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Russia and China jointly oppose "discriminatory" sanctions in global trade that hinder the world's socio-economic development, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a written interview with China's official Xinhua news agency. The two countries will continue to work to reduce mutual trade barriers, Putin said in the interview published on Saturday on the eve of a visit to Russia's biggest trading partner. Putin will be in China from Sunday to Wednesday, in a four-day visit that the Kremlin has called "unprecedented."

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A federal grand jury in California’s Central District has indicted the two surgery-center workers who tussled with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers while they apprehended an illegal alien. Jose de Jesus Ortega, 38, and Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, each face a felony count of assaulting or impeding a federal officer. The agents were attempting to arrest a Honduran illegal who ducked into the center to avoid arrest. Charged last month, the pair can be seen on video and in still photos interfering with the officers. Their assault is one of a wave of attacks on ICE agents, and not...

Peace talks are a moot point between Russia and Ukraine. Security guarantees for Ukraine have been at the forefront of Ukraine’s discussions but they are actually a premise to determine how other nations will officially enter the war. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni proposed an ambitious security guarantee that would require allies to decide within 24 hours whether to deploy troops to Ukraine if Russia attacks. “Allies” could use any excuse to send their men and women to the battlefield under this premise. Zelensky has been urging for Article 5 protection—an attack on one is an attack on all—despite Ukraine...

There are going to be two major stories in 2026 that we will have full context to understand. Yes, the 2026 midterm politics are going to lead the headlines, but two other issues will have considerable impact.The first, is the FISA (702) reauthorization, and there is a lot that will surface in the next several months likely to upend the best laid plans of the administrative UniParty [Tulsi Factor]. The second, is the USMCA reauthorization – the end of the trilateral trade agreement, and the structural shift into two separate free trade agreements.As to the latter issue, while Mexico and...

A recent opinion piece published in The Times of Israel claimed that “Netanyahu’s Israel is costing American Jews.” The assertion reverses the truth. Israel’s defense of its people is not the source of diaspora alienation. The real fracture is self-inflicted, rooted in assimilation, political misjudgment, and a refusal to recognize Israel’s forensic, historical, scientific, and legal rights to its land. History makes this pattern clear. Hashem has always used imperfect leaders to secure justice. Cyrus of Persia was a pagan king, yet he freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity and authorized the rebuilding of the Temple (Ezra 1). In modern...

Ben Shapiro said medical orgs must reconsider their support for transgender procedures on kids.Medical organizations that have backed irreversible transgender procedures on kids are facing pressure after a transgender-identifying man murdered two children and injured 18 others at a Catholic school in Minnesota on Wednesday.The shooter who attacked the school was identified as “Robin” Westman, a 23-year-old man who started identifying as female as a minor. Westman, who previously went by Robert, left behind a series of writings that described his regret in identifying as transgender, exhibited a hatred of Christians and Jews, and a desire to kill young kids....

Britain, France, and Germany have triggered the so-called snapback mechanism of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to reinstate UN sanctions against Tehran. The European trio, known as the E3, wrote to the UN Security Council on August 28 to initiate the process, which takes 30 days. In a statement, the E3 foreign ministers said, "We will use the 30-day period to continue engaging with Iran regarding our extension offer or any meaningful diplomatic efforts to restore its compliance with commitments." They emphasized that they "share the fundamental objective that Iran must never seek, acquire, or develop a nuclear weapon." This...

<p>Editor’s note: This report has been updated with more information.</p><p>Just one day after the trans mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and school in Minneapolis by Robert “Robin” Westman, another trans-identifying individual has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the U.S.</p>

Mexican bishop ‘concelebrates’ Mass with lesbian Anglican in homosexual ‘marriage’ who received EucharistBishop Raúl Vera López hosted lesbian ‘pastor’ Emilie Teresa Smith for a Mass where she whispered the words of consecration, elevated the chalice, and gave the homily in contradiction to Catholic teaching and canon law.Emilie Teresa Smith, Bishop Raúl Vera López ----Fr Raúl Vera López OP/Facebook SALTILLO, Mexico (LifeSiteNews) — A lesbian Anglican “priest” who “married” a woman received the Holy Eucharist after dipping the Host in the Blood of Christ during a recent Mass in Mexico. Throughout the liturgy, she also stood alongside a Catholic prelate and...

“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers Unwittingly, that New York Times headline is a wondrous case of the self-solving mystery. You come here to understand the many social and political mysteries of the day. I will attempt to unravel this hairball.Most obviously, the suspect, now dead, in Wednesday’s Minneapolis school shooting was not a “her.” He was a him, a 23-year-old male, Robert Westman, who had been pretending to be a female for some years since undergoing puberty, with the encouragement of his parents and the cultural...

“Millie! Get out of the street!” The yelling from the room next to me pulled me from my nap. “Millie! Get out of the street!” The plea sounded again, and a few more times. By now, I was almost fully awake while sitting upright in my office recliner. My wife was trying to reason with a cat—not even our cat—to get out of the middle of the street in front of our home. Over the many years, a number of our cats had met their demise in that street. So, the imploring wasn’t without a reason (although reasoning was a...

The 26-year-old man accused of killing a father who’d just dropped off his 6-year-old at school in Shrewsbury on Thursday morning is facing two criminal charges, according to court records. Snehal Ansh Srivastava is charged with armed assault with intent to murder and carrying a firearm without a license. He is set to be arraigned on those charges in Westborough District Court on Friday. Officials confirmed Friday the charges against Srivastava are in connection with the Shrewsbury incident. Shrewsbury police first responded to the incident shortly before 8:50 a.m. Thursday after the victim called 911 to report an altercation near...

Armed civilians taking on active shooters: The Bureau’s numbers are off – by a lot.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a lot to answer for, and, no doubt, the current leadership has its work cut out, depoliticizing the country’s supposedly premier law enforcement agency. The latest skeleton to fall out of the closet concerns how the Bureau has been vastly undercounting the number of cases of defensive gun use by armed Americans. The only reason for deliberately doing such a thing would have been orders coming down from Justice Department top brass – or from the White House – to...

Trump’s Global Tariffs Found Illegal by US Appeals Court

The president has barely broken a sweat in coaxing leftists to reveal just who they are.It’s been like taking candy from a baby. President Trump, armed with a thorough understanding of the left’s debilitating and seemingly incurable Trump Derangement Syndrome (the clinical designation is TDS), has been shamelessly and effortlessly baiting his sworn enemies into loudly opposing his many initiatives supported by strong or even overwhelming majorities of the American people. It has almost been too easy.In fact, the president has turned it into an art form. He realizes that all he needs to do to coax leftists into adopting...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib will headline a Detroit pro-Palestinian conference featuring ex-prisoners, extremistsA controversial pro-Palestinian gathering in Detroit is drawing scrutiny for featuring speakers with extremist views—including two former Israeli prisoners released in a Hamas deal—alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a prominent anti-Israel congresswoman. The second annual "People's Conference for Palestine" conference, which is being organized by a dozen different pro-Palestinian groups, will begin Friday afternoon and will end on Sunday. Rep. Tlaib will speak alongside several individuals accused of espousing antisemitic rhetoric, including a professor who has compared Jews to Nazis, a journalist who quipped about Hamas kidnapping "several...

Long-term cannabis use can lead to severe vomiting, and U.S. emergency departments are seeing increasing numbers of adolescents with this illness, according to recent research out of Boston.Increases were seen across the U.S., regardless of states’ recreational cannabis legalization status, the study said. Severe nausea and vomiting caused by long-term cannabis use is called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The only cure is to stop using cannabis, although hot baths and showers may relieve symptoms. Research findings recently published in a research letter in JAMA Network Open stated that: -U.S. emergency department visits for cannabis hyperemesis syndrome...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson overtook former Vice President Kamala Harris in latest 2028 presidential betting odds. According to online betting website Polymarket, a platform where users can place "yes" or "no" bets on the likelihood of world events, the wrestler turned actor is hypothetically more likely to win in 2028 than Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. According to the betting odds at the time of writing, Harris has a 5 percent chance of winning the 2028 nomination, while Johnson has a 5.6 percent chance. California Governor Gavin Newsom is leading with a 32 percent chance. Next is New York...

[Catholic Caucus] The Martyrs of San JoaquinPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Zedong Mao (1893-1976)The train’s forged-steel wheels slowed down and screeched to a stop at Kilometer Marker 491, in the windswept, desolate Highlands of Jalisco.In one of the railcars, six Catholic men waited their fate, on that morning, April 25, 1927, in Rancho San Joaquin, when, suddenly, a soldier called out three names: Andres Sola y Molist. José Trinidad Rangel Montano. Leonardo Perez Larios.Forced off the train, the three were goaded down a ravine and ordered to stand in a large pool of spilled...