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The NFL has made it very clear that gambling on games won't be tolerated and five different players found that out the hard way on Friday. The NFL has announced that Stanley Berryhill III, Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, C.J. Moore and Shaka Toney have all been suspended for gambling. The Lions were hit the hardest by the suspensions with four players being banned (Berryhill, Williams, Cephus, and Moore) while Toney plays for the Commanders. The most notable name on the list is Williams, who was the 12th overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.

There are more troubles in the food sector as market manipulation has driven up the price of sugar while creating what appear to be impending sugar shortages. A lack of deliverable sugar ahead of Friday’s expiry has sent the white sugar futures contract for May to its highest level in more than 10 years. According to John Stansfield, a senior sugar analyst at DNEXT Intelligence, the open interest for white sugar, or the number of contracts still needing to be closed, implies a hefty delivery of the commodity above 880,000 tons. The problem is that, when coupled with short positions,...

The Pentagon’s chief UFO expert told Senate lawmakers Wednesday that his new office—stood up last year to track a growing number of unidentified aerial phenomena—has not yet seen irrefutable evidence of alien activity or technology. “In our research, the [Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office] has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” Kirkpatrick told the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Kirkpatrick went on to say that if his office found irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology, his office would notify NASA and quickly...

Lyft CEO David Risher said Friday the ride-hailing company will “significantly” cut jobs in another round of layoffs to reduce costs, sending its shares up about 4%. The company declined to provide details on the number of affected staff, but the Wall Street Journal reported earlier in the day the move could impact 30% of Lyft’s workforce, or more than 4,000 employees. The decision comes weeks after the newly appointed CEO said Lyft was not for sale, disappointing some investors who had speculated that the exit of the company’s founders would pave the way for a deal and pushed up...

To observers of these times, while this generation nears midnight of this fleeting age, every second-hand tick of God’s prophetic watch gives warning. Recent ticks should alert every believer that time is running out—and catastrophic, heavenly intervention against the wickedness saturating the planet is imminent. Tick… Deceivers seek to pull all of humanity from truth regarding the God of creation. The drive is incessant to convince us that human beings aren’t the creation of a deity but of a primordial accident. The specious science called evolution long ago imprinted in the minds of humankind that people have struggled up the...

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When Republican donors arrived at the Four Seasons in Nashville last weekend, they were handed a polling memo written by former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway with a startling statistic: Eighty percent of voters disagreed with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v.Jackson last year overturning Roe v. Wade. Among Republican strategists and candidates looking to the 2024 presidential primaries, abortion has become the trickiest political issue and a divisive one internally for the party, according to GOP officials, campaign strategists, donors and others involved. The ruling last summer encapsulated a 50-year push by Republicans to overturn Roe and was viewed...

[Catholic Caucus] No Eucharistic Revival without RestorationThe how-to manual has been written for a long, long time. But the ones in charge don't want to read it.Dear Subscribers to “Tradition & Sanity”: I am overwhelmed by the support you’ve given me as I start this Substack. It knocked me off my feet. We went from scratch to 1,800 subscribers and counting. Many of you made pledges for the future (thank you!). I will pray for you; specifically, you will be my intention at the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass every Thursday.Speaking of which… after last week’s inaugural...

Michelle Clark Miller Executive Administrative Assistant (2000–present) When my sister bought her house, she was the third person to buy in the new neighborhood. They signed the papers and started making payments BEFORE the HOA was established, so the HOA was not mentioned in the paperwork. Over the next few years, my sister and her then husband erected a basketball goal, added a covered patio, inground pool, and a large storage/workshop. They’d bought one of the two lots on the very tail end of the cul-de-sac, so their lot was HUGE. They still had way more backyard than most people....

Nashville shooter Audrey Hale’s manifesto is a “blueprint on total destruction” which the FBI are stalling releasing, according to local politicians, who describe its contents as “astronomically dangerous”. Almost a month after Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, killed six at the city’s Covenant elementary school before being shot by police authorities have yet to release a motive or any of the writings seized from her home, despite growing pressure. Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) told The Post he knew the FBI was behind the delay, saying the news was “disappointing” and calling for documents to be released to grieving loved...

Customers unknowingly purchased food items with sewing needles hidden inside after a juvenile employee inserted the needles into groceries, according to police in Pennsylvania. Troopers with Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville said they were called to the Giant store in Trexlertown on Wednesday, April 19, after customers returned groceries with sewing needles. A spokesperson with Giant told McClatchy News the company learned of the “product integrity issue” on April 17 and “immediately investigated.” The company then contacted authorities “for further action and investigation,” she said in a written statement. “Based on an internal investigation and surveillance video, an employee – now...

Senate Democrats advanced seven of President Joe Biden's judicial nominees through committee on Thursday with Republican votes, shelving others that lack bipartisan backing with Sen. Dianne Feinstein absent. The move by Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., marks a change in course after he had repeatedly delayed meetings since early March to advance a package of judges, lacking the decisive vote of Feinstein, D-Calif., who is out indefinitely on medical leave. “We wish our colleague, Sen. Feinstein, a speedy recovery and return,” Durbin said. “We hope she’ll be back in the Senate very soon. Today’s agenda includes a number of...

A pastor in Oklahoma has been slammed by Christian critics for retelling the Easter story in a 'demonic' way – after performers twerked on stage. Transformation Church, which recently hired disgraced Pastor Carl Lentz as a strategist, put on a musical performance of the resurrection of Jesus, which has been slammed by other Christians. Pastor Mike Todd's church in Tulsa claims that 500 people 'gave their lives to Christ' after hosting the edgy play called 'Ransom' on April 8 and 9. They claim that the performance showed how 'God's love conquered sin, death and the grave' as women danced in...

My lame tablet won't copy right now, so I can't post clip of article. Article starts with "Transgender people are at the center of the GOP's crosshairs". Article estimates about 100 transgender athletes nationwide. "Of the estimated 332 million citizens living in the United States, 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youths ages 13-17 identity as transgender, equaling half a percent and 1.4% of the population respectively, according to report published by Williams Institute, a think tank of UCLA's law school in 2022." Percent of kids 13-17 is 3 times number of adult transgenders?

A leading economic indicator fell to its lowest level in 28 months, as signs point to a recession later this year. The latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) report, published on April 20, fell 1.2 percent in March, for the twelfth month in a row, higher than The Wall Street Journal’s estimate of a 0.7 percent drop. The downturn marked its largest single-month decline since April 2020, when the pandemic and the resulting lockdowns slammed the American economy. “The U.S. LEI fell to its lowest level since November of 2020, consistent with worsening economic conditions ahead,” said Justyna Zabinska-La...

A Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the Russian city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, causing a massive blast that injured three people and lifted a car onto the roof of a store. The incident involving a Sukhoi-34 supersonic plane took place late Thursday, causing an explosion and leaving a huge crater near the center of Belgorod, located just 25 miles from the Ukrainian border. Video from the scene showed piles of detritus littering the street, multiple mangled cars and a building with shattered windows. The footage also showed a car resting upside down on the roof of a...

A law group is 'demanding actions and answers' from a Wisconsin high school after a transgender student allegedly 'exposed their male genitalia' to four freshmen girls in the locker room showers after a swim class. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) claimed Sun Prairie Area School District provided an 'inadequate response' to the alleged incident in March. It said Sun Prairie East High School administrators 'failed to comply with basic protections afforded by federal law' following a 'violation of girls’ locker room privacy'. 'The girls were caught off guard and shocked, closed their eyes, and tried to hurry...

Matthew Graves just received a court summons. As the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Graves is rarely on the receiving end of a legal inquiry. In fact, Graves’ hand must be tired from signing thousands of criminal indictments, sentencing memos, and plea offers related to his ongoing investigation into the events of January 6, 2021. Just this week, the FBI arrested two more individuals on minor offenses, giving Graves’ overstaffed office more fresh meat for the Justice Department’s vengeful retaliation against Americans who protested the certification of Joe Biden’s election that day. No investigative technique is too invasive...

Podcaster Joe Rogan has criticized the latest 'pro-America' Bud Light commercial for being 'stupid and cliché' and a shallow attempt by the company to recover from the Dylan Mulvaney backlash. Speaking on "The Joe Rogan Experience" Thursday, Rogan said the brand's identity was unclear. 'We don't know who you really are now,' he said. The commercial released last week depicts a Clydesdale galloping through rural American towns with a patriotic voiceover and was released after a partnership between Bud Light and trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney backfired. In the days after that partnership was announced, $6 billion was wiped off of...

Ernest Horsfall said he was 'surprised and amazed' at how many people wrote to himA WW2 veteran from Lancashire with no surviving relatives today celebrated his 105th birthday with more 3,000 cards from kind-hearted strangers after a charity appeal. Ernest Horsfall, who has seen 27 Prime Ministers and five British monarchs in his lifetime, said he was 'surprised and amazed' at how many people wrote to him. He was showered with cards from generous well-wishers after the Royal British Legion called for the brave ex-servicemen to be honoured for his landmark birthday. After opening all his cards, he said he...