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Asserting that the country’s foreign policy should always be based on reciprocity, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Monday if China does not accept “one India” policy, New Delhi should reconsider support to Beijing’s ‘One China’ policy. Asking why China should have a problem with any meeting in Jammu and Kashmir or any other part of India, the National Conference Vice President said if China continues with this stance, India should also raise questions on Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong. “I think it’s extremely unfortunate that the government of India keeps repeating its (adherence to )...

A grief-stricken family and school are mourning the shocking death of a college student who was shot and killed in Texas this week in an apparently random assault, ABC News reported. Wes Smith, a junior at Texas Christian University, was shot multiple times early Friday while standing on a sidewalk in Fort Worth's West 7th entertainment district, according to a police affidavit. A suspect arrested shortly after the attack allegedly admitted to shooting Smith three times for no discernable reason, according to the affidavit. Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said Smith was killed "in a senseless act of gun violence."...

Beneath the floor of St. Peter's Basilica, an ancient Roman cemetery holds the secret to the origins of Vatican City.The Pagan Necropolis Under Vatican City | 9:52toldinstone | 415K subscribers | 119,158 views | September 1, 20230:00 Introduction0:47 Excavations begin1:36 The Vatican before Christianity2:35 The Vatican Necropolis4:07 The Trophy of Gaius5:04 Constantine's Basilica6:12 Shrines and high altars7:30 The bones of St. Peter?

How did such a loathsome and masochistic state religion get established in the first place? Thomas Klingenstein recently delivered a speech at the Claremont Institute that notes what should be obvious to most Americans. According to Klingenstein, racism in the US is now a “manufactured” problem,” and this tawdry invention allows the Democrats and the Left to increase their power by addressing a problem that they themselves have stirred up. Although Klingenstein does not deny that isolated cases of discrimination against blacks may occur, he regards these situations as sporadic but also gleefully played up by Democratic politicians and their...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJohn 11Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus 17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. 18 Now Bethany was less than two miles[b] from Jerusalem, 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. 21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But I know that even...

President Job Biden’s story about the success of Bidenomics just keeps shrinking. The Labor Department has consistently overestimated payroll growth predictions under the 46th president and has been forced to revise the data downward to reflect slower economic growth throughout 2023. In addition, the Commerce Department significantly revised economic growth downward, dropping last quarter’s Gross Domestic Product by three-tenths of a point from 2.4% to 2.1%. Experts say the administration’s overly positive economic predictions — especially on jobs — are masking the growing discomfort that every day Americans feel from inflation and rising interest rates. “The labor force participation rate...

Dozens of Chicago-area residents are speaking out against a city plan to sell public land to Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) to build a local church. Some claim the religious group will benefit from the deal at taxpayers’ expense, while others allege a pattern of abuse in the denomination. On Wednesday, at a South Barrington Park District board meeting, residents objected to the proposed $1.7 million purchase of public land by PBCC, a Protestant denomination headquartered in Australia. The group had planned to construct a church and school on a 34-acre site in the wealthy northwest Chicago suburb. An attorney...

The Diocese of Worcester in Massachusetts, under the leadership of Bishop Robert McManus, has recently unveiled a new gender policy impacting over 5,000 students across 21 Catholic schools. Here’s the whole story. Bullying, Harassment, or Violence Based on Sex, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Identity Will Not Be Tolerated By enforcing a policy that mandates students to comport themselves in a manner consistent with their biological sex, the Church aims to uphold its longstanding teachings and principles. The comprehensive policy issued on August 15th stipulates that any form of bullying, harassment, or violence based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity...

Will their upheaval succeed? In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood. With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was empowered to transform the Democratic Party from its middle-class roots and class concerns into the party of the bicoastal rich and subsidized poor—obsessions with big money, race, a new intolerant green religion, and dividing the country into a binary of oppressors and oppressed. The Obamas entered...

This is the moment an attempted thief was chased out of a jewelry store in California after receiving a beatdown from employees he had just bear sprayed. In the shocking footage, a shirtless man is seen running out of Meza's Jewelry Store in El Monte as workers chase him away from the shop. Cops told local outlets the man entered the store Saturday afternoon and began shattering display cases after he sprayed the employees to pull off his theft. The attempted robbery took a turn when the fed-up workers decided to fight back and 'engaged the suspect - hitting, punching,...

Democrat President Joe Biden’s “woke” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has formed a team of “equity experts” that seeks to end private car ownership. Buttigieg has been busy allocating tax dollars to appoint a group of “leading experts” to advise him on “transportation equity.” Several members of Buttigieg’s Marxist “equity” team argue that cars cause “climate change” and “promote racism” and therefore should be phased out. The target is not just traditional gas-powered vehicles, however, as the “experts” insist that “all cars are bad,” including EVs.

Burning Man revelers have been forced to walk around the swamped playa barefoot and survive on tins of tuna after a washout saturated the dry ground. Torrential rains overwhelmed the Nevada desert, turning the dust into clay - meaning that 73,000 revelers are trapped until the landscape dries up. One person died in the ordeal, it was reported on Saturday. Festivalgoers dealing with the treacherous conditions in Black Rock City have also ditched their shoes that keep getting stuck in the mud - while they desperately conserve their food and water supplies. The portable toilets on the festival site also...

Even in dark red states like Oklahoma, there exists liberals who wish to groom children. A gross story was brought to light by Sara Gonzales of Blaze Media showcasing an elementary school hiring a pedophile to be the principal of an elementary school. This pedophile was once charged with possession of child pornography and moonlights as a transvestite drag queen. The child pornography charges stem from over a decade ago which contain conflicting rulings by judges over whether the state proved that the material in question depicted minors. Ultimately the charges were dismissed on these grounds. Troubling as it would...

Yesterday we reported that Republicans in Tennessee surprisingly held the line in not passing gun control amidst the mounting pressure including from religious sources like the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The special legislative session called by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee ended without the gun control measures he wanted passed. As reported earlier this week: This week their efforts to enact gun control were defeated as the House and Senate of Tennessee adjourned until January. The bills that were passed did not include gun control measures including so-called “red flag laws.” While Christians activists in...

The presiding Bishop of Beth Moore’s church has released a statement about the video we published two days ago featuring a Muslim Iman chanting and teaching through a verse from the Quran from behind the pulpit during an interfaith dialogue, standing behind the decision to have the discussion in the first place, while acknowledging that it should have been done in a different setting, rather than the nave of the church. In his message, which we have posted in full at the end, Bishop Clark WP Lowenfield explains that the Diocese has a ‘vibrant and robust’ campus ministry which has...

Squatters have taken over a Wyoming city after some left millions of dollars worth of damage to a motel and others left 500lbs of feces in the downtown area. Casper, the second-largest city in the state, is home to 60,000 residents but now also has about 200 homeless people. Some have seized various properties that are empty or abandoned, including an abandoned Econo Lodge motel that hasn't operated since November. Casper Mayor Bruce Knell described the extent of destruction as akin to 'third-world-country stuff'. 'It's like nothing I've ever seen. It's third-world-country stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming,' he told Cowboy...

In a bizarre case of mistaken identity, the renowned Philadelphia rapper, Symere Bysil Woods, famously known as Lil Uzi Vert, found himself at the center of a puppy theft investigation. The Pennsylvania police, relying on a social media photo of the real suspect, erroneously identified Lil Uzi Vert as the culprit. The incident unfolded when a precious, fluffy pup was snatched from the Brookside Pups pet store in Wilkes-Barre Township, PA, last week.

Remember Hillary Clinton’s line that it takes a village to raise a child? Now the left is trying to exile parents from the village. Consider its crusade against minority parents in Chino, Calif., a predominantly minority working-class community east of Los Angeles. Last week California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School Board of Education over its new policy—adopted by a 4-1 vote at a July 20 meeting—that requires schools to inform parents if their child requests to use a name different from that on his birth certificate or to be referred to by opposite-sex or nonstandard...

There are still 385 people on the official list of those missing after the Maui wildfire 27 days after the blaze tore through the seaside town of Lahaina, killing at least 115 people. The FBI and the Maui Police Department announced Friday that 245 of the people on the list of 388 missing individuals from the previous week were located and removed from the list. But, a nearly equal number of new names were added. The new figure was an unfortunate amendment to what Hawaiian Governor Josh Green said he had expected just one day earlier, which was that the...

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began on Monday with the Turkish leader seeking to persuade Russia to revive an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain and other commodities from three Black Sea ports. Putin in July refused to extend the agreement, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations a year earlier. Russia complained that a parallel deal promising to remove obstacles to Russian exports of food and fertilizer hadn’t been honored. It said restrictions on shipping and insurance hampered its agricultural trade even though it has shipped record amounts of...