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A heartbreaking story highlighted by ABC News attempts to justify the abortion of a baby girl from Alabama just because she had Down syndrome. The baby girl’s mother, Kelly Shannon, traveled to Richmond, Virginia for the abortion because the laws in her home state protected her unborn daughter, according to the report. “This has been the single most painful and traumatic experience of my life and our lives,” Shannon told the news outlet. “And anybody who wants to stand up and say that abortions are wrong or that people shouldn’t be able to make their own decisions about abortion care...

A Utah woman who authored a children’s book about loss after the death of her husband in 2022 has been arrested for his murder, according to multiple reports. Authorities brought Kouri Richins, 33, into custody Monday after she allegedly poisoned her husband, Eric, with a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022 while at their home in Kamas near Park City, according to the Associated Press (AP). Police responded to the Richins’ home March 2, 2022, after Kouri found her husband cold to the touch and not breathing at around 3 a.m., local outlet KPCW reported. Kouri allegedly told authorities at...

The cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom has seen nearly three-quarters of a million Britons miss a housing payment last month, according to data compiled by a leading consumer body. Research conducted by the British consumer advocate agency Which? found that an estimated 700,000 people in the UK missed or defaulted on a rent or mortgage payment in April. The consumer body reported that the problem paying for housing was “particularly high” among renters, with their figures finding that among those surveyed, one in 20 tenants had difficulties paying their housing bills, including energy costs and local council...

E. Jean Carroll is suing Donald Trump for battery and defamation; her claims are based on her initial contention that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in 1996. In determining Trump’s guilt, however, the jury doesn’t have to decide whether or not the rape, which Trump denies, ever took place. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan has instructed the jury that all they have to do is conclude that Trump gave Carroll an “unwanted peck on the cheek” in order to find him guilty. Yes, really. Although this is not actually a rape trial,...

Donald Trump will be participating in a CNN town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, May 10th. This will be Trump’s first CNN appearance since the 2016 presidential campaign. CNN reported: Former President Donald Trump will participate in a CNN presidential town hall next week in New Hampshire, the network announced Monday. “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins will moderate the event at St. Anselm College, which will air at 8 p.m. ET on May 10 and will feature the former president taking questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential...

After about two years of work, the California Reparations Task Force approved a set of recommendations for how the state can make amends to its Black residents for slavery and the decades of racial discrimination that followed. But the asks are big, and ultimately may never come to fruition. *SNIP* These specific recommendations, which also address issues like health disparities and mass incarceration, are not guaranteed to ever go into effect. They’re meant to be used as guidelines for the state Legislature, which would ultimately have the final say in what action California takes on reparations. There’s also the gigantic...

Over a quarter of Canadians believe that people should have access to euthanasia because of poverty, a new survey has found. Currently, Canada’s federal guidelines for medical assistance in dying include having a grievous and irremediable medical condition, making a voluntary request for medical assistance in dying that is not the result of outside pressure or influence, and giving informed consent to receive medical assistance in dying. But according to research by Research CO., a Canada-based public opinion researcher, over a quarter of the country would be content with a further loosening of the rules. Among Canadians, 27% believe that...

There's a scene in the Liam Neeson movie "Taken" where he's on the phone with his daughter. Men are there to kidnap her and she's a world away from him in Europe. As a former intel agent, he knows what's going to happen and realizes there's no way to stop it. As much as he'd love to come up with a way for his daughter to escape or fight off the assailants, he knows the best thing he can do is to prepare her by telling her the truth. "Now, the next part is very important — they're going to...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says U.S. military and economic aid will continue to flow into Ukraine despite calls from some in his party for the United States to pull back from the war. The future of U.S. support for Ukraine in its war against Russia has been clouded by some uncertainty since Republicans took control of the House in last year’s midterm election and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pledged there would be no “blank check” for Ukraine if Republicans gained the lower chamber.

Ok...I'm a retired IT guy and really puzzled why I can't figure this out. I have a Samsung Galaxy 22 Android phone. Up till a week ago FR was perfectly readable. One day it suddenly made the type very small like a desktop only website. I also have a small Samsung tablet. FR still looks fine on it. I have looked at FR settings and Chrome browser settings and can't find anything that will fix it. I did just try Firefox on my phone and it looks fine, so obviously this appears to be a Chrome setting problem, but I...

Former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has vowed to do everything she can to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House, launched a television ad Tuesday warning viewers that the former president “is a risk America can never take again.” The ad is running on CNN before and during a high-profile town hall scheduled Wednesday night on CNN featuring Trump — now a 2024 candidate — taking questions from voters in New Hampshire. The 60-second spot, which Cheney narrates but in which she does not appear, is funded by her political action committee. It recounts Trump losing the...

As the 2024 presidential race heats up, former President Trump appears to be dominating the GOP playing field amid Democrat’s political witch hunts against him. According to a John Locke Foundation poll, Trump would win North Carolina in a landslide if the election were held today. Fifty-five percent of voters favored the former president, while only 22 percent said they wanted to see Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla) take the win. Former Vice President Mike Pence secured just eight percent of the vote, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley had five percent. The poll found that Trump was favored the...

Catholic Mass Attendance Has Fallen by HalfI was born and raised Southern Baptist. Gave my life to Jesus at 15. Got baptized in a pair of white pajamas. Then, I went to a Free Methodist college. Got a job at an American Baptist Church and have been serving in the ABCUSA for more than twenty years. I will be elected to the Board of General Ministries for American Baptist denomination this summer. My wife is Irish Catholic. We got married in St. Teresa of Avila in our hometown. My very Southern Baptist grandmother went to her grave not knowing that...

Several recent stories give an updated status on the current political dynamic. Despite the continued onslaught of media, lawfare and professional political institutions trying to tear down Donald Trump and the American restoration insurgency he represents, the large poll data shows President Trump gaining strength [ABC POLL]In a head-to-head matchup against Biden, Trump now leads 44% to 38%, and the shift in the polling continues favoring Donald Trump.Why?Two main factors. First, people are seeing the lies and manipulations created by aligned systems against Trump. Second, perhaps more importantly, because peace, stability and economic prosperity were already demonstrated by President Trump’s...

A judge ruled that a transgender woman could not have indecently exposed her penis in a YMCA female changing room after agreeing with her claim that she's too fat for it to be visible. Darren Glines, who now goes by Rachel, was found not guilty of three counts of indecent exposure at the facility in Xenia, Ohio. Judge David McNamee cleared Glines after agreeing that the size of her belly meant it would be impossible for anyone to see her penis. Glines, 31, has had several complaints made against her dating back to 2021 – with at least three people...

Richard Barris from People’s Pundit appears with Steve Bannon to discuss the latest polling data and political data from around the polling world. {Direct Rumble Link Here}Barris notes some key points in the MAGA movement, the scale of the “only Trump” vote now hovering around 20% in the base of the republican party. The working-class coalition inside the GOP is exclusively a MAGA phenomenon. The cocktail class republicans are aligned with DeSantis and Trump, but the biggest portion of the working-class inside the republican party is only with Donald Trump.Additionally, and in alignment with the larger MAGA economic coalition, the...

The serially lying Never Trumpers have spent months spreading the lie that former President Donald Trump can’t beat His Fraudulency Joe Biden in a 2024 rematch. Yeah, well, the data proves the exact opposite.In the Real Clear Politics poll of polls, Trump currently enjoys a single-point lead over Biden. If the 2024 election were held today, the poll of polls says Trump would beat Biden nationally 44 to 43 percent. If Trump beats Biden nationally, he will almost certainly win the Electoral College. In fact, Trump won the Electoral College in 2016 even though he lost the national ballot to...

Videos showing former Starbucks employees claiming they were misgendered while working for the coffee company have emerged on TikTok - following the sacking this week of a transgender employee following a furious confrontation with a customer. The clash between the transgender woman and the woman buying coffee broke out at a Starbucks branch near the ferry terminal of Southampton, Hampshire, on Sunday, April 30th. A 56-second clip, filmed by a man outside the branch, shows the employee on the same side of the counter as the customer, arguing with her. The person recording the incident said the woman had apparently...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis confirms his hatred for the Latin Mass is ideological, since the greatest "danger" in the Church today is "reaction against the modern" - and criticizes the liberality of John Paul II and Benedict XVIHe clothes it saying Traditionalists are ideological, and basically calling his predecessors John Paul II and Benedict XVI idiots (in so many words) for somehow not having the brilliant "pastoral" foresight he has -- that persecution is good and "pastoral"...From his talk with Hungarian Jesuits, as reported by Jesuit periodical La Civiltà Cattolica:[Question:] The Second Vatican Council talks about the relationship between the Church...

If an award were to be given for the person(s) who has done the most to destroy America from within, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Soros and Barack Obama would be tied at the top with Biden making a valiant effort to climb into the ignominious groupage. Notwithstanding the behind-the-scenes efforts, Bush, Clinton and Obama are contributing from the shadows to pull the dead-from-the-neck-up Biden down the ladder into the godless abyss so-called American leadership is determined to render the United States. Aided and abetted by the apparatchiks masquerading as a trustworthy media, the aforementioned have done more to...