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The Associated Press has fired the journalist who reported a story that Russian-fired missiles crossed into Poland after it was revealed that Ukraine likely fired the projectiles, according to a report.

22 November 2022Saint Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr on Tuesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Cecilia Catholic Church West Portal, San Francisco Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingApocalypse 14:14-19 ©The harvest and the vintage of the earth are ripeIn my vision I, John, saw a white cloud and, sitting on it, one like a son of man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the sanctuary, and shouted aloud to the one sitting...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) defeated Sen. Rick Scott’s (Fla.) bid to take his job, but the battle isn’t over. McConnell now faces a fight with Scott and other Senate conservatives over whether to block a year-end spending package before Christmas. The GOP leader wants to pass the omnibus package funding the federal government before the end of December, according to Senate Republican and Democratic sources. But he’s coming under increasing pressure from conservatives who want to freeze federal spending until January, when Republicans will take control of the House. Scott told The Hill he plans to “actively” press...

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Sussex Police has threatened a women right's group founder with a hate crime arrest after a rally two months ago where her group was attacked by pro-trans activists. The force told mother-of-four Kellie-Jay Keen an allegation made about her that she used 'words or behaviour to stir up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation' was now being investigated. In an extraordinary phone call released by Standing For Women founder Kellie-Jay, one officer said she could be arrested if she did not attend a 'voluntary' interview.

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Iranian football fans are openly cheering the defeat of their national team against England at the World Cup yesterday in yet another sign of protest at the authoritarian Islamic Republic. Footage emerged overnight of a man sitting on the back of a moped, brandishing a huge Union Jack which streamed behind him as he rode through the streets of Tehran in the wake of his team's 6-2 dismantling in Qatar. 'People are happy because of England's victory,' the man who filmed the spectacle from his car said solemnly.

A British author has called for King Charles III to remove Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal titles "swiftly and decisively", as he claimed an award given to the Sussexes was an "insult" to the monarchy. Nile Gardiner, a foreign policy analyst and former aide to Margaret Thatcher, spoke out after it emerged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will receive a human rights award for standing up to "structural racism" in the Royal Family....

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. To Thee I sacrifice a Sacrifice of Thanks, And in the name of Jehovah I call. (Ps. 116:17)

Two American journalists have been told to remove rainbow-patterned articles of clothing by authorities at World Cup venues in Qatar in recent days. On Saturday, Los Angeles Times reporter Kevin Baxter was told by a police officer at the U.S. men’s national team’s Qatari training site that a rainbow-colored mask was not allowed. Two days later, at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the USMNT plays Wales on Monday night, longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl said that he was told by security to change out of a shirt with a rainbow pattern around a soccer ball. FIFA told Yahoo Sports...

White Stripes Rocker Jack White Rips Elon Musk: Restored ‘Fascist’ Trump’s Twitter Account to Avoid Paying ‘Fair Share’ in Taxes White Stripes vocalist and guitarist Jack White attacked Elon Musk in a lengthy Instagram post on Sunday, complaining that the Tesla CEO restored former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account and claimed that Musk only supports Republicans because he hates paying taxes. “This is straight up you trying to help a fascist have a platform so you can eventually get your tax breaks,” White claimed of Musk’s move to restore Trump’s Twitter account. “How many more billions do you need that...

The House Ethics Committee is investigating whether Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) improperly solicited invitations to the Met Gala, a newly released report reveals.... ..."These efforts to gain free attendance may implicate the prohibition on solicitation of gifts under federal law and House rules," the report says....

Some remote workers are playing hooky from their company’s homebase these days, and bosses are catching on. The pandemic challenged the idea that the office was an important fixture of the workplace as people working from home were found to be just as productive. Some relished their newfound freedom away from their desks, giving rise to a growing crop of digital nomads life who worked from alternative living situations like a van on the road or from Airbnbs in countries offering digital nomad visas like Portugal. But such flexibility has been curtailed as companies increasingly push for a return to...

Canada is betting big on immigration to fill the gap in its economy left by aging Baby Boomers leaving the workforce - but not everyone is on board with bringing in so many people from abroad. Earlier this month, the federal government announced an aggressive plan to take in 500,000 immigrants a year by 2025, with almost 1.5 million new immigrants coming to the country over the next three years....

The wife of Jack Smith, the newly-appointed special counsel in the investigation into the documents former President Donald Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago at the culmination of his term, made political donations to President Joe Biden and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) throughout the years and helped produce the 2020 Michelle Obama documentary Becoming. Federal Election Commission records show that Smith’s wife, Katy Chevigny, contributed $1,000 each to Biden’s 2020 campaign, Biden for President, and the Biden Victory Fund super PAC, on September 9, 2020. Moreover, she donated $150 to the Friends of Rashida Tlaib committee in July 2008 when Tlaib was...

The MetroHealth Board of Trustees confirmed on Nov. 21 that it has terminated the employment of President and CEO Akram Boutros, MD.,effective immediately. An investigation found Dr. Boutros authorized more than $1,900,000 in supplemental bonuses to himself between 2018-2022 without disclosing it to the Board, MetroHealth System Chair Vanessa Whiting said. The Board received the results of this investigation conducted by outside counsel into the compensation issues on Saturday, and the Board voted to terminate his employment for cause on Monday. Whiting shared the following statement on behalf of the MetroHealth Board of Trustees: “We have taken these actions mindfully...

Data from a laptop that the lawyer for a Delaware computer repair shop owner says was left by Hunter Biden in 2019 – and which the shop owner later provided to the FBI under subpoena – shows no evidence of tampering or fabrication, according to an independent review commissioned by CBS News... ...The independent analysis, by two cyber investigators from Minneapolis-based Computer Forensics Services, found no evidence that the user data had been modified, fabricated or tampered with. Nor did it find any new files originating after April 2019,....

John Ray III took over as FTX's CEO for $1,300 per hour on November 11 as he attempts to clean up the collapsed cryptocurrency company. FTX is bankrupt but is still paying key employees top dollar as the company tries to fix the mistakes made by founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Disgraced tech bro Bankman-Fried gave up control of his company after his Stanford law professor persuaded him to do so. The company is also paying their chief administrative officer and chief information officer about $975 per hour. Other contractors at the company that seeks to ensure the company remains ethical throughout...

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The stars of “Chrisley Knows Best” were convicted in June of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $30 million and evading taxes for several years.