Politics

By John Zmirak, The Stream - I have a proposal for President-Elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general and Department of Justice: Launch a RICO investigation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Conduct the national investigation which my church’s bishops have so far dodged into 1) the systemic cover-up of clerical sex abuse and 2) the human trafficking conducted by church-controlled nonprofits of illegal immigrants... The DOJ should also investigate the role which the Vatican itself has played in encouraging the sex abuse coverup ....

By Chris York, News Editor, The Kyiv Independent - Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) against Dnipro, east Ukraine on the morning of Nov. 21, Kyiv's Air Force reported... If confirmed, it would be the first time the Kremlin has used such a weapon in an attack on Ukraine... In the early hours of Nov. 21, a country-wide air raid alert sounded due to the threat of ballistic missiles, and later, the launch of several Russian Tu-95MS bomber aircraft... According to Ukraine's Air Force, the attack targeted the city of Dnipro using a number of different missile types. ...