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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday the Indian government's crackdown on Canadian diplomats was making normal life difficult for millions of people in both countries. Trudeau spoke a day after Canada said it had withdrawn 41 diplomats following an Indian threat to unilaterally revoke their status. New Delhi is angry that Trudeau last month suggested Indian agents might have been involved in the June murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada. "The Indian government is making it unbelievably difficult for life as usual to continue for millions of people in India and in Canada. And they're doing it...

The most dishonorable thing you can do to God is to blaspheme Him by depicting Him as something He hates. God has made it clear that He is to be honored and worshiped rightly and in truth. Despite this, those false churches masquerading as the “tolerant” and “inclusive” continue to store up wrath for themselves on the day of judgment. A Canadian Church called St. Mary’s Road United Church in Manitoba recently put out a video that contained a skit of one of the performers dressed in drag and playing the part of God answering telephone prayers. “Hello my child,...

Perhaps the Walter Cronkite Awards ought to have slightly higher standards?Ben Collins is a reporter for NBC News who specializes in coverage of disinformation and extremism, particularly on social media. His work has earned him many plaudits, including a 2023 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. Collins is treated as an expert in the burgeoning field of countering the spread of misinformation. Yet his error rate is noteworthy. Take the Gaza hospital explosion, for example. On Tuesday, reports surfaced that the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza had come under attack, resulting in as many as 500 deaths....

In a decision that undoubtedly exposes the theological and moral lapses within certain corners of modern evangelicalism, JD Greear, the highly influential pastor of Summit Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, recently hosted Durham County District Attorney Satana Deberry for what was termed a “family discussion” on racial issues and faith. Let’s be clear: Greear’s decision to give a platform to Deberry, an openly lesbian and pro-abortion activist, is nothing short of a blasphemous betrayal of biblical Christianity and dereliction of his pastoral duties. Greear, with a past tenure as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention, wields considerable influence not...

GAZA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Two American hostages freed on Friday by the armed wing of Hamas were identified as Chicago-area residents Judith Tai Raanan and her daughter Natalie Shoshana Raanan, who Israel said were en route to a military base in central Israel to be reunited with family. …….. Hamas has said it took about 200 hostages during a deadly Oct. 7 rampage carried out from the Gaza Strip on communities and military bases in southern Israel, part of the bloodiest attack on the country since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The Iranian-backed militia has said 50 more captives are...

Earlier this week, we reported that former Contemporary Christian Worship celebrity, Derek Webb, who defected from the faith a few years ago and came out in full support of sodomy, decided to gather with two other sexual deviants and crash the Dove Awards wearing drag. Derek Webb, once a star in the highly popular 90’s Christian band Caedmon’s Call, has become yet another casualty of the contemporary Christian music industry. It’s an open secret—the vast majority of these so-called “Christian” rock stars use their “Christian” platform merely as a stepping stone to the secular stage. From Hillsong to Lauren Daigle...

The art collection of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died in June, has been deemed worthless by leading Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, the BBC reported on Thursday. Berlusconi, who had a net worth of €6 billion (about $6.4 billion), purchased many of the paintings and sculptures in his collection from late night televised auctions. A whopping 25,000 paintings of Madonnas, naked women, and European cityscapes have been deemed of poor quality with little to no value. Only six or seven from the lot, according to Sgarbi, have any artistic worth. Related Articles A white man smiles while...

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) filed a lawsuit against the Manhattan District Attorney‘s office on Thurday over the earlier seizure of a headless bronze statue, estimated to be worth $20 million. The museum stated in its lawsuit that it “does not question that the New York district attorney sometimes gets it right and returns true stolen items to foreign nations. Based on the evidence adduced thus far and the opinions of experts available to the museum, this is not one of those times.” The court filing says the CMA lawfully purchased the “Draped Male Figure” for $1.85 million from...

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow claimed that if Donald Trump were re-elected as president he would eliminate future presidential elections and potentially "execute" the network she works for.

Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s TV streaming service is no more — and China was reportedly an issue. Stewart and Apple have parted ways after executives at the tech giant expressed misgivings about future episodes of the show that would potentially delve into sensitive topics such as China and artificial intelligence, according to The New York Times.The move brings about a surprise end to “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” which ran for two years on Apple TV+. Initially, the show was a ratings flop, managing a meager audience in its first season. But the second season brought several viral moments....

The limits of "we just don't believe you" as a news-consuming habitAfter first the Israeli government and then the United States government issued statements Wednesday, with supporting evidence, that the deadly rocket exploding into the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital parking lot in Gaza on Tuesday did not emanate from Israel, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi gave an expected if telling response. "Nobody is buying that narrative in this part of the world," Safadi told NBC. Safadi's predecessor (and also Jordan's former ambassador to Israel), Marwan Muasher, echoed that in an interview with CNN: "The Arab public puts the attack squarely on...

WJW) — Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, ending Americans’ longstanding constitutional right to abortion and putting the issue up to states, voters in five states have either enshrined abortion rights in their state constitutions or rejected anti-abortion proposals. Ohio has become the latest battleground on the issue, and it’s set to put the issue before voters in the Nov. 7 general election. Here we break down the proposed constitutional amendment, named The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety. What is Ohio’s Issue 1? Issue 1, if passed, would change the...

Ep. 32 You’ll be shocked to learn this, but it turns out the whole George Floyd story was a lie.

Radical internet traffic cop NewsGuard has shown once again why its bona fides as a supposedly unbiased journalism referee are hot garbage in light of how it treats leftist outlets that peddled Hamas agitprop to attack Israel. The New York Times, TIME magazine, Politico and Reuters are just four of a number of leftist news outlets that haphazardly gobbled up the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry’s claim that an “Israeli” airstrike blew up a Gaza-based hospital, allegedly killing 500 people on Oct. 17. A U.S. intelligence assessment later concluded that Israel was not responsible for the bombing. Both the U.S. House...

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is urging voters in the state to reject a radical abortion measure on the ballot in November. DeWine and his wife, Ohio first lady Fran DeWine, deliver the message in an ad by Protect Women Ohio released Wednesday—the same day that early voting began on Ohio Issue 1, the Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative. Pushed by groups such as the ACLU of Ohio and Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the constitutional amendment would ban the state from interfering with “reproductive decisions,” including abortion—effectively enshrining the “right” to abortion into the Ohio Constitution....

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis disembarks from the navy and red campaign bus shuttling him around the early states, the fingerprints of his candidacy are everywhere — “DeSantis 2024” emblazoned across one side of the bus in bold white letters, with one of the governor’s signature phrases on the opposite end: “Never Back Down.” But the bus doesn’t belong to DeSantis or his campaign. It’s DeSantis’ supportive super PAC, Never Back Down, bringing DeSantis around the early states on 11 bus tours, including eight in Iowa alone. while DeSantis has made at least 82 public appearances in Iowa alone, at...

A New York judge fined Donald Trump $5,000 on Friday after threatening the former president with jail time for violating a partial gag order in his civil fraud trial. But Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron warned that future violations will subject Trump to “far more severe sanctions” — including imprisonment. *** Friday’s fine, while small for Trump, is the first time the ex-president has faced punishment for violating court-ordered restrictions on his speech. Engoron made the decision after discovering that Trump had not fully deleted the social media post that prompted the speech restrictions in the first place. The...

The radical Arab-Palestinian beasty fascists dare to talk about "humanitarian." We don't know the money involved and Hamas terrorists financiers-Qatar steps in releasing only 2 out of 203 hostages by the cruel Hamas Gaza regime. But we do know the psychological warfare the vicious inhumane people use these poor hostages as mere tools for propaganda. "Humanitarian" - no less, their statement said on releasing two and not a single child freed. ____ Yehudit and Nathalie Ra'anan are the abductees who were released from Hamas captivity The two, a mother and daughter who live in Chicago and have American citizenships, were...

Nearly seven out of 10 US service members are considered either overweight or obese — which may compromise the nation’s military readiness and undermine national security, according to a new wide-ranging study. The American Security Project, a Washington-based nonprofit, found that 68% of US troops qualified as either “overweight” or “obese” under the Body Mass Index, which takes into account a person’s age, height and weight. It also determined that the number of troops in the “obese” category have more than doubled over the course of the past decade — from 10.4% in 2012, to 21.6% last year. The trend...

Former President Donald Trump nears 60 percent of support on the national level as his primary and caucus opponents ALL FALL TO SINGLE DIGITS, per an Emerson College poll. At the same time, he also holds a slim lead over President Joe Biden in a tight hypothetical general election race. In the Republican presidential primary race, Trump takes 59 percent of the response, placing him more than 50 points above his nearest competitors. Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) both register at eight points, with former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) on their heels at four percent....