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After more than 20 years of working for his hometown newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., Steve Bradley was laid off amid pandemic-induced cost-cutting in May 2020. He was crushed, but he eventually took a communications job for a local school district. Sitting in the bleachers at the school softball field in July 2022, Bradley took a phone call from an unknown number. He listened as J. Nelson Thomas, an employment lawyer he’d never met, presented a jarring claim: Bradley was laid off because he is White. Now, Bradley is one of five named plaintiffs in a proposed...

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On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard reacted to negative poll numbers on the economy by stating that “the economy is performing exceptionally well” but “people have been through a very challenging few years between the pandemic, and then the oil price spikes associated with Russia’s war. It’s going to take a while for them to feel really confident,” and most people “feel like their personal finances are better now than they were before.” Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “Speak to this, though, because I think there [are] a lot of folks...

The Senate’s establishment GOP leadership has endorsed valuable but limited reforms to immigration policy because of populist pressure from the House GOP amid the end-of-year budget negotiations. The draft changes endorsed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are valuable but are also inadequate to block inevitable evasions by President Joe Biden’s deputies, said Jon Feere, the director of investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies. “The devil is in the details and there’s not much detail here … and there’s no language that requires actual [measurable] results,” he told Breitbart News.

Officials said that the new bomb is intended to be capable of an explosive yield equivalent to 340 kilotons of TNT- approximately 23 times the destructive power of the one dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.For example, if exploded over downtown Manhattan, an estimated 1.1 million people would be killed, while a further 2.1 million would be injured.A strike on Washington D.C., would result in a smaller loss of life, with an estimated 360,000 losing their life, as well as some 613,000 injured.But it would also destroy some of the nation's most significant symbols, with the...

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"I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Following the leak of the transgender Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said that the city has launched an investigation into how the images of the writings were released. "I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians...

Delta Air Lines is backing one of its flight attendants, who is accused of discrimination for failing to make allergy accommodations for a traveler on a flight from New York City to San Diego. When a California family asked that no almonds be served on the Oct. 2022 flight due to a teenager’s allergy, the flight attendant denied the request, according to a complaint filed to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Deborah Gianulis and her mother, Deena Gianulis, filed the complaint in Oct. 2023 on behalf of Deborah Gianulis’ teenage son, identified only as K.C. As the complaint states,...

7 November 2023 Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time The Tomb of Bl. Palau in the chapel of the Carmelite Missionaries of Tarragona. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 12:5-16 ©Use the gifts you have been givenAll of us, in union with Christ, form one body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. Our gifts differ according to the grace given us. If your gift is prophecy, then use it as your faith suggests; if administration, then use it for administration; if teaching, then use it for teaching. Let the preachers deliver sermons,...

To the knowledge of principled, modestly engaged, CNN-watching citizens, President Joe Biden stands strongly with Israel as it faces unprecedented threats to its existence. So, it appears, cheers are in order for Joe, our strong President. But not so fast. Perhaps more than any leader on the planet except Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Biden’s actions were a causative factor in bringing on the recent devastating invasion of American ally Israel. And more than anyone else, Biden presently is both weakening Israel strategically, and strengthening Hamas militarily, as Israel desperately seeks to assure its safety. This criticism of Biden, at first...

The U.S. Air Force's termination of an unarmed LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) over the Pacific Ocean had prompted mockery from sources in Russia, where major weapons tests have just taken place.There are around 400 of the nuclear-capable Minuteman ICBM at U.S. Air Force bases in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. They form a key part of the U.S. military's arsenal, making up one leg of the U.S. nuclear deterrent triad.The defense publication The War Zone said that the launch failure "is concerning" and there are "no clear indications" yet as to what caused the problems.

In 1953, the Swiss novelist Max Frisch published a play called The Arsonists. It's a pitch dark comedy about a small town ravaged by a group of maniacs disguised as traveling salesmen, who sweet-talk their way into people's homes and then set them on fire. Its protagonist is a dolt called Biedermann—bieder being German for honest, respectable, and upright. He's aware of the danger, and yet, when the arsonists knock, he lets them in. The tragedy, Frisch argues, is that he almost has no other choice: The arsonists are such smooth talkers that it's easy, when listening to them, to...

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A top aide to the commander of Ukraine's military was killed by a grenade given to him as a birthday gift and not in a targeted attack, the interior minister said. ... A colleague presented six new grenades as a gift to Chastiakov, who was a top aide and close friend to Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, for his 39th birthday, Klymenko said. Chastiakov was showing off the grenades to his family at home when his son took one and began twisting the ring. “The serviceman then took the grenade from the child and pulled the ring, leading to a tragic explosion,”...

Israel is facing the most serious state of emergency it has known since 1948, and strengthening the personal security of its citizens is obviously of huge importance. In a move purportedly aimed at bolstering that security, Israel’s government recently passed new regulations to expand the number of Israeli citizens eligible to apply for a handgun license. The new regulations will allow hundreds of thousands of citizens to carry handguns on a permanent basis, without the necessary checks or oversight. The changes to the threshold conditions and criteria for eligibility for a handgun license were passed too rapidly during the current...

A 69-year-old man was killed Sunday after he got into an altercation with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator in Thousand Oaks, California, police confirmed to the Daily Caller. Paul Kessler “died as a result of injuries sustained during an altercation at a Pro-Israeli/Pro-Palestinian event, both of which were occurring simultaneously at the intersection of Westlake Blvd. and Thousand Oaks Blvd,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s office confirmed to the Daily Caller. The department has not ruled out “the possibility of a hate crime.” The tragic incident unfolded Sunday around 3:20 p.m., after “multiple citizens” called police “to report a battery has occurred.” “Upon...

WASHINGTON – One of the key needs of newly arrived migrants flooding Chicago and living in shelters — in the U.S. legally — is getting work permits so they can join the workforce, make money and find a place to live. A Biden administration pilot program, kicking off Thursday in Chicago, is designed to help new arrivals in shelters overwhelming the city apply for their work authorizations. The pilot program is a joint effort of the White House, Illinois, City Hall and the Resurrection Project, a social service agency that provides legal services for migrants. It comes as local, state...

President Joe Biden and his boss Barack Obama remind me of the legendary corrupt Chicago politicians First Ward Alderman Michael “Hinky Dink” McKenna and “Bathhouse” John Coughlin. And their love of “boodle” (a slang term money, gained (Biden family payoffs from foreign countries), or spent improperly (Obama shipping large pallets of cash to US enemy Iran). Biden and Obama are indeed the modern day “Lords of the Levee”. But in another example of Boodle, just in time for the 2024 election, we have Biden announcing $16.4 BILLION to …. Amtrak for the Northeast corridor (aka, the Acela train carrying Congress...

"By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain" (Heb 11:4). True worship requires coming to God on His terms. At the heart of every false religion is the notion that man can come to God by any means he chooses—by meditating, doing good deeds, and so on. But Scripture says, "There is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). That name is Jesus Christ, and we come to Him by confessing and repenting of our sin, trusting in His atoning death on the cross, and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he does not believe it is the right time for elections as debate intensifies on holding a vote in 2024 while the country fights against Russia's invasion. All elections including the presidential vote set to take place next spring are technically canceled under martial law that has been in effect since the conflict began last year. "We must decide that now is the time of defense, the time of battle, on which the fate of the state and people depends," Zelenskyy said in his daily address.