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The Big Apple’s early summer weather is heating up the history books. New York peaked at 90 degrees in Central Park Thursday — shattering a heat record set in the 1970s with weather rarely seen in spring, meteorologists said. Temperatures climbed higher than the previous record for the day — set in 1977 at 88 degrees — as New Yorkers busted out sunscreen and suffered through sweltering outdoor jobs.

[Catholic Caucus] Warning to Traditional Orders, Parishes, and Traditional-minded dioceses: don’t answer this e-mailThere’s a bizarre e-mail being sent to Traditional communities and Tradition-friendly dioceses, coming from a supposed Italian doctoral student or professor in a semi-abandoned Pontifical Theological Institute in Italy, and asking all kinds of curious details about liturgical practices and a long list of similar questions, supposedly for “research” purposes. We have seen the e-mail messages. Our sources believe this is a trap: some in Rome want to gather “evidence” of “disobedience” and manufacture disinformation to set the basis for even more illegitimate restrictions on the Traditional...

Two of country music’s biggest stars ratcheted up the brew-haha over Bud Light’s controversial ad campaign featuring transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Grammy-nominated crooner Zach Bryan hit out at comments that are “insulting” to transgender people after Travis Tritt announced he was boycotting the Anheuser-Busch product to protest the Mulvaney-Bud Light partnership. “I mean no disrespect towards anyone specifically, I don’t even mind @travistritt,” Bryan tweeted on Saturday. “I just think insulting transgender people is completely wrong because we live in a country where we can all just be who we want to be It’s a great day to...

My family keeps me in a phone and they pay thebill. They asked me to go to AT&T to get a new sim cardfor my phone because they are letting go of verizon. Apparently, Verizon was charging them for 5g service but only delivering 4g. Ay my house, in the middle of a large city, I was lucky to have 2 bars of service. Now, I have 5 bars AND 5g. If any of you are paying for 5g but aren't receiving it, you might want to take action. That's why I'm posting this.

SNIP Brancato portrayed Robert De Niro’s son, Calogero, in the coming-of-age classic, then won a role as a minor mobster in “The Sopranos.” But in 2005, Brancato’s life infamously spun out of control: hopelessly addicted to crack and heroin, he burgled a friend’s house with an accomplice when a hero off-duty cop who confronted them was shot dead. The actor was acquitted of murder but served eight years for the botched heist. Now he has found a third act: inspiring others to stay clean and steer clear of crime, through both an Instagram account with 95,000 followers, and working at...

Al Sharpton took a shot at progressives at a conference hosted by his National Action Network on Thursday, saying he’s now in lockstep with Mayor Eric Adams on fighting big city crime. “Anybody that tells you they’re progressive but don’t care about dealing with violent crimes are not,” Sharpton said at the Sheraton New York hotel in Times Square. “Progressive for who? “We gotta stop using progressive as a noun and use it as an adjective,” he said. “You’re labeled progressive but your action is regressive. I’m woke? You must think I’m asleep.” He said he’s on board with Adams...

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who halted the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, was an “angry, cruel man.” Boxer said, “I want to point out that this judge, who did this, this angry, cruel man, that’s what I think, toward women. I mean, he is a danger to women. He didn’t get one democratic vote. It says to me the one thing I hope comes out of this, besides Senator Feinstein taking a hard look at the situation as it really is, is...

WASHINGTON – Before the FBI announced it had arrested the suspected leaker of dozens of highly sensitive Ukraine war documents – some of which were created to brief the highest levels of the Pentagon – few would have suspected a 21-year-old National Guardsman as the potential culprit. The FBI nabbed Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira at his mother’s home Thursday after he was implicated in the biggest national security breach in at least 10 years.

Update from Ukraine | Spy exposed plans of Ukrainian Counterattack | One Year after Moskva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9WBpFFj9oY ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: Invasion Day 414 – Summary April 13, 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-414-summary/

Jack Teixeira had the highest-level security clearance granted by the federal government for top secret information

Kari Lake’s message to Ron DeSantis: “if he’s running, the people should know about it, and I don’t think they’re gonna be happy that they’re paying for the shadow campaign.”“It says a lot about a man’s character when they stab somebody in the back, especially somebody who helped make them. He was about to lose to a meth-addict pervert when a man by the name of Donald Trump came in and saved the day.”“Who’s the priority? Are the people of Florida the priority? Or our political aspirations the priority?”Spot on as always!pic.twitter.com/c27tEbEJoI— Leskov Brandonovic (@fjb4587) April 13, 2023

Rainbow-colored pamphlets advising “bring your authentic self” have lately appeared over cubicles at Goldman Sachs, coaching employees on the proper use of gender pronouns — and some bankers are reeling over the hypocrisy. The pamphlet advises in addition to “she/her/hers/herself,” “he/him/his/himself” and the gender-neutral “they/them/their/themself” that another set of gender neutral pronouns is “ze/zir (zem) / zirs (zes) / zirself (zemself).” Examples in a column to the right: “Ze went to the store. I spoke with zir / zem. The apple was zirs / zes.”

For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ Jesus, We are grateful for the opportunity to share with you the North American Final Document for the Continental Stage of the 2021-2024 Synod: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission. This significant document is the product of the deepening of the discernment begun by the Church in North America in October 2021. This document also marks a moment of unity and collaboration between the People of God in Canada and the United States of America, a particularly grace-filled experience we hope will be continued...

After Bud Light was slammed by conservatives for teaming up with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, political pundit Megyn Kelly said the beer's parent company, Aneheuser-Busch, should have chosen Caitlyn Jenner for the partnership, RadarOnline.com has learned. Kelly slammed Bud Light — and Mulvaney — on Thursday's episode of her SiriusXM radio show, The Megyn Kelly Show. According to Kelly, Anheuser-Busch should have chosen "genuinely dysphoric" transgender celeb Jenner for the partnership. "If Bud Light had used Caitlyn Jenner, would I be having the same reaction?" Kelly rhetorically asked. "I admit, I would not be." Kelly continued her rationalization of...

According to this article from NBC News, in 2013, John Fetterman pointed a gun an an unarmed, innocent, law abiding black man.If Democrats are against gun crimes, why did they put John Fetterman into the U.S. Senate instead of into prison?

Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch appears to be trapped between a rock and a hard place as it grapples with polarization over its paid partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Since the controversy emerged on April 1, Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch's main social media accounts have fallen silent, despite major sporting events of the kind the brand typically chimes in on. Aside from an initial terse statement, Anheuser-Busch has also ignored media requests on the issue. Last week, a Missouri distributor canceled an event featuring the famed Budweiser Clydesdales, citing safety concerns. 'They never expected the reaction that they got,'...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday on FNC’s “The Story” that he believes Republican primary voters will make “better choices” than nominating former President Donald Trump for the 2024 election. Host Martha MacCallum said, “So when the former president announced that he was going to get in the race, you said then that you believed that the American voter would have better choices than him. This is the latest polling, Donald Trump at 54%, DeSantis at 24. You are at 6% and on down the line here. What do you think about the fact that his numbers are so...

Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict? The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, but the Pentagon was paying as much as $400 per gallon to transport gasoline from a port in Pakistan, via truck or parachute, into Afghanistan...

The national COVID-19 emergency is drawing to a close, which means certain treatments and tests that have previously been available without cost is soon to change. However, working on effective vaccines and therapies for COVID-19 is far from over. The federal government recently announced plans to spend over $5 billion in order to speed up new vaccines and treatments, according to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson and a Biden administration official. The plan, called Project NextGen, was first announced in the Washington Post on April 10 and aims to provide better protection from future coronaviruses that...

President Joe Biden received a warm welcome from Irish President Michael Higgins on Thursday. Less so from his dog. As the two leaders made their way into the grounds of the Irish president's residence for a tree planting ceremony, Higgins tried to introduce his American counterpart to Misneach, one of his enormous Bernese Mountain dog. But Misneach — named for the Irish word for 'courage — was having none of it. As Biden moved in to show it some love, the two-year-old did its best to upset U.S.-Irish relations by barking at the president and backing away. Maybe it just...