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California Gov. Gavin Newsom unleashed a vulgar tirade against Louisiana’s female attorney general yesterday as he defending allowing illegal abortion pills to flow into pro-life states. Newsom told a female Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill to “go ---- yourself” as he defended his state’s refusal to extradite abortionists accused of illegally mailing abortion pills to Louisiana residents, a move pro-life advocates say endangers women and unborn babies by circumventing state laws designed to protect life. The exchange erupted on social media after Newsom posted about Louisiana’s plans to sue him and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for blocking extradition requests....

[Catholic Caucus] Since 1988, Who Changed—Rome or the SSPX?Have Rome or the SSPX actually changed since the 1988 episcopal consecrations—or has only one side moved? This in-depth analysis compares Archbishop Lefebvre’s unwavering view of immutable Tradition with Rome’s evolving theology on synodality, moral teaching, and “living tradition,” raising a question every serious Catholic must confront.Between now and the eventual consecration of bishops for the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), there will be various newsworthy developments, and even more speculation about possible developments, much of which will turn out to be incorrect. As interesting as all of that will surely...

In her 2022 memoir, abortionist Christine Henneberg describes abortion procedures she witnessed and committed. On Doing First-Trimester Abortions A surgical first-trimester abortion is done by inserting an instrument called a cannula into the woman’s womb. It’s attached to a suction machine. The powerful suction tears apart the child and pulls him or her out in pieces. The abortionist must then check the remains to make sure they have removed all body parts, or the woman can suffer an infection from parts of the baby left behind. Henneberg says: At 10 to 12 weeks, it’s obvious what you’re looking for: tiny...

More than 2,900 athletes from 92 national Olympic committees will compete at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games. The United States will have the largest presence with more than 230 athletes, followed by Canada with 210 athletes and host nation Italy with 196.

Six people, including a little five-year-old child, were hurt when a grenade exploded inside a beauty salon in Grenoble, France on Friday. The blast happened just before 3:00 p.m. local time. French news reports say everyone who was injured is now out of danger and stable. So, what exactly happened? Several people walked into the shop in the middle of the day. One of them threw a grenade. After the explosion they all ran away. Police still have no idea who did it or why. The motive is completely unknown right now. Where the salon is The beauty salon sits...

Masked Youths Throw Grenade into Beauty Salon in Grenoble, France, Injuring 6 Including a Child A grenade exploded inside a beauty salon in Grenoble, France, on Friday afternoon, injuring six people—including a 5-year-old child—all with minor injuries. The victims received on-site treatment from firefighters and did not require hospitalization. The attack took place around 3:00 p.m. when two masked suspects entered the premises on a busy central street, tossed the device inside, and fled. Witnesses described hearing screams followed by a loud blast that shattered the storefront window. The suspects remain at large, and the Grenoble prosecutor's office has released...

ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber targeted a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 169 others, officials said, a rare bombing in Pakistan's capital as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country. Television footage and social media images showed police and residents transporting the wounded to nearby hospitals. Some of the wounded in the attack on the sprawling mosque of Khadija Al-Kubra were reported to be in critical condition. Rescuers and witnesses described a harrowing scene, with bodies and wounded lying on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With President Trump and Republicans campaigning hard to shore up election integrity in the U.S., congressional Democrats agreed to negotiate on the issue on the condition that death certificates be added to the list of acceptable forms of voter ID. Though initially opposed to any form of legislation mandating voter ID, Democrats surprisingly came forward with a proposal to compromise by guaranteeing that presenting a current death certificate would be accepted as valid identification to vote in elections. "It's our base's most widely used form of documentation," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "We didn't want to...

CORRUPTION: FBI Atlanta Chief Paul Brown warned Fulton County elections officials about a coming raid & even shared a list of items agents planned to seize. He was removed just before the warrant was executed. This is a compromised bureau. h/t @zerohedge

At CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an imposing spy aircraft stands outside the main entrance — a relic from a pivotal era of Cold War intelligence gathering that, in its time, pushed aerospace technology to its limits. But its stationary, terrestrial home amid birds and bugs, instead of at Mach 3 speeds and altitudes of 80,000 feet, meant it risked falling apart. "The A-12 is prime real estate here at CIA headquarters," Robert Byer, CIA's museum director, told CBS News in an interview, noting employees pass by it daily. But, he added, "this plane was not built with the idea...

Daniela was ordered to retake the test on Thursday as the law warns, which would have been frustrating, but not impossible. However, Daniela told NBC6 there were no more appointments left for the day and starting Friday, the state will only allow driver license tests to be administered in English.Standing in the hallway in front of the Miami-Dade Tax Collectors office, a woman cried while holding her drivers license exam results, shortly after being told they weren't enough to receive her physical license card. Daniela told NBC6 she went through a course, passed her driver license exam, and was told...

Donald Trump has told the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, that he will unfreeze funds for major infrastructure projects in New York and New Jersey if he supports renaming Dulles international airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him, according to media reports. The demand, which was first reported on Thursday by Punchbowl News, comes after the president in October halted $18bn in funding for a major subway line expansion in New York City as well as a new rail tunnel connecting the city to New Jersey. The funding freeze was announced on the first day...

It's a roughly 6-7 minute video summarizing recent congressional testimony. Republican state representative Kristin Robbins (chair of Minnesota's House Fraud Prevention Committee) testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about large-scale fraud in Minnesota's public assistance programs, particularly: Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) — fraud dating back to 2011, escalating under Gov. Tim Walz's administration, with millions allegedly funneled as cash to Somalia (some reports linking it to terrorism funding via groups like Al-Shabaab). Feeding Our Future nutrition program scandal — enabled by pandemic-era waivers (including the "Meals Act" tied to Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2020), involving fake meal claims for...

Army headquarters on fire. Seems similar to explosions set off by Israel last June several days before the airstrikes. Seen on X, but I don't have a link yet. IN other news, a large mortuary in NW Iran was seen totally engulfed in flames. The regime had stated earlier on state run tv that they had no more room for bodies. NOT a coincidence. Their evil knows no bounds.

He provided warm bass vocals on such hits as “Up, Up and Away,” “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” and “Wedding Bell Blues” and was a photographer and author as well.LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of The 5th Dimension and a longtime celebrity and sports photographer whose images graced magazines including Jet, Ebony and Harper’s Bazaar, has died. He was 90.McLemore died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas, a publicist announced. He suffered a stroke several years ago.With The 5th Dimension alongside Florence LaRue, Ron Townson and married couple Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo, McLemore helped bring...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis ‘secret decrees’ undermined defendants’ rights in Cdl. Becciu trial, lawyers sayDefense attorneys told Vatican judges that unpublished papal decrees unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and violated Cdl. Angelo Becciu’s fundamental rights under Vatican law.Defense lawyers have told the Vatican appeals tribunal that “secret decrees” issued by Pope Francis unlawfully expanded prosecutorial powers and undermined the fundamental rights of defendants in Cardinal Angelo Becciu’s trial.On Tuesday, during the resumption of the appeals phase of the Vatican’s so-called trial of the century, defense attorneys for Becciu and eight co-defendants argued before the Vatican City State Tribunal that four confidential...

VIDEOThe public has grown sick and tired of rich spoiled celebrities virtue signaling in public. Such an attitude is so obnoxious as to cause the ratings of such shows as the Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars to plummet. And this loss of audience is very worrying to the producers of such celebrity shows. However, the good news is that a very special sound effect has been discovered that when played over the celebrity show intercom system at the appropriate moment at just the right modulation and frequency meaning each and every time an airhead celeb starts virtue signaling, it is...

Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light...

"Foundation For Freedom Online" founder Mike Benz tells Benny Johnson that the best way to understand both Jeffrey Epstein's criminal network and bitcoin is as methods for money laundering used by and for intelligence agencies. "If Venezuelan counterintelligence sees money hit your bank account from a U.S. source or a U.S. bank, they treat it as a CIA intervention and arrest anyone who receives it," Benz explained. "So what the mystery U.S. government agency came up with was the idea to use stablecoins — the undergirding architecture of Bitcoin — to launder money into Venezuela without the Venezuelan government being...

[Catholic Caucus] To negotiate with the Tradition, nothing better than «Tucho»There are appointments that explain on their own the concept of “unity” that Rome handles. Leo XIV has decided to entrust the dialogue with the Society of Saint Pius X to Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, universally known as “Tucho”. And no, it’s not a joke or an ironic provocation: it’s the official decision at the most delicate moment in relations with the FSSPX in decades.Read also: Leo XIV entrusts “Tucho” with direct dialogue with the FSSPXIt is worth pausing for a second and looking at the full picture. The Society...