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(KRON) — The Diocese of Oakland is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to child sex abuse claims, it announced Monday in a press release. The diocese says it faces more than 330 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse. According to the release, Catholic schools in operation under the Oakland Diocese are part of separate legal entities and are not included in the bankruptcy filing. Employees and vendors will also be paid as usual with employee benefits continuing uninterrupted, the release continues. “After careful consideration of the various alternatives for providing just compensation to innocent people who were harmed, we believe...

High inflation and a shortage of patient clinicians spurred the decision to cut 770 Ochsner Health's CEO said it was 'the hardest change we have ever had to make' Louisiana's largest hospital system has laid off nearly 800 of its staff amid rising healthcare labor costs after the Covid pandemic emergency has come to an end. Ochsner Health announced today it was 'eliminating 770 positions' — around 2 percent of its entire staff — in 'the hardest change we have ever had to make'. It comes after extra money for healthcare systems from the government was cut off after Biden...

One Perry resident tells KCCI she was one of two people bitten by a rabbit last Friday. Ramona Rustan said the rabbit jumped up and bit her and then hopped over to the neighbors' house. "It came around to her car and wouldn't let her out of her car," Rustan said. She called police. "The police department says it's been a rabbit that has been around terrorizing people," Rustan said. The Perry police gave KCCI a call report that details a 13-year-old girl who was also bitten by the rabbit. The 13-year-old will be getting a rabies shot. Rustan, who...

How could an international commission of legal experts recommend revisiting the age of consent? Children cannot consent to sexual conduct with adults Recently, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) published a report advocating for significant revisions to criminal law, such as decriminalizing prostitution, intentional transmission of HIV, and purchasing and possessing drugs for personal use. Most notably, the report also calls to re-examine laws relating to consensual sexual conduct involving children under the age of majority and people with disabilities who ordinarily cannot “consent.” The report states in part: “Consensual sexual conduct…may not be criminalized in any circumstances… Moreover, sexual...

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Biden has announced he will seek reelection as president. This comes as he is experiencing the lowest approval ratings of his presidency — 37 percent, according to Gallup. Former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the GOP nominee. The blunt reality, however, is that regardless of who the GOP puts up against Biden, they will lose if the party isn’t prepared to get down in the mud and beat the Democratic National Committee (DNC) at their own dirty game: ballot harvesting. [cut] Door-to-Door Efforts Conservative super PACs need to spend money putting boots on...

Speaker McCarthy and House Republicans celebrate passage of their border bill.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) blasted the mainstream media Thursday, accusing them of covering for the Biden family in their alleged crimes involving China and money laundering. "The media is part of the problem," Comer told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "The Biden family wouldn't do things like this if they thought they would be held accountable in the media." Comer previously said his committee had uncovered information suggesting that "10 or 12 Biden family members" participated in efforts to "launder or hide" money from "Communist China and other countries around the world." The White...

Marijuana and other products containing THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient, have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available. Although decades ago the THC content of weed was commonly less than 1.5%, some products on the market today are more than 90% THC. The buzz of yesteryear has given way to something more alarming. Marijuana-related medical emergencies have landed hundreds of thousands of people in the hospital and millions are dealing with psychological disorders linked to cannabis use, according to federal research. But regulators have failed to keep up. Among states that allow...

[Catholic Caucus] Catholics Protest: Cowardly Roche Chickens OutOn 10 May, the French bishops organised a meeting in Paris on liturgical and sacramental issues with Cardinal Roche, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Liturgy.When the Catholics learned of the forthcoming event, Roche cancelled his presence at short notice and sent his secretary, Monsignor Viola, instead. The Catholics did in fact attend, displaying banners reading "No to the liturgical war" (Riposte-Catholique.fr).For a service in the church of Honoré d'Eylau, the Novus Ordo bishops locked themselves in and threw the Catholics out (video below). In the end, the prelates sheepishly left the...

Conservative talk show host Dan Bongino said former President Donald Trump's performance during a CNN town hall was so good Wednesday night that he effectively wrapped up the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. "I'm going to say after last night, I don't know what you guys think, the primary is over," Bongino said during his opening monologue Thursday of "The Dan Bongino Show" podcast. "It's over man. ... Trump was in rare form last night and just lit CNN on fire to the point where CNN was questioning CNN at the end of the night." Bongino said the town hall was...

Research into the determinants of gender identity may do more harm than good In 1975 psychiatrist Robert Stoller of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote something bizarre in his textbook on sex and gender. He asserted that people who were assumed to be boys when they were born but whose gender identity or expression did not match that assumption “often have pretty faces, with fine hair, lovely complexions, graceful movements, and—especially—big, piercing, liquid eyes.” Based on this observation, he suggested a theoretical model in which transgender girls become transgender because they are especially cute. Society treats them more like...

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The failure to recognize how post-infection immunity is similar or superior to that bestowed by vaccination led to prolonged school closures and other problems, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist told Congress on May 11. U.S. public health agencies “chose to disregard natural immunity,” leading to “lost jobs, staffing shortages, children kept out of school, and wasted vaccines,” said Margery Smelkinson, a research scientist at the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She was one of three experts who testified at a hearing on immunity during the pandemic conducted by the U.S. House’s Select Subcommittee on...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg plans to bring manslaughter charges against former Marine Daniel Penny after he saved lives and protected fellow New Yorkers from a violent, longtime criminal on the subway. "The 24-year-old former Marine seen on video gripping the neck of Jordan Neely, who died of the chokehold on the floor of an F train in Manhattan this month, is expected to be charged and surrender as early as Friday, three sources familiar with the matter tell News 4 New York," NBC 4 New York reports."[The] decision to charge Daniel Penny was made by the Manhattan District Attorney's...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as its military awaits the delivery of promised aid. ...

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(LifeSiteNews) — LifeSiteNews has launched a new interactive map tracking the growing number of states restricting dangerous transgender surgeries and drugs. For mobile devices, click and hold the individual states to see the descriptions. Republican states have passed an unprecedented wave of bills this year cracking down on so-called “gender transitions,” particularly for children. In the past four months, 14 states have approved laws to ban or limit transgender surgical and hormonal inventions for youth. Republican governors in Florida and Missouri are poised to sign similar laws in the coming days, and bans are also moving forward in six other...

More than 300 beers competing in 103 categories won awards Wednesday in Nashville at the World Beer Cup, the largest and most prestigious beer competition. The 307 winners won gold, silver or bronze awards in a competition with 10,213 entries submitted by 2,376 breweries from 51 countries. A panel of 272 judges from 26 countries spent nine days judging the competition. “The World Beer Cup brings together the finest brewers and beers from around the globe and celebrates creativity, craftsmanship and passion for great beer," said Chris Williams, the competition director. “Receiving a World Beer Cup award is a testament...

In the video, the former employee of a Starbucks coffee shop in Beresford House in Southampton berated a customer, refused service, and hurled accusations that the patron was transphobic after being offended by a misgendering. The incident took place at a Starbucks licensee location in April. Those stores are partially owned by an individual who has invested in the coffee giant's business and represent more than 50% of the Starbucks International portfolio. "Don't ever call me transphobic. EVER!" the customer said. "[sic] called me a her… You're being transphobic, Karen. Now get out," the former employee yelled.