Winchester, VA - The term “Temporary Protected Status” has been in the news quite a bit lately, as groups from Honduras and El Salvador have been put on notice that their TPS is up and they will have to go home. The Associated Press is reporting that the Trump Administration has decided to extend the TPS for 7,000 Syrians for another 18 months, to September 30, 2019, but it has also […]
Winchester, VA - CNN reports that the House Intelligence Committee voted yesterday evening to release a classified memo which is believed to detail FBI surveillance abuses. The memo was written by committee chairman Devin Nunez, and claims that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (or FISA) surveillance law was abused through the use of the infamous dossier regarding President Trump and Russia in order to obtain a FISA warrant for former Trump […]
Winchester, VA - You probably learned about the Bayeux Tapestry in World History when you studied the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The tapestry, which is almost 230 feet long and 20 inches high, tells the story of the conquest and has been housed in the Bayeux Museum in Normandy, France, for the last 950 years. The Daily Mail reports that French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to lend the […]
Winchester, VA - The Washington Times reports that an unidentified American man being held overseas is asking the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the Trump Administration for detaining him as an enemy combatant for four months, denying him access to a lawyer and the courts. The ACLU agreed to accept him as a client and filed in court on Friday. In a previous similar case from October, in which the […]
Winchester, VA - France 24 reports that the Sudanese began rioting on Saturday in the southeastern city of Sennar over rising bread prices. Last month the Sudanese government announced that it was putting a halt to subsidies in its 2018 budget, a highly unpopular decision with inflation at 25% and a shortage of hard currency. The protests spread to Khartoum, Nyala, Geneina and al-DAmazin. In Al-Damazin, protestors were attacked with tear […]
Winchester, VA - Reuters reports that the United States warned North Korea against performing any further missile testing. Despite the stated desire of the State Department to see the cessation of missile testing, RT reports that President Trump continues to taunt North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, tweeting last night, “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from […]
Winchester, VA - CNN is reporting that heavy rains caused a landslide which devastated the remote village of Villa Santa Lucia in southern Chile on Saturday. Five people are dead, 8 injured, and another 15 are missing. One of the dead was confirmed to be a tourist but the individual's identity has not been released. Portions of the village were half-buried under mud. CNN also reports that Tropical Storm Urduja swept […]
Winchester, VA - Zero Hedge is reporting that over 10,000 text messages which were exchanged between FBI veteran agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, investigators on the Russia probe and the Clinton email scandal, were handed over to Congress yesterday evening and were made public. Strzok and Page were having an extramarital affair while working on the Clinton email scandal investigation, and it is during this timeframe when the […]
Winchester, VA - Ectopia cordis is a condition in which a baby's heart grows outside the body while in utero. Babies with this condition have a less than 10% chance of survival. The Guardian reports that one baby, Vanellope Hope Wilkins is defying those odds, and is the first baby in the U.K. to do so. Born by cesarean section on November 22, at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, Vanellope overcame her […]
Sermons culled from traditional Catholic priests according to the season.
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