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French populist leader Marine Le Pen is facing an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations in relation to her 2022 presidential run against Emmanuel Macron. Fresh off her anti-mass migration National Rally (RN) party’s best-ever performance in a legislative election, winning 143 seats in the National Assembly — the best ever for the party — it has been revealed that the Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation into alleged illegal financing of Marine Le Pen’s 2022 presidential campaign. The investigation, which was opened on July 2nd — just two days after her party won the first round of...

11 July 2024 Saint Benedict, Abbot on Thursday of week 14 in Ordinary Time St. Benedict's Church, Nebraska City, NebraskaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHosea 11:1-4,8-9I am the Holy One in your midst and have no wish to destroyThus says the Lord:When Israel was a child I loved him,and I called my son out of Egypt.But the more I called to them, the further they went from me;they have offered sacrifice to the Baalsand set their offerings smoking before the idols.I myself taught Ephraim to...

Former President Donald Trump blasted George Clooney for only calling on President Biden to drop out of the upcoming election weeks after seeing him in his diminished condition at a fundraiser, telling the movie star he should “Get out of politics and go back to TV.” Trump called out Clooney on Truth Social Wednesday night, saying he “turned on Crooked Joe like the rats they both are” after Clooney, 63, published an op-ed in the New York Times calling on Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race weeks after he co-hosted a fundraiser for him that brought in...

US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode. The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to assassinate defense industry executives across Europe who were supporting Ukraine’s war effort, these sources said. The plan to kill Armin Papperger, a white-haired goliath who has led the German manufacturing charge in support of Kyiv, was the most mature. When the Americans learned of the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the opening of two new Indian consulates in Kazan and Yekaterinburg, Russia, during his recent visit. This announcement was warmly received by the Indian community, who applauded the move aimed at enhancing travel and business opportunities between the two nations. At an event in Moscow with the Indian diaspora, PM Modi praised the Indian community's efforts in preserving and promoting Indian cultural traditions in Russia.

CONCORD, Mass. — Five musket balls that were fired during the event known as "The Shot Heard Round the World" on April 19, 1775, were recently discovered at Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts. National Park Service archeologists discovered the musket balls while conducting compliance activities in preparation for the park’s Great American Outdoors Act project. According to the National Park Service, early analysis of the 18th-century musket balls indicates they were fired by colonial militia members at British forces during the North Bridge fight. The North Bridge battle site is a key location within the National Historical...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that President Biden’s campaign believes former President Obama is behind growing calls for his former vice president to drop out of the 2024 race. “One thing that we do have to underline here — just so viewers can follow what’s going on behind the scenes — is the Biden campaign and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate this,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.” Scarborough added during Thursday’s broadcast that Biden is “deeply resentful of his treatment under not only the Obama staff but also...

Let’s put aside the crumbling ruins of the Democratic Party to celebrate, by making the rubble bounce, the total destruction of any residual credibility in the regime media. The regime media minions called in a napalm airstrike on their own position, and the fireball is rising. It’s beautiful, man.For the last four years, the regime media has obediently defended Joe Biden against accurate observations by outsider media that he was a senile, decrepit, corrupt, old, perverted weirdo. This is because it didn’t matter to them that he was a senile, decrepit, corrupt, old, perverted weirdo. All that was fine. The...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) recently doubled down on his comments about rolling back the city's sanctuary policies that act as a magnet for illegal aliens entering the country, SI Live reported. On Tuesday, Adams announced that he would support a bill proposed by the Common Sense Caucus, a group of bipartisan New York City Council members, to repeal laws enacted by former Mayor Bill de Blasio (D). Specifically, if passed, the legislation would revoke parts of the city's Administrative Code that prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Council Member Robert Holden (D),...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is raising eyebrows on a national level by taking a tough stance against George Soros-backed prosecutor Pamela Price of Alameda County, which includes the crime-ridden city of Oakland. Price faces a recall effort on the November ballot, as does “progressive” Oakland mayor Sheng Thao, whose home was recently raided by the FBI in an apparent corruption probe. Breitbart News described Price’s record in 2023: Soros, who has funded radical prosecutors across the country, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars backing Price in 2018. She won in 2022 and immediately backed “criminal justice reform” of the...

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Three people were slashed and another pepper-sprayed and bitten near Times Square overnight into Wednesday — both in the subway and out on the street, authorities said. The spate of unrelated attacks ended with a 26-year-old man slashed on his right arm as he stood on the 7 train platform at the Times Square subway hub about 3:45 a.m., cops said. The victim claimed the suspect had accosted him previously — and, once confronted, the stranger knifed him in return, according to police sources. The wounded man showed cops a photo of his attacker — and the suspect, identified as...

Longtime allies of former President Barack Obama are pouncing on President Joe Biden as he and his family fight to maintain power within the White House. Biden and his campaign have insisted that the president is not going anywhere, despite deafening calls for him to end his reelection bid from fellow Democrats. His defiance has not done much to mute the critics within his own party. Individuals in Obama’s orbit are increasingly piling on, arguing that Biden should step aside due to his age and mental decline. Perhaps the biggest domino yet fell Wednesday, when Democratic donor and actor George...

Daily Readings from the USCCB “Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words—go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.” Matthew 10:14–15Recall how Jesus harshly condemned the Pharisees for their hardness of heart. In Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 23, Jesus issues seven “woe to you” condemnations of these Pharisees for being hypocrites and blind guides. These condemnations were acts of love on Jesus’ part, in that they had...

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Has there ever been anything this diabolical in the history of American politics? A former President trying to kill the political career of the sitting President? Of his own party! One that was his own Vice President!? And yet, that is exactly what is happening, according to Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough led it off: "The Biden campaign, and many Democratic officials do believe that Barack Obama is quietly working behind the scenes to orchestrate [the dumping of Biden.]"Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

What genius advised President Joe Biden, post-debate, to “get out more in unscripted settings”? ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether he watched the debate. Biden’s response? “I don’t think I did, no.” During this short interview, we saw softball questions followed by mumbled answers and frequent incoherence. Subtitles would have helped, or perhaps Stephanopoulos could have hired Shohei Ohtani’s translator. Biden said there were only two polls where he was behind Donald Trump. Biden named one poll and struggled to name the second. But Stephanopoulos stepped in and threw Biden a lifeline by naming the second poll. Biden said he...

The Biden regime’s Defense Department has taken an unprecedented step by categorizing pro-life organizations as “terrorist organizations” during an anti-terrorism briefing held at Fort Liberty’s Directorate of Emergency Services, formerly known as Fort Bragg, on Wednesday. This deeply concerning slide from an anti-terrorism brief was first exposed by citizen journalist Sam Shoemate, or @samour, on X. “An anti-terrorism brief was held on Fort Liberty (Bragg) today where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.” The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East,” Shoemate wrote on X. The presentation...

There is a lot of talk these days about privileged white males. I guess I am considered to be white. I am a male. Come from privilege? My Dad was the youngest of 11 kids. His Dad lost the farm. My Dad dropped out of school in the sixth grade and ran away from home. He became a juvenile delinquent and worked menial jobs and lived in various places and with his older siblings until he was old enough to join the Army. Then he went to The Korean War and served on the front lines as a Combat Engineer....