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La Stampa: 10.18.24 "Da Mussolini a Yahya I Corpi de Male" "Rat in the hole."

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On a barge on Rome's River Tiber, a stone's throw from the Vatican, Loan Rocher was "ordained" in a secret ceremony in defiance of the Catholic Church's ban on women deacons and priests. Dressed in a white robe with a rainbow stole, the 68-year-old French woman acknowledged her ordination was unauthorised by the Vatican, where a monthlong summit on the future of the church concludes next week. No matter, said Rocher, who is transgender. "They've been repeating the same message for 2,000 years — women are inferior, subordinate, invisible. It's OK. We've waited long enough, so I'm doing it now,"...

I’m sort of the Forrest Gump of American scandals: Either via proximity, professionalism, bad luck, or random happenstance, I’ve been involved in a ridiculously large number of ‘em. Since the 1990s, I’ve worked closely with Kato Kaelin (OJ Simpson scandal). I’ve already written about my work with Michael Vick (dogfighting scandal). More recently, I got roped into the Gen. David Petraeus scandal. (I don’t know how to fact-check this, but I think I’m the only PR pro in my entire industry who’s ever had his media records (including off-the-record conversations) subpoenaed by the Obama administration.) I’ve even had the misfortune...

In a Paris court this week Marine Le Pen contesting the allegations against her and other defendants regarding European Parliament assistants employed by them. Le Pen saying the assistants were there to enlarge their political ideas as well as doing business related to the parliament. It's alleged that those assistants... By Thursday President Emmanuel Macron wanted to clarify remarks regarding Israel he was reported to have made on Tuesday. Those remarks... On Friday Emmanuel Macron found himself in Berlin alongside the outgoing US president Joe Biden along with... Today's small protest group in the dozens... Other protests in France today...

Former President Donald Trump is leading Vice President Kamala Harris in five key swing states, and by three points nationally, according to recent polling. Two polls conducted by AtlasIntel between October 12-17, 2024, found that Trump was leading Harris nationally by nearly 51 percent, while Harris received 48 percent; and that Trump was leading Harris in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. In the national poll, which surveyed 4,180 likely voters, Trump received 50.8 percent of support, while Harris received 48.1 percent of support.

It’s more like the Museum of “I Scream.” A woman claims she fractured her ankle after “taking the plunge” at the Museum of Ice Cream’s “Sprinkle Pool,” one of several alleged mishaps at the viral attraction, according to a lawsuit. Emily Robinson needed surgery following a trip to the SoHo hotspot on March 24, 2022, the Manhattan Supreme filing alleges. Her visit turned into a house of horrors for Robinson, who suffered “severe and permanent injuries when she jumped and landed in the Sprinkle Pool,” the Oct. 16 suit says.

GETTING UNDERWAY A young Ensign, who had just completed his first overseas deployment, was given the opportunity to "show his stuff" by getting his ship underway. As he yelled out commands with great confidence, sailors were running everywhere. In no time, the ship came out of the channel, headed for home. It was accomplished so well that he set a new record for getting a destroyer underway. He wasn't surprised when a seaman approached him with a message from his CO...he WAS surprised to find that it was a radio message. He was even more surprised as he read,...

A brutal crew of baby-faced Tren de Aragua migrant gangbangers at a city-funded Manhattan shelter are pulling off armed robberies in Times Square — and they’re getting away with it .. Nearly two dozen young migrant thugs, some as young as 11 years old, are part of a dangerous asylum-seeking brat pack that has graduated from purse snatchings to gunpoint heists targeting New Yorkers and tourists alike .. they’re managing to stay out of jail because of their ages and the Empire State’s lenient criminal justice laws, ... “They kind of had a graduation of sorts, and a progression where...

Vice President Kamala Harris has close ties with a Democrat who tried to make child pornography possession a non-felony in California, the Daily Caller has learned. Mark Leno, a Democrat politician who served in the California State Senate until November 2016 and is someone Harris has called a “dear friend,” authored a piece of legislation that would have allowed pedophiles to possess up to 99 items depicting child pornography before they could be charged with a felony, according to former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

Legendary TV anchor Tom Brokaw was spotted in Central Park this week, amid his lengthy battle with incurable blood cancer. The 84-year-old retired journalist, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2013, was in a wheelchair near the park’s pond. “He was in the wheelchair, with his wife and the home health aide, being wheeled around the pond. He and his wife looked so happy. It was sweet — sad, but sweet,” a source told NewsNation’s Paula Froelich.

Ten House Republicans, led by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), argued on Wednesday to an appellate court that the House’s pandemic-era proxy voting rules were unconstitutional and pointedly accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of flip-flopping his position on them. The lawmakers made the arguments in an amicus brief, authored by Mountain States Legal Foundation attorneys, after McConnell submitted his own brief in a case that could upend a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that Congress passed in December 2022. “Amici are especially concerned that other members of Congress, such as Senate Minority Leader McConnell, have urged this Court to...

Senior American officials voiced serious concern on Saturday following the leak of two US intelligence documents allegedly outlining Israel’s preparations for a potential strike on Iran. These documents were published by a Telegram account linked to Iran. While both the US Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, they did not deny their authenticity. The documents included an alleged report from the US Department of Defense's visual intelligence agency, which had been circulated within the US intelligence community three days earlier. The report detailed alleged recent actions at...

Kamala Harris is not on pace to win America’s presidential election. The momentum that seemed to be propelling her to the White House has bled away. While the race is not exactly Donald Trump’s to lose, his prospects have never looked better. Indeed, they’ve only been improving. Harris may hold a slight lead in the national polling averages, but that’s deceptive. Her numbers are much worse than Hillary Clinton’s were in 2016 before she lost to Trump. Clinton was ahead by more than six points; Harris is up less than a point and a half. And in the six states...

A massive outage left millions of Cubans without power and prompted the government Friday to implement emergency measures to slash demand, including suspending classes, shutting down some state-owned workplaces and canceling non-essential services. Cuban officials said that the blackout, which started late Thursday, saw 1.64 gigawatts go offline during peak hours in the early evening, about half the total demand at the time. “The situation has worsened in recent days,” Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said in a special address on national television in the early hours of Friday. “We must be fully transparent … we have been halting economic activities...

This is an inside baseball story that will be overlooked by most, but it carries profound implications. The winner of the presidential election usually merges the president-elect’s transition team with the federal transition system. Current government bureaucrats then begin a process of briefings, agency/institutional transfer coordination and funding to assist the incoming president’s team. However, as we saw in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the government side of the transition worked behind the scenes to impede Trump’s ascendency into office, and factually supported the corrupt government IC officials who were targeting Trump. For election 2024, President Trump’s transition team...

Pop star Lizzo has sparked an uproar after she promised that America would look like Detroit if Kamala Harris was elected to the White House. The singer, 36, who hails from Motor City, appeared alongside the Democratic presidential nominee at Western International High School in the city. The star, real name Melissa Viviane Jefferson, said: 'I'm so proud to be from this city, you know they say if Kamala wins then the whole country will be like Detroit. 'Proud like Detroit, resilient like Detroit. The same Detroit that innovated the auto industry and the music industry. Put some respect on...

Vice President Harris publicly agreed with a protestor this week who interrupted her to accuse Israel of committing “genocide.” The moment went down during a campaign stop Thursday at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, when a pro-Hamas UWM student began yelling out while the Democratic presidential nominee was speaking, video of the exchange showed. “I am so invested in you all, in every way,” Harris can be heard saying as the interruption began. “And in genocide right?” the heckler said. “Billions of dollars in genocide. Billions of dollars in genocide.” Someone off-camera can be heard whispering “shut up,” but the outburst...

The WNBA is coming off of its most-popular season in league history with the arrival of Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and the rest of the 2024 rookie class. It is still going to lose a lot of money and NBA owners are reportedly furious with the continued financial struggles. They are tired of paying to prop someone else up. According to the New York Post, the WNBA will lost $40 million this season. This is the 26th-straight year where it will fail to turn a profit. Never before has the professional women’s basketball league made a single dollar since it...

Popular finance expert and radio personality Dave Ramsey has endorsed former President Donald Trump to his millions of listeners, saying, “You can’t cancel me.” Ramsey, the owner and CEO of financial consulting firm Ramsey Solutions and host of the Ramsey Show — the second-most listened to American radio talk show under Sean Hannity’s — said the choice between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris was easy: “I’m looking at ideas and which ideas land on which side of the aisle. Where am I most likely going to get a tax policy I like? An immigration policy I like, a foreign...