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[Catholic Caucus] Pressure on Church to allow decriminalisation of abortion in AndorraPressure is growing on Cardinal Parolin to push the Holy See to decriminalise abortion in Andorra.The head of government of the Principality of Andorra, Xavier Espot, and his Minister of Institutional Relations, Ladislau Baró, travelled this week to the Vatican to engage in talks with the Holy See over the proposed decriminalisation of abortion.According to a statement issued on Thursday by the Andorran government, the delegation – which also included the country’s ambassador to the Holy See, Carles Àlvarez – met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State...

(The Daily Signal)—President Donald Trump named two members of his Cabinet as an unbeatable duo in the 2028 presidential election. When asked by a reporter on Air Force One Monday morning if he would run in 2028, Trump said, “We have great people.” “One of them is standing right here,” he said, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “We have JD [Vance], obviously. The Vice President is great. Marco is great, I think. I’m not sure if anybody would run against those. I think if they ever formed a group, it would be unstoppable.” Trump said he “hasn’t really...

Picture this: You’re a high-school senior who just scored early admission into your dream university. You’re elated … until you realize you’ve also locked yourself into whatever financial-aid package the school decides to offer, with no ability to shop around or negotiate. Congratulations, you’ve just become Exhibit A in a new class-action lawsuit (well, not literally) that accuses America’s most elite universities of running what amounts to an admissions cartel. Four students filed a federal lawsuit in a Massachusetts federal district court in August, targeting Duke University and other top-tier institutions, as well as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education....

Europe’s inability and unwillingness to protect its incorporeal cultural cornerstones has now extended to its tangible cultural icons.I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now?All across the continent, fertility rates have plummeted, and the Christianity that defined the...

Several illegal aliens, convicted of sex crimes and attempted murder, have received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded Medicaid benefits, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailed. As the federal government remains shut down, HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill has posted to X just a handful of cases where illegal alien convicts have been able to secure Medicaid benefits — despite Democrats’ claims that such cases do not exist. “Abraham Pineda Tovar is an 84-year-old illegal alien from Guatemala convicted of sex offenses. He received $7,829 in free taxpayer-funded health care through Medicaid,” O’Neill wrote on...

The Left's campaign against truth, goodness, and beauty continues with the latest depraved outrage against art: a sculpture called "Unmanned Drone." The twist? This ugly monstrosity was made from the dismembered pieces of the historic Stonewall Jackson statue that was famously taken down in Charlottesville, NC. Here is the original statue: Nick Morgan, Wikimedia Commons And the twisted new version: This bizarre, hateful attempt at art was created by "artist" Kara Walker, who makes terrible art to fight racism. Some of her other works include "Sugar Sphinx," a bizarre sphinx combined with an obscene "mammy" stereotype made out of sugar....

Legend says that George Washington once chopped down his father's cherry tree. Satellite images show President Donald Trump's project to build a $300 million grand ballroom has appeared to take down at least six trees on the White House grounds -- including two historic magnolia trees commemorating Presidents Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The satellite images released on Thursday provide the fullest picture yet of the extent of the demolition work on the White House's East Wing and its effect on the surrounding parkland -- changes made without consulting the government commission established by federal law to ensure...

Outline of historical link between Arab nationalism, Nazism and Communism. Transcript linked below video.

The nuclear plant at Gundremmingen once produced a quarter of all the power generated in Bavaria. That was before we shut down its reactors in 2017 and 2021, in the course of our insane and totally purposeless nuclear phaseout. In theory anyway, we could have reactivated Gundremmingen in as little as four years. Instead, yesterday at noon exactly, we detonated the plant’s cooling towers. As the ecologically-minded Bayerischer Rundfunk reminds us, we can be grateful that light rain kept the dust pollution to a minimum. RWE, Gundremmingen’s erstwhile operators, have all kinds of plans for the site. When they finally...

‘CBS Evening News’ co-anchor John Dickerson is leaving CBS by the end of the year, according to a source.DIckerson will continue to co-anchor the news with Maurice DuBois until he departs, a CBS News spokesperson confirmed. The news comes as CBS News braces for a steep round of layoffs, which are expected to hit this week.Dickerson, 57, took the co-anchor job earlier this year when then-CBS News president Wendy McMahon decided to shake up the struggling news network and oust then-anchor Norah O’Donnell.Dickerson shared the news on Instagram on Monday morning, writing: “At the end of this year, I will...

... A Texas mom is accused of packing up her entire apartment while her child was at school, and moving out without telling him. Erica Renee Sanders has been charged with felony child endangerment after allegedly moving out of the Copperas Cove apartment where she and her 12-year-old son were staying while he was at school — without informing him, according to a complaint obtained by PEOPLE. Local outlet KWTX was first to report the news. The middle schooler’s principal alerted officers with the Copperas Cove Police Department to the situation around 5:18 p.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 17,...

Who really won the by-election (Specia election) in Caerphilly (Wales)? I know officially it was Plaid Cymru, and I wouldn’t want to diminish that funny little party’s glee. Congrats, etc. But the true victor was a far newer party. An angry party. A party of the fretful and anxious. A party so fresh it doesn’t even have a name yet. I say we call it Not Reform. I think it is pretty clear that it was this nameless entity that propelled Plaid Cymru’s Lindsay Whittle to victory last night. That this seismic upset was fuelled less by a burning enthusiasm...

President Trump issued a chilling warning to Vladimir Putin Monday after the Russian tyrant boasted about testing his country’s new “invincible” nuclear missile. “They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shore,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday as he prepared to travel to Japan. He was speaking after Putin on Sunday hailed an 8,700-mile, 15-hour test flight for Russia’s “unique” nuclear-powered missile, dubbed a “flying Chernobyl,” which the country says could strike targets in the US. The Burevestnik missile is a “unique product, unlike anything else in the world,”...

In another shocking case out of Sweden, Swedish girl Meya Åberg was assaulted and raped by African migrant Yazied Mohamed while on her way home from work at McDonald’s in Skellefteå when she was only 16 years old. However, despite the migrant being sentenced to prison, he will escape deportation, with the four judges out of a five-judge panel citing his belief that the rape did not last long enough to merit deportation. In fact, after the rape, the victim was confronted with seeing her rapist, Mohamed, at school, at work, and around the town she lived in, showing just...

The governor of California, whose dad was the attorney for the billionaire Getty family, went full Hillary-Clinton-and-hot-sauce in his interview with the "All the Smoke" podcast: [Warning: Language] Gavin debuts his hip hop persona on an NBA podcast:"It was about payin' the bills, man.""Hustlin.""I raised myself.""Wonder bread and Mac 'n cheese. That's how I grew up, bro."(His dad was the attorney for the billionaire Getty family.)pic.twitter.com/24CXtlF4fS— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) October 26, 2025Every day in the backyard, just bouncin' the basketball. Throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just, like, frayin', man ... that's it the whole thing...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the GOP gift that keeps on giving. In an interview on the BBC show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris said, “I am not done. I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.” Republicans can only hope that Harris is the Democratic Party presidential nominee again. In the 2024 race, Harris was a disastrous candidate. After performing reasonably well at the Democratic National Convention and in her only televised debate with President Donald Trump, Harris decided not to engage with the media. She was rarely interviewed and...

Meanwhile in merry ole England…. “We are here to take over your country and uphold sharia law.” The Metropolitan Police prohibited a UKIP march in London’s Muslim-majority Whitechapel neighborhood. In response, hordes of masked Muslim men assembled near Whitechapel station, performing public prayers, chanting slogans like ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Whose streets? Our streets?’, and vowing to defend their community, with no arrests made. A viral video captured a left-wing counter-protester insisting alliance with the group, only to be rejected, fueling online discussions about progressive-Islamic relations and drawing historical parallels to Iran’s 1979 revolution. A rally by the political party UKIP...

President Donald Trump said Monday he was “very much opposed” to the immigration raid at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia last month after an operation that saw hundreds of South Korean workers detained and sent home. Nearly 500 employees were arrested during the Sept. 4 raid at Hyundai Motor Group’s facility in Ellabell, Georgia. Workers were sat on the factory floor as officers shackled their legs in scenes that caused outrage in South Korea, where the government scrambled to secure the workers’ release. They were eventually flown home on a chartered flight after urgent negotiations. Speaking to reporters...

Daily Readings from the USCCBBut the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.” The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?” Luke 13:14–15Why would the leader of the synagogue be “indignant” that Jesus cured a woman on the sabbath? She was crippled for eighteen...

Gmail users have been urged to check their accounts after it was revealed that more than 183 million passwords were stolen in a data breach. Australian cyber expert Troy Hunt, who revealed the incident, called it a 'vast corpus' of breached data, which totals 3.5 terrabytes. To put that into perspective, that's the equivalent to 875 full-length HD movies. According to Mr Hunt, 'all the major providers have email addresses in there' – so not just Gmail, but Outlook, Yahoo and others too. 'They're from everywhere you could imagine, but Gmail always features heavily,' Hunt told the Daily Mail. So...