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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis to appoint heterodox German bishop as Church’s doctrine chief: reportsSources confirm the 'real possibility' that Bishop Heiner Wilmer, a supporter of the German Synodal Path, will become the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.The Italian blog Messa in latino, which is just now in the international media for having accurately reported on a scandal inside the Vatican, revealed yesterday that Pope Francis has chosen Bishop Heiner Wilmer as the new Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. LifeSite has been able to confirm this report with its own...

PARIS — According to reports, watching soccer is finally interesting as France descends into fiery chaos after a Morocco semi-final loss. "Wow, now THIS is entertaining," said one viewer while watching a Morocco supporter beating up a French guy with a stale baguette while several others lit the Louvre on fire. "Look at all the fighting and explosions! Why can't soccer always be like this?" Early reports indicate World Cup viewership is now at an all-time high as people around the world tune in to see massive, fiery street brawls. "Who knew watching soccer could be such an engaging experience?"...

At the end of November, a lot of people wondered whether the National Hockey League, one of the few pro-sports to stay out of the culture wars, had made a mistake when it decided to support a “Team Trans Draft Tournament.” The NHL may be wondering the same thing now that a man pretending to be a woman smashed a woman pretending to be a man, all of which was caught on camera, effectively putting the lie to transgender madness.(snip) All of which gets us to what happened on the ice last month, a story that Jonathan Kay finally broke...

A top-ranking FTX executive last month flipped on Sam Bankman-Fried and his allies by tipping off Bahamian regulators about alleged malfeasance — two days before the doomed crypto platform filed for bankruptcy, according to court filings. Ryan Salame, who served as co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets prior to its collapse, tipped off officials on Nov. 9 that FTX client funds were being secretly transferred to “cover financial losses” at Alameda Research — the sister cryptocurrency hedge fund also owned by Bankman-Fried. The 29-year-old Salame told regulators that only three FTX executives had the authority required to approve the cash transfers...

Parents at the Halton School District, in Ontario, Canada, claimed some students were warned that they would be suspended from classes if they continue filming and photographing Oakville Trafalgar High School shop teacher Kayla Lemieux. Lemieux made headlines earlier in the fall following widely circulated pictures of her in class with the massive prosthetics, as well as her trip skydiving with a porn star. Since then, students inside the district have leaked videos of Lemieux in other schools while she recovers from a foot injury, showing her walking with crutches and sitting besides a student who appeared to be vaping,...

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told CNN on Wednesday he doesn’t “have a clue” what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is “asking for” in wanting to investigate the Covid-19 vaccines and warned that politicization of science and the vaccines has “cost lives.”

A marine on death row for raping and murdering 16-year-old Leesa Marie Gray in 2000 ate pork chops and biscuits for his final meal before his execution. Thomas Loden, 58, wore a red prison jumpsuit and was covered by a white head sheet during his execution as he beame the second inmate to be killed by lethal injection in Mississippi in two years. His last meal was made up of two fried pork chops, fried okra, a baked sweet potato with butter, Pillsbury Grands biscuits with butter and molasses, peach cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and Lipton sweet tea,...

Recently-appointed White House clean energy czar John Podesta has hired several officials who have advocated in favor of far-left energy and climate policies to join his team. Podesta, who founded the progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), has hired Kristina Costa, Alison Cassady and Joshua Peck to serve in the White House Office of Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation. The three officials have previously worked in private and public sector roles pushing climate policies and have past ties to Podesta. Podesta, who founded the progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), has hired...

A customer shot and critically injured a worker at a KFC in St. Louis over a lack of corn. The man was placing an order in the eatery’s drive-thru lane Monday evening when employees informed him the restaurant was out of corn, police said. The man grew enraged and threatened the employees over the drive-thru speaker box at the fast food joint located at 5020 Delmar Blvd. in the Central West End neighborhood. He then drove up to the drive-thru window with a handgun, according to cops. A 25-year-old employee went out to speak with the man and came back...

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2022 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Don Lemon! The CNN host won for his laugh-out-loud response to CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert’s silly inquiry that “you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore” under new CNN CEO Chris Licht’s leadership. To which Lemon absurdly responded: “I don’t think we ever were liberal.”...

@JackPosobiec EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: I have obtained a copy of President Trump unveiling the major planks of his official Free Speech Policy Proposal This is the first video drop in a series to come from his 2024 presidential campaign

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) leads former President Trump by 14 points in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary match-up, according to a new poll. The Wall Street Journal survey released on Wednesday found that DeSantis leads Trump among likely Republican voters, 52 percent to 38 percent. DeSantis also has an advantage in his approval rating, with 84 percent of Republicans surveyed having a favorable view of him. By comparison, 71 percent said they have a favorable view of Trump. DeSantis’s name recognition also appears strong, as only about 10 percent of likely GOP primary voters said they did not know...

The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a program that generates sophisticated text in response to any prompt you can imagine, may signal the end of writing assignments altogether—and maybe even the end of writing as a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill.

Nancy Pelosi is passing her gavel to someone else (most likely McCarthy R-CA), but her legacy like that of fellow spendaholic John Boeher (RINO-Ohio) and Paul Rino (RINO-WI) is reckless spending and debt load. Since 2007 when Pelosi took the gavel as Speaker of the US House, Federal debt has risen from $5.8 trillion in Q4 2006 to $31.4 trillion today, an increase of over 250%. Pelosi’s spending spree was continued by RINOs Boehner and Ryan before SanFranNac retook the gavel and continued Congress’ spend-a-holic ways. Nothing has been the same since the financial crisis and Pelosi became Speaker in...

After Nancy Mace’s NUCLEAR questioning of Alejandra Caraballo (and if you haven’t seen it yet, watch below, it’s A-MA-ZING), Glenn Greenwald was good enough to put a thread together taking the ‘online safety expert’ who openly wished violence on SCOTUS justices apart. As usual from Greenwald, this is pretty damn good: This is a brilliant exchange by @NancyMace yesterday in Congress. There is a tiny group of hateful left-liberal fanatics whom have been arbitrarily dubbed "Online Safety Experts" and constantly warn hateful rhetoric incites violence. Yet they're the most hateful people around. https://t.co/bI7fdata0C — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 14, 2022...

President Trump’s senior policy team consistently went against conventional wisdom, because that conventional wisdom was wrong. This is an adapted excerpt from “Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead“ (Encounter Books, July 12). Tomorrow, President Joe Biden will travel to Israel. I believe all Americans should root for his success. However, success will be more difficult to achieve because it hasn’t yet been defined by his administration. I had the honor of working for David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, and Jared Kushner, former senior adviser to the president. With them, there...

It needs to be a rule for the Larry Hogan wing of the Republican Party that anytime they drone about it being time to “move on,” they’re required to say out loud exactly what it means to move on. Because when the Wall Street Journal or Mitt Romney repeats that condescending line with absolute disdain, they’re not just talking about zeroing out the political viability of a single man who offends their delicate sensibilities. They’re talking about a complete memory-holing of the GOP’s shift from country club to Costco and the abandonment of all the issues that brought hundreds of...

Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, settled a pair of lawsuits Monday against the city of Louisville, according to his attorneys. The city said it will pay $2 million per the settlements filed in federal and state court, according to Walker attorney Steve Romines, CBS News reported Tuesday: Walker and Taylor were settled in bed for the night when they were roused by banging on her apartment door around midnight on March 13, 2020. Police were outside with a drug warrant, and they used a battering ram to knock down the door. Walker fired a single shot from a handgun, striking...

Thailand's Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the oldest child of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has been taken to hospital after suffering heart problems. A statement from the Royal Palace confirmed Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44, lost consciousness on Wednesday at Pak Chong in the north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima while training her dogs.She was taken to the local hospital before being flown by helicopter with a royal medical team to Bangkok once her condition had "stabilised to a certain extent".The palace statement said the princess was receiving treatment at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in the Thai capital.

The TSA says the change will 'advance civil rights' and improve the customer experience