META ENDS FACT-CHECKING PROGRAM AS ZUCKERBERG VOWS TO RESTORE FREE EXPRESSION ON FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM
“We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video posted Tuesday morning. “More specifically, we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”….READ MORE >
TRUMP ANNOUNCES U.S. TO CHANGE NAME OF THE ‘GULF OF MEXICO’
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. in the coming weeks will be renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Trump made the announcement during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago while speaking about trade deficits that the U.S. has with its southern neighbor….READ MORE >
“I’M NOT GOING TO COMMIT” TO NOT USING MILITARY TO GET GREENLAND, PANAMA CANAL – TRUMP
Trump made the remarks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Florida when asked by a reporter if he could “assure the world” that he would not “use military or economic coercion” to acquire the two areas. “No,” Trump said. “I can’t assure you, you’re talking about….READ MORE >
ABORTION WAS LEADING GLOBAL CAUSE OF DEATH IN 2024 WITH OVER 45 MILLION KILLED
As of noon on December 31, 2024, there were 45.1 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.35 million from traffic fatalities, and 1.1 million from suicide….READ MORE >
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GOT $700 MILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN ONE YEAR
A case just taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court—Kerr v. Planned Parenthood—might just be the sleeper hit of the October 2024 term. At issue is public funding for abortion, something that pro-life states have been keen to limit for some time. The justices will consider the following question: do Medicaid recipients have the right to sue—known as “standing”—over a state’s decision to bar Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood?…READ MORE >
2 DEATH ROW INMATES REJECT BIDEN’S COMMUTATION OF THEIR SENTENCES
Two men sitting on death row refuse to sign the paperwork that would have their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, which President Joe Biden ordered. The two men filed emergency motions to block their commutations, as they said such an action would deprive them of efforts to prove their innocence….READ MORE >
MACRON ACCUSES MUSK OF ‘DIRECTLY INTERVENING’ IN ELECTIONS
In a speech to French ambassadors on Monday, the French president said: “Ten years ago, who could have imagined it if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections…READ MORE >
‘CHRISTIAN AUDACITY’: SAINTE-MARIE DE LA GARDE ABBEY IN FRANCE AIMS TO SIGNAL THE RETURN OF BENEDICTINE BUILDERS
The Catholic Church’s loss of ground seems to have relatively spared monastic life in France. Better still, the country seems to be giving birth to a gradual return of monk-builders, to the point of reviving nostalgic memories of the days of King St. Louis. After the resurrection of the historic Cistercian barn at Boulaur (southwest France), and the expansion of La Lucerne Abbey in Normandy, it is now the turn of the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie de la Garde…READ MORE >
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