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Daily Readings from the USCCB“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’” Matthew 7:21–23Jesus’ words are shocking because they challenge the assumption that prophesying, casting out demons, and performing mighty...

Police said the 14-year-old was a player of Gorebox, a game where players can "obliterate anything [they] desire" and "engage in brutal combat with an extensive arsenal of weapons and explosives", according to its Google Play listing. "We cannot ignore possible online influences that may have contributed to this tragic incident," the country's cyber-security agency said. "Temporarily blocking the game will allow authorities to conduct a thorough assessment into whether the platform played any role in the actions of the suspects," said Aboy Paraiso, an undersecretary at the Cybercrime Investigation and Co-ordinating Centre. BBC News has contacted Gorebox's maker, Germany's...

Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister 'all the Jews are sick of you' during a shouting match regarding peace in the Middle East, according to a new book about the President's second term. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's 'Regime Change' details Trump's attempt to broker a Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas in September of 2025. The President was on the call with Netanyahu, son in law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff when they became frustrated with the prime minister following an Israeli strike on Qatar. That's when Trump unleashed, the book claims. 'Everybody's sick of you, Bibi....

The Tories warned that Britain was being left 'in the dark ages' through the 'bonkers' Net Zero drive. Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown. Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a "last resort". The crackdown comes from building regulations which demand "active cooling" is used only after all "passive cooling" methods, like opening...

Vance has taken a keen interest in Christians in Lebanon. To understand why Vance’s outreach matters, it’s worth looking at history. Historically the majority community, Christians in Lebanon have suffered setbacks in the last century. For instance, they lost out in the Lebanese civil war, and after the Taif Accords, they saw their traditional role running the presidency slightly weakened in favor of a Sunni-held prime minister’s office. The leader of the Lebanese Forces, [Samir] Geagea, sent a letter Monday to a US official, thanking him for his statements and urging him to completely separate the Lebanese issue from negotiations...

Tragic news has broken out of Venezuela. On Wednesday, Venezuela was hit by back-to-back earthquakes causing buildings to collapse across its capital. The USGS revealed the earthquakes were measured in at a magnitude of 7.1 and 7.5 making the earthquakes two of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the country. Currently no death toll has been reported but due to the large amount of residential buildings collapsing thousands are feared dead. Here was the aftermath: Video circulating from La Guaira, Venezuela, showing the aftermath of the devastation caused by powerful earthquakes.Thousands of people are feared dead in the earthquakes, according...

A federal judge, appointed by former President Joe Biden, is blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting illegal aliens at courthouses, a practice considered by law enforcement to be the safest way to apprehend those eligible for deportation. On Tuesday, Judge P. Casey Pitts, appointed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California by Biden in 2023, issued an order that will halt ICE’s ability to broadly arrest illegal aliens at courthouses across the United States. “Because the record before the Court demonstrates that ICE … failed to provide reasoned explanations for their actions,...

This image will help us discover countless new exoplanets. The full Euclid image. Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CFHT, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay) Pointing the telescope to look at the central region of the galaxy wasn't just because it’s pretty or because Euclid can. The research team will use this incredible image and the data behind it to discover and characterize planets. This is possible thanks to a technique known as microlensing. Any object with mass warps spacetime. Galaxies, clusters, and black holes can create a strong gravitational lensing effect: space-time warps so much that...

Democrats have no one to blame but themselves. emocrats found themselves surprised by the election result in New York's primaries, where Democrat voters chose extremists of the most repulsive sort over establishment-endorsed candidates, to win three New York primaries, driving their party to the farthest left it's ever been.AdvertisementAccording to the New York Post:Democrats were shocked when a trio of anti-Israel, socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept Tuesday’s New York House primary races, warning that their ascendance represents a changing of the guard for the party as voters embrace the far left.Advertisement“The roof is collapsing on the Democratic...

The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was “a declaration of America’s defeat,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday. Iran’s armed forces imposed “heavy costs on the United States and the so-called Israeli regime” during the 110-day war, Ghalibaf told a meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baku, Azerbaijan, Tehran’s IRNA news agency reported. The Islamic Republic forced Washington to “retreat both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table,” Tehran’s top negotiator claimed. Ghalibaf told attendees that Iran defined the retreat of American forces from the Middle East as a “strategic objective”...

Federal immigration agents have nabbed more than 10,000 migrant gangbangers since the start of President Trump’s second term, the US Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday. The milestone, reached just a year and a half after Trump launched his sweeping mass deportations agenda, includes arrests tied to murder, assault with a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, robbery and extortion, according to DHS. “Many of these gang members were released into our country by Joe Biden,” said DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin. “These vicious criminals murdered, assaulted, robbed, and terrorized innocent Americans for sport.” “Thanks to the Secure America Act, ICE...

Freddy, the World Cup tourist from Germany, is giving us a grand tour of our country just in time for our 250th birthday. When last we left them in the saga, Freddy was in Michigan. He'd just had a great visit to Niagara Falls, saw the fireworks, with a patriotic light show of red, white, and blue over the falls. On top of that, he got a great invitation to have a special "treat" from Chef Gordon Ramsey when they reach Boston, their ultimate destination for the Germany game on Monday. However, rather than driving straight from Niagara Falls to...

Explanation: Why does the Sun throw stuff at us? The Sun’s surface is a churning soup of energetic electrons and ions called plasma. The motion of those charged particles creates magnetic field loops that are larger than the Earth. These loops twist, turn, and trap plasma. The featured time-lapse, taken over 2 hours on April 24th, 2026 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows what happens when those magnetic fields become too stressed: they snap and expel billions of tons (trillions of kilograms) of plasma into space at millions of miles (or kilometers) per hour in what is called a coronal...

The US president targeted New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani after several progressive and democratic socialist candidates endorsed by him secured victories in House primary races.

ransomnote: He sings in the first part of the video. It is beautiful footage which I found riveting in its own way. The video excerpt below can't do it justice.

How just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani’s NYC socialist election surge Zo’s red wedding was small, but a bloodbath nonetheless. Just 7% of active voters supported Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical ally Darializa Avila Chevalier over establishment Democrat Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s main event primary, data shows. The overall low turnout — roughly 17% of Democratic voters citywide — came as Avila Chevalier and two other Mamdani-backed House primary winners captured a mix of high-earning, young, white and black voters, analysts found. Insiders also credited the Democratic Socialists of America’s formidable field operations for turning out...

Dominion Voting Systems, which was sold last year to a former GOP election official and is now called Liberty Vote, said it “agreed to a confidential settlement.”The company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems is ending its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against MyPillow and its CEO, Mike Lindell. The voting machine company, which was sold last year to a former GOP election official and is now called Liberty Vote, agreed to dismiss the long-running lawsuit in a federal court filing this week. “The parties have agreed to a confidential settlement to this matter,” a Liberty Vote spokesperson said in a...

The Rape Crisis organization, designed to help and ‘believe’ rape victims, completely invalidates their experiences by calling their testimonies ‘unhelpful’ and ‘irresponsible.’ When Jen was 17, she was introduced to a gang of Iraqi Kurdish Muslim men who called her and other girls “white trash” and “English pig‑dogs” while they raped and trafficked them across the U.K. to rape gang ”parties.” Jen decided to speak up in the Rape Gang Inquiry Report “so that religiously-motivated coercive abuse is properly recognized and confronted, even when doing so is politically, culturally, or socially controversial.” In response, Rape Crisis England and Wales, a...

UFC fighter Josh Hokit recently explained that when he said “Michelle Obama is a man,” it was intended as a compliment, not an insult. “I thought I was giving her a compliment,” he said, per The Hollywood Reporter, in an appearance on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “Michelle Obama being a man. It’s like, she knows how to deal with adversity. She knows how to work hard like a man when the times get tough.”

ExxonMobil's oil refinery in the Belgian port of Antwerp is to stop output from June 29 to July 3 due to a strike action, the company's press office said on Wednesday. Workers at the refinery oppose a plan to cut 35 jobs out of a total of 735, ABVV Petroleum union said on its website. The strike is also related to staff complaints about deteriorating working conditions and fewer opportunities for early retirement, despite ExxonMobil's higher profits due to soaring fuel prices, added the union's statement. The job cuts are part of a broader reorganization of all the company's activities...