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One of the German diplomats who snickered when then-President Donald Trump said Germany would “become totally dependent on Russian energy” didn’t respond to a question on whether his views have changed as rising energy costs amidst the war in Ukraine seem to prove Trump right. Trump made the remarks during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Sept. 2018. Trump said during the same speech: “Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation.” At the time, Germany and the United States disagreed strongly about the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2...

A group of over 100 migrants from the southern border were moved to an Illinois suburb after being welcomed in Chicago – an action that is reportedly frustrating local officials. The migrants are staying at a Hampton Inn in Burr Ridge and a Holiday Inn in Countryside, according to reporting by WGN-TV. An estimated 300 migrants have been bused from Texas to Chicago in the past two weeks. While Chicago is a sanctuary city and Cook County is a sanctuary county, the migrants at the Burr Ridge Hampton Inn are in DuPage County. The county's sanctuary status is unclear. However,...

By now, the story has gone all around the world, as such stories tend to do. As PJM’s Rick Moran noted when the story broke, it all started at “a women’s volleyball game played at BYU in Utah where a black Duke University player alleges that fans hurled racist taunts at her.” But as is so often the case with such incidents, “almost immediately, the story that Rachel Richardson, the only black starter on the Duke volleyball team, told began to fall apart.” And now it has come to light that Richardson’s godmother, who was the first to tell the...

Hillary Clinton isn’t mincing words when it comes to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Appearing on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live,” the former secretary of State was asked Thursday about her time as a New York senator from 2001 to 2009. Host Andy Cohen asked Clinton, “What U.S. senator is or was the biggest blowhard?” “Oh, too many to count,” Clinton replied with a laugh before pausing as she weighed her answer. “I would have to say Ted Cruz is the eternal blowhard,” Clinton said of the Texas Republican.

A woman was beheaded by a sword-wielding assailant on a residential street in the Silicon Valley town of San Carlos, California, on Thursday in front of horrified onlookers. The man was later arrested... The suspect, who returned to the scene, was arrested in connection with the woman’s death, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect was later identified as Jose Landaeta Solano. (Click link to read full article.)

MEMORIAL OF SAINT PETER CLAVER, PRIEST LUKE 6:39–42 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus commands us to stop judging others. He asks, “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?” We are exceptionally good at seeing the fault in others, but we are exceptionally adept at ignoring it in ourselves. There was a very popular book that came out when I was a teenager. It was called I’m Okay and You’re Okay. It represented the culture of exculpation and feel-good-about-yourself. Not many years ago, Christina Aguilera crooned, “I...

BYU says it found no evidence of racial heckling during a women's volleyball match against Duke last month after what the school called an "extensive review" of the incident. Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson, who is Black, alleged that she repeatedly heard a racial slur directed at her during the Aug. 26 match from someone sitting in BYU's student section. Richardson's godmother also said the player was called a racial slur "every time she served." BYU banned a fan from all its athletic events shortly after Richardson's allegations but has lifted the ban following its investigation, which the school says...

Gary Gensler, President Joe Biden's Securities and Exchange Commissioner, had final approval authority for the Hillary Clinton campaign's payments for the discredited Steele dossier, according to congressional testimony that is adding to concerns about conflicts of interest as the SEC investigates Donald Trump's social media firm’s merger request. Questions surfaced last month about the SEC's probe of Trump's Truth Social when RealClearInvestigations journalist Paul Sperry reported that Gensler, as SEC chairman, previously served as the Hillary Clinton campaign's chief financial officer. In addition, Sperry reported that SEC Associate Director of Enforcement Melissa Hodgman was married to Peter Strzok, the FBI...

The crisis at the border is getting worse day by day, and yet, the Biden administration continues to turn a blind eye, pretending that the chaos they created is not a problem. In response, Republican governors are taking it upon themselves to send illegal migrants who wander into their state to Democrat cities so they can see firsthand just how much of a problem it is. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) is a part of this movement to bring awareness to the crisis at the southern border. He is vowing to "reroute" illegal migrants who arrive in Florida to President Joe...

The Biden administration is considering releasing more crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after the ongoing plan to sell oil from the emergency stockpile ends in October, Reuters reported Thursday. The administration may continue to auction off oil barrels from the SPR past October to ward off the threat of increasing oil prices in late 2022, Biden’s Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Reuters. However, a Department of Energy (DOE) official later stated that the White House was not mulling further SPR sales, according to Reuters and CNN. (RELATED: ‘Fleecing Taxpayers’: Here’s How Americans Will Pay For Biden’s...

Washington State, under Gov. Jay Inslee, will end the state of emergency and all remaining COVID-19 emergency proclamations by Oct. 31st.... The statewide Face Covering Order issued by the state Department of Health will remain in place for health care and long-term care settings, as well as correctional facilities under certain circumstances after the state of emergency ends.

Even before Queen Elizabeth II was officially confirmed dead, her haters were dancing on her grave. We're not just talking random Twitter users, but a verified professor, Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon, as our friends at Twitchy highlighted throughout Thursday. While many current and former world leaders, including from the United States, have sent their condolences, those Australian politician Mehreen Faruqi's rang hollow, as she brought up colonization in a tweet, and then restricted replies. Then there's the media. The New York Times even had an op-ed ready to go criticizing the queen after her death, this one by Harvard's...

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VIENNA, Ill. (KFVS) - Come January 1, 2023, the State of Illinois is set to eliminate the cash bail system. However, southern Illinois lawmakers and law enforcement say it could make communities more dangerous. “I believe the elimination of cash bail, particularly as it’s written in the SAFE-T Act, will reduce public safety and lead to more crime particularly more violent crime in Illinois,” Patrick Windhorst, former state’s attorney and current state representative for district 118, said. Windhorst said he voted against this bill when it came about. He said he was one of the leading voices against it. The...

Dr. Oz is calling for Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman to participate in up to six Senate debates this month after his Democratic opponent agreed to only one in November. "John Fetterman's misinformation campaign is busy tonight, here's the reality: I have committed to 6 debates in September and October. Fetterman has committed to 0," Oz, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat in November, wrote Thursday on Twitter. "Absentee ballots can go out September 19th," he continued. "We need to be debating early and often." During an interview with Axios earlier in the day, Oz struck a similar...

The Feds appealed a judge’s order naming a special master to cull through the hundreds of pages of documents, news clippings, and other items that they took from former President Donald Trump’s South Florida home. On Monday, Federal Judge Aileen Cannon ordered a special master, which is usually a former judge or lawyer, to go through the documents taken from Trump’s office in the Aug. 8 raid. By Thursday, Department of Justice lawyers were back in court arguing that such a move would delay its latest election season investigation of the former president. The DOJ and its gunned-up Hostage Rescue...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ripped NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci after a federal judge ordered the release of his emails sent to social media platforms regarding alleged misinformation and censorship. Paul claimed Fauci's "modus operandi" is to "cover up" his own activities while declaring his recommendations and edicts the only true path in terms of infectious diseases like the coronavirus. "I think that all of America should be appalled that America's doctor, the leading expert on COVID in public health, doesn't want to divulge information, doesn't want to divulge his communications with Big Tech," he said. Paul recounted Fauci's last...

VIDEO AT LINK............... Two activists interrupted the first game of the NFL season Thursday night in an apparent protest against the arrest of two animal rights advocates who were charged in 2017 for “rescuing” piglets from a factory farm. Katia Shokrai and Emek Echo, two activists with Direct Action Everywhere, stormed the field during the football game as the Buffalo Bills faced the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in California. The pair ran across the field with smoke flares in their hands before being tackled by security guards. The activists were protesting the arrest of two of the group’s...

North Korean state media reported on Friday that dictator Kim Jong-un signed a law making the Communist tyranny’s march to nuclear weapons “irreversible,” banning all further denuclearization talks with the outside world, and mandating an immediate nuclear attack if Kim or other top officials is harmed by foreign powers. The new legislation, passed by the rubber-stamp “Supreme People’s Assembly” on Thursday, supersedes a 2013 law that laid out North Korea’s nuclear ambitions in less belligerent terms. Among other differences, the 2013 law did not specify conditions under which North Korea would initiate a nuclear war without hesitation.

The Epoch Times reported that beginning in 2020 and 2021, embalmers from around the country have been observing unusual blood clots in corpses that resemble nothing like what they have ever seen: "The Epoch Times received additional videos and photos of the anomalous clots, but could not upload them due to the level of gore."In August, Mike Adams analyzed one of the clots from an embalmer alongside blood from an unvaccinated person, using "inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP_ MS), triple quadrupole mass spectrometer, and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry," which are commonly used to test food for metals, pesticides, and glyphosate....