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Andy Stanley is one of the largest and most influential gay-affirming pastors in the world. Yet, evidently, Andy Stanley would attempt to draw the line on the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony which celebrated blasphemy, homosexuality, and transgenderism. Image (on link which Andy has since deleted) On Saturday, Andy Stanley would post a ballsy denouncement of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. In this, he highlighted the sacrifice Americans made for France invoking John 15:13. The hypocrisy is that Andy Stanley, in that he affirms homosexuality has no standard for which to call out the degeneracy on display. His...

Reports name target of strike as Fuad Shukr, who heads the Lebanese terror group’s precision missile project and is wanted by US for his role in 1983 Marines barracks bombing.

She loved disco dancing to Michael Jackson and even started an all-girls dance troupe. She was well-liked, known for her laugh and bubbly personality. But as Kamala Harris amps up her presidential campaign it’s unlikely voters will hear much from her about how she spent her formative years in Canada, a DailyMail.com investigation has learned. Harris was crushed when her divorced mother told her they were moving from California to Montreal – and she remained homesick for the duration of their five-year stay in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. There is no mention of her Canadian education in Harris’s...

A Rasmussen survey of over 8,000 likely voters found that 62% of them are concerned that cheating will skew the 2024 election results. Twenty percent of those surveyed reported that they either received more than one official ballot in the mail or received a ballot for someone who does not live at their address in 2020. One percent of the likely voters said they are not US citizens and 0.85% said they are not sure if they are US citizens. While it is illegal for non-citizens to vote, federal voter registration forms require no proof of citizenship. All the individuals...

A temperature spike of nearly 20 degrees occurred in western Nebraska early Tuesday morning from a relatively rare phenomenon called a heat burst. The temperature rose from 73.9 degrees to 92.3 degrees in about 2 hours. That temperature rise happened at a weather station early Tuesday morning in Ogallala, Nebraska, from 12:15 a.m. MDT to approximately 2:00 a.m. MDT. T​he temperature then fell back down into the 70s shortly thereafter. Several other weather stations in the area also saw brief, notable overnight temperature increases, including one that jumped to 94 degrees. (15-min details: For even more granular weath

The race for the White House is heating up and somehow a soda brand has found itself in the middle of rips between candidates and potential candidates. It all started when Ohio Sen. and Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance made a comment during his hometown rally that involved Diet Mountain Dew "It is the weirdest thing to me, Democrats say it's racist to believe, well they say it's racist to believe anything. I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today, I'm sure they're gonna call that racist too,” Vance said during a rally in Middletown. "It's good." J.D....

Concern for public safety and raw emotion are running high after a mass stabbing of young children in the United Kingdom, with the Prime Minister being heckled by the public over knife crime as he laid a wreath for the dead. Three children were killed and a dozen other children and adults were seriously injured in a mass stabbing attack at a youngster’s summer holiday dance party in Southport, Merseyside, England, on Monday. The Home Secretary visited Southport on Tuesday morning, and hours later she was followed by Britain’s new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who met first responders and...

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Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet engines during airport take-offs. But more than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a drug used to treat sick cows. By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population had plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle that is fatal to vultures. Birds that fed on carcasses of livestock treated with the drug suffered from kidney failure...

VIDEOMinnesota Governor Tim Walz has a new buzzword toy that he loves to play with because he thinks it could get him a spot on the Democrat presidential ticket as the running mate of Kamala Harris. And that magic buzzword is "WEIRD." He is trying to stamp that word on President Trump and running mate JD Vance. However, Walz does not have to look far because his own party is chock full of ...WEIRD. One new example of weird is North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper's silly fascination about the way his name is pronounced. This could be one reason why...

U.S. — Democrats continued their long-standing tradition of holding whites-only gatherings this week with the new "White Dudes for Harris" campaign. The Zoom call, featuring prominent politicians and celebrities, upheld the Democratic Party's proud heritage of gathering a large group of white men together to talk about black people just like the party did for decades with the Ku Klux Klan and other whites-only meetings. "We're Democrats. It's what we do," said angry white man David Hogg. "We'd be remiss if we didn't seek to carry on the age-old Democratic Party tradition of having meetings that were only for white...

Venezuela's outsized role in U.S. politics is poised to grow further after autocrat Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner in a presidential election widely condemned as fraudulent. Why it matters: Nearly 8 million Venezuelans have fled the crisis-stricken nation over the last decade. Maduro's re-election and the ensuing political unrest could exacerbate the refugee crisis in the final months before the U.S. election. Zoom in: Illegal border crossings have plunged since President Biden issued an executive order cracking down on asylum. But polling suggests the border remains one of Vice President Kamala Harris' top vulnerabilities — and Republicans have made...

Less than three weeks ago, President Donald Trump barely survived an attempted assassination at his political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. President Trump and two other supporters were injured in the gunfire. Another Trump supporter, Corey Comperatore, was killed by the would-be assassin. Since that time, the media has swept this historic event under the rug. And there is now evidence that the security team assigned to his rally were lackluster at best and even worse! We now know that the Secret Service would not allow communications with local police prior to the shooting. We also know that the police spotted...

Assessments by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which analyzes the continent’s electricity supply reliability, have been warning that large portions of the U.S. grid are threatened with increased risks of blackouts. Jim Robb, CEO of NERC, said that risk is growing as more than 100 billion watts of thermal power generation, meaning coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, is slated for retirement over the next 10 years.

Michael Dickson @michaeldickson: Bad sport Nurali Emomali from Tajikistan refused to shake hands with Israeli judo competitor Baruch Shmailov and shouted “Allah Akbar”. Nurali ended up with a dislocated shoulder crying on the mat. Olympic levels of karma. #Olympics 10:04 AM · Jul 28, 2024Link

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making. Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and...

Last week, a federal judge struck down a provision in a North Carolina law requiring doctors to verify that a pregnancy is in the uterus — and therefore not ectopic — before prescribing the abortion pill, while also restoring a 2023 law stating that abortions after 12 weeks must be committed in a hospital. The two provisions had been challenged by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and Dr. Beverly Gray, and both were temporarily blocked by U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles last year. In her Friday ruling, Eagles vacated her previous ruling that had blocked the hospital requirement, noting “the plaintiffs...

🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A Secret Service counter sniper sent an email Monday night to the entire Uniformed Division (not agents) saying he will not stop speaking out until "5 high-level supervisors (1 down) are either fired or removed from their current positions." The counter sniper also said the agency "SHOULD expect another assassination attempt" before November and complained that he is no longer proud to be a USSS counter sniper after leadership failed the officers at the Trump rally in Butler on 7/13. "This agency NEEDS to change," the sniper wrote in the email. "If not now, WHEN? "The NEXT assassination...

A loud blast was heard, and a plume of smoke could be seen rising late on Tuesday above the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, a stronghold of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, a Reuters witness said. The city has been on edge for days ahead of an anticipated Israeli attack in retaliation for a strike on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights that killed a dozen Druze children and teenagers. Israel and the United States have blamed Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah has denied responsibility.

Artnet News reports that a section of opus sectile flooring has been discovered at Baiae, a luxurious Roman town now underwater in the Gulf of Naples, by a team of divers from C.S.R. Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Underwater Archaeology and Technology. Opus sectile flooring is made up of large, polychrome stones cut into precise shapes and was popular among elites during the first century A.D. Such large stones made it more expensive than mosaic flooring, which was made with small tesserae. This floor, made with recycled materials, was installed in a villa's porch reception area overlooking the sea. Baiae eventually...