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CHICAGO -- At least 29 people have been shot, eight fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend, police said. A 19-year-old man was shot and killed inside a rideshare car in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood. A 15-year-old boy was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood. A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Sunday inside a home in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. A man was also killed, and another was wounded, in a shooting Friday night in Back of the Yards. Last weekend, at least 75 people were shot, 14 fatally, in gun...

A letter received in New-York, dated Washington, Wednesday afternoon, says: "Twenty thousand of BRAGG's army are at Richmond, doing garrison duty." The letter also says: "Gen. LEE has his whole army, 125,000, in the immediate vicinity of the Potomac. BRAGG is to take care of Richmond, while LEE takes care of Washington. Richmond was reinforced on the 19th inst." Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON. Thursday. June 25. Your special correspondent, Mr. F. HENRY, sends the following to this Bureau: FREDERICK, Thursday, June 25 -- 9 A.M. That the rebels are on this side of the Potomac in strong...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently “teased” the nation — and the media — with details of a bribery scheme involving Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a foreign national. This occurred after an IRS whistleblower testified he was removed from the Hunter Biden criminal probe following interference by the Justice Department. Now the Department of Justice has indicted the front-runner of the 2024 Republican nomination, former President Donald Trump, for alleged mishandling of sensitive documents. However, similar conduct regarding both the confidential documents in current President Joe Biden’s garage and Hillary Clinton’s private email server has been ignored or excused....

Breaking: Supreme Court rules Louisiana’s congressional map must be redrawn to add a second majority-Black district, with the justices lifting a hold they placed on a lower court’s order for a reworked redistricting regime.

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Reports: Vatican-ordered investigation targets Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texashe Vatican’s Dicastery of Bishops has completed a formal investigation of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland and the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, according to multiple media reports.What prompted the inquiry, known as an apostolic visitation, remains unclear, but it marks a rare though not unprecedented intervention by Rome into a U.S. diocese and points to possible disciplinary action against Strickland, a widely popular though polarizing Texas firebrand viewed as a culture war champion by many U.S. conservatives for his staunch defense of the unborn, marriage, the traditional Latin liturgy, and Catholic orthodoxy.The leader...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• The Best of H O W A R D D A V I D J O H N S O N “HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON (born 1954) is an American photorealist illustrator (drawer, painter, digital artist) of portrait, historical, mythological/religious art. He combines traditional style and methods with digital techniques.” excerpted from WikipediaLink to Johnson’s website and Galleries 1 HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON "Cherubim at the Garden of Eden" 2 HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON "The Sacrifice of Noah" 3 HOWARD DAVID JOHNSON "Abraham and the Angels" 4 HOWARD...

Ukraine has “de-occupied” 130 square kilometres (50 square miles) of national territory in its southern region since the start of the counter-offensive, real progress but a statement that perhaps underlines recent admissions that things are not moving as quickly as initially hoped. Kyiv’s deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar put the previous week’s fighting into context in a statement published early Monday morning, saying in Ukraine’s military eastern region of operations the Russian lines had been pushed back one-to-two kilometres (up to a mile-and-a-quarter) in battles pushing eastwards towards Donetsk and Bakhmut. Ukrainian soldiers are now entrenched at the new forward...

During the chaos in Russia this weekend, much of the nation’s leadership effectively disappeared. It remains unclear if Vladimir Putin is even in Moscow, though state spokesmen insist that he has remained “working inside the Kremlin.” The target of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted coup attempt, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, similarly pulled a vanishing act on Saturday. But today he finally reappeared, showing up in Ukraine to perform an inspection of some of Russia’s troops, making sure that the media was there to cover his performance. The Defense Ministry published a video showing Shoigu meeting with high-ranking Russian Army officers at a...

VIDEOHunter Biden, on the heels of receiving a tap on the wrist from the DOJ due to his corrupt Democrat white privilege, attended the White House State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Modi. Not only did he enthusiastically shmooze with the guests but he even provided narration for the event in which he lays out his moral belief system. Theologians will be quite interested in Hunter's views on the nature of God.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 17 Sin, Faith, Duty 17 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 So watch yourselves. “If your brother or sister[a] sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. 4 Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come...

If you want to visit some of Italy’s stellar attractions – the Pantheon, St Peter’s Basilica, Florence’s Duomo – you’ll need to be dressed appropriately. As religious sites, there are strict rules surrounding clothing and covering up. While these regulations are long-standing, some communities in Italy have also recently introduced strict dress codes when walking around town. Here’s everything you need to know about what to wear as a tourist in Italy. What to wear to visit churches in Italy Many of Italy’s top attractions are churches, cathedrals or religious complexes. If you want to ensure you’re not turned away...

An overwhelming majority of Americans think it is vital to US interests that Ukraine beats back Russia’s invasion, while over half think providing military aid to the cause is worth it, a new survey shows. A Reagan Institute survey on national security issues found that 76% percent of Americans believe Kyiv’s victory is important to the United States, with a staggering number of Democrats (86%) and Republicans (71%) sharing this sentiment. Fewer Americans, however, are as excited about propping up Ukraine’s wartime efforts, with 59% believing that Washington should continue to provide weapons and additional support. The most common justification...

In 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an open letter to shareholders he was moving to Lugano, Switzerland. “My capital will continue working in Norway,” wrote the fishing magnate turned industrialist who launched his empire four decades ago with a 69-foot trawler he bought while saving money working on ships off the coast of Alaska. Røkke, who Forbes estimates has a fortune of $5.1 billion, will cost the Norwegian government an estimated 175,000,000 kroner annually (roughly $16 million) with his departure. That might not sound like a lot of money, but Røkke is not the only...

Box office analyst and YouTuber Valliant Renegade has estimated that the Walt Disney Co. has lost $890 million on the last eight studio releases, including the woke Little Mermaid remake and Elemental, an anti-racism animated film featuring a non-binary character. The films contributing to the losses include “Lightyear,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Strange World,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “Elemental.” Valliant Renegade said that the eight films cost roughly $2.75 billion but only brought in $1.86 billion. “That can’t go on forever. It’s just simple numbers,...

In 2024, there is an opportunity to out-compute the left. Here's what it may look like. Ninety percent of current election fraud comes in two buckets: election commissions jacking with voter rolls like Arizona and Wisconsin and mail-in ballots collected and illegally voted like everywhere. Neither fraud bucket is thwarted by organizational solutions — both can be stopped with real-time compute power.

26 June 2023Monday of week 12 in Ordinary TimeOur Lady of Peace: The Prelatic Church of Opus Dei (the tomb of St. Josemaria at front>Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 12:1-9 ©'Leave your country, your family, and your father's house'The Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.‘I will bless those who bless you:I will curse those who slight you.All the...

It would not be difficult to alter the software to summon only registered Democrats. At this writing it appears that the trial of President Trump will take place in the Fort Pierce Courthouse in Florida, and the NY Times noted that the jury pool will politically favor President Trump. Although there is some truth to that statement which acknowledges the political nature of the trial, the real question is: “What is the NYT’s narrative?” Is it to blunt the fallout from the dreaded acquittal or to amplify the public impact of their desired guilty verdict? It is too early for...

The size of the brain is frequently associated with intellect. A new study has revealed a surprising correlation between climate change and the size of the human brain. As PsyPost reports, this study delves into the hypothesis that the environmental strain induced by climate change is responsible for the observed decline in brain size. These discoveries provide insights into the evolutionary challenges encountered by contemporary humans over the last 15,000 years and raise concerns regarding the potential consequences of ongoing global warming on our cognitive capacities. The study, led by Jeff Morgan Stibel, a cognitive scientist, represents a notable advancement...

Republican senators are leaning on Chief Justice John Roberts to do something about the Supreme Court’s appearance problem in the wake of reports that conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito accepted luxury vacations from conservative donors. While Republicans don’t support Supreme Court ethics reform legislation sponsored by Democrats, they think the reports that Thomas and Alito accepted expensive vacations funded by wealthy donors has created a real public relations problem for the court. These lawmakers want Roberts to take the issue of legislation out of Congress’s hands by issuing a judicial code of ethics or some other updated statement...