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A potential miracle is happening in Massachusetts that shows that abortions – even in the worst of situations – are completely unnecessary. When Gov. Maura Healey signed an emergency preamble Nov. 6 putting a new full-term abortion law into immediate effect, she said the emergency was supposedly 9 disabled babies who needed to be killed in late-term abortions. But 11 Massachusetts families have offered to adopt all nine of those babies – making the abortions totally unnecessary. Healey’s action overrode a signature campaign by more than 113,000 constituents that had temporarily suspended the new abortions up to birth law so...

As a writer and editor who struggles with writing good headlines, I can really appreciate this perfect caption to Melissa Andrews’ story today at WTOL. Judge grants temporary release to Toledo-area doctor convicted of forcing abortion drugs on woman despite victims’ safety concerns That sums up the disgusting turn of event—Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Joe McNamara granted 32-year-old Hassan-James Abbas, a temporary furlough—to an even more disgusting act by Abbas—a days-in-the-planning attack in which “Abbas shoving crushed pills into [his girlfriend’s] bottom lip and gums,” according to state officials. “She testified that she fought to get away, ran to...

Ben Shapiro dissects the idiocy of the fake Ole Miss "racist coeds" controversy. The video is 8 1/2 minutes long.

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"By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household" (Heb. 11:7). The ark is a beautiful picture of salvation by grace through faith. God called Noah to a gargantuan task. Conservative figures estimate that the ark was about 438 feet long, 73 feet wide, and 44 feet high. That makes it almost one-and-a-half times the length of a football field and more than four stories high. Its three decks totaled almost 96,000 square feet with a total volume of about 1.3 million cubic feet. Naval engineers...

Dikidikini is only one of several villages in the Eastern Cape where locals risk their lives to cross a river to get to shops or the nearest town. Unlike other villagers who build makeshift bridges, the people of Dikidikini use a 200L drum to cross the Mzintlava River.

Trump’s longtime aide is moving to reshape the administration’s policymaking processWASHINGTON—The White House chief of staff is often described as the president’s gatekeeper, a powerful figure who keeps watch over the people who have access to the Oval Office and the ideas that get presented to the commander in chief. Stephen Miller has little interest in playing that role.President Trump’s new chief of staff has told associates that he doesn’t plan to limit access to the president or filter the ideas that get pitched to him, according to people familiar with the matter. The Oval Office, which aides over the...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’ For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’” Luke 18:2–5Discouragement often sets in when things don’t turn out...

SpaceX booster explodes (Screenshot via @CSI_Starbase on X) ===================================================================== SpaceX’s Starship booster exploded during a test flight at Starbase, Texas, after the company aborted an attempt to catch it during a test flight. The massive Starship rocket launched successfully, but the booster failed to return to the tower and instead went into the ocean. The explosion was reportedly intentional. Via @CSI_Starbase on X: VIDEO AT LINK.................. Per Space.com: Flight 15 lifted off from SpaceX‘s Starbase facility here in South Texas at 5:47 p.m. ET (2247 GMT; 4:47 p.m. local Texas time). The towering Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage...

Rasmussen Reports...Donald Trump's popularity 40 percent approve, 59 percent disapprove... Next Thursday in China...Trump is meeting China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin... Germany...agreement on a 2027 spending plan that includes a deficit of 222 billion... An alert this evening at the US airbase "RAF Lakenheath"... Niger at least 37 killed others wounded...attacked by Islamic State... In New Orleans a riverboat cruise ship...hit by a large oil tanker... ground stop order issued by the Federal Aviation Administration...lifted this evening... Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warning against a federal reserve interest rate hike... At least 23 killed in India when...

The Peoria Police Department is investigating a reported bomb threat at BioUrja Renewables, formerly the ADM plant on Edwards Street near Downtown Peoria. As a precautionary measure, police are urging anyone who lives or works within a one-mile radius of the facility to immediately evacuate their homes and businesses until further notice, according to a Friday night news release. People are urged to avoid the one-mile area of the facility until further notice, and most streets in the area have been closed off. Officers responded to the scene to conduct an investigation and search of the facility. Police said the...

An hours-long ground stop on the nation’s airspace is over, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told reporters on Friday night. The ground stop started around 3:30 PM and left many travelers nationwide stranded. The ground stop measure was precautionary and no one was in any danger, Duffy said. Duffy and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spoke to reporters. The two blamed the ground stop measure on old equipment and denied that the pause on outgoing flights was tied to a Microsoft outage on Thursday. The nationwide ground stop lifted at 8:15pm ET. Here’s a breakdown of today’s timeline: -...

Total household debt in the United States just hit a brand new all-time record high. For a large portion of the U.S. population, debt is a suffocating financial reality that never goes away. Millions upon millions of Americans found themselves drowning in debt the instant that they left college, and a very large percentage of them will still be deep in debt when they die. The entire system is designed to get us into debt and keep us there.Because a college education has become so expensive, most Americans have to go into debt to get one. Once you get out...

Two months before Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it issued a series of far-reaching demands, including that NATO pull its troops back to positions they held in 1997, before the Western alliance expanded toward Russia’s borders. Now, in closed-door negotiations with President Trump’s envoys this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, the Russians have revived that stance — in some cases word for word — in an effort to attain a larger victory after five years and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Moscow’s unyielding position was laid out in a paper that Russian officials circulated this...

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The US government started the 2027 fiscal year with a $404 billion budget deficit for October, a record for ‌the month and an increase of $120 billion or 42% from the year-earlier ‌period, as receipts shrank and outlays grew sharply, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. The record October deficit ​marks another fiscal setback for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after the Treasury reported a full-year fiscal 2026 deficit of nearly $2 trillion, marking the largest budget shortfall in five years. Bessent has set a goal to reduce the deficit to 3% of US GDP, but...

Every great city keeps a toolbox for its worst days; the specialized units, the contingency plans, the trained professionals who step into chaos when ordinary resources fall short. In New York, a city that learned its hardest lessons in fire and ash, that toolbox was built with blood-earned purpose. For over a decade, one of its sharpest instruments has been the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group. The SRG isn’t a beat cop operation. This is the team that mobilizes for counterterrorism, civil disturbances, mass shootings, bank robberies, and missing persons cases. It secured the papal visit. The NYPD itself calls it...

According to the apex predators on K-Street, Stephen Miller doesn’t play the lobbyist game, and they call him an ideologue because he’s not transactional. In other words, Miller doesn’t let lobbyists influence decisionmaking.Now that Stephen Miller is the Chief of Staff, he has informed White House staff they are not allowed to meet with lobbyists on the grounds of the White House.The informal relationship era of Susie Wiles is gone.According to Politico – […] “The memo likely won’t shock lobbyists on K Street where Miller has few friends.He eschews relationship-based favors. He doesn’t sway easily on issues. He’s ideologically driven...

In emergencies, reliable communication can be a matter of life and death. Shortwave radios are unique tools that can provide critical information when other forms of communication fail.These radios have the ability to receive broadcasts over long distances, making them valuable during disasters that disrupt local services.When a major event occurs, such as a natural disaster or a large-scale emergency, many people find themselves cut off from standard media outlets. Shortwave radios can offer access to important updates and rescue information, connecting individuals to help and resources that may otherwise be unreachable.Understanding the benefits of shortwave radios is essential for...

The U.S. government is trying to censor your view from space.Ollie Ballinger, an open-source researcher and lecturer, uses satellite imagery to monitor conflicts around the world. But he says pressure from the government has prompted private companies to restrict access to images of places it may not want the public to see.Why would companies listen to these requests? “Any pressure from the U.S. government carries a lot of weight for these companies,” Mr. Ballinger says, “because the American government is their biggest customer.”In the Opinion video above, he reveals how these restrictions are limiting a vital tool for accountability and...

Meghan McCain criticized the prominence of cosmetic procedures among some Republican women in an X post on Monday, October 19, citing growing online scrutiny. Her comments followed backlash over Susan Dell's appearance at a White House event promoting President Donald Trump's investment accounts for children. Women's Wear Daily examined the reaction and revived discussion of the plastic surgery trend labeled "Mar-a-Lago face." New York plastic surgeon Dr. Ira Savetsky described it as an overfilled look with noticeably fuller cheeks and lips. Reactions to McCain's post were divided, with some users objecting to the focus on appearance and others.