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“Pope Francis on Tuesday reiterated his opposition to gay priests, allegedly repeating a highly pejorative slur in an encounter with clerics just two weeks after the Vatican issued an apology amid reports that he had used the same word in an earlier meeting with bishops,” the Washington Post reports.
Alabama Republican party chair John Wahl used a homemade ID to vote, AL.com.
Two different Alabama secretaries of state referred voter fraud allegations to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) but nothing ever came of them.
“Violent crime fell in the first quarter of 2024 by more than 15%, continuing its postpandemic decline nationwide,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Homicides and reported rapes both declined about 26% in the first three months of 2024 compared with a year earlier, data from the FBI’s quarterly uniform crime report showed.
New York Times: “Many Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the United States justice system was rigged in favor of the Bidens and against the Trumps. Tuesday’s guilty verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.”
“Even more valuable would have been the fund-raising potential.”
“A person with knowledge of the Trump campaign’s fund-raising plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there had been discussions about how much an acquittal would help Mr.
“Just about the only person who shows any interest in Ben Carson as the Republican vice-presidential nominee is the one whose opinion matters the most: Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.
“That personal connection, which has deepened over the years, is why Mr. Carson continues to linger as a potential choice for Mr.
“As the opposition Labour Party prepares to unveil its UK election offer on Thursday, its wide lead over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservatives is holding steady,” according to Bloomberg’s poll of polls.
“As of Wednesday, Keir Starmer’s party was on 44.1% versus 22.4% for the Tories in Bloomberg’s composite, a rolling 14-day average using data from 11 polling companies.