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[All Catholic Caucus] PiusX: Another Huge ChurchThe Society PiusX is building a large church in Gavrus, a village of 600 inhabitants outside Caen, France.The church is modelled on an eighteenth-century building. It costs only €1.6m, will be finished by 2025 and is financed by the faithful.France3 (August 27) calls the church “impressive” and is surprised that a community would build a brand new church in a region where many churches are unused or in a state of disrepair. No new church has been built in the area since Vatican II.

A Southern California jewelry store owner says he does not know what his future holds after a group of smash-and-grab thieves stole $500,000 worth of jewelry in broad daylight on Tuesday. Samuel Babikian, the owner of Jewels on Lake in Pasadena, told FOX11 Los Angeles that the masked men pepper-sprayed him in the face just before 2 p.m. and ransacked his store. "I was choking," Babikian said. "I didn’t see nothing. I don’t even see who they are, I don’t even know how many people they are." Pasadena police said witnesses told them that four men in ski masks carried...

On June 2, the U.S. Department of the Interior blocked oil and gas leasing for the next twenty years within a ten-mile radius of Chaco Canyon — the site of a Puebloan civilization in now-northern New Mexico dating back over a millennium. Despite some support from people within the Pueblo tribes and Navajo Nation which surround the land, the vast majority of Navajo leaders have opposed these drilling restrictions. It’s essential that climate advocates hear them out. Between high-profile cases of extractive industries seizing and polluting Indigenous land and the fact that climate change exacerbates the many environmental and economic...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t mince words Wednesday when discussing the hurdles Washington faces in preventing a government shutdown next month. “It’s a pretty big mess,” he said in Kentucky on Wednesday afternoon, before once again appearing to freeze while taking questions from reporters. “The Speaker and the president reached an agreement which I supported in connection with raising the debt ceiling to set spending levels for next year,” he added. “The House then turned around and passed spending levels that were below that level,” he said. “Without stating an opinion about that, that’s not going to be...

Donald Trump raised over $7.1 million since the release of his mugshot on Thursday, with over $20 million raised in the past three weeks. The latest haul comes amidst sales of mugshot merchandise, including the already infamous photo of the 45th President and the words ‘NEVER SURRENDER,’ including shirts, posters, bumper stickers, mugs, and even drinks coolers.Trump’s presidential campaign raised $4.18 million last Friday alone, representing a record for the highest 24-hour fundraising effort in his campaign to date.The merchandise, costing anywhere between $12 to $34, forms part of Trump’s dominance over small-dollar donations as his 2024 presidential campaign has...

NAGOYA, Japan -- Toyota Motor seeks to shatter its production record this year, aiming to manufacture 10.2 million vehicles globally, the Nikkei has learned, and cross the eight-figure milestone for the first time. The carmaker has set a target to produce about 3.4 million Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles in Japan and roughly 6.8 million units overseas, for increases of 30% and nearly 10%, respectively, from last year. Toyota believes it needs to domestically produce at least 3 million automobiles to maintain jobs in Japan as well as to preserve the country's unique monozukuri craftsmanship. This would be the first...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher got into a tense exchange with musician John Mellencamp on Monday after the "Pink Houses" singer-songwriter claimed only 1% or 2% of Black people living in America today have better lives than slaves. During an appearance on Maher's "Club Random Podcast," Mellencamp revealed he wrote a song called "From the Cotton Field to the Playing Fields" that he never recorded because he believed it was "wrong." The song’s message was an attempt to show how White people love to have Black entertainers and often exploit them.

A consultant for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) used a coded message in a "calculated" effort to "conceal" from the public record sensitive communications regarding the administration's response to a local water crisis in Michigan, according to a lawsuit. Michigan energy department consultant Andy Leavitt in September 2021 emailed a top adviser to Whitmer to express "some major red flags" with the administration's response to a lead water crisis in southwestern Michigan, which Leavitt compared to a similar crisis in Flint, Michigan. But Leavitt's initial message was not written in English—the consultant used letters in the Greek alphabet in place...

There will be a video of Brandon on MSNBC

Explanation: Near perigee, the closest point in its almost moonthly orbit, a Full Moon rose as the Sun set on August 1. Its brighter than average lunar disk was captured in this dramatic moonrise sequence over dense cloud banks along the eastern horizon from Ragusa, Sicily. Illuminating night skies around planet Earth it was the second supermoon of 2023. Yet again near perigee, the third supermoon of 2023 will also shine on an August night. Rising as the Sun sets tonight this second Full Moon in August will be known to some as a Blue Moon, even though scattered sunlight...

Christina Voyles, a senior marketing director, and her husband, Robert Hubble, moved to San Francisco in 2015 when Christina landed a job at the University of Berkeley. Her father had worked there when she was only two years old, so it felt like “a nice full circle moment”. But the city had changed from the one Christina cherished in fond memories of her childhood. San Francisco’s large homeless population has become a problem for all residents of the area. Christina explains how people have learned to “kind of get on with things, and leave them alone”. One day, as Christina...

Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” that Republicans must embrace early voting. Anchor Maria Bartiromo said, “You are also urging Republicans take advantage of early voting. Talk to us about the Secure Your Vote Initiative how early voting could impact the election.” Youngkin said, “Well we have, we have our midterms this year huge elections entire House entire Senate up. I believe it is the most important election in America. The reason is that we can demonstrate in 24 short months that a state with completely controlled by liberal left can in fact...

Never had this before but got a letter offering me up to a 30k personal loan. The letter even entices you with suggestions: "Think what you can do with the money. A new car? A new kitchen?" I thought that was grossly irresponsible. The banksters are truly evil people.

Democrat megadonor Milton Choy of Hawaii was sentenced to three years in prison for being involved in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme that involved both state and county officials. Honolulu District Court Judge Derrick Watson sentenced Choy, the founder of H2O Process Systems, to a 41-month sentence along with three years of supervised release. Choy was found guilty in September after an investigation revealed he spent “more than $2 million over the course of six years bribing Stewart Stant, the former director of Maui’s Department of Environmental Management, in exchange for more than $19 million in no-bid contracts.” Besides bribing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, struggling to convince Americans that he's improved their lives as he runs for reelection, hailed his administration's Tuesday announcement that several drugs would be targeted for Medicare's first-ever price negotiations. The drugs include the blood thinner Eliquis, diabetes treatment Jardiance and eight other medications. The negotiation process was authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act, which Biden signed last year, capping decades of debate over whether the federal government should be allowed to haggle with pharmaceutical companies. Any lower prices won't take effect for three years, and the path forward could be further complicated by...

The Biden administration announced a new military aid package for Ukraine on Tuesday valued at approximately $250 million. This package includes AIM-9M missiles for air defense, munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, 155 mm and 105 mm artillery ammunition, mine-clearing equipment, Javelin and other anti-armor systems and rockets, and over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "Every day, Russia continues to wage a brutal war of conquest that has killed many of Ukraine’s civilians and displaced millions of its people. Their attacks on Ukraine’s ports and grain infrastructure have...

The 38-year-old businessman was the buzz of the recent Republican debate in Milwaukee after taking center stage and finding himself in the hottest exchanges of the night. But the buzz has not translated into a poll ratings surge for candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. In fact, several respected polls released since the debate have support for the upstart candidate declining. The Emerson College poll out this week reported that Ramaswamy’s support among Republican voters actually dropped, from 10% before the debate to 9% afterward, a 1% decline. Similarly, the Morning Consult tracking poll has the candidate at 11% before the debate, and...

Comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan invited overnight music sensation Oliver Anthony to perform at his club, The Comedy Mothership, Tuesday night. Anthony, the songwriter of "Rich Men North of Richmond" – which has been number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks now – appeared onstage to wild applause. Comedian and close friend of Rogan, Tom Segura, introduced Anthony to the raucous crowd at the Austin, Texas venue, telling audience goers he had a "special treat" for them.

(Last Updated On: August 22, 2023) NATIONAL TOASTED MARSHMALLOW DAY If you were not hungry for something sweet, once you begin today’s celebration you soon will be as August 30th marks National Toasted Marshmallow Day. #ToastedMarshmellowDay Get your friends together, gather up some firewood, a few long sticks and a bag of marshmallow and you have the makings of a great night ahead of you. Toasted marshmallows is a special part of summer evenings around a bonfire. One of the popular ways to enjoy a delicious warm, gooey toasted marshmallow is with chocolate and Graham crackers in a S’more. Upon...

NOW - U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again.