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The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22... "I want the Pentagon to feel some measure of physical pain every time they spend a dollar. And I want them to just make sure that they do it in the most cost effective, intelligent way because they just want to get the most out of it, not because they know Congress will always come along...

Authorities are still investigating but they believe the people involved used a legal explosive called Tannerite and had permission to be on the propertyNeighborhoods in several New Hampshire towns were rocked by an explosion that turned out to be a gender reveal. Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night. Kingston police say the blast was caused by a family using explosives to reveal the gender of their baby. Chief Donald Briggs said the blast happened at Torromeo Industries on Dorre Road around 7 p.m. Kingston residents say it was like nothing...

A Viterbo University student who said she was a victim of two recent racist incidents on campus has been accused of starting a fire in a residence hall April 18 and framing it as a hate crime. Victoria C. Unanka was released on a signature bond Monday after La Crosse police arrested her for arson and negligent handling of burning materials. “This is a complex situation that involves a series of concerning incidents,” said Viterbo University President Glena Temple. “We continue to investigate the incidents earlier in the semester and any potential link between them and this fire.” The La...

Police officers often risk their safety for others but as the public discovered recently, this applies to animals too. On April 18, a group filming for the educational site, Just Keep Thinking noticed a monitor lizard in the middle of Republic Ave near Kallang Basin. Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. They alerted two nearby police officers who immediately attempted to rescue the lizard from danger. In a video originally posted by Just Keep Thinking, the male officer is seen kneeling in the middle of the road and also standing over the lizard...

April 23, 2021Friday of the Third Week of Eastertide; Memorial of St. Adalbert of Prague, bishop and MartyrGniezno Cathedral, Gniezno, Poland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. First readingActs 9:1-20 ©This man is my chosen instrument to bring my name before the pagansSaul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He had gone to the high priest and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he could find. Suddenly, while he was travelling to Damascus and just before...

Houston Methodist made headlines at the end of March when the hospital chain’s CEO Dr. Marc Boom made the call to require all of his employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to keep their jobs. It was the first major hospital system in the country to announce it would make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory. Even before making that move, the hospital offered $500 bonuses to any employee who demonstrated proof of vaccination. The overwhelming majority of Houston Methodist’s workforce have complied with the policy so far: 84 percent of the hospital chain’s 26,000 employees had gotten at least...

The American government is 28 trillion US dollars in debt. It is the largest amount of debt that any government ever had in the history of the world. And it puts an immense burden on American society for generations to come. Because America might never be able to pay back these 28 trillion US dollars. This year alone, the American government has to pay 400 billion US dollars in interest on these loans.

Signs of our times of our time in news and prophesy: Recap —"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matthew: 24 37-39Amazon rolls out palm scanning: People to pay by waving their hand — Amazon is rolling...

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Former President George W. Bush said in an interview he did not vote for either candidate in the 2020 presidential election and instead wrote in Condoleeza Rice, who served as his secretary of state. "She knows it," he told People. "But she told me she would refuse to accept the office." The relationship between the Bush family and former President Trump has never been close. Trump defeated his brother, Jeb Bush, in the tense Republican primary in 2016.

Former President Georgia W. Bush revealed Thursday that he wrote-in Condoleezza Rice, who served as his secretary of state from 2005 to 2009, in the 2020 presidential election. “She knows it,” Bush told People Magazine. “But she told me she would refuse to accept the office.” Bush’s admission of support for Rice over then-Democrat candidate Joe Biden and then Republican President Donald Trump comes as the former president is promoting his forthcoming book of paintings — Out of Many, One — which highlights the stories of over 40 immigrants in the United States.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended the filibuster on Thursday, which his Democrat colleagues have routinely characterized as racist, questioning why the left has used the supposed “tool of racism so much” when they were in the minority. “The President of the United States … has called every Republican, every person who supports Georgia voting reform, Jim Crow 2.0,” Graham said at a Thursday press conference alongside Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). “The terms being used to try to bully us into agreeing to this agenda won’t work,” he said, noting he wants to work with Democrats on...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration, alleging that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has exempted border crossers from emergency Chinese coronavirus public health regulations, spurring a public health crisis at the United States-Mexico border. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, claims that the Biden administration has increasingly refused to enforce the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Title 42 authority that requires federal immigration officials to quickly return border crossers to their native countries on the basis that they pose a public health risk to American citizens. Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that the...

Watch live starting at 1:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 UTC), Fri., April 23, as four astronauts launch from Earth to their new home in space, the International Space Station. At 5:49 a.m. EDT (9:49 UTC), the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will join the station's crew, for a mission of approximately six months. This will be the first launch through our Commercial Crew Program...

You'd do anything to protect your most vital organs and reduce your cancer risk, right? Your food choices, watching how much you drink, and plenty of other practices are proof. Well, a new study is challenging one pesky soda choice you might still be making. Just because it's no-calorie and even sugar-free might not mean you're in the clear. A meta-analysis of 38 previous studies was published in the March issue of the Public Health Nutrition. The two researchers, Myung Seung-Kwon, M.D., Ph.D. of Korea's National Cancer Center, and Ph.D. student Alfred Jethro, were interested to see how soft drinks...

“My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine” (Proverbs 23:15).

The headmaster of Grace Church School who was secretly recorded saying that 'we're demonizing white people for being born' has issued an apology to staff, declaring he'd been 'trapped' by a disgruntled teacher and didn't mean what he said. In a letter obtained by DailyMail.com, George Davison claims his remarks were was taken out of context and doesn't actually believe the school is demonizing white students. He suggested math teacher Paul Rossi had an axe to grind when he recorded their conversation and then released the audio on Twitter on Tuesday. Rossi was pulled from his classes last week after...

The Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks in June attempted on Thursday to be reinstated by the force, despite facing murder charges for the killing. Garrett Rolfe, a six-year veteran of the force, was fired on June 13, the day after Brooks' death. Both men were 27. Rolfe and his colleague, Officer Devin Brosnan, were called to a Wendy's by customers who said a man was asleep at the wheel, blocking the drive-through.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would make Washington, D.C. the country's 51st state, in a party-line vote of 216-208, sending the legislation to the U.S. Senate. The House's vote was the second in a year to make Washington, the District of Columbia a state - Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of D.C.'s current territory, with a federal district around the White House, National Mall and Capitol kept out. While Democrats, en masse, argued for giving the 712,000 residents of D.C. representation, Republicans shared a number of ideas of how to fix the problem without adding...

President Joe Biden's ambitious plan to slash greenhouse emissions by 50 to 52 percent over the next decade could prompt sweeping changes that could affect how Americans eat, drive and heat their homes. Biden announced the goal to cut emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, at the start of a two-day climate summit on Thursday. He vowed the plan, which would set the US on a path of a zero emissions economy by no later than 2050, would create jobs and boost economies.