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Victor Glover literally stepped out in faith last year as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station who participated in four spacewalks. The 46-year-old Navy commander and NASA astronaut shared his faith journey and his high-flying adventures Wednesday at Abell Street Church of Christ in Wharton. His hour-long talk blended stories of his spaceflight experience with biblical lessons. He was part of a four-person crew to make the first SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the space station, where he worked and lived from Nov. 15, 2020, to May 2, 2021. As a Christian, he never shied away from his faith....

When Will the Indoor Mask Mandate Return? A mandatory indoor mask mandate will be imposed if the county remains in the "high" category for two consecutive weeks -- which, under the current pace, means the mandate will take effect by July 29. "I do recognize that when we return to universal indoor masking to reduce high spread, for many, this will feel like a step backwards,'' Ferrer said. But she said universal masking "makes a lot of sense because it helps us to reduce risk.''

How the Pentagon’s top-brass generals burned the careers of subordinates but then pivoted to lucrative careers all while losing the wars they were supposed to be winning. My new book, A Few Bad Men, details the mendacity and mad dishonesty of retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis. The fact that it was written by a Marine once under his command, whom he betrayed for the sake of politics and getting to slap on another star, says volumes about this once-lionized figure. It all goes back to an incident in Afghanistan in 2007, and the Court of Inquiry trial of...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Universal masking is now recommended for 50 localities in Virginia, and that once again includes much of Metro Richmond, according to the COVID Community Levels from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

We're not out of the woods just yet. The start of the school year in the ArkLaTex is still a few weeks away, and who knows what will happen. If infection and hospitalization rates continue to climb at the rate they are now, school officials could very well put all-too-familiar policies in place to mitigate the spread of the virus.

The state Health Department has recommended Arkansans check the level in their county to determine what precautions they should take. "If they're in a county with [a] high [covid-19 level], then they should wear masks when they're out in public indoors," Dillaha said earlier this week.

he mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who was raped and impregnated by an illegal immigrant has denied the charges, despite the suspect admitting to the crime. The woman, who declined to identify herself, claims her daughter is 'fine' after being forced to travel to Indiana to get an abortion. The procedure was barred in their home state due to the so-called heartbeat bill, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Gerson Fuentes, 27, of Guatemala, confessed to raping the young girl - however, her mother alleged to a television reporter that 'everything they're saying against him is...

Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes in history and the victim of what many considered a century-old Olympic injustice, has been restored as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games. Thorpe, who excelled at a dozen or more sports, had dominated his two events at the 1912 Games in Stockholm but was stripped of his medals after it emerged that he had briefly played professional baseball before his Olympic career. American officials, in what historians considered a blend of racism and a fanatical devotion to the idea of amateurism, had been among the...

Schiff tucked an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act that would prohibit any evidence collected in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act from being used in investigations. Why? Jeffrey Rosen had a secret on January 6, 2021. The then-acting attorney general—Rosen was appointed on December 24, 2020 to replace departing Attorney General William Barr—had assembled a team of elite and highly skilled government agents at Quantico, a nexus point between the FBI and U.S. military, the weekend before Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. At the same time he was rejecting President Donald Trump’s...

Before Robert E. Crimo III was captured, police with armored Bearcat trucks and tactical gear surrounded Denise Pesina’s home carrying rifles and body shields. From the appearance of tactical positions of the SWAT personnel, it was apparent that police eventually did not suspect that Crimo III was inside the home. However, they wanted to enter the home for some reason, and apparently Denise Pesina wasn’t cooperating with police. While police assembled and waited, Denise Pesina accosted police and walked back and forth down her street in front of her home. She twirled her body, while pointing at equipment and personnel,...

Grimes, the former girlfriend of Elon Musk, has reportedly split from her latest partner Chelsea Manning after four months together with the WikiLeaks whistleblower, sources have claimed. The ex-girlfriend of Elon Musk, music artist Grimes, has split up with transgender activist and WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning after just four months together. Singer Grimes, 34, and Chelsea Manning, 34, were revealed as an item just four short months ago but reports indicate that the pair have now split. The couple had started dating after Grimes split from the father of her two children, Musk, 54, for the second time. But sources...

You may have noticed that, especially in the last few years, western civilization, and American society generally, seems to have plunged into an abyss of insanity, depravity, and general confusion. With the introduction to concepts like “Critical Race Theory” or “Gender Theory” to the national discourse, and with words being created seemingly out of thin air, like “heteronormative,” “pan-sexual,” “non-binary,” and the prefix, ”cis-,” society has been pushed closer and closer to the edge of national disunity and societal insanity. The fact that men and women are now being referred to not as “male” or “female,” but “cis-male” and “cis-female”...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 37Joseph’s Dreams 37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe for him. 4 When...

Big, high-profile liberal states like California and New York grab most of the headlines and would appear to lay legitimate claim to the title of “Most Outrageous Liberal State.” With their inept governors and big-city mayors, rampant crime, embarrassing homelessness and über-woke public policies, CA and NY definitely deserve the negative attention they attract. Massachusetts is more subtle. Sure, on a national level, we have the reputation for being “Taxachusetts” and everyone knows that John Kerry and the Kennedys are from here, but we don’t garner the adverse notoriety that CA and NY do. Instead of the humiliating blunders that...

A British aid worker detained by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and accused of being a mercenary has died due to “illness and stress”, according to Russian state media reports. Paul Urey was captured in eastern Ukraine in late April and charged with “mercenary activities” by separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Russian media reports cite DPR ombudsman, Daria Morozova, who wrote on her Telegram account: “British representatives ignored even the possibility of negotiating his return as part of the prisoner exchange procedure. “Moreover, they did not provide the necessary medical preparations through the Red Cross. Paul Urey was...

BRUSSELS, July 15 (Reuters) - The European Commission will sue Hungary over an anti-LGBT law and its refusal to renew the license of Klubradio, a broadcaster critical of the government, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters ahead of an official announcement on Friday.

TOKYO -- The family of the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to death was impoverished as a result of his mother's huge donation to a religious group, an uncle of the man told reporters Friday. The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, joined the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly known as the Unification Church, in 1991 and donated 20 million yen ($144,112) at the time of entrance, the uncle said. She continued to donate even after the family went bankrupt. Using a handmade gun, Yamagami shot Abe during a campaign event in the...

With Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s premiership on the brink of collapse, the European Union may be about to lose one of the last grown-ups in the room. Draghi, 74, is credited with saving the euro during the financial crisis and has played a crucial role in stabilizing the EU’s third-biggest economy as the bloc faces an energy crunch and war on its doorstep. But a domestic political feud within his coalition government proved too much for the Italian leader to tolerate and he announced on Thursday that he was offering to resign. His resignation was instantly rejected by Italian...

Kaja Kallas officially resigned as Estonia’s prime minister Thursday, bringing her government to an end. But she already has new coalition partners in place. On June 3, Kallas kicked the left-leaning Center Party out of the two-party coalition after escalating tensions over spending and welfare policies. The resignation of the prime minister was a formality needed in order to form a new government. In a statement, Kallas — who heads the center-right Reform Party — thanked the ministers with whom she led the country for one and a half years, saying that the coalition did “many good and great things”...