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Ruben Enaje, a Filipino carpenter and billboard maker, announced on Friday that he would retire from playing Jesus in a famous ceremony in Pampanga, the Philippines, after being crucified for the 37th time. San Pedro Cutud, a neighborhood of Pampanga, has become internationally known for staging live crucifixions annually to mark Good Friday, the Christian holiday that solemnly observes the day Jesus Christ was crucified. Good Friday occurs three days before Easter, the holiest holiday on the Christian calendar, which marks Jesus’s return to life and triumph over death. According to the Filipino news outlet ABS-CBN, 15 people were crucified across…
Golf legend Tiger Woods has said he called President Trump shortly after his vehicle overturned in Jupiter Island, Florida, last week. Body cam footage from police showed Woods walking down a lane toward the scene of the accident and could be heard talking to someone on the phone. “Thank you so much. All right. You got it. Bye,” Woods was heard saying before later telling the police officer, “I was just talking with the president.” Tiger Woods was arrested in Florida last week after refusing to submit to a lawful urine test. He has been charged with property damage and misdemeanor…
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed on Thursday to have struck Tel Aviv, Israel, with a “barrage of ballistic missiles.” “This operation was conducted jointly with our mujahideen brothers in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and it successfully achieved its objectives,” Houthi military spokesman Gen. Yahya Saree said. The Houthis invariably claim all of their attacks “achieved their objectives,” even when every missile they launch has been intercepted. “All praise and gratitude to the heroic fighters in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and Palestine who defend the dignity of the nation and stand resolutely against the Western-Zionist scheme targeting all the countries…
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to questions on what the DHS shutdown accomplished by blaming Republicans and saying that “what we have shown the American people is, we want obvious, commonsense reforms to ICE and [CBP], and the Republicans don’t.” Co-host Pamela Brown asked, “So, this plan that just passed in the Senate does not include the reforms to immigration enforcement operations that Democrats had, not only demanded, but even used as reasons to withhold their votes for DHS funding when all of this began more than a month ago.…
President Donald Trump reportedly stated the shooting down of a United States F-15E over Iran on Friday morning would not affect ongoing negotiations, pointing out, “It’s war.” Garrett Haake, a Senior White House Correspondent for NBC News, shared in a post on X that Trump “declined to discuss any details of the ongoing, intensive search” for the pilot. “I just spoke briefly with President Trump,” Haake wrote. “He declined to discuss any details of the ongoing, intensive search for the missing pilot in Iran. I asked if today’s events would affect negotiations with Iran: ‘No, not at all. No, it’s…
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that the DHS shutdown is on Republicans, and when it came to legislation to fund DHS, “We held it up” to try to make changes on ICE and CBP. Schumer said, “We’re not going to fund a lawless ICE or [CBP], but we’ve been trying to fund TSA. We’ve been trying to fund Coast Guard. And the Republicans have blocked it repeatedly. So, this shutdown is on their back and the failure, their failure to want to reform DHS — sorry — to reform ICE…
The French president called on like-minded countries to band together in the face of Washington’s “unpredictability” French President Emmanuel Macron has called on nations around the world to not become “vassals” of the US or China, following his public spat with US President Donald Trump over Iran and NATO.During a trip to Seoul on Friday, Macron urged countries including South Korea, Japan, Brazil, India, Australia, and Canada to form a “coalition of independence” based on shared commitments to issues such as international law, democracy, and climate change.“During decades, we had a so-called stability based on this international order and the…
The United Nations-backed security force in Haiti, which is staffed largely by police and military officers from Kenya, has been accused of four cases of sexual exploitation and abuse. U.N. investigators said all four of the allegations were “substantiated.” The U.N. report on the investigation was dated February 16, but it does not appear to have been disclosed to the public until an independent Haitian news site called AyiboPost obtained a copy and published an expose on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) brushed off responsibility for the assaults by telling…
On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) said that “we held out” on funding all of DHS “because reforming ICE was extremely important to every American.” And stated that we’re still in a situation with Iran that is “very dangerous” to America’s homeland. Quigley stated, “The bottom line is, the Republicans are going to do anything to avoid reforming ICE. The reason we held out, and the reason this mattered, is because reforming ICE was extremely important to every American. So, I don’t see that happening if reconciliation works this way. When they decide…
The bloc’s ideology has left it unprepared for long-lasting shocks, Kirill Dmitriev has argued The EU has failed to offer any real solutions to the current energy crisis, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev has said, arguing that Brussels is too late to start preparing for a supply shock.The remarks came in response to EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen’s interview with the Financial Times on Friday in which he said that the US-Israeli war on Iran was likely to have “structural, long-lasting effects” on the bloc’s energy security. He added Brussels was preparing for “worst-case scenarios” and “looking at all possibilities,” including…