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Eight months after Russia captured Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city to fall when Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded in February, Moscow’s grip on the city appears to be slipping as many of those who have refused Russia’s calls to evacuate anxiously wait for their city to be liberated. “The city feels somewhat abandoned. Everyone who sympathised with Russia has fled, and the rest are stocking up on food,” said Anastasya, an elderly woman who evacuated her son at the beginning of the war but decided to stay in Kherson to take care of her three cats and two dogs. The...

Natalia Chorna had warned her more outspoken twin sister to be careful after Russian forces occupied their home town of Skadovsk near Kherson, southern Ukraine, in February. But Tetyana Mudryenko found it hard to keep her anger about the war to herself. Last month, Mudryenko paid the ultimate penalty for proclaiming Skadovsk Ukrainian territory. According to several witnesses, she was dragged into the street by the self-appointed pro-Moscow authorities and hanged in a public execution. “In occupied Skadovsk, you can’t have your own opinion,” said Chorna, 56. As Ukraine pursues its counteroffensive in Kherson and Russia forcibly relocates tens of...

4 November 2022 2Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Friday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Charles Borromeo Church, Houston, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingPhilippians 3:17-4:1 ©Our homeland is in heaven, and from heaven comes Christ to transfigure usMy brothers, be united in following my rule of life. Take as your models everybody who is already doing this and study them as you used to study us. I have told you often, and I repeat it today with tears, there are many who are...

Republicans Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc expanded his lead over Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) in New Hampshire, according to a Thursday Trafalgar Group poll. Forty-seven percent support Bolduc, 45.7 percent back Hassan, and 3.2 percent are undecided. Libertarian Jeremy Kauffman has 4 percent. Among Hispanics, Bolduc leads 70.2 – 17.7 percent over Hassan. Among black voters, Hassan only holds a 19.9-point lead (34.7 – 54.6 percent). Among white voters, Bolduc leads (46.9 – 46.4 percent). The general also polled better than Hassan in every age demographic except 65 and older, likely because of her history as a former governor...

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TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, U.S. -- China's tech sector is scrambling to snap up experienced engineers from foreign companies that are scaling back operations in the country amid a crackdown by the U.S. When word got out recently that U.S. chip developer Marvell was laying off hundreds of workers in China, job postings from top Chinese tech companies and local chip companies targeting them went up almost immediately. The companies seeking talent range from tech heavyweights like Alibaba Group Holding and Huawei Technologies to local chip developers. "Looking forward to seeing resumes from our dear peers from Marvell. Come work with Alibaba...

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A top elections official in Milwaukee has been fired after allegedly obtaining military absentee ballots for fake voters through a state-run website and sending them to a Republican state lawmaker, Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Thursday. Kimberly Zapata, deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, allegedly requested the military ballots through the state’s MyVote Wisconsin website, Johnson said. The ballots were sent to GOP State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an outspoken critic of how votes were tallied during the 2020 election, who said in an October 31 statement that she believes “someone was trying to point out how easy it is to...

Narrated from the perspective of the ultrasound technician who witnesses the procedure, 'The Procedure' is a heartbreaking reminder that abortion is the murder of an innocent child. Reader advisory: Extremely upsetting scenes. (LifeSiteNews) — Choice42 has put out a new video that exposes the reality of abortion – and it is heartbreaking. On October 31, the pro-life organization Choice42, in partnership with Loor.TV, premiered a new video that portrays the graphic reality of abortion in vivid detail. Entitled The Procedure and based on a true story, the four-minute-long animated clip shows a surgical abortion procedure in detail, underscoring the humanity...

It may be coming time for the country to fully address a very polarizing topic: President Biden's mental health. The conversation about the president's mental health actually started when Trump was in office. Unfit for Office After his inauguration in 2017, Donald Trump was faced with claims that he was not fit to be the president due to his mental health issues. In January 2018, he asked his doctor to administer a cognitive test to put the topic to rest. On top of the mental health concerns, people were also attempting to have him removed from office based on these...

Some propaganda with your abortion? Actor Elizabeth Banks, most commonly known from The Hunger Games, recently starred in a 1960s-set story about a mother who stumbles upon an underground abortion network called “The Janes.” The film is set to partner with local and national abortion providers to play the film inside clinics for “educational” purposes, as The Hollywood Reporter indicated. The movie, Call Jane was released Friday after premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in January. Banks played a woman whose pregnancy supposedly became a threat to her own health. In the movie, a board told Bank’s character that...

For your daily laugh that NPR calls their evening newscast All Things Considered, on Saturday night they celebrated the new pro-abortion movie Call Jane with actress Elizabeth Banks. Over eight and a half minutes, NPR host Michel Martin had no difficult or challenging questions, just facilitations. Martin asked "How did this project come about and what attracted you to it?" And: "Do you have somebody in mind that you hope will see this film? And what are you hoping people will take away from it?" But the starkest answer came when Martin asked about making the movie just before the...

The FDA just told pro-abortion groups that they are putting women’s lives in danger by providing abortion drugs before they are pregnant. Politico reports the federal agency spoke out against the new “advanced provision” abortion pill practice last week after Choix, Aid Access and other pro-abortion groups began advertising pills to keep at home in case a woman gets pregnant. Although the FDA did not mention any enforcement actions, the agency did warn that the abortion drug mifepristone is not approved for advance provision and the groups that are selling it in advance are putting women’s lives at risk, according...

Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has settled on a closing pitch for voters ahead of next week’s midterms: save abortion to save the economy. The embattled governor believes Democrats shouldn’t make a false choice between emphasizing abortion or the economy on the campaign trail, she told Politico. In her view, the two issues are inextricably tied together. “I hear from businesses all the time that they are feeling the weight of the ‘she-cession,’ meaning women leaving the workplace during Covid,” Whitmer said. “If we want women to come back into the workplace in Michigan, we better not take away their...

The global economy is on the path to hyperinflation and risks societal collapse if soaring prices are not brought under control, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds has warned. Elliott Management, the hedge fund founded by Wall Street billionaire Paul Singer, hit out at central bank rate-setters in an apocalyptic warning to clients as rate-setters bring the era of ultra-cheap money to an abrupt end. The world economy faces an “extremely challenging” outlook and hyperinflation could result in “global societal collapse and civil or international strife”, the letter to clients said, the Financial Times reported. It said central banks...

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The wife of convenience store chain Kum and Go CEO Tanner Krause is using her wealth to promote the killing of other women’s unborn children in abortions. Live Action News reports Hannah Krause initially said she wanted to move out of Iowa after learning about the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. But when she began to think more about the issue, Krause said she decided to use “the resources available to her” to “stay and try to make a difference.” Krause’s husband runs the billion-dollar convenience store chain Kum and Go, which has nearly 400 stores across the...

COVID-19 booster, specifically a third vaccine dose, may lower protection against getting infected with the omicron variant again for some people — and there’s a reason why, new findings suggest. In contrast, two vaccine doses, followed by an initial omicron infection, may protect more against a second omicron infection than an extra jab, according to a preprint study published Nov. 1 to medRxiv, a server run by Yale, BMJ and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This is due to a specific reaction within the immune system, researchers concluded. Here’s what the findings mean. “If you got infected with Omicron at any...

Three abortion activists were arrested Wednesday inside the U.S. Supreme Court for disrupting oral arguments in an unrelated case to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade. USA Today reports the three women stood up and shouted in the middle of court proceedings, interrupting lawyer Dan Geyser before being escorted out by police. Geyser was speaking to the justices about a banking case unrelated to the abortion issue. “Our right to choose will not be taken away,” one woman shouted over the lawyer. After police removed the first abortion activist from the building, a second woman stood up and began...

On Tuesday's The 11th Hour show, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle wrapped up the show by promoting the twisted view that aborting unborn babies is good for the economy. Ruhle introduced the final segment by playing a clip from her show from Friday on which liberal actress Amber Tamblyn declared: "I think we're forgetting that abortion and this kind of access is an economic issue." After a clip of Ruhle injecting, "Sure is," Tamblyn added: "It's a huge economic issue. It's just not a front and center, in the moment, economic issue." Ruhle further added: "It is for a woman who...