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“My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman" (Proverbs 6:20-24).

Ed Mullins, president of the New York Police Department (NYPD) Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) union, resigned on Tuesday evening, less than a day after the FBI raided the union's headquarters. The Tuesday morning raid was part of "an ongoing investigation," the FBI said. The law enforcement agency has not yet disclosed further details on what precipitated the raid. "The nature and scope of this criminal investigation has yet to be determined. However, it is clear that President Mullins is apparently the target of the federal investigation," the SBA executive board said in a letter to its members. "We have no...

Mark Zuckerberg shot back at the whistleblower who testified that the Facebook CEO has no accountability at a Senate hearing Tuesday. Zuckerberg said the company he founded cares “deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health” after former employee Frances Haugen urged lawmakers to have government regulators oversee the social network, which she said should declare “moral bankruptcy.” “If we wanted to hide our results, why would we have established an industry-leading standard for transparency and reporting on what we’re doing?” SEE ALSO Frances Haugen 5 takeaways from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s Senate testimony Zuckerberg also noted that social...

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Trump’s ‘I would beat everyone else’ comments seen as warning shot to possible 2024 GOP nomination challengers Days ahead of his first visit this year to the state that kicks off the White House race, a new poll indicates former President Trump is more popular than ever in Iowa. Fifty-three percent of Iowans have a favorable view of the former president and 45% hold an unfavorable view, according to a Des Moines Register/Mediacom survey released on Monday. The release of the poll comes less than a week before the former president’s rally Saturday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — With Idaho Gov. Brad Little out of the state on Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin issued an executive order involving COVID-19 vaccines. Oh no you don’t, said Little, who promised to rescind it in quick order. The maneuvering of Idaho’s top leaders came while Little was in Texas meeting with nine other Republican governors over concerns on how President Joe Biden is handling border issues. McGeachin, a far-right Republican, is running for governor. In Idaho, the governor and lieutenant governor don’t run on the same ticket. McGeachin’s executive order issued Tuesday afternoon seeks, among other things,...

State-backed newspaper said Chinese people were ready to back war with US Comes as China is becoming increasingly provocative towards Taiwan Meanwhile, Beijing has been infuriated by activity of US and UK navies in region HMS Queen Elizabeth was picture undertaking training exercise is Philippine sea Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen vowed to 'do whatever it takes' to guard island But she indicated that without help from allies, China could seize the island Nearly 150 Chinese warplanes have flown into Taiwan's airspace since Friday President Xi has described the seizure of the democratic island as 'inevitable' China warned that World War...

John Tesh has revealed he 'went back into the trenches' with a cancer relapse amid the COVID-19 pandemic last autumn. The composer and former Entertainment Tonight co-host, 69, told People that he had two tumors around his pelvis that required chemotherapy. And he also had his prostate taken out and lost the use of one of his kidneys. These days he is feeling better with his cancer in remission, thanks in part to help from his wife, actress Connie Sellecca. And he also shared that he felt 'battle ready' after defeating cancer the first time. In 2015, Tesh was told...

"I've got news for you, School Board President Benito Mussolini, your power does not supersede that of the U.S. constitution and the rights of the citizens of this great country," he said before being warned not to name-call. "I'm quoting you from the U.S. Supreme Court. The judges wrote: 'This nation is founded on the profound national commitment to the principle that debate of public issues shall be uninhibited, robust, and wide open. And that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.' That's constitutional case law in this nation. I don't...

A mountain of human remains and animal carcases have been found in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan, a vast underground tunnel that spreads for more than than 40 miles created by a river of lava ...Researchers found the gruesome mountain in Saudi Arabia's Umm Jirsan lava tube, which is thought to be the longest network of its kind in the country, measuring 4,900 feet long and around 26 to 29 feet. The "extremely dense accumulation of bones" was found on the lava tube's western passage...

Former President Donald Trump urged the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2018 National Reporting awards given to The New York Times and The Washington Post for coverage of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2020 campaign, saying their stories were based on “false reporting” and a “complete lack of evidence.” “As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation,” Trump wrote in a letter addressed to...

FRANCE threatened to cut energy supplies to Britain and mocked the nation’s fuel ­crisis as the Brexit fishing row turned nasty. Europe minister Clement Beaune vowed to exploit the supply chaos to try to win more access to UK waters.... ...President Emmanuel Macron is angry that the UK and Jersey denied licences to most French boats that applied... ...No10, meanwhile, said it rejected licence applications only of boat owners with no records to show they fished UK waters before Brexit. Militant French fishermen have threatened to blockade Calais and stop the flow of goods to and from Britain in the...

Well, well, well… This is interesting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over Critical Race Theory indoctrination material. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a memorandum to the FBI instructing them to initiate investigations of any parent attending a local school board meeting who might be viewed as confrontational, intimidating or harassing. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s daughter is Rebecca Garland. In 2018 Rebecca Garland married Xan Tanner [LINK]. Mr. Xan Tanner is the current co-founder of a controversial education service company called Panorama Education. [LINK and LINK] Panorama...

Facebook staff said they experienced "what felt like a snow day" when the site's global outage left them paralysed on Monday. ...A Facebook employee reportedly said workers were not able to enter buildings to examine the scale of the outage on Monday.... ....Meanwhile other members of staff at Facebook said it felt like they were having a 'snow day' as the firm's internal tools and communications also went down yesterday. This meant no one was able to do any work, tech reporter Ryan Mac tweeted... The issues were caused by a faulty configuration change, according to Facebook. Explaining the outage,...

Actress Jennifer Aniston expressed her support for the killing of unborn babies in abortions over the weekend, posting “No uterus, no opinion” and other pro-abortion content on her Instagram account. Her Instagram story posts coincided with the Women’s March protests on Saturday. The march adopted a radical pro-abortion theme this year, “Rally for Abortion Justice,” to oppose pro-life laws that are saving thousands of babies’ lives. Aniston shared several photos of pro-abortion protesters on her Instagram page Sunday, likely from the protest. Best known for her role on the sitcom “Friends,” she also posted a GIF from the show when...

GOP gubernatorial candidate Geoff Diehl has landed a big deal endorsement. Former President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind the conservative candidate in a race where rivals are still lining up and Gov. Charlie Baker has yet to declare. “Baker is bad on crime, disrespects our police, does nothing for our Veterans, has totally botched the Vaccination rollout, presided over the collapse of the MBTA, and has seen crime go to record levels,” Trump said in his endorsement Tuesday night. Diehl has branded himself as a conservative counterweight in a race where most of the other candidates swing far...

When health experts talk about the remarkable efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, they typically point to their ability to prevent severe disease and death. Fully vaccinated people can still get “breakthrough” infections from the virus that causes COVID-19—but compared to an unvaccinated person, they’re more than 10 times less likely to be hospitalized or die from their illness, according to (CDC) research. Officials often point to these impressive figures as evidence that we can tame COVID-19 into a mostly mild illness that behaves like a routine cold or flu, and thus with which we can coexist. After all, the vaccines were...

ESPN has removed personality Sage Steele from programming for a week after she made controversial remarks in a podcast appearance, including calling the company's coronavirus vaccine mandate "sick" and saying it was "fascinating" that former President Obama self-identifies as Black "considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found." Front Office Sports and the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday reported that Steele won’t appear in her regular noon “SportsCenter” slot for a week and she will no longer be the host for the 2021 "espnW: Women + Sports Summit," which will take place from Oct 18 to 20.

With less than a month before Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial, his attorneys attempted to dismiss the gun charge against him Tuesday by arguing Wisconsin’s hunting laws allowed the teen to carry an assault rifle on the night he fatally shot two people and injured a third in downtown Kenosha. Under state statute, there are specific training and supervision requirements for anyone 16 years or younger to possess a gun while hunting. It does not detail restrictions for anyone older than that.