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Denver Newsroom, Jul 12, 2022 / 16:19 pm Half of the Chapels of Light at Our Lady of Lourdes shrine in France were destroyed by a fire during the night of July 10–11. The fire was quickly brought under control. “Another hard blow for the Shrine at Lourdes, which didn’t need it,” tweeted Father Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, rector of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, lamenting the destruction. “But the main thing is that there were no injuries and that pilgrims can continue to pray in the chapels that remain and continue to light candles,” he wrote. In a...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When you look at society today, it would not appear these truths are self-evident at all. Colorado has a civil rights commission that expects you to be treated differently based on your skin color or sexual preference. Government bureaucracies have exploded and seek to regulate every aspect of our lives. People and even some elected officials are openly advocating for communism and for the removal...

Whence the story that Robert Mueller’s maleficent miscreants wiped their government phones? Judicial Watch strikes again, as the organization explains in this press release. The press release announces that Judicial Watch received 87 pages of records from the Department of Justice that show senior members of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them. The Department of Justice has posted the documents online here. Politico’s story doesn’t mention Judicial Watch, but let’s give credit where credit is due. PJ Media’s Matt Margolis draws on Brooke Singman’s Fox News report capturing this quotable quote from Rep....

Pope Francis admitted on Monday he was frightened by the prospect of an accidental nuclear apocalypse, as he began a weeklong visit to Chile and Peru to bolster a local Catholic Church riven by sex abuse scandals. “I think we are at the very edge,” the pope told reporters aboard his plane when asked about the threat of a nuclear war in the wake of a recent string of tests by North Korea and a false missile alert last week that sparked panic in the US state of Hawaii. “I am really afraid of this. One accident is enough to...

A Mexican federal judge ordered Andrew Tahmooressi back to prison after the U.S. Marine sergeant made his first official courtroom appearance since being locked up March 31 for accidentally crossing the border with guns in his pickup truck. The 26-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan was finally able to tell his story to a judge, after his case had been delayed by both Mexico's unpredictable legal system and his own trouble settling on a lawyer. It was not immediately clear what Tahmooressi said at the evidentiary hearing, which was closed to the public.

Deliberate or Accidental, a New Korean War Would be Devastating The soaring modern glass towers of downtown Seoul are magnificent -- and to a North Korean artillery officer squinting through his sights from just 32 miles away, a delicious set of targets. The glistening South Korean capital is a city of glass, almost literally in the shadow of some 500 long-range heavy artillery guns from which North Korea can fire half a million artillery shells an hour, for several hours. A war on the Korean peninsula could explode almost without warning, senior U.S. military officers say. North Korea's immediate, if...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Authorities say a Jackson County deputy has been suspended without pay after accidentally discharging a gun through a window in Sheriff Mike Byrd's office. Byrd tells The Mississippi Press that the bullet traveled through the window and was recovered in the courtyard between the old and new courthouse buildings. No one was injured in the incident that occurred Friday afternoon.

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. -- Police said a Fayette County man claimed he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old by accident.

A student, handling the transfer of an anthrax culture to a flask, created a minor panic when the flask broke.

LOS ANGELES - Actor Chris Penn died accidentally from an enlarged heart and the effects of a mix of multiple medications, the county coroner's office said Monday. Penn, 40, the younger brother of Sean Penn, was found dead in his Santa Monica condominium on Jan. 24, but the results of his autopsy and toxicology tests were not released until Monday. The primary cause of death was "nonspecific cardiomyopathy," an oversized heart, with the "effects of multiple medication intake," according to a statement issued by the coroner's office. "We know he had several prescriptions, including promethazine with codeine, which featured predominantly...

Back before the November election, many mainstream media pundits--trying desperately to get John Kerry elected--began to harp on President Bush’s unwillingness to stop certain federal gun control laws from expiring as scheduled. But their propaganda efforts came to naught because this issue was a non-starter with the American people. The fact is, in this day of post-9/11 increased security consciousness, most average Americans simply don’t want more gun control. They want more guns on hand to defend themselves and their loved ones in the face of possible life-threatening danger. Soccer moms are now taking handgun proficiency courses down at the...

<p>Palo Alto police were trying to determine why a 32-year-old man apparently set himself ablaze early Sunday in a pre-dawn fire that he extinguished himself in the front yard of his house, with his own garden hose.</p> <p>The man, whom police would not identify, was being treated for severe burns at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. He also was undergoing psychological evaluation, said Palo Alto police Lt. Jon Hernandez.</p>

MILAN, Italy - Prosecutors want to close their investigation into last year's crash of a plane into Milan's landmark Pirelli tower after deciding the incident likely was an accident, officials said Thursday. The 67-year-old pilot was the only person who could be held responsible and he was killed, so there was no reason to continue the case, judicial officials said. A judge will now decide whether to endorse the prosecutors' findings. Pilot Luigi Fasulo and two workers inside the Pirelli tower were killed April 18, 2002, when his Rockwell Commander 112TC slammed into the building, triggering memories of the Sept....

<p>LOS ANGELES(AP) - Phil Spector will contend the shooting death of an actress at his suburban mansion last week was accidental, a close friend of the legendary music producer said.</p> <p>"I believe his defense will be that this was a tragic accident," said Marvin Mitchelson, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who has been friends with Spector for about 12 years and has traveled extensively with him.</p>

AL-MUKALLA: The explosion which crippled a French supertanker off Yemen could not be due to a technical fault, the ship's captain, Hubert Ardillon, told reporters here on Tuesday. "The way the explosion happened it could not be due to a technical problem," Ardillon said. "A member of the crew told me he saw a small boat approach and I believe him." A US official said on Monday that initial evidence suggested that Sunday's explosion that crippled the Limburg was accidental, as Yemen has claimed, and not terrorism.