weeks before developing monkeypox, according to the report. About 19% reported 10 or more partners during that period, the CDC said Friday. And among 86 men who reported information, 28% said they had had group sex, which is defined as...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used COVID-19 for biological warfare, according to a new report by nine experts with the Center for Security Policy (CSP). Generals, medical experts, and foreign policy experts including former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra and former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Lieutenant General William “Jerry” Boykin contributed to the report, which is available in book form on Amazon. The report, titled “The CCP is at War with America,” stated that there is no evidence COVID-19 was a natural virus, arguing that there is significant evidence it came from a CCP lab. It also stated...