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1 April 2026 Wednesday of Holy Week St. Nuno Alvares Pereira church, PortugalReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 50:4-9Who thinks he has a case against me? Let him approach meThe Lord has given mea disciple’s tongue.So that I may know how to reply to the weariedhe provides me with speech.Each morning he wakes me to hear,to listen like a disciple.The Lord has opened my ear.For my part, I made no resistance,neither did I turn away.I offered my back to those who struck me,my cheeks to those who tore at my beard;I did not cover my faceagainst insult...

If you've ever wandered through an airport struggling to find your gate, something to eat or a place to charge your phone, this could make things a lot easier. At San José Mineta International Airport in California, travelers can now get help from a humanoid robot named José. It greets passengers, answers questions and helps people find their way around the terminal. Communicates in more than 50 languages Provides directions and real-time terminal updates Answers questions in a natural, conversational way Handles busy public spaces without constant human oversight. José stands about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs roughly 152...

(TEXAS) - A Montgomery County man has been charged with a federal misdemeanor over allegations he shot and killed a bald eagle in 2024. Santos Guerrero, 42, of Porter, was charged with one count of violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

It’s an entirely different kind of school rush. When Zohran Mamdani won New York’s mayoral election last November, Caven Wagstaff’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing for weeks. Wagstaff runs his own firm, wrangling places for wealthy American families keen to land their kids a perch at tony British private schools. Mamdani, as mayor-elect, turbocharged his biz. “It doubled,” he says now, of the 10 families per week who hit him up for his Anglo-friendly expertise. “They were saying to me, ‘We want to get out.’” A couple of years ago, the twentysomething former teacher spotted the surging interest in overseas applications...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man who stabbed a young girl while she was waiting at an Albuquerque restaurant pleaded guilty on Friday, according to the Bernalillo County district attorney. Nicholas San Souci pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree child abuse and one count of third-degree child abuse in connection with the April 25 attack at Saggios restaurant on Cornell Drive near Central Avenue.

Last Saturday, March 28, 2026, is a day that will live… in something-or-other. I was driving down Seattle’s Aurora Avenue to take a car in for service and saw a young lady near a bus stop waving an 86 47 protest sign. It looked something like this: Thank goodness the young woman was a lefty. Otherwise, experts would have agreed to condemn her as a would-be assassin. Later on, during my daily walk, I passed a silver-haired liberal woman proudly carrying a No Kings sign home under her arm. There’s another woman, at the top of the hill, who tacks...

Donald Trump admitted to never having been a huge fan of the allianceLONDON, April 1. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump has stated that he is considering pulling out of NATO over the lack of support shown by the alliance during the US operation against Iran. "I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin knows that too, by the way," he told the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph in an interview. Trump confirmed that he will re-evaluate whether the US should stay a member of NATO once the Iran war...

US President Donald Trump said he was strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO after allies failed to back US military action against Iran, according to an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph. Trump described the alliance as a "paper tiger" and said removing the United States from the defense pact was now "beyond reconsideration," the newspaper reported. He said he had long held doubts about NATO's credibility. "Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration," Trump told the newspaper when asked about whether he would reconsider US membership of the alliance after the conflict. "I was never swayed...

Philadelphia, April 1781. A boy of about eight is shifting in his seat. His voice, clear and steady, rises inside the quiet room. Mah nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot? “Why is this night different from all other nights?” For those participating in the Passover seder, all crowding a small rented room just blocks from where Congregation Mikveh Israel holds its services, this is a loaded question. In a land with barely 2,500 Jews from one end of the 13 colonies to the other,1 fewer than one in every 10,000 souls,2 and almost everyone around the table is a refugee displaced...

President Donald Trump has said he plans to attend the US Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday on whether the US should end its longstanding right to citizenship for anyone born in the country. On his first day back in office, he ordered an end to automatic - or birthright - citizenship for babies born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily. His executive order faced immediate opposition from those who said it went against the constitution's amendment that grants citizenship to anyone born in US territory. The Trump administration says the order will combat "significant threats to...

Our military campaign against Iran has been a great success, whether or not it leads to the downfall of the mullahs’ regime. We have badly degraded Iran’s ability to threaten us or our allies, and some changes will be permanent. Thus, for example:Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil · Follow ‼️PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU SIGNALS DIRECT COOPERATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER GULF STATES Netanyahu: Post-war plans include energy and economic cooperation with Saudi Arabia, including pipelines to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. “Iran must be stripped of this leverage.” Iran’s only effective response to our bombardment has been its disruption of the Strait of...

When Clint Eastwood was born in Oakland in 1930, the nurses in the maternity ward nicknamed him Samson for his size. The Great Depression was on, so his father, who had worked in securities, was taking whatever jobs he could find. This meant moving frequently up and down the West Coast. Clint would speak of his father’s work ethic and ability to provide more than most for his family, but also of the childhood loneliness that resulted from all the moves. He took solace in playing the family piano, developing a lifelong love of jazz, and going to lots of...

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Michael Goodwin, writing at the New York Post, made a claim remarkable for its simple clarity: “The Democratic Party We Once Knew Is Dead.” You and I can readily agree with Goodwin, but the party is certainly not dead and gone. What has it become? Victor Davis Hanson provides the answer:There is no Democratic Party. There’s a Socialist Party. But it’s a very weird Socialist Party. It’s a ... [pyramid] with a lot of very wealthy, globalized elites that run things at the top. Nothing in the middle of the pyramid. And then an expansive big base of poor people,...

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“Yogi” not-Berra schools the “No Kings” crowd on X. This is (mostly) so on point, I’ve got to share the whole thing.... No Kings explained for people who think they’re fighting fascism. You’re standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You’re holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left’s definition of fascism: You...

A former Anglican bishop has urged church leaders to prepare for a surge of Catholic conversions, as a historic Vatican visit by King Charles III coincided with a deepening division in the worldwide Anglican Communion. "The Church of England has clearly decided to go the way of liberal denominations, abandoning any claims to be upholding the Catholic apostolic succession," said Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali, who was one of several Anglican bishops received into the Catholic Church in 2021. "We're already seeing a significant new wave of conversions, and the church needs to consider how best to respond," he said. The Pakistan-born...

A new report reveals that significant numbers of Anglican clergy have converted to Catholicism in the United Kingdom since 1992. The report, “Convert Clergy in the Catholic Church in Britain,” released Nov. 20, shows that approximately 700 clergy and religious of the Church of England, Church in Wales, and Scottish Episcopal Church have been received into the Catholic Church since 1992. The number includes 16 former Anglican bishops. This equates to approximately a third of all Catholic priests ordained in England and Wales during this period. Speaking to CNA, co-author Stephen Bullivant, professor of theology and the sociology of religion...

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Matthew Henry was born two months after his father was expelled from the church. He wrote the most influential Bible commentary of all time and never finished it. In this investigative documentary, we reveal the full story of the nonconformist pastor who, born into the religious persecution of seventeenth-century England, produced eight million words of biblical exposition in a small garden study in Chester. From the Great Ejection of 1662 and the Act of Uniformity that silenced two thousand preachers, to the Glorious Revolution and the Toleration Act that opened a window of freedom, the life of Matthew Henry spans...