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A man accused of stabbing a stranger to death during a fight outside the Port Authority subway station last week is back on the streets after a Manhattan judge set a paltry $100,000 bail in the murder case, over the objections of prosecutors, The Post has learned. Jesus Ramirez, 28, was freed from Rikers Island Saturday after having to float just 10 percent of a $100,000 partially secured bond for the caught-on-camera slaying of 49-year-old Guarionex Torres in Hell’s Kitchen, records show.

Watch the German delegation’s response at UNGA when Trump says “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.”

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz is ramping up pressure on his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, to participate in debates as Oz looks to tighten the race ahead of the November midterm elections. Oz’s criticisms of Fetterman come in the wake of the Democrat opting not to partake in a televised debate proposed for Sept. 6 as he continues to recover from a stroke. The television doctor-turned-Republican politician alleged that Fetterman needs to defend his positions publicly ahead of the November elections, having agreed to participate in five debates. Oz’s campaign has repeatedly accused Fetterman of “hiding”...

We will be so bold as to posit that not only has the sanctions war against Russia backfired spectacularly, but the damage to the West, most of all Europe, is accelerating rapidly. And this is not the result of Russia taking active measures2 but the costs of the loss or reduction of key Russian resources compounding over time. So due to the intensity of the energy shock, the economic timetable is moving faster than the military. Unless Europe engages in a major course correction, and we don’t see how this can happen, the European economic crisis looks set to become...

As Pope Francis prepares to announce his decision on the future of the Order of Malta, senior knights have warned that a slate of Vatican-imposed changes to its leadership have left the order’s sovereignty in shreds, and drawn the authority of the order’s new leader - Lieutenant Grand Master John Dunlap - into question. Francis is expected to direct the knights soon to convene a chapter meeting, at which they will be expected to ratify a draft constitution approved by the pope before the summit. Ahead of the impending chapter, the pope has already appointed an interim leader for the...

VIDEOWe are about to enter campaign season which means the RETURN of the undercover feds aka the Patriot Front. Here you can see conveniently leaked videos of their Klutz Brigade engaged in something that is supposed to resemble combat training. Not very convincing except it could be just credible enough for the mainstream media to use it to point to the danger of "rightwing extremism."

CNA Newsroom, Aug 27, 2022 / 10:52 am A federal appellate court on Friday blocked a push to force doctors to perform abortions or sex-reassignment surgeries. The decision was made on religious freedom grounds. “This ruling is a major victory for conscience rights and compassionate medical care in America,” Joseph Davis, counsel at the legal group Becket, said on Aug. 26. “Doctors cannot do their jobs and comply with the Hippocratic Oath if the government requires them to perform harmful, irreversible procedures against their conscience and medical expertise,” he said. The court case is known as Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra....

A Federal Reserve official said the agency's new real-time payments system FedNow is slated to launch as early as May 2023. FedNow has been in development for around a decade and is supposed to allow banks to send payments to each other in real-time, thus allowing bank customers to send real-time payments to each other as well. The system, which will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is expected to be less expensive than wire transfer or debit card transaction fees. But while FedNow has been in development, other banks and the cryptocurrency industry have been looking...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has addressed the Chairman of the Russian Legislative Assembly Mr. V.V. Volodin, supporting the initiative to pass a law completely banning the promotion of sexual perversions. There is a moral consensus in Russian society, sustained by the Orthodox Church, that family is the union of man and woman, as it is stipulated by the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Without the affirmation and protection of family values, the future of the institution of family is in jeopardy. There is also no doubt that the goal of preserving the nation, proclaimed by President of...

The Irish report for the diocesan stage of the Synod on Synodality emphasized calls for changes to the Church's definitive teaching on a number of doctrinal and moral matters, while downplaying requests to restore authentic teaching and traditional liturgy.(LifeSiteNews) – The Catholic Church in Ireland has called for the introduction of ordination of women and Communion for the divorced and “remarried,” according to the nationwide report for the diocesan stage of Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality". The document also sidelined the express desire of Ireland’s young Catholics to maintain the traditional doctrine of the Church, despite 500 such faithful having...

President Biden on Tuesday made a passionate plea for an assault weapons ban, invoking the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to push Congress to pass such a ban. Biden said during remarks in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., that parents had to use DNA to identify their children’s bodies following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in May when an 18-year-old killed 19 students and two teachers.

Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday as Russia’s invasion of the country drags into its seventh month. The pair of senators also met with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and other senior Ukrainian leaders. They said they traveled to the war-torn country to see Russia’s invasion firsthand, and to reaffirm the U.S.’s commitment to Ukraine, NATO and other allies in the area.

Thibault left the agency on Friday – exactly one month after Senator Grassley outed him for his pattern of public partisanship and anti-Trump social media posts. On Tuesday, Thibault’s attorneys released a statement on their client and his career — they basically deny EVERYTHING!

“Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted” (Proverbs 31:5).

“I will not be participating in a debate the first week of September, but look forward to having a productive discussion about how we can move forward and have a real conversation on this once Dr. Oz and his team are ready to take this seriously,” he added. Surgeons implanted a pacemaker with a defibrillator to regulate Mr. Fetterman‘s heartbeat after he suffered a stroke last spring. The health woes has raised concerns about his ability to return to the campaign trail. He has held two brief rallies in the past week. An Oz campaign aide said last week that...

@newsmax President Joe Biden: "You know what the Mexicans, Mexico, which has real problems causing us real problems? You know what their biggest complaint is? Can't we stop the gun trafficking across the southern border, into Mexico. Clip...

Democrats are feeling stirrings of optimism about November’s midterm elections. It’s a remarkable shift of mood for a party that had been bracing for heavy defeats only a few weeks ago. Share Tweet ... More Democrats are feeling stirrings of optimism about November’s midterm elections. It’s a remarkable shift of mood for a party that had been bracing for heavy defeats only a few weeks ago. President Biden’s party colleagues believe they have a strong chance of holding on to control of the Senate, at least. That’s partly because Republican candidates are struggling in key states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia...

Let me take you back in time, ladies and gentlemen. It's 1987. I am at the time working at KFBK in Sacramento, California and I have created this term, invented this term "Gorbasm", to describe the reaction of various people, primarily in America, but around the world, to the prospect that nuclear holocaust is at hand because Ronald Reagan is in the White House, but only Mikhail Gorbachev can save the day, can save the world, can save the planet! He's reasonable. Reagan has an itchy trigger finger, right there poised above that button. Now all the time previous, from...

President Biden on Tuesday forcefully condemned attacks on the FBI from some Republicans in the wake of the bureau’s search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Speaking at an event on public safety in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Biden vowed his own support for law enforcement while casting conservatives as anti-police due to their stances on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol and more recently the events at Mar-a-Lago.

Chinese military researchers recently called for the destruction of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, an extraordinary threat for a state to make against a private foreign enterprise.In December 2021, China filed a complaint with the United Nations, claiming that two of Musk's Starlink satellites had nearly collided with the Tianhe module of its Tiangong Space Station -- in April and October of 2021-- and that Chinese astronauts had been forced to maneuver the module of the station to avoid the collision. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX and the satellites are part of a plan to make internet coverage from...