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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — As the water levels of Lake Mead continue to go down, more human remains are being found. In response to this recent development, Hillary Clinton has been spotted outside Lake Mead desperately trying to fill the lake back up with a garden hose. "This is the fifth body they've found since May, Bill! We gotta get out there now and do something about this!" said Hillary Clinton to her husband in a panic. "Hurry, grab the hose! We have to fill the lake back up!" According to sources, the former Senator and failed Presidential candidate was...

The Kentucky Supreme Court is leaving a sweeping abortion ban in place, pending further review. A state court of appeals allowed two abortion bans to go into effect earlier this month, almost completely outlawing the procedure in the state. On Thursday, the state Supreme Court determined abortion clinics' request for an injunction due to "extraordinary cause" was not met. While the highest court in the state refused to overturn the appeals court’s ruling, it agreed to hear further arguments from abortion activists and state Attorney General Daniel Cameron about whether the "trigger" laws can go into effect. Kentucky's laws do...

President Biden will host a White House summit next month aimed at combating a spate of hate-fueled violence in the U.S., as he works to deliver on his campaign pledge to "heal the soul of the nation." The White House announced Friday that Mr. Biden will host the United We Stand Summit on Sept. 15, highlighting the "corrosive effects" of violence on public safety and democracy. Mr. Biden has frequently cited 2017's white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, with bringing him out of political retirement to challenge then-President Donald Trump in 2020. He promised during that campaign to work to...

The president's admission that he willingly failed to signal a looming Russian attack has ?punctured the bubble? of his image Many Ukrainians have been infuriated by an admission, from President Vladimir Zelensky, that he concealed news of the imminent Russian special military operation last spring. That's according to the Washington Post, where he made the revelation earlier this week. Zelensky's disclosure that he sacrificed lives to avoid ruining the economy was his first serious communication blunder since the conflict began, the paper said.

Stetter-Karp on the Swiss Synod report: "It is about setting the Church in motion!" The Presidency of the Central Committee of German Catholics "The report that went from Switzerland to Rome shows that the concerns of Catholics are similar to those of their German brothers and sisters in faith. It is about setting the Church in motion!

TIME Washington Correspondent Philip Elliott compared the Republican Party to the Soviets Wednesday, saying the GOP “disappeared” Liz Cheney, to the mockery of Twitter users. “It’s not just the Soviets who are masters of disappearing someone,” Elliott warned in a piece titled The GOP Just Borrowed a Soviet Skill and Disappeared Liz Cheney. “Just look at Wyoming, where voters this week drubbed a former senior member of the Republican establishment out of office on orders from former President Donald Trump,” he said. The writer suggested in the article that Cheney, after losing by a massive margin in the Wyoming Republican...

EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (CNS) — Police are investigating vandalism at a western Massachusetts pregnancy center that provides women facing a crisis pregnancy with free diapers, wipes, baby clothes, strollers and car seats. Police said vandals early Aug. 18 spray-painted “Jane’s Revenge” on benches located outside of Bethlehem House in Easthampton, near Springfield, along with the message, “If abortion isn’t safe, neither are you.” Jane’s Revenge is a an organization that supports keeping abortion legal. It has claimed responsibility for similar actions at churches and pro-life pregnancy centers across the country since May, when a draft opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court...

To try to stem the spread of the Covid-19 virus, authorities in the Chinese port city of Xiamen were checking every newly captured seafood, from fish and crabs to shrimp. On Friday, Xiamen reported 10 new cases of Covid, bringing the total number of cases in the current outbreak to 65, according to CNN. According to the city’s fishery supervisor, PCR testing must be conducted on all fishermen and their catch upon their return to Xiamen, a popular tourist city in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian. "We test humans as well as what they caught at the same time...

Big businesses that are funding abortion travel may be making female employees feel pressured into aborting their unborn babies, a Texas congressman warned this week. In letters to Disney, Warner Bros., Google and Facebook (Meta) on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, asked why their companies have chosen to emphasize abortion and not paid family leave for female employees since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “I’m concerned that major corporations are pressuring women to receive abortions rather than taking time away from work through maternity leave,” Cloud wrote. “Women should feel supported in their decision to balance...

<p>A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption.</p><p>Can the FBI be trusted? A Federalist analysis of agency lies over the last decade is an unequivocal no.</p><p>In the summer of 2016, FBI bureaucrats launched a deep-state operation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, to thwart then-candidate Trump’s presidential ambitions. It began by targeting Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and quickly branched out as bureaucrats expanded their surveillance. The spy agency used the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) as a legal pretext to investigate and spy on Papadopoulos, in addition to former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and former Trump adviser Carter Page. Several were interviewed by undercover FBI informant Stefan Halper, whose own investigation would prove a bust.</p>

An off-campus co-op for students at the University of California, Berkeley named the 'Person of Color Theme House' has banned white guests from entering common areas of the house. A list of house rules revealed that occupants were told 'many POC moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests.' While the student house aims to have an 'inclusive' environment, the rules specifically state 'white guests are not allowed in common spaces,' according to the list, which was posted on Reddit. The accommodation, which is located close...

As they busy themselves creating the conditions for one - Cathcon comment Knop: "Historically, the church has changed permanently". Currently, the Church in Germany is in the middle of a reform process, the Synodal Path. Theologian Julia Knop is a member of the Synodal Assembly and demands: The Church must not fall behind the standards of its time. Between demands for reform on the one hand and their rejection on the other: the Church in Germany is debating its future. Before the next plenary meeting of the Synodal Path reform project, the Erfurt dogmatist Julia Knop talks in an interview...

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The producer of the Bourbon Street Extravaganza, one of Southern Decadence’s signature events, has canceled the free outdoor concert over concerns about the monkeypox virus. Thousands of revelers were expected to gather Sept. 3 at the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets outside the gay bar Napoleon’s Itch to hear dance music diva Jeanie Tracy and other singers. This was to have been the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s celebratory return after two years of cancellations prompted by the COVID pandemic.

Adam Steen, who lost the GOP primary in the 63rd AD to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos by 260 votes after he was endorsed by former President Trump, will run as a write-in candidate in November.

After spending much of his summer vacation on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, President Biden is heading back to his multimillion-dollar beach house in his home state of Delaware, where he’s building a taxpayer-funded security fence at a cost that’s ballooned to nearly $500,000. Biden is expected to arrive at his $2.7 million summer house in the North Shores community of Rehoboth Beach on Saturday after spending the last couple nights in Wilmington, Delaware, according to data released by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). On Wednesday, Biden was briefly at the White House signing of the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act...

Florida International University football player Luke Knox, the younger brother of Buffalo Bills tight end Dawson Knox, has died, the school's athletics department said Thursday. He was 22 years old. The university did not provide Knox's cause of death, but expressed sorrow and support for the player's teammates, family and friends. FIU head coach Mike MacIntyre remembered Knox as a caring and committed member of the team, saying he admired Knox's passion for the sport, but "his genuine love for his family and teammates is what I will always remember." "He had a special way of making everyone around him...

While Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes is narrowly preferred over incumbent Ron Johnson in the Wisconsin Senate race, Johnson’s supporters have the enthusiasm. A Fox News survey of Wisconsin voters finds Barnes ahead of Johnson by 50-46%, an advantage within the survey’s margin of error

Per the FAA, Biden is expected to remain in Wilmington until Saturday AM before going to his Rehoboth Beach home until Wednesday — Zeke Miller

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, thinks that Republicans have a lukewarm chance of flipping the Senate in November, citing "candidate quality" as a factor. The senator made the honest prediction at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday afternoon. "I think there's probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate," the minority leader anticipated. "Senate races are just different, they're statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome."