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Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America 08/12/22 President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!

OAKLAND, Calif. - Authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a 19-year-old and a juvenile for their roles in the fatal shooting of a food delivery driver in Oakland last month. The Oakland Police Department said officers arrested Major Willis and an unidentified teen on Tuesday in connection with the homicide of Patrick Kon Woo Fung on the morning of July 17.

The cardinal will be tried with five members of the pro-democracy movement for failing to register the charity of which they were trustees. The defence will invoke the right to associate as provided for by the Hong Kong’s constitution. Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – The West Kowloon Court has set the trial date for Card Joseph Zen Ze-kiun and five well-known members of the pro-democracy movement, who are accused of failing to properly register a humanitarian fund of which they were trustees. The decision came yesterday at a preliminary hearing chaired by Judge Ada Yim, as reported by the Hong Kong...

The MSM is simultaneously reporting that the actress Anne Heche is dead and merely brain-dead waiting for organ harvesting.There is a big difference between someone who is dead, and someone who has been declared brain dead. This is especially apparent to those who closely followed the Terri Schiavo case.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Catholic bishops in Ethiopia warned that insecurity is shutting down churches and forcing more priests and nuns to flee, as consequences of the war in the northern province of Tigray are felt across the entire country. The bishops reiterated that the insecurity also had made it difficult for the church to effectively carry out its pastoral work in many parishes — including those in the Diocese of Adigrat in Tigray. “The church is facing a great challenge, especially the lack of peace in our country. … Many of our parishes, including Adigrat Diocese, share the challenge. Priests...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 9, 2022 / 15:10 pm A lightning strike caused a roof fire Monday that severely damaged a historic Catholic church in Rockford, Illinois, and left three firefighters injured, authorities said. The Rockford Fire Department determined that lightning set the roof on fire at Saint James Catholic Church, Mike Rotolo, the department's fire prevention coordinator, told CNA Tuesday. The damage to the church may exceed $3 million, he said. The city's building department posted a yellow sign with the message “Condemned: Do Not Enter” outside the church Monday, Rotolo said. This means that the building is not...

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) stated that the Inflation Reduction Act will help deal with inflation right now by reducing healthcare costs, but the Federal Reserve “making judgments on interest rates…is really how you deal with inflation.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Thursday on WGN’s “Midday News” that the Republican Party under former President Donald Trump was “creepy” and willing to openly violate the Constitution. Reporter Ben Bradley said, “Kinzinger has now been branded a RINO, a Republican in name only, but the reality is he actually voted with Trump more than 90% of the time. Proof to him his party cared more about a person and policy.”

Ukraine's ambassador to the Holy See says the pope plans on visiting the war-torn nation before his September visit to KazakhstanPope Francis plans to make his long-awaited visit to Ukraine before his trip to Kazakhstan in September, said Andrii Yurash, Ukraine's ambassador to the Holy See. In a series of tweets posted Aug. 6 after meeting with the pope, Yurash said the people of Ukraine "have been waiting for the pope" since the start of the war and will "be happy to greet him before his trip to Kazakhstan." "I am very close to Ukraine and want to express this...

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The story of the midget submarine raids on Sydney is one in which senior commanders bungled and got away with it. Meanwhile, the commanders of the small ships that attacked and sunk two of the submarines went unrewarded.On the Sunday night of May 31, 1942, 80 years ago, Sydney Harbour was attacked by three midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. They had been launched by five large fleet submarines from outside the port. In the raid, the accommodation vessel Kuttabul of the Royal Australian Navy was sunk by a torpedo impacting nearby and 21 sailors died.In a night of,...

An international team of scientists has created carbon nanolattices — constructed from closed-cell plate-architectures — that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density. “Scientists have predicted that nanolattices arranged in a plate-based design would be incredibly strong,” said first author Cameron Crook, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine. “But the difficulty in manufacturing structures this way meant that the theory was never proven, until we succeeded in doing it.”

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will host Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday, which is a peculiar spot for a former lawmaker who not long ago presumably opposed much of what Fox News’ reliably conservative audience stands for. Tucker Carlson boasts the highest-rated show in cable news. In his absence this week, the network has relied on its bench to try and fill the void.

Oklahoma parents on Tuesday night spoke out against explicit library books at a school board meeting. Stillwater Public Schools, which serves more than 8,300 students, says their library is selected by professional Library Media Specialists in a statement released to the media. The district said that there is a process by which parents may call for material to be reviewed, and they have not received any such requests recently. The parents were summoned to speak as their names were called to address matters on the meeting's agenda. "You guys probably are aware that TPS [Tulsa Public Schools] and Mustang Schools...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A Florida woman has been arrested for continuously making harassing phone calls to police. Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Carla Michelle Jefferson, 51, last month after she reportedly called the St. Petersburg Police Department emergency communications center 512 times in one day. She also called the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office communications center twice that day. According to the arrest affidavit, “The defendant continuously calls and harasses, belittles, swears at, argues with, and demands officers come arrest her.” Once officers responded to her home, the affidavit says Jefferson “refuses to answer the door, and has in...

Iraqi actress Enas Taleb is taking legal action against The Economist magazine after it used her image as a cover photo for a story about obesity among women in the Middle East. The British weekly's story — Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world — argued that social barriers and a lack of access to jobs were keeping women indoors and preventing them from going to gyms or playing sport in public areas, leading to an obesity crisis. At the end of the article, the magazine quoted some women as saying that one of the widespread social...

Pope welcomes transgender group to Vatican for the fourth time this yearOne individual who reportedly had sex-change surgery was part of a group, led by a priest and a nun, that attended Wednesday's papal audience.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis received in audience at the Vatican for a fourth time members of a group of transgender individuals.L’Osservatore Romano reported today that at the Wednesday Papal audience this week, the Holy Father greeted and exchanged a few words with a group of persons who have either undergone a “sex-change” surgery or who simply identify as the opposite of their actual sex....

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Rules of Practice and Procedure The Court’s Rules of Practice and Procedure are available below.... RULE 142. BURDEN OF PROOF (a) General: (1) The burden of proof shall be upon the petitioner, except as otherwise provided by statute or deter- mined by the Court; and except that, in respect of any new matter, increases in deficiency, and affirmative defenses, pleaded in the answer, it shall be upon the respondent. As to affirmative defenses, see Rule 39....Guidance for Petitioners: Things That Occur During Trial Someone told me that the petitioner (taxpayer) has the burden of proof. I don't understand this. What...

A 'receipt for property' written by FBI agents who searched Donald Trump's Florida home reveals that they carted away 11 sets of classified documents, photographs and other files marked 'top secret' among boxes of items. The receipt and the search warrant, obtained by DailyMail.com on Friday afternoon, offer further insight into the unprecedented raid on a former president's home. In all, FBI agents took 27 boxes of documents. In addition, they list an 'Executive Grant of Clemency: Re Roger Jason Stone Jr' - a former Trump adviser who was pardoned in the last days of Trump's presidency - 'info re:...