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Former President Donald Trump, who is in the throes of a tight campaign, has not engaged in formal conversations about a potential Cabinet. But that hasn’t stopped him from spitballing potential contenders during his frequent plane rides to campaign events, or when he is impressed by one of his allies on television. “He would be great at this,” or “She would be great at that,” Trump has said on recent occasions while watching surrogates on television, according to a person with knowledge of his comments who was granted anonymity to speak freely. And like with his monthslong search for a...

The Grammy-winning song is a revered example of the group’s fruitful relationship with producer Norman Whitfield and his co-writer Barrett StrongThe Temptations’ soulful staple, “Cloud Nine,” released on October 25, 1968, is much celebrated as the first Motown song to win a Grammy. It’s also a revered exemplar of the group’s fruitful relationship with producer Norman Whitfield and his co-writer Barrett Strong. Recorded with a new-look Funk Brothers band featuring the wah-wah guitar of Dennis Coffey, it was also the marker of the taut, tense new sound the combined talents would create together from that point on. But as...

Beyoncé fans are furious at her for not performing at Kamala Harris’ rally in Houston Friday night. In a video shared on TikTok from the event, the current vice president appeared flustered as she smiled and laughed while seemingly getting booed at by fans after the “Crazy In Love” singer exited the stage without singing a song. “Embarrassing and awkward!!!” the social media user wrote atop the video. “Kamala doesn’t know what to do as [the] crowd booed and got rowdy after Beyoncé read a script off the teleprompter four 4 minutes and left without performing.” “What a disaster!” Another...

The Kamala Harris rally in Houston last night was billed as a Beyoncé concert. Everyone, including the media, believed the singer would perform after the announcement was made earlier in the week, but all she did was walk out and make a barely audible speech for a few minutes. Then the rally descended into complete chaos. Firstly, you can’t hear a word she’s saying. What’s so difficult about taking a direct feed from the microphones? It seems some outlets got the feed but others didn’t. What a mess. Secondly, 30,000 people showed up and waited in line because they believed...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) recently spoke about the support he is seeing for former President Donald Trump in his state. During an interview with the New York Times, Fetterman was asked why he believes Trump appeals to the swing state’s residents. “There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists. And anybody spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing,” he replied.

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Synod final text calls for continued ‘process’ with synodal ‘listening’ and dialogueThere will be no post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Pope Francis announced, as the three year synod ends but the process is ordered to continue.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The official text and final document of the multi-year Synod on Synodality has been published: quieter on so-called “hot button” issues than last year, but instead urging a Church-wide reform in line with “synodality” – a word described as meaning a focus on ecumenism, listening, and renewal.Divided into five parts and 155 paragraphs, the document will be issued to the...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A United States Mailman is accused of tossing away more than 1,000 pieces of mail, including 400 pieces of pollical mail and one election ballot, according to newly filed court documents. ... On Friday, federal authorities arrested Ottis McCoy for stealing United State mail and dumping it in the woods instead of delivering it to his assigned route in Orlando. According to court documents, a co-worker told McCoy’s manager that he had returned from his route earlier than expected despite leaving with a “very large quantity of mail.” The manager checked McCoy’s vehicle’s GPS and learned that...

Vague Language and Deceptive Tactics Could Cost ‘Wanted’ and ‘Unwanted’ Preborn Children Even More than Americans Might Realize Last week, Operation Rescue reported on the detrimental effect that pro-abortion ballot initiatives in ten separate states will have on children targeted by abortion. Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, sounded the alarm, stating, “If these amendments pass, our nation will be struck by a large-scale slaughter of innocent babies like we’ve never seen before.” But there is a second, equally sinister aim of many of these ballot initiatives. When it comes to law-making, language is everything, and five of these ten...

Tim sits down with Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio) about being on the White House ticket, car accidents, Kamala Harris, the Secret Service, his family, Trump and who actually is

Second Frightening Emergency after Reopening Just Three Months Ago Wichita, KS – On October 21, at 1:15 p.m., an employee of Trust Women abortion clinic called to report that a 28-year-old woman was suffering from a possible uterine perforation after a “pretty painful” procedure. She stated the patient’s vitals were stable, though the 911 service oddly redacted her blood pressure from the audio file and computer-aided dispatch transcript. The employee also stated there were “no complications” and then quickly corrected herself to include, “besides the possible perforation.” “Countless moms have died as a result of organs being perforated or punctured...

This may not be the biggest news of the weekend, but it could have more long-term significance than most of the others. In a surprise ruling, a unanimous panel from the Fifth Circuit ruled against the state of Mississippi and invalidated a law allowing ballots to take up to five days after an election to be received and counted, at least in elections involving federal office. The Constitution sets an Election Day, Judge Andrew Oldman wrote, and "Day" means what it says: The ruling could have sweeping implications for the way many states have administered elections for years, but it’s...

Raw ballot returns by party in PA today vs. this point in 2022 and 2020 by precinct-level micro-communities. Dems keeping pace with 2020 levels in Philly suburbs and basically nowhere else. Black Philly returns down 41% from 2020.

CV NEWS FEED // The Catholics for Harris campaign held its second virtual rally on October 23, featuring two speakers who argued that Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, hold deeply Catholic principles. Catholics for Harris held its first virtual event in September, with significantly more speakers in attendance, CatholicVote reported. Alex Nason, a Democrat who has worked for the Irish government and the Arab League, appeared again as the event’s master of ceremonies. Nason welcomed attendees gathered “as a community, united by our shared faith and a deep commitment to the values...

I was all for representation in politics, until I had to think this much about a white guy’s wife. But here we are, a week and change away from yet another most-important-election-in-American-history, again wondering out loud about J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha Vance. The latest is a sprawling feature about her, her work history, and her (presumed) politics in the Cut, which tries to untangle the mystery that is Vance. “She has largely kept her own beliefs—political and otherwise—inscrutable even to those close to her,” Irin Carmon writes. The piece includes quotes from former friends and colleagues who remain mystified by...

CV NEWS FEED // The number of abortions performed in Ohio rose by almost 4,000 between 2022 and 2023 due to the removal of the state’s heartbeat law, according to new data released by the Ohio Department of Health. The Catholic Times, the Diocese of Columbus’ newspaper, reported that abortions also rose in 2023 due to the doubling of out-of-state women traveling to get abortions in Ohio. The number of minors having abortions almost doubled, while data shows that black women continued to make up a significant amount of the women seeking abortions at roughly 44%. According to the Catholic...

CV NEWS FEED // A pro-life club formed at a public high school in San Antonio, Texas, is claiming that the school discriminated against it and shut it down for its views on abortion. Local outlet KENS5 reported that the club was a branch of Students for Life of America and was started in the fall by Diego Salinas, a senior at Sonia Sotomayor High School. “I started up an Instagram and that Instagram had the ‘Sotomayor Students for Life’ handle,” Salinas said, according to KENS5. “Once that Instagram [account] kind of got popular, kids started finding out about the...

A group of Florida physicians is speaking out against the state’s upcoming ballot initiative, Amendment 4, that would enshrine the “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution. Amendment 4 would add the following language to the Florida Constitution: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s health care provider.” In the law, “health” is subjectively determined — even by the abortionist who stands to profit directly from the abortion. And therefore, the law is broad enough to allow abortion up to birth. This is...

The Daily Signal has released an undercover video showing the former chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party stating that abortion should be available “all the way to the end” of pregnancy because a preborn human being “is not a person.” The undercover video was filmed at the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and proves that there are politicians who support abortion up to birth, despite claims to the contrary. “Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion — that is not happening,” presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris claimed during her debate with...

During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that American adversaries like Iran, Russia, and China are “jumping on” “reductionist ideas on the left” to drive a wedge between black people and Jewish people on the left. In response to a question among Jewish people and black people on the left, Jones stated, “There is a deliberate effort on the part of Iran and Russia and China to drive a wedge and to make sure that every African American under the age of 30 –.”

The readings for this Sunday revolve around the theme of return from exile for God's people. In the Old Testament, we read about God's people Israel being exiled from their land because of their violations of their covenant with God. The great Israelite prophets, however, predicted that God would bring his people back from the places they were exiled, just as he brought them out of Egypt by the hand of Moses long ago. This is often called the "New Exodus" theme in the prophets. 1. Our First Reading is one such prophetic oracle, Jeremiah 31:7-9: Thus says the LORD:...