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SÃO PAULO – During an interview with an Argentinian TV station aired on March 30, Pope Francis claimed that Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, convicted of bribery and imprisoned in 2018, and former President Dilma Rousseff, impeached due to alleged budgetary manipulation in 2016, were both victims of judicial persecution. His comments sparked anger among the supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and other conservatives. The pontiff’s one-hour-long interview with journalist Gustavo Sylvestre of the Argentinian news channel C5N was recorded prior to his hospitalization on March 29. They discussed several themes, including Latin American politics and the...

Former President Donald Trump got a send-off from cheering supporters on Monday as he rode from his Mar-a-Lago resort and home in Palm Beach for the flight from Palm Beach International Airport that took him to New York to face criminal charges against him.Trump left Mar-a-Lago at about 12:20 p.m. Monday. About 15 minutes later, he walked up the back stairs to his plane at the airport. At 1 p.m. he took off. He touched down about two and a half hours later at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, the New York City borough where he spent his childhood, then deplaned...

There is increase in hate crimes 'targeting religion, sexual orientation and race or ethnicity,' according to federal agency In 2021, Canadian police services received 3,360 statements related to hate crimes, a 27% increase compared to 2020, with a 260% growth against Catholics, according to a new study by Statistics Canada. In 2020, 2,646 hate crimes had been reported to police. According to the federal agency, this spike in hate crimes is largely due to more incidents "targeting religion, sexual orientation and race or ethnicity." The number of hate crimes aimed at religion or the faithful of a given religious group...

President Biden's former executive assistant from his time as vice president testified before Congress on Tuesday that classified documents were spread out across three different locations in the nation's capital, then "remained accessible" to Penn Biden center employees when they were transported there, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer. "Today we learned that when Joe Biden left the vice presidency, boxes containing classified documents, vice presidential records, and other items were stored in three different locations around the Washington, D.C. area, including an office near the White House, an office in Chinatown, and eventually the Penn Biden Center,"...

The president of Virginia Commonwealth University's Students for Life chapter will require private security for the rest of the semester. 'We don’t feel confident in protection from campus police,' said SFLA's Kristan Hawkins.RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – Two arrests have been made in connection to Antifa violence that broke out at a campus speech by leading a pro-life activist in the latest (but far from the first) explosive manifestation of left-wing intolerance. As part of her “Lies Pro-Choicers Believe” Tour, Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins was speaking at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on March 29 when Antifa activists...

Dylan Mulvaney has cosplayed as a ditzy teen girl on TikTok for a full 365 days and threw herself a gala celebration at the Rainbow Room in New York City. We’re still hoping it’s fake, but Vice President Kamala Harris sent Mulvaney a letter of congratulations on the milestone. And as everyone now knows, Bud Light gifted Mulvaney with a can of beer featuring her face, commemorating 365 days of girlhood. We figured this would blow up in Bud Light’s face, and it has. Anheuser-Busch released a statement that doesn’t make things much better — it says the can was...

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Former President Donald Trump could face up to 136 years if he is convicted on all 34 counts of falsification of a business record, if the judge decides — though the more likely maximum is probably four years, or less. Under New York State law, the crime with which Trump is charged is a “Class E” felony, which carries a maximum sentence of four years: § 175.10 Falsifying business records in the first degree. A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and...

What’s the difference? The American taxpayers paid for this secret slush fund to settle, silence. and payoff allegations of wrong doing, created in 1997, ending in 2017. It is time to demand names, allegations, how much was paid and why. Was this abuse of power to cover up and silence wrongdoing of congressional members running for office? There is no difference between this and allegations against DJT.

Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime. The New York indictment of former President Donald Trump, which was unsealed on Tuesday, includes 34 felony counts. All of them are related to a 2016 payment aimed at keeping porn star Stormy Daniels from telling the press about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump. Although there was nothing inherently criminal about that hush payment, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, has transformed it into nearly three dozen felonies through a tricky two-step process. First, Bragg portrays the payment as a violation...

Update from Ukraine | This will help to win! USA sent the most important help to Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UVYu0ubJlU ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 404 – Summary April 3, 2023 Jerome News The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-404-summary/ "Ukrainian Army forms new brigades" (Updated) https://militaryland.net/news/ukrainian-army-forms-new-brigades/

Former President Donald Trump holds a 24-point advantage over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in Massachusetts, according to a Boston Herald/Opinion Diagnostics poll.The Boston Herald survey was conducted in the two days after a New York grand jury voted to indict Trump. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump focuses on his alleged role in paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money.The poll found that 45 percent of likely Republican presidential primary voters in Massachusetts would support Trump, compared to 21 percent supporting DeSantis.The rest of the candidates, which included declared ones like Nikki Haley or hypothetical...

Meghan Markle’s participation trophy case is starting to fill up. It was announced Monday that she’ll receive the 2023 Women of Vision award from famed feminist Gloria Steinem next month. Perhaps the committee behind the Women of Vision could benefit from a trip to the optometrist. The award comes courtesy of the Ms. Foundation, a Brooklyn-based organization which called Markle a “feminist, champion of human rights and gender equity and global role model.”

Ukrainian tank destroys Russian trenches after surviving near miss. A Ukrainian tank is seen destroying Russian trenches after it nearly missed getting hit by a Russian anti tank missile on the frontline. Ukrainian soldiers later appear and successfully capture the tactical point.

The annual “Rod Serling Celebration” was held for more than 100 fifth graders Tuesday morning in the Binghamton City School District. The students were able to witness a mock performance of a Twilight Zone, the famous series founded by Serling, at Binghamton High School today. Before the presentation, kids were familiarized with the show from their class, emphasizing that each episode has its own life lesson. “I like the eye of the beholder,” said 5th grader Diggston Davis. “I like that because it’s not about the beauty on the outside it’s about the beauty on the inside.” Students also got...

One of the many great tragedies prompted by the reported indictment of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, is that so many conservatives now are forced to step aside from engaging in the exciting run-up to the GOP presidential primaries for the 2024 election. Despite the exciting lineup of choices to kick out Biden and Kamala, the order of the day now is to close ranks behind Trump. Except perhaps for Andrew Johnson, no man ever has been as persecuted — and unfairly so — from the moment he entered the presidency. Johnson was a quirk of...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s case against Donald Trump centers around allegations the former president orchestrated illegal “catch and kill” payments in a scheme to suppress negative stories about him during the 2016 election that continued while he was in office, according to the indictment against him unsealed Thursday. Trump, 76, is facing a total of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, which each carry a maximum sentence of four years behind bars. Taken together, the ex-president faces a whopping 136 years behind bars, but if convicted at trial and actually sentenced to jail, the time...

A Jeffco counselor said, 'Our teachers are concerned with parents not knowing' ... A Colorado school district has a methodical system in place to keep parents in the dark on their child's gender transition in schools ... Leslie Mecca, a counselor at Bear Creek – a K-8 school in the district .. asking clarification on its recommendations regarding flagging an in-school social transition of a child's gender. Jeffco defines "transition" as "the steps a transgender person takes in order to align aspects of their life to be consistent with their gender identity." In the email, Mecca said that teachers in...

A federal appeals court on Monday vacated a water permit needed by developers to restart construction on the Mountain Valley pipeline in West Virginia, marking the latest setback for the $6.2 billion project. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found several defects in the review the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection conducted before issuing the permit.