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Condemned prisoners on California's death row are partly filling their time by watching pornography and engaging in lewd conversations using taxpayer-funded tablets as the state continues its shift toward a Norwegian-inspired approach to rehabilitating criminals, according to reports. In an effort to connect its prison population to the outside world, California issued around 90,000 tablets to inmates as part of a multimillion-dollar program where incarcerated people could send and receive messages in real time to loved ones amid a push for digital equity. The devices could also be used, in theory, for educational purposes. However, some have used the devices...

A former Black Lives Matter activist-turned-conservative influencer blasted the social justice organization as a “scam” — and insisted that Democrats are the party of “racism and violence.” Xaviaer DuRousseau, 29, revealed that he did a complete 180 from his liberal upbringing during the 2020 George Floyd riots as he realized that the movement was a money grab and that he was indoctrinated. “Once I started looking at the conservative side of the argument, I started realizing, oh, wait, socialism has literally never worked. BLM has always been a scam, and the Democratic Party has always been the party of racism...

Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley shared a stage in March 1960, when Ol’ Blue Eyes invited the singer of ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ onto his show.When the rock’n’roll phenomenon, spearheaded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and Chuck Berry, exploded like the musical equivalent of an atom bomb in the mid-50s, it was greeted with both alarm and suspicion by some of the music business’s established artists, Frank Sinatra among them. The Chairman Of The Board invited The King Of Rock’n’Roll to be a special guest on the last of four hour-long TV shows sponsored by watchmakers Timex...

SSPX Superior publishes "Declaration of Catholic Faith", addressed to Pope Leo XIVDeclaration of Catholic Faith addressed to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV by Fr. Davide Pagliarani Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius XMay 14, 2026Most Holy Father,For more than fifty years, the Society of Saint Pius X has endeavoured to set before the Holy See a matter of conscience in the face of the errors that are destroying Catholic faith and morals. Regrettably, all the discussions entered into have remained without result, and none of the concerns expressed have received any truly satisfactory response. For more than...

Paul McCartney, a longtime peace-oriented individual, still has an opinion on President Donald Trump and the effects of his administration. In a recent episode of the podcast The Rest Is Entertainment, the Beatle spoke about how his music sometimes has the power to unite people despite their different backgrounds and political beliefs. "I mean particularly these days, too, you do something like 'Hey Jude' and you see this whole audience singing together," he said before turning his attention specifically to the president. "And in Trump's America — and the Republicans and Democrats all at each other's throats — when we...

The Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow women to have access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits as the issue makes it way through lower courts. The high court previously placed a pause on an appeals court decision that would block access to the abortion drug amid an ongoing lawsuit, which was set to expire Thursday. Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the order, which granted emergency requests brought by drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro seeking to block the appeals court ruling, per NBC News. The case involves mifepristone, one of the two...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican’s pro-LGBT Synod report used another friend of Fr. James Martin for testimony: reportThe likely author of the first testimony in the Vatican’s pro-homosexual Synod report is a Portuguese man in a homosexual ‘marriage’ who previously met with Fr. James Martin, according to a report.The author of the first testimony of the Vatican Synod on Synodality’s final report on “doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions,” which falsely suggested that homosexual relationships may not be sinful, has been revealed as a Portuguese man in a homosexual “marriage” who previously met the heterodox Father James Martin, per a Thursday report.A May...

A court granted qualified immunity to all 11 deputies accused of violating John Griswold’s 14th Amendment rights.Imagine you're a sheriff's deputy and a detainee arrives, unresponsive and moving slowly after ingesting a large quantity of unknown pills. After a doctor clears him for jail, with a warning that any "deterioration" will require immediate medical care, the detainee is sent into a cell where he vomits profusely and remains unresponsive in the same position all night. Should you, as the deputy, call for help? And should you be legally held responsible if your inaction leads to the detainee's death? Earlier this...

A Labour Member of Parliament announced his resignation on Thursday in a move that could pave the way for Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to return to Westminster, intensifying pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer amid growing unrest within the party. Josh Simons said he would step down as MP for Makerfield, triggering a by-election in the safe Labour seat. Burnham later confirmed he plans to seek approval from Labour’s National Executive Committee to run as the party’s candidate, framing the move as a chance to bring “Greater Manchester-style” politics to the national stage. The development follows months of speculation...

In this video, I review The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, and talk about how I was blown away by how prophetic it was. I was especially shocked at how it predicted so many specific things back in 1973.

Has anyone seen the ads for medicare benefit heath cards? The ads also describe is as a grocery card; able to be used for food and medicine. Some of the ads also shows grandma or grandpa puts on parties and BBQ for family saying they paid for it by the card. Is this suggesting improper use and possible fraud, at least in my mind.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ensured that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be available by mail without an in-person appointment with a clinician. A ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 1 had imperiled widespread access to the pill. Now, the Supreme Court has granted emergency requests brought by drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro seeking to block that ruling. The decision, a loss for the state of Louisiana, ensures there will not be any disruption to the availability of the drug as litigation continues. On May 4, in an order...

A notorious trans-identifying serial killer has been convicted in the brutal 2022 slaying of 68-year-old Susan Leyden, whose dismembered headless torso was discovered in a shopping cart near her apartment in Brooklyn, New York City. Harvey "Marceline" Marcelin, 87, of New York, was found guilty by a Brooklyn Supreme Court jury on May 7 of first-degree murder, evidence tampering, and concealment of a human corpse. He faces a maximum life sentence without the possibility of parole, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said. The defendant had two prior murder convictions and was out on parole when he brutally murdered Leyden, making...

I will soon file a criminal complaint with the Dutch police against Wes Streeting, the British Health Secretary and allegedly one of the leading contenders to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Since 2004, I have lived under constant death threats, forced to reside in government safe houses under round-the-clock police protection. I have lost my freedom and my privacy for more than two decades now.... I have received thousands of death threats – mostly from Islamic radicals (including fatwas), but also from other, leftish, extremists. Until earlier today, I was unaware that senior British Labour politician...

A controversial new tax on second homes in New York City was quietly lowered from $5 million to a “market value” of $1 million — increasing the number of homeowners who will get squeezed as part of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s never-ending budget negotiations. Hochul’s office finally released details of her and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new tax on second homes in New York City to the New York Times Thursday, the latest concession to the Democratic socialist mayor and his liberal followers on a tax-hike crusade they say will target the rich. The so-called “pied-a-terre” tax would apply to second homes...

Thirty-year-old rugby player Eugene Hanna, of the Glenora Bears from Auckland, New Zealand, died Tuesday after an injury sustained in the team’s opening game May 2. Hanna, a member of the Premier Reserves squad, suffered an injury described only as “unsurvivable,” although the team did not detail the exact malady. He spent 10 days in the hospital attempting to recover before he died. ... The New Zealand Rugby League emphasized the importance of safety protocols in in a statement, while specifically mentioning “head injury and concussion protocols.” “This is truly heartbreaking and something we never want to see happen, and...

One of Dallas’ robotaxi services is under investigation for a series of crashes between December and March. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced May 6 it is investigating Austin-based Avride, Uber’s autonomous rideshare partner in Dallas, because of 16 crashes in Austin and Dallas related to “executing lane changes into other vehicles and failing to avoid vehicles or objects in the roadway,” according to the report. At least nine of the 16 crashes included in the investigation took place in Dallas, according to records. Uber began offering autonomous vehicle rides in Dallas through its partnership with Avride in December,...

The ink isn’t even dry on New York City’s proposed pied-à-terre tax — and one Miami Beach tower is already counting the money. At the Perigon Miami Beach, a 72-unit oceanfront condominium in Mid-Beach designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas’s firm OMA, developers say they logged more than $70 million in sales from New York buyers in the 30 days after the building reached its full structural height in early March. The project, developed by Mast Capital, is priced from $12.55 million and expects to open in 2027. It is no coincidence, on April 15, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and...

Defendant Allegedly Attempted to Defraud the New York City Campaign Finance Board of $1 Million in Public Matching Funds Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, a criminal complaint was unsealed charging Angela Aquino, a 2025 candidate for New York City Public Advocate, with wire fraud in connection with her scheme to defraud New York City’s campaign finance system to obtain public matching funds. Aquino was arrested today and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon by United States Magistrate Judge Clay H. Kaminsky. Joseph Nocella, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Nadia I. Shihata,...

Don’t cure cancer because it would devastate the cancer industry! Don’t improve healthcare access because you’ll hurt the funeral industry! That’s the kind of brain hurt logic NPR employed to decry President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration as a devastating blow to the U.S. economy. “The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown,” read NPR reporter Greg Rosalsky’s incoherent May 12 headline. Rosalsky flailed over Trump’s ICE raids in Little Village, Chicago: “Many in the community seemed to be scared to go about business as usual. There seemed to be a clear ‘chilling effect’ on their economic activity —...