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Sen. John Fetterman’s health is reportedly improving but he could remain hospitalized for up to two more weeks as doctors work to get his medication “exactly right.” “John Fetterman is making progress in his recovery from clinical depression and could leave Walter Reed within next two weeks,” CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju tweeted on Tuesday. “The senator’s physician recently informed him that he will be ‘as good or better than his best days post-stroke,’” Raju added. Fetterman’s lengthy hospitalization at Walter Reed has been the result of his doctors “trying to get his ‘medication balance exactly right,’” according to Raju....

You can't make up stories of incompetence worse than this. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, son of the infamous anti-Semitic playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones), evidently does not sweat the details when it comes to official duties. His city finally fessed up a few days ago to having been scammed by a notorious international fugitive conman into signing a sister city agreement with a fake nation, complete with a nice ceremony last January 12. (Why a sister city agreement with any nation, fake or real, was seen as appropriate is a subordinate but interesting question.) Barstool Sports explains:...

It’s Washington’s newest guessing game: Who is the unnamed Biden family member who got proceeds from a $3 million wire to Hunter Biden associate John “Rob” Walker weeks after Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017? House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) first revealed Monday that bank records obtained via subpoena implicate a “new Biden family member” in the panel’s probe of the first son’s alleged influence-peddling scheme. Comer is expected to reveal the person’s name at some point but has not yet announced specific plans to do so, leaving the door open to speculation about who else...

During a recent interview, Biden shared an “epiphany” he had back in high school that caused him to support gay marriage and LGBTQ rights. However, despite this personal awakening, Biden’s track record shows that he has not always been supportive of gay marriage, and he has changed his stance over the years. “I can remember exactly when my epiphany was,” Biden started. “I hadn’t thought much about it, to tell you the truth. I was a senior in high school, and my dad was dropping me off. I remember I was about to get out of the car, and I...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 10 The Rich and the Kingdom of God17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”18 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.’[d]”20 “Teacher,” he declared, “all these I have kept...

Vienna police said that the threat was "non-specific" and that the patrols were a "preventative measure." Vienna police said on Thursday that it had increased patrols due to a general threat of attack against churches. Austria's public security directorate had received indications that an attack with an "Islamist motive" had been planned in Vienna, police said. "You will notice there are currently a larger number of police forces on patrol with special equipment," Vienna's police force tweeted. "The reason is a non-specific threat of attack against churches," it said. Police said that this represented a common "preventative measure." Vienna's police...

In compliance with the call issued by certain of our citizens, who desired to inaugurate a Loyal League, which should, in its membership, devote its influence and its power to the suppression of treason, and the perpetuation of the Union, an immense audience assembled at the Academy of Music last night. Tickets of admission, with Union badges, had been furnished to every loyal man or woman who desired then, and we learn that the demand was such that twenty buildings like the Academy would not have sufficed to accommodate them. Thousands of people had gathered about the doors of the...

15 March 2023Wednesday of the 3rd week of Lent St. Clement Mary Hofbauer Church, Baltimore, MD Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 4:1,5-9 ©Keep these laws and observe themMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. ‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in the...

We can’t punish the J6 Committee members for their lies from the dais, but they did something far worse. They concealed the evidence by refusing to let anyone but their chosen allies see it. They even tried to lock it up for fifty years. There’s a term for this: Obstruction of Justice. We are all familiar with the fact that members of Congress are constitutionally immune from prosecution over what they say during the time they are debating in the House or Senate (Article 1, §6, clause 1). So, Pencil Neck Schiff was free to lie through his teeth about...

Argentina's inflation rate has soared past 100% for the first time since the end of hyperinflation in the early 90s. Inflation hit 102.5% in February, the country's statistics agency said, meaning the price of many consumer goods has more than doubled since 2022. Argentina has been in economic difficulty for years, and most of the population now live in poverty. Its government has being trying to stem price rises by capping the prices of food and other products. But the food and drink sectors saw the most dramatic increase recent, with prices growing by 9.8% in February compared to January....

WASHINGTON — The White House is exploring additional ways to ensure accountability for those who were responsible for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, administration officials said Tuesday. Pointing to the bonuses some bank employees got last week and stock sales made by senior executives in recent years, a White House official said, “All of those are worthy of a deeper look.” Biden privately told his advisers in meetings over the weekend that he wants tougher regulations on banks to prevent future failures, the second official said. Biden wants Congress to reverse the deregulatory actions lawmakers took during the Trump...

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Shares of embattled bank Credit Suisse on Wednesday hit another all-time low for a second consecutive session, dropping by more than 21% shortly before being halted from trade. Credit Suisse’s largest investor, Saudi National Bank, said it could not provide the Swiss bank with any further financial assistance, according to a Reuters report. “We cannot because we would go above 10%. It’s a regulatory issue,” Saudi National Bank Chairman Ammar Al Khudairy told Reuters Wednesday. Several Italian banks were also subject to automatic trading stoppages after sharp declines, including UniCredit, Finecobank and Monte Dei Paschi. The embattled Swiss lender disclosed...

Criminal charges have been dropped against a white couple charged in 2020 after one of them was captured on video pulling a handgun on a Black woman and her daughters outside a Michigan restaurant. The trial had been set to start Monday for Eric Wuestenberg and Jillian Wuestenberg, but Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Mary Ellen Brennan dismissed the case after the alleged victims did not show up to provide witness testimony, The Oakland Press reported. The Wuestenbergs were each charged with one count of felonious assault for the July 1, 2020, incident in the parking lot of a Chipotle...

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Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Honduras will establish diplomatic relations with China, President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday, a move that would result in the severing of longstanding official ties with Taiwan. The switch -- which Castro pledged to make while on the campaign trail -- comes weeks after her government announced it was negotiating with China to build a hydroelectric dam. Under Beijing's "One China" principle, no country may maintain official diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan. Castro, who became her country's first woman president in 2022, wrote on Twitter that she had instructed Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina "to undertake the...

TOKYO -- The increasingly global nature of intellectual property development could provide Beijing some protection from the U.S.-led push to cut China out of supply chains, as companies worry about losing access to key technology in such areas as electric vehicles. American entities jointly applied for 125 patents in China with Chinese universities or companies over the three years through 2022. Japanese-Chinese joint applications were close behind, at 115. Though U.S. and Japanese applicants account for fewer than 1% of all patent filings in China, many cover advanced technologies in areas such as batteries, telecommunications or key industrial metals, for...

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It really begs the question, what does this Prime Minister have to hide?' asked Conservative MP Michael Cooper. OTTAWA — Liberal MPs once again spent hours Tuesday filibustering a parliamentary committee meeting to prevent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, from testifying about allegations of Beijing’s interference in past elections. ... Conservative MP Michael Cooper.. It’s been now more than 14 hours over four days that the Liberal MPs on this committee have been filibustering for hours and hours and hours on a very simple motion to have the prime minister’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, testify...

TROY, Ill. (WKRC) — A woman in Illinois made a horrific discovery in her home while looking for Christmas decorations. Eight months after her husband disappeared, Jennifer Maedge found his body inside a closet, according to KTVI. Richard Maedge, 53, was reported missing on April 27, 2022. Jennifer told investigators he had called her to say he was leaving work early. When she got home, he was gone, but his wallet, keys, and car were still there. Police did search the house at the time, but found no trace of Richard. They described it as a “hoarder home" with a...