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Arizona law prohibits most abortions after the baby has reached 15 weeks of age in the womb. However, the state's top Democrats have ensured that this law will not be enforced. Attorney General Kris Mayes says she will not enforce this law. Gov. Katie Hobbs issued an executive order barring county prosecutors from prosecuting anyone for violating this law. Hobbs justified her refusal to allow the enforcement of the post-15-week ban on abortion by contending that "a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy takes priority over the legislature's misguided attempt to negate this right. Fortunately Kris and I are on...

A biologically male transgender model was crowned as ‘Miss Netherlands’ and will compete for the title of Miss Universe later this year in El Salvador. Rikkie Kolle, a 22-year-old model, has been selected as Miss Netherlands 2023, the first biological male to win the historically female competition.

....A Houston doctor facing anonymous complaints over COVID-19 treatments has rejected a disciplinary compromise offer from the Texas Medical Board (TMB). Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, an Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist who studied medicine at both the University of Texas and Stanford University, says she has successfully treated more than 5,500 COVID-19 patients without a single death. She drew controversy in 2021 for promoting Ivermectin and other early treatments while publicly criticizing vaccine mandates. After receiving complaints last year, the TMB launched an investigation and last week held an informal settlement conference with Bowden and her attorneys. At the conclusion...

President Joe Biden said Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that he didn’t think Ukraine was ready for NATO membership. Biden said, “I don’t think it’s ready for membership in NATO. But here is the deal, I spent a great deal of time holding NATO together because I believe Putin has an overwhelming objective at the time that he launched 85,000 troops into Ukraine, and that was to break NATO. He was confident in my view that he could break NATO. So holding NATO together is really critical.”

Here's what you need to know...An unnamed male BBC presenter has been suspended over allegations he paid a teenager $45,000 for sexually explicit photos It is understood the BBC has been in touch with police over the claims BBC director general Tim Davie has confirmed the corporation first became aware of the allegations in May, adding that he is taking the situation "extremely seriously" He also says new claims of "a different nature" were revealed on Thursday and the BBC is in contact with the family In an email to BBC staff, Davie also condemned social media speculation about which...

Today's homily explains our role in the Blessed Trinity and how we are drawn into it, through the love between Father and Son. And as discussed THIS is where our rest from burden will come:"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. 14 min. YouTube video link below:Enter The Inner Life of God

Jarrett, 38, isn't feeling too hot about President Joe Biden's new plan for student-loan forgiveness. After graduating with an undergraduate degree during the 2008 financial crisis, Jarrett - who requested his last name be withheld for privacy but whose identity is known to Insider - was laid off from his job. He decided pursuing an MBA would make him more appealing to employers, so that's what he did, and he graduated with his advanced degree in 2012 with the help of student loans. But Jarrett said the degree didn't pay off as intended. For years after graduating, he struggled to...

VIDEOWho among Joe Biden's aides thought it would be a good idea for him to appear at a public beach clad in his bathing suit? Probably one of his many aides taking orders from above to make Biden appear weak and foolish in order to ease him out of the White House in order to replace him with another DNC approved candidate for 2024. The scene at the beach was all too reminiscent of "Weekend At Bernie's." The big difference being is that a dead Bernie appeared to be more lively than a barely living Joey.

Two armed and trained officers against one perp who is tiny. That dude can't be over 5' 4". Yet they couldn't get him on the ground or even hold him in place.That dude who came and saved the day is just a security officer at a nearby club who heard the commotion. He came over and literally said, "I got him girls, I got him." I know the tweet mentions that the lady cops are "LGBT" so I can't help but wonder if he misgendered them when he called them "girls." The girls certainly didn't care, because they were too...

Baharav-Miara castigated in raucous hours-long- debate as ministers allege soft approach to anti-overhaul demo; AG: I hope gov't isn't seeking to overrule police, set arrest quotas A succession of ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government castigated Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara during a raucous, hours long cabinet meeting on Sunday, in which she was repeatedly attacked over authorities' handling of lawbreaking during demonstrations against the government. Several calls were made for her dismissal. Netanyahu started off what became an angry and tempestuous debate by telling Baharav-Miara that "selective enforcement is a fatal wound to democracy" and his ministers soon...

Germany is set to insist on delaying Ukraine’s accession to Nato over fears the move could take the alliance to war with Russia.An alliance source said Berlin would use the annual Nato summit in Vilnius, Lithuania this week to urge others to focus on security assurances, rather than membership proposals, to help Ukraine defend itself in the absence of accession.“Berlin is stand-offish at the prospect of offering immediate membership,” the source told The Telegraph. “It wants a process and time to develop guarantees to essentially block membership.”“Berlin doesn’t want to see Vladimir Putin potentially test Article 5.”Under Nato’s alliance’s Article...

Eighty-five years after Adolf Hitler ordered the destruction of Munich's main synagogue, construction workers have found rubble from the building in a nearby river.They uncovered columns from the synagogue and a stone tablet showing some of the Ten Commandments.The Jewish community and local figures are delighted with the discovery...There had been no sign of the building since it was torn down in June 1938, after Hitler demanded its removal as an "eyesore". Five months later, Jews, synagogues and Jewish-run businesses were attacked across Nazi Germany in the deadly November pogrom widely known as Kristallnacht...The stone tablet originally came from above...

Nine people were injured when a gunman opened fire on a group of people in Cleveland, Ohio, around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning. ABC News reported a group of people was standing outside in Cleveland’s Warehouse District when began shooting at them. The suspect fled the scene after firing the shots and there were no fatalities. NBC News noted the shooting suspect is still on the loose

Up close and live evidence of the sniffing creep Joe Biden - telling her "don't tell mommy".

Another creepy video of Joe Biden has the internet buzzing, this time of the 80-year-old whispering to a young child before appearing to audibly sniff her. The video shows Biden was mingling with a woman holding her child, unaware he was being recorded during the exchange by a friend. “Lemme whisper you a secret,” Biden says before his face disappears off camera to lean closer to the child followed by three loud “sniffs.”

Sometimes, certain things can become very annoying. And here is one, that likely only male members of FR might think of and surely (or at least very, VERY hopefully!) only our guys have experienced: Sweatpants / running pants / jogging pants can be handy and quite comfy, sweatpants in cool weather especially so. BUT, the darn things almost never have some sort of fly, as in a zippered or buttoned or "snapped" (securely!) fly. This can be a bit of a, well, "pain", or at least an inconvenience, especially if the waist is a bit tight, and, well, I won't...

ANZ and NAB have announced they were no longer permitting cash withdrawals over the counter at some of their outlets as more banking is done online than with cash. The move comes after Queensland woman Taryn Comptyn was unable to withdraw cash from her local bank branch and ended up closing her account in a now-viral TikTok clip. 'They really did emphasise the need to call ahead if you're going to take out significant amounts of money,' she told Daily Mail Australia. 'If you're taking out amounts that are over $10,000, it's worth calling ahead to make sure that they...

The evidence is overwhelming: they're not born with it. Not the L, the G, the B, or the T...or any of the rest. The current travesty of giving estrogen to boys and testosterone to girls and of cutting off their genitalia has its roots in a lie that was promoted by the homosexual community. It is the identity lie. It is the lie that people are born gay, that they have no choice, and that they are not responsible for their behavior. This lie is told by the media. It is told in our schools. It is everywhere. Robin Goodspeed...

9 July 202314th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe reliquary of the Martyrs of Gorkum at the Franciscan church of St Nicholas in Brussels.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingZechariah 9:9-10 ©See now, your king comes humbly to youThe Lord says this:Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion!Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem!See now, your king comes to you;he is victorious, he is triumphant,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.He will banish chariots from Ephraimand horses from Jerusalem;the bow of war will be banished.He will proclaim peace for the nations.His empire shall stretch from sea...

The US has passed the 32 trillion mark in national debt, and is going much, much higher. More like 32 tons on the back of taxpayers. When we add unfunded liabilities like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the tab soars to $224.5 TRILLION. New data show that a growing number of U.S. firms are collapsing under the weight of higher interest rates as corporate bankruptcies reached their highest first-half levels since 2010. In the first six months of 2023, there were 340 corporate bankruptcies, topping every other comparable span in 13 years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. This is...