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My life was changed forever by the message I heard in St. Patrick’s Cathedral: Jesus Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures
Culture
Eid prayer held at the Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque in Sarajevo: Grand Mufti calls for rejection of nationalism and tribalism
the commission will conduct an examination of “all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day and make a series of recommendations that will serve as appropriate remedies."
The pandemic upended the factors that used to predict consumer sentiment.
"Nobody heard about this and no arrests were ever made, but this definitely, totally happened," claims sweating Tesla CEO
Crime
Father in Washington state tracks daughter to Uber, finds she was being raped, beats up driver
A witness noted that one of the males in the family said, "I don't want to kill you."
In the U.S. state of Pennsylvania a disabled vehicle call became something much more shocking.
Ilya Sutskever's new AI lab with hilarious Web 1.0 website
Debunking the myth of the strong consumer
Disaster
Calgary water main repairs could take 3-5 more weeks, after scans reveal deficiencies in the pipe
No my based orange daddy isn’t losing reeeeeeeeeee
Culture
Buffalo Bills are helping to start a new local gay flag football league, the latest NFL team to support LGBTQ athletes
The Buffalo Bills are the latest NFL team to embrace the local gay flag football league, joining the Patriots, Giants, Rams and others.
A team of researchers who built a 3D map of Alcatraz Island to track erosion and the effects of climate change spent some spooky nights sleeping in the prison cells that housed some of the nation's most notorious criminals.
Platforms are paying less for popular posts, brands are pickier about partnerships and a possible TikTok ban looms
Extremists and online trolls are using Suno, an increasingly influential Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) music creation tool, to make songs promoting hate speech, racist stereotypes, calls for violence and extremist rhetoric.
guess
UK
Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy
How much longer will the dollar stay strong?
War
AP: LGBTQ soldiers in Ukraine hope their service is changing attitudes as they rally for legal rights
Staff from the U.S. Embassy and several European embassies attended the pride rally.
More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”
Ovessa these boys are downright peculiar.
Did Texas Children’s Hospital commit fraud to pay for child sex-change procedures?
At least it won't draw Hitler
Jaydrekus Cartez Hart done kilt Aureon Shavea Grace in da prison!
Culture
Government Forces Canadian Restaurant to Stop Free Meal Program for Those in Need Because Vouchers Were Only Written in English
Quebec big mad.
Business
The Washington Post’s leaders are taking heat for journalism in Britain that wouldn’t fly in the US
Bezos "quietly impressed" by Brit reporters' lack of ethics
Yet another "never my fault"
Across Mexico, the cartels are setting the price of goods for local businesses, including many of the tortilla shops.
CN
China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait, report says
"We were simply pretending to be retarded," says Xi
lefties overselling Trump part million
Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll
What could go wrong?
“Bishop Whitehead is in my prayers,” the mayor said
Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, would be Maryland’s first Black U.S. senator if elected in November.
Ethicists, man
Couples can marry 120 days after bill passes judicial scrutiny, royal approval
Davis remembers a Chihuahua-terrier mix named Mrs. Daisy, so small he carried the dog up to her elderly owner, who bore some resemblance to her pet.
US
AP: FACT FOCUS: Biden’s pause as he left a star-studded LA fundraiser becomes a target for opponents
"The video is the most recent in a series of clips taken at public events, some of them edited, that are being used to suggest Biden is mentally and physically unfit for office."
What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?
Aulia Rakhman was found guilty after joking about the name of Islamic prophet Muhammad during a show
temperatures soaring for more than half the US population
"I'm really sorry I broke your trust and violated you," an email from Montoya to Diamond said.
War
Trying And Failing To Cross A River In Vovchansk, 400 Russian Troops Got Cut Off. Now They’re Surrendering.
Russia’s northern offensive isn’t going well.
Culture
Women Shared The Things They Avoid Doing Around Men So They Don't "Lead Them On," And It's No Wonder Women Constantly Feel On Edge
There have been wrangles over the land for years
In a hypothetical match-up held today, 61 percent say they would support Biden, 23 percent say they would support Trump and 10 percent say they would support “someone else.”
The U.S. is facing security threats in a presidential election year coming from Islamic militants, far-right extremists, leftist radicals and an array of zealots disgruntled over the nation’s culture wars and our polarized society.
“We cannot have positive mental health in the context of a racist, Islamophobic and genocidal world”
War
80 countries at Swiss conference agree Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be basis of any peace
About 100 delegations, mostly Western countries but also some key developing nations, were on hand for the conference that was billed as a first step toward peace at a time when the warring countries are seemingly as far apart as ever.
TL;DR Commies infiltrated, captured, and purged the DSA using century-old tricks
aka "You're guilty if you encrypt your stuff"
Guess the race and sex
One of the most successful bands in Japan, Green Apple, deleted due to a huge backlash a music video "Columbus" where they depicting themselves as explorers/conquerors and the native people they meet along the way as monkeys
US Air Force shifting toward adaptable, low-cost drone strategy that may or may not be able to defeat China’s comparable if not superior capabilities
A family discovered—and ultimately accepted—the grim reality for young influencers on Instagram: The followers include large numbers of men who take sexual interest in children
The Summer of Glow
This will allow the devotees to avoid standing in a long queue in the scorching heat to get the viewing.
Culture
Turkey: Religious practices are being abandoned, belonging is declining, religiosity is decreasing
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient.
Because who needs disinformation research at times like these
A new law, introduced in May, requires every man aged between 25 and 60 to log their details on an electronic database so they can be called up
Blacks for Trump though right?
The agency claims that ‘state and non-state actors’ in many countries are trying to entrench stigma
Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.
Culture
Frustrated Dad Says Single Moms Should Not Be Celebrated On Father's Day — But People Say It's Time We Give Credit Where It's Due
CN
Top Canadian scientist alleges in leaked emails he was barred from studying mystery brain illness
don't have a cow, hoser
A real feel-good read to start your Monday off right.
latest in a string of missing or dead foreigners
This little-documented phenomenon is forcing dioceses to deploy new pastoral services to better welcome these converts, who often have difficulty integrating into their new Catholic communities.
Culture
Cardinal Sarah says US can be ‘place of spiritual renewal,’ urges Catholics to reject ‘practical atheism’
Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility
Law
NY mom says she’s victim of sexual harassment after ‘coward’ ships her penis-shaped gummies and confetti: ‘Malicious’
She is currently suing the companies that make the products for $200,000.
Heartwarming story from a failed state
42 year old male shooter found dead in Shelby Township home after spraying local splash pad, 9 injured including brothers, 8 and 4, and their mother
There were children participating
Opinion
Opinion: If you love the Second Amendment like me, you know how important Hunter Biden’s appeal is
Both moderates and progressives are pushing the Biden campaign to get more ambitious.
Culture
Poland's first blessing of a same-sex couple in a Church. For LGBT+ Catholics, it's a breakthrough
Indian-Americans have a significant presence in the startup world, co-founding 72 out of 648 US unicorns.
Enjoy some fresh seethe
Culture
Falls Church, Virginia Imam Farhan Siddiqi: "Building Alliances With LGBT Groups Has Not Benefitted Us, Has Only Confused Our Children"
Maori troon does Maori troon things
War
AP: US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels
"Officers acknowledge some grumbling among their crew, wondering why the Navy doesn’t strike harder against the Houthis."
US
Right-wing media reckoning: Some outlets pay a price after spreading 2020 election misinformation
And that’s a good thing!
'irishman' with skin the color of shit attacked actual Irish people, received criticism
Wash your hands, you filthy gaijin
Opinion
Political Maneuvers and Electoral Challenges-The-Struggle for Control in Libya’s Municipalities
“Someone made a bomb threat under my real name towards my university. That night, two police officers showed up to my house looking for me, and I had to explain all the history with TF2 and cheaters and make an official statement.”
It's not your imagination: At least 13 communicable diseases are surging past pre-pandemic levels
It’s the second time in history that the US has designated a foreign White supremacist organization and its leaders as terrorists.
Disaster
Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 years
#FreeJoey
Beijing claims almost the entirety of the South China Sea, brushing aside competing claims from several Southeast Asian nations including the Philippines and an international ruling that its stance has no legal basis.
'We pledge to education the youth of Montreal,' notes an Instagram post promoting the program, accompanied by an image of men wearing keffiyehs and clutching machine-guns
Mechanics say Fetterman drives a 2 stroke engine
You vill live in ze battery.
Jerusalem has the highest population of Muslims in the country - with around 380 thousand people, which makes up more than a third of city's residents.
in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military games
Geert Wilders forced to withdraw his foreign-born jew handler from handling immigration matters because alien jew was openly acting in the interests of alien jews
Oy vey, You cannot sing or play this song.
The man registered a formal complaint with Malad police, who sent the piece of human finger for forensic investigation.
This troon was a highly prolific Redditor under the screen name /u/SofieFordo
Culture
Wife Wishes She Could Get A Pixie Cut But Her Husband Said She Has To Keep It Long To Stay Married — ‘He’s The Man So I Keep It Short To Please Him’
US
AP: Biden campaign calls on GOP to drop lawsuits over mail ballots, citing Trump’s new fondness for it
“Democrats are playing dumb about a very simple concept: We support mail voting, but we also support safeguards to make mail voting secure,” said Danielle Alvarez, a spokeswoman for the RNC and the Trump campaign
Cameron Downing refused bail and remanded in custody for sentencing
Disclaimer: the person who wrote this article seems quite upset about this news
US
AP: The RNC is launching a massive effort to monitor voting. Critics say it threatens to undermine trust
The court ruled the "ATF exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a Rule that classifies a bump stock as a 'machinegun' under Section 5845(b)."
EU
Parisians Plan To 'Poop In Seine' River As President Macron Pledges To Take A Swim Ahead Of Olympics
Chie means shit, not poop
Apparently gays don't like it when people take pride in their sexuality.
Angry ex-hostess at NY hotspot Tao dumps poop into restaurant’s koi pond, causes $3K in damage: suit
Traffic laws are homophobic
US
AP: ‘Biden Bingo': The president’s campaign adapts a classic game to include malarkey and aviators
“The next one is — do we have a drumroll?” she called out to a room crowded with some two dozen older adults and a half-dozen journalists. “Justice! Justice for all.”
Pre-planned logistical routes could help stave off a potential Russian attack
The petro-dollar is now officially dead
Miles Astray entered a real, albeit surreal photo of a flamingo into the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards which the judges not only placed third but it also won the People’s Vote Award.
Pope Francis, noted for his outreach to gay Catholics, has been described as using an offensive Italian expression for gay men twice in recent weeks.
clown world or marketing stunt? you be the judge
Certifiably heliospheric death beam proof.
boobs
“Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.