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Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is arguing that new evidence proves he did not cause the 2020 death of George Floyd as part of an attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction. Chauvin said he would never have pleaded guilty to the 2021 charge if he was aware of the theories from a Kansas pathologist with whom he began corresponding earlier this year, according to a motion filed in federal court this week, The Associated Press reported. Chauvin is requesting the judge who oversaw his trial to toss his conviction and order a new trial or an evidentiary...

After Ohio’s Issue 1 vote legalized abortion with no gestational limit, the pro-abortion lobby is planning to put similar referendums on the ballots of many other states. As of November 14, pro-abortion initiatives are guaranteed to be on the ballots of two deep-blue states: Maryland and New York. However, abortion is currently legal in both states until so-called “fetal viability” – which is usually defined as falling between 23 and 24 weeks of pregnancy. Loopholes allow killing babies in abortions up to birth in both states. In many other states, the prospect of putting abortion to a vote next year...

16 November 20233 Thursday of week 32 in Ordinary Time Saint Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church, St. Louis, MO Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingWisdom 7:22-8:1 ©Wisdom is a breath of the power of GodWithin Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy,unique, manifold, subtle,active, incisive, unsullied,lucid, invulnerable, benevolent, sharp,irresistible, beneficent, loving to man,steadfast, dependable, unperturbed,almighty, all-surveying,penetrating all intelligent, pureand most subtle spirits;for Wisdom is quicker to move than any motion;she is so pure, she pervades and permeates all things.She is a breath of the power of God,pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;hence nothing impure can find...

Unfortunately this isn’t satire. A video is circulating on Twitter that features a TikTok user teaching viewers how to “practice abortion as a magical ritual.” The user who created the video lists “they’s” name as Valkyrja Vörðr and is supposedly a “witch.” “I am a witch who has had abortions and has used them as rituals,” she began. Supposedly abortion rituals are “birthing magic” and “death magic” at the same time. To make matters weirder the witch used the phrase “womb body” instead of woman. Unfortunately, this isn’t satire. A video is circulating on Twitter that features a TikTok user...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 33. “WHAT DID JAEL HAMMER THROUGH SISERA’S SKULL WHILE HE SLEPT?” 34. “THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SPECTACULARLY VISITED Mr&Mrs MANOAH TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE SON THEY WOULD HAVE. WHO WAS THEIR SON?” 35. “WHAT DID THAT ANGEL DO THAT WAS SO SPECTACULAR?” 36. “WITH A DONKEY’S JAWBONE SAMSON KILLED 1,000 PHILISTINES. HOW MANY MORE DID HE KILL WHEN HE PULLED DOWN THEIR TEMPLE?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#33: “WHAT DID JAEL HAMMER THROUGH SISERA’S SKULL WHILE HE...

Survivors have reported child sexual abuse by priests and other Catholic clergy members. Many organizations have compiled lists of these offenders. Due to decades of secrecy in the Roman Catholic Church and the reluctance of some victims to come forward, it is impossible to identify every abuser. However, our team at Abuselawsuit.com has built an extensive, nationwide searchable database of clergy members and priests accused of abuse.

Police in the nation's capital responded to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee as pro-Palestinian demonstrators grew violent as they called for an immediate cease-fire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) said about 150 people were "illegally and violently protesting" near the DNC headquarters building in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington. (snip) USCP confirmed on X that six officers were injured during the clash on Wednesday evening. Olivia, a protester at the DNC headquarters, insisted that the protesters were peaceful

Before creating another “Palestinian state,” let’s consider its chance of success. We’ve had several different Arab states in and around Palestine. All failed, some disastrously. Will yet another Palestinian state envisioned by Anthony Blinken or some think tank become just one more “failed state,” indeed a state destined to fail? Yasser Arafat’s PLO operates a corrupt and failing state-in-waiting on Israel’s eastern flank, in an area commonly called “the West Bank.” It has failed in everything but terror for 30 years. Well-meaning Israeli leftists, backed by well-meaning U.S. think-tanks and State Department officials, believed Arafat and the PLO had become...

en. John Kennedy (R-LA) once again turned law professor when he quizzed President Biden’s nominee for a district judgeship in Oklahoma about her knowledge of basic legal terms. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the senator asked Sara E. Hill to explain the difference between a “stay” order and an “injunction.” "A stay order would prohibit, um, sorry. An injunction would restrain the parties from taking action. A stay order … I'm not sure I can, actually can, can give you that," she answered. According to the Legal Information Institute, "An injunction is a court order requiring a person to...

The Biden administration is partnering with a coalition of organizations, two of which falsely accused Border Patrol agents of whipping illegal immigrants in September 2021, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the groups’ previous statements found. The State Department partnered with Welcome.US, a coalition of nonprofit groups, corporations and former politicians, in September 2021 to provide aid to new Afghan refugees seeking sponsors, housing and jobs. The initiative includes the Haitian Bridge Alliance and Amnesty International, both of which made the false accusation that Border Patrol agents on horseback whipped Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, which the Biden...

Astronomers have advocated for a renaming of two galaxies, currently named the Large and Small Megellanic Clouds after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, due to his record of “violent colonialism.”

(AFP) – Many in the majority-Jewish Canadian town of Hampstead worried about the potential for unrest tied to the Israel-Hamas war, but residents of the small Quebec community have been startled by the scale of the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks. Lorne W., who preferred not to give his last name, told AFP he is “very, very, very much” concerned about the sudden uptick in hate directed at the province’s Jewish community, which is one of the oldest and most populous in Canada. “Myself and my neighbors, we’re very cautious and we’re very hyperaware of what’s going on...

A former Senate investigator recently revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) tried to ask a federal court to cover up its efforts to spy on Congress for five years straight. Just The News reports that Jason Foster, the former chief investigative counsel for Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the Senate Judiciary Committee, came forward on Tuesday with his revelations. Foster, who now leads the Empower Oversight center for whistleblowers, said that lawyers with Google provided him with documents confirming that the DOJ asked a federal judge to delay notifying him that his own data had been subpoenaed in a...

After the PBS News Hour aired a curious story Thursday on “How climate change risks impact people with disabilities,” they offered another niche left-wing cultural selection on Saturday’s PBS News Weekend, courtesy of St. Louis-based PBS “community correspondent” Gabrielle Hays, about a spike in men supposedly rushing out to get vasectomies after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and returned the abortion issue to the states. In true PBS woke fashion, the terms “male” and “female” and “men” and “women” rarely appeared in two stories by Hays (one a television story, one an older PBS.org print story) about...

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WASHINGTON, Saturday, Nov. 14. The following papers were among the dispatches, &c., recently captured on board the blockade runners R.E. Lee, Cornubia and Ella and Annie, off "Wilmington, N.C. They are important and interesting: PARIS, Friday, Oct. 1, 1863. Hon. Jefferson Davis: MY DEAR SIR: You cannot possibly imagine the very great happiness which your letter gave me, both on account of the assurance of your continued friendship and the hopeful tone which pervaded it in relation to our public affairs. Both of these facts are fully confirmed by my friend, Dr. GIRARD, who speaks of your kindness to him...

just when you think you’ve seen it all… we were preparing to beginning streaming the 2020 surveillance video onto http://open.ink. we connected some gwinnett county, ga video to a new advanced ai video review server not only do we have the dropbox video, but they appear to accidentally have provided all of the video from Gwinnett central count. we were told it didn’t exist. here’s a few screen caps. width =100%

Concern is rising for senators in both parties that funding for Ukraine might get left on the cutting room floor this year as Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) “laddered” stopgap spending bill will keep the government open through late January, depriving the supplemental of a potential vehicle. Lawmakers still say the Biden administration’s $105 billion supplemental request, which includes aid for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, the border and other items, remains a priority. But there are serious obstacles standing between it and the finish line. Among them is that despite the urgency of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, there...

Israel's conventional disproportionality is proving more effective than the terrorist disproportionality of Hamas. Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies, the result is often a horrific deadlock—like the four years of toxic trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I that resulted in 12 million fatalities. The purpose of war is to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible with the least number of causalities—and thereby achieve political ends. So, every side aims to find superior strategies, tactics, weapons, and...

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. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles 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 a vehicle is captured and then...