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A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022 and delivers a major victory to abortion rights supporters, who see the case as a potential blueprint to weaken restrictions elsewhere that Republican-led states have rushed to implement. *** “This is exactly why we did this. This is why we put ourselves through the pain and the trauma over and over again to share...

One of the more bizarre aspects of the Biden family's influence peddling scheme is Hunter's boast that "the troupe of very handsome Aryan godlike men I bring with me everywhere I go has immensely impressed my Chinese business associates." This statement appeared on Hunter's laptop and was confirmed by his former business partner Devon Archer in his testimony at the House Oversight Committee hearing this week. One of the more incriminating bits of Archer's testimony revealed that "in 2014 Burisma executive Mykola Zlochevsky told Hunter that his company needed help from the United States government to deal with the pressure...

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EVOLUTION: FACT OR FICTION? We’re told to believe that nothing, plus time, plus chance, equals everything. That is a fairy-tale for adults. Tragically, it’s being taught to our children. But the scientific evidence supporting Creation is now overwhelming..

Indictments are coming fast and furious now. They seem to be timed with bad news about corrupt Joe Biden and his corrupt family. This week’s indictment by Department of Justice Democrat Jack Smith was timed to the House testimony from Devon Archer, Hunter’s former partner in crime. Trump has now been indicted three times. The Manhattan Democrat Alvin Bragg says Trump lied 34 times on business records. Jack Smith federally indicted Trump a few months ago for supposedly mishandling secret documents, something Hillary and Biden did more clearly and abundantly. Smith indicted Trump this week for claiming the election was...

Biologist Ashley Wilson carefully disentangled a bat from netting above a tree-lined river and examined the wriggling, furry mammal in her headlamp’s glow. “Another big brown,” she said with a sigh. It was a common type, one of many Wilson and colleagues had snagged on summer nights in the southern Michigan countryside. They were looking for increasingly scarce Indiana and northern long-eared bats, which historically migrated there for birthing season, sheltering behind peeling bark of dead trees. […] The two bat varieties are designated as imperiled under the Endangered Species Act, the bedrock U.S. law intended to keep animal and...

How did you get those three women, Obama’s college and law school girlfriends, to give you Obama’s love letters to them, and what was the most surprising thing you found in them? With Alex [McNear, Obama’s girlfriend at Occidental College], I think she wanted to have her role known. So when Alex showed me the letters from Barack, she redacted one paragraph in one of them and just said, “It’s about homosexuality.”

A former special operator who rescued refugees from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in 2021 and whose business was destroyed by a CNN story he says was false and defamatory, won a significant procedural victory in a Florida court in his libel lawsuit against the network. In an order allowing Zachary Young to sue for punitive damages, Judge William S. Henry in Bay County quoted startling language from CNN employees' internal emails and texts regarding the story that aired on Nov. 11, 2021. Mr. Young, a security consultant with extensive military and government security experience, launched an effort...

@elonmusk The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now. You can read their articles for free anyway using http://removepaywall.com.

Editor's note: Terry Mattingly, who is off this week, wrote this column in 1998. Nearly a quarter-century later, he considers this one of the most important columns he has ever written: Back in the 1980s, I began to experience deja vu while covering event after event on the religion beat in Charlotte, Denver and then at the national level. I kept seeing a fascinating cast of characters at events centering on faith, politics and morality. An anti-abortion rally, for example, would feature a Baptist, a Catholic priest, an Orthodox rabbi … Then, the pro-abortion counter-rally would feature a "moderate" Baptist,...

A 19 year-old Mormon collapsed and died of heart failure in front of his stunned family moments after telling them his first mission would be to his dream country - Japan. Liam Mildenstein was on his way to Provo from his home in Miami for a vacation when he got the call and began reading aloud his two-year missionary assignment for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mildenstein collapsed suddenly, falling backward onto the floor and never regained his pulse. The family called for emergency paramedics but about an hour later, the 19-year-old was pronounced dead. Mildenstein's family...

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that "Bud Light sales might never fully regain the ground they have lost to competitors" as stores clear their shelves to make room for other brands... On Thursday, Anheuser-Busch InBev also announced that it would be laying off hundreds of workers. The Wall Street Journal noted that as Bud Light sales continue "cratering," the "biggest beneficiary of Bud Light’s woes" is rival company Molson Coors Beverage. "There are reasons to believe that Bud Light sales might be permanently impaired. Molson Coors Chief Executive Gavin Hattersley said on a conference call with analysts that retailers...

August 4, 1962, was Marilyn Monroe’s Deathday. In May 1962, Marilyn Monroe sang her legendary breathy version of "Happy Birthday, Mr President" to JFK at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Madison Square Garden. Two and a half months later, on August 4, at home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, she died. In The Guardian, in 2016, David Thomson described her appearance in May 1962 with these words: "....... (she) stood there, with her massed blonde waves jutting off to one side, like the control on tower (of) an aircraft carrier, in a dress that could have been painted on her. ..........

"it's not fair...it's not legal...it's criminalization of political speech" President Trump speaking at... A Russian tanker was attacked in the Kerch Strait tonight... Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer proposing a plan to incorporate the right to use paper money... Six former Mississippi police officers entering guilty pleas to federal civil rights charges... A day of mourning declared in the nation of Georgia after a deadly landslide... Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria want the US-led military coalition to take a clear stand on Turkish drone attacks... The United Nations human rights agency pulling out of Uganda... "It is election interference & the...

The mother of an autistic teenager is suing her local movie theater, claiming her son was discriminated against when staff forced them to leave the New Jersey venue after she allowed him to use the women's restroom. Christine Gallinaro and her 15-year-old son, John, had tickets to see Disney's Elemental on June 16 at the Cinemark Theater in Hazlet, New Jersey. As the previews for other films rolled, Gallinaro brought her son into the women's bathroom - as there were no family restrooms at the theater, her suit stated. When the boy was washing his hands, Gallinaro claimed the theater...

Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen footage of American soldiers liberating Jewish prisoners from a Nazi death train in the final weeks of World War II. The footage — which was found in the U.S. National Archives — shows the incredible moment U.S. Army troops saved thousands of Jews during the so-called “Miracle at Farsleben” on April 13, 1945. Although it’s silent, the film speaks volumes.

In a recent sermon about one must believe to be a Christian, Andy Stanley flat out argued that we must not insist that Christians believe in the inerrancy of the bible in order to be a Jesus follower, saying that demanding potential converts believe the bible is true and without error is an unnecessary obstacle to them coming to Christ. Then he went on Twitter to “like” posts agreeing with him and saying all sorts of terrible things. After the naked pastor posted this article praising deconstruction, Stanley offered that it (deconstruction) should be encouraged: He then “liked” a comment...

The aftermath of the latest Donald Trump indictment has set off a political dogfight, with Mike Pence blasting 'crackpot lawyers' advising his former boss – and Rudy accusing the former vice president of being bossed by his wife. Pence provided some of his most pronounced criticism of Trump this week following his bombshell grand jury indictment. 'Sadly, the president was surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers that kept telling him what his itching ears wanted to hear,' Pence said. That was a dig that Giuliani, a former Trump who has been identified as 'co-conspirator 1' in the indictment, took...

(RNS) — Aaron Sligar, the former pastor of Living River Chapel, a Baptist church in tiny Sutton, West Virginia, believes in the mission of the Southern Baptist Convention and encouraged his congregation for years to give generously to the denomination, the United States’ largest Protestant body. “The whole thing about Southern Baptists is we are better together,” he said. “We can get more done working together.” But Sligar has had a harder time in recent weeks making his case. In June, the board of trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the SBC’s flagship schools, announced that its leaders...

OPINION–In 2003, The United States made a five-year, $15-billion commitment to PEPFAR – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Fast-forward to 2023, the 20th anniversary of PEPFAR. Total U.S. spending on PEPFAR has exceeded $85-billion. Now comes the debate about whether PEPFAR should be reauthorized, and that reauthorization has met with some new resistance. Evangelical groups such as the Family Research Council and conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation are opposing reauthorization. Their concerns are many. Among them: PEPFAR funds liberal social causes overseas, such as money for abortion providers. This resistance is a bit of a surprise,...