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...In the wake of the shooting, the mainstream media rushed to defend Afghans in the U.S., saying we shouldn’t “condemn” an entire population based on one man’s criminal actions...

By Dr. John BergsmaHappy New Year, everyone! The Church Year begins this week with the First Sunday of Advent, and we are back to reading cycle A. There is a very ancient tradition in the Church of reading the Book of Isaiah during Advent. In antiquity, both Jews and Christians considered the Book of Isaiah to be one extended prophesy of the “age to come,” the “latter days” when the Anointed One (Heb. “Meshiach,” =” Messiah”) would arrive. The First Readings for Sunday Mass and for weekday Masses, as well as the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the...

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New York futures out of action probably doesn’t help. But silver hits new highs in volatile conditions. In this report, we look at the factors driving gold and silver higher still. During Thanksgiving week (US markets closed on Thursday) the bullish running has been made in Asia. In European trade this morning, gold was $4,173, up $90 from last Friday’s close. Silver at $53.85, up $3.87 on the same time scale was making the running. Overnight in Shanghai, spot silver spiked as high as $55.13 surpassing previous highs, and the February future closed at $56. The situation is complicated by...

Michigan is about to become ground zero in America’s immigration fight as federal enforcement operations and detention capacity expand. At the same time, President Trump unveils sweeping plans to permanently halt migration from Third World countries and reverse millions of Biden‑era admissions following the murder of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., allegedly by a refugee from Afghanistan. Earlier this month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expanded the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. The capacity more than doubled to over 1,200 detainees — up from about 500 during the summer months, according to a report from Michigan Live....

In 2023, a 15- and a 17-year-old plotted to attack a Christmas market in Leverkusen (North Rhine-Westphalia). In online chats, the two supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), considered a terrorist organization by German domestic intelligence, plotted to kill as many people as possible by driving a truck into the crowd of revellers. Two days before the planned attack, the teenagers were arrested after police had become aware of their online chats. The minors were sentenced to four years in prison in 2024. Cases like this are increasingly worrying German security authorities. The Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has for years...

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have opened nearly 290,000 criminal cases related to unauthorized absence from military duty and desertion since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Prosecutor General’s Office told the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet on Oct. 14. From January 2022 to September 2025, investigators registered 235,646 cases of unauthorized absence from service and 53,954 cases of desertion. This is a sharp increase compared to the same period between January 2022 and September 2024, when approximately 90,000 cases were recorded — around 60,000 for unauthorized absence and 30,000 for desertion.

SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies died Wednesday from natural causes in a hospital, ending a nearly 40-year effort by the state of Utah to try to execute him. The 67-year-old Menzies was facing execution for the 1986 kidnapping and killing of Maurine Hunsaker. She was kidnapped from her job at a Kearns gas station, driven to Big Cottonwood Canyon where she was tied to a tree and her throat slit. Menzies' original execution was halted earlier this year after his attorneys raised concerns about his mental state due to his dementia, and the Utah Supreme...

MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Russia's government is discussing different ways to prop up Russian Railways, the country's biggest commercial employer, which has built up a 4 trillion rouble ($50.8 billion) debt pile, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. State-owned Russian Railways, which employs about 700,000 people, has suffered a fall in revenues amid a sharp slowdown in Russia's war economy while debt costs have soared, driven by the highest interest rates in two decades. According to two people who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, Moscow has been discussing ways...

29 November 2025Saturday of week 34 in Ordinary TimeThe Basilica of Saint Saturnin in ToulouseReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDaniel 7:15-27His sovereignty will be an eternal sovereigntyI, Daniel, was deeply disturbed and the visions that passed through my head alarmed me. So I approached one of those who were standing by and asked him to tell me the truth about all this. And in reply he revealed to me what these things meant. “These four great beasts are four kings who will rise from the earth. Those who are granted sovereignty are the saints of the Most High,...

Anthony Caines — the sicko busted by the NYPD for allegedly spitting in the faces of white women who passed him in Williamsburg — has apparently been on the receiving end of some street-style justice. Video footage shared on social media showed two men beating and kicking a man who appeared to be accused spitter Caines, 45, outside of a hair salon on Sixth Street. It was unclear when the footage was shot. Caines, curled up on the sidewalk in a defensive fetal position, is dealt multiple blows by the two attackers, whose faces are never shown. Caines, curled up...

Federal and state authorities arrested nearly 250 foreign commercial truck drivers in November alone, warning that cartel operatives and foreign nationals are exploiting America’s commercial driver licensing system to infiltrate freight corridors and endanger national security. A nationwide crackdown on foreign drivers with Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL) led to the apprehension of nearly 250 drivers in Arizona, Indiana, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and even New York and California. The federally led operation followed orders from President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to remove these often-dangerous drivers from American highways. Many of the drivers were found to be illegally...

In the summer of 2008, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez boasted to his bodyguard, “I’m about to elect the first black president of the United States.” And he did. They all know. They all knew. Everyone on the left. Every grandee, every premier and governor in the Democrat Party, U.K.’s Labour Party, Canada’s Liberal Party. Every vicious moron that runs the U.N., including the Secretary-General. Every top leftie strategist. Every NGO funder and chief. They learned it one at a time, one election at a time as their participation became necessary. They all cashed out on it. It is their great...

The Bidens once again traveled to Nantucket, a ritzy island off of Cape Cod for Thanksgiving. The Biden family has spent Thanksgiving in Nantucket nearly every year since 1975. For the last few years the Bidens have crashed at billionaire David Rubenstein’s Nantucket estate. According to The New York Post, the entire Biden clan was spotted shopping at ritzy stores. They also stopped for lunch and refreshments at the Lemon Press before leaving in their motorcade. Joe and Hunter Biden were spotted strolling through downtown Nantucket with the former president’s gaggle of grandchildren in tow during a ritzy shopping trip...

An Ohio policeman has been acquitted of murdering a pregnant woman he fatally shot in a supermarket car park. Connor Grubb opened fire at Ta'Kiya Young as he and another officer told her to get out of a vehicle on suspicion of shoplifting alcohol on 24 August 2023. Bodycam video shows her car rolling slowly towards Mr Grubb outside the Kroger store in a suburb of Columbus. In footage, she could be heard asking: "Are you going to shoot me?" The jury unanimously found him not guilty of two counts of murder, two charges of felonious assault, and two counts...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap. For that day will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth.” Luke 21:34–35This is the final day of the liturgical year. Tomorrow begins Advent and the beginning of a new Church year. On this day, we are once again presented with a Gospel passage that points to the final coming of Christ. In preparation for that day, the day in...

The United States is reportedly prepared to recognize Russia's control over Crimea and other Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russian forces as part of a proposed peace deal to end the nearly four-year war. The move would mark a major shift in longstanding U.S. policy and break with Washington's refusal since 2014 to legitimize Russia's territorial claims, The Telegraph reported Friday. The report says President Donald Trump has dispatched peace envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner to Moscow to present the offer directly to Vladimir Putin. Moscow confirmed Friday it had received a revised U.S. strategy after emergency talks...

The first part of this video begins with ABC Sports coverage of the beginning of Game 3 of the World Series which was interrupted by the quake

You won’t Fuhgeddaboud being good this Christmas. You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now there’s Guido on a Ledge — a plush doll decked out in a wife-beater tank, shades, slides, sporting facial — and chest — hair, and wearing a good-luck horn. Creator Christine Fiscardi Lentinello, a Red Hook, Brooklyn native who now lives in Staten Island, said goombahs get a kick out of Guido. “They’re so excited. They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh this is fantastic. This looks like my uncle. This is my neighbor. This is my father,'” Lentinello, 54, told The Post. “Some people even rename...

Don't be alarmed, but Adolf Hitler is back and he just won re-election this week — in landslide fashion, no less. No, not that Adolf Hitler. He's been dead a really long time. This is Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who is overwhelmingly popular, regardless of his attention-grabbing name. The New York Post had additional details: The 59-year-old cruised to re-election despite his unfortunate name and has no plan to change it. The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it's too late to formally change his name. 'It's in all official...