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22+ min ago (212+ words) A rising number of New Yorkers are reportedly converting to the Catholic Church, with the spike in converts coming as the U.S. bishops say increasing numbers of men and women are coming into the faith in this country. The New York Post found that multiple New York City Catholic churches have year-over-year double or even triple the number of adults signing up to become Catholic through the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA). At one parish, St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village, interest in OCIA tripled since last year, with about 130 people signing up, according to the paper.... A rising number of New Yorkers are reportedly converting to the Catholic Church, with the spike in converts coming as the U.S. bishops say increasing numbers of men and women are coming into the faith in this country. Sign-ups at the Basilica of…...

24+ min ago (701+ words) The Genesis Mission could accelerate US scientific productivity and cement its leadership in the technologies that will define the next century. But vision alone will not get it done; success requires a clear architecture, a clear plan, and clear consequences of failure. The post Trump's Genesis Mission Needs the One Thing Washington Hates: Accountability appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI. President Trump's new Genesis Mission is an ambitious bid to energize American scientific leadership by harnessing artificial intelligence to accelerate discovery. It is a bold and correct step. But unless the administration pairs this vision with a hard requirement that the relevant federal agencies actually execute it, the effort risks becoming just another well-intentioned plan buried by bureaucracy. If Trump wants the Genesis Mission to succeed, he must follow one of Jeff Bezos's most famous management lessons: make compliance…...

24+ min ago (432+ words) New Mexico law enforcement says an online tip about child sex abuse material led to the arrest of a school bus driver for special-needs students.Patrick Bilbo was arrested Friday at the Albuquerque Public Schools bus depot, and his phone was confiscated at that time.'This case is especially disturbing because it involves someone who was entrusted with the care of some of our most vulnerable children.'A criminal complaint said that Bilbo's phone had been signed into email accounts that were associated with the dissemination of child sex abuse material, including the graphic rape of young children.Bilbo was identified through information associated with the accounts that included his birth date and his last name, according to a press release from the New Mexico Department of Justice.He was charged with two counts of distribution of visual medium of…...

44+ min ago (579+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 797 A 53-year-old man was found dead with signs of hypothermia in central Israel Thursday morning, emergency services said, as winter storm Byron hit the country in force for the second day in a row. According to the ZAKA rescue service, paramedics were called to an apartment building in Netanya early on Thursday after a neighbor alerted authorities that a man had been found lifeless in his home. The circumstances of his death were unconfirmed and his body was taken for autopsy at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine. Temperatures dropped below 10C (50F) in much of central Israel overnight, as torrential rain poured down, causing widespread flooding. The Israel Meteorological Service issued a "red warning" for "significant precipitation" along the central and southern coastline and in the Shfela region, which was to be in effect for 24 hours, starting…...

45+ min ago (631+ words) FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) " The European Central Bank proposed a simplification of bank regulation on Thursday, looking to prune a complex rulebook put in place after the global financial crisis without easing the overall regulatory burden. Banks have long complained the supervision has become onerous and others, particularly the United States, are now pushing "to cut regulation and soften capital rules on the premise that the supervision constrains bank activity. But the ECB stuck to its promise that simplification cannot mean lower capital requirements and Thursday's proposals are focused on fewer " rather than lower " capital buffers lenders must hold to cushion against potential shocks. "Simplification efforts should maintain banks' resilience and by banks' resilience, we mean the level of capital," ECB Vice President Luis de Guindos said. "We do not want to try to undermine the present situation of capital of…...

53+ min ago (424+ words) President Donald Trump jabbed at Politico during an interview on Tuesday, as he was pressed by reporter Dasha Burns on how far he would go to oppose Venezuelan dictator Nicol's Maduro. The Venezuelan narco-state poses a clear threat to America's security and prosperity. Two decades of socialism have destroyed this once wealthy country, spreading instability and transnational crime across the Western Hemisphere. After four years of appeasement under President Joe Biden, we cannot afford to ignore the problem any longer. " In many ways, Trump's approach is a continuation of the tough policies we pursued during my tenure as secretary of state under the first Trump administration. We recognized the dangers that this narco-trafficking dictatorship, aligned with American enemies like Iran, Cuba, China, and Russia, posed to our interests, and we were determined to do the necessary to protect the American…...

54+ min ago (800+ words) Saritha Komatireddy believes in longshots, she told the Washington Free Beacon. But Komatireddy told the Free Beacon her career in the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York's office has prepared her for an uphill battle'one she compared to putting a deadly ISIS terrorist behind bars. His travel was hard to trace, his communications encrypted and coded, and he lived in Turkey, which refused to extradite him to the United States. Most of the evidence against him was overseas, including every single eye witness, and "the case was considered extremely tough to make," Komatireddy said. A jury convicted Kandic after a three-week trial in 2022, and he is now serving a life sentence in the ADX Florence supermax prison alongside criminals like 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, and Boston Marathon terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In an interview…...

54+ min ago (1159+ words) The problems start with confusion'which neither Moore's staff nor Oxford's registrars were willing or able to clear up'about when Moore completed his studies, when he received his degree, whether he submitted his thesis, and what the title of the work was. In his White House fellowship application'which is public record'Moore wrote that he graduated from Oxford in 2003. But in the r'sum' attached to that application, Moore reported a different graduation date: June 2004. Moore may mock and dismiss reportorial scrutiny, or point the finger at those conducting it'perhaps he, too, can be a knucklehead at times'but when the Minnesota governor came under the klieg lights, those who asked questions were vindicated. Moussa declined to answer a single question directly, including why Moore's "degree confirmation" from Oxford provides a different title for his thesis than what he stated in his White House…...

54+ min ago (743+ words) Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the battle over extending Obamacare subsidies on "America's Newsroom.' FIRST ON FOX: Hours before the Senate holds high-stakes votes on dueling Democratic and Republican health care tax credit measures, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is launching a new ad campaign targeting four Republican senators it considers vulnerable as they seek re-election next year. The campaign, shared first with Fox News Digital on Thursday, takes aim at Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John Cornyn of Texas, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska for what the DNC charges are their repeated votes against extending enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, which could cause health care premiums to skyrocket for millions of Americans. The DNC is targeting the senators through digital takeovers of hometown newspapers in the four…...

54+ min ago (733+ words) U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss President Donald Trump's renewed affordability push, record U.S. drilling and booming American natural gas exports to Europe. First: President Trump should roll out an energy drink. I want whatever he's been drinking because the man doesn't stop. This must be a bit like the Teddy Roosevelt years. Energy is freedom. Energy is also lower prices for everything that must be produced or transported. Energy production is at the center of President Trump's domestic agenda because it is at the center of American prosperity and progress as well as driving down prices." Getting energy out of the ground, or flowing from a small, modular nuclear reactor, requires an astonishing number of permits from a dizzying array of federal, state and local agencies. That's because our core constitutional structures " the weight-bearing walls of our…...