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BOBBY CALDWELL, THE oft-sampled, blue-eyed soul singer behind the late Seventies smash “What You Won’t Do for Love,” has died at the age of 71. “Bobby passed away here at home,” Caldwell’s wife Mary tweeted Wednesday. “I held him tight in my arms as he left us. I am forever heartbroken. Thanks to all of you for your many prayers over the years.” While no cause of death was provided, Caldwell had struggled with health issues over the past six years, which Mary cited as a result of an adverse reaction to fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Caldwell was best known for his...

Raymond Zdunski argued that the LGBTQ training held by his employer, the Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), was “aimed at changing his religious beliefs about gender and sexuality” and was against his religion as a devout Christian, the Buffalo News reported. The BOCES denied Zdunski’s request for religious accommodations. In the lawsuit, Zdunski sought reinstatement, back pay and $10 million in damages, but District Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford dismissed the case a year ago. On Monday, the Manhattan-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with that decision and backed BOCES for terminating the Ashville, New York,...

Mark Zuckerberg sent a note to his company about the 'year of efficiency' that doubled as a ponderance about the future of its remote work policy Meta's data analysis indicated that engineers who began their careers in person at the company were more productive than those who began remotely The note came as 10,000 more layoffs were announced, and a stop order was placed on the 5,000 jobs for which the company had been hiring Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted to his staff that the future of the company's work from home policy may be in jeopardy, as he announced...

JUST IN: First Republic Bank, the San Francisco-based lender that was cut to junk by S&P and Fitch, is exploring strategic options including a sale https://t.co/fRG03oAtZG pic.twitter.com/p5vSNmnTnd— Bloomberg (@business) March 15, 2023

Can anyone recommend a good Bible study for a group of women who want to study the letters to the churches at the beginning of the book of Revelation? We are not interested in studying the whole book of Revelation, just the letters to the churches. Thanks to all who respond.

From the baptism to the sermon to the blessing ceremony View of the Fifth Synodal Assembly in Frankfurt Practical consequences of the synodal path for the Diocese of Osnabrück New blessing celebrations for couples, baptisms also by non-clerics and women and men who preach in the service: These are three of the concrete consequences that the resolutions of the synodal path of the Catholic Church in Germany will have for the Diocese of Osnabrück. Other resolutions of the process at the federal level, which was concluded last weekend with the Fifth Synodal Assembly, are also to be implemented promptly in...

The question was benign: How did you know the defendant? But the answer from a witness — that she met Christian Bey when he moved in across the street after his release from prison — was enough to cause a mistrial. Bey, 34, was on trial in connection with the shooting death of off-duty Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall in July 2019. Hall, 36, was shot on Monticello Street on July 14, 2019, following an argument with a group of people who lived there. Police said Hall had walked away when Bey, whose mother was among the people fighting with...

When the history of “woke” attitudes, sentiments, and policies is written, two events of different kinds and magnitude will be remembered. Both took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in the past week. The first and by far the most important is the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which did not collapse from wokeness no matter what Ron DeSantis, Donald Trump, and The Wall Street Journal said. We don’t know precisely what caused this financial institution to go from being the hot bank for the tech set to a puddle of assets that, at the time of this writing,...

יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad Don’t miss this! This video is proof of how anti-Israel organizations work and brainwash people around the world without regard to reality and without having any idea what the truth is...You have to see what happened when I arrived in New Zealand to the Palestinian club's booth at the University of Auckland... Watch! Credit - Perry Trotter Mar 7, 2023

“Tiger King” Joe Exotic — unable to find a president willing to release him from prison — says he’s running for the job himself as a Libertarian in 2024 and that he wants former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to be his running mate. The eccentric former Oklahoma private zoo owner, convicted of hiring a hit man to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin, has big ideas for US policy — including assassinating Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Exotic told The Post in a phone interview from his federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, that he’d...

VIENNA, March 15 (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors have found that roughly 2.5 tons of natural uranium have gone missing from a Libyan site that is not under government control, the watchdog told member states in a statement on Wednesday seen by Reuters. The finding is the result of an inspection originally planned for last year that "had to be postponed because of the security situation in the region" and was finally carried out on Tuesday, according to the confidential statement by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi. IAEA inspectors "found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons...

"And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. "And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis’ Revealing DecadeAny practicing Catholic who has been following Pope Francis’ pontificate over the past ten years will have noticed just how much internal corruption has been revealed in the Church, whether doctrinal, moral, or structural. But could these revelations be part of the Lord’s Providence, exposing all the ills of the post-conciliar Church so that a true reform could take place sometime in the future? Questions on such a thesis were put to three esteemed commentators on Francis and the Church: Italian theologian Father Nicola Bux, a former consulter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of...

With 'goliaths' like JP Morgan also 'winning', analysts say Jittery customers are flocking to major banks in the wake of the SVB collapse One analyst said 'Goliath is winning' as some speed up their onboarding process to cope with the new demand It comes as SVB's spectacular fall from grace continues to wreak havoc on Wall Street Bank of America has reportedly raked in $15 million in new deposits as customers flee small lenders for 'too big to fail' firms in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. So-called 'goliath' banks such as JP Morgan and Wells Fargo are...

PM says judicial reforms proposed under Herzog's compromise plan merely 'perpetuate' the situation which necessitated reforms to begin with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night rejected President Issac Herzog's proposed judicial reform compromise plan, claiming that the proposal does not solve the issues that necessitated a reform of the judicial system in the first place. "I think that any attempt to reach an agreement and to negotiate is certainly appropriate, and therefore the representatives of the coalition went and talked with the president time and time again, while the representatives of the opposition are still not ready for negotiation,"...

A United Airlines flight from Guatemala to Chicago was diverted to Houston International airport after the pilot reported suffering “chest pains” mid-flight before becoming incapacitated. According to an internal Houston UAL memo, an emergency was called “for an incapacitated pilot” suffering from “chest pains” before the plane was diverted, CDM Press reports.

Jillian was a preacher’s daughter, but what she was learning at church didn’t explain her mystical experiences. So she got involved with metaphysics and the quest for truth, with her “life goal” being to “achieve kundalini,” which she had heard led to enlightenment. What she discovered was the terrifying demonic nature of kundalini yoga. Jesus led her into the Bible, repentance, and to salvation. Jillian no longer does yoga of any kind, and she warns people that yoga is pagan idolatry that can’t be recreated or scrubbed to fit into Christianity.

I like Drew Barrymore and have enjoyed her movies a lot from time to time. I don’t know a ton about her, but I do know she had a rough time growing up and being part of a storied Hollywood family, she had drug and alcohol addiction problems, was exploited, even attempted suicide, and just in general had a hard time finding her way in life. Fortunately, she overcame all that and became a successful actress, producer, and talk show host. She’s also the mother of two young daughters. Unfortunately, however, Drew did a bad thing on her talk...

President Joe Biden visited Las Vegas Wednesday, touting provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that seek to tackle prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients, while making the case for his budget proposal which would go even further on pharmaceutical pricing attempting to shore up Medicare funding for decades. "The bottom line," he asked an assembly of healthcare providers and supporters, "is do you have enough to pay for what you need and take care of the exigencies that occur?" On Tuesday, the White House released data demonstrating how his prescription drug law has saved money for Americans, as well as...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted “unanimously” on Tuesday to move forward with a plan that would give every black resident of the city $5 million in reparations. Although slavery never existed in San Francisco, supervisors argued that it was all part of a “journey” toward justice for African-Americans.