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L’ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE, France—Wedged between river tributaries in southeastern France, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is known for its cobblestone streets and its sun-dappled outdoor market. But ahead of local elections on Sunday, the debate in this small town, and in others across France, has centered on the fallout from the beheading of a schoolteacher near Paris last fall by a Chechen refugee as well as the slaying of churchgoers in Nice weeks later by a Tunisian migrant. Across France questions over the place of Islam in French society and tensions over immigration have come to preoccupy many French and have pushed the electorate rightward. In...

The head of climate change at the UN has warned that world leaders are still “far away” from securing a deal to limit the disastrous effects of global heating, with less than five months to go before a key summit in Glasgow. Time is now running out, said Patricia Espinosa, who was formerly foreign minister of Mexico but now leads the UN on climate policy. She told the Observer that although advances had been made at the G7 meeting in Cornwall last weekend, progress had not been made on honouring past commitments to find $100bn (£72.5bn) a year to help...

Rumors that China's top "spy catcher" has defected to the United States and is giving the Biden information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the leak of the coronavirus, if proven true, could "even lead to the fall of the Communist Party," China expert Gordon Chang told Newsmax on Saturday. "This is so explosive it could lead to a chain of events, which would sever relations between China and the United States," Chang, the author of "The Coming Collapse of China," told Newsmax's "The Count," adding Bejing appears to be in a panic over the reports. The reports claim...

People make fun of Hollywood’s idealized family of the 50s.But I would point out that every single episode of every one of those shows taught a life lesson geared to values that - at the time – consisted of a universal moral code: the value of telling the truth, the virtue of hard work, patriotism, what it means to be honorable, why loyalty matters, what personal responsibility consists of. In other words bedrock American values that are often looked down on, snickered at and scorned by today’s cultural elites in Hollywood, education and Washington.Ever since that era Hollywood has been...

A new poll released today by Benevity found that 80% of U.S. employees believe it is the responsibility of company leaders to take action in addressing racial justice and equity issues. The Benevity Racial Justice and Equity Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research between May 24 and June 6, 2021, using an email invitation and an online survey. The margin of error is +/- 3.1 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

It’s the kind of blaze that veteran Chief Palmer Buck of The Woodlands Township Fire Department in suburban Houston compared to “a trick birthday candle.” On April 17, when firefighters responded to a 911 call at around 9:30 p.m., they came upon a Tesla Model S that had crashed, killing two people, and was now on fire. They extinguished it, but then a small flare shot out of the bottom of the charred hulk. Firefighters quickly put out those flames. Not long after, the car reignited for a third time. “What the heck? How do we make this stop?’” Buck...

A 19-year-old woman shot by police Saturday during a Juneteenth celebration parade in Flint has died of her injuries, according to the Michigan State Police. The woman, from Flint, was shot by a Flint police officer after she allegedly drove up to the officer and fired at him at about 2:14 p.m., police say. The officer, who was injured, then shot the suspect. The incident took place on Saginaw Street near Leith Street. The woman was taken to the hospital for treatment, where she died of her injuries, police said. There was no video footage of the incident, but this...

For weeks, the Biden loving media hyped the June 16 meeting between the United States President and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. It was supposed to be a chance for the United States to act “tough” with Russia since the media claimed that President Donald Trump was a Putin “puppet.” Of course, this charge was absurd since the entire “Russian collusion” narrative, peddled by the Democrats and the media, was fiction. In reality, President Trump was much tougher on Russia than the Obama-Biden administration. For example, in 2012, former President Obama infamously told then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he...

Nice music for Sunday morning.

Jerusalem (CNN)The Palestinian Authority has canceled an agreement with Israel that was to have seen at least 1 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 transferred to the West Bank and Gaza. The abrupt turnaround came after health officials in Ramallah inspected the first delivery of almost 90,000 doses Friday afternoon, the Palestinian Health Minister said. ''It was found that the doses did not conform to the technical specifications as previously agreed upon, and that their expiry date was close,'' minister Mai Alkaila said, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. But they were criticized for failing to...

A shooting near a Juneteenth celebration in Northern California on Saturday evening left at least one person dead and several others wounded, police said. Shots rang out after around 1,000 people had gathered at Lake Merritt in Oakland for the holiday commemorating the historical end of slavery. Bullets struck six victims between ages 16 and 27, Oakland Police said in a statement. A 22-year-old victim died of his wounds at a hospital, the department confirmed. Two armed men seen running from the scene were arrested, the department said. Homicide investigators were determining if the men were the shooters. "Tonight a...

“Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he responded and said, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the Most High God, and come here!’ Then Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego came out of the midst of the fire. And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come...

The Father's Love For Me - Song and Video A beautiful song about God the Father's faithfulness to us throughout our entire life, until we are FOREVER with Him! Psalm 23 "Though the times have changed, You have always been the same!"

Song andMusic video Far Greater Than These (Matt. 19:27-30, 1 Cor. 2:9, 1 John 3:1-3, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Rev. 21; 22:1-5) If I possessed, all riches and lands And jewels that exceed all the grains of the sand But far greater than these, vaster than earth's vanities Is my Father's wondrous love for me As I ponder the glorious thought Of this world's wonders my Savior has wrought But far greater than these, vaster than the galaxies Is my Father's wondrous love for me Eyes have no seen, nor the glories been told His majestic ways, His children shall behold...

Growing up in Texas, Juneteenth has been a holiday for me all my life. A time to BBQ, a time to pray, and a time to celebrate freedom. A time to reflect on June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to take command of the more than 2,000 federal troops. This was two and half years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had become law on January 1, 1863. Imagine Major General Granger walking through the streets of Galveston reading General Order No. 3 out loud in front of homes, courthouses, businesses, and churches....

Dear American friends, if this 4th of July George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Rush and the rest of our Founding Fathers were to come back from the grave, they would rebuke and testify against America for her national departure from Almighty God, the laws of nature and of nature's God and our founding principles, The most astounding thing would be upon their return would be that the majority of American’s would NOT have an ear to hear them and would fully reject them outright. It is true that we live in another type of day today; one that abounds with...

CHICAGO — At least 21 people were shot in Chicago overnight, with three people having died from their injuries, according to police. A 24-year-old man was killed and a woman in her 20s was critically injured in a shooting in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood Saturday night, according to police. A 20-year-old man was injured in a shooting in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood Saturday night, according to police. Three people were injured in a shooting in Chicago’s New City neighborhood Saturday night, according to police. Police said a 34-year-old woman, a 62-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were all...

The family unit (i.e., Father and Mother) is Almighty God’s design to protect and insulate mankind from the immoral ravishings, which manifest themselves by the violations of the moral absolutes instilled at the beginning of the creation (Gen. 1:1-31, Ex 20:1-17, Mark 10:19, Rom. 13:9, Heb. 13:4). It is a strong family unit that rests and abides on the moral absolutes of time that will keep and preserve society from decadence violence and social breakdown. When these moral absolutes are rejected, the horrific consequences that follow are devastating to the children and nation. In light of Father's Day, godly fathers...

A man who collapsed on a street when he had a stroke in London's West End has tracked down the "guardian angel" who saved his life. Mathew O'Toole, 47, had been sitting on a bench outside a coffee shop in Wigmore Street, Mayfair, on 10 June when he began vomiting and sweating. He said a nurse with a "kind face" called Dani or Danielle spotted the signs of a stroke and stopped to help. The family has since made contact with her after a BBC News story on Saturday. Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Sunday, Mr O'Toole's wife, Georgina, 44,...

In a letter to Boris Johnson, as well as Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss, the Institute says the demand from Jayne Ozanne that even "gentle non-coercive prayer" on sexual subjects must be banned along with other "conversation therapy" components is a threat. ... In the United Kingdom, Ozanne, an LGBT activist, even has demanded that "prayer" by Christians be banned as talk that counsels against the LGBT lifestyle.