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A pilot had a medical emergency on a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Columbus, Ohio today. The pilot was removed from the flight deck when this occurred, according to a spokesperson for the airline, and a pilot from another airline who happened to be on board “assisted with radio communication” with the other Southwest pilot commanded the aircraft. This incident was first reported on Twitter by Charlotte-based American Airlines Airbus first officer Josh Yoder. The aircraft initially departed on schedule, flew out over Utah north of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, before returning to the gate in Las Vegas...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 12 Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[b] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying...

What if I told you that a very powerful man has, in his own words, been "infiltrating governments" around the world to implement a surveillance state, strip you of your property rights, and remove your freedom of speech? And what if this same man was pushing policies that benefited big corporations (too big to fail) while bankrupting millions of small businesses (too small to save)? More and more of the struggles that individuals and small businesses face point back to Klaus Schwab and the prison he is erecting, a prison few of us have ever even heard of. Its name?...

It’s been six weeks since I published a report, based on anonymous sourcing, naming President Joe Biden as the official who ordered the mysterious destruction last September of Nord Stream 2, a new US$11 billion pipeline that was scheduled to double the volume of natural gas delivered from Russia to Germany. The story gained traction in Germany and Western Europe, but was subject to a near media blackout in the US. Two weeks ago, after a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Washington, US and German intelligence agencies attempted to add to the blackout by feeding the New York...

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took part in a video conference in preparation for this week’s European Council meeting. The summit’s agenda includes the war in Ukraine and economic issues regarding European competitiveness, the state of the internal market, and energy. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, and the prime ministers of Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Latvia attended the video conference with Viktor Orbán. During the video conference, Orbán said that Hungary belongs to the peace camp, and therefore he continues to call for an immediate ceasefire and the start of peace talks. He emphasized that “Ukraine, as a candidate...

God’s forgiveness can be obtained only by faith. We can’t reason it out. Christ’s gift to us of his blood atonement is so deep, so gracious, so mysterious, it’s far beyond any human ability to understand. We may see the law clearly applied to our sin. We may feel condemnation, fear and guilt over our trespasses, but our heavenly Father always stands lovingly beside us, ready to forgive. The blood of Christ, the love of the Father, the Lord’s desire to pardon: all these blessings are known only by faith. “But that no one is justified by the law in...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 22. Reliable information has been received here that the rebels are abandoning the line of the Rappahannock and falling back upon their defences in the vicinity of Richmond. DESERTERS AND ABSENTEES. The War Department has received the rolls of all the regiments comprising the Army of the United States, with the number of absentees or deserters from the army, which show that there are upward of one hundred and twenty-five thousand of this class, most of whom it is expected will be brought in by the recent proclamation of the President. The instructions of the War Department...

A little over a week ago, on Sunday, March 12, a near-catastrophic event occurred that could have wrecked the lives of everyone reading this: A Powerful Solar Eruption on Far Side of Sun Still Impacted Earth. A massive eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection or CME, was detected escaping from the Sun at 11:36 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2023. The CME erupted from the side of the Sun opposite Earth. This was a replay of the Carrington event of September 1, 1859: Suddenly, [British astronomer Richard Christian] Carrington spotted what he described as “two patches...

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys before Sunday's Pride Night game against the visiting Vancouver Canucks because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQIA+ rights in the country. The decision was made by the NHL organization following discussions with security officials within and outside the franchise, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to the AP on Wednesday on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the move.

23 March 2023Thursday of the 4th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Turibius of Mongrovejo, Bishop) St. Turibius Chapel at the Pontifical College, Josephinum, Columbus, OH Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 32:7-14 ©Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare IsraelThe Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they...

Following the release of President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington, R- Texas, is proposing a means for voters to have a say about rising debt and soaring inflation.Arrington introduced a resolution calling for an Article V convention of states. More than the required two-thirds of states previously called for either a fiscal responsibility amendment or a balanced budget amendment in the 1970s. Arrington’s legislation says, Congress "appears to have failed in its constitutional duty to count applications and call a ‘convention for proposing amendments.’" He introduced a similar measure last year, but now Republicans...

YORK, NY — Beloved Football superstar Colin Kaepernick has announced he will be suing his white parents for the cruel act of adopting him into a white family without his consent. Kaepernick's legal team announced he is seeking $21 million in reparations from the couple. "The damage done to our client by growing up in a loving household under two white parents is incalculable," said Attorney Jim Grifton outside the law offices of Grifton & Grift, LLC to members of the press. "Having a present father, living in the suburbs, and being kept safe from gang violence deprived him of...

The legendary investor indicates that more than 60% of Comerica and U.S. Bancorp deposits are uninsured. If in recent days, observers had focused on First Republic Bank (FRC) - Get Free Report, the prominent investor Michael Burry is sounding the alert on two other banks: Comerica (CMA) - Get Free Report and U.S. Bancorp. In a chart, the legendary investor names what he considers the banks most vulnerable to a bank run. These are also among the firms with the most unrealized losses in their portfolios of Treasury bonds and municipal bonds. It appears from the chart/guide, as Burry called...

The new breakthrough has now achieved stimulated emission [laser] and detection for single photons, as well as small groups of photons from a single atom, leading to them becoming strongly correlated – in other words, "quantum light." And that's a huge step forward..."By demonstrating that we can identify and manipulate photon-bound states, we have taken a vital first step towards harnessing quantum light for practical use..."

Silicon Valley Bank dished out $219 million worth of loans to officers, directors and principal shareholders in the months before it collapsed. The money was handed it out in the final quarter of 2022 and was three times higher than the amount borrowed by insiders in the three months before, marking a two-decade record high. It comes as the San Francisco Federal Reserve boss Mary Daly has felt the wrath of both Democrats and Republicans for her failure to act on signs of weakness at the bank, which caved on March 10. The unusually high number of loans is documented...

Just about anyone whose job it is to pay attention to financial news should have known that interest rates would go up over the course of the last year. A year ago, when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in three years to combat inflation, it said that the banking industry should expect “ongoing increases,” and by September, the Fed projected that it wouldn’t stop heightening rates until they topped 4.5%—from near zero in early 2022. The Fed did what was largely predicted March 22, when it announced it would raise interest rates by 25 basis...

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Late last month, cops in Dallas, Texas rescued a cute little animal they found huddling near a dumpster. They saved the animal but the discovery soon had the rescuers wondering what kind of animal was it, exactly. When the mystery animal was brought to Dallas Animal Services, some people commented that it was a baby dog while others said it was a baby coyote or a hybrid of both. Though the mystery animal, which was named Toast, was clearly a canine, Dallas Animal Services performed a DNA test to know for sure what species it was. When the results came...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court filing. Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for former Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, asked a judge to schedule an immediate emergency hearing and suspend the trial “until these issues have been considered and resolved.” Lawyers for the other four defendants joined...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high. The president notched an approval rating of 38% in the new poll, after 45% said they approved in February and 41% in January. His ratings hit their lowest point of his presidency last July, at 36%, as the full weight of rising gasoline, food and other costs began to hit U.S. households. Just 31% approve...