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Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Wednesday Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, after months of pressure from Kyiv for such talks. Xi told Zelenskiy that China would send special representatives to Ukraine and hold talks with all parties seeking peace, Chinese state media reported. Xi, the most powerful world leader to have refrained from denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, made a state visit to Russia last month. Since February, he has promoted a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, greeted with scepticism from the West but cautiously welcomed by Kyiv.

A California professor has been busted for trying to arrange to rape a 7-year-old in conversations with an undercover FBI agent where he suggested luring the girl with a doll and chocolate, prosecutors said. Rodger “Rod” Githens, an associate professor at the University of the Pacific, was arrested on April 21 on charges including receipt and distribution of images of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, a criminal complaint from the Eastern District of California confirms. The graphic complaint includes extensive details of Githens’ online conversations with an undercover FBI agent posing as a “‘taboo-friendly’” 30-year-old man who claimed...

LITTLE ROCK (LifeSiteNews) — Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill Tuesday that prohibits people at public or charter schools from using bathrooms or locker rooms that do not coincide with their biological sex. According to provisions of the bill, people at K-12 public and charter schools must use multi-person bathrooms and locker rooms in accord with their biological sex. The bill also requires that schools provide “reasonable accommodation” for anyone “unable or unwilling” to use a multi-person bathroom or changing area, such as offering single person bathrooms or changing areas. Opponents of the bill claim, however, that...

Just 24% of Americans surveyed have positive views of the Make America Great Again movement in a new national NBC News poll.President Donald Trump is still unpopular and so is the political movement created in his image, according to a new national NBC News poll. The Make America Great Again, or ‘MAGA,’ movement, which takes its name from Trump’s first campaign slogan, was the least popular individual or group tested in the new survey. Just 24% of Americans have positive views of the movement, while 45% voice negative views. These numbers come as President Joe Biden made Trump — and...

The mRNA gene therapies sold to the public as “vaccines” don’t prevent the spread of the virus, as even CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testified under oath, and have led to serious side effects. It doesn’t take a genius to anticipate that a reckoning is coming for those who hyped the jabs, downplayed alternatives, and even coerced people into receiving the drugs whose long-term side effects are unknown. One non-genius who sees this is Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister. Speaking at a public forum in Ottawa, he engaged in what intelligence jargon calls a “limited hangout,” meaning, …a form of propaganda...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• P A U L I N A T H E N S ֎ Featuring 23 Paintings, 1 Plate and 7 Windows ֎ A C T S «Chapter 17» While Paul was in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and...

In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News, a speech that he gave after his final show aired drew attention on social media. During the Heritage Foundation’s 50th-anniversary celebration on Saturday, Carlson gave a speech about society-wide moral decay. During the speech, the former Fox News host did not indicate he would be departing the network. “You look around and you see so many people break under the strain under the downward of whatever this is that we are going through. And you look with disdain and sadness as you see people you know become quislings. You see...

ANDREW Bridgen has been thrown out of the Tories for good after comparing Covid vaccines to the Holocaust, the Sun can reveal. The MP for North West Leicestershire has already had the Conservative whip removed - but bosses have now also expelled him as an ordinary member. In a statement Mr Bridgen claimed it was an issue of "freedom of speech" - and declared his intention to stand at the next election. The MP has been forced to sit as an independent after Chief Whip Simon Hart furiously booted him from the Tory parliamentary cohort in January. It came after...

ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (LifeSiteNews) — A 25-year-old male flight attendant for United Airlines who identified as a woman and was featured in the prominent airline’s advertisement promoting “Trans Visibility” was found dead in his home in Colorado on Monday after posting a heartbreaking suicide note to social media. “As I take my final breaths and exit this living earth, I would like to apologize to everyone I let down. I am so sorry I could not be better,” wrote “Kayleigh” Scott in an early morning social media post Monday. “To those that I love, I am sorry I could not be...

Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated his claims that the Bidens are a “crime family” and likened their suspected wrongdoings to “Watergate times 10.” Trump’s withering criticism of President Biden and his clan came just days after House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican, claimed in a Fox News interview that at least 12 members of the first family were involved in an “influence-peddling scheme.” “What Congressmen James Comer and Jim Jordan have revealed about the ‘Biden Crime Family’ would be Watergate times 10, if this news was revealed just 10 years ago,” Trump said in the video posted to...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day." John 6:40Do you believe in Jesus? Unquestionably the answer is “Yes.” However, to believe in our Lord is something that must deepen with every passing day.Therefore, if you do have faith in Jesus, you can also admit that you do not have faith enough. In this Gospel passage in which the “Bread of Life Discourse” is continued, Jesus calls us to do two things....

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Biden 2024 Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) responded to a question on Biden’s poll numbers and challenges the campaign faces by stating that “The problem we have in the country today is that people are committed to soundbites, too many people judge your performance based upon the soundbites that you get hits on.” Host Ali Velshi asked, “What are the challenges, including the fact that Joe Biden — for all the things you just described — struggles in polls with gaining popularity amongst Americans. It — certainly, in the midterm elections, people...

A woman has admitted to dressing up as a clown and fatally shooting her husband's first wife at the victim's Florida home more than 30 years ago, though her attorney still maintains her innocence. Sheila Keen Warren, 59, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Palm Beach County court on Tuesday as part of a plea deal reached weeks before her trial was set to begin. She was arrested in 2017 for the murder of Marlene Warren, who was shot in the face after opening the front door of her home in Wellington in 1990 and died two days later....

On Wednesday, a whistleblower is set to testify before Congress with bombshell claims that the federal government has essentially become a “middleman” in a child trafficking ring along the southern border, an operation that is allegedly worth billions. According to Fox News, the hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement will be titled “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children.” The focus of the hearing will be the spike in the number of “unaccompanied children” (UACs) during the border crisis under Biden’s watch. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics indicate that the number...

French President Emmanuel Macron is now travelling around France with his own electric generator as protesting French unions keep cutting off power during his regional visits, a report claims. Under massive pressure as a result of his controversial pension reforms, Macron is currently undertaking a public-relations blitz in France in the hopes of rallying the general public to his side. However, his whistle-stop tours of various regions across the country have not been going well, with the President’s visits often being met with protesters noisily banging pots and pans in the hopes of derailing the PR stunt.

PIERRE (LifeSiteNews) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday signed a bill that bans “gender transition” drugs and surgeries for minors. “South Dakota’s kids are our future,” Noem said in a statement. “I am signing HB 1080 to protect our kids from harmful, permanent medical procedures.” HB 1080, nicknamed the “Help Not Harm” bill, bars healthcare professionals from prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors and performing “any sterilizing surgery” “to alter the appearance of, or to validate a minor’s perception of, the minor’s sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” The new...

All this is happening as the Biden administration oversees historic waves of legal and especially illegal immigration to America. Biden cited a study showing a shortfall of more than 1.5 million residential units nationwide. This has spiked housing prices and raised rents to the highest levels on record. Myopic media outlets, blinkered academics and craven politicians don’t connect the dots, but the annual influx of millions of immigrants is clearly inflating the demand in an already overheated market for housing and increasing costs commensurately. Apologists for the immigration lobby blame zoning laws, local officials and every other conceivable scapegoat. Yet...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has filed an ethics complaint against Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for alleged “verbal abuses.” Hunter Biden is called for a congressional ethics investigation into Greene after the congressman accused the scandal-scarred first son of being involved in sex trafficking. As Slay News previously reported, Greene dropped the bombshell last week that congressional investigators have uncovered evidence that the Biden family is allegedly involved in an international sex trafficking ring. In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics, Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell accused Greene of “continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of...

Civil liberties advocates have sued Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, seeking to block the implementation of a new law dramatically expanding the powers of State Capitol Police in the city of Jackson.