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Telecom giant becomes latest casualty of business bloodbath in Californian city Comes after retail hub last week blamed 'rampant criminal activity' for exodus Businesses have closed stores over safety fears for staff amid spike in crime T-Mobile has become the latest major retailer to close a flagship store in San Francisco as the city faces a business exodus due to 'rampant criminal activity'. The decision by the telecoms giant to shutter its premises in Union Square follows similar announcements last week by Saks Off 5th and Nordstrom. T-Mobile said the closure of its two-level, 17,000-sq-ft building in the heart of...

Seven shootings over the weekend, including a massacre at a Dallas-area outlet mall over the weekend, brought the total number of mass shootings in the U.S. this year over 200, according to the non-profit Gun Violence Archive (GVA). According to its tracker, there have been 202 incidents in which four or more people, other than the attacker, were shot this year alone. The U.S. crossed the 200-mass shooting threshold mid-May last year and the year prior, and didn’t get there until mid-to-late June in 2020 and 2019. Between 2016 and 2018, the country passed 200 mass shootings in late July.

The Bishop explains 2 very important verses from yesterday's Mass readings that many rarely consider, one as our role in a Priesthood, as was the conversion of the Jewish Priests in Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.And from 1 Peter 2- we see how we are meant to br "living" stones, to build the new temple of The Body of Christ:4 Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen...

The 21-year old male charged in connection to a series of stabbings in Davis, California, entered the U.S. in 2009 as an unaccompanied minor and is now on a detainer by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Carlos Alejandro Reales-Dominguez, who until a fews weeks ago was a UC Davis student, was charged Friday in connection with three recent stabbing near the campus, including two that were fatal. He came from El Salvador as a child and entered the United States near Galveston, Texas, said ICE official, according to multiple media outlets. Dominguez's case was "administratively" closed in 2012 after he...

The Loretta skit from Monty Python and the Life of Brian

What is a Woman? You can no longer answer the question with alacrity. In a 2022 documentary of the same name, when Matt Walsh poses that question to someone identifying as a gay male, he is told, "You should be asking a woman. I don't know; I'm not a woman. Only women can define what a woman is." Not missing a beat, and putting the absurdity into sharp relief, Walsh rejoins by asking, "Are you a cat?" and following up the "No" with "Do you know what a cat is?" The interviewee flees.The dangerous trend to promote gender fluidity is...

The Gator King uses our D-20, Sherman Tank, Minigun, and Flamethrower to remove all budlight from the DriveTanks museum! (They even do an action replay in slow motion)

President Biden’s administration said Monday it is writing new rules aimed at requiring airlines to compensate passengers for significant flight delays or cancellations when the carriers are responsible. It is the latest in a series of moves by the Biden administration to crack down on airlines and bolster passenger consumer protections for domestic flights and international flights involving an American destination or origin. “When an airline causes a flight cancellation or delay, passengers should not foot the bill,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement.

Chile: major blow to president as far right triumphs in key constitution vote Chile’s far right has won an emphatic victory in a vote to select the committee that will rewrite its dictatorship-era constitution, after José Antonio Kast’s Republican party secured 22 of its 50 seats in a major blow to the progressive president Gabriel Boric. Boric beat Kast, an ultra-conservative lawyer often compared to Brazil’s former leader Jair Bolsonaro, in the 2021 presidential election. But on Sunday night it was Kast who was celebrating after 35% of voters backed Republicanos, the extreme-right party he founded in 2019. “This is...

After a decade of striving in the comedy clubs, Donald Jay Rickles got his big break in 1957, when Frank Sinatra saw him perform at a club.Noticing Sinatra in the audience, Rickles improvised his act to hilariously deride the legendary singer. "I just saw your movie The Pride and the Passion and I want to tell you, the cannon's acting was great," were among his lively zingers.Sinatra was in stitches, causing him to become Rickles’s foremost advocate and leading to him becoming a popular headline performer in Las Vegas.Clearly, Sinatra was among the rare variety of superstars who could laugh...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 25 people have been shot, four fatally, in shootings across Chicago since 6 p.m. Friday. An off-duty Chicago police officer was among those killed. The CPD officer died after being shot before 2 a.m. Saturday in the 8100-block of South Blackstone Avenue in the Avalon Park neighborhood, police said. The officer was identified as 24-year-old Areanah Preston by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Two other homicides happened on Friday evening on the South Side in the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods. A 26-year-old man was fatally shot multiple times just before 9:30 p.m. Friday...

We keep hearing about the need for a conversation about race, specifically a conversation about the misery the black community experiences from being oppressed by the systemic racism of the white people of the United States. The endless conversation hasn’t done much beyond harming race relations, but maybe there is some systemic racism in the United States. Let’s look at three examples of systemic racism that are oppressive to black Americans. The first is affirmative action for black students applying to college. Was there ever a time when it made sense to admit a student to an elite school based...

[Catholic Caucus] The Chartres Pilgrimage: Despite pressures, we will always keep the Traditional Mass, it is our raison d’êtreNotre-Dame de Chrétienté will walk this year meditating on the theme of the Eucharist for its Pentecost pilgrimage. Explanations with Jean de Tauriers, president of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté.L’Homme NouveauMay 4, 2023 For the 41st time, Notre-Dame de Chrétienté pilgrims will travel from Paris to Chartres on May 27, 28 and 29. Why did you choose the theme "The Eucharist, salvation of souls"? The particularity of our pilgrimage is our attachment to the traditional Mass, to the Tridentine rite. It seemed interesting to...

Saindy Pyles thought she was going to die with her baby son, Liam, clutched to her chest as she flew home to Wichita from Miami after photographing a wedding. Midway through the flight Pyles said smoke filled the cabin after she saw sparks and fire burst from a bag in the seat directly behind her. "Honestly, I thought we were going to die," she said. "I looked and all I saw was flashes, just like flashes. I'm like, 'Oh my God, like, what is that?' And [the owner of the bag] is like, 'I don't know. I don't know.'" "Then...

So you’ve decided to take a gamble on an electric vehicle, but you’d like to keep the ante down for getting into the game. There are lots of good reasons not to spend the kids’ college fund on the fanciest, six-figure EV — namely, sending them to college. You might be just looking for an efficient second car for city use or commuting in high occupancy vehicle lanes, where it makes little sense to pay top dollar for 400 miles of range when a 200-mile EV would serve your needs. Or you might have figured out (accurately) that by the...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A federal appeals court has ruled police can shoot hostages — even intentionally — if they fear for their lives or to stop a fleeing felon. The case is more than just a legal footnote to Don Davis. The Georgia truck driver was shot nine times by troopers and deputies who were trying to stop a murder suspect holding Davis hostage in his truck. While the shooting occurred in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court just this week let stand a federal court ruling that police owe the hostage nothing for his medical bills or...

A homeowner in Tennessee shot two intruders, killing one, Friday night after the men tased the family’s dog and held their teenage son at gunpoint, authorities said. Officers in Murfreesboro responded just before 8:30 p.m. to the home in the 100 block of January Street and found a masked man with multiple gunshot wounds at the front door of the home, the Murfreesboro Police Department said. The alleged intruder, identified as 52-year-old Kevin Ford, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other intruder, identified as 42-year-old Clifford Wright, was located at the Salvation Army on Main Street with multiple gunshot...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Monday on his show “Morning Joe” that there was “a sickness in the the state of Texas” led by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) while reacting to a mass shooting in Allen, TX on Saturday and migrants being killed by an SUV in Brownsville, TX on Sunday. Scarborough said, “You have a group of migrants being run down and killed here. The U.S. has by far the highest child and teen firearm mortality rate among poor countries. Our little children are being slaughtered. And Greg Abbott has nothing to say about it. He just wants to...

Renowned Catholic philosopher warns Pope Francis is ‘destroying the foundations of faith and morals’Dr. Josef Seifert rebuked the cardinals of the Church for failing ‘to proclaim those many truths of the faith that the Pope openly or tacitly contradicts by words and also deeds.’A Catholic professor blasted Pope Francis, accusing the Pontiff of “destroying the foundations of faith and morals.”Renowned philosophy professor and intimate friend of Pope John Paul II, Josef Seifert, published an open letter addressed to the cardinals of the Catholic Church, in which he called the bishops of the Church to resist Pope Francis’ his heterodox actions,...

Since the agreement was announced FOX News fired Tucker Carlson, lost at least half of its audience, and watched left-wing publications leak out Tucker Carlson videos that were captured during discovery in the lawsuit. Now FOX News is threatening to kill the deal after the Tucker Carlson videos were released to the public. The Daily Mail reported: [Fox News demanded that Dominion Voting Systems conduct an internal investigation to determine whether it was responsible for the leak of damning text messages sent by former anchor Tucker Carlson. Recently, Fox wrote Dominion saying evidence documents it provided to the company during...