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[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Wester: The church must draw closer to L.G.B.T.Q. peopleIn 1 Samuel 3, we hear a scriptural lesson we would do well to heed today. In the silence of the night, the young Samuel hears a voice calling to him, a call he did not initially recognize as the Lord’s. It takes the elder Eli, a man of experience and humility, to listen and help the boy discern that God was indeed speaking. In my years of episcopal ministry, I have come to realize that we bishops are called to be like Eli. The bishop’s charism is not...

A police officer has resigned following the release of bodycam footage showing the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, while three other officers involved remain in post as an investigation continues. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary confirmed the resignation Tuesday, stating, “Three of the officers are still serving, one officer has resigned,” a spokesman said, according to GB News. The force added, “As the IOPC has confirmed, they are all being treated as witnesses, so not subject to any current restrictions.” The case relates to the December 3 death of Nowak, a finance student who was stabbed with a 21...

California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez confessed Tuesday to cheating on his wife — after The Post in April revealed he was seen kissing a congressional aide outside a DC party. The Post’s report unleashed an official investigation, which turned up sordid new details, CNN reported. “Years ago, I made personal mistakes outside my marriage that have caused real pain to my wife and family,” Gomez told the news outlet. Gomez, a close Swalwell friend, initially denied The Post’s reporting and his confession did not specify particular wrongdoing.

Two proposed bills threaten to worsen pregnancy outcomes and increase intimate partner violenceShe stays quiet because of her child, my patient tells me. But despite her passivity, her husband always manages to find something wrong with her. He shouts at ungodly volumes, threatening, "Don't make me do something to you that I'll regret!" Another time, "You're making me angry enough to hit you!" She invariably cowers in terror, shielding the child from him. "Like a switch, he shuts it off and turns to our son, smiling, comforting him, even when he's just threatened me. I don't understand it," she weeps...

Former New York Times reporter Paul Krugman, who worked for the outlet for more than two decades, is clearly grasping for relevance in his retirement and he's doing so by calling for violence against Trump supporters. The guy who once said the Internet's impact on the economy would be no different than the fax machine thinks the country needs a 'thorough purging' and he's targeting MAGA as the group that needs to go. "We need to de-fang Trump as much as possible and make sure that neither he nor anybody who follows in his footsteps has power after the next...

Vladimir Putin has suffered a fresh wave of war humiliation amid warnings that his unaffordable conflict with Ukraine is pushing his economy to the brink of collapse. Russia's Finance Ministry and its central bank has projected the government's budget deficit widening to a dangerous level if the Kremlin continues at the current rate of defence expenditure, according to Bloomberg. The stark warning came as Putin suffered further setbacks on the frontline, where the tide of the war is increasingly turning in Ukraine's favour. And authorities in Crimea are urging citizens not to panic amid ongoing petrol shortages with pictures showing...

Hundreds of people marched to Southampton police station after Henry Nowak’s killer was sentenced to life in prison. Despite the student’s father’s pleas that he didn’t want his son’s death to be used to create further ‘hatred or tension’, far-right activist Tommy Robinson and Laurence Fox turned up for the Justice for Henry march. Marchers chanted ‘******* ****’ at the police holding them back after an attempt was made to hold a minute’s silence for the University of Southampton finance student.

Explanation: The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About twelve thousand years ago, a relatively normal star in the constellation Vela suddenly exploded, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. The featured image, taken piecemeal over 60 hours from the Khomas Region of Namibia, captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light, with details highlighted by hydrogen (red) and oxygen (blue) emissions. As gas flies away...

PLANO, Texas - Another major business is moving to Plano. Samsung is relocating its headquarters from the northwest to North Texas. What we know: Samsung’s decision to move to Plano comes less than a year after celebrating the grand opening of its United States headquarters in New Jersey. But now, the South Korean company has said it wants to condense its U.S. operation to Texas. The company’s U.S. semiconductor investments are concentrated in the Austin area, which is why it wants to move its headquarters to Plano. Samsung said the move will help streamline decision-making. Dig deeper: According to early...

An African immigrant accused of pretending to be gay to claim asylum in the US has allegedly been outed after he married a woman in Indiana.Salah Dine Habib, a native of Mauritania in west Africa, entered the US around 2023 and was arrested May 21, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Habib claimed to be homosexual on his asylum application, which in his home country is a criminal offense punishable by being stoned to death.He got a job as a taxpayer-funded corrections officer at a county jail in Portland, Indiana, after being hired by Jay County Sheriff Larry...

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Seas the day. Plans are being put forward to create the world’s first-ever “floating city,” which would be powered by nuclear energy and have a capacity of 80,000 – dwarfing the finest cruise ships in the world. Visions of the so-called Freedom Ship have existed since the 1990s, but they have been brought back to life once again – this time under Freedom Cruise Line CEO Roger Gooch, who told the Telegraph, “We feel very confident that we can put this together, but capitalization is key.” Should it come to reality, the megaship would dwarf anything produced by the likes...

A viral video making the rounds on social media is proving once again that reality has a way of humbling even the most ambitious publicity stunts. The clip, which has racked up millions of views across Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook in just days, shows an unidentified Nigerian pastor decked out in a flowing white robe and clutching a staff, striding confidently into the ocean waves like he’s reenacting the Book of Exodus. His followers stood nearby, Bibles in hand, chanting prayers and hyping up what was supposed to be a modern-day Red Sea moment. But unlike the account in...

The White House Correspondents' Association announced Tuesday that it will reschedule its annual press dinner for July 24 after the initial event was disrupted when a gunman attacked the gathering attended by President Trump, senior administration officials and scores of journalists. Weijia Jiang, who is the president of the association and a CBS News senior White House correspondent, said in an email to members of the White House Correspondents' Association that the rescheduled event would be a "more intimate gathering" and feature "significantly enhanced safety measures and new access procedures." Details on a venue will be forthcoming, she said. "This...

In an effort to regain control over the people who work for the state government, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has ordered them to report to work at the offices the government has provided for them four days per week. "It has been four years since the pandemic ended," Newsom argued. "The original reason for allowing them to work from home--help prevent the spread of covid--is no longer valid. I've been more than patient. We need these workers to be on the job and under direct supervision to make sure they're really working." The union of California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges...

NPR reviewed 34 publicly announced denaturalization cases filed or resolved by the DOJ as of last month, including 11 revocations of citizenship.In the last 16 months, the Trump Justice Department says it surpassed the number of cases filed during all four years of the Biden administration — 64, according to available data. The administration is pitching a supercharged denaturalization effort as yet another way to address border security. "The Department of Justice is laser-focused on rooting out criminal aliens defrauding the naturalization process," a DOJ spokesman said in a statement. "We are moving at warp speed to ensure fraudsters are...

On Monday’s edition of CNN's This Morning, a panel discussed the Senate race in Maine. CNN panelist and TikTok babbler V. Spehar weighed in: "We need to be talking about what we're gonna do for people, not what any kind of scandal coming up is, because there's so much getting lost in the conversations that we're having if we're trying to police, and do purity culture on every single candidate, and that's kind of an issue." Great point, V! Because the Democrats and the liberal media haven't spent years obsessing over every real and imagined scandal involving Donald Trump, or...

There is shocking news that yet another criminal illegal alien residing in California is accused of murdering three: an infant along with the child’s mother and grandmother in a brutal triple murder. California sanctuary laws defy federal immigration laws by drastically limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. State and local law enforcement agencies generally do not systematically record or report immigration status for all arrests. Breitbart reports the details: Joaquin Escoto Vazquez, a 28-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by the Modesto Police Department and charged with homicide and cruelty towards a child after allegedly murdering an infant, the...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican bishop says John Lennon’s atheist anthem ‘Imagine’ is ‘most beautiful song in the world’The president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology argued that Jesus agreed with Lennon in opposing a God for whom one ‘must kill or die.’ The president of the Pontifical Academy of Theology has sparked outrage among Catholics after praising John Lennon’s Imagine, calling for the abolition of any religion “for which I must kill or die,” and attributing to Jesus doctrines condemned by the Church.On May 18, a short video featuring Italian Bishop Antonio Staglianò went viral on Instagram. In the video, Staglianò...

A store owner in South Carolina who spent three years in jail before his trial was acquitted of a murder charge after shooting and killing an armed teen outside the store in 2023. A jury in Richland County found Rick Chow not guilty Monday in the shooting death of 14-year-old Cyrus Cormack-Belton. On May 28, 2023, Chow and his son, Andy Chow, pursued Cormack-Belton out of their Columbia, South Carolina, convenience store after suspecting him of shoplifting. The father and son duo chased the teen about 100 yards before Chow shot him in the back with a .45-caliber Glock handgun,...