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Progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been served with an ethics complaint by an outside group that accuses her of 'defaming' the creator of the Libs of TikTok account on Twitter, with more than 2 million followers. The creator, Chaya Raichik delivered the legal papers herself. The conservative Heritage Foundation asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to open a probe into the matter. The step does not guarantee a probe by the House Ethics Committee, which has a bipartisan membership and decides which matters involving lawmakers to probe. The New York lawmaker asked asked Yoel Roth, the former head...

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“The anti-liturgical obsession is an ideology that canonically becomes a tyranny”: Archbishop Héctor AguerI celebrated my first Mass on November 26, 1972. I did it using the rite then in force, the one created by Paul VI, whose author was the Freemason Annibale Bugnini. The Mass was In Spanish, of course, though the secret prayers of the celebrant survived in Latin.It had never occurred to me to resort to the "Mass of the Ages." The one we prayed at the Seminary every year of my formation, with the novelty that it was -- in the chapel of the philosophate, daily...

Moments after the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville private school was identified as transgender, a baseless narrative emerged: that there has been an incredible rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in recent years. Some pundits and political influencers on social media went further, suggesting that movements for trans rights are radicalizing activists into terrorists. The data tells a different story, according to gender and criminology experts. Mass casualty shootings perpetrated by someone identifying as trans or nonbinary are rare, and in fact, those groups are far more likely to be the victims of violence. Here’s a...

Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said on Tuesday that his country has now been able to redirect all of its crude oil exports that have been impacted by Western sanctions over Ukraine to what he referred to as "friendly" countries. "I can say today that we have managed to completely redirect the entire volume of exports affected by the embargo. There was no decrease in sales," Shulginov was quoted by Reuters as saying. The Rise of BRICS There is no question that Russia’s fellow members of the increasingly influential BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Alliance have played a...

In a recent Fox News poll, former President Donald Trump surged ahead with an impressive 30-point lead in the Republican primary race, leaving his opponents in the dust. The results are a testament to the enduring support that Trump commands within the Republican Party.The outlet reported that “Republican primary voters were read a list of 15 announced and potential candidates for the 2024 nomination. The survey, released Wednesday, finds Trump has doubled his lead since February and is up by 30 points over Ron DeSantis (54%-24%). Last month, he was up by 15 (43%-28%).”A jovial Trump wasted no time in...

While Republicans and Democrats fight over the debt ceiling, the American economy continues to struggle. Two U.S. banks have failed, home prices are up, and inflation continues to take its toll.Despite this, the Biden administration refuses to budge on its proposed budget as Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., presses for negotiations, per the New York Post. In a video released by the MAGA War Room Tuesday, President Trump called out the Biden administration and noted how they “waged war on American energy.”President Trump: “We are seeing bank failures left and right. Biden and his enablers in Confress are...

Rep. Matt Gaetz on Wednesday questioned whether the U.S. military is facing a purposeful “recruiting collapse” because of the Biden administration’s embrace of left-wing wokeism in racial and sexual issues. “America’s top military leaders have brought misery to almost every part of the globe they have touched,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, citing military flubs such as allowing Iran to operate in Iraq with attacks on U.S. troops, arming ISIS goons in Syria, and handing Afghanistan to the Taliban with deaths of U.S. troops and no reprisal.

The County Supervisors in Shasta County, California, voted last night to go with paper ballots in elections going forward. The vote was 3-2. In January the County Supervisors in Shasta County voted to get rid of Dominion voting systems in their elections. This vote sent shockwaves through the state. Last night the citizens in Shasta County supported their Board of Supervisors when the vote to use paper ballots in future elections was on the table.

California's San Diego State men's basketball team banned from paying for travel to Texas to play in program's first Final Four game A lawmaker in California is hoping to overturn the state's ban on government funding for travel to states with laws they find discriminatory. Since 2016, California has been steadily adding to its list of U.S. destinations barred from state-funded travel. The practice began in retaliation to North Carolina enacting a law requiring people to use the bathrooms that corresponded with their biological sex. State Sen. Toni Atkins is seeking to overturn the prohibition, saying that the cumbersome regulations...

Edward Hille gets emotional when he talks about watching the demise of America from his new home in Roatan - a bay island of Honduras. He’s now what many call an expat - still an American citizen, but fled years ago to live in another country. According to Aetna International, the number of expats has more than doubled in the last fifteen years — and even more Americans are leaving the US amid rising political divisiveness and cost of living.

AOC storms away from ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator on Capitol Hill Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) angrily stormed away from “Libs of TikTok” creator Chaya Raichik after denouncing her as “super transphobic” in a tense Capitol Hill confrontation that was captured by amateur video last week. Raichik on Thursday posted a video that was filmed by the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. The “Libs of TikTok” creator confronted Ocasio-Cortez after the two bumped into each other in the congressional building. “You’re actually super transphobic and I never want to share a space with you,” the New York congresswoman angrily told Raichik in the...

BREAKING: Active shooter reported at Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland

A woman has sued a California county and its district fair after her daughter's pet goat was sold for $902, slaughtered, and barbecued despite the family wanting to withdraw its entry for auction. Jessica Long's family bought Cedar the goat, a seven-month-old white Boer, in April 2022 and the animal soon formed an attachment to her nine-year-old daughter - who fed and cared for it everyday. However, the family decided to enter Cedar into the Shasta District Fair’s junior livestock auction on June 24, 2022 - where the animals are sold off to be used as meat. But long before...

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, jeopardizing free coverage of a wide range of preventive services including mammograms, colonoscopies and mental health screenings for nearly 168 million people on employer health insurance and on Obamacare’s individual market. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor, the author of several previous rulings against Obamacare, sided with conservative employers and individuals in Texas who argued that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that set those requirements has been acting unconstitutionally since 2010. The decision blocks enforcement of the rules nationwide.

From hateful rants on Fox news to falsehoods in Congress, the far right is exploiting the Nashville shooting, experts warn An already vigorous assault by Republicans on LGBTQ+ rights around the US is certain to gather pace in the wake of the Nashville school shooting, advocacy groups are warning. Hard-right figures wasted little time in seizing on the reported transgender identity of the Covenant school killer to advance tenets of a “hateful” agenda that has become an obsession of Republican-controlled statehouses from Florida to Tennessee.

One of two Iowa teenagers charged in the 2021 fatal beating of their Spanish teacher over a bad grade will cooperate with prosecutors, it was revealed Wednesday in court. Jeremy Goodale has agreed to testify against his former friend Willard Miller, although it was not immediately clear if the arrangement is part of a plea deal, according to the Des Moines Register. Jefferson County Attorney Chauncey Moulding made the surprising disclosure during a hearing in which Miller's lawyers argued that evidence against the pair should be suppressed because their constitutional rights had been violated.

I live in San Jose, CA. and get my water from San Jose Water (SJW). They bill every two months. My bills average about $300-330 every two months. Yes, they gouge us. Anyway, my mid Oct to mid Dec bill was $340 which I payed. Then, I get my mid Dec to mid Feb bill a couple days ago and out of the blue, it more than doubles to $733…yes, you’re reading that right. How so I ask myself? Nothing has changed in my household with regards to water use. If anything, I do my best to conserve. There are...

A Florida grandmother has been charged with aggravated manslaughter for the hot-car death of her 7-month-old granddaughter, less than a year after her toddler grandson drowned in a pond while she napped. Tracey Nix, 65, was babysitting her seven-month-old granddaughter, Uriel Schock, on Nov. 1, when the infant was found dead in the back seat of her SUV. The 2019 Lexus was parked with all its windows closed outside Nix’s home in small town of Wauchula, where temperatures soared into the 90s on that fall day. Inside the house, Nix, a former school principal, talked to her dog and practiced...

A journalist at a leading Bangladeshi newspaper has been jailed on charges of publishing "false" news after his report on high food prices went viral. Samsuzzaman Shams of Prothom Alo daily appeared in court and was denied bail, a day after he was arrested. His story - which ran on 26 March, the country's Independence Day - is alleged to have "smeared the government". Rights activists have denounced the arrest and accused the government of stifling press freedom. Shams works for is Bangladesh's largest and the most influential daily. It was not immediately clear how long he would stay in...