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The National Hockey League showed recently that there’s a big difference between wanting inclusiveness and being willing to fight for it

The protestors brought signs reading "Cis people are creepy," "Teens [love] drag shows," and "Trans girls need guns." ... On Saturday, teen detransitioner and anti-grooming activist Chloe Cole was met with left-wing LGBTQ protestors while giving a speech in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, against the trans-medicalization of children. Cole, 18, is a female who underwent a double mastectomy and other transgender medical treatments as a minor before realizing that she wasn't actually a boy, and had been groomed into "gender affirming" procedures. While she spoke at a TPUSA Faith "Teens Against Gender Mutilation" event, protestors attempted to drown her out. ... Murfreesboro...

[Catholic Caucus] Retired Archbishop Chaput – free to speak his mindHe saw synodality up close in 2018Retired Archbishop Charles Chaput, the former archbishop of Philadelphia and Denver, lamented that within the Catholic Church currently no one can fill the places of the late Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal George Pell.“Their absence is a very heavy loss because both men embodied articulate, faithful Christian intelligence in a remarkable way,” Chaput said. “No one in current Church leadership has the capacity to replace them. That will happen in time, but the talent bench at the moment seems pretty thin.”The comments came in...

The U.S. Army announced Friday that it had selected four companies to build tactical truck prototypes. In a release, the branch awarded Mack Defense, Navistar Defense, Oshkosh Defense and the American Rheinmetall Vehicles/GM Defense team deals worth a combined total of $24.25 million. The contractors will provide three prototypes of each variant for the Common Tactical Truck (CTT) Family of Vehicles. Each team will build three prototypes of each variant, including the M915 Line Haul Tractor and M1088 Medium Tractor, the Palletized Load System (PLS) and the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT). The contractors will provide three prototypes of...

"Two fighter aircraft of IAF were involved in an accident near Gwalior this morning. The aircraft were on routine operational flying training mission," the Indian Air Force (IAF) wrote in a statement on Twitter. "One of the three pilots involved sustained fatal injuries." The crash on Saturday morning involved a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30 carrying two pilots and a French-made Mirage 2000 with one pilot. The planes crashed in an open field near no civilians. Villagers heard a blast-like sound and found parts of an aircraft in the nearby field. While local outlets initially reported no known fatalities, the IAF reported...

Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, described the initial traffic stop as "highly unusual" for a variety of reasons. "It was not a normal traffic stop," he told NPR. "They were not in marked vehicles, they were not wearing normal police uniforms, and they pulled him out of the car, got him down on the ground and pepper-sprayed him." Police are generally trained to use a reasonably necessary amount of force to accomplish an arrest, but the police officers involved went "far beyond that," Stinson said. Officers are supposed to use the least...

Atlanta Police are investigating a shooting after police said a boyfriend accidentally shot his girlfriend while playing with a gun. On Saturday, police responded to the Northside Plaza apartment complex located at 400 Markham Street after they received an anonymous call about a person shot. Police located a woman with a gunshot wound to the chest . During the initial investigation, police were able to access footage from a Ring camera that showed the victim and her boyfriend were out in the breeze way of the apartment complex when a gun the boyfriend was playing with went off, striking the...

One of the five Memphis officers charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols was the president of the Mississippi branch of a scandal-ridden fraternity. Tadarrius Bean, 24, who was fired over his role in Nichols' brutal beating, served as the head of the Omega Psi Phi's Eta Zeta chapter at the University of Mississippi, according to his LinkedIn. Although the fraternity boasts its more than 100 year history as a haven for black college students, it has been at the center of several hazing incidents in recent years. One chapter in Virginia was suspended after members were found beaten and...

Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s public defender, Anne Taylor, also represented the victims’ parents. Bryan Kohberger, 28, is accused of fatally stabbing 20-year-old Ethan Chapin of Conway, Washington; 21-year-old Madison Mogen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle of Avondale, Arizona; and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves of Rathdrum, Idaho on November 13. According to the court documents, Kohberger’s DNA was found on a tan leather knife sheath left behind on Maddie Mogen’s bed on the 3rd floor at the King Road Residence. Bryan Kohberger is being represented by Anne Taylor, the chief public defender for Kootenai County. It turns out...

These are the men and women in the business of making viewers cringe as they risk their lives en route to being crowned 'slap fighting' champion. Many are trained in other mixed martial arts sports, and have waded into unfamiliar territory with this 'up and coming' sport. The aim of the game is simple: slap your opponent hard enough that they aren't able to slap you back. Competitors stand at arm’s length from each other and take turns slapping their opponent in the face. They are not allowed to move, flinch, or defend themselves. As a result, the injuries are...

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday slammed President Joe Biden's handling of the presidency, vowing to take back the White House in 2024 and reverse what he said was a precipitous decline in the United States since the Democrat took office. Trump was speaking to a crowd at the South Carolina state capitol, his second campaign event of the day after appearing before the New Hampshire Republican party earlier. "Joe Biden has put America on the fast track to ruin and destruction," Trump told the small crowd, "and we will ensure that he does not receive four more years." The...

Former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ramped up their calls for police reform following the release of the video showing the “vicious” beating of Tyre Nichols. “The vicious, unjustified beating of Tyre Nichols and his ultimate death at the hands of five Memphis police officers is just the latest, painful reminder of how far America still has to go in fixing how we police our streets,” they tweeted Saturday. They said responsibility falls on all people to “mobilize” to create change and included a link to a webpage for the Obama Foundation for people to learn about how...

On the 27th, Vice Minister of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Yeo-jeong, announced a strong condemnation of the US support for tanks in Ukraine. In a talk that day, Vice Minister Kim argued, “The United States has made its stand against Russia (Russia) more clear by officially announcing that they will even provide tanks.” “We express serious concern over the actions of the United States, which is escalating the war situation in a cascading fashion by pushing combat equipment for ground attack into Ukraine, and strongly condemn it,” he stressed. Vice Minister Kim said, "I have no doubt that...

The world's third-richest man has been accused of pulling of the 'largest con in corporate history' through the Indian-based Adani Group corporation. US investor Hindenburg Research, which has begun short selling the conglomerate through bonds, conducted a two-year probe into head Gautam Adani, who is worth $125billion. The firm alleges that Adani and his family controlled a web of offshore shell accounts that it used to carry out corruption, money laundering and taxpayer theft, all while siphoning money from the companies they owned. Adani has pulled off this gargantuan feat with the help of enablers in government and a cottage...

The Pope met with the Tribunal of the Roman Rota for the beginning of the judicial year. ...

(Make sure sound is on.) After a great deal of consideration, I have decided that the Paul Pelosi attack should be treated with the same sensitivity that the Left displayed after the attack on Rand Paul. #paulpelosi

Would you keep a chicken as a pet? Meet Jayce Ho, the cool chick who keeps six Polish chickens and two Cochin chickens in her backyard. See video at link.

DUBAI, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A loud blast was heard at a military plant in Iran's central city of Isfahan, but a security official said there were no casualties, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB said on its website early on Sunday

Street rallies, legal conferences, and suspicions about "sudden" deaths show that anti-vax propaganda hasn't gone away — it's just evolvingOn Monday, Fox News host Dan Bongino opened his daily podcast on a topic that seemed like old news: Covid-19 vaccines. He brought them up after first complaining that fellow conservatives had gotten “bogged down” in the story about classified documents seized from President Biden‘s Delaware home and former Washington, D.C., office, “because the left are absolute experts at misdirection,” he said. Instead, Bongino wanted to focus on what he sees as a growing sense of distrust among those who had...

The White House has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the special counsel investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified material. However, a “source familiar with the matter” told CNN that the documents included “U.S. intelligence memos and briefing materials” about Ukraine , the United Kingdom, and Iran dating from 2013 through 2016. This is important, especially when we consider who might have had access to Biden’s documents. There is likely no individual more familiar with the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop than New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who literally wrote the book on it. On Wednesday, she...