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According to a new analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center, a record number of 40-year-old Americans who have never been married reached a record high in 2021.A quarter of 40-year-olds in the United States have never been married, Pew Research reported on June 28. Most lived alone, with just 22 percent of never-married 40- to 44- year-olds living with a romantic partner.(Serhii Yurkiv/Shutterstock)The findings revealed a downward trend of delaying marriage or foregoing it altogether among people born during or after the 1960s, according to the report. In 1980 only 6 percent of 40-year-olds had never...

Yesterday, Telsa released production and delivery numbers for the 2nd quarter. Wall Street had been expecting a pretty good result but the company beat those estimates by quite a bit.For the quarter, Tesla reported global production of 479,700 units with deliveries of 466,140. The delivery figure easily topped Wall Street consensus estimates of 448,599 units, as well as the prior quarter’s total of 422,875. Both production and delivery totals for the second quarter were all-time records for Tesla.In case that wasn’t clear, a survey of Wall Street analysts estimated the delivery number this quarter would 448,599 and the actual number...

Some reports are coming through that French Generals are calling for an Uprising and intend to oust Macrons Government. Situation in France is deteriorating quickly.

Autism is not “curable.” Neither are intellectual disabilitiesAnd as incurable conditions, they are now considered a legitimate reason for state-assisted suicide.The result? 1 out of 5 assisted suicides list autism or intellectual disabilities as the sole reason for seeking assisted suicides, and over 40% list one or the other as a factor.Netherlands euthanizing autistic and intellectually handicapped people, researcher finds. https://t.co/lshVIPdznx— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 28, 2023This is full Nazi. Never go full Nazi.When most of us think of the Holocaust we think of the extermination of the Jews, and rightly so. Jews were the primary target and the majority...

Before you begin wondering if my account was hacked by activists from the Southern Poverty Law Center, allow me to assure you that wasn’t the case. The title is a reference to a recent op-ed from Frank Miele at RealClearPolitics titled, “We Need a Constitution That Means What it Says.” Rather than arguing that the Founding Document was poorly written or that its authors somehow got it wrong, Frank is pointing out that the Supreme Court has taken to ignoring the actual words that were written. Despite receiving many accolades from Constitutional conservatives following recent decisions, some of the rulings...

Professor Yoel Inbar teaches psychology at the University of Toronto. Recently his long-time girlfriend who teaches psychology at a different university was offered a job by UCLA. Once it became clear her offer was solid she mentioned to the school that she had a partner who also taught psychology and asked if it was possible the school would consider hiring him as well. These kind of partner hires are not unusual in academia. UCLA asked Inbar to send his qualifications and next they set up a sort of job interview for him on campus.That campus visit seemed to go very...

Just Stop Oil protesters disrupt London Pride parade 7-2-23. (Credit: Sky News Australia) I can’t lie; there’s something inherently funny about leftists disrupting other leftists’ events because the other side’s participants aren’t extreme enough. Such was the case Sunday when the radical environmental group “Just Stop Oil” crashed a London Pride parade and lay down in the streets to stop its progress.Their complaint? Many of the sponsors of the event are “high-polluting.” Just Stop Oil spokesman James Skeet explained in a statement:Pride was born from protest. It speaks to how far we’ve come as a community, that high polluting...

Even though I think it is so very premature to be talking about who is going to win the GOP nomination for president (Donald Trump?) in 2024, I think it is even crazier to talk about who would be the eventual nominee’s Veep choice. However, being that I’m a political junkie and I write for a political site, I am willing to suspend my normal rules of engagement to partake in a little bit of fun speculation.Even though we are 15 months or just 490 days until that election happens.As I was perusing some interesting articles to set aside for...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 27, 2023 / 11:00 am Thirty Catholic Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter on the first anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision vowing to continue to support abortion despite the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The group of Democrats, led by Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro and including former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, cited their Catholic faith and St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici as reasons to support abortion. “The fundamental tenets of our Catholic faith — social justice, conscience, and religious freedom — compel us...

Police not releasing his Bible, Gospel tracts after release with no charges pendingUPDATE: 3:40 p.m. ET June 29: Schiavo told The Christian Post Thursday that he collected his Bible, microphone, speaker and tracts at the Canterbury police station. Original: A street preacher who was arrested for preaching in Canterbury, England, while an LGBT pride event was being held is calling on Christians “not to back down and bow before” the LGBT movement. In an interview with The Christian Post, Ryan Schiavo, an American-born street preacher who typically spends about half the year in the United Kingdom, discussed his June 10...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1).

VLADIMIR Putin's warlord Ramzan Kadyrov today admitted he "might not live long" as he appeared bloated in a bizarre video. The Chechen brute - one of Putin's closest allies - posted the footage to "prove he is still alive". The 46-year-old bearded strongman was hit by a swirl of rumours over the weekend that he was close to death from kidney or liver problems. His discoloured right hand in the video suggests he has undergone recent medical treatment, according to reports. In the footage, Kadyrov is seen with Russian MP Adam Delimkhanov - who was reported to have been killed...

Paris, FRANCE – There have been at least 40 attacks on police stations, 270 officers have been wounded, and more than 3,000 rioters have been arrested as violence rocked numerous cities in France for the fifth night in a row following the officer-involved shooting of a Muslim teen. The riots began in Paris and its suburbs but have spread to other cities and towns across the country. The violent protests also spread to French-speaking areas in Switzerland and Belgium, according to The Telegraph. Rioters in Belgium have torched cars and used fireworks as weapons against law enforcement officers who are...

Catholics will not be able to attend the traditional Mass in the Vatican, which has marked the annual pilgrimage for over a decade.VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) –– For the first time since its inception, the international traditional Mass pilgrimage held in Rome annually will not be granted permission for a traditional Mass inside St. Peter’s Basilica. Since it began in 2011, the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage, now known as the Ad Petri Sedem pilgrimage, has drawn thousands of Catholics to Rome from across the globe out of love for the traditional Mass and sacraments. With the exception of disruption caused during the...

A Russian commander who fought against Ukraine since the war's inception has been killed in action in the Donbas region. Yevgeny Pisarenko, commander of the Chechen armed formation known as Akhmat, was pronounced dead on Monday by two fellow soldiers. He went by the nickname "Big," which also translates to "The Great" in a Russian context. "Thanks to the parents who raised such a Hero...A BIG man with a BIG heart!" Akhmat unit commander Apta Alaudinov wrote on Telegram

Four people were killed and another four were wounded when a gunman wearing a ballistic vest started shooting in Philadelphia Monday night, according to a report. The deadly gunfire rang out in the Kingsessing part of the city around 8: 30 p.m. A suspect was under arrest, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing authorities. At least two juveniles were among the victims shot, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known.

The 2024 battle for the Senate started with a bang earlier this year and has not let up, as candidates in top races continue to roll out their campaigns and incumbents scratch and claw to win reelection. Their efforts will determine who will control the upper chamber for the next two years. Democrats are trying to play defense in a number of red-leaning states to hold on to their one-seat majority, while Republicans fight recruiting battles in several states to give them the best shot at winning a majority.

HOUSTON - A pregnant woman held her ground and fended off a would-be robber attempting to rob her and her husband at a Houston gas station.

As missiles rained down on Kramatorsk last night, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding at least 56 more (see more below), Kyiv did one of the things that Russian President Vladimir Putin hates the most: it celebrated the diversity of its LGBTQ+ community with the Sunny Bunny Film Festival, Ukraine’s first film festival dedicated to queer filmmaking. It was a milestone for the flamboyant and attention-grabbing activist in Ukraine, which despite being more open than Russia, is still conservative when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. “You’re the first to know!” she exclaimed about her name change, through her...

The Russian military mission in Syria says that drones of the US-led military coalition violated flight safety rules 14 times today... US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy visiting imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich today... China responding to US-led economic warfare over the manufacture of computer chips...Now China will require government permission to export raw materials... The US State Department putting out a "Level 3" travel advisory for China and Hong Kong... This protest walk in the eastern German town of Bitterfeld this evening. Hundreds expressing opposition to government policies and worsening economic conditions... In France more than 3200...