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Carla Foster took the abortion-inducing drugs sent to her by mail when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnantAn English Catholic bishop said he supported the decision of a judge to jail a woman for two years after she aborted her baby almost a month before she was due to give birth. Carla Foster, 44, took the abortion-inducing drugs sent to her by mail when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant. Abortion is technically illegal in the U.K., but the 1967 Abortion Act permits the procedure within 24 weeks if two doctors agree certain criteria are fulfilled....

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his primary challenge to Joe Biden in April, the media shrugged him off as a meme candidate who would soon collide with political reality. Two months later, Kennedy is polling as high as 20% and his campaign is gaining momentum. And the media — unwilling to let Biden be primaried by this pedigreed populist — have decided it’s time to step in. And step in they have. Over the past weeks, major print and broadcast organizations have laid the foundations for a powerful narrative designed to hobble Kennedy’s campaign before a single vote is...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Matthew 9:36–38This passage from today’s Gospel begins by revealing to us the Heart of Jesus. His Heart is one that is “moved with pity.” As Jesus looked at the crowds before Him, He could see that they were “troubled and abandoned, like...

Counteroffensive update 17th June evening: The massacre near Orekhovo - even experienced officers have never seen something like this. The AFU went on the offensive in large numbers today. Ukrainian infantry moved forward with the support of NATO tanks and armored vehicles. After a heavy and long battle, within a day, this Ukrainian assault battalion was completely destroyed. What happened today near Orekhovo was a Slaughter!!! One gets the impression that NATO members gave Kiev a very "hard deadline". Time is limited, since the NATO summit is on July 11-12th. Only one problem the Russian army is strong, but this...

'If you are one of the few students at Duke who hold an unpopular (pro-life) opinion on this issue or on many others, there is nowhere for you to turn.'DURHAM, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Duke University signaled a bias against pro-life students when it sent out a campus-wide email condemning North Carolina’s ban on most abortions after 12 weeks, according to a concerned Duke student. Last month, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted Senate Bill 20 over the veto of Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper. Effective next month, the bill will ban elective surgical abortions after 12 weeks and chemical abortions after...

Evidence that COVID came from a Chinese lab mounted toward a conclusive level last week: “Multiple government sources” say the very first people infected by the bug were Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers, a new report reveals. More, they were allegedly modifying a close relative of the virus with a key feature unique to it. The report — by Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag, posted on the outlet Public — names Ben Hu, Yu Ping and Yan Zhu as WIV scientists who developed COVID symptoms as early as November 2019, a month before the world even heard of...

Why they aren’t moved by the mountain of legal charges heaped upon the former president. The left is doing its level best to keep former President Donald Trump from winning a second term as Commander in Chief. Exhibits A, B, and a forthcoming C are evidence of this if one counts the Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith indictments and those still dangling out there in the divisive politisphere known as American politics. Democrats and progressives believe their cause is righteous, if not noble, and are flummoxed by the reaction of the average Trump voter to these numerous prosecutions. Will Trump's Indictment...

I wonder if Biden’s proposed railroad from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean will generate massive industrial production growth? Is this more Bidenomics?? Industrial production unexpectedly dips in May. It peaked eight months ago. On a year-over-year basis, May’s Industrial Production declined to a lame 0.23%. As The Fed hikes rates and slows M2 Money growth. Today the Fed released its Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report for May 2023. Industrial production edged down 0.2 percent in May following two consecutive months of increases. The Bloomberg Econoday consensus was a small increase. In May, the index for manufacturing ticked up...

Democrats have been waging a war on guns for decades. Like other wars that feckless American “elites” have waged against inanimate objects (such as drugs) or military tactics (like terrorism), the war on guns will completely miss the mark. The goal is supposedly about public safety. Yet, of the roughly 81 million registered gun owners in the United States, hardly any of them—around 12 percent—have used their firearms to commit crimes. The vast majority of gun crime in America is done with illicit firearms, usually perpetrated by criminals. So why is the Biden Administration intent on trying to make lawful...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday gave African leaders seeking to mediate in the war in Ukraine a list of reasons why he believed many of their proposals were misguided, pouring cold water on a plan already largely dismissed by Kyiv. The African leaders were seeking agreement on a series of “confidence building measures”, even as Kyiv last week began a counteroffensive to push back Russian forces from the swathes of southern and eastern Ukraine that they occupy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after meeting them in Kyiv on Friday that peace talks would require Moscow to withdraw its forces...

Ukraine, once known as the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe, will need at least twenty years for its agricultural sector to recover following the eventual end of the war with Russia. According to a report from the Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine’s farming industry has been severely damaged during the past year of fighting with Russia, with staple crops such as maize, oats, rapeseed, and rye not expected to recover to previous production levels until at least 2050. Other sectors such as barley, sunflower, and wheat are meanwhile not expected to recover to pre-war levels until 2040.

“That woman murdered babies, and she knew it. And five days after we posted [Pfizer] Report 69, she announced her resignation. So that’s what Congress should be asking her about.” Walensky seemed less cool in this appearance for Congress. This is the least composed and the most nervous, I feel, like I’ve seen this woman who’s usually kind of cool as a cucumber,” noted conservative podcaster Emerald Robinson Thursday. She also “perjured herself twice,” expressed special guest and DailyClout CEO Dr. Naomi Wolf. The soon-to-be former CDC Director (June 30), Rochelle Walensky, testified before Congress for two hours on Tuesday....

By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have actually shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters east between 1993 and 2010 alone, changing the planet’s rotational pole, according to a new study published in the American Geophysical Union’s Geophysical Research Letters. Sea level rise is one of the most significant phenomena associated with the warming climate. Contemporary sea level rise has been monitored extensively by multiple observational techniques. The research was entitled “Drift of the Earth’s pole confirms groundwater depletion as a significant contributor to global sea level...

The key objective of the impending nuclear deal between the US and Iran is to stop Israel from attacking Iran, a Western official told Reuters. "If [the] Iranians miscalculate, the potential for a strong Israeli response is something that we want to avoid," the official said. The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that any deal between Washington and Tehran will not stop Jerusalem from taking steps against the threat of a nuclear Iran. “Our stance is clear: No agreement with Iran will oblige Israel,” Netanyahu said in the Knesset last week. “Israel...

One Minnesota shop class teacher is bringing his real-world business experience to the classroom, helping prepare students for future careers. "These guys are going to be out there in the real world shortly. They need to know what it's like on the job," industrial tech teacher Rob Van Der Hagen said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday. "In our shops, it's real world. They're treated as such. Perfection is expected. They've got to do the job. Customer satisfaction. All that stuff." Van Der Hagen is an industrial tech teacher at BOLD High School in Olivia, Minn. He began his teaching...

At least 20 people were injured and one person has died in a shooting overnight at a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, police say. -excerpt- Witnesses say the shooting took place around 12:30 a.m. in a parking lot in Willowbrook, about 21 miles west of Chicago. The motive behind the shooting is unclear and it is still an active investigation, Swanson said.

The beloved star of Discovery Channel's Flying Wild Alaska Jim Tweto, 68, has been killed along with a hunting and fishing guide from Idaho when their small plane crashed shortly after takeoff. Tweto's family-run rural aviation business in Unalakleet was featured in three seasons of the television series a decade ago. He and passenger Shane Reynolds of Orofino, Idaho, died Friday near the coastal village of Shaktoolik, roughly 125 miles east of Nome, Alaska State Troopers said. The plane 'was witnessed taking off but not climbing and then crashing,' their report said. Troopers were notified of an SOS activation around...

Self-defense is the right to use reasonable force for the purpose of defending one’s own life or the lives of others. Most states allow deadly force in self-defense where the person defending himself reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or grievous bodily harm. As a general matter of law, self-defense is a universally accepted principle in American jurisprudence. Or at least it was until recently. Several Democratic mayors and prosecutors are sacrificing the right of self-defense in favor of “social justice.” Soros-backed prosecutors are looking the other way when it comes to violent behavior but...

Special Counsel John Durham’s report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation exposes just about the full truth regarding the Russia Collusion Hoax that Hillary Clinton and her campaign hitmen conceived to wreck Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2016. The report contains everything we need to know and more. Much more. What we need to know is this: Top FBI officials used uncorroborated information from dubious sources to open the probe — then collaborated, some of them unknowingly, with the Clinton campaign in an attempt to stop Trump from becoming president. Their work on Crossfire Hurricane made them, in effect, ex...

Let’s suppose, for a minute, that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is coming to the NBA. What would it look like? Permit me to fantasize a bit to answer the question above. I’m a far left-wing, socialist kook, a multi-gazillionaire who got that way because of free market capitalism. But I believe everybody ought to be equal, except not equal to me, of course, so socialism is the answer for the world. Regardless, I am firmly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. That is my religion. I believe it, and since I’ve bought the most powerful government in the world,...