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Viganò responds to MediaPressInfo on the request for dissolution of “CIVITAS”Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò responds to MediaPressInfo on the French Minister of the Interior's request for dissolution of “CIVITAS”Paul DEROGIS: Excellency, during his recent appearance on the French programme ‘Géopolitique Profonde’, when asked about his “Roman” contacts, the president of Civitas, Alain Escada, replied that Bishop Viganò was the only Roman prelate today, apart from those ordained without Roman consent, to fight the New World Order and to support Civitas which also fights against globalism. Do you actually consider yourself an exception among the Roman prelates? And if so, how...

WASHINGTON — One day after Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze up at a public event, Brian Monahan, the attending physician for the U.S. Capitol, said that he told McConnell “he is medically clear” to continue to work.

President Biden said he is not concerned about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ability to serve, one day after McConnell froze up during a public event in Kentucky. “I spoke to him today,” Biden told reporters during a visit to Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters. “He was his old self on the telephone.” Biden suggested McConnell’s issues were not unusual given the senator had a concussion earlier this year. Asked if he had any concerns about McConnell’s ability to do his job, Biden said, “No, I don’t.”

House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said on Wednesday that an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden was likely “imminent” as some Republicans have asked for the impeachment process to move forward after months of investigations. Comer, who has led the investigations into the Biden family’s overseas business dealings, told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday that there would likely be a vote soon on opening an impeachment inquiry. “There’s consensus in our conference now that we are going to have to go to the impeachment inquiry,” Comer said. “Obviously, that will be Speaker McCarthy’s call, but...

California's Democratic lawmakers have been blamed for decades for failing to fix the state's out-of-control homeless problem and are now pushing back, pointing the finger at left-leaning judges and liberal advocates who have held up street-sweeping efforts by arguing such policies violate a person's civil rights. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) on Tuesday called a court order preventing San Francisco officials from clearing most of the tent encampments in the city "preposterous" and said people have acted in disbelief when he told them his hands were tied by the courts. "The San Francisco order, it's preposterous, and it's inhumane," he told...

Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is a Donald Trump “echo” who “appeals to the dark parts of the American psyche” ― and he’s no Harold Hill from “The Music Man” either. That’s the no-holds-barred opinion of Republican adviser Karl Rove in a Wall Street Journal editorial published Wednesday. ,p> Rove, a Fox News contributor and former deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush, slammed Ramaswamy as a “glib, shallow, overbearing, smooth-talking biotech engineer” in building up to an analogy of the classic Broadway and movie musical

Police have their sights set on every surveillance camera in every business, on every porch, in all the cities and counties of the country. Grocery store trips, walks down the street, and otherwise minding your own business when outside your home could soon come under the ever-present eye of the government. In a quiet but rapid expansion of law enforcement surveillance, U.S. cities are buying and promoting products from Georgia-based company Fusus in order to access on-demand, live video from public and private camera networks. The company sells police a cloud-based platform for creating real-time crime centers and a streamlined...

Amazing AccomplishmentsPresident Donald Trump’s White House is promoting the President’s strong efforts to defeat human trafficking in the United States of America.Recent operations by the U.S. Marshals saved exploited children. Now, the spotlight is on the Trump administration’s broad success in fighting the scourge of modern-day human slavery. Attorney General William Barr even acknowledged a case in which his DOJ prosecuted traffickers preying on children in the child welfare system. President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new review process to help parents whose kids have been taken away by Child Protective Services (CPS), amid widespread reports of...

A leader of the far-right Proud Boys has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, one of the longest sentences yet handed out over the US Capitol riot. Prosecutors said US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38, was an "instigator" of the storming of Congress on 6 January 2021. The former Infowars correspondent was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in May. In court, Biggs pleaded for leniency and expressed remorse for his actions.

At least 73 people died when a nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was used by homeless people, emergency services said Thursday. Some of the people living in the building in South Africa’s biggest city threw themselves out of windows to escape the blaze and might have died because of that, a local government official said. Seven of the victims were children, the youngest a 1-year-old, according to an emergency services spokesperson. Another 43 people were injured in the blaze, which broke out at about 1 a.m. in the heart of Johannesburg’s central business district,...

Former President Donald Trump holds a double-digit lead in Virginia’s Republican primary, the latest Roanoke College survey found.The survey asked Republican respondents, “If you had to choose, who would you most prefer to be the Republican nominee for president in 2024?”Trump has the clear lead with 47 percent support, 34 percent higher than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who came in a distant second in the lower teens with 13 percent support.The survey found Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who is not in the GOP presidential primary race, coming in third with nine percent support in his home state. Former Vice President...

A handful of GOP senators is weighing whether to force a fraught internal debate about their leadership's future after Mitch McConnell’s second public freeze-up in a month. Some rank-and-file Republicans have discussed the possibility of a broader conversation once senators return to Washington next week, according to a person directly involved in the conversations who confirmed them on condition of anonymity. Party leadership is not currently involved in those discussions, and nothing has been decided yet, this person added. It takes just five Republican senators to force a special conference meeting, which is the most direct way to have a...

The Church’s morals didn’t change until Vatican II in the 1960s. Before that, you had nearly two thousand years of consistency. If you speak to neo-Catholics now, they will tell you that there was a great revelation in the 20th century, and they realized that morality is constantly in flux, and that basically, all the fundamental premises of the historic Church are wrong. The Pope has gone from promoting gay anal to now actively attacking the people pushing back on it. He must be feeling he’s in a good position, to move from encouraging gay sex to actively organizing anyone...

Tucker Carlson admitted on Wednesday that he’s “never been this worried about anything” as much as he is about where the country is headed under a deep state that repeatedly targets its political enemies and “rigs” elections instead of acting on voters’ desires.Carlson made his anxieties about the state of our constitutional republic known in an interview with Adam Carolla, who asked the former Fox News host to weigh in on the coordinated effort by intelligence agencies and political elites to keep former President Donald Trump from taking back the White House.

The Biden administration has approved a $72 million dollar student loan forgiveness initiative aimed at providing relief for students who were defrauded by an online school. The loan forgiveness will be applicable to over 2,300 students who attended Ashford University, a former online for-profit school based in San Diego, California, said an Aug. 30 press release by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). The loan forgiveness has been approved under the “borrower defense” student aid program that has been in place for decades. Under the program, student loan borrowers who were misled by for-profit colleges could apply for forgiveness. The...

Flight 56 Sol 894 Date Aug. 25, 2023 Horizontal Distance 410 m ~1,345 ft Max. Altitude 12m ~39 ft Max. Groundspeed 5.30 m/s ~11.9 mph Duration 140.9 seconds Route of Flight From Airfield Pi To Airfield Rho Flight Log Flights 56 (as of 8/25/23) Distance Flown 12,914 meters (~42,369 ft) Highest Altitude 18 meters (~59 ft) Fastest Ground Speed 6.50 m/s (14.5 mph) Flight Time ~100.2 minutes (6,015 seconds)

Mayor Eric Adams is taking to the streets to demand — yet again — the Biden Administration fast-track work permits for thousands of migrants who have flooded into the Big Apple since last year. Hizzoner told a crowd of about 200 in Lower Manhattan on Thursday that the feds need to step up, and follows on the heels of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s visit to the White House on Wednesday to plead for help. “We must expedite work visas,” Adams said at a rally in Foley Square. “It’s just common sense. “We could continue to build the pipeline,” he said. “That...

A U.S. Navy veteran says he was brutally beaten and robbed Saturday night while walking his dog in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Scott Harris, 62, was left with a brain injury and required at least 100 stitches after he was beaten by a crowd of people around 11:50 p.m. in the city’s Brewerytown neighborhood, according to NBC10. “That night on Saturday, there was a huge party going on over here,” he told the outlet. “A little bit out of control but nothing terribly concerning to me. Next thing you know, I’m in the emergency room getting stitches.” At least one individual...

A report from John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), shows that from 2014 to 2022 armed citizens stopped active shooters eight times more often than the FBI claimed. In the report, excerpts of which Lott published on Real Clear Politics, he noted, “Out of 440 active shooter incidents from 2014 to 2022, an armed citizen stopped 157. We also found that the FBI had misidentified five cases, usually because the person who stopped the attack was incorrectly identified as a security guard.” He observed, “While the FBI claims that just 4.6% of active shootings...

The Los Angeles city council voted unanimously to pursue a lawsuit and criminal probe against Texas over its migrant busing program this week. The Wednesday vote came just hours after the eleventh migrant bus since June arrived in the city's jurisdiction carrying 42 migrants. The council requested that the city attorney's office investigate whether Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had committed any crimes through the program, and whether there is justification for a lawsuit. Abbott's program has delivered a total of 435 migrants to Los Angeles since buses started arriving on June 14. In all, the program has sent more than...