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When it was discovered that a 22-year-old teacher’s assistant in Oklahoma had begun a relationship with a student just two weeks into her position, she was arrested. Ashley Waffle started working as a temporary teacher’s assistant for Granite Public Schools on October 10 and began using Snapchat on October 25 to communicate with a 16-year-old. Police were notified by school officials of the rumors of a student’s relationship with Waffle that were circulating in the town of fewer than 2,000 residents. According to court records, Waffle had two sexual encounters with the teen at her apartment before November 9.

Former President Trump’s campaign is increasing its vetting protocols following his widely criticized dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, sources told The Associated Press. A senior campaign official will be present with Trump at all times, one of the sources said. Fuentes attended a dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Ye was set to have a private dinner with the former president, but arrived with three guests, one of whom was Fuentes, Trump has said. Fuentes and Ye were driven to the estate by Karen Giorno, a former Trump campaign adviser from...

Lady Susan Hussey, one of Queen Consort Camilla's closest aides, quit today after she allegedly refused to believe a black domestic abuse campaigner was British and asked her: 'What part of Africa are you from?' Ngozi Fulani, director of the east London charity Sistah Space, said she was so shocked by the incident at Buckingham Palace yesterday that she 'couldn't report it to the Queen Consort' who had thrown the reception. She said: 'It was such a shock to me and the other two women that we were stunned to temporary silence. I just stood at the edge of the...

With the number of fentanyl-related deaths soaring in Los Angeles County, officials at all levels of local government announced a joint effort Tuesday to end the fentanyl crisis. According to a report released Tuesday by the L.A. County Department of Public Health, accidental fentanyl overdose deaths in the county skyrocketed by 1,280%, from 109 in 2016 to 1,504 in 2021.

The geniuses of COP27 want Africans to shut up, build windmills, stay poor, have lots of babies, and migrate to Western nations. "So when you say stop to your fossil fuel, what’s the alternative? " — Fortune Charumbira, president of the Pan-African Parliament, November 2022 This is a question without an answer. But for nearly three weeks in November, over 35,000 people including heads of state and the global corps d’elite, pretended they were solving what they claim is the most urgent crisis in the world—the climate emergency—while ignoring the only relevant question. What is a practical alternative to fossil...

MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The Russian Federation Council unanimously approved a law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships, pedophilia and information capable of triggering a desire to change sex at a plenary session on Wednesday. The bill was backed by 153 senators. The law introduces a ban on propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships, pedophilia and the dissemination of information about LGBT people in the media, the Internet, ads, literature and movies. It also bans calls for gender transition among teenagers: on the Internet, in the media, books, audiovisual sources, movies and advertisements.

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ JESUS' FIRST MIRACULOUS HEALINGS ֎ Featuring 26 Paintings and 4 Windows ֎ JESUS HEALS A NOBLEMAN'S SON J O H N CHAPTER 4 There was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. “Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.” The royal official said, “Sir, come...

The latest NYS test results show scores lagging in the Schenectady City School District, as students and educators work to fight against the pandemic's impact on learning. Every eighth grader failed the standardized NYS math test. There's also concern about inequity in the scores when you look at specific groups. Compared to the statewide average of 41%, just 12% of Schenectady's third-eighth grade students passed the state math test, and only around 4% of Black students did. Roughly 5.5% of Hispanic or Latino students. In English Language Arts (ELA), the district did slightly better, with 21% passing compared to the...

Hollowed OutThe U.S. military has deteriorated to the point where it might not be able to win even one major battle, much less two simultaneously. Most military experts agree that the U.S. military is no longer capable of achieving its mission as mandated by national defense doctrines adopted by administrations of both parties. President Biden is exacerbating the situation by focusing military strategy on progressive politics instead of military preparedness. Even a Democratic controlled Congress overruled his proposed budget in order to increase spending and partially to fund programs required to reverse the decline. While the U.S. military remains the...

House Republicans’ speaker nominee Kevin McCarthy does not yet have enough votes to win a floor election in January, but he told reporters Tuesday he will not drop out of the running and plans to take the fight to the floor if necessary. “We’ll have 218,” the California Republican said, referring to the number of votes necessary to win a majority of the House in the floor election. “I'll get there.” Before the Thanksgiving recess, the House Republican Conference nominated McCarthy for speaker. He earned 188 votes in the secret-ballot conference nomination. His opponent, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, earned 31...

The consensus within the scientific community is that human activity fuels global climate change, but a video clip shared on Instagram on Nov. 13 featuring a known climate skeptic claims people aren’t to blame. In the video, Piers Corbyn, an astrophysicist, said heat waves are caused by "certain circulation patterns" from solar activity and phases of the moon. "These things are dictated by solar activity and the moon," Corbyn said in the video, an excerpt from his 2010 appearance on Russia Today, a Russian state-funded news channel. "They have nothing to do with mankind." He accused people who say human...

Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China. "Performance and reliability for traffic flows across the mainland China border have been a consistent challenge for IT teams within multinational organizations," wrote product managers Kyle Krum and Annika Garbers. "Packets crossing the China border often experience reachability, congestion, loss, and latency challenges on their way to an origin server outside of China (and vice versa on the return path)." Those glitches mean security and IT teams "can also struggle to enforce consistent policies across this traffic, since many aspects of...

President Joe Biden risks alienating some of his strongest supporters as the White House and congressional leaders look to avert a devastating rail strike before the holidays. Biden, who often calls himself the most pro-union president in history, is now working to prevent a rail strike by using century-old legislation to end negotiations on terms multiple rail unions have rejected. “As a proud pro-labor president, I am reluctant to override the ratification procedures and the views of those who voted against the agreement,” Biden said in a statement. “But in this case, where the economic impact of a shutdown would...

Apple CEO Tim Cook this afternoon accepted the Anti-Defamation League's inaugural Courage Against Hate Award at the Never is Now Summit on Anti-Semitism and Hate, where he gave a keynote speech that had a strong message for those seeking to spread hate on Apple's platform. "We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence, Cook said. "You have no place on our platform. You have no home here." Cook went on to say that this is a longtime view of Apple's, and he pointed out the company's removal of Infowars content earlier this year....

Stockholm (AFP) – Half the world's democratic countries are experiencing an erosion of democracy, intensified by war in Ukraine and economic crisis, an international think tank said in a report on Wednesday. "We're seeing extraordinarily severe headwinds for democracy now, intensified by the political fallout from the economic crisis that started with the pandemic and the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine", International IDEA secretary-general Kevin Casas-Zamora told AFP. "It might be that the credibility of elections is challenged. It might be that the rule of law is under assault. It might be that civic space is being constrained",...

With the 8th day of action to combat hate postings, the German police will again take joint action on 30.11.2022 against the authors of criminal posts on the Internet in a nationwide action. Because incitements to crimes, threats, coercion or incitement to hatred on the Internet are crimes that can be punished with up to five years in prison. As of this morning, police authorities in 14 federal states have carried out a total of 91 police measures, including home searches and interrogations. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as the central office of the German police coordinates these measures....

The Dutch government’s plans to buy out, and seize if necessary, thousands of farms to shut them down to comply with a European Union green agenda directive has been branded as the “Great Reset in full force”. Last week, the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte finally spelt out its plans to cut nitrogen emissions to fall in line with the EU’s Natura 2000 programme, which seeks to stamp out agriculture near supposedly at-risk wildlife regions across the bloc. In the plans laid out by Rutte’s cabinet, the government will seek to buy out between two and three thousand...

Stroking a tiny spruce sapling, Swiss forest ranger Francois Villard fears the tree will not withstand global warming and live to a ripe old age like its ancestors. The Risoud Forest, covering the border between France and Switzerland some 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) up in the Jura mountains, is filled with spruce trees which are hundreds of years old. Their wood is perfect for crafting acoustic guitars, violins and other string instruments, making it sought after by luthiers around the world. But climate change has brought drier, warmer weather, threatening the special tonal qualities of the wood. "I have never...

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Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 15 The Faith of a Canaanite Woman 21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” 25 The woman came and knelt before him....