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>John Durham plans to call new witness in the Russia probe.
Twitter posts $536M loss in Q3 over lawsuit payout
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Dr. Ruben on the FDA panel: "We're never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That's the way it goes."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-meet-pope-amid-pressure-anti-abortion-us-bishops-2021-10-26/
Biden to meet pope amid pressure from anti-abortion U.S. bishops
Biden is first Catholic president since John F. Kennedy
Conservative bishops say he should be banned from communion
Biden says he opposes abortion but cannot impose views on others
Biden-pope meeting will be first since January inauguration
Devout Roman Catholic Joe Biden meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at a time when the U.S. president is under pressure from conservatives in the Church for his conflicted position in the dispute over abortion rights.
Biden goes to weekly Mass regularly and keeps a picture of the pope behind his desk in the Oval Office. He has said he is personally opposed to abortion but cannot impose his views as an elected leader.
But conservative Catholic media and U.S. conservative bishops have criticised him for that stand, with some saying the Democratic president should be banned from receiving communion, the central sacrament of the faith.
At the same time, supporters of abortion rights have been horrified by a new Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortion. Biden's administration has challenged the law and the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case next Monday.
It is not known if Biden and Pope Francis will discuss the abortion and communion disputes at their private meeting on Friday, their first since Biden took office in January.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday that the two men would discuss climate change, migration and income inequality.
"It's clear that the pope does not agree with the president about abortion. He's made that exceptionally clear," Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore told Catholic News Service.
Asked about the U.S. communion debate last month, the pope told reporters that abortion is "murder". But he also appeared to criticise U.S. Catholic bishops for dealing with the issue in a political rather than a pastoral way.
"Communion is not a prize for the perfect. … Communion is a gift, the presence of Jesus and his Church," the pope said.
Bishops should use "compassion and tenderness" with Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, he said.
Since his election in 2013 as the first Latin American pope, Francis has said that while the Church should oppose abortion, the issue should not become an all-consuming battle in culture wars that detract attention from matters such as immigration and poverty.
Jo Renee Formicola, a political science professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, said the meeting should help Biden in his standoff with the U.S. bishops on abortion and shift the spotlight to social justice concerns the two men share.
"The optics of the pope meeting with Biden basically says to the American (Catholic) hierarchy: 'Listen, this man and I have the same agenda. … Don't expect that I am going to compromise my teachings on things like the environment and immigration,'" she told Reuters in a telephone interview.
CONSERVATIVES ON THE ATTACK
In June, a divided conference of U.S. Roman Catholic bishops
voted to draft a statement on communion that some bishops say should specifically admonish Catholic politicians, including Biden.
The bishops, who went ahead despite a Vatican warning that it would sow discord rather than unity, will take up the issue again next month.
Catholics hold two of the three top offices in the United States - the other is Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. But instead of uniting co-religionists, as the election of John F. Kennedy as the first Catholic U.S. president did in 1960, both Biden and Pelosi have come under attack by Church conservatives.
They increased their criticism of Biden this month when his administration challenged the Texas law.
While Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, has not tried to stop Biden from receiving communion, the archbishop in Pelosi's home city of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, has told his priests not to give it to her.
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said in a statement last week that the meeting would cover "working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity." That would include ending the COVID-19 pandemic and caring for the poor, she said.
Like Biden, the pope has urged everyone to get vaccinated and has issued numerous appeals to defend the environment by reducing the use of fossil fuels. Biden will attend the U.N. Climate Change summit in Glasgow and the pope is expected to send a message.
The Passion of the Christ actor Jim Caviezel delivered a bizarre speech to a QAnon conference, repeating word-for-word Mel Gibson’s famous battle cry from Braveheart.
Mr Caviezel was speaking at the For God & Country: Patriot Double Down convention held in Las Vegas, where he claimed there was an ongoing religious war between Satan and liberal values.
He mimicked the fiery speech given by Mr Gibson’s character William Wallace before a battle with the English in his 1995 film Braveheart, including the famous line “you can take our lives, but you can never take our freedom”.
The 53-year-old went on share familiar QAnon themes about child sex trafficking and religion.
“We must fight for that authentic freedom and live my friends. By God, we must live and with the Holy Spirit as your shield and Christ as your sword may you join Saint Michael and all the other angels in defending God and sending Lucifer and his henchmen straight back to hell where they belong,” he told the audience.
>Noam Chomsky: Unvaccinated Should Be ‘Isolated’ from Society
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1453085699087941639
#Durham Update via @RobLegare Michael Sussmann appeared virtually for brief status conference + Sussmann’s attorney explained they have a “desire to have a speedy trial" because his client is currently not working or employed as a result of the charges. Next appearance 12/8.
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1447925977540136960
Navy nuclear engineer and his wife are appearing before a judge for the first time after trying to sell military secrets to what they thought was a foreign government — but was actually an undercover FBI agent.
https://justthenews.com/nation/homeschooled-student-wins-national-constitution-bee
Homeschooled student wins National Constitution Bee
The tournament is designed to demonstrate a student's knowledge of the Constitution by answering multiple-choice questions, as well as giving unique orations about certain parts of the document.
A homeschooled senior from Tennessee won this year's National Constitution Bee, showcasing his superior knowledge of the nation's founding document.
Braeden Farley of Spring Hill, Tennessee won the tournament's top honor of Grand Champion, as well as a $10,000 college scholarship.
Farley is the second person in his family to bring home the Grand Champion title, behind his elder brother, Noah, who captured the top prize in 2017.
The tournament is designed to demonstrate a student's knowledge of the Constitution by answering multiple-choice questions, as well as giving unique orations about certain parts of the document.
https://tennesseestar.com/2021/10/24/braeden-farley-of-spring-hill-tennessee-named-national-constitution-bee-grand-champion-for-2021/