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Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 6:1–6 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus is rejected by the people of his own town. For as he says, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place.” But he astounded crowds throughout Galilee because he taught with authority.As far as we can determine, Jesus was not formally trained in a rabbinic school, nor was he educated to be a temple priest or a scribe, nor was he a devotee of the Pharisees, the Saduccees, or the Essenes. And this made his arrival on the public scene all the more astounding.For this...

In a world where hard work and rational thinking are conflated with “whiteness,” it makes sense that prohibitions on cheating would be characterized as systemically racist. That’s precisely the “anti-racist” hill one Princeton University sophomore chose to proverbially die upon. In an article for Princeton’s college newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, sophomore Emilly Santos argues that “American systems of legal administration enact violence against minority populations,” which includes the criminal justice system. “Princeton’s Honor Code, tasked with holding students accountable and honest in academic settings, mirrors the criminal justice system in its rules and effects.” Santos then outlines that the disciplinary...

The New College of Florida board of trustees has ousted its president, the first major shakeup of the institution since Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed six new members to the board. President Patricia Okker will be succeeded by former Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, according to Politico. Corcoran previously served as the state's 100th Speaker of the House. The DeSantis administration had contended that New College had been "completely captured by a political ideology that puts trendy, truth-relative concepts above learning," per the outlet. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, one of the newly appointed trustees, denied that the decision was...

President Vladimir Putin is massing Russia’s forces in the Luhansk province in eastern Ukraine ahead of what could be a major new offensive meant to break the stalemate in the fighting ahead of the war’s first anniversary, officials loyal to Kyiv said. “There is an active transfer of (Russian troops) to the region and they are definitely preparing for something on the eastern front in February,” Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai said Wednesday. Haidai added that Moscow’s forces were expelling residents living near the Russian-held parts of the front line so they can’t provide information about Russian troop movements to Ukrainian...

Tributes have been paid to a long-serving Judge who died suddenly of a spontaneous stroke, over the weekend. Judge Timothy Rose presided over many high profile cases in Devon and Somerset and was one of the three main judges at Exeter Crown Court for the past four years. He had just moved on to be based at Taunton and Winchester Crown Courts but had been sitting at Exeter on Friday but died suddenly of a spontaneous stroke, over the weekend, at home surrounded by his family. Fellow Judges at Plymouth and Taunton Crown Courts paid tributes to him before the...

Meteorologist Janice Dean said Sunday that multiple outlets had refused to review her new book, “I Am the Storm,” because she worked for Fox News. Dean noted that among the outlets that had refused her latest book was Publishers Weekly — which had reviewed her previous books. “Was just told that all the major publications that review books declined to review #IAmtheStorm because of where I work. This included @PublishersWkly which has reviewed all of my other books,” she tweeted. Dean said that she had also been informed that while major book retailer Barnes & Noble had ordered hard copies...

The Biden administration issued a long-awaited study Wednesday that recommends allowing a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope, and the move — while not final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president’s pledges to reduce carbon emissions and promote clean energy sources. ConocoPhillips Alaska had proposed five drilling sites, and the alternative proposed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management calls for up to three drill sites initially. Even as the land agency released its report, the U.S. Interior Department said in its own press release that it has “substantial concerns”...

Forty-fifth President Donald Trump hit the campaign trail for the first time this past weekend since his presidential campaign announcement in November with two stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina.Trump said, while speaking in Columbia, South Carolina alongside his leadership team in the state, when he returns to the White House in 2025, he will bring an end to “radical racists and perverts” indoctrinating our children in schools.“We’re going to stop the left-wing radical racists and perverts who are trying to indoctrinate our youth,” Trump said. “And we’re going to get their Marxist hands off of our children.”“We’re going...

Meta shares popped in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported fourth-quarter revenue that topped estimates and announced a $40 billion stock buyback. Here are the results. Earnings: $1.76 per share Revenue: $32.17 billion vs $31.53 billion expected, according to Refinitiv Daily Active Users (DAUs): 2 billion vs 1.99 billion expected, according to StreetAccount Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 2.96 billion vs billion expected, according to StreetAccount Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $10.86 vs $10.63 expected, according to StreetAccount

Tech stocks rallied Wednesday following the Federal Reserve's latest interest rate increase after Fed Chair Jerome Powell suggested signs of "disinflation" are building in the economy. When the closing bell rang on Wall Street, the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was higher by 2%, leading the charge higher for markets following Powell's comments. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) closer higher by 1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 0.03%, or just 8 points. The Dow was weighed down by energy stocks, which remained under pressure Wednesday as the price of WTI crude oil fell 3% to around $76.50 per barrel.

It has been revealed that world-renowned author and philanthropist JK Rowling donated hundreds of thousands of British pounds to rescue over 100 female lawyers and their families who were facing possible execution in Afghanistan. According to the Daily Mail, Rowling made the donation after Britain and the US withdrew from Kabul, leaving hundreds of female judges, prosecutors, and defense counsel at risk of execution by the Taliban. With the help of fellow philanthropist Lord Michael Hintze, who contributed nearly one million British pounds, as well as large sums from other prominent donors and smaller sums from the public, a total...

An athletic trainer performed CPR for 10 minutes after an Upstate middle school basketball player went into cardiac arrest during a game, according to the school. (Video above: Morning headlines from WYFF News 4) Denny Vauters, of Southside Christian School, said on Tuesday night, during the junior varsity basketball team at Brashier Middle College, that eighth grade student Kamari Williams (K Will) experienced a seizure and cardiac arrest.

More people moved to Florida than any other state in the country in 2022, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors. The Sunshine State saw the highest net domestic migration gains last year, with its population growing by 1.9 percent. It was followed by Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, respectively, with regard to domestic net migration totals. Overall, twenty-six states had more people move into their regions than out. For the past six years, the moving rate in the United States has declined, with the rate reaching a historic low in 2021.

The New York Attorney General's office released footage on Tuesday of the deposition of former President Donald Trump from the summer of 2022.

A former Australian Winter Olympic bobsledder has died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. Duncan Pugh, 48, passed away in his hometown of Perth over the weekend after he suffered a bleed on the brain. The bobsledder competed at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and leaves behind his wife McKenzie and two young sons, aged six and seven.

The Republican-led House of Representatives is voting Wednesday or Thursday on a bill that would bring more federal employees back to offices in Washington D.C. The Stopping Home Office Work's Unproductive Problems Act or SHOW UP Act of 2023 "requires each executive agency to reinstate the telework policies that were in place on December 31, 2019." Under the legislation, federal agencies cannot "implement expanded telework policies unless the Office of Personnel Management certifies that such policies will have a positive effect on the agency's mission and operational costs." The $2.2 trillion CARES Act, the first of three pandemic stimulus bills,...

A young mother who had a cardiac arrest has told of the moment her husband saved her life with CPR – and is urging others to learn the vital skill. Sarah Edmonds, 33, who lives near Brighton, collapsed in her three-year-old daughter’s room and was found motionless by her husband James in December 2020. Sarah said thanks to her husband’s quick thinking she can still celebrate her daughter Arabella’s birthday and “see her face at Christmas”. She is urging people to learn lifesaving CPR skills with a simple online tool. It comes as a recent survey shows that just 50...

Support is on the rise for a pregnant widow whose husband died in a tree-fall accident. Cody Lee Blihar of Somerville died on Thursday, Jan. 26 at the age of 33, his obituary says. Cody’s wife, Monica, is expecting their first son, Beau, according to a GoFundMe launched for the family’s support. “Our hope is to alleviate the financial burden that Monica will be facing following Cody's death and the birth of their son,” reads the campaign. More than $50,000 had been raised as of Monday, Jan. 30. A native of Pittstown, Cody went to North Hunterdon High School before...

Autopsies were conducted on two teenage boys, one in Connecticut and one in Michigan, who died within a few days of their second dose of Pfizer's Covid vaccine. One boy had ADD and the other was obese. The post death examinations showed that both had "global myocardial injury."