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Calif. Republican says bill allows state to 'discriminate based on race when providing servicesA California Democratic lawmaker accused his Republican colleague, the state assembly’s first Muslim member, of White supremacy for declining to back a bill that would allow state funds to go toward programs based on race in what critics are calling state-sanctioned discrimination. Democratic Assemblymember Corey Jackson, who proposed ACA-7, said it’s meant to address "persistent disparities in health, education, and economic outcomes for certain communities" in California. Jackson's bill would amend the state’s constitution in order to allow taxpayer money to fund "culturally specific programs in any...

[Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich to celebrate Mass for pro-LGBT group that dissents from Church teachingThe Chicago cardinal has long been a supporter of homosexuals in the Church and has defied its teachings on offering Holy Communion to those living in illicit unions. Cardinal Blase Cupich will offer Mass on Sunday for a LGBT group called the Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach (AGLO) for their “35th anniversary” within the Archdiocese of Chicago.The Mass will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Lakeview. AGLO was formed in 1988 by liberal Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. According to the group’s website, it...

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he was “angry” former President Donald Trump is putting the country through “angst and tumult” over his classified documents indictment. Romney said, “I’m angry. The country is going to go through tumult as a result of one thing, President Trump didn’t turn over military documents when he was asked to do so. All he had to do was hand them in. I’m sure his counsel told him, hand the documents in, particularly when the subpoena came. But for some reason, he decided not to. He held onto them. Why?...

Tucker Carlson took the glove off in episode 4 of his Twitter show dubbed “Wannabe Dictator” – referring to Joe Biden after he had his main political rival arrested this week.Tucker Carlson brilliantly illustrated why Joe Biden is indeed a “Wannabe Dictator.”On Friday, Trump shared his views in a reaction to political commentator Tucker Carlson, a person he labeled “a very good guy.”The former President contended that the biggest reason for the hostility he faces is that he consistently put America first. This commitment, he suggested, antagonized Washington and globalist interests, leading them to resent him.“Tucker Carlson, a very good...

Barack Obama stands to pay less in taxes as a result of a special loophole that’s similar to one that he criticized during his presidency, according to a report. The former president is a “strategic partner” with NBA Africa, a venture which oversees the continent’s Basketball Africa League. In a July 2021 press release, the NBA announced that Obama “will have a minority equity stake in the new venture” while he “help[s] advance the league’s social responsibility efforts across the continent.” Obama’s deal with NBA Africa has been structured as a “profit interest” share, which is similar to the “carried...

During President Donald J. Trump’s years in the White House, his aides began to refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere as the “beautiful mind” material. It was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life of John F. Nash Jr., the mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by Russell Crowe, who covered his office with newspaper clippings, believing they held a Russian code he needed to crack. The phrase had a specific connotation. The aides employed it to capture a type of...

Governor Waller cites slow progress on core inflation Richmond Fed chief Barkin says he’s comfortable doing more Two Federal Reserve officials said the central bank may have to raise interest rates further to tame price pressures that in some sectors aren’t showing much sign of easing. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said Friday headline inflation has been “cut in half” since peaking last year, but prices excluding food and energy (aka, CORE inflation) has barely budged over the last eight or nine months. The Federal Open Market Committee paused its series of interest-rate hikes Wednesday, but policymakers projected rates would move...

TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — On June 14, at 7:30 p.m. patrol officers responded to the area of East 41st Street after multiple callers reported a women standing in the street and pointing a pistol at people driving by. Callers described the woman and said that she was standing in the street holding the pistol and staring at the sky. Others saw her walking in the street with the pistol in her hand. Some callers reported that the women pointed the pistol at them as they passed. Officers arrived in the area and found Ashley Miller. They were able to take...

White House boob-barer Rose Montoya is facing fierce backlash from her own LGBTQ+ community — accused of setting back decades of activism in a flash. The self-styled “Latine, bisexual, nonbinary transgender woman” has since deleted the fake-boob-flashing video that got her banned from the White House — as well as an initial flippant response to the backlash. But many of the influencer’s earlier social media posts have been flooded with angry comments — with fellow trans people leading the charge. “THOUSANDS of trans activists (like myself) have worked for decades, to show transgender people in a POSITIVE light to society,...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A Deltona woman has been arrested after calling 911 to falsely claim her neighbor’s child was drowning, what the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office says led two of its deputies into a serious crash as they rushed to respond. Around 4:30 p.m. on June 8, 47-year-old Fabila Robles is quoted in a Volusia charging affidavit stating, “my next door neighbor’s kid is drowning right now” to a dispatcher, drawing first responders to Ring Street. Numerous units from the sheriff’s office and Deltona Fire Rescue Department jumped into action, heading to the scene in emergency mode, according to...

A Republican state senator on Tuesdayissued a stark warning to California parents, urging them to “flee” the state if they love their children as a radical bill advances that could result in parents being considered “abusive” if they refuse to affirm their own child’s gender confusion.

Let's start with the magic of creating a human: Many resources state that there are 79 known organs in the human body. Together, these structures keep us alive and make us who we are.Every baby has unique DNA, except for identical twins which have the nearly the same DNA, save for minor mutations. You start with a tiny sperm and egg which hook up to start the development of a child, not a blob. The sperm resides in a male's testicles. The eggs reside in a female's ovaries. In a few short months, this tiny sperm and egg develop into...

Nearly half of New Hampshire Republicans (46%) wouldn’t vote for former Gov. Chris Christie for president “under any circumstances,” according to a New Hampshire Journal/coefficient poll released today.Still, Christie has his best performance yet in the first-in-the-nation Republican primary: in a ballot test of seven GOP presidential candidates, Christie is in third place with 9% just four points behind Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump leads in New Hampshire with 47%.Christie’s numbers jump to 19% among moderates and 1% among liberals, which means if conservatives don’t vote next winter, the former New Jersey governor has a chance to win New Hampshire.While 46%...

Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed that the key whistleblower in the House Oversight Committee's investigation into President Joe Biden and his son's alleged bribery has died. Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, claimed to have seen an FBI document that indicated Biden accepted a bribe and participated in a money laundering scheme with his family. The file, an FD-1023 form that allows the public to submit tips to the government about possible crimes, according to the lawmakers, allegedly also suggests that there are audio recordings of the incident. But neither Comer nor Grassley, nor...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A bear reportedly killed a person in an attack near Groom Creek in Yavapai County early Friday morning, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said. The bear has since been killed and is no longer a threat to the community, deputies said. How the bear was killed hasn't been clarified. Deputies from the sheriff's office and Arizona Game and Fish responded to the scene near Groom Creek to reports of the dead person. Groom Creek is about six miles south of Prescott. Investigators are at the scene working to determine the events leading up to the attack. This...

SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS Matthew 11:25-30 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the Lord offers to relieve our burdens: “Take my yoke upon you . . . and you will find rest for yourselves.” Jesus almost always speaks in paradoxes, and this is another one. “I will put a yoke on you.” Now, if I am burdened, the last thing I want is a yoke that will make my life more burdensome.But here’s the paradox: What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own...

Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve First Grand Prix1978Number of Laps70Circuit Length4.361kmRace Distance305.27 kmLap Record1:13.078 Valtteri Bottas (2019)

Protests are not an unusual sight at McGill University in Montreal. Student activism is something of a vaunted tradition at our school. But March’s Israeli Apartheid Week was not a peaceful civil rights protest. No one was hurt, as far as I know, but rhetoric can be just as damaging. The same week as the McGill demonstration, a radicalized teenager filmed himself ripping down and burning an Israeli flag in front of a Montreal Jewish day school. He did not injure anyone, but his actions represented a powerful and deeply unsettling statement. As I approached the McGill library, I heard...

JESSE WATTERS: Before we even knew Joe Biden was "The Big Guy," before we even had the laptop, a Ukrainian businessman told an FBI informant that he bribed The Big Guy 5 million bucks. He used the phrase "The Big Guy" when Joe was VP, years before the nickname went public. And tonight, we're learning The Big Guy was throwing his weight around. This alleged $5 million bribe wasn't so much of a bribe. It was more of a shakedown by The Big Guy, Joe Biden. He was shaking down the Ukrainian. The Federalist is reporting that Biden coerced the...

A high-ranking Space Force officer has spoken out slamming a slew of recent anti-LGBTQ state laws, saying they have a negative impact on military families and force readiness. Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt made the remarks in a fiery speech at the 12th Annual DoD LGBTQ+ Pride Event in Washington DC, saying that the laws sometimes forced her to choose 'less qualified' candidates for postings in those states. 'Since January of this year, more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been introduced at the state level,' said Burt, the Space Force's deputy chief of space operations. 'That number is rising and demonstrates...