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The Pearl Police Department issued the following statement. Pearl Police have arrested Brandon Andrews, 20 of Flowood, after a pursuit Thursday morning. Pearl Officers attempted to make a traffic stop on a Toyota Camry for speeding westbound on Interstate 20 just before 11 a.m. Andrews failed to pull over and officers pursued. Andrews continued westbound on I-20 and onto I-55 south into the Jackson city limits. Andrews crashed into a U.S. Postal Service vehicle on Maria Drive just off McDowell Road. The Postal Service employee was injured and transported to UMMC and died due to his injuries. The suspect fled...

Please pray for the protection of our churches and the Eucharist! The pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us threatened sacrilegious actions against the Eucharist in a May 7 tweet. The tweet came in response to another individual who said should would offer rosaries to prevent disruption or violence during the Masses over the weekend. Here’s the tweet below: ***TWEET ON LINK*** @trustanddare, Twitter The tweet reads, “I’m offering my Rosaries this weekend for the protection of the clergy and Mass-goers, the police/security, and for the safety and change-of-heart of the pro-abortion protestors. “ Ruth Sent Us then responded with a threat,...

The New York Times published a series of op-eds by its opinion columnists Thursday that began with the phrase "I Was Wrong About." As part of the collection, Bret Stephens admitted he was wrong to label Trump supporters "appalling." Stephens said, "The worst line I ever wrote as a pundit" was the first he ever wrote about Trump: "If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling." "This opening salvo, from August 2015, was the first in what would become dozens of columns denouncing Trump as a unique threat to American life, democratic ideals and the world itself,"...

There are 6,166 state legislative seats up for election on November 8, 2022, across 46 states. This page analyzes incumbents defeated in those state legislative races. An incumbent may be defeated at two points in an election cycle: during a primary election or other nominating contest and during a general election.[1] Twenty-seven states have held state legislative primary elections: eight with a Democratic trifecta, 15 with Republican trifectas, and four with divided governments. Across those states, 138 incumbents lost to primary challengers, 5.0% of incumbents who filed for re-election. Across those 27 states: Thirty Democratic incumbents lost in primaries, 2.5%...

The debate about abortion isn’t merely about abortion. It is way bigger. It is about the fate of the sexual revolution. Abortion is a necessary part of sexual revolution. While mothers whose lives are endangered/rape and molestation cases are often cited, it is abortion as birth control that account for almost all abortions. Those who made billions, if not trillions, over the last several decades pimping the sexual revolution will throw every ounce of money they can to keep the march and the gravy train going forward. Those who support the sexual revolution, which has returned humanity’s sense of the...

It is expected – unless the vote fraud is even worse than usual this time – that the Republicans will win back both the US House and the US Senate in November 2022. This is not certain, and nobody should count their chickens before they’re hatched, though every poll points to it. Even so, it’s not too soon to talk about what the next GOP Congress needs to do. And this time, some of the absolute musts are unusual. First, a few ground rules: 1. Republican legislators have a tendency to say “if we don’t hold the executive branch, there’s...

On April 18, 1521, Martin Luther was on trial and said “Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me”. At the risk of his life, he was standing for the truth of Ephesians 2:8-9, that we are saved by God’s grace alone and not by our good works. What would Luther say if he could see today's Protestant churches? I believe he would cry out against “grace abuse.” Grace abuse says “Because we are saved by grace alone, we can live like the devil.” Luther would say that nothing could be further from the truth. Luther would...

Tiny turtles are undoubtedly adorable creatures, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people to steer clear of giving them a cuddle and a kiss following a salmonella outbreak. The agency said 15 people have been infected with salmonella with five hospitalized, though no deaths have been reported yet, according to an investigation notice. People can get salmonella by touching a turtle or something in its environment and then touching their mouth or handling food, regardless of the animal’s size, the CDC said.

<p>Pompeo, a former U.S. representative from Wichita, passed over former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former federal prosecutor Tony Mattivi in making his pick in the Republican race.</p>

If you’re surprised that the most outspoken Christians on social media for “justice” are not rejoicing over the most important Supreme Court ruling in our lifetime — you shouldn’t be. If you’re surprised that many woke “Christians” are angry that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — you shouldn’t be. You shouldn’t be surprised many woke “Christians” support abortion. As a pro-life advocate and a critic of woke ideology within the Church — I’ve been warning about Woke Christians’ implicit support for abortion for many years. Three years ago, I said: “One of the biggest indictments against the social...

Taiwan controls most of the world's chip manufacturing capacity, and that worries US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Raimondo believes the US would go into a "deep and immediate recession" and face great security risks if it lost access to the island nation's chips The Commerce Secretary made the warning in a Wednesday interview with CNBC as part of her plea for Congress to aid a major US semiconductor manufacturing expansion by passing the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act, which would unlock $52 billion in subsidies for new plants and research efforts. "If you allow yourself to think...

Attorney General Bridget Hill notified Gov. Mark Gordon on Thursday that Wyoming’s trigger abortion ban “would be fully authorized” under the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade last month. That clears the way for Gordon to enact the ban. It is unknown when he will do so. “I have received the Attorney General’s analysis,” Gordon said in an emailed statement late Thursday afternoon. “I will give it prompt attention, review it overnight, and consult with the Attorney General before proceeding.” After Roe’s reversal, there was much speculation about when Wyoming’s ban would actually take effect. Hill’s report...

Same facility recently saw another transgender woman impregnate two female inmates transgender woman convicted in a heinous child pornography case has been moved into the same New Jersey women’s prison that recently saw another transgender woman impregnate two prisoners. Marina Volz, formerly Matthew Volz, was transferred to the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women where Volz was listed as a female. The inmate was previously serving 25 years in the South Woods State Prison, a men’s correctional facility, for forcing her daughter to engage in child pornography, The outlet cited sources within the prison when it reported that Volz was...

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Canadian abortion advocates and activists have not stopped worrying about what's next. "It's like a horror show. We're all going through the shock and trying to just grapple with what the consequences will be," said Joyce Arthur, Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada. Arthur, whose work focuses on protecting legal abortion rights and access to services, says abortion clinics haven't started booking appointments yet from Americans but have received increased inquiries about if they'd have the capacity to make room for them. Kemlin Nembhard,...

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ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed a bill Thursday to fund abortion travel assistance. As a result, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued the city. Jones was joined by several aldermen and advocates in signing a bill to create the reproductive equity fund in response to Missouri’s ban on abortions. “Abortion bans hurt the young girls who have to cross state lines to get abortion care because their state no longer makes an exception for rape or assault,” said Jones. After the bill was signed, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt immediately filed a lawsuit to block the...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Marilyn Mosby, a high-profile prosecutor who aligned herself with criminal justice reformers but ended up with legal problems of her own, has lost the Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney to Ivan Bates, a defense attorney. Baltimore is heavily Democratic, and there is no Republican candidate in the race. Roya Hanna is an unaffiliated candidate who has filed to run in November’s general election. Mosby, who was a two-term incumbent, rose to national prominence in 2015 when she pursued criminal charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, a Black man who suffered...

Explanation: Beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628) lies some 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. An island universe of about 100 billion stars with two prominent spiral arms, M74 has long been admired by astronomers as a perfect example of a grand-design spiral galaxy. M74's central region is brought into a stunning, sharp focus in this recently processed image using publicly available data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The colorized combination of image data sets is from two of Webb's instruments NIRcam and MIRI, operating at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. It reveals cooler...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky judge has granted a request to block the enforcement of abortion bans amid a lawsuit. That means abortions in Kentucky continue to be legal for now. The ACLU, Planned Parenthood and EMW Clinic in Louisville filed a lawsuit after a sweeping abortion ban went into effect across the state triggered by the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The groups were granted a temporary restraining order to halt the ban last month by Jefferson County Judge Mitch Perry. Friday's ruling, also by Perry, is a temporary injunction that will keep abortions legal at...

[Catholic Caucus] Persecution in DC: One Young Catholic’s Journey in the Faith, and His (Now Eliminated) Parish Mass I attended my first Tridentine Mass at the age of thirteen (I am now twenty). My new, young pastor convinced me to come, challenging me to kneel on marble for an hour (I had to prove my physical strength—he certainly understood the psyche of the teenage boy). This experience ignited a love affair with Christ and the liturgy that revolutionized my entire life—in the faith and otherwise.I would say I had never been pious before this moment, but that would be...