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On Friday’s CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish casually dismissed part of President Trump’s latest executive order on birthright citizenship by declaring that banning birth tourism was unnecessary. “The order also bans so-called birth tourism, even though that is already illegal under U.S. law,” Cornish stated. Cornish's claim is false. U.S. law does not make the act of giving birth in the United States illegal. What is restricted is how some people try to get here. A 2020 State Department regulation bars the issuance of tourist visas when the primary purpose is obtaining citizenship for a child. Lying about that purpose...

A trio of Big Apple homeowners has filed suit to delay the state’s controversial new tax on luxury second homes — claiming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration bungled the rollout and unfairly put the burden on homeowners. The disgruntled owners charge that City Hall is unfairly burdening them by forcing them to prove they are full-time New Yorkers if they do not want to pay the pied-à-terre tax, according to the suit filed Friday in Staten Island Supreme Court. The city Department of Finance “has arbitrarily and capriciously foisted onto New York City residents the burden of proving they are not...

Iranian officials continued to make disparaging comments about the United States and tout their plans to take permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz on Friday, even as the White House remains optimistic about an imminent “deal” that would end the conflict in the Middle East and secure safe passage for shipping. Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Friday mocked President Donald Trump for constantly backing down from his threats to launch a “massive attack” and claiming Iran wants to make a deal. “‘Massive attack coming… wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.’ That’s theater diplomacy on loop,” he...

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"If I . . . know all mysteries and all knowledge . . . but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Cor. 13:2). True knowledge is always governed by love. Christians should never take knowledge for granted. The ability to learn of Christ and grow in His truth is a blessing beyond measure. Paul prayed that we would be "filled with the knowledge of [God's] will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding" (Col. 1:9). That's what enables us to live in a way that pleases God (v. 10). But knowledge must be governed by love, just as love...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - An arrest in a nearly 40-year-old cold case brings an Ozark family one step closer to justice. 22-year-old Ronna Bremer disappeared in 1988 from her home in Christian County. Ronna’s ex-husband is now behind bars as he is accused of killing her and their unborn child. After years of opening and closing the case, gathering evidence, going back over interviews, and even conducting new ones, Sheriff Brad Cole of the Christian County Sheriff’s Office says Joel’s arrest is a win for the family and everyone involved in the investigation. “What’s been going on for the last...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated $1.25 million to a campaign working to defeat a November pro-life ballot measure that would restore Missouri’s protections for unborn babies and reinstate limits on abortion. The contribution went to Stop the Ban, the PAC opposing Amendment 3. The group reported the donation Wednesday to the Missouri Ethics Commission and has now raised more than $6.5 million. Bloomberg previously gave $1 million in 2024 to Missourians for Constitutional Freedom, which successfully pushed the amendment that overturned the state’s laws protecting babies. Amendment 3, placed on the November 3 ballot by state...

Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic primary election for one of Michigan's US Senate seats. Self-identified Marxist Hasan Piker denounced the 51% of Democrats who did not vote for El-Sayed, calling them "unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of s**t." Long-time Democrat strategist James Carville expressed his disappointment that "communists and antisemites are trying to take over the Democratic Party. I am NOT going to be in the same party as Hasan Piker! His idea that the Democratic Socialists are going to seize the means of production is what Lenin did in Russia a 100 years ago. It led to widespread poverty, secret...

US Senate Floor Schedule Friday, Aug 07, 2026 Convene at 10:00 a.m. Still Going at 3:25 am. Currertly voting to table an admenedment relating to Hemp production

Thousands of full-charge rounds wore the rifling out of the Iowas’ 16-inch guns, and the Navy replaced barrels after the war. The spares came from weapons ordered for ships that were never finished — the incomplete Illinois and Kentucky, and the cancelled Montana class. Battleships that never fired a shot kept the ones that did in action. Four Iowa-Class Battleships Fired More Than 14,700 16-Inch Shells in Korea: Every completed Iowa-class battleship served against North Korea: USS Missouri, USS New Jersey, USS Wisconsin, and USS Iowa. Missouri arrived first in September 1950. New Jersey followed in May 1951, Wisconsin in...

President Donald Trump reportedly conveyed to donors during a private conversation in the Oval Office his desire that Vice President JD Vance win the 2028 presidential election. The reported conversation, according to the Washington Post (WP), happened two weeks ago and the outlet on Thursday cited two individuals who had knowledge of the conversation but spoke on the condition of anonymity. “At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” the president reportedly stated. An adviser to the president with direct knowledge of Trump’s comment to the donors said that Trump has privately resolved that Vance will be...

Daily Readings from the USCCBA man came up to Jesus, knelt down before him, and said, “Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.” Jesus said in reply, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me.” Matthew 17:14–17Before this encounter, Jesus had sent His disciples out two by two to preach, heal, and cast out demons in His...

The Women's National Basketball Players Association released a statement on Friday, emphasizing diversity and inclusion while saying the organization "will not be used as political pawns." "We embrace justice equity, diversity, and inclusion," the statement read. "Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change. Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns." Though not mentioned by name, the WNBPA's statement comes...

If this isn't the modern left in a nutshell, I don't know what is. Taking a page from the "suing Kia for carjackings" playbook deployed in places like Chicago, Mamdani has decided to crack down on hooligans and ne'er-do-wells using high-powered e-bikes and e-scooters to hurt themselves, hurt others, and be general nuisances to society by ... banning sales of these products. Funny how these e-bikes and scooters are fine in non-metro areas and low diversity areas, but in New York City they have to be outlawed. Tale as old as time. Anyone with their eyes open can see what's...

The American honeymoon with artificial intelligence is over, and the numbers make the divorce official. The new Bentley University-Gallup survey finds 39 percent of Americans now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 31 percent just a year ago, while a mere 9 percent believe the opposite. A separate Athena Insights poll found Americans nearly three times more likely to be concerned than excited about AI’s growing role in society. The people, it turns out, have functioning instincts.But instincts only get you so far. Ask the average American to name the dangers of AI and you will get...

President Donald Trump said voters may be frustrated with congressional Republicans heading into the November midterm elections, but that anger does not extend to him as Democrats seek to regain control of one or both chambers of Congress. “They’re angry at Republicans,” Trump said in an interview with Punchbowl News that aired Friday. “But they’re not angry at me. "They’re not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.” Republicans are facing some headwinds in competitive House and Senate races, including concerns over affordability, energy prices, and the political fallout from the ongoing war with Iran, but the GOP...

The Ukraine War raging on Friday night into Saturday a missile attack... The Spanish government moving to institute border checks for Italian visitors... A US general relieved of command... The former Secretary of the Air Force in the Biden Administration...losing his access to classified information... In Belgium a government committee preventing the takeover of a helicopter company...subsidiary of a Chinese company... The US Senate rushing to pass legislation before its recess... Spanish police making 78 arrests in connection with a smuggling operation... Two killed, one wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack... Frequent marijuana users showing up at emergency rooms more...

A recent article in City Journal by Heather MacDonald argued that street homelessness is fundamentally an addiction and mental health crisis disguised as a housing shortage.AdvertisementI’ve been saying the same thing for a number of years. The romance of the poor homeless on city sidewalks being there because of capitalism, unfair equity practices, poverty, or racism is over. Yet the Left continues to pursue this romantic fiction, despite it being a lie.Once, there was an element of truth to this myth. The phrase, “Lift them up!” was a favorite among Philadelphia homeless activists.AdvertisementThe truly homeless — people not addicted to...

As we've reported, the WNBA seems hellbent on self-destruction in the aftermath of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham standing up for protecting women's sports from the invasion of transgender athletes."I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" Cunningham told ESPN in a recent interview. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."The result...

The story NPR published - and then almost immediately retracted - at the end of June, which falsely claimed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, was one of the more bizarre and scandalous moments in the "news" organization's tumultuous history.ICYMI:Oh boy. NPR reported that Justice Alito was retiring, then retracted it 10 minutes later, saying it was “published in error.” pic.twitter.com/ljqd9udn9a— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 30, 2026As RedState reported at the time, NPR's longtime legal affairs correspondent and Supreme Court reporter, Nina Totenberg, wrote in an apology letter to Alito that "I rushed out of the courtroom after...