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In a shocking release from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ahead of the release of leftist Pope Francis’ autobiography, titled Life: My Story Through History, it was shown that the pope has reaffirmed his support for same-gender civil unions. Doing so, he wrote that “it is right” that such couples “who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else.”The Amazon description of Pope Francis’s autobiography states, “For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during...

[Catholic Caucus] US bishops are lying when they say abortion is their ‘preeminent priority’The average budget for the US bishops’ pro-life office is just around $2 million, compared to $134 million in 2023 for ‘migration and refugee services.’ Even worse, the USCCB is giving parishioners’ money to pro-abortion groups through its Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services.(Lepanto Institute) — 63 million. It’s a number so large the human mind can scarcely comprehend what it means. If we were to stack 63 million $1 bills, the stack would be about 2,718 feet high, which is just one foot...

A federal court worker and influencer has gone viral after she shared her distress about having to return to the office five days a week. Genesis Cuesta, an assessment specialist at the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, took to TikTok to express her outrage, saying she was 'upset' and 'so mad' at Trump's executive order. 'It happened... what a way to end the week,' Cuesta said in a now-deleted TikTok. 'Five o'clock on a Friday, got our notice, effective March 10th, we're back in the office five days a week - no telework, and that's the most f****d thing.'...

President Trump continues to fulfill his promises to America in record fashion. The New York Post exclusively revealed that Trump will sign two executive orders today: one implementing an official ban on all transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces and wiping out DEI programs in the military. The reporting from the Post was later confirmed by CNN. Trump previously signed an executive order in 2021 barring trans people from serving before Joe Biden reversed the order in his first days as White House occupant. However, the Post notes that Trump’s new orders will go further. Here are...

Survivors of Auschwitz leave the concentration camp at the end of World War II in February 1945. Above them is the German slogan "Arbeit macht frei," which translates to "Work sets you free."

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Hamas has revealed that only 25 of the 33 hostages it planned to release are still alive as hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians return to their homes in Gaza. Eight of the hostages due for release in the first phase of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas are dead, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said Monday, after receiving a list from the Palestinian militant group. 'The families have been informed of the situation of their relatives,' Mencer told reporters.

YORK, Maine — The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a magnitude 3.8 earthquake happened off the coast of southern Maine on Monday. According to the USGS, the earthquake happened at 10:22 a.m. just over 6.2 miles (10 km) southeast of York Harbor. The depth of the earthquake was 8.2 miles (13.2 km). Maine's Total Coverage has received reports from people across southern Maine who felt the ground shake or heard a loud rumble. People in New Hampshire and Massachusetts also reported feeling the earthquake. The USGS initially rated the earthquake as a magnitude 4.1, but the agency has since determined...

Vice President J.D. Vance pushed back Sunday on CBS News against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) over their concerns about the Trump administration’s focus on conducting mass deportations. In his first week in office, President Donald Trump honed in on the U.S. southern border and illegal immigration, a key part of his campaign promise that resonated with voters. On “Face the Nation,” Brennan highlighted how the USCCB had publicly released a statement disagreeing with “the treatment of immigrants and refugees,” asking the vice president if he supported Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “conducting a raid or enforcement...

VIDEODoes anybody out there remember the Breaking Points co-host Krystal Ball ever displaying the slightest interest in the teachings of the Bible or Jesus? No? Well, actually Krystal did invoke both the Bible and Jesus in a debate with her fellow co-host Saagar Enjeti over whether Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde went full partisan politics during her sermonette in front of President Trump and Vice-President Vance last week. Krystal tried to portray Budde as some sort of latter day St. Francis of Assisi in her supposed concern for illegals as well as gays, lesbians, trans, etc. leftist-approved groups. Unfortunately for...

A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show. Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson sentenced 59-year-old Darren Osborne of St. Paul on Thursday. A jury found him guilty of four counts of hiding a corpse in October. Peterson gave him four years in prison for each victim. According to prosecutors, Osborne's son, Antoine Suggs, of Scottsdale, Arizona, shot the four after a night of drinking in St. Paul in September 2021. Killed were 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm; her brother, 26-year-old Matthew Pettus;...

After four years of gaslighting the American people that inflation was transitory or non-existent, and just days after assuming office, the Democrat Party is blaming inflation on President Donald Trump. “Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices,” reads the headline from far-left NBC News. Some 20 Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Not Cherokee), sent Trump a letter on his sixth day in office attacking him over inflation:

Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that flies in large flocks, according to a preliminary investigation report published on Monday. The inquiry into the crash - the deadliest on South Korean soil - will now focus on the role of the bird strike and a concrete structure at the end of the runway, which the plane crashed into. The...

Attorney John Thaler's ex-wife does forgeries for the cartels. She married him to try to get him to stop an investigation that was getting close to finding her fraud. (Thaler's team had been hired by small financial firms who were being eaten alive by all the different kind of financial fraud) It didn't work; when he found her fraud she told him of her cartel ties and gave some evidence to him, seeking federal witness protection. The cartels and her family threatened her into giving up on that. But by then, Thaler knew what he was looking for and that...

For the past decade, a suite of devices have been monitoring Axial’s every action — rumbling, shaking, swelling, tilting — and delivering real-time data via a seafloor cable. It’s “the most well-instrumented submarine volcano on the planet,” says Mark Zumberge, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who was not involved in the work. But in November, a particular milestone caught Chadwick’s eye: Axial’s surface had ballooned to nearly the same height as it had before its last eruption in 2015 — fortuitously, just months after monitoring began. Ballooning is a sign that magma has accumulated...

Honduras President has called for an urgent meeting of all presidents and heads of state from Latin American and Caribbean nations, following a backfired threat by Colombia against U.S. President Donald Trump. It can be recalled that this is the same president who threatened to terminate military cooperation with the United States if President Donald Trump proceeded with his plan for mass deportations of illegal immigrants, including those from Honduras. On Sunday night, Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, the current President Pro Tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), summoned an emergency meeting of all presidents and...

Article Dig Deeper (The Center Square) - Congressman Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., has introduced a bill that would prevent states such as California from allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in Medicaid. Kiley estimates this would save California $6.5 billion per year; in January 2024, the state expanded Medicaid enrollment to include all illegal immigrants. “This common sense legislation ensures that taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits are preserved for those who lawfully qualify, prioritizing the needs of American citizens and legal residents while promoting fairness and fiscal responsibility,” Kiley said in a statement on the bill.

RRP targeting RINO senators in seven states. The first is Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia. The second is Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was one of seven Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. The third is Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The fourth is Joni Ernst of Iowa and the fifth is Susan Collins of Maine. The sixth is Tom Tillis of North Carolina and the seventh target is John Cornyn of Texas.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, 51 “intelligence experts” signed a letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop bore all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation operation. In recent months, we’ve learned that the letter was just a piece of campaign subterfuge, organized by Antony Blinken, to insulate candidate Biden from evidence on the laptop of corruption. Since the 2020 election, we’ve learned that the FBI validated the laptop as authentic, and its contents have not been tampered with. The evidence on the laptop was even of such fidelity that it was used by the DoJ to prosecute Hunter...

Chinese startup DeepSeek was on Monday hit by outages on its website after its AI assistant became the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States. The company resolved issues relating to its application programming interface and users' inability to log in to the website, according to its status page. The outages on Monday were the company's longest in around 90 days and coincides with its sky-rocketing popularity. Powered by the DeepSeek-V3 model, which its creators say "tops the leaderboard among open-source models and rivals the most advanced closed-source models globally", the artificial intelligence application has...