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Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company of the U.S., continues to have routine breakdowns despite receiving massive injections of taxpayer dollars from the Biden administration, according to data from the Department of Transportation (DOT). Since 2021, there have been 333 Amtrak train incidents reported nationwide as of July 9, 2024, slightly less than the 397 incidents that occurred between 2016 and July 2020 during former President Trump’s tenure, according to the DOT. The Biden administration, as a part of an announced $66 billion for passenger rail in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, has dedicated huge amounts of taxpayer cash to Amtrak,...

12 July 2024 Friday of week 14 in Ordinary Time Vallombrosa Abbey, FlorenceReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingHosea 14:2-10A call to conversion and promise of safetyThe Lord says this:Israel, come back to the Lord your God;your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.Provide yourself with wordsand come back to the Lord.Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity awayso that we may have happiness againand offer you our words of praise.Assyria cannot save us,we will not ride horses any more,or say, “Our God!” to what our own hands have made,for you are the one in whom orphans find compassion.’–...

A liberal nonprofit is set to spend millions of dollars on feeding information to middle-class moms into voting for Joe Biden in the 2024 election. The organization Demand Justice, founded to oppose Trump’s judicial nominations, will spend a whopping $2 million on ads across various states.

Former Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) revealed that the Democrat Party is expected to reach a consensus on Joe Biden’s viability as their nominee for the White House by this Sunday. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Sen. Manchin suggested that clarity about Biden’s intentions in the upcoming election might soon emerge. When asked by NBC’s Ryan Nobles about Biden’s capability to continue his campaign and serve another term, Manchin responded evasively, urging the public to “wait until this weekend” for a more definite perspective. Ryan Nobles: Are you personally confident that he has what it takes to not only...

CHICAGO — A South Side man is accused of working with accomplices to lure three people into a robbery trap through an advertisement on Facebook Marketplace. Prosecutors said a man arranged to buy a Yamaha motorcycle from a Facebook account named “Larry West” and arranged to complete the transaction in the 6700 block of South Indiana on June 28. The man and two friends went to the 6700 block of South Indiana to meet “Larry West,” but they were met by a young boy who claimed to be his son, according to a CPD report. The boy led all three...

Democrats are finally beginning to admit that the declining Joe Biden is a problem. If they think he is their only one, or even their biggest, they are as confused as their leader. That’s the glaring yet unspoken truth amid the battle over Mr. Biden’s future. The left and the media are keeping this discussion focused on individual prospective candidates and the liberal base. Who gives them the best shot in November? Is Mr. Biden too big a liability? Will black voters defect if the party kicks Kamala Harris to the curb? How does California’s Gavin Newsom rate next to...

While working at the Anglo-Saxon site of Sutton Hoo in England, archaeologists found the missing pieces of a 1,500-year-old copper bucket imported from Turkey. The bucket, which is at least a century older than the famed ship burial, may provide a window into how people lived in early medieval times.A team of archaeologists, conservators and volunteers from Time Team, the U.K.'s National Trust and FAS Heritage discovered the metal fragments in late June during excavation and metal-detecting work at Sutton Hoo.Sutton Hoo is best known for its magnificent seventh-century ship burial, whose 1939 discovery was featured in the 2021 movie...

[Catholic Caucus] How the Gill Foundation funds the undermining of Church moral teachingAmbassador Scott Miller and his “husband” Tim Gill have now apparently shifted their focus to directly challenging Catholic teachings through providing huge grants to New Ways Ministry.Sister Jeannine Gramick, SL, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, and colleagues meet with Pope Francis on October 17, 2023.George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral issues including abortion and LGBTQ issues. But a more...

P. maluti. (Cullen Clark) Planet Earth is home to possibly hundreds of species of magic mushroom that contain the hallucinogen, psilocybin. Systematic fieldwork surveys of the genus, Psilocybe, however, are "entirely lacking" for many regions of the world. Now, a new paper describes two species of magic mushroom in southern Africa that are wholly new to science. That brings the total number of reported Psilocybe mushrooms on the continent from just four to six. One of the species, called Psilocybe maluti, is the first scientifically documented magic mushroom with traditional, spiritual uses in Africa. P. maluti was originally photographed in...

Heading toward a world of woe. Recently, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) held a campaign rally with a former Somali prime minister, who spoke in her favor, noting that she would “represent Somalia” and not “the interests of the American people” in Congress. His appearance has led to an ethics complaint being filed against Ilhan Omar for violating federal election laws, and fighting those charges is likely to lead her into a world of woe. More on this latest complaint filed against Ilhan Omar can be found here: “Ilhan Omar Slapped With Ethics Complaint From Conservative Watchdog Over Holding Rally...

The mysterious, sudden abandonment of the ancient lost city of Cahokia by its inhabitants has been puzzling historians for a long time now – and experts have cast fresh doubt on one of the most popular theories to date...Around the middle of the 14th century, the 50,000 or so people who called the bustling, vibrant city home departed for other places, suggesting that something pretty dramatic and life-changing had taken place.One explanation for this mass exodus has blamed a severe drought followed by widespread crop failure – but a new investigation from the US Bureau of Land Management and Washington...

NYC Lets Criminals Rob Tourists… On Purpose Cash Jordan 966K subscribers 427,386 views Jul 4, 2024 NYC has a problem with pickpockets and it's growing, with the thieves specifically looking for tourists and distracted individuals on the streets and on the subway...

Harvard University has quietly reversed the suspensions of five students who violated campus policies in their anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, and antisemitic protests this spring, leading to dismay for Jews — and exultation among activists. One activist, Prince Williams, took to social media to boast about the lifting of his suspension, declaring it to be proof of the power of organizing, and repeating the genocidal slogan: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Harvard student Prince Williams took to Instagram to let everyone know that he is no longer suspended. “Make no mistake, the reversal of these charges are...

Douglass Academy High School had 35 students with nearly 900 seats unfilled. None were proficient on the SAT. The Chicago Teachers Union wants to add at least eight staffers there and at every other school in the district at a cost of $1.7 billion. Only 35 students enrolled in Douglass Academy High School for the 2023-2024 school year, but the building can hold over 900 students. Logic would say it should be closed, but the Chicago Teachers Union prohibits closing it and other underused schools. In fact, CTU sees the 23 staffers at Douglass as inadequate. CTU’s new contract demands...

Hillary Clinton declined to give her backing to Joe Biden, and joked about ‘taking away grandpa’s keys’ at a private salon in NYC on Wednesday, sources said. Clinton faced a restless crowd of influential Democrats who want President Biden to leave the 2024 race Wednesday night — only for her to warn them it wouldn’t be that simple. Sources told Page Six the former secretary of state, 76, came armed with humor when she faced tough questions from the “somewhere between anxious and irate” gathering at the city home of venture capital exec Jacqueline Novogratz. “She made a joke [saying]...

Will the Huffington Post, the SPLC, and the ADL now apologize? For years, national security experts and freedom activists have sounded the alarm about Muslim Brotherhood activity in the United States, only to be tarred and dismissed as hysterical “hatemongers” and “Islamophobes.” Now, however, an internationally prominent former Brotherhood activist has confirmed the warnings. Is he, too, a “hatemonger” and “Islamophobe?”In a June 6, 2024, interview, Sami al-Arian, a former Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizer, stated that “there was a Muslim Brotherhood movement in America… whose early beginnings were in the late 1960’s.” Asked if it was “registered officially,” al-Arian responded,...

AT&T suffered a massive data breach that saw data from 'nearly all' of its customers' accounts illegally downloaded, the company has confirmed. The compromised data included records of calls and texts of wireless subscribers and landline customers over a five month period in 2022. AT&T listed it had 110 million wireless customers that year, which would make this hack one of the biggest breaches of private communications data in recent history. Although the exposed data did not include customer names, there are 'publicly available online tools' capable of connecting numbers with people's identities, the company said. AT&T admitted it had...

Almost anyone who graduated from college in the last 50 years has been taught the wrong answer. Almost anyone who has graduated from college in the last 50 years has repeatedly heard the statement, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else.” And most of them believe it. It would take a long essay to respond to this claim. I will therefore only note here that if by “God” the people who make this statement are referring to the God of the Bible, and therefore to Christians (Jews rarely had enough...

A 16-year-old girl who had been transitioning to the opposite sex, per police, was arrested over the weekend in Palm Bay, Florida after allegedly killing her mother and her mother's boyfriend. Julia Egler was subsequently charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder for the deaths of Kelley McCollom and Matthew Szejnrok. Egler initially staged a home invasion in an attempt to convince police she was simply an innocent bystander to a grisly double homicide, but later came clean and admitted that she had killed them. The teen cited disagreements with her mother over "her transition," claiming she "was not...

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy and 16 House Republicans are demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on federal deportation policies, raising additional concerns about illegal border crossers from the People’s Republic of China. On Thursday, they wrote a letter requesting information “about the status of the thousands of Chinese nationals as well as other illegal aliens from recalcitrant countries living in the U.S. today.”