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Russia’s parliamentary leaders plan to consider exiting an international treaty banning nuclear tests as a means of retaliation against Western support for Ukraine. “We are talking about the withdrawal of ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote Friday on social media. “The situation in the world has changed. Washington and Brussels have launched a war against our country. Today's challenges require new solutions.” Volodin embraced the idea after Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled his interest in the exit during his address to the Valdai Discussion Club. The Kremlin chief also positioned the withdrawal...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis has given liberals ‘freedom to sow doubt and confusion among the faithful’: Father MurrayCatholics have a ‘duty in obedience to God’s revelation and in charity for souls to resist steadfastly any attempts to change the teaching of the Church that may emerge from this Synodal Assembly,’ Fr. Murray declared.A prominent canon lawyer has argued that the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality is a “long-awaited opportunity” to “bury” a Christo-centric Catholicism and implement a form of “judgment-free human coexistence.”“The Synodal Assembly has the potential to cause immense harm to the life and mission of the Church,” stated Father...

Differences in political party affiliation is the primary force dividing whether Americans are going to get the latest COVID-19 booster shot, a poll released Friday found. Seventy percent of Democrats say they are likely to or have already received the updated shot, while 28 percent of Republicans say they will, the Ipsos poll found. The survey found that as of early October, 6 percent of Americans report already having received the newest booster shot. A majority of respondents, 67 percent, fall into the “very likely” or “not at all likely” categories, meaning many have already made up their minds about...

I love that this became a mainstream news story and then a few days later this lady was freed. That's the power of journalism, people. That was Tuesday. And now this: A 21-year-old New York City college student, who spent five "hellish" months in the United Arab Emirates over an altercation at a Dubai airport has been freed, an advocacy group said. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a Lehman College student in the Bronx, was detained in June and charged with a year sentence after she was charged for allegedly assaulting and insulting an airport security screener. If you remember,...

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows are doing everything they can to cover for President Joe Biden. They buried a major poll showing former President Donald Trump completely decimating Biden on the economy amongst voters. A Marquette Law School survey of 868 registered voters released Oct. 5 asked who they believed would handle a litany of issues better between Trump and Biden. When it came to economic issues, Trump beat Biden by double-digits across a number of areas. But of course, this significant election development wasn’t newsworthy at all for ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and...

Republicans tore into two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for her desire to formally deprogram Americans who support former President Donald Trump. “There needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” Hillary Clinton told CNN Thursday. “So many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists, take their marching orders from Donald Trump, who has no credibility left by any measure. Hillary Clinton, who denied losing the 2016 election, also said Trump will likely be the 2024 Republican nominee, which will necessitate defeating “those who are the election deniers, as we did in 2020.”

MEXICO CITY, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. government does not want to build new sections of wall on its border with Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, expressing doubt that the planned construction would be carried out. "It's pure publicity," Lopez Obrador said in a regular morning press conference, after the Biden administration announced it would build additional sections of border wall, carrying forward a signature policy of the Trump administration. A high-ranking delegation of U.S. officials met Thursday with their Mexican counterparts, among them U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "They don't want to...

A retired top policeman helped Robert Menendez’s wife-to-be leave the scene of her fatal car crash without a sobriety test or handing over her phone. The Post has learned that Michael Mordaga, the former director of Hackensack police and an ex-chief of detectives in the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, was on the scene within minutes when Nadine Arslanian slammed her black Mercedes into Richard Koop in Bogota, NJ, in December 2018. Mordaga, 66, helped her leave behind the totaled car and take her belongings from it after quizzing the patrolman dealing with the crash on what he planned to do....

Where does Trevor Bauer go to get his reputation back? His MLB career? Two years of his life down the toilet, the lost opportunities, the stress of being falsely accused as a violent rapist: How does he rewind the clock? He can’t. Nobody ever can. You’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty in this country, but the former Dodgers pitcher never had a chance. The media lynch mob delighted in targeting the Donald Trump-supporting climate skeptic. He lost the dream career he’d toiled for since he was a little boy. At age 30, he had to go to a...

After Covid completely upended life on college campuses, students and recent graduates are encountering a new challenge: student loans. Millions of college students and graduates — including Black women, who carry the highest burden of student debt — held on to the hope of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which the Supreme Court struck down in June. Yet, Biden is aiming to push policies that would provide relief for loan borrowers, with his announcement Wednesday approving $9 billion in student loan forgiveness for 125,000 borrowers. Still, as payments resume, several Black students and graduates told NBC News that...

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." ☰ Revelation 13 1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon...

There are people born with biological or chromosomal abnormalities who do not fit perfectly into the male-female categories. They are called intersex (more precisely, those affected by disorders of sexual development, representing .018% of the population). They deserve our sensitivity and compassion, but they are the exceptions who prove the rule of the gender binary. There are also people who, to the core of their being, feel that they are trapped in the wrong body, often experiencing internal conflict and pain for many years. They too deserve our sensitivity and compassion. But to call them “transgender” is to do them...

Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake confronted a possible general election opponent, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), at an Arizona airport on Thursday, blasting him with criticism over the border in an on-camera exchange later posted on social media. The exchange took place after Lake and Gallego found themselves on the same plane landing in Phoenix. Lake had posted criticism about Gallego and the border on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and the Democrat quickly responded.

A recent Gallup poll found that Americans trust the GOP more than the Democrats on the economy by the largest margin in more than three decades. More than half of Americans, 53%, trust the GOP, compared to 39% who say they trust the Democrats. It wasn’t the only issue Republicans had a significant advantage on, either, but the economy tends to be one of the most, if not the most important issue that tips an election one way or another. And as bad as things look for Joe Biden and the Democrats now, next year could be even worse. According...

PORTLAND - The drive west was everything Adrian Hammerle and Eleora Gouine had hoped it would be. The trip from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Portland, Oregon was a long one -- 2,300 miles -- but Adrian couldn't wait to introduce Eleora to Portland. After all, he'd lived here from 2017 to 2020. They'd heard about Portland's crime issues but understood it's something all big cities are going through. The day after arriving at their downtown Portland hotel, though, their excitement turned upside down when they headed to their car to find some coffee. “And when we got to the car,...

Catholic Congressman Calls for Pope Francis to Confront China’s Abuses In a Thursday op-ed published in The Washington Post, Catholic Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-WI, called for Pope Francis to confront the tyranny of the genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Gallagher chairs the House Select Committee on the CCP. The congressman started his column with a side-by-side comparison between Francis and the outspokenly anti-communist Pope St. John Paul II.“John Paul’s exhortation to the faithful to live in truth and stand against aggression helped end the [Polish communist] regime,” Gallagher wrote. “He often said these three words: Be not afraid.”“As the Synod of...

[Catholic Caucus] Opus Dei. Letter to Francis from a Female Spanish SupernumeraryDear Holy? Father?I am (or was, thanks to you) a supernumerary of Opus Dei in Barcelona. I made no secret of my opinion of you, based on facts and not opinions, talking to the priests to whom I went to confession and also to the laity of this institution.While I was threatened with expulsion, which in the end did not happen, other members of Opus Dei greeted my account of your misdeeds in the Church of Jesus Christ with disbelief. What kind of preternatural blindness afflicts them?But I will...

The ridiculous price increase for the Surface Laptop Go 3, combined with the Chromebook Plus announcement, makes Microsoft look foolish.

Maria Pauer on October 6, 1750 achieved the milestone of being the last person executed for witchcraft in the territory of present-day Austria — a “judicial murder” for which the Archbishop of Salzburg begged “forgiveness for this atrocity” in 2009. It’s a late year for a witchcraft execution; we’ve seen in these pages that the ancient superstition was still in its dying throes. Pauer (English wiki entry | a longer German one) was a household maid of about 15 years in the Bavarian town of Muehldorf, where she must have carriead a fey reputation — because when the locals started...

Global And Individual WarmingsFrancis’ new spiritual guide… The Evil Clown was, last time I looked, not a climatologist. The climate is, most certainly, not his realm of expertise. As the pope (which he, unworthily, undoubtedly is), his realm of expertise should be the salvation of souls through the defence and propagation of sound Catholicism. Francis does not believe in God. If he did, he would never believe that farting cows and flying aeroplanes can destroy His creation. Alas, Francis clearly seems to have abused the Church to scrounge an existence in a Country that gave him no opportunities, either because...