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Pro-Palestinian protesters breached part of a security wall set up around the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, on Monday. Video footage posted on X shows protesters chanting, “End the occupation now.” Several protesters can be seen standing on the other side of the breached security wall while one protester shakes the wall. Breitbart News’s Matthew Perdie also filmed a video in which protesters can be heard chanting, “Free, free Palestine,” “Victory to Palestine,” and “End the Occupation Now.”

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis urges Ugandan LGBT activist to ‘keep fighting for your rights’The pontiff met privately at the Vatican with representatives from a dissident homosexual group challenging the African country's anti-sodomy law.Pope Francis with Clare Byarugaba at the Vatican, August 2024.Pope Francis encouraged Ugandan LGBT activists to “keep fighting for your rights” during a private meeting after an anti-sodomy bill was signed into law by the country’s president in May 2023.In an unannounced meeting last week, the Argentine Pontiff welcomed pro-LGBT activists from Uganda to the Vatican for a private audience. Prominent LGBT activist Clare Byarugaba stated that Francis...

f you find a message that is consistent over time, through times of ease and times of challenge, and at each challenge in the real world this message is validated, reinforced, and found to be correct — is that a message you need to pay attention to? Since the Houthi joined a second front with the Gazans against Israel by attacking international shipping in the Red Sea and its approaches, the US Navy has led the international response and has been engaged in continuous combat operations facing almost all anti-ship weapons that any navy would expect to face in 2024....

[T]he Left in America has engaged in cultural warfare – a “whole of society” revolution to destroy Western civilization. Critical Theory, wokeism, DEI, and ideas about gender fluidity – these are all distortions of reality deployed to change our system of values, beliefs, attitudes, and preferences. Leftists believe that by doing so, they will cause existing social structures to crumble. They think anarchic socialism will then become viable, emerging from the chaos of a society without order/values. The following ten are among the techniques of influence the Left uses regularly. The list is by no means exhaustive, nor without a...

Maria Ramos, 33 and a mother of eight, was shot and killed in the city after she challenged some teenage drug dealers who reportedly sold weed to her children.. A mother of eight children was brutally executed after she confronted drug dealers in Oakland, California who were reportedly selling weed to her kids. Maria Ramos, 33, was shot and killed in the city after she confronted the teenage drug dealers. Maria Ramos was visiting her mother, Blanca Velasco, with her children on Aug. 7 when the dealers sold pot pipes to two of Ramos’ children, the Daily Mail reports. Ramos...

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"Vice President Kamala Harris would work to raise the corporate tax rate to 28%, the Harris campaign has confirmed to Fox News."

Wen Raiti, a Chinese American community leader in Jacksonville, Florida, has been a Republican for more than a decade. As a small business owner, she said, the party’s fiscal conservatism and small government ethos resonated with her. But last May, when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation banning Chinese citizens from buying property in Florida, Raiti changed her party affiliation and began campaigning for local and national Democratic candidates. Leading up to Florida’s Aug. 20 primary election, anger toward Senate Bill 264 has turbocharged voter mobilization efforts in the Chinese American community in the state, organizers and elected officials said, pushing...

US stocks closed at session highs on Monday after posting their best week in a year as the markets continued to rally in a sharp turnaround from their early August sell-off. The S&P 500 rose nearly 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also gained 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite increased roughly more than 1.4%. Technology and Consumer Discretionary stocks led the gains, as the S&P 500 stretched its daily wins to eight, its longest streak since November of last year, according to Bespoke Investment data. The Nasdaq also logged its an eighth consecutive session win as shares of chip...

Young Democratic Socialists of America chapters are slated to host stay-at-home strikes to “weaponize” students against their institutions.Over 100 Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) university chapters are invited to participate in a “National Student Strike for Palestine,” urging universities to divest from Israel, by staying home and skipping class.“We need disruption—and a strike does just that. When students refuse to go to class, the university cannot function,” said a YDSA organizer, as reported by The Free Press.Throughout the previous academic year, hundreds of pro-Hamas protests, which YDSA calls “a beautiful show of organizing energy”, took place across America’s campuses....

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 · Follow Media silence after Islamist terrorist stabs Catholic priest in Ireland Last Thursday, a 16-y-old boy stabbed Fr Paul Murphy multiple times at Renmore Barracks in Galway, where he serves as an army chaplain Severly wounded, he was saved by soldiers who overpowered the attacker.

In the months following October 7, Fetterman has become the bête noire of progressive activists who have booed him outside the Capitol; descended on his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania; and who have demonstrated outside his Philadelphia office every Friday for months chanting, “Let Gaza live,” and “Cease-fire now.” Online they call him “Genocide John.” In his conversation with Peter, Fetterman insisted none of this bothered him. But apparently they bother a member of his staff. After his interview with the senator, Peter’s phone rang. It was Fetterman’s communications director, Carrie Adams, who wanted to make clear that she doesn’t agree...

Harris' name is only mentioned 29 times in the platform, while Trump is mentioned on 62 pages, Biden on 76... In a Democrat Party platform that backs child sex changes, opens with a land acknowledgment, promises gun control, fights climate change, advocates for federal abortion laws, student debt forgiveness, and addresses a host of other progressive talking points, Joe Biden's "second term" is referenced 19 times. The only problem with that is he's not running—he's been replaced at the top of the ticket by his veep Kamala Harris. Her name is only mentioned 29 times in the platform, while Trump...

“My father regularly used WhatsApp to keep in touch with our family,” Abdul Salam Haniyeh said in an interview with Arab media. “Based on this, it wasn’t difficult to locate him. Some {media outlets] have been talking about a huge security gap [in Iran] or infiltration”

Argentina’s Federal Police forces dismantled this weekend what they described as an Islamic terrorist cell allegedly planning attacks against the Jewish community in the western province of Mendoza. Security Minister Patricia Bullrich announced on Friday evening that federal police officers carried out eight raids on the homes of the group’s members to dismantle the radical Islamic terror cell, resulting in the arrest of seven individuals. The terrorist cell was identified after it issued threats against a local Jewish journalist, who denounced the threats to the Delegation of Israelite Associations of Argentina (DAIA), prompting local authorities to launch an investigation. Bullrich...

“‘Thine is the dominion, O Lord, and Thou dost exalt Thyself as head over all. Both riches and honor come from Thee, and Thou dost rule over all’” (1 Chronicles 29:11-12). Trust God, who controls everyone and everything. In Daniel 6, King Darius chose 120 princes to help him govern his kingdom. Over the princes he appointed three presidents, with Daniel being the first president. The princes and other two presidents were jealous of Daniel, so they devised a scheme against him. They told the king that he should make a law requiring every person to make his requests only...

Around 87,000 Australians have been sexually abused in faith-based organizations during their childhood, with nearly three-quarters of those taking place in Catholic settings, according to new research. Yet the new study from the Australian Catholic University’s Institute of Child Protection Studies showed a significant decline in the prevalence of abuse in the last five decades, falling from 2.2% of men aged 65 and older, down to 0.2% of men now aged 16-24. One in every 250 Australians, or 0.4% of the population, reported being abused by a pastor, a member of the clergy or other adult in a religious organization....

WASHINGTON (AP) — A District of Columbia councilmember known for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories accepted over $150,000 in bribes. Trayon White Sr., a Democrat, was arrested Sunday and ordered released from custody after a brief court appearance Monday. His attorney declined to comment. White accepted roughly $156,000 in kickbacks and cash payments in exchange for pressuring government agency employees to extend two companies' contracts worth over $5 million, authorities allege. White also accepted a $20,000 bribe payment to help resolve a contract dispute for one of the companies by pressuring district officials. An FBI informant who agreed to plead guilty...

Ukrainian troops are rolling deeper and deeper inside Russia! Russian generals are incompetent, the propaganda is in shock and Putin is silent! One military spokesman reassures Russians that all is well, and they should get some popcorn and enjoy watching the military crush this incursion. That was two weeks ago. Russia has some of its troops doing a joint military exercise with Mongolia as all this occurs, showing it on Russian TV.

Pastor Troy Garrett of Ocean View Lighthouse Church in Norfolk, Virginia, led cleanup efforts after a vandal broke more than 30 church windows last week. While the vandalism didn’t stop the church from holding Sunday services, Garrett went even further to offer forgiveness for the person at fault. “We don’t know why and it’s not my job to figure out why,” Garrett told local news. Norfolk Pastor Offers Forgiveness for Church Vandal Thursday morning—just three days before Sunday services—Pastor Garrett received a phone call from a church member saying that someone had broken multiple church windows. Garrett, who has served...