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Major benefactors to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – Morteza ‘Mori’ Hosseini and his wife Forough – have donated tens of thousands of dollars to a political action committee (PAC) funding the Democratic Party leaders, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the lead impeachment manager against former President Donald J. Trump, Jamie Raskin.Hosseini’s donations to the Iranian American Political Action Committee – Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) span from 2004 to 2011, under his name, as well as aliases “Morteza Hosseini Kargar”, and “Morteza Hosseini-Kargar“. During the same period, the PAAIA PAC funded various Democrat groups, including Friends...

Bud Light is now selling for less than water in some places following weeks of declining sales after the brand's disastrous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. America's former number one selling brew is now down almost 50 percent from its sales numbers a year ago. The brand has lost upwards of $20billion since generating a massive wave of controversy over its partnership with trans influencer Mulvaney in early April.

Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle; John 20:24–29 Friends, today’s Gospel tells of Thomas’ doubting the Resurrection. Indeed, Catholicism has a rich tradition of questioning, seeking understanding.Aquinas, another great St. Thomas, spent much of his life asking and answering hard questions about the faith.Do you remember Hamlet’s great line, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio”? If we stubbornly said—even in the area of science—that we will accept only what we can clearly see and touch and control, we wouldn’t know much about reality.There is, in most areas of life, a play...

A fundraiser for a French policeman who 'executed' a teenager during a traffic stop has reached more than €1million (almost £900,000) - dwarfing the €189,000 donated to the victim's devastated family. Nationwide riots were sparked after the cop shot Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old with an Algerian background, at point blank in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday. Many – including members of Nahel's family – said the killing was symptomatic of widespread racism towards ethnic minority groups in France, and Nahel's grandmother said she was 'heartbroken' by the support shown for the policeman.

A prosecutor who signed off on the documents charging Hunter Biden with tax and gun crimes previously worked with one of the First Son's business partners, DailyMail.com can reveal. Delaware US Attorney David Weiss officially filed charges against the president's son last Tuesday after a near five-year probe into his alleged tax crimes and foreign financial dealings. Weiss's deputy, Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, signed off on the charging documents alongside his boss and two other assistant US attorneys – indicating he has a central role in Hunter's criminal prosecution.

It is that time of year again: when the United States Supreme Court ruins everyone’s summer with its sociopathic rulings. Last summer, on June 24, the top judicial body overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that legalised abortion nationwide in 1973. Hardest hit by the decision were poor women of colour, such being the institutionalised inequality that prevails in the world’s self-appointed paragon of justice.

The bold move by Bud Light to align with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney has backfired, leading to an internal shakeup with numerous executives being dismissed from the brand. Retailers are being hit hard financially as they struggle to sell their stockpile of Bud Light. Factories associated with the Anheuser-Busch brand have started shutting down.

Mess around, find out: [Language warning] Moms for Liberty thinks schools shouldn't be teaching kids about sex and gender ideology, and recently they've been falsely maligned as fascists for a Hitler quote on their website used to characterize the anti-freedom Left. This event in Philadelphia was with Billboard Chris, a dad who thinks that sterilizing kids is bad and goes around the US and Canada wearing a billboard saying that kids can't consent to puberty blockers. If you want more video of the insane clowns who line up to protest against sanity and decency, here it is: VIDEO AT LINK.......................

Amidst the ongoing riots in France, an old video of Islamic cleric Mohammad Tawhidi, warning against the import of migrants to the country, has gone viral on the social media. The ‘Imam of peace’ in an interview dated September 9, 2022, can be seen talking about how Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cannot operate in Muslim countries but freely operate in nations such as the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Mohammad Tawhidi while speaking on combating extremism, Islamism and political Islam said that terrorism is being executed in two manners. First, it is done within the Muslim world and...

Former President Donald J. Trump was one of the first global leaders to acknowledge the migration-driven social unrest in France, telling the media that ‘France is no longer France’ and predicting that things would only worsen. Trump’s 2016 comments came after the murder of Catholic priest Jacques Hamel at the hands of two Muslim men.Trump said at the time:“You see what happened to the French priest. A friend of mine, he said he was going to France like three or four months ago. I saw him yesterday. I said how did you like France? He said, I wouldn’t go to...

A couple allegedly squatting in a Bronx public housing complex abused and neglected their two young girls so severely that the starving youngsters were forced to eat their filthy foam mattress, prosecutors charged on Monday. The girls — three and four years old — were bruised, naked and covered in feces when cops and city workers finally rescued them May 3 from a “house of horrors” at NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses, the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said. Now, their mom Stephanie Grabowski and her beau, Mark Russell, have been indicted on a slew of criminal charges, including kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and...

We told you it was looking bad for Indy's new feminist romp... ...and boy oh boy were we right. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny did a belly flop from 10,000 feet this weekend as the Mouse House's LucasFilm killed the last piece of intellectual property that it hadn't yet destroyed. The movie only made $130 million total on opening weekend (a holiday weekend, no less!). That's $60 million domestically and $70 million internationally against a budget of more than $300 million (not including marketing). That is less than half of the $272 million that the subpar Kingdom of...

Chicago tried something new this year. For the first time ever, on the weekend before Independence Day, the city of Chicago hosted a NASCAR street race – yes, in downtown Chicago, one of the best known business, shopping and entertainment districts in the world. This isn’t something that the voters chose consciously; it’s a decision made by the last city government, the office of the recently-defeated Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Chicagoans have been referring to the event as Lightfoot’s last attack on the people of Chicago. Events like this take weeks to set up, so driving barriers and temporary viewing stands...

WASHINGTON — An intensive drive by right-wing Republicans in Congress to vilify the FBI with charges of political bias has imperiled a program allowing spy agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreign targets, sapping support for a premier intelligence tool and amplifying demands for stricter limits. The once-secret program — created after the 9/11 attacks and described by intelligence officials as crucial to stopping overseas hackers, spy services and terrorists — has long faced resistance by Democrats concerned that it could trample on Americans’ civil liberties. But the law authorizing it is set to expire in December, and opposition among...

My gawd. I don't know how much longer I can take this. Every customer service representative has a heavy, barely discernable foreign accent. Equally irritating is their inability to vary from their script(s). They, theoretically: "I am going to send you a text message where you can change your appointment time." They, actually: I am going to send you a text message where you can change your appointment time, However, if you change your appointment time after the appointment, then you cannot change your appointment time, and if you need to change your appointment time, make sure you do so...

"Sopranos" and "White Lotus" actor Michael Imperioli says he's not allowing "bigots and homophobes" from watching any of the work he's been in after the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado designer opposed to making same-sex wedding websites. Imperioli, 57, wrote an Instagram post condemning the high court's decision over the weekend. "i've decided to forbid bigots and homophobes from watching The Sopranos, The White Lotus, Goodfellas or any movie or tv show I've been in," he said. "Thank you Supreme Court for allowing me to discriminate and exclude those who I don't agree with and am opposed to. USA...

Humans pumped so much groundwater out of the Earth that the planet has begun to wobble detectably on its axis, a new study has found. On its own terms, the magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed category as Earth’s slowly drifting continents. But the findings published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters show the extent to which human action — in the form of dam construction, groundwater drilling and the burning of fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth. They also...

Seven of the top 10 lawmakers who used earmarks recently are Senate Republicans, according to a report from Open the Books. In March 2021, a split House Republican conference voted to overturn its years-long ban on earmarks. The renewed practice requires Republican lawmakers to write a justification for any earmark they want to sponsor and verify they have no financial stake in the earmark. Those in favor of bringing back earmarks believe it would bring more power to Congress and can serve as a tool to rein in the Biden administration. Some House Republicans who support using earmarks also believe...

NEW YORK — An advocacy group for young religious LGBTQ Jews has launched a project to provide mental health guidance tailored to the community on social media, in the first initiative of its kind, as surveys show that such youth in the US are at a higher risk for emotional issues and harassment. The “TikTok therapy” video series will offer advice on topics such as how to discuss dating someone from the same gender with Orthodox parents, or navigating LGBTQ issues that come up in conversation at Shabbat dinners, said Jewish Queer Youth (JQY), a New York-based group that focuses...

The U.S. State Department has issued a fresh travel warning advising Americans against heading to China over selective enforcement of local laws and the "risk of wrongful detentions." The warning comes nearly two months after China sentenced a 78-year-old U.S. citizen to life in prison over spying charges. "The People’s Republic of China (PRC) government arbitrarily enforces local laws, including issuing exit bans on U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries, without fair and transparent process under the law," the State Department says.