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If someone had told you 20 years ago the world would come to accept concentration camps, genocide, ethnic cleansing you would have said, no those are things of the past. You would have shaken your head in disbelief at the suggestion that civilized societies would tolerate what the Russian army is doing to Ukrainian civilians, or the Chinese government to their Muslim Uighur citizens, or what Hamas terrorists are doing to Israeli babies, young children and grandmothers. Today, evil has been unleashed on the world by dictators who deliberately target civilians, including their own people, in a slaughter of the...

Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders endorsed former President Donald Trump for a second term in a statement reported by NBC News on Monday.The governor, who served as the Trump administration’s press secretary for two years and delivered the GOP’s response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech in February, will officially announce her endorsement at a Wednesday Trump rally in Florida, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed. Sanders slammed Biden and other Democrats in a statement to NBC News for “doubling down on crazy” and insisted that America must return Trump to the White House in 2024.“It’s...

• US annualized debt interest payments crossed $1 trillion in October, according to a Bloomberg analysis. • The cost of debt has doubled in the past 19 months as federal deficits balloon. • High interest rates have made borrowing more expensive, adding pressure on US debt.

President Ronald Reagan won re-election by a landslide over former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic challenger, on this day in history, Nov. 6, 1984. President Reagan won 49 states and amassed 525 electoral votes to Mondale’s 13, which was one of the biggest landslides in U.S. election history. The only state Mondale won was as Minnesota, his home state.

Fire damaged a historic hangar early Tuesday at the former Tustin Air Base in Orange County. The fire was reported at about 1:30 a.m. near Valencia Avenue and Armstrong Road, where flames were shooting through the roof of the towering wooden hangar. Parts of the roof feel to the ground, and firefighters took up positions outside the hanger, which is typically empty, due to the threat of collapse. The fire authority called in a helicopter to help fight the fire, something fire officials said was unheard of. The Chinook helicopters are used to fight wildfires.

President Joe Biden is losing support among minority voters — a key voting bloc for Democrats — ahead of the 2024 election, Axios reported Monday.Biden is losing support among hispanic and black voters in a series of recent battleground state and national polls, as well as among youth voters in the crucial voting blocs Democrats typically enjoy, according to Axios. Two polls released Sunday — a New York Times survey of six swing-states, all of which Biden won in 2020, and a national CBS News survey — found that Biden is bleeding support among minority voters.“Those financial factors may be...

During an interview with NBC News on Monday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who has endorsed DeSantis for president, said that rival 2024 GOP candidate former President Donald Trump attacked governors for trying to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.After DeSantis mentioned the criticism he got for his handling of the COVID pandemic and stated that he did what he thought was right regardless of the criticism, Reynolds said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:00] “Exactly. That is exactly what we needed to do. COVID Kim, I think, was my nickname. I...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• !BIBLE QUIZ! TODAY’S QUESTIONS: 5. “WHO COMPELLED LOT AND HIS FAMILY TO FLEE FROM SODOM BEFORE GOD DESTROYED IT?” 6. “WHY DID LOT’S WIFE DIE?” 7. “LOT HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, WHO GOT THEIR FATHER DRUNK SO HE WOULD IMPREGNATE THEM. WHAT NEIGHBORING NATIONS DID THEIR SONS FOUND?” 8. “GOD PROMISED ABRAM HE WOULD NOT DESTROY SODOM IF HE FOUND TEN RIGHTEOUS. HOW MANY RIGHTEOUS DID GOD ACTUALLY FIND?” ANSWERS APPEAR BELOW, WITH CORRESPONDING ART Q#5: “WHO COMPELLED LOT AND HIS FAMILY TO FLEE FROM SODOM...

Former President Donald Trump held two tele-rallies for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) in their respective gubernatorial races.Illustrating Trump’s hard work and dedication, the former president gave brief remarks at the tele-rallies despite having been in court all day in New York.When discussing Daniel Cameron, who shot to stardom after his rousing speech at the 2020 RNC convention, the former president said that Cameron would save the state of Kentucky from the grips of Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear.“A vote for Daniel Cameron is a vote for Trump, and it’s a vote against Biden,...

With businesses locking up more and more everyday items in an attempt to combat rampant shoplifting, avid errand runners are fuming that the days of the quick trip to the store are over.

New emails released by the House Judiciary Committee reveal the Biden Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before, during, and after the 2020 election. The group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies. The Gateway Pundit was a top target of EIP in the 2020 election. New information leaked from the investigation into EIP found that The Gateway Pundit was also a top target of EIP during the 2022 election....

After more than 20 years of working for his hometown newspaper, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., Steve Bradley was laid off amid pandemic-induced cost-cutting in May 2020. He was crushed, but he eventually took a communications job for a local school district. Sitting in the bleachers at the school softball field in July 2022, Bradley took a phone call from an unknown number. He listened as J. Nelson Thomas, an employment lawyer he’d never met, presented a jarring claim: Bradley was laid off because he is White. Now, Bradley is one of five named plaintiffs in a proposed...

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On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard reacted to negative poll numbers on the economy by stating that “the economy is performing exceptionally well” but “people have been through a very challenging few years between the pandemic, and then the oil price spikes associated with Russia’s war. It’s going to take a while for them to feel really confident,” and most people “feel like their personal finances are better now than they were before.” Co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin said, “Speak to this, though, because I think there [are] a lot of folks...

The Senate’s establishment GOP leadership has endorsed valuable but limited reforms to immigration policy because of populist pressure from the House GOP amid the end-of-year budget negotiations. The draft changes endorsed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are valuable but are also inadequate to block inevitable evasions by President Joe Biden’s deputies, said Jon Feere, the director of investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies. “The devil is in the details and there’s not much detail here … and there’s no language that requires actual [measurable] results,” he told Breitbart News.

Officials said that the new bomb is intended to be capable of an explosive yield equivalent to 340 kilotons of TNT- approximately 23 times the destructive power of the one dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.For example, if exploded over downtown Manhattan, an estimated 1.1 million people would be killed, while a further 2.1 million would be injured.A strike on Washington D.C., would result in a smaller loss of life, with an estimated 360,000 losing their life, as well as some 613,000 injured.But it would also destroy some of the nation's most significant symbols, with the...

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"I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Following the leak of the transgender Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said that the city has launched an investigation into how the images of the writings were released. "I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians...

Delta Air Lines is backing one of its flight attendants, who is accused of discrimination for failing to make allergy accommodations for a traveler on a flight from New York City to San Diego. When a California family asked that no almonds be served on the Oct. 2022 flight due to a teenager’s allergy, the flight attendant denied the request, according to a complaint filed to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Deborah Gianulis and her mother, Deena Gianulis, filed the complaint in Oct. 2023 on behalf of Deborah Gianulis’ teenage son, identified only as K.C. As the complaint states,...

7 November 2023 Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time The Tomb of Bl. Palau in the chapel of the Carmelite Missionaries of Tarragona. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 12:5-16 ©Use the gifts you have been givenAll of us, in union with Christ, form one body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. Our gifts differ according to the grace given us. If your gift is prophecy, then use it as your faith suggests; if administration, then use it for administration; if teaching, then use it for teaching. Let the preachers deliver sermons,...