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Daily Readings from the USCCBOn a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?” Luke 14:1–3Today, we can easily and confidently answer Jesus’ question: “Yes, it is lawful to cure on the Sabbath!” But the scholars of the Law and the Pharisees were unable or unwilling to answer that question. And when...

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"All Scripture is . . . profitable for . . . correction" (2 Tim. 3:16). God’s Word strengthens the repentant sinner. If you're a gardening buff, you know that skillful pruning promotes the overall growth and productivity of a plant. Jesus assumed His audience knew as much when He said, "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken...

Lawyer for Jake Tucker, who uses they/them pronouns, has countered with sentencing proposal of four years and requested it be served in women’s prisonThe Crown is seeking a 12-year sentence for Jake Tucker after the Innisfil Pride founder was convicted on seven sex-trafficking and related counts by a Barrie jury earlier this year. Tucker, 39, who uses they/them pronouns, was found not guilty on sexual assault, assault with a weapon and assault by the same panel. Tucker’s lawyer, Martin Montes, has countered with a sentencing proposal of four years and requested it be served in a women’s prison. There are...

Election Day is fast approaching, and many candidates for office are busy doing everything they can to convince any remaining undecided voters. And then there are Democrats running in New York City Districts 7 and 13, areas so blue that candidates for Congress don't need to campaign at all. Darializa Avila Chevalier is running in the 13th District. Claire Valdez is running in the 7th District. They're both members of Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. "We're still encouraging folks to go out. Early voting has already started. Election Day is Nov. 3," Avila Chevalier said. The district she's running...

- FNC Continues Reign as Number One Cable Network This Year in Primetime Viewers - FNC is Pacing to be Highest Rated Midterm Year with Total Day Viewers. - The Network Notches 99 of the top 100 Cable News Telecasts in October. FOX News Drives Nearly 1 Billion More YouTube Video Views than Any Other News Brand in 2026. - 'CBS Mornings' and '60 Minutes' Each Post Lowest-Rated October in History with Viewers. - MS NOW Racks up 12 Year October Lows in Total Viewers and 24 Year Lows in A25-54 Demo for Midterm Year... The Five (5 PM/ET), FNC's...

President Trump will no longer travel to Kansas or Iowa over the weekend to rally voters ahead of Election Day, instead opting for virtual campaign appearances. A White House official confirmed to The Hill Thursday the in-person Kansas event had been canceled, without providing more details about the decision. Later in the evening, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced the cancellation of another Trump campaign rally in Iowa. “President Trump will continue connecting directly with Americans nationwide through more than 20 telerallies before Election Day,” the White House official said in a statement. “These events give him the opportunity to...

At least two Harrisburg-area television stations have taken down an ad from a Trump-aligned PAC that sought to boost Republican Congressman Scott Perry by airing an unsubstantiated allegation of public nudity against Janelle Stelson, his Democratic opponent. The now-stricken ad relies on a statement from Stelson’s next-door neighbor, Sharon Orr, that she saw Stelson naked outdoors and took a photo before calling the police – the same allegation that Perry has used in ads from his own campaign, which began airing online last week. Perry has declined to say what, if any, attempts were made to verify Orr’s account before...

an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man who may have been her brother The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent that case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations Federal agents in Minnesota opened an investigation... They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings Mr. Elmi had obtained a provisional two-year green card based on the...

Three people were killed when two helicopters collided in midair Thursday afternoon in a community near Portland, Oregon, authorities said. The collision involving an Airbus H125 and a Robinson R22 occurred near McMinnville Municipal Airport at about 2:15 p.m. local time, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration provided to CBS News. Only the pilot was aboard the Robinson R22, while the Airbus H125 was carrying two people, the FAA said. The Yamhill County Sheriff's Office later said in a statement that all three people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash. The two people aboard the...

Democrats wanted to focus on Trump and high heating bills, but then came the October surpriseMary Peltola at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage. ANCHORAGE—As winter set in and Election Day neared in Alaska, high prices for diesel and home heating oil drove voter anger at President Trump and incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, making the Senate race in this red state one of the most competitive in the country.Now, with just days to go, allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign secretly worked to recruit a spoiler candidate to help her party win the pivotal Alaska seat—and...

The DOJ announced Thursday they have uncovered a MULTIMILLION DOLLAR Kenyan student loan fraud ring. The Kenyans were stealing American identities, using the names to apply for student loans, and then sending the money back to Kenya. They weren't here to assimilate. They were here to steal. Nick Sorter reports, "Numerous Kenyans have now been indicted by federal grand juries on multiple federal charges, including theft of government money and aggravated identity theft." Here is DOJ Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald speaking to reporters. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald: There's more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency tied to this scheme and...

Metal has a woke problem. A very broad statement as it applies to a heavy metal, extreme metal slam hard-core goth punk. For most of the alternative subcultures that pride themselves on individuality and self expression, the word “woke” is not a vague term for kindness and acceptance. It does not just mean awareness of social issues For them, “woke” means hyper fixation on far left activism. It means putting far left messaging first, above all else, above quality and truth. The current dynamic is not that there are zero problems from the far right. It is that a loud,...

[Catholic Caucus] Faith should ‘become culture,’ Pope Leo emphasizes at audience on Vatican II Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV devoted his October 28 audience (video) to the relationship between faith and culture.The audience, which took place in St. Peter’s Square, was the thirtieth audience in the series and the seventh devoted to the Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965). The audience was devoted to the second chapter of Part II of the pastoral constitution; the chapter is entitled “The...

There's nothing that the kind and tolerant left loves more than being unkind and intolerant towards people who have a different political perspective. Particularly when that political perspective involves acknowledging the biological reality of physical advantages males have over females in sports. This consistent intolerance and hatred was on full display recently at a women's soccer match in Portland. A group of around 20 women wearing XX-XY shirts to a Portland Thorns game at Providence Park were allegedly harassed by a number of anti-reality fans nearby, including verbal and physical aggression. The "kind and tolerant" left, as always. You'd assume...

Even in Alaska, cold as it gets, if you leave a fish out long enough, it starts to get rank. The same is true for leftists. Give them enough time and enough space, and they will eventually funk up the place, and it will be no secret where the stink is coming from. .... The picture is not pretty. ... Where there’s smoke, there’s fire ... this scandal is growing. ... the scandal starts to strike at the core of the national leftist election infrastructure. The Elias Law Group is not just a law firm that serves leftist clients. In...

Kyiv has temporarily halted one of its most effective operations against Moscow after complaints from Trump KYIV—Ukraine’s military has paused its strikes against Russian oil refineries, people with knowledge of the operations said, after weeks of pressure from President Trump shook Kyiv’s confidence in U.S. support. The unofficial pause, which is expected to last until after the U.S. midterm elections but potentially deeper into November, began early last week at the height of a crisis in U.S.-Ukrainian relations, the people said. Days earlier, Trump had called for the removal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX had limited...

(Translated) MEGA-SCANDAL: The winner of the BERLIN elections, from the far-left party Die Linke, accidentally confesses that Hamas controls her party and fears for her life💣 A mistake has just triggered an astonishing security crisis. The magazine Der Spiegel—a media outlet, it must be noted, with a marked leftist slant—has brought to light an internal document proving how Die Linke has been hijacked by Islamism. Its candidate to govern Berlin, Elif Eralp, accidentally sent the newsroom her private notes from an interview where she confesses to being coerced and terrified by Hamas operatives within her own party. It turns out...

Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts22 seconds.That is how long it took for a 23 year old staff sergeant from Alabama to save the lives of his entire B-29 crew on a mission to Japan in 1945.He had to carry a burning phosphorus bomb 25 feet through the aircraft.He held it against his body while it burned through to the bone.This is the story of Red Erwin...🧵1/5Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts·Sep 26Replying to @UntoldWarFacts🧵 2/5Henry Eugene Erwin was born on May 8 1921 in Adamsville, Alabama. A small coal mining town outside Birmingham. His father was a coal miner who died when Henry was 10...

CBS’s Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan reportedly challenged CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss when Weiss asked reporters to investigate the scandal of Alaska’s ballot controversy. Fox News reported that several CBS staffers downplayed a New York Times report detailing how Democrats placed a decoy “Dan Sullivan” on the ballot to confuse voters and give Democrat candidate Mary Peltola an advantage in the Senate race. The New York Times reported that Peltola has ordered a staffer in Summer 2025 to find “as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.” ... The Justice Department has reportedly started investigating...