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CV NEWS FEED // An enormously popular video game whose user base includes children has been revealed to contain widespread and overt LGBTQ content. VICE magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes took to X (formerly Twitter) Thursday to post images his young son encountered while playing the online survival game Fortnite. “My ten-year-old boy is playing [Fortnite] when this option appears,” McInnes wrote. “Rewards include going from straight to pansexual. WTF!?” McInnes showed four pictures of what appeared during his son’s gameplay. One screen advertised an “LGBT Box PVP.” On it were several flags representing certain so-called “identities” under the LGBTQ umbrella,...

A woman may have unknowingly passed the ghost of a supposed ancient Hawaiian warrior while running through a rainforest. Kay Borleis was running the Hawaiian Ultra Running Team’s Trail 100-Mile Endurance Run on the Honolulu Mauka trails in Oahu in January 2019 when she had the spooky encounter. 'To this day, we still don’t know what it was,' said Borleis, a senior art director, in a blog post. The race, known as HURT 100, is a 20-mile loop through the rainforests that participants run five times. Borelis' friend Cassie was running the fourth lap with her when Cassie snapped the...

The United States and the EU are yet to allocate additional—and much needed—financing for Ukraine. State budget funding, payments in the public sector and, ultimately, the salaries of Ukrainian troops depend on this allied assistance. Otherwise, Kyiv’s only option is to print currency, leading to hryvnia devaluation and soaring inflation.U.S. President Joe Biden has called on Republicans in Congress to approve additional funding, including more than $60 billion for Ukraine, after the 2024 government funding deal. The debate on this issue reached an impasse in the U.S. House of Representatives in late 2023. However, there are prospects that U.S. aid...

A plan to legalise same-sex civil marriage and adoption pushed by the centre-right Greek government is set to be approved by Parliament thanks to the backing of the left-wing opposition, despite backlash from the Orthodox Church. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s plans to legalise same-sex marriage in the country and allow adoption for LGBTQ+ couples obtained the crucial backing of the left-wing opposition on Thursday. Stefanos Kasselakis, the openly gay ex banker leading the radical left party Syriza, said that he would instruct his 38 lawmakers to vote for the proposal, even though he criticised the measure for not going...

CV NEWS FEED // Six Republican senators penned a Thursday letter to the Biden Health and Human Services Department against a proposed rule that seeks to force potential foster parents to comply with the LGBTQ movement. “We write to express our profound concerns regarding the notice of proposed rulemaking … which would impose new mandates on states that would narrow the pool of eligible foster families for children,” wrote Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, and five of his Republican colleagues in the letter addressed to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra: The premise of this proposal is that any...

I’m not in the habit of reading Cosmopolitan and I can’t honestly say that I regret my negligence. However, many women do; it is one of the biggest magazines in the United States, with an estimated readership of more than 32 million, both in print and on the web. It knows what interests young career women – sex, health, gossip and fashion, mostly. But the November-December issue promoted another interest – Satanism. It featured a “Cosmo special report” titled “The Satanic Abortion Clinic That’s Pissed Off Pretty Much Everyone…and Might Beat the Bans Anyway”. The focus of the article is...

The dreaded drought through the country of Spain has caused many disastrous effects throughout the nation. However, one small positive that has come from the crisis, is the reemergence of a sunken 11th century church in the Spanish village of Sant Roma de Sau. Due to extremely low levels of water, the historical building has recently emerged from the waters of a reservoir. New year, new Sunday opening for Costa del Sol shops What are being labelled as ‘drought tourists’ are now visiting from far and wide to see the 11th-century church, which was submerged 60 years ago. The church...

NBC sees the $110 million NFL playoff game airing exclusively on Peacock as a doorway into a much bigger house. The Chiefs host the Dolphins on Saturday night on the NBC streaming service which is in about 30 million homes, less than half the reach of NBC and the other three broadcast networks, and voices ranging from sports radio legend Mike Francesa to Chiefs defensive end Charles Omenihu already have griped about it. Asked by The Post in an exclusive interview what he would say to the detractors, newly minted NBC Sports president Rick Cordella understood the consternation but emphasized...

Olivia Chow, the communist mayor says that to close the $2B annual budget shortfall of Tronna, they must jack up taxes. Forget cutting spending, just continue to tax the hell out of everyone!!!! Well, that’s communism for you.

On Saturday January 27 Plan B restaurant is hosting their 4th traditional Burns Day in Estepona Port with a four course lunch. An afternoon filled with haggis, whisky, shortbread, poetry, bagpipes and more. The freshly caught haggis will also be piped in by our Scottish bagpiper Rhona Scott, who will be playing on your arrival. The compère for the day is Mr. Mike Ross and the cost is €27.50 per person. Arival is at 2.30pm with music by Rhona Scott and a omplimentary nip of Scotch whisky for the toast and The Selkirk Grace. At 4pm there will be the...

Nothing says “America Last” quite like allowing criminals to freely cross our border and then, once they’re inside, offering them two years of complimentary housing—all while many of our own citizens, including US veterans, struggle with homelessness. This is the reality in Maine, a clear demonstration of the illogical and self-defeating (and loathing) approach of globalists. What we’re seeing is a total disregard for common sense and national priorities. Rather than sending these criminals back, we’re rolling out the red carpet for them, which is a direct slap in the face to our own citizens. Honestly, it makes you wonder...

For many of his fellow House Republicans, Chip Roy is so conservative that he demands a level of ideological purity from his colleagues that routinely threatens to stall his party’s agenda — like this week when he toyed with ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson over a government funding deal. At the same time, the Austin congressman is being attacked by the MAGA world, cast as a RINO, or Republican in Name Only, for his outspoken criticism of former President Donald Trump and refusal to accept his false claims of a stolen election. *** Roy once again found himself at the...

A security guard tackled a climate protester at a campaign event for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Iowa on Thursday. **(commentary - watch desantis pick his nose, when he thinks no one is watching ) ** Other climate protesters disrupted the event but did not rush to the stage. “Second thing is second, excuse me, hold on. Excuse me. I’m doing this…. but you’re interrupting and you’re being rude. Everyone else is listening. And you’re butting in. I don’t care. I know you have an agenda. I know you have an agenda,” DeSantis told the protesters as they were being...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Sanaa, Yemen, protest the U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi targets.

Rep. Pat Ryan, a New York Democrat, is fed up with the NFL and NBC Sports over the decision to nationally air one of the league's six first-round playoff games exclusively on NBC's streaming platform Peacock. "It is absolutely ridiculous that my constituents, who already pay for NBC, have to pay even more to watch this game," Ryan wrote in a letter to top NFL and NBC officials. "How much more profit do Roger Goodell and NBC need to make at the expense of hard working Americans before they are satisfied? I'm demanding the NFL and NBC stop the BS...

An entire platoon of the Russian army fled their frontline trenches and tried to escape to Crimea as commanders threatened execution for deserters, Ukraine claims. Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman for the Tavria Grouping of Troops, said that 'nearly 40 invaders' had 'recently' tried to escape to the peninsula, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014. 'I'm talking about an entire platoon of the Russian army. There were reports that they were being hunted down in an attempt to bring them back,' he told Espreso Tv, adding that the deserters were armed. The military spokesperson also reportedly said that a...

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) deployed this week from San Diego, Calif., with a detachment of C-2A Greyhounds from the East Coast filling in for the grounded CV-22B Ospreys, USNI News has learned. The carrier, which completed its graduation exercise last month, left its berth at Naval Air Station North Island and steamed out of the bay on Thursday afternoon local time, according to ship spotters. The Navy did not announce the start of the deployment ahead of the carrier’s departure. A defense official confirmed the deployment to USNI News on Friday.

Ever since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s counteroffensive, prominent climate activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Fridays for Future have led anti-Israel protests, attempting to align the Palestinian cause with the global climate cause. But this messaging is deeply flawed, and as a 24-year-old Jewish climate commentator, I fear it could seriously divide and impede the climate movement. My heart breaks for the thousands of innocent Gazans and Israelis who have been killed and the hundreds of Israeli hostages still in captivity. I believe both sides’ governments stoked tensions, failed their constituents, and need...

President Biden received a rude welcome from swing-state voters who mercilessly heckled him during a Friday trip to Pennsylvania. The 81-year-old commander in chief was met with shouts of “Go home, Joe!” and “You’re a loser!” by residents of an Allentown-area house as he walked into a bicycle store, according to a pool report. Hours later, protesters opposed to Biden’s support for the Israeli offensive against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip vowed that he’d pay the price at the ballot box in November. “We will remember in November,” the group chanted near a firefighter training center — also adding,...

[Catholic Caucus] The Term “Pastoral” as a Talisman WordOne of the expressions we hear most in recent years is “pastoral.” “Pastoral reasons” are used to justify some initiatives in the ecclesial sphere, as we have seen in Fiducia supplicans. “Pastoral motifs” are also behind many changes in liturgy and sacred music. It almost seems that pastoral care has become a sort of passepartout to be able to let anything pass. Moreover, one of the most important centers for liturgical renewal, the French Centre de Pastorale Liturgique, founded in 1943, included this word in its name, thus indicating a theme for...