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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxemburg Xavier Bettel said that the structure would sit in LuxemburgBRUSSELS, May 9. /TASS/. Foreign ministers of 20 out of 27 EU countries, who met in the city of Lvov at Ukraine’s invitation, supported the initiative to set up a special tribunal under the framework of the Council of Europe, which in their view would "prosecute Russia's leaders," Reuters reported. Foreign ministers from the so-called 'core group' of at least 37 countries welcomed the initiative, the agency said. In turn, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Luxemburg Xavier Bettel told reporters in Lvov that the structure...

S’Doni Pettis, a black career criminal “on probation after serving time for aggravated battery” (a downgraded charge as Pettis was facing attempted murder) reportedly led police on a high-speed pursuit in a stolen vehicle in February, a chase which ended almost as soon as it began: In less than 30 seconds, Pettis had “slammed” into an SUV with a father and his two young children on their way home from a pediatric check-up. The car “exploded into a fireball,” allegedly killing little 2-month-old Iris instantly, and burning the three-year-old Ares so badly, he died from his injuries shortly after.

Gruesome animal experiments ending under Jay Bhattacharya. "Upon entering NIH meetings, I sometimes caught a favored capo slouching down in his chair after dutifully raising Fauci’s own," anonymous agency veteran claims. ****************************************************************** Don Corleone is out. St. Francis of Assisi is in. The National Institutes of Health is morphing from Godfather – whose portrait allegedly hung over the desk of longtime National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci – to Good Shepherd under Director Jay Bhattacharya, the "fringe epidemiologist" who preached to his own church not to treat COVID-19 infection as sin. Bhattacharya put an end to...

A Democratic judge and five other individuals have been indicted on charges of voter fraud, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday, shaking the political landscape of Frio County. The allegations stem from a multi-year investigation into potential vote harvesting during the 2022 primary elections. Judge Rochelle Lozano Camacho, an elected Democratic judge in Frio County, faces three counts of vote harvesting. The indictment also names her sister, a county trustee; the county’s election administrator; two Pearsall, Texas city council members; and another woman. The investigation was triggered by a complaint filed by Mary Moore, Camacho’s opponent in the Democratic...

"I admired Fauci in his earlier career because I thought he was a strong leader with a vision for global research. But I can’t say that anymore." ****************************************************************** Today’s guest essay is by a infectious disease researcher at the National institutes of Health who wishes to remain anonymous to guard against retribution. ********************************************************************** As a decades-long NIH insider, I wasn’t surprised to see Dr. Tony Fauci go toe-to-toe with President Trump in his first term. After all, this is a man who built a $4 billion taxpayer-funded empire—the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—and transformed it into a...

Robert Francis Prevost, who was selected as the Catholic Church’s first American pope Thursday and took the name Leo XIV, has a family history that some were celebrating as uniquely diverse, with one genealogist claiming he has ties to “free people of color” in New Orleans. Key Facts The maternal side of Pope Leo XIV’s family can be traced back to at least the 1840s among “free people of color” in New Orleans, according to Jari C. Honora, a genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection, a research center documenting the city’s history. Rep. Troy Carter, D-La., who represents New...

Grand Old Popey. Pope Leo XIV was an active voter who participated in several Republican primaries in recent years and voted in the most recent presidential election, according to a report. Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, pulled the lever in Republican primaries in 2012, 2014, and 2016, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing election records. The Dolton, Illinois, born pontifex also voted in general elections in 2012, 2014, 2018, and 2024, the report stated.

In an age obsessed with equity, a certain form of discrimination thrives unchallenged: algorithmic bias against conservative speech. While the platforms most frequently scrutinized are social media giants, the more insidious, less visible battleground is email. Long relied upon by Republican candidates, conservative advocacy groups, and grassroots organizers, email has become the new frontier where Big Tech quietly tips the scales. To many, this claim might appear paranoid. After all, isn’t a spam filter simply a neutral tool designed to protect users from Nigerian princes and unsolicited coupons? That would be comforting if it were true. But the evidence, painstakingly...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has long portrayed herself as a crusader for justice, particularly when it comes to holding powerful figures accountable for financial misconduct. But a closer examination of the estate of her late father, Robert James, reveals a disturbing and ironic tale of legal manipulation, family dysfunction, and possible fraud – with Letitia James herself at the center. In 1983, three years before Robert James’s death in 1986, Letitia James was just 24 years old and living at her family’s two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with seven siblings. She had not yet entered law school. That’s when...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Time WASHINGTON, Monday, May 8. The advance of Gen, HOWARD'S army reached Blacks and Whites Station on the Southside Railroad on Saturday, having marched nearly one hundred and fifty miles in five days and a half. The brave boys are returning from the wars, and march with light hearts and elastic step. From Our Own Correspondent. RICHMOND, Thursday, May 4, 1865. Maj.-Gen. MEADE and his staff arrived here yesterday afternoon and will leave to-morrow morning. A considerable portion of the Army of the Potomac arrived at Manchester this morning, and will march through Richmond to-morrow...

A Long Island suburb voted to wallop homeowners with a 87% property tax hike— with local officials saying the insane increase was necessary because of a years-long administrative goof. Atlantic Beach’s village board of trustees told residents the big number was needed because of how taxes were assessed by the county in recent decades but officials refused to give The Post further information or answer any questions. The Nassau County assessor said it was the village government that was improperly billing commercial properties. ... Though village officials blamed assessment quirks, some residents said part of the hike is to cover...

MADISON, Wis. -- The father of the 15-year-old girl who opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School last December, killing two people and injuring six more is in custody, online records show. According to online data provided by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Jeffrey Rupnow was booked into the Dane County Jail on Thursday. Madison police confirmed the arrest, and said Rupnow was taken into custody at around 3:45 a.m. Online court records show he was formally charged Wednesday with two counts of intentionally selling a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 and one felony count of contributing to...

- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that 80% tariffs on Chinese goods "seems right," making his first suggestion of a specific alternative to the 145% levies he has imposed on China ahead of weekend talks to contain a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer will meet Chinese economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland for talks that could be the first step toward resolving their trade disputes. "China should open up its market to USA — would be so good for them!!! Closed markets don’t work...

here’s a long history of hate groups using new technologies to spread their message. In the 1930s, it was radio. In the 2010s, it was social media. In 2025, it might be crypto. Enter $JPROOF, a new meme coin launched in April by Stew Peters, a far-right podcaster and outspoken Holocaust denier with a large online following. On paper, it’s just another token in a sea of barely coherent blockchain projects. But peel back even a single layer, and you’ll find something much darker: a coin literally branded as “Jew Proof,” marketed to Peters’ followers as a weapon against “usurious...

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Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the ascetic bachelor and New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench, has died. He was 85. Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said in a statement Friday. He retired from the court in June 2009, giving President Barack Obama his first Supreme Court vacancy to fill. Obama chose Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina justice. Souter was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1990. He was a reliably liberal vote on abortion, church-state relations, freedom...

9 May 2025 Friday of the 3rd week of Eastertide The Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Blata l‑Bajda, MaltaMass on the feast of St George PrecaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingActs 9:1-20This man is my chosen instrument to bring my name before the pagansSaul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He had gone to the high priest and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he could find. Suddenly, while...

The seminars and workshops offered at the NRA Annual Meetings are an often overlooked and valuable resource. The seminars and workshops are held in smaller spaces in the same venue as the annual meeting. The seminars and workshops are usually held in meeting rooms. The rooms typically hold a couple of hundred people. They fill up at popular times and have plenty of extra space when people are leaving the event.This correspondent attended a seminar conducted by Major John L. Plaster, the well-known author and expert on Vietnam and the SOG secret wars in Laos and Cambodia. Behind Enemy Lines:...

The documents requested by Johnson and Grassley should provide the necessary transparency to understand which players at NARA were involved. ens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have launched an inquiry into the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) after documents provided by a whistleblower revealed the archives’ role in the criminal targeting of Trump in the alternative electors case. This recent revelation means NARA stood at ground-zero for both of the special counsel’s criminal cases, with NARA also behind the classified document investigation. On Monday, Johnson and Grassley issued a press release announcing the opening of an inquiry...

Canadian exports to the United States are beginning to decrease in light of the trade war. Statistics Canada announced that exports to the United States, Canada’s largest trading partner, declined 6.6% during the first month of tariffs while imports from the United States fell 2.9%. March 2025 was the second-highest recorded monthly increase in non-US trade for Canada. Exports to nations outside the US rose 24.8%. Overall exports in March 2025 reached $69.9 billion, a slight decrease from February’s $70.04 billion posting, yet volume rose by 1.8%. The United Kingdom has been purchasing unwrought (crude) gold exports from Canada this...