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“The Waltons,” one of TV's most popular and enduring programs, turns 50 on Wednesday The Rev. Matt Curry’s parents were children of the Great Depression, just like “The Waltons” — the beloved TV family whose prime-time series premiered 50 years ago. When Curry was growing up on a farm in northern Texas, his carpenter father and teacher mother often argued playfully over who had a poorer childhood. “The Depression was the seminal time of their lives — the time that was about family and survival and making it through,” said Curry, now a 59-year-old Presbyterian pastor in Owensboro, Kentucky. “My...

China attacked a report issued by the UN rights office (OHCHR) on alleged abuses in Xinjiang on Tuesday (Sep 13) and read out a statement backed by around 20 other countries criticising the UN body for releasing it and saying it had no right to do so. But initial support for Beijing's so-called joint statement at the UN Human Rights Council was thinner than some observers had expected - a fact that might embolden China's critics. The Aug 31 report, which China had asked the UN not to publish, stipulated that "serious human rights violations have been committed" and said...

A Democrat running for election to serve as California state controller, the state's independent fiscal watchdog, traveled to Venezuela in 2006 to learn about Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution. Malia Cohen, a Democrat running for the position who has received praise from Democratic leadership, currently serves as a member of the California State Board of Equalization and made the 10-day trip to the socialist country for $1,250. Cohen's trip to the country was documented in a CNN story about the group's tour, with Cohen claiming that "revolutionary thought" is "generational" as it showed an image of her gazing at a mural...

Couple just moved from California to Texas and neighbor comes calling.. Quite funny. Only 4 minutes long.

Portland residents fear being assaulted or encountering people experiencing a mental health crisis while walking around town, according to a recent survey, but those Fox News spoke with had mixed opinions about safety in the city. “I walk around all the time and during the day I feel fine,” said Amber, who recently moved to Portland from California. “I still keep my wits about me and I’m cautious, but I don’t feel like I’m really in any danger.” But Brenda disagreed. “I’m worried about being physically attacked,” she told Fox News. “It’s not safe. It’s just flat not safe.” Portland...

One person was taken to the hospital Tuesday evening after a package delivered to a building at Northeastern University exploded when it was opened, school officials confirmed. A second package was also found and rendered safe by the bomb squad, Boston police confirmed at a news conference Tuesday night. Northeastern University said the package was delivered to Holmes Hall on Leon Street around 7 p.m. and detonated when a staff member opened it. That person, a 45-year-old man, suffered minor hand injuries and was taken to the hospital.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he will retire from politics if he fails to be reelected in the upcoming October elections, as polls show him lagging. "If it's God's will, I'll continue (as president). If not, I'll pass the (presidential) sash and retire," Bolsonaro said Monday night during an interview on a podcast for young Evangelical Christians. The 67-year-old added: "At my age, I have nothing left to do here on Earth if my journey in politics ends on Dec 31," the last day of his term.

From pulling Mesopotamian war chariots to grinding grain in the Middle Ages, donkeys have carried civilization on their backs for centuries. DNA has now revealed just how ancient humans’ relationship with donkeys really is.The genetic instruction books of over 200 donkeys from countries around the world show that these beasts of burden were domesticated about 7,000 years ago in East Africa, researchers report in the Sept. 9 Science...This discovery shows that donkeys were domesticated in one fell swoop, roughly 3,000 years before horses.DNA has great potential for unraveling humankind’s shared history with our animal companions. In 2021, Orlando and his...

Most parents have experienced frustration when their infants cry excessively and refuse to sleep. Scientists have found that the best strategy to calm them down is by holding and walking with them for five minutes. Kuroda and her colleagues have been studying the transport response, an innate reaction seen in many altricial mammals—those whose young are immature and unable to care for themselves—such as mice, dogs, monkeys, and humans. They observed that when these animals pick up their infants and start walking, the bodies of their young tend to become docile and their heart rates slow. ..The team found that...

The left is very upset because instead of being cast into prison on his recent trip to Washington DC, President Donald J. Trump, a freeman, photographs of Trump boarding a plane loaded with heavy file boxes re-surfaced when Trump was relocating from his Florida family home, Mar-a-Lago, to his Bedminster golf club for the Summer.The DailyMail.com video from May 2021 showed the former president and Melania decamp to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, after wintering in Florida after they left the White House.Disgraced Peter Strzok posted about the May footage, along with what Strzok feels is a ‘smoking...

Archaeologists in Prague are currently uncovering a monumental building from the Stone Age. The so-called roundel, built around 7,000 years ago, is located in the district of Vinoř on the outskirts of the city. Experts are hoping that the research will reveal more information about these mysterious ancient structures.Roundels are large circular structures from the Neolithic period, that were constructed between 4600–4900 BC. That makes them the oldest monumental buildings in Europe, far older than the Egyptian pyramids or England’s Stonehenge.One such roundel is currently being examined in Prague’s district of Vinoř. So far, research has shown that the structure...

Bernie Kerik (@BernardKerik) speaks out after the FBI shows up at his home with a subpoena.WATCH the full interview here:https://t.co/zgFZmR229c pic.twitter.com/0IXw2zM06D— The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson (@AbsoluteWithE) September 13, 2022 Nice scoop this morning for Emerald Robinson show. Full interviewCLICK ON ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF THE INTERVIEW... After having his home targeted by the FBI & DOJ, Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) reacts to the reports that at least 50 Trump allies had been issued subpoenas and their homes raided.WATCH Emerald Robinson EVERY day on https://t.co/nw3HVz11pU at 12pm & 4pm ET. pic.twitter.com/SSyeSlm3i8— The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson...

The quake hit at 6:39 p.m. about 1.86 miles north of Santa Rosa, USGS said. It struck at a depth of about 4.6 miles. The Santa Rosa Fire Department said it was responding to multiple reports of gas odors, gas leaks and stuck elevators. There are no immediate reports of injuries.

Show of hands- True or false: The moment that force will become necessary to maintain freedom in America will be easy to identify.

The silent ceramic objects that survive from medieval Indian Ocean trade carry incredible stories of a time when South Asia had the upper hand over China...In the 830s CE, a ship tried to make a daring crossing. Navigating treacherous reefs and shoals, it was attempting to move from the South China Sea to the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. After a brief stop there, it intended to catch the monsoon winds to India. This attempt failed, and the ship’s contents — ranging from marvellously carved golden plates to glazed ceramics, from a diplomat’s ink-stone to a small toy dog...

While New York, California, and Boston continue to be the most expensive rental markets in the country, some unexpected locales have actually experienced the largest increases in one-bedroom apartment prices year-over-year.Greensboro, North Carolina, sits atop the list with rent increases of 74.2 percent, followed by Newport News, Virginia, at 60.7 percent, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 59.8 percent, according to Rent.com’s August report. Jon Leckie, a researcher with Rent.com, told The Epoch Times that such increases aren’t unusual, given the amount of people who have been flocking to these areas.“We’re seeing a pattern where the markets around the larger metro areas...

A former White House press officer staff from Trump administration, Karoline Leavitt, has won a contested Republican primary in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, Decision Desk HQ projects. Leavitt outdistanced a crowded GOP primary field in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District and will face incumbent Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., whose seat is considered vulnerable in November's general election. Pappas won unopposed. The district encompasses Manchester and the southeastern part of the state. Former President Donald Trump did not make an official endorsement in the race. The GOP field included former TV broadcaster Gail Huff Brown, wife of Scott Brown, a...

Another one bites the dust...Less than two weeks since Ravil Maganov, the vice president and chair of the board of directors of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after falling out of a sixth floor hospital window in Moscow, another Russian energy executive has been found dead in mysterious circumstances.39-year-old Ivan Pechorin, managing director of Putin's Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, fell off the side of a boat while sailing in the waters close to Russky Island near Cape Ignatiev, according to Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.For two days, rescuers searched for a man at sea near the coastline - unfortunately,...

Today's Coverage The market didn't like what it saw in Tuesday's CPI report--and stocks suffered. How much? The Dow fell nearly 1300 points Tuesday. U.S. stocks fell broadly, while Treasury yields rose, after the latest inflation data came in higher than expected. Read our full daily markets roundup here. The pace of U.S. consumer price inflation cooled compared with previous months, but it remained near a four-decade high. That led investors to sell just about everything. Tuesday's inflation report will help determine the path ahead for interest rates before the next Federal Reserve meeting. Analysts had hoped that Fed officials...

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is calling for Europeans to be cut off from electricity in order to “flatten the curve,” in a call-back to the propaganda used to destroy and demoralize populations during the COVID pandemic. “We see there’s a global scarcity of energy. So whatever we do, one thing is for sure, we have to save electricity, but we have to save it in a smart way,” she said. “So what we have to do is flatten the curve and avoid the peak demands,” Leyen added. “We will propose a mandatory target for reducing...