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WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 17. The War Department to-day received the following: CAIRO, Ill., April 16, 1862. The mortars opened on Fort Pillow on the 14th inst., and soon cleared the river of all vessels. Our shells fell in the rebel camp. The rebel works are strong and extensive. Two deserters came on board the gunboats, and say that ex-Lieut. THOMAS HUGER, late of the United States Navy, is in command at Fort Pillow, and that Gen. PILLOW and Commodore HOLLINS had gone below. WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 17. The Navy Department is in receipt of the following dispatches, detailing the operations...

Public health officials in Europe and the United States are investigating dozens of puzzling cases of severe hepatitis in young children.Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. The cause is often a virus, but the viruses that commonly cause the illness — hepatitis A, B, C, D and E — have been ruled out in the cases in question, leaving doctors searching for the culprit.In several cases, the illness was so severe that the children needed a liver transplant. No deaths have been reported.The World Health Organization on Friday said it was investigating 74 cases of severe acute hepatitis in...

A young man turned his life around after getting involved in a cult and suffering from schizophrenia, and now later in life is a leader in Christian ministry and running for Phoenix City Council. Nick Griemsmann has gone through a lot, but through the grace of God he was able to turn his life around and now helps others. He recently wrote an autobiography called Becoming God’s Friend. Griemsmann wasn’t raised as a Christian, and having trauma as a young boy no doubt set in motion some bad things. He developed addictions and dropped out of high school. He found...

On April 8, 1966, the pictureless front cover of Time Magazine asked a bold and direction question: “Is God Dead?” This was just two days before Easter Sunday, and in the decades that followed, it became increasingly common for anti-God, anti-Jesus, anti-Bible essays to be featured in various secular publications at this time of year. Now, in keeping with this anti-God attitude during this sacred season, an April 15 op-ed piece for the New York Times was headlined, “In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God.” How deeply sensitive for the Times to post this anti-God essay...

NEW YORK (AP) – A Russian general whose troops have been besieging the Ukrainian port of Mariupol was buried on Saturday in St Petersburg after dying in battle, the governor said. Major General Vladimir Frolov was deputy commander of the 8th Army, which Russian media identified as being among the forces battering Mariupol for weeks.….

French bishops are not expected to direct worshippers on how to vote in the French presidential elections as more and more Roman Catholics have become supporters of populist challenger Marine Le Pen. French Roman Catholic bishops have a long history of advising their worshippers on how to vote in elections but, for the 2022 French presidential election, they are expected to remain silent. In 2002, when Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of presidential hopeful leader Marine Le Pen, challenged Jacques Chirac in the second round of that year;s presidential election, bishops were public in their opposition to him — but...

This reactionary and neo-Confederate return to racial stigmatization and hatred is not going to end well. Elected governments were rare in the past. They did not appear until over four millennia after civilization first emerged in the Near East. Constitutional systems were fragile at birth. And they are on the wane today. Nation after nation seems to be devolving into autocracy. Multiethnic, multiracial consensual governments have been even more brittle and sporadic in history. The Roman, Ottoman, and Soviet empires were multiracial. But they were not consensual. Instead, they required a degree of force to ensure calm among rival tribes...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 8The Trumpets 6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. 7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. 8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9 a...

The EU has its own deep state and they don't like populist, nationalist, conservatives, either. Conservative Marine Le Pen will face France’s President Emmanuel Macron next Sunday in a runoff election for the presidency of France. Quite obviously, Le Pen’s nationalism and scares the transnationalists in Brussels and they have now retaliated. The UK Guardian reports: The European Union’s anti-fraud body has accused Marine Le Pen and several of her party members – including her father – of embezzling about €620,000 while serving as members of the European parliament. France’s investigative website Mediapart published a section of the new 116-report...

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Today, the Federal Reserve announced an increase in the target for the federal funds rate to between 0.25 and 0.50 percent after holding the rate close to zero since the onset of the pandemic to help the economy recover. The increase is meant to help tame rising inflation; however, any changes in interest rates will also have implications for the federal government’s borrowing costs and therefore the nation’s fiscal picture. Setting the target for the federal funds rate — the interest rate at which commercial banks lend to each other overnight — is an important tool for the Federal Reserve....

Americans face an inflation crisis—prices are rising at the fastest pace in forty years. A combination of excessive government spending from resident Biden’s American Rescue Plan, genuine supply chain problems, and energy policy that has increased our sensitivity to Putin’s war on Ukraine has caused inflation to rise the fastest in 40 years, 8.5%, about four times faster than the Federal Reserve’s target. Inflation is a burden on nearly everyone, sapping purchasing power from those on fixed incomes, and even though wages are rising at a fast pace of over 5%, for many, incomes are not rising as fast as...

Christina Pushaw, Governor Ron DeSantis’s press secretary, is an extremely effective communicator. For example, on Saturday, Pushaw managed to cut through the smog of lies that Democrats use to claim that they’re not teaching Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) in America’s schools. She did this by publishing incredibly foul, race-based math homework that is on the curriculum in Missouri public schools. Every since conservative Americans discovered, mostly thanks to the Zoom classrooms that Fauci’s lockdowns forced on America’s schools, that their children are being taught Critical Race Theory precepts (Blacks are victims; Whites are evil), Democrats have been denying that CRT...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port. The fall of Mariupol, the site of a merciless 7-week-old siege that has reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, would be Moscow’s biggest victory of the war and free up troops to take part in a potentially climactic battle for control of Ukraine’s industrial east.....

Evidently, the race-obsessed are now reduced to complaining that black people don’t have equal opportunities to commit crime successfully. Apparently Ariel Baker, who writes for Yahoo! Money, hasn’t learned about all the mansions bought by BLM people. Since the premiere of real-life criminal drama shows "The Dropout" and "Inventing Anna," America has become enraptured with the stories of Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Sorokin. Each series resulted in numerous hot takes on social media, with discourse around how two women managed to dupe the country's "elite" and heads of multi-million dollar companies, using what turned out to be elaborate schemes. We...

I pray everyone had a truly blessed Resurrection weekend; that is what this past weekend was about. It was about one person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, laying down His life for us to have eternal life. Last week I was honored to narrate Haydn's string quartet, The Last Seven Words of Christ on the Cross. It was humbling to read and explain the meaning of Christ's final words spoken from the cross. As well, this weekend allowed me to reflect back on some other words, four of which are the title of this missive. They are words that...

You'll never find Democratic wrongdoing in the mainstream media. Never be the first to stop clapping. This was the unwritten but well-known rule in Stalinist Russia. If one was at a formal function and an important dignitary walked in, everyone in attendance was obligated to applaud until the dignitary took his seat. This awkward clapping might go on for ten or more minutes, with nervous desperate glances to one's left or right, while the object of adulation would just stand there, coolly appraising his admirers, waiting for someone to break ranks. Why not be the first one to stop clapping?...

When attempting to predict the next wave of leftist insanity, it’s always smart to look to California, the land where Babylon Bee-style parody five years ago is inevitably tragic reality now, and the absurdist parody being written today is likely just a few months down the pike, if not already there. So naturally, in 2020 the land of fruits and nuts became the first state to establish a real-live “task force” to study the issue of slavery reparations. That task force made news earlier this month by voting to limit any compensation plan to, according to The Guardian, “descendants of...

The New Jersey GOP and the Republican National Committee are starting to sweat as momentum grows for Congressman Chris Smith’s GOP primary challenger, Mike Crispi. Today, NJ GOP establishment elite and RNC National Committeeman Bill Palatucci said the RNC is dispatching teams and sending funds to help Smith beat Crispi in June. snip Palatucci seemed confused when it came to Smith’s campaign. “Rep. Smith won in a landslide at the Monmouth GOP convention, the Middlesex GOP convention, and the Mercer GOP convention,” Palatucci said. snip “That’s right. You lost Ocean GOP convention in a landslide as well,” Palatucci bragged about...

First images have emerged appearing to show Russian Black Sea flagship Moskva on fire shortly before it sank Pictures show the ship billowing smoke, sitting low in the water, listing to port with damage on its left side Images are consistent with Ukrainian claims that they shot it with two missiles before it rolled and sank, and seem to contradict Russian accounts that the vessel went down in rough seas Came as conscripts who survived the sinking gave first accounts to their families of horrors suffered on board....