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Programs for transgender advocacy aimed at children may have at last been a bridge too far for progressive activists.(snip) On Wednesday, Southern California mother Brittany Mayer posted her confrontation with the Encinitas Union School District board on Twitter. The video of her insightful rant has since gone viral.(snip) “We’re done mincing words. While we have a culture that has a huge problem with child porn and with sex trafficking … Encinitas Union School District in CA, made the decision to feature an event to sexualize young children. “We will call it exactly what it is.” A fire icon accompanies the...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area. Many of you have shared on social media that you’ve recently started seeing more spiders. Just around Matt Dunkel’s home he’s found five spiders. Around his Oro Valley neighborhood, he’s found three. “It’s been crazy! It’s been awesome! There’s been spiders all over the place,” he said. He's been seeing them pop up over the past few weeks. “Now we’ve just been seeing them everywhere so it’s been really kind of neat to see all the little...

Arrested was Wesley Brownlee, 43, for homicide. SPD News: Message from Chief Stanley McFadden regarding Homicide Series I have a major announcement in our homicide series investigation. An arrest has been made!!!! Before I go into details of the arrest, I want to thank the men and women of the Stockton Police Department and our law enforcement partners who have been working on this investigation: …

The Jan. 6 House Select Committee's unanimous vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump was blasted by House GOP members Thursday."Today's subpoena of President Donald J. Trump less than one month from the midterm elections is a desperate political ploy by Democrats and their mainstream media stenographer allies," House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York wrote in a statement, The Hill reported."The American people are smart and the Democrats' abuse of power will only energize the American people to fire Nancy Pelosi once and for all and deliver a red tsunami that will elect a historic Republican...

The FOX 8 I-Team has learned yet another woman has filed a civil lawsuit against Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson claiming he pressured her into a sex act when she met him to give him a massage. This suit was filed in Harris County District Court Thursday and relates to an encounter in December 2020. It is not part of the two dozen other lawsuits filed in Houston by women accusing Watson of sexual misconduct when they met him for massages. Watson settled 23 of those 24 lawsuits. Those civil actions led the NFL to punish Watson for violating the...

Former President Donald Trump slammed the Jan. 6 committee, calling it a "total 'BUST'" after it voted to subpoena him on Thursday."Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago?" Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. "Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total 'BUST' that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly — A laughing stock all over the World?"The committee voted unanimously Thursday to subpoena Trump, demanding the former president's...

JSE-listed pharmaceutical retailer Dis-Chem has issued a moratorium on hiring white people to improve its employment equity profile. In a letter to senior management dated September 19, founder and CEO Ivan Saltzman announced the moratorium, which includes external appointments and internal promotions. "It’s the ratio between white and black that counts. So, when no suitable black candidate is found, and a white is appointed, we need several blacks just to maintain the status quo, never mind moving forward," said Saltzman.

Luke 12:8-12 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus tells us how to deal with persecution. When does the Church stop being persecuted? When the Lord returns, and not before. From the earliest days until the present, the community of Jesus Christ has been the focus of the world’s violence. The Church will announce, until the end of time, that the old world is passing away, that a new world of love, nonviolence, and life is emerging. This announcement always infuriates the world of sin. Always. The twentieth century was the bloodiest on record—and the one with the most martyrs.Here’s Jesus’ encouragement:...

A fire has broken out at Iran's notorious Evin prison, with footage posted online showing flames and smoke billowing from the area. Gun shots and alarms have been reported as coming from the jail, the primary site for detaining political prisoners. An official quoted by state media said "troubles" involving "criminal elements" were to blame for the blaze. The fire comes as Iran continues to be rocked by its most intense unrest in decades. Anti-government monitoring group 1500tasvir posted videos of the fire online, in one of which chants of "death to the dictator" - one of the main slogans...

Explanation: Gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A likely signals the birth of a new black hole, formed at the core of a collapsing star long ago in the distant universe. The extremely powerful blast is depicted in this animated gif constructed using data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. Fermi captured the data at gamma-ray energies, detecting photons with over 100 million electron volts. In comparison visible light photons have energies of about 2 electron volts. A steady, high energy gamma-ray glow from the plane of our Milky Way galaxy runs diagonally through the 20 degree wide frame at the left,...

Abbott is recalling Similac baby formula products due to faulty bottle caps that may cause spoilage. The products hail from a manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ohio that distributes nationally.The announcement comes after Abbott's February formula recall that prompted a national crisis. Abbott is again recalling Similac baby formula products — this time due to faulty bottle caps. The company issued a voluntary recall on Friday for several Similac ready-to-feed liquid products produced at its Columbus, Ohio facility. It discovered caps on 2 fluid-ounce bottles "that may not have sealed completely, which could result in product spoilage," Abbott said in a...

Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania? ...Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’ ” Five months later, Litinsky, who first met Trump in 2004 as a contestant...

Slovenia has officially legalized marriage equality and adoption, making it the first country in Eastern Europe to do so. The historic moment has come about after a 6-3 Constitutional Court decision in July said that same-sex marriage and adoption are constitutional rights. The court ordered parliament to add an amendment within six months. On October 4, parliament passed the amendment legalizing both marriage and adoption. Forty-eight members voted in favor of the amendment and 29 against it. One member abstained. “With these changes, we are recognizing the rights of same-sex couples that they should have had for a long time,”...

JERUSALEM—Today, Vladimir Putin turns seventy. I certainly won’t be celebrating. Will you? The man is on a murderous rampage and as tensions between Russia and the West rapidly escalate, the rhetoric becoming increasingly apocalyptic. Last night, on the debut episode of my new primetime TV program, “The Rosenberg Report,” I devoted the first full segment to examining the threat posed by Vladimir Putin, calling him “the most dangerous man on the planet.” From Jerusalem, I also warned that “not since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 has the world been so close to nuclear war.” At the same moment, U.S....

President Joe Biden appeared to get a little too personal while posing for pictures with a young girl and her friends on Friday. “Now, a very important thing I told my daughters and granddaughters: ‘No serious guys until you’re 30,'” the president said while grabbing the girl’s shoulders.

As of Thursday, dozens of passengers on the Arkia airline were stuck in Georgia, after the flight was delayed time after time, according to Army Radio. Arkia commented: "There was a problem with the plane....

Paul Ryan says Trump will not be 2024 nominee Paul Ryan said he does not believe former president Donald Trump would be the GOP’s 2024 nominee for president. The one-time Republican House speaker — who has had an acrimonious relationship with Trump — offered a blistering assessment Thursday during an interview with Teneo, a D.C. consulting shop where he serves as a vice-chairman. “We all know he will lose, or let me put it this way: we all know he’s much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle....

Over the decades, the subject of the Rapture, Daniel’s 70th week, and the Millennium have been studied, examined, debated, discussed, analyzed, and dissected in great detail. Many different conclusions have been drawn by sincere and honest people, as well as some who have displayed a remarkable degree of (intentional?) Biblical ignorance. There have also been numerous attempts by authors, who are obviously unsaved and hostile to the Word of God, to discredit any view or deny the Scriptures altogether. But God, as ever, already had a response prepared within His Word. “For the word of God is living and powerful,...

en after decades-high inflation, pandemic, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a new poll commissioned by CT Examiner suggests a close race for governor in Connecticut that mirrors the results four years ago between Democrat Ned Lamont and Republican Bob Stefanowski. In a three-way contest, Gov. Ned Lamont leads Bob Stefanowski 46% to 40%, with 5% opting for Independent Party candidate Rob Hotaling, and 10% undecided according to the nonpartisan poll released on Saturday. The CT Examiner/Fabrizio, Lee & Associates poll, conducted on Oct. 10-13, surveyed 1,200 likely voters and has a margin of error of +/- 2.8%. The...

Vladimir Putin was given a stern dressing down by the president of Tajikistan in another indicator that the Russian dictator has lost respect and influence in his own backyard. Fellow longstanding dictator Emomali Rahmon, ruler of the Central Asian state of 9 million since 1994, seized upon Putin's woes back home and in Ukraine to give him a piece of his mind and tell him how he really feels during a summit in the Kazakh capital of Astana. A glum and awkward looking Putin slouched back in his chair and took the seven minute tirade as a host of Central...