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Southeast Queensland has been battered by heavy storms with the Bureau of Meteorology reporting areas around Gympie were hit with hail stones seven to eight centimetres in size. More than 4500 homes across the southeast are suffering from power outages. The thunderstorms were loosely associated with the passage of a cool change crossing southeast Queensland on Thursday night. Source: Sky News

Catholics around the world mark the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday, Dec. 8, a day that signifies the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, St. Anne.”The Catholic Church’s teaching on the Immaculate Conception is, in my opinion, one of our most beautiful yet frequently misunderstood doctrines,” Fr. Cassidy Stinson, a priest of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, told Fox News Digital.  “In brief, this feast day celebrates the belief that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was prepared for her unique and special role as the Mother of God by the gift…

“Emma Hayesu0027 side remain unbeaten in this seasonu0027s competition and have a three point cushion at the top of their group but were left frustrated by Real Madrid, who took the lead in Spain. Guro Reiten equalised from the penalty spot, while Sam Kerr missed a number of good chances on a night where Chelsea struggled to find their usual flow.” Source: Euro Sports

The city has served up some bad news for pickleball lovers. The fad racquet sport has been banned at a West Village playground, where parents complained for months that adult pickleball fans were hogging up all the blacktop space and making it impossible for kids to have fun. Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground in Manhattan’s West Village had designated two courts solely for the tennis-lite game, but many adults were so desperate to get their pickleball fix they put up their own nets and courts on kids’ play spaces. The Parks Department has banned pickleball at Seravalli Playground in the…

California State University, Northridge’s Pride Center hosted a “kinky karaoke” event in November, where “kinky” giveaways and free HIV testing was offered.The event took place at California State University, Northridge on Nov. 29 and was only open to people ages 18 and over, according to a poster for the event.Campus Reform first reported on the event, which is described as “an exciting night of singing and sex education.””Between songs you can enjoy free food, learn more about inclusive sex education and participate in kinky giveaways. There will also be free HIV testing available at the event!,” the event’s description read.UNIVERSITIES…

Elon Musk led a $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and appointed himself CEO there in late October. Ever since, he has enlisted high-ranking executives and engineers from his other businesses, including SpaceX, Tesla and The Boring Company, to help out at the social media company, according to internal records obtained by CNBC and conversations with recent Twitter employees.Musk has also enabled partners from investment firms who participated in the Twitter buyout access to work within the social media company.It wasn’t immediately clear how many hours each person had worked so far at Twitter, or how much of their work may…

CNN  —  The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is considering criminal referrals for at least four individuals in addition to former President Donald Trump, multiple sources told CNN. The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right wing lawyer John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the sources said. The committee has not officially decided whom to refer to the Justice Department for prosecution and for what offenses, sources said. The four individuals who are among those under consideration, and whose names…

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CNN  —  The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued this summer ordering the former president to turn over records marked classified, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The development comes after Trump’s legal team said it conducted searches at four locations just before Thanksgiving, finding two documents with classified markings at a storage facility in Florida. The Trump team turned over those two documents to the FBI and announced to a federal judge in Washington, DC, that they believed Trump was…

Chinese president Xi Jinping announced a “new era” in Beijing’s relationship with the Gulf region as he met Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh yesterday and the two sides signed partnership deals. In an opinion piece published in Saudi Arabia’s media, Xi wrote: “The visit will carry forward our traditional friendship, and usher in a new era in China’s relations with the Arab world, with Arab states of the Gulf and with Saudi Arabia.” Ahead of his welcome in Riyadh by the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler, Xi wrote that Saudi Arabia and China “respect each other’s sovereignty and…