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FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILYMatthew 2:13-15, Matthew 2:19-23 Friends, on this feast of the Holy Family, our Gospel shows us Joseph and Mary’s flight into Egypt, pursuing their mission to protect the Christ child. This story prompts me to say something about the Christian family’s mission.The family is, above all, the forum in which both parents and children are able to discern their missions. It is perfectly good, of course, if deep bonds and rich emotions are cultivated within the family, but those relationships and passions must cede to something that is more spiritually focused. A biblical prioritization of values...

From the transcript: "Q: So it looks like, around 9 a.m., your nephew texts you: You and Jim be safe. And then 2:12 p.m., on January 6, you text back: I was on the front with a few others. I orchestrated it."

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed off on legislation that would significantly expand the government’s regulatory power over the news media, a measure that journalists have warned will erode press freedom.Mr. Zelensky, whose administration has been criticized for undermining press freedoms, ordered the drafting of a law increasing media regulation in 2019.The measure was passed by Ukraine’s Parliament earlier this month along with a spate of other bills that lawmakers say were intended to help the country meet the European Union’s legislative conditions for membership. The bills included measures to protect the rights of national minorities. Mr. Zelensky signed...

As we’ve been saying for seven months, keep watching how the globalists respond to Mexico. AMLO doesn’t want to join the economic suicide pact known as Build Back Better, or the North American version “Green New Deal.” This puts him in a precarious place. This sentence from a recent financial analysis article in Reuters is telling, “concerns about a U.S. recession and a trade spat Mexico is embroiled in with the United States and Canada over Lopez Obrador’s energy policy, which critics call nationalist, muddy the outlook for the peso.” A “nationalist energy policy”? What exactly is a “nationalist energy...

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had an uncharacteristically warm Twitter exchange on Thursday following the announcement of Raskin’s cancer diagnosis a day earlier. Sharing a Fox News headline on Raskin’s diagnosis, Green sent well wishes to her Democratic colleague. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) had an uncharacteristically warm Twitter exchange on Thursday following the announcement of Raskin’s cancer diagnosis a day earlier. Sharing a Fox News headline on Raskin’s diagnosis, Green sent well wishes to her Democratic colleague.

Space is so large, and human technology so limited, that the time it would take to travel to another star presents a significant barrier. One potential solution would be generation ships... Another would be artificial hibernation, if it could be successfully implemented. This is what scientists from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have started to investigate; not in humans, but in monkeys, by chemically triggering a state of hypothermia. Hibernation and its slightly less comatose state, torpor, are physiological states that allow animals to withstand adverse conditions, like extreme cold and low...

<p>MOUNT POCONO, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A 28-year-old man was arrested Friday in the Poconos in connection with the murders of four University of Idaho students, law enforcement sources tell ABC News.</p><p>Action News has confirmed the man's name is Bryan Kohberger.</p>

VIDEOEarly in 2021, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey was making the media rounds pitching a John F. Kennedy assassination theory that he included in his recently released book, “Operation Dragon: Inside The Kremlin’s Secret War on America.” His theory was that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev personally ordered the assassination of Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald but then called it off when he realized the Soviets could easily be blamed for it thus leading to a nuclear war. However, according to Woolsey, Oswald was such a Communist fanatic that he refused to stand down and went ahead with the assassination.This...

Russia launched 16 "kamikaze" drones into Ukraine overnight, Kyiv's military said on Friday, a day after Moscow fired dozens of missiles in its latest barrage against Ukrainian critical infrastructure....An administrative building in the city was partially destroyed, according to Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv's military administration, who also said there was no information about any casualties.Russia has launched numerous waves of drone and missile strikes against Ukraine since mid-October, heavily damaging its energy infrastructure and forcing planned and emergency power outages.

Off-duty Fulton County Deputy James Thomas was shot and killed early Thursday while driving on Bolton Road in the Riverside neighborhood of Atlanta. The driver of a van spotted Thomas driving erratically at about 4:30 a.m. and tried to pass him, 11 ALIVE reports. While in the process of passing Thomas, the van driver heard gunshots, and a collision ensued, after which both Thomas and the van driver crashed.

According to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the Biden administration rates as “the most corrupt and dangerous” in the history of the country. During an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity” on Thursday, Gingrich made the declaration and warned of a “constitutional crisis” stemming from the Biden administration’s desire to wage war on its own people. “Oh, look, I think they’ll do a lot, and I think this is just a childish game by the Biden team,” he said. “The fact is on the third or the fourth, the Republicans who will run the committees no matter who the speaker...

On Dec. 22, the space agency issued a Request for Information regarding a non-exclusive SpaceX study earlier this year that suggested how the Hubble Space Telescope could be "reboosted" into a higher orbit. Since the start of Hubble's operations in 1990, the orbit of the space telescope 335 miles (540 kilometers) above Earth has been decaying. Reboosting it to an orbit that is both higher and more stable could add years to Hubble’s operating lifetime delaying the point at which NASA must deorbit or dispose of the telescope. During its five space shuttle missions to the service Hubble, NASA used...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 220 points, or 0.7%. The S&P 500 shed 0.8%, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.9%. Friday marks the final day of trading of what’s been a painful year for stocks. A volatile bear market, sticky inflation, and aggressive rate hikes from the Federal Reserve battered growth and technology stocks. These factors also weighed on investor sentiment. All three of the major averages are marching toward their worst year since 2008, slated to snap a three-year win streak. The Dow fared the best of the indexes in 2022, down 8.58% through Thursday, while the S&P...

"64% of the assaults were committed by black individuals, 17% by Asians (Muslim/Arab)," .... Dov Hikind and Americans for Antisemitism broke down a number of the assaults on Jews in New York City, which is the epicenter of antisemitic violence, and the results are revealing. The project documented 194 cases of anti-Jewish assaults in NYC between April 2018 and August 2022, with the perps’ group identities documented in 99 of those assaults. According to the report’s data, 64% of the assaults were committed by black individuals, 17% by Asians (Muslim/Arab), 10% by Hispanics, and 3% by white individuals. The 17%...

This is on the docket for the Supremes on 06 Jan 2023.

A 25-year-old man was arrested Friday morning in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains in connection with the murders of four University of Idaho students, law enforcement sources told ABC News. Sources said that authorities knew who they were looking for and had tracked the man down to Pennsylvania. A SWAT team entered the location where he was staying in order to take him into custody Friday. Moscow police officers, members of Idaho State Police, Moscow city leaders and University of Idaho officials will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. local time Friday.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland school board election results are changing because of a misconfiguration of the system that tallied the votes, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters said in a news release late Wednesday. The Nov. 8 election results for District 4 in the Oakland Unified School District will change because of the error.

DETROIT, MI - Presidential candidate Joe Biden's aides were once again forced to use the spray bottle at a recent campaign event. As the former vice president wandered the crowd, aides were poised throughout the room, ready to spring into action. Luckily, they were prepared with their locked and loaded spray bottles when the inevitable happened.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students whose bodies were found in a rental home near campus last month, multiple law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Friday. It marks the first major break in a case that has both captivated and mystified the globe. The sources said the man was apprehended in the Scranton area Friday morning. Authorities are expected to hold a news conference on the case later Friday. Few details have been released publicly in the gruesome Nov. 13 slayings of...