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BAGLEY, Wis. -- Road closures are are becoming more prevalent across parts of southwestern Wisconsin as floodwaters continue to rise on the Mississippi River. Major flooding is occurring or in the forecast for the river along the Wisconsin border, with water levels expected to reach their highest in more than two decades. In Cassville, portions of several streets, including Jack Oak Road, Iowa Street, Front Street and Wyota Street, are closed due to high waters, according to the village's Facebook page. Cassville has also been bypassing wastewater into the Mississippi River since Sunday. Volunteers in the village spent Monday filling...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican preparing document for couples living in ‘new unions’ after ‘marriage failure’ Cdl. Kevin Farrell, a notable promoter of Pope Francis' 2016 apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, revealed that his dicastery was preparing a document in line with the Pope's wishes on people who ‘live in new unions’ after ‘marriage failure.’VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — A Vatican dicastery is preparing a text on the divorced and “re-married” in line with the wishes of Pope Francis, who has called for people in such circumstances to receive Holy Communion – contrary to Catholic teaching.Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity,...

We are fighting not just a culture war but a war for rationality, science, and norms that have been in place since the dawn of humanity.Those of us who fight on the gender ideology front tend to focus on one or two aspects. Some emphasize the danger men pose in women’s spaces. Some advocate the unfairness of men in women’s sports. Some point out the harm of housing dangerous men in women’s prisons. Some highlight the erasure of women in medicine. And many work diligently to stop the mutilation of children.Each of these battles is important, but those engaged in...

The Chinese state-run newspaper Global Times mocked leftist American President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will run for reelection this week, describing a potential rematch between Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, as proof that America is a “decaying country.” The Global Times‘ condemnation of America’s presidential race was largely a commentary on the age of its top contenders, particularly Biden, who turned 80 years old in November and was the oldest man ever to become president when he took office in 2021. Trump would be 78 years old on his inauguration day should he win the 2024 election.

‘I know the FBI falsely labeled that evidence as Russian disinformation to bury it,’ Senator Grassley said. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed in a floor speech on Tuesday that material reviewed by his investigative staff supported whistleblower allegations that the FBI falsely labeled evidence of potential criminal conduct by members of the Biden family “Russian disinformation.” While Grassley had previously discussed the whistleblower allegations, he now confirmed for the first time that an independent review of the pertinent records supported the accusations.In response to last week’s announcement by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he planned to offer a resolution...

Well, ladies and gentlemen, if you thought your 2020 hangover had finally subsided, it might be about to come roaring back. Joseph Robinette Biden is giving it a go and — despite so much speculation to the contrary — he’s dragging Kamala Harris along with him. It’s like being given the A Clockwork Orange treatment and having your eyes propped open while being forced to watch a sequel to a movie you never wanted to see in the first place.My colleagues covered the bad three-minute B-movie announcement brilliantly. This is from Athena:n a slick, cloying video, the faceless collective operating...

Flyover country now seems to be a special project for left-wing power elites who would like to spread their agendas and homogenize every small corner of the nation.War on normal Americans seems to have found its final frontier in the conservative small towns and rural communities often called red strongholds on the political map. Infiltration of red America by woke activists and their agendas is nearing, or has passed, the inflection point.Thus, migrants who flee from blue to red communities tend to be of two types: refugees or invaders. Refugees tend to assimilate. They respect the traditions of their newfound...

Former President Donald Trump’s forthcoming book, Letters to Trump, will include a letter from the late Rev. Billy Graham, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.Trump’s team provided the 1991 letter and the former president’s commentary from the book about it to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of the book’s public release this week.In the Sept. 19, 1991, letter to Trump, Graham writes to the future president, opening with “Dear Donald” it was a “pleasure to meet you and Marla Maples at the small dinner party that Mrs. DeMoss gave at one of her homes.”“For a long time I have wanted to meet...

Democrats had no rebuttal to my testimony and no defense of their agenda. They wasted everyone’s time with weak and cheap attacks.On April 19, I testified before the House Ways and Means Committee ostensibly to discuss the effects of the Biden energy agenda on rural America. Instead, I listened to Democrats read through some of my old tweets.Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., convened a hearing to discuss the so-called “green” tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to determine the ultimate beneficiary: the American people or Wall Street and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The topic may not generate the...

Ex-White House doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tx.), is demanding that President Joe Biden take a cognitive test or drop out of his newly announced 2024 race altogether. Jackson, who has repeatedly questioned whether the 80-year-old president has the cognitive ability to be commander-in-chief, renewed calls for a mental evaluation as Biden announced Tuesday he was seeking re-election. The Republican made the demands in a letter, obtained by The Post, which is currently being circulated among House Republicans in a bid to garner support before it is sent to Biden. “We call on you to either resign immediately and renounce your...

If Bud Light executives thought the right and Instagram superstar Bri Teresi would forget about the Dylan Mulvaney protest, they’ve got another thing comin’. Teresi, who is a Donald Trump superfan, uploaded a video Tuesday afternoon showing her going Kid Rock on what looks like a couple of cases of Bud Light and a row of bras. “GO WOKE GO BROKE,” Teresi commented (caps are her emphasis) on her patriotic video showing the full force of biological women who are pissed off. Bri Teresi is fed up with Bud Light and its latest nonsense where it used biological male Dylan...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Joe Biden is an exceptionally weak incumbent. We’re amid an economic recession, the banking system is failing, and we’re adrift abroad. Biden once again left Americans behind as we headed evacuation operations in war-torn Sudan. It’s a checklist presidency, with its officials more concerned about adhering to woke orthodoxy than effective governance. Inflation remains at unacceptable highs, which is killing working families. Biden’s age and competency are also in play, an issue accentuated by the Democrats’ plot to oust Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), whose mental decline has been evident for years, to pave the way for judicial confirmations. Biden seems...

People enjoying the Las Vegas Strip seem to be doing so without drinking much Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light have been taking nonstop fire ever since teaming up with Dylan Mulvaney for a video that was nothing short of jarring. Sales have taken a monster hit, multiple celebrities have publicly dragged the beer brand and it doesn’t seem like anyone is interested in slowing down. Well, it turns out people crushing it in Vegas might be getting in on the boycott. People in Vegas seem to be opting for something other than Bud Light. Popular YouTuber “Not Leaving Las...

Renal hyperfiltration may be an underestimated risk factor for mortality, according to research. Conventionally, diminished kidney function is linked to chronic kidney disease and elevated risk of mortality. Renal hyperfiltration (RHF), or increased kidney function, has been largely dismissed as a normal observation in the general population and an expected manifestation of diabetes mellitus where it precedes renal decline. The condition, devoid of clinical manifestations, remains unknown to general medicine and is primarily screened and managed within the context of diabetes mellitus. Two recent studies reveal that the harms of RHF might be highly underestimated, independent of diabetes mellitus. The...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is billing herself as the person who can forge a national consensus on abortion, citing her experience creating a consensus around another highly contentious debate during her tenure as governor of South Carolina.Haley, who formerly served as governor of South Carolina and United States Ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, gave a speech on abortion before a crowd of pro-life activists at the headquarters of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America on Tuesday. In her speech, Haley expressed a desire to “start a constructive conversation about where we go from...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is billing herself as the person who can forge a national consensus on abortion, citing her experience creating a consensus around another highly contentious debate during her tenure as governor of South Carolina.Haley, who formerly served as governor of South Carolina and United States Ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration, gave a speech on abortion before a crowd of pro-life activists at the headquarters of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America on Tuesday. In her speech, Haley expressed a desire to “start a constructive conversation about where we go from...

The Painful Reality of Trump the CandidateTrump’s pathway to winning the general election in 2024 looks almost impossible.American GreatnessRodThompson4/9/2023Everyone fighting to save America from the destruction of the Democratic Left needs to face up to some realities. Realities that will be hard to swallow. They are for me, after voting for President Trump twice and believing, as I do, that the 2020 election was at least rigged, and possibly stolen.But that was then. Whatever happened—and considering how much has been destroyed now by statute, we will never know—Joe Biden is catastrophically doddering around the White House. If the nation has...

A powerful Iranian cleric — a member of the Assembly of Experts that selects the country’s supreme leader — has been killed in an armed attack, officials said on Wednesday. “Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed this morning in an armed attack… the assailant was also arrested and is now being investigated,” IRNA news agency reported, citing the political and security official for the northern Mazandaran province where the attack happened. The attack took place in a bank in the city of Babolsar, the official said. “The motive of the assailant is not yet clear and will be announced after...

One woman’s apparent lack of financial literacy went viral online after she sent an itemized bill to Morgan Wallen of what she spent on a concert he cancelled Sunday. The post, allegedly from a woman called Mandi Walker Nowlin, was first shared on Facebook before going viral on Twitter. In it, she tagged the country music superstar, saying “Morgan Wallen, since you’re offering refunds….here is our itemized bill for you.” Her comments were prompted by Wallen’s requirement to cancel his show in Oxford, Mississippi, Sunday, as he’d lost his voice and was unable to perform. Now, I’ve heard and seen...