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Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St. Clair announced that she is broke and is even getting evicted as she debuted her new podcast on Monday. The 26-year-old, who is in the process of fighting the Tesla CEO for custody of their nearly one-year-old son Romulus, opened her show, entitled Bad Advice with Ashley St. Clair by claiming she is in desperate need of the money. 'Well after a year of unplanned career suicide, many questionable life choices and a gap in my LinkedIn profile that cannot be legally explained, I've decided to start a podcast,' St. Clair said.

Pope Disses TradsDubs US Catholicism 'alive' and wellThe Pope is again speaking out against traditional Catholics. In a meeting with American journalists Monday, Francis claimed U.S. Catholicism is thriving — but referred to traditional Catholics as a problem.Pope Francis: "It's a living Church, alive, alive. There are perhaps traditionalist groups in the United States, but they are here in the Vatican, too."Despite the Holy Father's remarks, evidence shows traditionalist Catholics — those loyal to the Traditional Latin Mass — are likely a vital part of the Church's future. Traditionalists follow Church teaching at much higher rates than U.S. Catholics in...

...[T]he greater New York metropolitan area is currently permitted only a handful of weekly celebrations of the Tridentine Mass. Unfortunately, finding a parish for our own nuptial Mass was a painful process. A priest at one such parish in Manhattan told us that the rector and his parish council were not interested in having more old Masses celebrated there. A parochial vicar in Long Island nearly chortled at the suggestion that any additional Tridentine Masses would be allowed in the diocese that he serves. The secretary of Edward Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York, responded to our impassioned plea...

Last Updated: 11:30 pm, Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 WTO turns up heat on U.S. trade fightBy Gannett News Service   The European Union and seven other key U.S. trading partners won the right Tuesday to hit American goods with more than $150 million in penalties as compensation for a U.S. law deemed illegal under international trade rules.   A World Trade Organization panel gave the EU and others the green light to levy fines in retaliation for the failure of the United States to repeal an anti-dumping law known as the Byrd Amendment.   The ruling lets the EU,...