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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Panicked sources within the nation's capital expressed fear that the entire governmental bureaucracy that had been methodically built up over the last century was about to be dismantled by an Indian guy and an autistic African American obsessed with rockets. The vast federal mechanisms put in place to make even the simplest and most straightforward tasks take years to accomplish and cost billions of taxpayer dollars now faced elimination at the hands of what federal officials referred to as "two total outsiders with weird names." "Who do these guys think they are?" one high-ranking official asked under...

16 November 2024 Saturday of week 32 in Ordinary Time St. Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading3 John 5-8It is our duty to welcome missionaries and contribute our share to their workMy friend, you have done faithful work in looking after these brothers, even though they were complete strangers to you. They are a proof to the whole Church of your charity and it would be a very good thing if you could help them on their journey in a way that God would approve. It was entirely for the...

Decision Desk says Republican Nick Begich has won at large district in Alaska.

Details over last night’s Kamala Harris loss to controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump are slowly coming out. Media Take Out spoke with multiple people close with the Kamala Harris campaign who told us that the reason Kamala didn’t speak to people last night is because she had an “emotional breakdown.” Late last night it became clear that Kamala Harris would not win the presidency, as Kamala and her close team watched election results in her home at the Vice Presidents mansion in Washington DC. Kamala was scheduled to travel to Howard University after the election, to celebrate a win. But...

Ukrainian troops are facing down a ferocious Russian counteroffensive in Kursk as Putin seeks to take back Russian land before any talks. The fight to control some 200 square miles of land in western Russia became even more brutal in recent days as the Kremlin, ahead of possible negotiations with the incoming Trump administration to end the war, appears set on removing Russian territory from the equation. -snip- The timing appears to demonstrate the Kremlin’s growing appreciation for how Kursk may play into future talks: If negotiations are to occur, Russia wants to make sure only Ukrainian land is up...

Iran’s foreign ministry denied that a meeting was held between the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, Iranian state media reported Saturday.The New York Times reported the meeting took place earlier this week, citing two Iranian officials. But Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei “categorically denied” that a meeting took place and was “surprised” by the coverage in US media, state-run IRNA said. The Times reported that a meeting between Musk and Iran’s envoy Amir Saeid Iravani was held at a secret location in New...

The Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged that the health system overbilled for some emergency care. UCHealth denies the claims.. CHealth, the state’s largest medical provider, has reached a $23 million settlement with federal authorities over allegations that it overbilled for emergency care at its hospitals, the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday. The allegations claim that UCHealth hospitals from Nov. 1, 2017, through March 31, 2021, automatically used the most expensive billing code possible for certain emergency department claims submitted to government health coverage programs Medicare and TRICARE, which is for members of the U.S. military and retirees. Using this...

From Our Own Correspondent. MARTINSBURGH, VA., Friday, NOV. 11, 1864 -- 9 P.M. Last night and to-day there has been general rejoicing in all parts of the army over the reelection of Mr. LINCOLN. I do not mean by this that there has been any organized arrangement to celebrate the occasion, but as the result was communicated by individuals to different commands, the greatest satisfaction was manifested. Indeed I believe a majority of those in the army who voted for Gen. MCCLELLAN, had no real desire to see him elected upon the Chicago Platform. The enemy, ever on the alert,...

“The seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace” (James 3:18). A wise life is a righteous life. Puritan minister Richard Baxter said, “Wisdom is honorable because it is the skill of doing good.” Like Baxter, James also sees a connection between wisdom and doing good. James 3:18 is in the present tense and literally reads, “The fruit of righteousness is being sown in peace by them that make peace.” At first glance it seems strange that James would say the “fruit of righteousness is being sown” because usually seed is sown. But harvested...

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” network host Trey Gowdy, a former South Carolina congressman, blasted President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Gowdy suggested Gaetz was corrupt and said naming a corrupt person to head the Department of Justice would not alleviate the corruption. “Trey, I had Senator Thune on, the incoming Senate majority leader yesterday, and he basically said, listen, it’s not going to be easy,” host Bret Baier said. “Some of these picks are not going to be easy to get through. But there is this mandate just by the vote that...

VIENNA (AP) – Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom stopped supplies to Austria early Saturday, according to the Vienna-based utility OMV after it said it would stop payments for the gas following an arbitration award. The official cutoff of supplies before dawn Saturday came after Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Friday held a hastily called news conference to emphasize his country has a secure supply of alternative fuel for this winter.

A teenage girl was almost choked to death outside her school in an alleged 'honor killing' by her parents after she refused an arranged marriage. Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, were charged with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after their arrest on October 18. Shocking video allegedly showed the father on the ground with his daughter on top of him as he choked her. The girl, 17, who wasn't named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, where her 16-year-old boyfriend also studied, after her parents tried to put her...

Afederal judge on Friday agreed to recuse himself from overseeing the exonerated Central Park Five’s defamation lawsuit against President-elect Trump. Shanin Specter, the Central Park Five’s lead attorney, disclosed earlier this week he has been friends with the judge since childhood and represented him and his wife in legal matters. “Defendant respectfully submits that a reasonable person would question the Court’s impartiality in this matter, and therefore seeks recusal,” Trump’s attorneys wrote in a motion requesting that U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson remove himself from the trial. Baylson, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, quickly agreed to the...

FOX News contributors Mollie Hemingway and former Rep. Trey Gowdy tussle over President-Elect Donald Trump's selection of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for Attorney General. "People are sick and tired of people in Washington, D.C., doing nothing as these people tried to destroy the country and getting upset at someone who actually might root out the corruption there. We don't have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Injustice, and that's why you get Matt Gaetz as a nominee," Hemingway said on Friday's broadcast of 'Special Report.' ... HEMINGWAY: Right. Matt Gaetz was nominated for this position because we...

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon’s subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. He's said he was...

Nancy Pelosi is under fire from her own Democratic lawmakers, who are annoyed with her public complaints about what the party did wrong in the election that resulted in their loss of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. Several Democratic lawmakers complained anonymously to Axios about the former speaker. 'She needs to take a seat,' said one senior Democrat. 'Making scattershot comments is not just unhelpful, it's damaging.' Other Democrats think she needs to step back and let Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, lead. 'Hakeem has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her, but I don't think...

Conspiracy theorists known as “BlueAnon” have taken a stranglehold on Democrats in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory against Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Harris supporters who are in denial over the 2024 presidential election results have begun spreading conspiracy theories on the internet. Posts on X casting doubt on the 2024 election results and calling for a recount “exploded” on the morning of November 6, data from the research company PeakMetrics found, according to a report by Wired. “Trump cheated” started trending on X after the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president’s sweeping win, NewsGuard...

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The F-35 Lightning II, a cornerstone of U.S. military air superiority, faces significant readiness challenges. Despite the U.S. military operating 630 of the aircraft, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that all three branches flying the F-35 have failed to meet mission-capable (MC) rate targets for six consecutive years.

As if we needed another reminder of how far the left is willing to go to punish their ideological opponents, the news out of Florida is yet another ugly revelation. FEMA, the federal agency supposedly tasked with providing life-saving disaster relief, has been exposed for skipping over storm-ravaged homes in the wake of Hurricane Milton simply because they displayed Trump signs in their yards. Americans, desperate for help after a catastrophic storm, were deliberately bypassed because of their political affiliation. Let that sink in. It’s now been revealed that this wasn’t just bureaucratic negligence. It was malicious and targeted. It...