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“It’s no secret I’m a Christ follower.” While Sonja Shaw doesn’t shy away from sharing her faith, as the school board president of Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD), she’s among at least two people being threatened over the board’s policy on notifying parents about their child's welfare, including any request to be identified as the opposite sex. The threats of violence over the district’s parental notification policy, which the board passed in late July, has sparked an active police investigation that has led to at least one arrest. Since the investigation, which is ongoing, Shaw is unable to share...

Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume called former President Donald Trump a failed president on Monday. Hume issued his condemnatory statement in response to a video from conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who suggested that people oppose Trump due to his success as president. “If Trump was such a failed president, why are they doing everything they possibly can to prevent a second term of Trump?” said Kirk. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe they don’t want a repeat of a failed presidency. Just guessing here,” responded Hume.

Astrophysicists reveal the sun is beaming down gamma rays with energies higher than ever measured. The gamma rays lose energy in Earth’s atmosphere, meaning they don’t present a concern to life. This also allows them to be discovered by researchers working with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, or HAWC, located in Mexico. “This shows that HAWC is adding to our knowledge of our galaxy at the highest energies, and it’s opening up questions about our very own sun,” said Mehr Un Nisa, a postdoctoral researcher with MSU and the corresponding author of the new report. Sometimes, the best place to...

Seems like every day someone is finding new, fun types of election fraud. This is not accidenta --, this is exactly how industrial, at-scale, organized fraud is uncovered. We call it spiraling to accuracy. When our team was hired by State Farm, GEICO, USAA, and other top insurers to stop organized auto fraud rings, we found the easy stuff fast -- the equivalent of phantom voters. SNIP This is how industrial-scale, organized fraud detection unfolds. That is happening in the election fraud space with new variants -- SMURFS, algorithms, and shape shifters. Exceptional individuals find this stuff -- often laboring...

Settling in a relationship is a concept often misconstrued and widely debated. It refers to the scenario where an individual remains in a romantic partnership not out of deep love or satisfaction but rather due to various factors such as fear of loneliness, societal pressure, or simply the comfort of familiarity. This action, over time, has significant implications on a person’s emotional health, personal growth, relationship dynamics, and even other aspects of life. The following sections will delve into these aspects in detail, offering a comprehensive understanding of the consequences of settling and providing strategies to avoid this circumstance. Contents...

Sixteen percent of Christian ministry executives say the ministry they lead has experienced financial fraud or a cyberattack in the last 12 months. This is one of the findings of MinistryWatch’s quarterly survey of ministry leaders. Of the ministries that experienced a financial or cyber-based crime, about 31% said the crime was perpetrated by someone outside the organization. Six percent said an insider committed the offense. However, a quick search of MinistryWatch articles related to fraud demonstrates there is plenty of fraud happening by those within churches and ministries. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity reported that one...

Organizers of the anti-government protests on Tuesday filed a petition with the Supreme Court, demanding that the protesters be allowed to hold a demonstration in the village of Neve Ativ, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vacationing with his wife Sara. The petition follows a decision by Israel Police to place barriers around the moshav and not allow civilians who do not live and are not vacationing in the village to arrive and protest there. "The police are preventing the protesters from utilizing their basic right of freedom of expression and protest, in a way which is absolutely not...

Southern Baptist Convention mainstay Ed Stetzer has revealed he has a new home church, and it’s chock full of women pastors, including one celebrity pastrix he’s long been theologically sweet on. Ed Stetzer is the disgraced former Lifeway executive who knowingly sold false Heaven Tourism books before being publicly exposed by Alex Malarkey. He was recently a professor, dean, and executive director of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center but has since taken a job as Dean of the Talbot School of Theology. An SBTS grad who has permanently embedded himself in Southern Baptist politics, Stetzer was recently appointed by...

An Oregon hospital refused a Catholic cancer patient treatment because she voiced her views on “transgenderism.” The staff at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) disregarded Marlene Barbera’s concerns when she commented on the office’s prominently-displayed “transgender” flag. After she had a disagreement over the phone with a staff member, the clinic dropped her as a patient, informing her in an email: “Effective immediately, you are discharged from receiving medical care at the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic. This action is being taken because of ongoing disrespectful and hurtful remarks about our LGBTQ community and staff… Please note that you...

Life.Church in Rogers, Arkansas, recently concluded week 3 of their kicked At the Movies campaign with a Spiderman theme, decorating the church and crafting a sermon based around the adventures of the famed webcrawler, intercut with scenes from the movie. It’s not a one-off for the 85,000-member, seeker-sensitive, multi-site-based Oklahoma church that has 40 locations, but rather something they do every year. Led by Craig Groeschel, the pastor and lead visionary who is an awful preacher and habitual scripture- twister, and who recently launched the metaverse for the megachurch, their promo material explains: At the Movies is an annual summer...

An accidental drug overdose killed the transgender person who died at a South Boston apartment complex where four children were removed in June, the state medical examiner’s office said. A city death certificate identifies the victim as Giovanni Murray, a 26-year-old man described in a Boston Police Department report as a “male to female transgender” person. The June 17 death drew conflicting reports from the Boston Police and Fire Departments. The fire department reported at the time that the person had gone into cardiac arrest from an apparent drug overdose, a matter that police appeared to dispute in a statement...

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Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable. Recent global and local heat records reflect natural temperature cycles. These are some of the themes of children’s videos produced by an influential conservative advocacy group. Now, the videos could soon be used in Florida’s classrooms. Florida’s Department of Education has approved the classroom use of material from the Prager University Foundation, a conservative group that produces videos that distort science, history, gender and other topics. Education experts call the videos dangerous propaganda. Florida is the first state to allow PragerU materials in public schools, where teachers will have...

... A picture from two sides The Chinese see a list of intertwined problems in the US that make China look safer and better in comparison. Here is a brief summary list: Overuse of legal and illegal opioids and drugs sold quite freely; Spread of firearms and violence, unsafe urban environments; Poor basic healthcare; Poor primary and middle school education; Youngsters all hooked on super-addictive smartphones and games; Persistent race issues, perhaps hiding class issues; Lousy food, an overweight population and dropping classical education; Broken families; Infrastructure in shambles. Plus there is the American ballooning public debt with doubts about...

(Reuters) - Moody's cut credit ratings of several small to mid-sized U.S. banks on Monday and said it may downgrade some of the nation's biggest lenders, warning that the sector's credit strength will likely be tested by funding risks and weaker profitability. Moody's cut the ratings of 10 banks by one notch and placed six banking giants, including Bank of New York Mellon, US Bancorp, State Street and Truist Financial on review for potential downgrades. "Many banks' second-quarter results showed growing profitability pressures that will reduce their ability to generate internal capital," Moody's said in a note. "This comes as...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s brand as a family-oriented public servant has been a signature political asset that for more than 50 years has helped him win the argument that, when judged against “the alternative” rather than “the Almighty,” he stacks up pretty well. He’s never lost to a general-election opponent in a political career that’s taken him from Delaware’s New Castle County Council to the Oval Office. But the burnish on Biden’s brand is being tested like never before, ahead of a close 2024 election. Some of the president’s Democratic allies are worried about potential fallout from a confluence...

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<p>The Bidens arrived back at the White House after spending some downtime at their beach house in Rehoboth and at their home in Wilmington, Delaware.</p><p>In the afternoon he'll host the World Series champion Houston Astros at the White House. Jill Biden will host a cyber security summit tied to education issues ahead of the start of the new school year.</p>

Ohio voters on Tuesday will decide on a ballot measure to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives say is needed to protect the state from a radical anti-gun, abortion and education agenda that could soon find its way to other states. It's an issue that has already prompted a massive early vote turnout – one that has some election offices straining to manage the load. "This is gubernatorial-level turnout," said Regine Johnson, deputy director of the board of elections in Stark County. As of Wednesday, more than 533,000 people had voted by mail or in...

Assuredly, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents. I will execute judgments against you, and I will scatter all your survivors in every direction. Ezekiel 5:10, The Israel BibleThe People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organization recently announced that its president and founder, Ingrid Newkirk, rewrote her will, 20 years after the original version, and made some very unusual requests, instructing that “my body be used in a manner that draws attention to needless animal suffering and exploitation.”Her first request was that the executors “Carve out and sear some of her...