Day: January 12, 2024

Business owners say San Francisco is ‘getting worse’ for restaurants amidst homeless crisis: report

2:00 am January 12, 2024

San Francisco business owners in the city’s Little Saigon neighborhood are opposing a “drop-in health and resource center” that will provide health services for the homeless in the city’s Tenderloin district as the homeless crisis continues to hurt local restaurants. Little Saigon is “one of the few commercial corridors in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood where […]

African Catholic priests tell Pope Francis they refuse to bless same-sex couples

1:16 am January 12, 2024

African Catholic priests, and those from Madagascar, rebuked Pope Francis’ approval of same-sex couples being blessed by the Catholic Church on Thursday, saying they refuse to follow the pontiff’s declaration because such unions are “contrary to the will of God.” Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo signed the statement on behalf of the symposium of African national […]

Stacks of bodies, fluids and flies found at Colorado funeral home, FBI agent says

1:01 am January 12, 2024

Investigators who entered a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered stacks of partially covered human remains, bodily fluids several inches deep on the floor, and flies and maggots throughout the building, an FBI agent testified Thursday. Twenty-three of the bodies had death dates from 2019 and 61 were from 2020, […]

Dean Phillips says he had a ‘very difficult episode’ with friend Rashida Tlaib over Israel’s right to exist

1:00 am January 12, 2024

Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips revealed he had a “very difficult episode” with friend and House colleague Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on whether Israel has the right to exist, an exchange he said went “unresolved.” Appearing on Wednesday’s installment of the “Honestly” podcast, host Bari Weiss asked Phillips, who is Jewish and a supporter of Israel, […]

House joins Senate, strikes down Biden EV charger rule protecting Chinese companies

12:42 am January 12, 2024

The House voted Thursday evening to strike down President Biden’s decision to waive “Buy America” requirements for taxpayer-funded electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. In a 209-198 vote, the chamber passed a resolution reversing the president’s actions with two House Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Donald Davis of North Carolina, joining 207 Republicans who […]