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"It's one thing to read the Scriptures and know the prophecies that have already taken place," wrote one online commenter, reacting to noted Christian evangelist Ray Comfort's latest viral video on the possible near-term manifestation of the biblical "mark of the beast.""But to see them unfold before your eyes gives me chills up my spine. Kind of an excitement as well because I know the end results and who wins."That famous prophecy in the last book of the Bible predicts that ultimately, everyone on earth will be required to receive a "mark" on the back of their right hand or...

An armed good Samaritan intervened by shooting a man who was allegedly stabbing a woman at a gas station near Waco, Texas, on Friday. KWTX reports that the good Samaritan “witnessed a domestic violence incident” about 7:40 p.m., wherein a man was allegedly stabbing the woman. The Waco Tribune noted that the attacker was allegedly “chasing the woman into the store” when onlookers called 911. Officer Officer Garen Bynum said that officers were responding to the scene when they learned a “separate third-party individual had intervened in an attempt to defend the female victim by shooting the suspect with a...

A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would reform an 1887 election law that has been in the spotlight in the wake of the 2020 election. The proposal — from Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats, Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — would clarify that the vice president's role overseeing the formal counting of the Electoral College vote is ceremonial. The proposal comes after then-President Trump tried to get his vice president, Mike Pence, to throw out results from battleground states that he lost in the 2020...

Now this is a fun and lively exchange of words in the Canadian Parliment today. https://youtu.be/9YzAw49ZjvA

--snip-- Rachel Maddow made it official Monday night, informing her audience (as Insider's Claire Atkinson first reported earlier in the day) that she will be taking a two-month leave of absence, starting on Friday, from her MSNBC program. "Just like late-night hosts sometimes go on hiatus and their shows, I'm gonna go on hiatus here for a little bit from the show," Maddow said. She will be working on other projects, including the feature film, directed by Ben Stiller, based off her podcast and book "Bag Man," and a new podcast. Maddow said viewers can expect her to return to...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country music star Mickey Guyton will hit this month’s Super Bowl stage to sing the national anthem, while R&B hitmaker Jhené Aiko will perform “America the Beautiful.” The performances will take place Feb. 13 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, before the championship matchup and halftime show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar. The performances and game will air on NBC. Actress Sandra Mae Frank will perform the national anthem and “America the Beautiful” in American sign language. Gospel duo Mary Mary will be accompanied by the LA Phil’s YOLA...

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday. That beat the old record set in 2018 in Brazil of 440.6 miles (709 kilometers). Also in 2020, a single lightning flash over Uruguay and northern Argentina lasted 17.1 seconds, nipping the old time record of 16.7 seconds. Normally lightning doesn’t stretch farther than 10 miles and lasts less than a second, said Arizona State University’s...

When it comes to measuring global warming, humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds. Researchers say temperature by itself isn’t the best way to measure climate change’s weird weather and downplays impacts in the tropics. But factoring in air moisture along with heat shows that climate change since 1980 is nearly twice as bad as previously calculated, according to their study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The energy generated in extreme weather, such as storms, floods and rainfall is related to the amount of water in the air. So...

The IRS will soon make taxpayers upload a selfie to access certain tax tools. “Starting in summer 2022, if you need to login to the IRS’s website to access the Child Tax Credit Update Portal, get your tax transcript or view a payment agreement with the agency, you will need to create an account with third-party identity verification company ID.me,” CNBC reported. “A simple username and password will no longer suffice: You will need to provide a government document with a photo, such as a driver’s license, state ID or passport, and take a video selfie with your smartphone or...

A newly released Monmouth University Poll reveals that 70% of Americans agree it’s time to accept that COVID is here to stay and move on with our lives. I couldn’t agree more. Interestingly, of the 70% who agree it’s time to move on, 78% “report having gotten COVID and 65% of those who say they have not been infected.” It seems even those who have yet to get the virus are saying enough is enough. Surprisingly, exposure to the virus doesn’t appear to be the main factor in determining whether it’s “time to move on.” Monmouth claims the main factor...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press. The numbers are unambiguous. In Mississippi, people of color comprise 44% of the population but 80% of women receiving abortions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks health statistics. In Texas, they’re 59% of the population...

Two FDA “approvals,” two shell games. On Monday, the FDA “approved” Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine for all US customers. Just like the Pfizer “approval” episode, this vaccine will not be able for anyone for an indefinite period of time. And according to the FDA, the shot was approved without being tested for Omicron, which accounts for 99.9% of current U.S. COVID cases. “Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a second COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine; the approved vaccine will be marketed as Spikevax for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18...

Freedom Convoy 2022 Live Feb 1st. Let's go for a walk around the Freedom Convoy 2022 #FreedomConvoy2022 #Ottawa #Canada

Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas evidentally has contempt for his fellow Cabinet members in the Biden administration. A former ICE agency adviser, Jon Feere, observed this as Mayorkas was giving his spiel:The Secretary of Homeland Security is telling foreigners to ignore the Secretary of State. His message: Lie to consular officers, don't abide by the terms of your visa, and stay as long as you want because the State Dept and all of its employees are not to be taken seriously. https://t.co/2Uo6uoj4yo — Jon Feere 🇺🇸 (@JonFeere) January 31, 2022Mayorkas was making his typically forked-tongue spiel to assure illegals they...

26-year-old convicted sex offender Hannah Tubbs will serve two years in a juvenile facility, and will not have to register as a sex offender, thanks to George Soros-backed L.A. District Attorney George Gascón’s decision not to prosecute in adult court. Tubbs, a transgender female, admitted choking and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old in a bathroom stall at a restaurant in 2014, a crime that shocked L.A. at the time and was not solved until DNA evidence turned up in Tubbs’s later criminal trials. The transgender male-to-female Tubbs was linked to the crime in 2019. As Breitbart News reported last month, Gascón...

CBS News addressed the ongoing targeting of Joe Rogan for censorship, suggesting that the podcast host is killing people by spreading COVID misinformation.While claiming that they are in favour of free speech, the talking heads on CBS Mornings declared Rogan’s show to be “dangerous.” “You have a First Amendment right to say what you want. You don’t have a First Amendment right to appear on a platform as large as Spotify, that’s the issue,” said one of the script readers. After flashing up a graph showing rates of unvaccinated hospitalisations (figures grossly distorted by the lack of distinction between people...

The Lancet, published since 1823, is universally recognized as one of the top medical publications in the world, though it damaged its reputation by publishing and then subsequently retracting a study attacking the use of hydroxychloroquine as a therapy for COVID. Still, the retraction was the right thing to do, and it is hardly unprecedented in the history of academic and medical publishing.In an article published January 19, The Lancet throws cold water on those merchants of panic who wish to use COVID as an excuse to rob people if their civil rights."COVID-19 will continue but the end of the...

EXCLUSIVE: Smoking gun documents tie Nancy Pelosi's son to fraud and bribery scheme to remove permit violations against squalid San Francisco flop house owned by his ex-girlfriend and probed by the FBI DailyMail.com revealed last week Paul Pelosi Jr. is involved in an FBI investigation into San Francisco officials The officials were allegedly bribed to remove violations at Nancy Pelosi's son's ex-girlfriend's squalid property Now DailyMail.com has obtained smoking gun documents that tie him directly to the fraud and bribery scheme In one document, Pelosi signed statements that he was the property owner, 'the party legally and financially responsible for...

MADISON, Wis. — Local health department representatives say a new Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Dane County, although officials say it is too early to say what effect the new variant may have on case numbers. Representatives from Public Health Madison & Dane County confirmed to News 3 Now that the single case of Omicron BA.2 that has been discovered in Wisconsin so far was found in Dane County. The discovery comes nearly two years to the day of Dane County having Wisconsin’s first confirmed case of the original strain of COVID-19. The new Omicron strain...