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[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Schneider backs urgent appeal asking Pope Leo XIV to support SSPX consecrationsThe petition says Pope Leo 'may do much to avert a hardening of divisions in the Church and a practical separation of good and faithful Catholics' should he support the July 1 consecrations.Bishop Athanasius Schneider has backed a petition urging Pope Leo XIV to support the Society of St. Pius X’s (SSPX) upcoming consecration of bishops so that the traditional priestly society will not be considered excommunicated by the Vatican.“We humbly ask Your Holiness to grant the Society of St. Pius X your blessing, the pontifical...

Vincent Gelot, director of L’Œuvre d’Orient in Lebanon…described the difficult reality facing Christians in southern Lebanon as being “caught in a vice” between Hezbollah militants attempting to use their villages to launch attacks across the border and Israeli military operations that have left homes, schools, and convents destroyed or occupied. “It is their very existence that is at stake,” he said... Gelot stressed that many of these villages date back to the time of Christ…

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) on Monday signed into law a bill eliminating tax exemptions for multiple organizations connected to the Confederacy. Democrats in the Virginia House and Senate passed HB167 with vote totals of 62-35 and 21-17, respectively, earlier this year. The bill specifically removes the Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, among other similar groups, from the list of organizations exempt from state property taxes. The UDC, a nonprofit, was founded in 1894 by women “seeking to honor their family members and ancestors” who served in the Confederate...

The European Union (EU) may be gearing up to hit Google with a massive multimillion-euro fine for antitrust violations. The tech giant could be facing a penalty in the high hundreds of millions of euros, according to sources speaking to the German newspaper Handelsblatt. The final decision will reportedly rest with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and is expected to be announced before the European Commission's summer recess. The Commission typically goes on break in late July through to August, operating with a skeleton staff during this period. Google's parent company, Alphabet, is accused of violating the Digital...

A group of antisemitic UCLA students beat their Jewish classmates unconscious, attacked them with sticks and pepper spray and created Jewish exclusion zones — all while the school did nothing to stop it — according to a new lawsuit against the University of California. The school allowed for vile antisemitic attacks on Jewish students on the campus following the Hamas attacks on October 7, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division said in the suit, obtained by The California Post. “Antisemitic hatred against UCLA’s Jewish and Israeli students reached a point where students were physically assaulted, injured, excluded from campus,...

It has been more than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And although polls show that a majority of Americans support Ukraine, military and financial assistance to bolster its defensive and offensive capabilities have fallen dramatically. This is in no small part due to President Trump’s and Vice President JD Vance’s open antipathy toward President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has led to the blatant slow walking of implementing support already appropriated by Congress. As co-founder of a humanitarian organization, I have traveled frequently to Ukraine and seen the devastation caused by Russia’s relentless attacks on non-combatant civilians, including children....

"Judge Blanchard's conduct has degraded the public's confidence in the integrity of the judiciary and brought the judicial office into disrepute. Judge Blanchard's delay and lack of attention in handling her cases have harmed the litigants, protected persons, respondents, family members, attorneys, healthcare professionals, healthcare services, and others who have business before the Probate Court," the report explains. The meticulously detailed complaint alleges that Blanchard's behavior made life miserable for court staff, created a "threat to public safety," kept individuals hospitalized longer than necessary and created a logjam of cases. The charges against Blanchard include: Pattern and practice of failing...

DL H repostedIam Breitbart@JacSarobahs·3hFORMERLY HIDDEN FBI DOCUMENTS WERE JUST RELEASED BY KASH @Real_RobNThis doc-drop by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRMS:Not only did the FBI stage January 6 five months before it happened while the DNC planned to overthrow the United States government if Trump won, “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.”But Christopher Wray also had 274 federal agents embedded at the official proceedings of Jan. 6 and had federal agents infiltrating chat rooms months before January 6 orchestrating for the overthrow of the U.S. government.United States Representative Clay Higgins: VINDICATED@RepClayHiggins : “Christopher...

AJ Inapi (Allan)@aj_inapi🚨 AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.Most people are still viewing President Trump’s foreign policy through the old post-WW2 lens. That lens is obsolete. What P Trump is attempting is not a minor policy adjustment. It is a complete restructuring of the global economic and geopolitical order.Read that again.For 80 years, America operated under a “globalist” framework:• America paid the bills• America defended everyone• America opened its markets• America carried NATO• America protected shipping lanes• America subsidized allies• America tolerated trade imbalances• America exported democracy while factories disappeared and debt exploded at homeThat system enriched...

U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM1hr🚫CLAIM: Recent media reporting claims that the U.S. Navy has restarted escorting or assisting commercial vessels during transits through the Strait of Hormuz. FALSE.✅TRUTH: Project Freedom has not resumed, and U.S. forces are not currently escorting commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

AwakenedOutlaw⚒️ repostedNick Sortor@nicksortor·3h🚨 Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget"The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars.""We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them."This should infuriate EVERY taxpayer.May 26, 2026

WASHINGTON — Construction is underway on the South Lawn of the White House as construction crews raise steel arches, lighting rigs and broadcast infrastructure to complete a temporary arena for "UFC Freedom 250." The professional fighting event tied to America's 250th anniversary celebration is scheduled for June 14, which marks Flag Day and President Donald Trump's 80th birthday. The most prominent feature currently taking shape is a star-spangled arch that will stretch over the octagon fight cage, featuring a red, white and blue color scheme and extensive lighting effects. The semicircular structure behind the octagon was manufactured in Pennsylvania and...

Yes, an end to the Iran war remains elusive – but that doesn’t mean investors should wait around for it.What if talks fail? Won’t inflation skyrocket? Shouldn’t I wait for this to pass before buying stocks? Those are key questions I have been getting as this conflict drags on. They’re understandable, but they’re also expensive.Since my March column, America “double blockaded” the Strait of Hormuz. Yet little changed. The US blockade only affects Iranian exports and imports. Iran’s oil went mostly to China which, by the way, had stocked up beforehand.Meanwhile, Strait workarounds proliferate. Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline exports were...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Ori Solomon, the property manager arrested in connection with an illegal biolab at a Las Vegas short-term rental, is no longer facing federal charges. Channel 13 learned that Solomon's federal charges were dismissed without prejudice; however, he still faces a criminal charge in Clark County for the improper disposal of hazardous waste. This all stems from an investigation after local and federal officials discovered what has been called an illegal biological lab inside a home he managed near Washington Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. Solomon's federal charges came after authorities found multiple firearms at his residence during...

[Catholic Caucus] Abp. Paglia: Francis wanted to ‘adapt doctrine to the new times’ on homosexuality, moral theologyArchbishop Vincenzo Paglia said Pope Francis ordered sweeping reforms of the John Paul II Institute and Pontifical Academy for Life to break with ‘static’ natural law morality.Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia said Pope Francis deliberately sought to “recreate” the Pontifical Academy for Life and the John Paul II Institute in order to move Catholic theology beyond what he described as a “moralistic” framework based on natural law.On May 21, in an interview published by the Italian outlet Settimana News, Paglia gave an extensive account of the...

Claims of racial abuse made by a man accused of fatally stabbing a first-year university student were a "wicked lie", a court has heard. Henry Nowak, 18, from Chafford Hundred in Essex, was killed on 3 December as he walked back from a night out in Southampton. Vickrum Digwa, 23, claims he acted in self-defence after the teenager used a racist insult, punched him and knocked his turban off, Southampton Crown Court heard. Digwa denies charges of murder, manslaughter and carrying a knife in public, while his mother Kiran Kaur, 53, denies assisting an offender. During the trial's closing speeches,...

Iran's new leader Mojtaba Khamenei follows in his father’s footsteps with a series of anti-Israel posts on social media.

The CIA has been accused of gaining secret access to the DNA information of millions of people as the intelligence agency allegedly searches for alien life on Earth. Jason Reza Jorjani, a philosophy PhD and science fiction writer, recently claimed that he spoke with a retired US Army sergeant who served as a 'psychic spy' and knew of the government's secret program to hunt down individuals with extraterrestrial DNA. Jorjani said on the American Alchemy podcast that the CIA, the nation's premier foreign intelligence agency, has a backdoor program that allows it to search through genetic testing companies such as...

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is following in his father’s footsteps when it comes to attacking the Jewish state. Khamenei’s official social media account on Tuesday posted a series of posts against Israel, including one describing it as a “cancerous tumor" and one predicting the end of Israel. “The shaken Zionist regime and the cancerous tumor of Israel are approaching the final stages of their wretched existence," read one post. A subsequent post said, “By God’s grace - and in accordance with the decisive and forward-looking words of our martyred Leader ten years ago - the Zionist...