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The 2023 LIV Golf season debuted this week, as LIV Mexico is the first event in a 14-event schedule. While several new players have defected from the PGA Tour join LIV's ranks, including Mito Pereira, Danny Lee, Thomas Pieters and Brendan Steele, LIV is sticking with one familiar formula from last year: the total prize money.

The Jesus Revolution shocked movie elites in landing in the top three movie money makers this past weekend. This movie, which includes former Frasier star, Kelsey Grammer, way outperformed expectations on opening weekend. The Washington Examiner writes: The premiere of Jesus Revolution took the box office’s No. 3 spot this past weekend. Moviegoers defied film critics’ reviews of the newly released film, which is based on the real-life experience of hippies being invited into church by Southern California pastor Chuck Smith, who was played by Frasier star Kelsey Grammer. The film depicts the Christian movement in the late 1960s and...

Police in suburban Chicago said there were "no suspicious circumstances to report" about the Hammond, Indiana, native's death.Longtime minor league pitcher Matt Pobereyko, who had recently become a top hurler in Mexico, died suddenly near Chicago, officials and shocked loved ones said Monday. Pobereyko was 31. Pobereyko was in his apartment, in a west Chicagoland suburb when he collapsed Friday and was later discovered by his girlfriend, the pitcher's brother, Daniel Pobereyko, told NBC News on Monday. “He just dropped and that’s all we know,” the grieving brother said. “We don’t know. There’s nothing outstanding on the autopsy. But from...

A couple dudes want to cool the planet by releasing balloons filled with sulfur dioxide. They say they got ‘OKs to launch’ from officials; officials say otherwise. Controversial solar geoengineering startup Make Sunsets says it released three balloons carrying atmosphere-altering particles in Reno, Nevada, this month. It’s an escalation of the company’s questionable climate change-fighting tactics, which got it banned from launching balloons in Mexico in January. And while the company says it got the green light from the FAA and local authorities, officials say no such authorization was granted. The way Make Sunsets explains it, this kind of geoengineering...

Nearly 20% of Generation Z, or those ages 19 to 26, identify as something other than heterosexual, the latest Gallup Poll shows.The percentage of adults in the U.S. who identify as LGBTQ increased slightly year over year, to 7.2% last year, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday. While that’s just a slight increase from 7.1% in 2021, it’s more than double what it was a decade ago, when Gallup found just 3.5% of the U.S. population identified as something other than heterosexual in 2012. Advertisement Gallup asked more than 10,000 adults nationwide how they identify in telephone interviews last...

Woody Harrelson divided Saturday Night Live viewers over his monologue as the actor hosted the NBC sketch show for the fifth time. The True Detective alum took the stage and made remarks calling out mandates over the Covid vaccine. “The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over,” Harrelson said about an alleged film script he read....

Former Alabama star QB AJ McCarron is now a player in the rebooted XFL spring league. McCarron says he passed on being a backup in the NFL so sons could watch him play. Dwayne Johnson praised the move saying it meant a lot "personally." AJ McCarron is now throwing footballs in the rebooted XFL spring league, and while some might look at it as a step backward, the quarterback sees it as a huge opportunity for him and his sons on a personal level. This weekend, the former Alabama Crimson Tide star led the St. Louis Battlehawks to the second-straight...

Donald Trump is the Santa Claus of politics.Ol’ St. Don glided down the glass escalator in Trump Tower seven years ago, much the way Ol’ St. Nick slides down a chimney. Weary from world travels and splotched with soot from so many fireplaces, he brought cheer and joy with his rosy cheeks and buoyant nature.Dressed in bold colors like a Christmas ornament and carrying a sack of hidden presents on his back, how could anyone not love him? Especially a child!Because the satchel is closed with presents just barely peeking out, children dream. They imagine anything and everything might be...

MK Tzvika Fogel to Sharon Gal: "The act that the residents of Judea and Samaria did yesterday in Hawara is the strongest deterrent effect that the State of Israel has had since the Magen Wall. After a murder like yesterday's, we need burning villages when the IDF does not operate" He also added: "I want to restore security to the residents of the State of Israel. How do we do that? We stop with the word 'proportionality'. We stop with the reluctance to collective punishment because it is not suitable for all kinds of courts. I am taking off my...

The public prosecutor's office and the criminal police have apparently searched premises of the Archdiocese of Munich as part of investigations into the church abuse scandal. As reported by the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", the action took place on 16 February at the Ordinariate and the Archbishop's Palace. In the process, the investigators are said to have looked into the rumour that there could be a "poison cabinet" in the Archdiocese with sensitive files on abuse cases.

Newly released photos offer a rare glimpse into the abandoned demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, revealing rare wildlife and plant life flourishing in the space largely untouched by humans. Endangered animals and unique flora are thriving in the 160-mile-long strip of border land that has been largely deserted by humans for decades. A total of 6,168 wildlife species have created a home in the DMZ area, where landmines buried underground are a reminder of the Korean War that ended in armistice some 70 years ago.

They have their final meeting coming soon, so it will be soon be revealed their final view on the priesthood. I fear the worst. From 2021 The controversial "Synodal Path" now addresses the question of whether the Catholic Church needs priests at all. This was decided by the Synodal Assembly by vote yesterday (Thursday). It was also suggested to discuss an LGBT sacrament.

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WJW) – There was a unique deer sighting in North Olmsted over the weekend. FOX 8 viewer Nathan Lang shared pictures of a Piebald deer crossing State Route 252 on Sunday evening. Lang says he slowed down after spotting the deer and turned on his hazard lights to slow other traffic as well. The deer crossed the road safely. According to WorldDeer.org, Piebald Deer are rarely seen. They have a genetic mutation that can result in patches of white, instead of brown, hair.

Just when you thought Scarborough might have hit rock bottom in his pro-Biden toadying . . . Scarborough and Psaki tried to blame the Trump administration for the train derailment and toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Psaki was first up: We're here because of all the deregulation of the train industry during the Trump administration.Regulation that would make it safer, that would make trains safer. And make this type of accident we saw last week, prevent this type of accident.Scarborough piled on: Let's underline the fact, and just say it very slowly so our friends in, in Trump's orbit...

Vladimir Putin will die whilst serving his country and the world can expect an assassination, one war expert believes. The Kremlin tyrant could be left with 'bullets in his back’ while he is still in office, they predict. Putin’s car was “attacked” in what may have been an attempt on his life amid the Ukraine war, it was claimed in September and in 2012, it was suggested that he had survived five very near misses. Over the years, the Russian President's health has attracted a great deal of speculation, including claims that he has Parkinson’s and travels around with a...

Video obtained from a concerned parent reveals Dr. Holly Hoefgen -- of the Washington University transgender clinic in St. Louis, which is currently under investigation -- lying to an audience of parents about the practices followed when medically transitioning kids. (click photo for video) This was an event organized for parents by local Parent Teacher Organization Equity Committees. The Washington University transgender clinic is the subject of a recent bombshell whistleblower report by Jamie Reed. It is now being investigated by Missouri’s Attorney General @AGAndrewBailey, and also by Senator @HawleyMO. Read this for the truth of what’s going on. Jamie...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev on Monday to reinforce the US’s support for Ukraine. (snip) Shmyhal, speaking through an interpreter, said the two discussed further U.S. sanctions on Russia aimed at weakening its economy and military and “confiscating frozen Russian assets and putting them to the benefit of the recovery of Ukraine.”But Yellen told reporters in a phone briefing that there were still significant legal obstacles to fully seizing the $300 billion in Russian central bank assets frozen by sanctions.

The war in Ukraine cannot be won “by any reasonable calculation,” which is why a ceasefire is needed as soon as possible, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on public Kossuth Radio on Friday morning. Viktor Orbán stressed that Russia cannot win the war because the West is mobilizing so much arms, energy, and money behind Ukraine that it is “unlikely by human reckoning” to win an open military conflict against such force. He added that the reverse is also true, and that anyone who thinks Russia, a nuclear power, can be beaten, is wrong. “NATO, of which Hungary is a...

[Catholic Caucus] The "Case" of the Pienza Monastery. Restoring the Truth. Msgr. ViganòMarco TosattiDear StilumCuriali, we receive and gladly publish this text received from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Happy reading and sharing. §§§SOME CLARIFICATIONSto restore the truth about the situationof the Monastery “Maria Tempio dello Spirito Santo” of PienzaPart OneThe sequence of events After the disclosure of conflicting and contradictory news relating to the recent events that have involved the cloistered community of the Benedictine Monastery of Pienza, I consider it my duty as a Pastor to intervene to re-establish the truth of the facts, as they are verifiable to...

close Alaska leaders demand Biden administration 'not kill' oil drilling project The Biden administration quietly updated a federal database showing how many unused oil and gas drilling permits it has approved, reducing the number by more than 2,000. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revised the current number of approved applications for permits to drill (APD) — which oil and gas companies are required to file once they identify a deposit on a lease that can be tapped — down from an estimated 9,000 to less than 6,700. The BLM, a subagency of the Department of the Interior (DOI), blamed...