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Noelia Voigt, who was crowned Miss USA in November 2023, has announced she is resigning from her role, saying the decision is in the best interest of her mental health. “Deep down I know that this is just the beginning of a new chapter for me, and my hope is that I continue to inspire others to remain steadfast, prioritize your mental health, advocate for yourself and others by using your voice, and never be afraid of what the future holds, even if it feels uncertain,” she wrote on Instagram. Voigt, of Utah, succeeded the 2022 Miss USA, Morgan Romano...

John Paul II hits Polish movie screens 02.03.2006 ‘John Paul the Second’, the American-Italian-Polish film co-production directed by John Kent Harrison is having its Polish premiere tonight in Krakow and Wadowice, the hometown of the late Pope. The first screening of the Polish version is being attended by top state, Church and political figures. Among the guests of honor are the film’s director John Kent Harrison and actor Jon Voigt who plays the title role of the Polish born Pope. Contrary to the American and Italian version, which put greater stress on John Paul as a political leader, the Polish...

A SENIOR adviser to Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, has been accused of passing confidential documents to East Germany in the 1980s which revealed how the British Army and RAF would react to an attack by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces.The details were among more than 100 pages of material allegedly given to the East Germans by Karsten Voigt, 63, a former MP who now works for the German foreign ministry as co-ordinator of German-American relations. He spent yesterday at an international security conference attended by Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary. The German magazine Focus claimed this weekend that in...

"[My opponent] is not only somebody who embraces the pro-choice position on abortion, for instance, which is already at odds with the Declaration principle that we are all created equal, and endowed with the right to life. He is somebody who has carried it to such an extreme that he actually stood by and would allow infants who are born alive — as a result of a botched abortion procedure — he would allow them to be put aside like garbage, and let them die." —Ambassador Alan Keyes, August 9, 2004, speaking about his Senate race in Illinois Left-wing talking...