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[Catholic Caucus] Leo XIV, Parolin, and China: A Silence That Grows After One Year of PontificateOne year after the election of Leo XIV, the Vatican continues to fail to clarify what the future holds for the controversial agreement signed with China on the appointment of bishops. While Cardinal Pietro Parolin continues to control the Secretariat of State and maintain the diplomatic line inherited from Francis’s pontificate, doubts are growing within the Church about a policy toward Beijing that has not halted the persecution of Chinese Catholics.A silence in crescendoA recent analysis published by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana once again focuses...

Massachusetts prosecutors scolded a judge over the sweetheart deal she handed to serial criminal Tyler Brown — who is accused of opening fire on random drivers on Monday — after he was convicted of trying to kill a cop years earlier. Brown, 46, pleaded guilty to armed assault with intent to murder in 2021, one year after he fired 13 rounds at Boston officers, including firing a .40 Glock semi-automatic at close range at one officer’s chest. Prosecutors recommended a 12-year prison sentence followed by five years of probation; however, Judge Janet Sanders handed out a five- to six-year sentence...

One day after Lane Kiffin opened up on why the location of Ole Miss hurt him in recruiting at his old school and how “diversity” has helped him at LSU, the college football coach apologized. Kiffin, in a lengthy interview with Vanity Fair, revealed that unspecified recruits told him while he was leading Ole Miss that certain players would have issues coming to the school. “[They would say], ‘Hey, Coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,'” Kiffin told Vanity Fair. “That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were...

Wait until you read about the things Muslim jihadis have done throughout history! Full depravity of Hamas during October 7 revealed for the first time: New report details how terrorists performed almost unimaginable horrors upon Israeli families https://t.co/14KfEBq7jV— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) May 12, 2026The report from the Israel's Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, led by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, compiles new details about the terror attack carried out by Hamas fighters on October 7, 2023. The report outlines how systematic rape, gang rape, genital mutilation, and family-targeted sexual violence were deliberate strategies employed by...

The full nationalisation of British Steel is expected to be announced in the king’s speech this week, a year after the government took over the daily running of the loss-making business from its Chinese owner. The steelmaker, which employs 3,500 people at its plant in Scunthorpe, came under government control last April amid fears that its owner, Jingye, was planning to shut down the site. British Steel operates the last two remaining blast furnaces in the UK, but its economic control remains with the Chinese company, which bought it out of insolvency in early 2020. An announcement confirming the plans...

A first-grade teacher in Washington state allegedly admitted to her husband that she cheated on him with a 16-year-old student — with whom she had sex in his truck, according to court documents. Mackenzie Naught, 25, allegedly fessed up to her hubby Saturday night, just hours before being arrested on child sex crimes on Sunday, the Spokesman-Review reported. The educator from Whitman County said she became physical with the teen the week before in his truck during a meet-up in the dead of night, according to court docs.

🚨 OH NO! L.A. Mayor Karen Bass just unveiled “FREE TEETH FOR METH HEADS” 🚨 “They don't have teeth, why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can't succeed without teeth” … WHAT?!? 🤣 7:51 PM · May 12, 2026 · 24.5K Views VIDEO AT LINK...............

Has Ithaca gone to the dogs? A new memoir calls the Upstate New York city the “most depressing college town in America.” Isabel Klee, a New Jersey native, has risen to social media fame through documenting her work rehabilitating medically complex and severely neglected rescue dogs — and showing their transformation from timid, shut-down animals into happy, thriving pets. Klee’s new memoir, “Dogs, Boys and Other Things I’ve Cried About,” chronicles her coming-of-age years after high school and her early experiences living in New York City, but it also includes a blunt look back at her short-lived college experience in...

Abdul El-Sayed, an Egyptian-American Muslim and a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly lacks a medical license in Michigan and New York, though he has claimed he is a physician, according to a recent report. While El-Sayed, who is running to fill Sen. Gary Peters’ (D-MI) seat, has claimed in interviews that he’s “been a doctor” for his “whole career” and also lists being a “physician” on his LinkedIn account, Politico reviewed medical records from the two states and found El-Sayed has “never been granted a medical license in those states.” Though the outlet’s review found that he...

The European Union is moving to tighten migration controls after years of struggling to deport most migrants ordered to leave, with a top official saying the bloc is now working to "get control back" ahead of sweeping new asylum rules set to take effect in June. European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner said deportations have increased and new border screening systems are identifying potential security threats, part of a broader effort to address gaps in enforcement that have drawn criticism from the United States and fueled political pressure across Europe. "Ten years ago, we didn't have a...

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America — run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country! Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane. Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records,...

More Perfect University (MPUniversity), founded by the liberal media group “More Perfect Union,” made its big launch...saying students in all 50 states joined MPUniversity in the six days leading up to it. The launch featured a livestream and interview with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose advisors founded More Perfect Union. “Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,” MPUniversity said in a post on X. The group will do on-campus events and debates while creating an online community through discord and email. It will...

Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in the NBA, died following a “valiant” battle with Stage 4 glioblastoma, his family announced Tuesday. Collins was 47. The ex-Nets player and 13-year NBA veteran had revealed his diagnosis in December in a piece published by ESPN. Stage 4 glioblastoma is one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.

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An official press release yesterday confirmed a $140 million investment to power AI data centers at sea. The funding goes to Pathanlassa — a renewable energy and ocean technology company — and was raised in a Series B financing led by avid investor and former PayPal CEO and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside several other investors. The Portland-based start-up said it would use the funding to complete its pilot manufacturing facility in Oregon for its Ocean-3 series nodes — an autonomous platform that will house and power data centers for AI inference computing at sea, using electricity generated from ocean...

Oh my goodness this is hilarious! Also, we just got yet ANOTHER “Tippy-Top” Q confirmation. More on that in a moment. First, watch this hilarious clip of President Trump explaining how all the past Presidents let the White House fall into disrepair, saying it was so bad it had become the SHIT HOUSE instead of the WHITE HOUSE, except that Melania tells him not to use that language so he won’t say SHIT HOUSE. HILARIOUS! Watch here: Post See new posts Conversation Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 NOW: President Trump RIPS past presidents for letting the White House become a dilapidated...

What is it with Minnesota? Something in the air? Something in the water of those 10,000 lakes? Or is it the (let's say this softly) Third World people from low-trust cultures that they have been so freely importing? Whatever it is, Minnesota seems to be Fraud Central Station, and now we see another Minneapolis resident has been busted and is facing charges. This one is alleged to have engaged in a million-dollar Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) fraud rip-off. Authorities in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against a man accused of a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded taxpayers out of...

Fentanyl — along with trade and the Iran war — is one of the key items on Trump’s agenda during his long-anticipated two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping... Since his first term, Trump has prioritized pushing China to take serious action to curb the flow of precursor chemicals from China to Mexican cartels that process them into fentanyl... U.S. drug overdose deaths have declined sharply since their peak three years ago. Still, nearly 40,000 people died from synthetic opioids, which include fentanyl, in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... “President Trump has made it clear...

AbstractDietary interventions are the first-line treatment for overweight individuals (OW) and individuals with obesity (OB) who have high-normal blood pressure (BP) or grade I hypertension, particularly when they are at low-to-moderate cardiovascular risk (CVR). However, current guidelines do not specify the most effective dietary approach for optimising cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes in this population.This study aimed to compare the effects of a low-calorie, high-protein ketogenic diet (KD) versus a low-calorie, low-sodium, and high-potassium Mediterranean diet (MD) on BP profiles assessed via ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). It also evaluated changes in anthropometric measures, metabolic biomarkers, and body composition measured by bioelectrical...