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Two Christian parents in Colorado are demanding answers from their public school district after claiming their fifth-grade daughter was assigned to share a bed with a trans-identifying boy on a school trip last summer. Legal counsel for Joe and Serena Wailes also asked Jefferson County School Board and Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) Superintendent Tracy Dorland to clarify the district's overnight rooming policy by Dec. 18, according a copy of the letter sent to them Monday by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). The Wailes' daughter — whom the letter refers to as "D.W." — was reportedly assigned to sleep alongside a...

U.N. climate negotiators confirmed Monday they are pushing for a deal at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that will be the beginning of the end for fossil fuels. Flying back to Dubai to add his voice to the negotiations, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum ambition and maximum flexibility” to reach an agreement that can find consensus among the nearly 200 countries. “We are in a race against time,” Guterres told reporters, AFP reports.

One of the biggest problems with the surrogacy programs is that there are few, if any background checks and home checks. Those who would not otherwise qualify for adoption are simply purchasing children, essentially from a catalog, and taking them home. This has opened the door to some of the most godawful people in the world having unfettered access to children. As I wrote previously, the practice of surrogacy (womb rental) and IVF, especially within the context of homosexual relationships, not only distorts the Biblical design of family but also involves deeply troubling ethical concerns. In IVF, multiple embryos are...

In the trenches of today’s cultural battlefield, where truth is often held hostage by the whims of the zeitgeist, the Colliers’ conjugal collapse is not merely tabloid fodder—it’s a stark expose of a church culture skewed askew. Here we have Sam Collier, once celebrated as Hillsong Atlanta’s first Black lead pastor, who ascended the ecclesiastical ladder not through the grueling gauntlet of theological rigor, but through the charisma and cunning identity politics that now brand these modern-day temples. Collier’s tenure in the ecclesiastical sphere is marked not just by his time at Hillsong but also by his previous involvement with...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, is alleged to be directly communicating with certain commanders of Ukraine’s Armed Forces (UAF), and intentionally bypassing the Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, Ukrainska Pravda (UP) reported on Monday citing anonymous sources. According to the sources quoted in an article entitled "The War against Politics. What is really going on between Zelensky and Zaluzhny", this behavior is undermining and impeding Zaluzhny's ability to effectively lead the UAF. “Sometimes there is an impression that Zelensky has two types of Armed Forces of Ukraine: the ‘good ones’ commanded by Syrsky and other favorites, and the ‘bad ones’ who obey Zaluzhny,"...

The average monthly mortgage payment in Joe Biden’s America has soared to $3,322, per analysis from the Wall Street Journal. That $3,322 is nearly double the average monthly mortgage payment when His Fraudulency assumed office. When former President Trump left office, the average monthly mortgage payment was $1,787. Homeownership has become a pipe dream for more Americans,” writes the WSJ, “even those who could afford to buy just a few years ago.”

Conservatives, including a growing number within the House and Senate GOP, are skeptical of the continued flow of foreign aid without confidence that the war has an end point. Roberts accused Biden’s funding request for Ukraine of being overbroad, criticizing U.S. aims to help rebuild its war-ravaged economy. "The House of Representatives should strongly oppose aid to Ukraine when the European Union, which lags far behind the United States in its military assistance to Ukraine, should be required to fund greater levels of aid for Ukraine," he wrote. "Additionally, any military funding for Ukraine should include a publicly available accounting...

House Oversight Democrat quietly meeting with GOP lawmakers in effort to quash impeachment inquiry: sources Raskin's efforts come ahead of a House meeting to consider a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry framework. EXCLUSIVE: The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has been informally meeting with Republicans behind closed doors in an effort to persuade them to abandon the impeachment effort against President Biden, as GOP lawmakers prepare to vote to formalize the inquiry, Fox News Digital has learned. Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has been quietly discussing impeachment with House Republicans with whom he has close relationships,...

According to Politico, Republican Rep. Ken Buck is the only GOP lawmaker who is publicly opposing a Biden impeachment vote set to take place this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson will reportedly hold a formal impeachment vote this week. House Republicans have a very slim 3-vote majority after a few GOP lawmakers retired this year. Rep. Ken Buck is the only Republican who is opposing a Biden impeachment vote this week, according to a whip count compiled by Politico.

The Left projects itself onto Trump, and understandably finds itself all too terrifyingIt is “Trump Will Destroy Democracy” season again. And predictably the Left has gone hysterical, after experiencing a trifecta of frightening 2024 news.One, current polls in the primaries and in a general election for now show that Trump would win.Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s popularity dives below 40 percent. His policies on the economy, abroad, at the border, concerning crime, and about energy poll even more feebly. Never has an American president utterly and deliberately destroyed immigration law for the sole purpose of inviting in millions of illegal aliens, to...

You may believe that Israel’s response to October 7 is disproportionate. You may even believe that, on some level, the IDF is guilty of war crimes. But to accuse Israel of committing genocide is as preposterous as it is scandalous. Yet the word “genocide” is virtually ubiquitous these days, the most common description of Israel’s allegedly abominable acts.

The fate of billions in assistance for Ukraine remains in limbo Monday morning even as President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to make a crucial pitch to senators and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday.Zelensky’s visit to Washington – his third since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 – is unlikely to shift a now cemented dynamic in Washington that Republicans, even those that back additional funding for Ukraine, aren’t willing to do more unless Democrats and the White House concede on major policy changes on the US southern border.It’s a complicated moment for the White House, which has made the case...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Atlanta News First) - In a rare sign of unity across the aisle, members of Congress want to make it harder for the government to take your cash without charging you with a crime. “You ought to be convicted before they take your stuff,” U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told Atlanta News First Investigates in his Capitol Hill office. The Kentucky Republican has repeatedly filed a bill to change civil asset forfeiture laws. That bill has never made it out of committee in the U.S. Senate, but the House of Representatives version of the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act,...

Robots are here — and they’re ready to teach your children and grandchildren. Miko is an artificial intelligence-powered robot that was designed specifically to take kids' learning to a new level. The company's SVP of growth, San Francisco-based Ritvik Sharma, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the personal robot aims to elevate education.

Government numbers say America is seeing about 1 in 7 people struggling with food insecurity... The nonprofit Feeding America says its research shows that Americans’ salaries aren’t keeping up with the price of necessities. Now, the government numbers say we’re seeing about 1 in 7 people struggling with food insecurity. ... Jen Muzia with the Seattle Ballard Foodbank says running the food bank has become much more expensive. "It’s not only our guests that come in to shop, we’re also seeing it on us as we go to buy food. It’s costing us way more to buy food ... the...

Financial expert Chriss Street says that California is in an existential financial crisis. The state is losing billions by the month, and prospects for the future are even worse. Chriss Street knows California’s financial status. He has written articles on California’s financial woes for more than a decade. He was one of a handful of individuals selected to figure out how to get California out of its financial mess after the Great Recession of 2009, and he knows the financials of the state. He has been warning for some time that the state is in serious financial trouble, much more...

TUCSON, Arizona — Migrants recently released by the Border Patrol waited patiently to board flights leaving the region at the Tucson International Airport on Friday afternoon. The event marks their last day on the southwest border and their first day of free movement across the United States. Despite the firm requirements for United States citizens and legally admitted international travelers to possess valid forms of identification to board aircraft, the migrants were shuffled through a “special” security screening line set up by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), specifically for migrants — many without any identification whatsoever. ... several regular travelers...

A new poll from the Wall Street Journal says if Nikki Haley wins the Republican nomination, she would beat President Biden by 14 points. Donald Trump is four ahead, and Ron DeSantis ties Mr. Biden. The poll is simply a snapshot but demonstrates a few important things. Because Ambassador Haley is not controversial, she polls well among non-political Americans who reject Mr. Trump's demeanor and don't really care how he governs. But committed Republicans continue to overwhelmingly back the former president because they perceive Ms. Haley as an establishment politician who will not aggressively challenge the ingrained liberal system in...

This presents evidence that the president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, plagiarized her dissertation! Even more amazingly, her PhD is from Harvard, and she won a “best dissertation” prize there for it! And they hired her on the faculty and even made her president. And since she plagiarized from her advisor, it says there, someone at Harvard knew she did it, and they still graduated her, hired her and promoted her.

Inflation is easing, unemployment is relatively low, and the stock market looks strong, economics experts say. So why does it still feel so bad? A host of TikTokers have coined a name for it: “silent depression.” They say the economy is bad – just as bad as it was during the Great Depression – but no one is acknowledging it. One viral video compares 1930 prices with today’s, claiming the average home back then cost $3,900, a car was $600 and rent was $18 a month. Meanwhile, the average salary was $1,300, the TikToker says. Today, those prices are all...