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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said Tuesday that Democrats will move to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt for failing to appear for a deposition as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Jeffrey Epstein probe.

"Pam Bondi refused to show up for today's Oversight deposition " defying our lawful subpoena," Crockett wrote on social platform X. "We couldn't care less that she was fired from her job as Attorney General. She is responsible for leading the White House cover-up of the Epstein files.

"Since she didn't show up, Oversight Democrats will move to hold her in contempt of Congress. The survivors deserve justice " and we will get answers. Enough is enough."


An 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after rekindling a 1960s romance is being detained at an immigration enforcement centre in Louisiana.

The son of Marie-Thrse, from the city of Nantes, sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier in April.

"They handcuffed her hands and feet like she was a dangerous criminal," he told French outlet Ouest-France.


A hidden feature on most smart TVs tracks everything you watch"even offline. Learn how to shut it down in minutes.

You can't count on privacy when sitting in the comfort of your living room, because while you're watching TV, your TV might very well be watching you.

A feature common to all major smart TV platforms can analyze what you're watching to determine which ads to display and which content to suggest.

The data it collects is valuable on its own, too, and can be sold to any company that wants to understand your (and everyone's) viewing habits. read more


U.S. Senate nominee and Texas State Representative James Talarico announced a comprehensive plan to "Close Billionaire Loopholes" as part of his bid for the U.S. Senate. Talarico's proposal targets specific financial strategies used by the ultra-wealthy to avoid federal taxes, framing the initiative as a necessary step to address what he calls a "corruption crisis". read more


Monday, April 13, 2026

"I do think that there is a resurgence in interest in single payer," says Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, the organizing group founded by Sanders. "We're in a moment where people are starting to feel the affordability crisis when it comes to health care in a very real way." read more


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Then there's this; Historicity of the Bible and the Quran:

www.google.com

The Quran being pretty much everything critics say the Bible is.

www.str.org

"Pope Leo brushes off Trump criticism amid growing Vatican"U.S. tensions over Iran war

"I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among states to find just solutions to problems," he said.

"Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there's a better way."

A Vatican spokesman responded to Trump's social media posts, saying they reflected his "impotence" in the face of the Vatican's criticism of the Iran war.

"When political power turns against a moral voice, it is often because it cannot contain it," Father Antonio Spadaro, under-secretary of the Vatican's Dicastery of Culture and Education, wrote in a social media post. " ... Unable to absorb that voice, power tries to delegitimize it. Yet in doing so, it implicitly acknowledges its weight."

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Trump's rebuke came as three U.S. cardinals chose to speak out against the Iran war in a rare joint television appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

"In Catholic teaching, this is not a just war," Cardinal Robert McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, D.C., told the program.

"This is a war of choice. ... I think it's embedded in a wider moment in the U.S. that's worrying: We're seeing before us the possibility of war after war after war."

The Iranian president also took the opportunity to weigh in. President Masoud Pezeshkian posted a message on Monday that said in part -

"I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person."

www.npr.org

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