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Angela Rayner is reportedly considering a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer immediately after the local elections. Supporters are said to be urging the former Deputy Prime Minister to turn against Sir Keir The local elections, which take place next Thursday, are understood to be make-or-break for the Prime Minister, as his premiership hangs in the balance. Ms Rayner's cop claimed any delay would allow opposition candidates more time to lock in support among Labour MPs, the Times reports.

Immutability vs. Ecumenism: Pope meets Anglican bishop… at what cost?In the wake of the Pope’s April 27 meeting with an Anglican archbishop, Catholics are once again confronted with a pressing question: can the Church’s timeless doctrine coexist with modern ecumenism? Drawing on Scripture, the First Vatican Council, and the warnings of St. Pius X and Pius XII, this article examines whether today’s ecumenical movement represents legitimate development, or a rupture with the Faith itself.In his 1995 article, the late Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais described the core conflict between Rome and the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) as follows:...

A Christian school banned from athletic competition in Vermont because its girls' basketball team refused to play another with a male has settled its lawsuit with one defendant while broader litigation continues against others. The Vermont Principals' Association, which oversees all state-sponsored extracurriculars in the Green Mountain State, agreed to pay $566,000 in damages and attorney's fees to resolve Mid Vermont Christian School's claims, the latter's lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom said Wednesday. The notice of dismissal against VPA Executive Director Jay Nichols in his official and individual capacities says it only covers him but doesn't provide settlement terms,...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday further weakened the Voting Rights Act, ruling that a congressional map in Louisiana was a racial gerrymander even though it was drawn to comply with the landmark law aimed at protecting minority voters. The justices, split 6-3 with the court's conservatives in the majority, told states they can almost never consider race when drawing maps to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which was enacted to protect minority voters who long faced discrimination in elections. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, said that while there may be extreme...

[Catholic Caucus] Charlotte Bishop Martin refuses Communion to families at altar rail during Confirmation Mass: reportGREENSBORO, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte reportedly refused to give Holy Communion to families who knelt at an altar rail during a recent Confirmation Mass.The two or three families who approached the rail were passed over for Holy Communion during the Mass at Our Lady of Grace parish in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to a report by AdVaticanum.One father who attended the Mass with his family told the outlet about Martin: “He was sitting in front of us when we went...

A Wisconsin woman is behind bars after police say she stabbed her boyfriend to death during an argument over dinner. Mikayla Kloth, 27, appeared in a Waukesha County court on Monday, days after prosecutors said she fatally stabbed 25-year-old Lukas Rosch at her apartment in Lac La Belle, Wisconsin. She was charged with first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint obtained by local ABC affiliate WISN, Kloth told Rosch that she wanted to go out to dinner on Friday night. Instead, he showed up at the apartment with chicken drumsticks and seasoning that he intended to cook at her...

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, chimed in on the Saturday shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He released a statement through his attorneys condemning political violence in the wake of the shooting, according to The Hill. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, issued a statement this week decrying political violence in the wake of an assassination attempt on President Trump. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, is accused of trying to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner Saturday. The plot...

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A few years back, left-wing media began popularizing the phrase “stochastic terrorism,” so they could blame mainstream conservative rhetoric for random violent acts. When a white supremacist goes on a shooting spree, legacy media demand that every Republican official in the country take ownership and denounce the act as if their rhetoric led to the violence. Yet, when a left-winger such as Cole Allen allegedly tries to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, leaving a manifesto that’s virtually indistinguishable from the rhetoric used by the average liberal podcaster or politician, the same people act as...

https://x.com/overton_news/status/2049226546171568400 Overton@overton_news·Apr 28He just put the Deep State on notice.Dan Bongino says he and Kash Patel made so many important changes at the FBI that whoever comes in next and tries to reverse them will leave a massive paper trail.He then dropped a major hint for what's coming:“That Comey indictment, if you think that was the end, you're out of your mind.”BONGINO: “We have made enough dramatic changes. We put a TON of new FISA rules in place.”“I mean, Kash and I were on FISA probably three, four times a week in special meetings just for that.”“I brought in a...

Has anyone else had problems with Substack? None of my subs load properly--the display is barren and the links are dead.

Ronald Carter @USronaldcarter·1hNOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULINGYes, the Court ruled 6-3.Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.But here's the part everyone is missing:Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district→ Their House margin is FOUR seats→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally...

They’ve hit the mother lode. We may no longer need to rely on foreign batteries to power our electronics. Geologists have announced that the Appalachian Mountains could be hiding a sprawling multi-billion-dollar cache of lithium that could last the US hundreds of years. “This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation’s growing needs,” declared US Geological Survey Director Ned Mamula in a statement. According to a map by the institution, this East Coast mountain range houses around 2.5 metric tons of this battery precursor, most of which is concentrated in the Carolinas, Maine and...

MINNEAPOLIS — The infamous Somali immigrant-run “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis was abandoned on Wednesday — a day after the FBI raided the daycare and about 20 other local operations as part of an investigation into allegations of massive social services fraud in Minnesota. The business’s misspelled sign has been removed, and replaced with a sign warning visitors that security cameras are in use. The building itself — which was painted a spearmint-like color when The Post was there in December — has been repainted a more neutral slate-blue hue, and a pair of “no trespassing” signs were newly hung...

Top health officials don't want you to read this, that's exactly why you shouldEarlier this month, the Washington Post broke the news that Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, the CDC's temporary top official, delayed and then blocked a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness paper from appearing in the agency's flagship scientific journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The manuscript was a typical one for the VISION (Virtual SARS-CoV-2, Influenza, and Other Respiratory Viruses) Network, a research collaborative between the CDC, Westat, and multiple U.S. health systems. Since 2019, the VISION Network has studied vaccine effectiveness using real-world data. Its investigations have routinely...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani declares a “budget crisis,” seeks a state bailout, and delays the deadline for finalizing the city budget by at least 10 days.

An upcoming international math conference should be moved outside of the United States of America due to Trump’s “unbridled hatred of immigrants” and because the “country [is] on the verge of martial law,” professors say. A petition, which reportedly has more than 2,300 signatures from more than 75 countries, demands the International Congress of Mathematicians relocate its planned July conference in Philadelphia. The petition says there is precedent for the action, since the 2022 conference in Russia was relocated due to the war. […] The mathematicians continue on to cite grievances they have, including “aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide...

Former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed he found a "mother lode" of documents tied to the "Russiagate" investigation that he alleges were meant to be destroyed. Speaking on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast, Bongino said what he witnessed behind the scenes of "Crossfire Hurricane" — the FBI's probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia — was far more sinister than he anticipated. "I thought I knew Russiagate," Bongino told Hannity. "It was like 10 times worse." Bongino described finding a "burn bag," which is typically used to incinerate sensitive documents for security purposes. He...

State lawmakers on Wednesday passed redrawn congressional lines that create an additional four GOP-leaning seats in Florida, making it the eighth state to complete mid-decade redistricting in the 2026 election cycle — and likely setting up a historic legal challenge in the state. The proposal passed the Florida state House and Senate on largely partisan lines, even as some members of the Republican majorities have expressed skepticism about redrawing the congressional lines. Florida GOP lawmakers largely remained silent publicly as the state has become part of a Trump-backed mid-decade redistricting push designed to beef up Republicans' slim U.S. House majority...

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has dramatically walked back his disparaging comments about Donald Trump, admitting he was wrong to call the President a 'buffoon'. The polarizing NBA coach dabbled in his political views while also discussing his past, the modern NBA and where his future may lie in a wide-ranging interview with The New Yorker. Kerr, rumored to be on the brink of leaving the Warriors this season, was asked about a no-holds-barred 'rant' he went on during a press conference the day after Trump was elected in 2016. The coach, who has never been shy about...