President Trump’s attorneys had petitioned the Supreme Court after the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One seeking President Trump’s tax records. The Democrats on Friday morning accused President Trump of “obstruction of Congress.”

So on Friday night Harvard Attorney Alan Dershowitz released huge information, he told Sean Hannity that the decision by SCOTUS this afternoon pulled the rug out from the Democrats’ arguments. Professor Dershowitz: “… but think about what that message [from the court] is. Trump was right. You don’t have to comply with a subpoena from Congress unless the court tells you you have to comply…”

… they made it clear that’s a viable issue, so that charge, that ground of impeachment should be immediately removed by the House and not sent to the Senate. There’s nothing to it anymore after the Supreme Court today said, you’re entitled to review on an issue when the President challenges the subpoena power of Congress. All done. It’s over!

In a stunning reversal, yesterday’s decision makes Congressional Democrats guilty of the first article they charged President Trump with – abuse of power. This is truly what makes America so special – our system of government with checks and balances in action and upholding the constitution.

The secret sauce in the new generation of German submarines is the use of hydrogen fuel cells for power, which allows submarines to operate nearly silently for weeks at a time without using expensive nuclear reactors. Recently, the German Navy has started installing the capability to fire IDAS fiber-optic missiles while submerged from four-cell magazines in the torpedo tubes. Based on the IRIS-T air-to-air missile, IDAS would be used primarily to shoot down hostile aircraft, but can also attack ground targets and medium-sized or small surface ships up to twenty kilometers away.

The Type 212’s ability to operate in waters as shallow as seventeen meters deep, enabled in part by its X-shaped rudder, makes it ideal for creeping close to the coast to deploy Germany’s elite naval commandos, known as Kampfschwimmers.

Belgium's De Tijd also sees Brexit throwing up huge challenges in the coming year, although it believes the Conservatives' pledge to "get Brexit done" landed well with voters "thoroughly fed up" with the issue. "But even Johnson will not be able to pull a solution out of his top hat," it says. "That is not a problem, of course. Johnson has broken big promises before…"

Spain's El Confidencial says Mr Johnson has never been a traditional politician. "His shabby appearance, transparent language and stormy relationship with the truth define a personal brand that both attracts and frightens. Either thanks to it or in spite of it, he swept the polls."

Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung is optimistic, declaring "Boris Johnson had an easy time". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "was the best campaigner for the Conservatives", it believes. The paper urges Mr Johnson, with a powerful mandate, to take a particular path. "His whopping majority will allow him to negotiate a gentle Brexit that will help Britain's economy and avoid big shocks."

But there's gloom over at Sweden's liberal Dagens Nyheter. "Openness to the outside world made modern Britain what it is today. Now the fog lowers across the English Channel. The continent is isolated. "

The diocese has now said it will remove it from the altar - but not because the Lutheran Church of Sweden had a problem with the gay couples. Instead, it said it feared the painting could be interpreted as showing a transperson as evil or the devil, as a snake traditionally symbolises evil in Christianity. The diocese decided to remove it from the alter on Wednesday, but not because the Lutheran Church of Sweden had an issue with the gay couples depicted.

'The fact that there are two homosexual couples in the artwork is completely uncontroversial,' the diocese wrote in a statement. 'But the fact that there is a snake, which traditionally symbolises evil, and that it turns into a transperson could lead to the interpretation that a transperson is evil or the devil.' 'The Swedish Church can absolutely not stand for that.' Artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, 58, said she was disappointed the mural had been removed from the church.

She aims to create Christian artwork that LGBTQ people can identify with. Ms Wallin made headlines 20 years ago for her depiction of a stiletto-wearing Jesus surrounded by 12 transvestite apostles. The pastor of Saint Paul, Sofia Tunebro, also regretted the decision. 'We've been marrying gay couples for 10 years, and with this artwork, it was a bit like hanging up a wedding photo in the church,' she said. 'Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin has done so much for the integration and representation of [LGBTQ people] in the Christian world.'

Reviews for A Children’s Book of Demons on Amazon are mixed, with some readers raving about it, and others describing it as “degeneracy (in) its fullest form.” It seems as though “professional” reviewers love the book, while everyday folks hate it with a passion.

“This is purely satanic,” wrote one reviewer who gave A Children’s Book of Demons one star out of five. “What kind of children’s book teaches kids to summon demons and write sigils? … it makes me sick that this is even allowed on the shelves of ANY store.”

Leftist parents just can’t seem to get enough of this satanism on full display at our taxpayer-funded institutions, so why wouldn’t they also embrace children’s books that teach tiny tots how to summon demons from the underworld into our present reality? “Secularism has paved the way for evil to proliferate,” wrote one commenter at Fellowship of the Minds, adding that the Bible specifically talks about how this fight is not against flesh-and-blood enemies, but rather against “evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world.”

“This is communism, that has destroyed families and persists in dividing in order to conquer. It is the tragedy of our time. As someone here recently said, ‘anything to be cool.’ Now Satanism is cool. Immorality is cool. The break-up of families is cool. Adultery is cool. It is cool to spit in the face of God. It is cool to lie, cheat, murder, abort, embezzle. It is cool to sell aborted baby parts for profit. Hell, cruelty is cool!”

But the truth is that what we are facing is extremely serious. In fact, officials have taken the “unprecedented” step of shutting down the federal cod fishery in Alaska for the year because of the lack of fish. We are seeing things happen that we have never seen before, and this is definitely going to affect our food supply.

Volcanoes are going off like firecrackers all over the globe, and there was another major volcanic eruption in New Zealand on Monday. And earthquake activity continues to rise to very troubling levels. In fact, it was recently reported that there have been almost 60,000 earthquakes of at least magnitude 1.5 around the world over the last 12 months…

The official story is that everything is just fine and our planet will start behaving normally again soon. But unofficially, a lot of scientists out there are deeply concerned about what we are witnessing. A great shaking has begun, and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next.

“The cost of this war and regime change wars and the nation-building that follows is immeasurable in many ways but it’s measurable in the ways that have been detailed in that Washington Post report,” she told Hill.TV on Tuesday. The Washington Post expose is based on documents it obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and paints a picture of a sustained effort by several US administrations to mislead the American public on the engagement in Afghanistan.

The report states that, while publicly reporting progress and being on the verge of success, behind closed doors US officials admitted they were “devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan” and what they were doing there, according to Retired Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, who served as a top adviser on the war during the Bush and Obama administrations. “We’ve known for so long that it was the military-industrial complex, contractors, consultants like McKinsey, who are profiting off of this scam, who have ripped off the American taxpayer dollars of over a trillion dollars just in Afghanistan alone,” Gabbard added.

The bishops embraced the findings of a study group on sexual morality chaired by Berlin Archbishop Heiner Koch, which will form a starting point for the “Synodal Way of the Church” in Germany to rethink Catholic teachings and praxis for the present day. “There was agreement that the sexual preference of humans is expressed during puberty and assumes a heterosexual or homosexual orientation,” the statement reads.

Since one’s sexual orientation is unchangeable, “in church thinking, this means that any form of discrimination against homosexuals must be rejected, as has long been required by the magisterium and is also explicitly emphasized by Pope Francis in the post-synodal letter Amoris Laetitia,” the bishops note. “The results of the expert consultation will feed into the Forum of the Synodical Way ‘Living in Successful Relationships — Living Love in Sexuality and Partnership,’ which will start work in February 2020,” the text concludes.

The US government believes China has imprisoned up to 3 million people – mostly Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz Muslims – in over a thousand concentration camps built in Xinjiang province, which borders Afghanistan. There, from what reporters and human rights activists have pieced together from the few survivors who have escaped, detainees are subject to torture, rape, communist indoctrination, slavery, and live organ harvesting.

The Chinese Communist Party claimed this week that all detainees had “graduated” from the concentration camps. China insists the camps are “vocational training centers” where underprivileged Muslim youth learn valuable trade skills to participate in the Chinese economy and steer clear of terrorist organizations.

You have the Conservatives led by Boris Johnson, a proven liar who turns as many stomachs as he makes smiles. He’s led a demonstrably dishonest campaign offering very little beyond a promise to deliver Brexit within weeks (which no one believes). He’s deployed tactics reliant on fake news social media and hoodwinking gullible journalists into reporting stories that are not true.

On the other hand you have Labour led by Jeremy Corbyn, an old socialist full of good intentions but who is slippery on the issue of Brexit and tainted by accusations, true or not, that he has not acted quickly enough to stamp out anti-Semitism among his supporters.

There are also parties like the Liberal Democrats, and Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party but it looks like all they can hope for is to play a spoiler role, and make it harder for either the Tories or Labour to achieve a decisive victory.

The polls, which are hardly ever wrong of course, suggest the most likely outcome is that the Conservatives will scrape a majority. But it’s worth reiterating that, if we’ve learned nothing else over the last half a decade, we do know that polls are not to be trusted, so really anything could happen and Labour may have nationalised Christmas by … erm … Christmas.