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Graham also took the opportunity to urge the Biden administration to send Ukraine the manpower and long-range weapons it needs to launch a full-scale attack and hit targets deep inside Russian territory.According to reports, Russia has yet to repel the Ukrainian incursion seven days after it began, as Ukraine’s top commander boasts that Kyiv controls around 600 square miles in the Kursk region of Russia.Sen. Graham, known as America’s premier warmonger, made the bellicose comments during a bipartisan visit to Kyiv with Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal.“What do I think about Kursk? Bold, brilliant, beautiful. Keep it up,” he enthused to...

[Catholic Caucus] Pontifical Academy for Life appears to endorse euthanasia, assisted suicide in some casesThe Pontifical Academy for Life, under Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, emphasized subjective criteria over objective medical standards for life, condoning practices tantamount to assisted suicide.(Daily Compass) — The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV), presided over by Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, has recently published a booklet entitled Piccolo lessico del fine vita (Compact Lexicon of the End of Life ), edited by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. It is a selected glossary of terms pertaining to the subject end-of-life. Some elements of light exist in the booklet, but the areas of...

Regardless of political affiliation, recent American presidents commonly say that the nation needs to win back manufacturing jobs lost to overseas relocation. “Where is it inscribed that America cannot reclaim its position as the world’s manufacturing hub?” queried [Joe] Biden recently. He has pushed for policies that penalize corporations for moving jobs abroad and that incentivize job repatriation. Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump pursued a similar objective with different means, modifying the tax code to encourage companies to bring back profits earned internationally and imposing tariffs to protect domestically produced goods. Despite their ideological differences, both presidents share a similar view...

“I just happen to be a person who’s part of a marginalized community in the public eye"Hunter Schafer has said she doesn’t consider herself a trans activist and also doesn’t wish to be thought of as such. Read More: Here’s what we know about Euphoria season three The actress first rose to fame playing trans teenager Jules Vaughn in Euphoria, but has become increasingly vocal about not wanting to be defined by her gender identity. “I just happen to be a person who’s part of a marginalized community in the public eye, and people love to call me an activist,”...

On Monday, in yet another affront to America’s justice system, the Department of Justice sentenced a 72-year-old woman to a half year house arrest, with restrictions on her internet use, 12 month probation, and a $103,000 fine. Rebecca Lavrenz, who is known as the “J6 praying grandma,” never committed a violent crime, let alone a felony. Before January 6th, 2021, she had a squeaky-clean record without so much as a speeding ticket. Now, she is, in the blistering words of the government, “a threat to future acts of political violence like that which engulfed the nation on January 6.”

The last athlete to finish Sunday's marathon, an hour and a half after the winner, did so to a standing ovation on the final day of the Paris Games. Bhutan's Kinzang Lhamo finished the hilly and hot course in three hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds, slowing to a walk at points but encouraged through the last kilometres by spectators cycling and running alongside her. As she ran down the home straight, fans in the stands in front of the Invalides monument got to their feet to cheer her on as she crossed the finish line, the 80th woman to...

Whatever the thrust of his comments, the Russian president’s tone and body language was decidedly less convincing. “Putin discussing Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, which he says the West is behind,” Nigel Gould-Davis, a former U.K. ambassador to Belarus, posted on X, formerly Twitter, along with a clip of Putin speaking at the summit. “He looks and sounds not angry, outraged, determined – but hesitant and rattled.” Though state media has naturally tried to steer clear of anything resembling explicit criticism of the Kremlin’s military efforts, propagandists have been unable to contain their growing alarm at the pace of Ukraine’s retaliatory...

***1. Something Worse Than the Heckler’s Veto? The investigation into what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, almost a month ago has been more or less pushed completely out of the headlines by the media’s Kamalagasm and the rocky rollout of her creeptastic VP choice, and that’s a real shame. Because the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler last month turns out to be one of the worst scandals in American history. *** But the upshot of the investigation, as conducted by Congress and in other venues, reveals that the Secret Service has been utterly politicized under the direction of the...

Ukraine said on Monday its biggest cross-border assault of the war had captured 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles) of Russia's Kursk region and that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to be forced into making peace. With Russia still struggling to repel the surprise assault a week after it began, Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by video link and said the advance into Russian territory was ongoing. "We continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Kursk region. Currently, we control about 1,000 square kilometres of the territory of the Russian Federation," he said in...

Is Francis the pope? The argument from public heresy suggests notIn an article defending Archbishop Viganò from the charge of schism, we summarized a number of arguments which point towards Francis not being a true pope. In this essay we will further discuss the first argument, namely, that public heretics are not members of the Church and therefore cannot be the head of the Church.(LifeSiteNews) — Our recent article, which defended Archbishop Viganò from the charge of schism, summarized a number of arguments which point towards Francis not being a true pope. That article promised more detailed expositions of these...

California Highway Patrol says a man is being charged for not obeying a warning from a construction worker who told him a portion of Highway 1 was closed due to a slide. This incident allegedly occurred on Friday at around 11:00 a.m. and required California State Parks rangers to request a search and rescue for the man. He fell trying to cross Regent's Slide after being told by a construction crew member not to. CHP said the man rode to the worker's location on a bike at around 9:25 a.m., which was two miles south of the Highway 1 closure....

...urban progressivism is afflicted by an inability to build. Cities in red states are building much more housing than those in blue states. In 2024, Austin, Raleigh, and Phoenix are expected to expand their apartment inventory more than five times faster than San Diego, Baltimore, or San Francisco. One hidden effect of expensive housing is that it raises the cost of local services and creates shortages of workers willing to accept low wages in labor-intensive industries, such as child care. As a result, large urban areas have more expensive child care, even relative to their higher levels of income. A...

An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and life sentence of a man found guilty of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed the botched federal gun operation known as “Fast and Furious” has been overturned, a U.S. appeals court said Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the convictions of Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, saying his constitutional due process rights had been violated, and sent the case back to the U.S. District Court in Arizona for further proceedings. Osorio-Arellanes was sentenced in 2020 in the Dec. 14, 2010, fatal shooting of Agent Brian Terry while he...

The Berkeley and Oakland Unified School Districts announced Wednesday that teenagers aged 16 and 17 can vote for the school board. This stems from two ballot measures: one passed in Berkeley in 2016 and another in Oakland in 2020, allowing this voting change. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters says it is ready to implement this and get those teenagers registered to vote.

Where are the MAGA attorneys filing lawsuits about the below listed issues that are glaringly illegal and unlawful? Thank you Colonel John Mills retired for this encapsulated summation of the crimes committed by the Harris usurpation of the presidency of the USA

Shocking photos captured smoke billowing out of a Russia-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine — a “reckless” attack that risked a major “nuclear accident,” according to the head of the international nuclear watchdog. Thick, black smoke was seen Sunday exiting the top of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that Russia captured shortly after launching its full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022. The massive fire followed multiple explosions hitting the vast, six-reactor facility, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog, which has staff there. “These reckless attacks endanger nuclear safety at the plant and increase the risk of...

A Washington Post ‘reporter’ on Monday asked Karine Jean-Pierre what Biden is going to do to stop Trump’s live X interview with Elon Musk on Monday night. President Trump is back on X after taking some time away from the social media platform. Trump tweeted a campaign ad ahead of his highly anticipated live interview with Elon Musk on Monday evening at 8 pm ET. Washington Post reporter Cleve Wootson wants the government to intervene to shut Trump down with just a few months to go until Election Day. “One more, Elon Musk is slated to interview Trump tonight on...

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A teen facing charges for allegedly abandoning her newborn baby in a hospital bathroom trash can has experienced a significant development in her legal case. The New Mexico Supreme Court has delayed Alexee Trevizo’s pre-trial hearing, initially set for August 6, as it reviews whether specific evidence, including statements she made at the hospital, can be used in court. Trevizo, who is accused of first-degree murder of her newborn son, was charged in January 2023. Additional charges include intentional child abuse and tampering with evidence, as per a criminal complaint filed in Eddy County, New Mexico. The incident occurred when...

It's been a busy few days for politics in the Midwest. Last Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate on the Democratic ticket, the fourth time in the last 60 years that a Minnesotan will be the Democratic vice presidential nominee. And this week, Minnesota and Wisconsin will hold primaries for federal and state legislative offices, dominating the slate of primaries happening on Aug. 13 (Connecticut and Vermont also have primaries but don't have any major contests). Paul Bunyan's Axe won't be on the menu, but six high-profile primaries for U.S. Senate and...