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The aptitude test was deemed racially "biased" because too many white people passed. From New York Post, "Black, Hispanic NYers who failed teacher’s test strike $1.8B in NYC settlement": Failing the New York State teachers' exam really paid off -- especially for a Queens man who learned this month he's getting a $2 million windfall over it. Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers and once-aspiring educators are expected to collect more than $1.8 billion in judgments after the city stopped fighting a nearly three-decade federal discrimination lawsuit that found a certification exam was biased. It's the largest legal...

Retired FBI supervisor latest to alert Congress as IRS whistleblowers prepare for day of public testimony A retired FBI supervisor’s account to Congress of how the bureau tipped off Joe Biden’s team in December 2020 about plans to conduct a surprise interview of his son Hunter not only corroborates a key allegation from two IRS whistleblowers, it further paints a portrait of unusual meddling into the investigation of the first family’s overseas business dealings and taxes. From search warrants denied to critical evidence kept from the investigative team, three experienced federal law enforcement agents have now offered Congress significant testimony...

The overall rejection rate for credit applicants hit its highest level in five years in June. The rejection rate of 21.8% was the highest level since June 2018, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Monday (July 17) when releasing findings from its June Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) Credit Access Survey. “The increase was broad-based across age groups and highest among those with credit scores below 680,” the New York Fed said. The rejection rate increased for credit card limit increase requests, credit cards, mortgage refinance applications, auto loans and mortgages, according to the findings. The rate increased...

Phoenix is slated to break its heat record as the city approaches its 19th consecutive day of hitting 110 degrees or hotter in the area. Phoenix tied the record for the most consecutive days with a high temperature of 110 degrees or more on Monday at 18 days, which ties it with the record previously set in 1974, the Phoenix National Weather Service (NWS) said. Phoenix also broke its record for the highest overnight low temperature ever on Monday with a low of 95 degrees, which surpassed the 2009 record of 93 degrees. It was the eighth consecutive day of...

Former President Donald Trump was arraigned a month ago in a Florida courthouse over his handling of classified documents, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts — and a majority of Utah voters say they think the charges were politically motivated. Among Utahns, 6 in 10 say the charges against Trump were politically motivated, according to the latest Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. Nearly 35% of voters said the indictment wasn’t politically motivated and 5% said they didn’t know.

BREAKING: Donald Trump says he has been notified that he is a target of the J6 Grand Jury investigation, expects to be indicted and arrested again.

Here's Woke U.S. Air Force Colonel Mark Wooten Expressing His White Guilt

MADISON, Wis. -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a Madison attorney facing nearly half a dozen charges, including three felonies, court records show. Jair Alvarez is charged with two felony counts of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony count of victim intimidation, a misdemeanor charge of battery and a misdemeanor charge of contact after domestic abuse arrest. According to a criminal complaint, a man living with Alvarez and Alvarez's significant other told police he heard Alvarez and the victim yelling on the morning on June 10. When the man went to investigate the noise, he told police he...

Former President Donald Trump has been ordered to report to a federal Grand Jury, according to a statement from Trump on Tuesday. Trump was notified by letter on Sunday night...

The Alabama woman who mysteriously reappeared two days after vanishing when she stopped to help a toddler who was walking on the side of a highway was likely not the target of sex traffickers, according to a report. A human trafficking expert on Monday threw cold water on Carlee Russell’s parents’ suggestion that the tot was used as “bait” to lure the 25-year-old nursing student out of her car and kidnap her. “As far as we are aware, this is not a tactic that traffickers use,” Sabrina Thulander, a spokesperson for Polaris, the nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking...

Among the left-leaning critics attacking the surprise hit film "Sound of Freedom," about a man who quits his Department of Homeland Security job hunting pedophiles to rescue sex-trafficked children in Colombia, is a man who worked for a group that is leading efforts to recast pedophiles as "Minor Attracted Persons," or MAPs The person who wrote this Bloomberg opinion piece is leftist activist Noah Berlatsky @nberlat. He was the spokesperson for M.A.P. (minor-attracted person) advocacy group, Prostasia. Noah Berlatsky (LinkedIn photo) .... ...Berlasky "also wrote this essay about the autonomy of child sex workers. He said that most child trafficking...

I've long realized the key to identifying a fake from the real item, in this case person, is to study the real item so closely that you'll have no trouble identifying a fake – even if the fakes are sitting across from Tucker Carlson in custom suits with hair more perfectly manicured than the finest lawns in the Brentwood or Beverly Hills sections of Los Angeles. Treasury agents tasked with identifying counterfeit money don't study the counterfeits; they study and examine real money so much and so thoroughly that any fake is immediately apparent to them. Even if they cannot...

Special counsel Jack Smith has informed former President Donald Trump by letter that he is a target in his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.The letter, which sources said was transmitted to Trump's attorneys in recent days, indicates that yet another indictment of the former president could be imminent -- though it is not immediately clear what kind of charges he could ultimately face.

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Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that left-wing academic Cornel West seeking the Green Party’s presidential nomination was a “threat to the continued constitutional order in the United States.” Carville said, “He’s obviously an accomplished scholar, academic. He seemed to be a very charming man and he’s also a menace, a threat to the continued constitutional order in the United States. and I say that because look what Ralph Nader, who’s directly responsible for the election of George W. Bush which brought about the horrific Iraq war and the horrific economic downturn we had among...

A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a manned U.S. surveillance craft in the air over Syria, endangering the lives of all four American crew members, the U.S. military announced Monday. The Sunday flyby was the latest in a series of incidents in which Russian aircraft harassed American warplanes and drones in the air over Syria. A Russian SU-35v approached a U.S. MC-12 in a manner that could have resulted in a fatal accident, officials said. Officials did not clarify exactly how close the Russian craft came to the warplane, but there have been myriad examples of similar behavior...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...

Disney extended the contract of CEO Bob Iger for two years last week, and since then he has wasted no time in admitting that the company has a difficult road ahead of it. In a recent interview with CNBC's David Faber, Iger suggested that Disney was perhaps spreading itself too thin and may reign in its television production to focus on films, which have been its bread and butter for decades. "I'm extremely optimistic about the company and its assets," Iger told Faber, "but in some cases the challenges are greater than I had anticipated." He said his prior "pessimistic"...

James Tissot’s The Life of Christ “THE LIFE OF CHRIST” 1 "Portrait of Zacharias and Elizabeth"Luke 1 2 "The Vision of Zacharias"Luke 1:8-22 3 "The Testing of the Suitors of the Holy Virgin" 4 "The Betrothal of the Holy Virgin and Saint Joseph"Luke 1:26-27 5 "The Annunciation"Luke 1:28-30 6 "The Holy Virgin in Her Youth" 7 "The Visitation"Luke 1:39-45, 56-62 8 "The Magnificat"Luke 1:46-56 9 "The Anxiety of Saint Joseph"Matthew 1:16-19 10 "Saint Joseph" 11 "The Vision of Saint Joseph"Matthew 1:20-25 12 "Saint Joseph Seeks a Lodging in Bethlehem"Luke 2:3-5 13 "The Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ"Luke 2:6-7 14...

18 July 2023Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary TimeWawel CathedralThe Black Crucifix, also called the cross of Queen JadwigaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 2:1-15 ©Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses among the bulrushesThere was a man of the tribe of Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife. She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months. When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside...