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The Biden administration’s efforts to impose a 100-day pause on deportations of illegal immigrants were dealt another blow on Tuesday when a district judge extended a ban on its imposition in response to a lawsuit from Texas. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton indefinitely banned enforcement of the Jan. 20 memorandum that would have implemented a 100-day moratorium on most deportations. Tipton had previously issued a two-week restraining order on the policy after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had argued that it violated federal law and an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Texas be consulted before such...

Senator Mitt Romney said that he believes former President Donald Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination if he ran for office in 2024. "He has by far the largest voice and a big impact in my party," Romney said at a New York Times event on Tuesday. "I don't know if he'll run in 2024 or not, but if he does, I'm pretty sure he will win the nomination." Romney, the GOP presidential nominee in 2012, said that "a lot can happen between now and 2024," adding that he is not "great at predicting." However, he said he expects...

MICHELLE OBAMA was "taken under the wing of George W Bush's twins" as she and her young family adjusted to the "abnormal conditions" afforded to those staying in the White House.

A Navy veteran who was going through an episode of paranoia died after a Northern California police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, his family said Tuesday. The family of Angelo Quinto called police on Dec. 23 because the 30-year-old was suffering a mental health crisis and needed help. His family says a responding officer knelt on Quinto’s neck for nearly five minutes while another officer restrained his legs. Quinto lost consciousness and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died three days later. Quinto, who was born in the Philippines, was honorably discharged from the...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration issued a new order Monday requiring masks in smoking lounges. The Center Square reported the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services issued the surprise edict:

Apple continues to carry Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube on its App Store, all of which have been the platform for Antifa to broadcast violence.During Apple’s virtual annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, a shareholder pushed Apple CEO Tim Cook on the company’s ban of Parler from its App Store after the free-speech platform was re-launched last week. Yet Cook did not indicate that Apple will reinstate Parler. “Now that Parler is back online with increased safeguards, when will it be allowed back on the App Store? It was one of the most downloaded apps in 2020 and reached No. 1 in...

The U.S. and Canada will host a "high-level summit" on Wednesday about climate change, according to U.S. officials, who described it as the first diplomatic initiative for the Biden administration as it seeks to put the issue back at the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. "U.S. leadership has been sorely missed over the past years" on climate change, Trudeau said, adding it was "nice when the Americans are not pulling out all references to climate change and instead adding them" into their joint statements after their meetings. During Wednesday's summit, co-hosted by Biden's special envoy for climate John...

A North Carolina woman who lied to get a coronavirus relief loan spent the money on shopping excursions to Nieman Marcus, Nordstrom, Louis Vuitton and diamond stores, federal prosecutors said. She created false documents claiming $350,000 in gross revenue in 12 months for her online clothing business, Jazzy Jas, even though other paperwork filed in early 2020 showed the company was effectively dissolved in September 2019, it said. On Feb. 17, a grand jury indicted Clifton on wire fraud in relation to a disaster benefit and fraud in connection with major disaster or emergency benefits. The charge of wire fraud...

An estimated 5.6 percent of Americans identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, according to a new Gallup report. That’s up from 4.5 percent in 2017, the last year polling on the issue was conducted by the organization. Of those surveyed who identified as LGBTQ, 54.6 percent identified as bisexual, 24.5 percent as gay, 11.7 percent as lesbians, 11.3 percent as transgender and 3.3 percent said they used another term to describe their identity (i.e. queer or same-gender loving). The total exceeds 100 percent because respondents were able to choose more than one category. The results were based on...

As Paul faced his court trial in Rome, he was held under horrible conditions (see Philippians 1:13-14). He was guarded around the clock by soldiers of the Praetorian guard, his feet chained to a soldier on either side. These men were crude, hardened, cursing frequently. They’d seen it all, and to them in their line of work, every jailed man was a guilty criminal, including Paul. Think about it: Here was a man who had been very active, loving to travel the open road and high seas to meet and fellowship with God’s people. Paul drew his greatest joy from...

Some House Democrats have urged cable companies to cancel Fox News, Newsmax TV, and One America News Network ahead of a Wednesday hearing on extremism in the press.In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States. In his Inaugural Address, he urged our fledgling nation to stand strong against those who would restrict the right to free speech. He even described those “who would wish to dissolve this Union” as “monuments of safety with which the error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.” As president, Jefferson was an ardent defender...

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has signed a set of bills into law criminalizing the spread of what his government considers to be "fake news," with hefty fines and jail time for those who share information that "exhibits blatant disrespect for the society, government, official government symbols, constitution or governmental bodies of Russia," Russian media outlets reported Monday. According to the Moscow Times, "Online news outlets and users that spread 'fake news' will face fines of up to 1.5 million rubles ($22,900) for repeat offenses. Insulting state symbols and the authorities, including Putin, will carry a fine of up to 300,000...

Almighty God LOVES you with a PERFECT and ETERNAL LOVE in RIGHTEOUSNESS, which transcends the limited confines of this little temporal world. (Rom. 10:4, 1 John 2:2, 4:10). The LOVE of God ONLY seeks to exalt RIGHTEOUSNESS for the object of His LOVE; and ALL of Almighty God's PERFECT and RIGHTEOUS LOVE is found ONLY in Jesus Christ! My friend, I do not know how to say anything more wonderful than that! If you are a SLAVE to this world's vices and fleshly addictions and are zealous for its approval and acceptance, I pray you to let go of your...

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“‘He who has received His witness has set his seal to this, that God is true’” (John 3:33). Since God is true in everything He does, we can trust Him and His Word. God’s truthfulness is taught often in Scripture. Balaam, though no righteous man, got this right: “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it?” (Num. 23:19). Samuel said to King Saul that God “will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should...

A new report from the Washington Times has new revelations that could amount to, what many say, treason by Obama administration officials. The report alleges that former Secretary of State and current Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and current special envoy on Iran policy Robert Malley, were in backchannel communication with the Iranian regime throughout the Trump administration, with express intentions to “foil Trump diplomacy”.

Container freight and charter markets are continuing to boom post-Chinese New Year, and analysts expect favourable conditions for carriers and shipowners to last at least into the second half.

The Air Force Research Laboratory announced that their Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD program is advancing at a fast clip, with several major subsystems scheduled for delivery and assembly in the near future. The Air Force describes the SHiELD program as an initiative that is essentially a defensive armament, intended to give airframes that carry a version of the SHiELD laser pod the ability to shoot down air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles — a task that comes with a host of technical hurdles to overcome. Namely, shooting down missiles at supersonic speeds is incredibly difficult.

The group chat was labelled “XXXX Lovelies” (presumably the name of their street); it included some of the women in the Cruz family’s neighbourhood. The subject was the cold weather they were experiencing in Texas, but it quickly turned to going away, when Heidi, the wife of Republican Senator Ted Cruz, asked whether any of the families were up for a trip to Cancun. The Cruz family getaway, of course, went viral, and the Texas senator, 50, faced fierce backlash after pictures emerged of the couple and their two daughters, Caroline, 12, and Cathryn, 10, flying out of the state...

What Our Day and Nation EXPONENTIALLY Looks Like With Images! THE LORD JESUS IS OUR ONLY SAVIOR and ETERNAL HOPE! THE LORD JESUS IS THIS WORLD'S ONLY ETERNAL HOPE! THE RAPTURE, DAY OF THE LORD AND THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ARE AT HAND! John 14:3; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-3; 1 John 3:1-4; Matt. 24; 2 Thess. 2:3-12; Rev. 6-19; Matt. 25:31-46; Dan. 2:44-45; 7:7-14; Zech. 14:1-4; Isa. 2:15; 11; Micah 4:1-3; Rev. 20:4-6