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"I almost don't have words for how low it made me feel," says Melissa Henderson. When COVID-19 shut down her children's daycare in May of 2020, and Melissa Henderson had to go to work, she asked her 14-year-old daughter, Linley, to babysit the four younger siblings. Linley was engaged in remote learning when her youngest brother, four-year-old Thaddeus, spied his friend outside and went over to play with him. It was about 10 or 15 minutes before Linley realized he was missing. She guessed that he must be at his friend's house, and went to fetch him. In the meantime,...

The U.S. Postal Service defended its plan to replace the majority of its delivery vehicles with gas-powered trucks while electrifying some of its fleet. “Our commitment to an electric fleet remains ambitious given the pressing vehicle and safety needs of our aging fleet as well as our dire financial condition,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in a statement on Sunday. “The proposed action, which we are evaluating under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), includes an initial order plan for 5,000 electric vehicles, and the flexibility to increase the number of electric vehicles introduced should additional funding become available.” The...

The agency said Feb. 7 it awarded a contract valued at up to $194 million to Lockheed to develop the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), an essential element of the overall Mars Sample Return campaign being developed by NASA and the European Space Agency. The MAV will be transported to Mars on a NASA-led Sample Retrieval Lander, which will also carry an ESA-developed rover. That rover will pick up samples of Martian rock and regolith cached by Perseverance and return them to the lander. Perseverance may also return some samples to the lander on its own. Those samples will be loaded...

“When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him” (Matthew 5:1). The gospel of the kingdom’s foundational truth (contained in the Sermon on the Mount) has had an impact for two thousand years on all who read and hear it. At least five reasons come to mind as to why Jesus’ greatest of sermons is so important. First, the Sermon demonstrates the necessity of the new birth. In order for us to recognize our sin, Jesus made a fuller, clearer presentation of the law, followed by His offer...

The inspector general for the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) has opened a formal investigation into whether the law enforcement agency tasked with securing the Capitol has been inappropriately surveilling elected members of Congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices, The Federalist has learned. The opening of the investigation follows news reports and accusations from lawmakers that USCP has overstepped its bounds as it tries to recover from the January 6 riots that tarnished both the Capitol and the reputation of the law enforcement agency that was supposed to keep it safe. USCP Chief J. Thomas Manger confirmed the opening...

Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me, and he’s in heaven now to maintain that peace for me and in me. The peace we have with God through Christ distinguishes our faith from all other religions. In every other religion besides Christianity, the sin question is never settled. Sin’s dominion simply hasn’t been broken. Therefore, “’There is no peace,’ says the Lord, ‘for the wicked.’” (Isaiah 48:22, NKJV), but we have a God who provides peace by pardoning sin. This is the very reason Jesus came to earth: to bring peace to troubled, fearful humankind....

The current location is 234,461,410 miles (377,329,180 km, 2.522 AU, 20.98 light minutes) from Earth, moving away from Earth at a speed of 3,608 mi/h (5,806 km/h, 1.61 km/s). [Numbers adjust in real time] It has achieved a fuel economy of 15,691.1 miles per gallon (6,671.0 km/liter, 0.01499 liters/100 km), assuming 126,000 gallons of fuel. If the battery was still working, Starman has listened to Space Oddity 397,542 times since he launched in one ear, and to Is there Life On Mars? 535,670 times in his other ear. Starman has completed about 2.6269 orbits around the Sun since launch.

Months ago, a man who was featured on the FBI website — and wanted for attacking police at the Capitol during Jan. 6 attacks — died. The FBI must now decide what to do with these photos. Since Jan. 6, the FBI has posted photos of over 500 people on its U.S. Capitol Violence webpage. Over 350 people listed on the page have not been arrested. Several others have been identified online. The website labels people who are currently in jail as “arrest.” The FBI has removed some images from its database of people who have not been arrested in...

Wasting food is particularly hard on a food budget. Think about it. You’ve already spent the money. And you get zero benefit from it when it hits the trash. Can’t get much worse than that if you’re a Dollar Stretcher. How much do we waste? Good question. And, not an easy one to answer. According to data from RTS.com, “the United States discards more food than any other country in the world: nearly 40 million tons — 80 billion pounds — every year.” 43% of that waste is by consumers at home. Yes, we are throwing almost 35 billion pounds...

State Department spokesperson Ned Price was pressed in a heated back and forth Monday with The Associated Press' diplomatic reporter on whether the Biden administration lifting some sanctions benefited the Shia Islamist regime. Lee asked, "Ned, are you saying that that long list of things that you said that these waivers give. You're saying that there's no benefit to Iran in any of that?" Price replied, "I am saying that the net benefit of this is a nonproliferation goal for us."

Justin Trudeau’s brother spills the globalist secrets… Kyle Kemper born in 1984 to Margaret Trudeau and her second husband Fred Kemper I encourage watching this short video.

A visibly agitated Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday night belittled members of the Freedom Convoy who have descended on the capital Ottawa in their thousands, claiming “A few people shouting and waving swastikas does not define who Canadians are.” The left-wing Trudeau was addressing an emergency session of Parliament in Ottawa when he went on the attack against opponents of vaccine mandates, adding to previous sneers that characterized trucker protesters and supportive demonstrators as “conspiracy theorist” wearers of “tinfoil hats.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol Police are alleged to have illegally entered the office of Congressman Troy Nehls (R-TX), photographing confidential legislative products and grilling staff, according to reports. The police – now under formal investigation – stand accused of dressing up as construction workers and attempting another entry just two days later.The stunning, Watergate-style scandal comes after almost a year of warnings that Speaker Pelosi and Democrats in Congress were politicizing the Capitol Police, using them as a Stasi-style enforcement unit against GOP opponents. Reports suggest Capitol Police have built intelligence dossiers on those illegally investigated.

President Joe Biden’s top science adviser, Eric Lander, has just quit the administration suddenly after a new probe revealed allegations of bullying from subordinates. Lander, who has been linked to deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, abruptly resigned Monday evening. His resignation came after an internal White House investigation found that he was bullying staffers. In his resignation letter Lander, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the White House, wrote that he was “devastated” for hurting his colleagues. Lander said: “It is clear that things I said, and the way I said them, crossed the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him in their marathon talks a day earlier that Moscow would not further escalate the Ukraine crisis. Macron’s remarks on a visit to Kyiv came as the Kremlin denied reports that he and Putin struck a deal on de-escalating the crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “in the current situation, Moscow and Paris can’t be reaching any deals.”

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As the Bay Area continues to struggle under the weight of its homelessness crisis, officials and nonprofits are asking local residents to do more than hand out meals or donate spare change. They’re asking them to open up their homes.

Los Angeles County will retain its indoor mask mandate past the February 15 date set Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom as the date to end a statewide mandate, according to public health officials in the county.

Canadian protesters have impeded access to the busiest international crossing in North America again Tuesday as frustration over their ongoing demonstrations against Covid-19 rules continues to roil the nation.

The restaurant business is a tough one, and the COVID-19 pandemic almost all but destroyed it. Even before closures became mandatory, restaurants came and went with regularity. Statistics on restaurant failure rates vary widely. Oneestimatesuggests that up to 90% of independent eating places close within their first year of operation. Unmanageable rent increases, changes in customer demographics or consumer tastes, fires or the effects of natural disasters, and the deaths and divorces (or simply retirement) of owners are among the many reasons that even thriving eating places fail.< P>

Protests over vaccine mandates and Covid-19 restrictions widened across Canada, with truck blockades halting commercial traffic at critical border crossings including the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit. The structure that connects to Windsor, Ontario, was shut down in both directions late Monday. The land crossing is the most important link for goods moving between Canada and the U.S. and a crucial artery for auto parts suppliers and manufacturers. Another border crossing at Coutts, Alberta, which had already been partly blocked by truckers, was also completely closed for a time, the Canadian border agency said. It’s the main route for the province’s...