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Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp ., the company aiming to take former President Donald Trump’s media company public, jumped during after-hours trading after Google added the Truth Social app to its Play Store. The platform had previously been barred from the Play Store for content moderation concerns. Google said the app violated its policies for moderating user-generated content. “Apps may be distributed on Google Play provided they comply with our developer guidelines, including the requirement to effectively moderate user-generated content and remove objectionable posts such as those that incite violence,” a Google spokesman said. Truth Social has agreed to...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

Former President Donald Trump blasted Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Wednesday, even going so far as to predict he won't win reelection. Trump took to Truth Social to renew his endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and call out Romney for not doing the same. "Mitt Romney is the junior senator from the Great State of Utah, which I won twice in a landslide, once by beating the candidate Evan 'McMuffin' McMullin who is currently running against Senator Lee," Trump wrote. "McMuffin does not represent the values of Utah, but neither, as you will see in two years, does Mitt...

Manson, she warned. SNIP One such tidbit takes us back to the Hollywood Hills of the 1960s, when Charles Manson was recruiting kids of the famous and well-to-do into what would become his infamous murder cult. Manson wooed, or attempted to woo, the likes of Terry Melcher, the son of Doris Day, Deana Martin, daughter of Dean Martin, and Lansbury's kids, Anthony and Deidre Shaw. Dame Lansbury recounted how Diedre in particular fell under Manson's sway and how she plucked both her kids out of Hollywood and absconded to Ireland in a 2014 interview with Mail Online. "It started with...

While all this is true, Columbus stands for and is a reminder of something else that is now little known if not completely (and intentionally) forgotten: he was, first and foremost, a Crusader — an avowed enemy of the jihad. His expeditions were, first and foremost, about circumventing and ultimately retaliating against the Islamic sultanates surrounding and terrorizing Europe — not just “finding spices” as we were taught in high school. … Many Europeans were convinced that if only they could reach the peoples east of Islam — who if not Christian were at least “not as yet infected by...

The man accused of violently attacking a 19-year-old Asian woman in downtown Vancouver late last month is now out of jail after being granted bail. Mohammed Majidpour, 35, allegedly struck the victim’s head with a pole while she was walking near Dunsmuir and Cambie Streets at around 9:50 a.m. on Sept. 27. He also allegedly yelled anti-Asian slurs before fleeing the scene. Majidpour has been charged with assault with a weapon in connection with the incident. Records show he has had over 30 convictions dating back to August 2015, which include cases of assault, assault with a weapon and making...

In an exclusive broadcast interview with NBC News taped Friday at his home, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, tells NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns he still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May. NBC News agreed to a closed captioned interview.

[Catholic Caucus] PiusX: Francis' Persecution of Mass Produced Record YearThe 2022/2023 seminary year of PiusX has been exceptionally successful.• St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, USA. 28 entries: 25 Americans, 2 Canadians, 1 Brazilian.• Herz-Jesu Seminary, in Zaitzkofen, Germany. 21 entries (pictured): 9 Polish, 6 German, 1 Austrian, 1 Croatian, 1 Danish, 1 Hungarian, 1 Dutch, 1 Serbian. This is the largest entry in this seminary since its creation.• Saint-Curé d'Ars Seminary in Flavigny, France. 21 entries: 14 French, 2 Italians, 1 English, 1 Brazilian, 1 Indian, 1 Sri Lankan, 1 Swiss.• Nostra Señora Corredentora Seminary, La Reja, Argentina. 9 entries:...

US will immediately begin returning Venezuelans to Mexico, unless they enter via a parole program. The Biden administration is launching a new large-scale border enforcement operation with Mexico in order to combat the ongoing crisis at the southern border, officials announced Wednesday — an operation that includes increases in checkpoints, resources and a crackdown of human smuggling operations, and will also see Venezuelans returned to Mexico unless they apply through a limited parole program. The large-scale border enforcement campaign will see the two countries increase checkpoints for migrants, collaborate on targeting human smuggling operations and surge in resources and law...

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso insisted he's not white, but really Italian — and thus "Latin" — during an awkward debate moment Tuesday in the nation's second-largest city. In bringing up the ongoing scandal, Telemundo anchor Dunia Elvir stated: “The next mayor of Los Angeles will be either an African-American woman or a white man." “I’m Italian,” Caruso interjected. Elvir responded, “Italian American," as Caruso insisted that his racial identification be stated on his terms. “That’s Latin, thank you,” Caruso said.

Last May, Charlotte, 31, and her husband packed up their one-bedroom apartment on Christopher Street after learning the rent would likely skyrocket from $5,000 per month to $7,000. The couple loved living in the West Village, but homeownership was out of reach, even with her job in finance and him being in tech. They were both working from home, so they could live anywhere. It was time, they decided, to leave New York. “We considered Bronxville, and surrounding neighborhoods [in Westchester], but for what we wanted we would have had to spend well over $1.8 [million],” Charlotte, who makes more...

Los Angeles Councilmember Nury Martinez announced she resigned from her seat “with a broken heart” Wednesday after she was caught on an audio recording hurling racist remarks. Martinez faced immense blowback after a recording was leaked over the weekend where she called a fellow council member’s young son, who is black, a “little monkey” and suggested the child needed a “beatdown” during an October 2021 conversation about proposed redistricting. “It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home,” she said in a long statement.

The photographer shoved to the ground by Davante Adams after the Raiders-Chiefs "MNF" game has officially filed a police report against the NFL superstar, claiming he was injured during the incident and had to go to the hospital. TMZ Sports has learned ... the man went to cops at Arrowhead Stadium at around 10:30 PM -- just moments after Adams had pushed him following the Raiders' 30-29 loss. Authorities tell us the man claimed he was the victim of an assault. They say he told them he suffered injuries ... though they were "thought to be non-life threatening." They added...

Archbishop Smith pointed to the sacrifice Pope Francis made to fulfill the promise of being in Canada despite health issuesCanada's bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians. At the end of four days of plenary meetings of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Cornwall, Ontario, Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith told a news conference that the bishops are following the example of Pope Francis and the priority he placed on meeting with Indigenous people. "I don't think it overstates it to say it was a pivotal moment...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson draws parallels between the ways Democrats have used Joe Biden, John Fetterman and Greta Thunberg in their quest for power on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): He had a bad stroke and we feel bad about that. Everyone does. But because of that stroke, Fetterman now needs electronic assistance in order to communicate with other people. He can't talk on his own. It's not a right wing conspiracy theory. It's not QAnon! It's real.In fact, it's so real that his campaign concedes that it's real, that it's true. Fetterman uses a software program...

The majority of clergy in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese reject the ‘uniform mode’ of the Syro-Malabar Eucharistic liturgy.Indian Catholics burned Saturday an archbishop’s letter instructing parishes to implement a new mode of celebrating the liturgy. Laymen were pictured Oct. 1 setting light to the circular letter from Archbishop Andrews Thazhath outside Bishop’s House in Ernakulum, southern India. Archbishop Thazhath, the apostolic administrator of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, published the four-page letter on Sept. 30. He called on parishes to implement a decision taken by the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church to adopt a uniform mode of celebrating the Eucharistic...

The global debt market is orders of magnitude larger than the stock market, and debt instruments across the globe have nearly reached the breaking point due to the Fed’s steady increase in interest rates this year (combined with seemingly endless money printing and other disastrous fiscal policies). Because bond values have an inverse relationship with interest rates, as interest rates go up, the value of bonds and other debt instruments already issued goes down. With each Fed rate increase, bond values are cratering, leaving debt investors holding substantial losses and leading to a collapse in the number of potential buyers...

[Moderator]: Let me ask you how has it impacted you personally what have you learned specifically learned from the Latino community? [Hobbs]: Oh that's a great question…UM…I don't necessarily…UM…think about it that way in those terms I think…UM…I really value…UH…my relationships across the board with…UM…with...with different books and…and I learn all the time from…from people in my life my sister-in-law she is …UH…Latino and …UH…her family I love hanging out with them and practicing my Espanol…UH…so …UM…but yeah I mean I…I just it's …UM…I've learned so much from…from her family…UM…but I think…UM…it's really hard to separate out Arizona and subtract...

Work on the live virus that causes Covid must be carried out in one of these top level security labs India currently only has one working lab, but is building five and has ambitious plans for at least nine more Experts say they could be a concern if harmful research is done there which 'gets into the wrong hands' The Coronavirus pandemic has prompted a global surge in laboratories that handle dangerous viruses — despite concerns Covid may have been the result of the risky experiments. More than 40 facilities certified as biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) or BSL-4 have either...

In a statement, the former NAB CEO said he was forced to step down from ­Essendon because of his role as a church chairman. “I was being ­required to compromise beyond a level that my conscience ­allowed,” he said. Mr Thorburn said people should be able to hold different views on complex personal and moral matters, and be able to live and work together, even with those differences, and always with respect. A day after he was appointed to run the club he supported since childhood, Mr Thorburn resigned after it emerged he was chairman of a church that preached...