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"a stronger and fairer France" Emmanuel Macron appeared before the French media Tuesday night a wide range of issues covered including the notion of a higher birth rate for the country. Macron did a 30-minute speech followed by questions from the media. Mr. Macron saying a six-month parental leave for both parents should replace the current one-year extendable to three-year leave for mothers of newborn children... Macron blasting the political party currently most popular in France, the National Rally. Macron called the RN a party of "easy anger" and "lies"... There was political polling done earlier this month by IFOP....

... Some of his headlines included: "Welcome to the Wacky World of Novak Djokovic: Anti-vaxxer tennis superstar is a tree-hugger who insists Bosnia's 'pyramids' give off mystic energy and that positive thoughts can PURIFY water," "Novak Djokovic's WEASEL words cut no ice and he has damaged his reputation with his 'misinformation' around the Australian Open... after helping to create a player union, his leadership credentials have been BADLY damaged," "Novak Djokovic will remain a hero to some, but to many others he has TRASHED his reputation beyond repair," and "Novak Djokovic could ruin his chances of becoming the GOAT by...

Some would call this story a coincidence and shrug it off. I think it is a sign to those of us who are praying for Allie. My niece who is in a hospital 85 miles from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where little Allie is still fighting for her life, could not sleep last night and was happy to have the overnight charge nurse on her floor to talk to. They realized after a while that they both believe in the power of prayer. The nurse then told my niece that she was praying for her little cousin who was...

Two Chicago journalists reported that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has become so "stressed out" that he was hospitalized for panic attacks. John Kass and Anita Padilla broke the news on WGN-AM's Chicago Way Podcast on January 16, saying that Johnson needed medical help due to increasing stress. They were talking about the illegal immigrant problem on air when Kass said "No amount of anti-depressants can cure him of this problem." "I know, it's so true," Padilla said. "And you know, I actually, you brought it up, I was gonna bring it up." "The panic attacks?" Kass asked. "The mayor's panic...

In 2014, Russell Moore, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) advised Southern Baptists to attend a “gay wedding” reception as a gesture of affection towards a homosexual friend or relative. Moore was criticized for this stance, and rightly so, yet this stance was quickly adopted by the progressive stream of Southern Baptists and Evangelicals and has become the norm within movements such as Revoice. Yet, Moore’s advice is inextricably entangled with a fundamental flaw—it tacitly endorses what Scripture explicitly identifies as an ungodly union. The Bible’s portrayal of marriage as a sacred covenant...

This is the news I see happening tonight in our former great nation of the U.S. FOX Baltimore @FOXBaltimore Three people are dead and one person is injured after four men were shot Friday night in Northwest Baltimore, according to police. --- As of January 13th, there have been 11 homicides in the city of LA, the same YTD as 2023. Shooting victims are up 23.5% with 42 victims compared to 34 last year. Robberies are up 5.2% with 285 robberies compared to 271 last year. ---- FOX 5 Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta Milwaukee pizza delivery homicide; 3 teens charged with felony...

“Local” news reporters are among the most contemptible; almost all “local” news stations are owned by large conglomerates like Cumulus, Townsquare, iHeart, or are “affiliates” of national networks. They posture as “local” but mostly all report the same nationally-curated crap. If you’ve ever lived in a “red” programming market, you’ll know that any station owned by these companies basically acts as a subversive force on the local culture.

CV NEWS FEED // Abortion advocates claim that the legal “right” to kill a child is all for protecting a woman’s “choice” or her “autonomy.” Many women, however, don’t feel like abortion was their choice. Instead, they were so pressured to abort that they felt they had no choice. Recently X user @Prolife_Sam posted seven instances of real women experiencing bullying or coercion by pro-choice family members, doctors, and peers. They reveal some common reasons mothers feel forced to kill the life inside them. Down Syndrome “Starting off strong with people telling a woman she should get an abortion because...

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Nikki Haley wants voters to think about leadership on the world stage, and then about character. Her campaign will air a three-minute television ad featuring the mother of Otto Warmbier, the young American who was wrongfully detained in North Korea for more than a year and died shortly after his release. “When we were begging the Obama administration for help, they told us to be quiet and be patient,” Cynthia Warmbier said last February while introducing the candidate at the launch of the Haley presidential campaign. “Nikki told us the opposite.” “She...

A tech boss has plunged to his death during his firm’s celebrations as horror footage captured his final moments alive. Sanjay Shah, CEO of US-based company Vistex, was making a grand performance in an iron cage before part of the chain supporting the structure snapped. The freak accident took place at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, during the company’s silver jubilee on Thursday evening, The Sun reports. Sanjay, accompanied by his colleague Raju Datla, entered an iron cage on stage intended to be lowered from a height. But one side of the iron chain supporting the cage broke, dropping...

In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the 96-page Halderman Report – the Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had been hiding this report from the public for two years. University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman and Security Researcher and Assistant Professor at Auburn University Drew Sringall collaborated on the report where they discovered many exploitable vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCast X system. Far-left Judge Amy Totenberg sealed and covered up the results of the investigation...

Just learned that a large portion of the black-on-black gang violence in Philly is actually: a proxy war between Mexican cartels and a single Chinese pharma corp—funded by *the* Wuhan Institute of Virology—to control the flow and price of xylazine in Philly. Unreal.

Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has withdrawn from planned appearances on two major Sunday political talk shows, CNN’s “State of the Union” and NBC’s “Meet The Press.” CNN’s spokesperson expressed disappointment but left the door open for future dialogues, stating on social media, “Unfortunately, tomorrow’s scheduled interview on CNN SOTU w/ Ron DeSantis was cancelled by the campaign. We look forward to having the Governor join us on the show in the near future.”

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

Harvard University has created a task force to fight antisemitism on campus — and the effort is already embroiled in controversy. The co-chair of the school’s newly appointed Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism once declared “veins of hatred run through Jewish civilization,” according to his 2023 book. “Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians from their land and oppression of those who remain have made it one of the most disliked countries on the planet,” Jewish history professor Derek Penslar claimed in his tome, “Zionism: An Emotional State,” in which he wrote, “Jewish culture was steeped in fantasies (and occasionally, acts) of...

I have a Youtube account where I’m testing their censorship program by uploading some videos. I uploaded a video from Dr. Carrie Madej this morning to Youtube along with a few others. She discusses how Tetanus vaccines are laced with hCG based on open-source research. She adds her own observations in Detroit Michigan of the “huge difference in fertility. Huge.” I thought that Youtube’s censorship program was limited to suppressing the truth about COVID vaccines, but apparently it applies to any approved sterilizing agents (vaccines). ”The World Health Organization and NIH have since 1972 been developing the Tetanus vaccine as...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The first-in-the-nation primary could be the last stand for the anti-Trump Republican. Since 2016, a shrinking band of Republican strategists, retired lawmakers and donors has tried to oust Donald Trump from his commanding position in the party. And again and again, through one Capitol riot, two impeachments, three presidential elections and four criminal indictments, they have failed to gain traction with its voters. Now, after years of legal, cultural and political crises that upended American norms and expectations, what could be the final battle of the anti-Trump Republicans won’t be waged in Congress or the courts, but...

Community members, religious leaders, and formally incarcerated individuals gathered on the steps of Oakland City Hall Friday, calling for more programs to address and prevent violence in the city. The push comes after an audit this week found the dismantling of “operation ceasefire,” a key violence intervention program, resulted in a spike in crime in the city over the past few years. “The lives that people going to prison, people going to jail. It could’ve been prevented,” said Oakland resident Robert McDaniels. “The most important fact is to bring the community, sit the community back in the driver’s seat, into...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate and ex-Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson endorsed Nikki Haley on Saturday, days before she tries to take on frontrunner Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary. Hutchinson is a conservative whose opposition to Trump became central in his longshot bid for the GOP primary before he dropped out Tuesday. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Hutchinson said: “Anyone who believes Donald Trump will unite this country has been asleep over the last 8 years. Trump intentionally tries to divide America and will continue to do so.” Haley’s campaign did not immediately...

PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire — Nikki Haley ripped GOP front-runner Donald Trump Saturday for confusing her with Nancy Pelosi — and claiming she had to scold her then-boss when she served as his ambassador to the United Nations. “Guess what, when you’re 80 you’re just not as sharp as you used to be,” Haley told a crowd of about 200 voters at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture, a museum in Peterborough, N.H. She mocked Trump for his Friday night gaffe in Concord, N.H., when he referred to Haley instead of Pelosi as he discussed the Jan. 6, 2021 riot...