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A group of Cardinals in Rome for the Synod on Synodality took time on Tuesday to attend an event hosted by Fr. James Martin S.J. and his Outreach group, where attendees heard testimonials from “LGBTQ Catholics.” LifeSite News first reported this story. The event, titled “What is the experience of LGBTQ Catholics?” provided Catholics married to members of the same sex with an opportunity to tell the Cardinals their life experiences and the changes they would like to see in the Catholic Church. Christopher Vella, leader of the Malta-based LGBT Catholic organization Drachma and a bisexual man married to another…

The establishment media is going after JD Vance for saying out loud at the Vice-Presidential debate that migration raises Americans’ housing prices. But they’re distorting his argument, moving the goalposts, changing the subject, and downplaying their tacit admissions that migration does drive up Americans’ housing costs. Their evasion and obfuscation is likely intended to defend Democrats from Vance’s politically powerful charge that President Joe Biden’s mass migration policy has pushed middle-class and young Americans out of homes to help make room for more illegal migrants. “In the world according to JD Vance, immigrants are the root of all evil,” New York…

Special Counsel Jack Smith abused his power and is interfering in the 2024 election with his massive 165-page memorandum accusing Trump of committing crimes, according to an op-ed in the New York Times Wednesday. As Breitbart News reported, Smith submitted his memo — four times the typically-allowed length of a legal brief, and well within the Department of Justice’s 60-day window before Election Day — to Judge Tanya Chutkan in D.C. Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith — a former George W. Bush official who has been critical of Trump — wrote in the Times that Smith had violated legal norms and…

A closely watched report on US inflation showed consumer price increases ticked lower on an annual basis during the month of September but “core” prices remained sticky, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Thursday morning.The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 2.4% over the prior year in September, a slight deceleration compared to August’s 2.5% annual gain in prices. The yearly increase, which was the lowest annual headline reading since Feb. 2021, came in hotter than economist expectations of a 2.3% annual increase.The index rose 0.2% over the previous month, matching the increase seen in…

The armed conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region has intensified after the government recently stepped up its offensive to crush the Fano rebels. This has led to an increase in disinformation about the conflict. A post on Facebook claims that one of the Fano rebel leaders declared that the militia group was giving up its armed struggle and joining forces with the government. However, this is misleading: an old video was recycled, with sections omitted to make it seem as if the rebel leader said that Fano was surrendering. Moreover, he did not mention “joining the government” in either the…

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer launched an investigation on Wednesday into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent visit to an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania. House Republicans have already cried foul on the visit, which Zelenskyy took to thank the workers at a factory that has supplied critical munitions in Ukraine’s war with Russia, because several Democrats joined him for a public appearance. Comer took a different tack on Wednesday, instead focusing on Zelenskyy visiting a presidential battleground state. Defense and State Department officials traveled with Zelenskyy from New Jersey to Pennsylvania. That trip was paid for by DoD, which requested…

Vice President Kamala Harris used her first major solo interview to push her economic message and ding Donald Trump, as the Democratic presidential nominee moved to address some of her biggest vulnerabilities this week. Harris’ sitdown with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle followed an economic speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, part of her effort to reverse Trump’s advantage with voters on the economy. She used that speech to add layers to an economic plan Republicans have slammed as thin, promising to eliminate degree requirements for federal jobs, double union apprenticeships in her first term and reform permitting to speed up building projects.…

Kari Lake was pressed by Democratic rival Ruben Gallego to declare whether she won or lost the 2022 gubernatorial election during their Arizona Senate debate on Wednesday.The Republican squirmed out of answering in a way that caught social media’s attention. (Watch the video and responses on X below.)Lake has vigorously denied Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020 and her own legitimate loss to Katie Hobbs in 2022. She is now battling Gallego for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by independent Kyrsten Sinema.Gallego mentioned drought-coping strategies Lake “should be doing, but she’s in denial about climate change.”He continued, “But we should…

More than 3 million Floridians are without power as officials begin to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, a category 3 storm that flashed across a central swath of the state overnight on Wednesday.Parts of Sarasota, Fort Myers and other Gulf coast cities were inundated by up to 10ft of storm surge while tornadoes wrecked buildings, including a sheriff’s department facility, the skies turned purple and winds as high as 120mph turned cars, trees and debris into projectiles.Milton made landfall on Siesta Key south of St Petersburg around 8.30pm. Eight hours later it was moving offshore just north of…

Government sources have said the move would be intended to address national security concerns over data collection The US Commerce Department may impose restrictions on the use of Chinese and Russian software in so-called connected vehicles, or cars with access to the internet, cloud services, or navigation systems. According to reports by Reuters and Bloomberg citing government sources over the weekend, the ban could be announced as soon as on Monday.Most modern cars can be considered connected, as they have onboard network hardware that allows internet access and data sharing with devices both inside and outside the vehicle. According to…