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“‘Do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on’” (Matthew 6:25). God’s Word commands us not to worry. A story I once read reminded me that worry is like fog. According to the article, dense fog covering seven city blocks a hundred feet deep is composed of less than one glass of water—divided into sixty billion droplets. In the right form, a few gallons of water can cripple a large city. Similarly, the object of a person’s worry is usually...

Democrats this week touted their theme of “joy” at their convention, which took place in Chicago this week, but there is nothing joyful about Americans having to pay 14 percent more for airfare in the Biden-Harris America. According to data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the cost of airfare has increased 14 percent since both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — the latter of whom has been coronated as the top of the ticket candidate, shirking the will of 14 million voters who cast their ballot for Biden — in January 2021. In March 2022, one...

Circuit Zandvoort First Grand Prix1952 Number of Laps72 Circuit Length4.259 kmRace Distance306.587 kmLap Record1:11.097Lewis Hamilton (2021) Track NEED TO KNOW: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/formula-1-heineken-dutch-grand-prix-2024-timetable.6l2Y0oKOLdkfq3cbVC9GSp

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a Friday court filing that he will endorse former President Donald Trump, The Associated Press reports. The Kennedy campaign asked Pennsylvania to remove him from the ballot in the court filing, according to the AP. The filing didn't say explicitly if he would be suspending his campaign. The former Democrat is making an announcement in Phoenix a couple of hours before Trump was scheduled to hold a campaign event in nearby Glendale, Arizona. The Trump campaign on Thursday advertised that the former president would be joined by a "special guest," which...

A notable outcome of Ukraine’s surprise invasion of the Russian province of Kursk — now stretching into its third week — is the Russian army’s reliance on thousands of unprepared, under-equipped, and poorly led conscripts in its attempt to repel the invasion. It’s often under-appreciated in the West just how unpopular and politically sensitive the draft is in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The use of conscripts in Afghanistan and Chechnya (and their deaths in their thousands) was a huge part of the unpopularity of those wars inside Russia. In those years, the draft set off protests and a Russian “mothers’ movement”...

Where the heck was Beyoncé?! We were promised a diva but had to settle for the poor woman's Taylor Swift (Pink). In the run-up to the most important speech of Kamala Harris's life, rumor ran hot that Queen Bey would grace the Democratic National Convention with her presence. After TMZ reported that Jay-Z's much-better half was indeed backstage at Chicago's United Center on Thursday night, I spotted more than one delegate decked out in glitterball 'Cowboy Carter' hats and matching silver chaps. Alas, it turned out to be a big-head fake, the whole fiasco a metaphor for what America just...

Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” host Joe Kernen and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) debated Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy suggestion of implementing price controls during a 20-minute contentious interview. Warren said, “Look at what happened to their profit margins. If they had just been passing along costs profit margins would have stayed about the same, but for some industries, some companies, profit margins shot up. Do you know where they shot up most often? It was in industries where there was a lot of concentration, a lot of market power, places where the market is not functioning...

PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in a Pennsylvania court filing that he will be endorsing Donald Trump.

Alexander the Great was the world most feared warrior king. He died Pharaoh of Egypt and his body was a powerful political tool that enabled anyone possessing it to claim Egypt for themselves. His tomb was seen in the 4th Century AD in ancient Alexandria, and ever since people have searched hoping to find this holy grail of archaeology. Now using evidence from Alexander’s own journey through Egypt, we are perhaps close to solving one of history’s most enduring mysteries.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid a historic visit to Ukraine, telling President Volodymyr Zelensky he is prepared to play a personal role to bring peace. The Indian leader was criticised by President Zelensky last month when he hugged Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a trip to Moscow on a day of deadly Russian strikes, including one on Kyiv's biggest children's hospital. Mr Modi, 73, said he had told Mr Putin that problems could not be solved on the battlefield. "Both sides will have to sit together and to look for ways to come out of this crisis," he...

An interview between Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and CNBC host Joe Kernen boiled over Friday morning, when the two sparred over Vice President Harris’s recent pledge to ban price gouging if elected in November. Harris unveiled her economic plans last week, including the proposed ban, which would give the Federal Trade Commission the ability to investigate companies that increase their prices during periods of higher inflation. “This could be another tool in toolbox,” Warren said of the proposal, before Kernen interrupted. “Senator how would this policy do that,” he asked. Warren replied, “I let you finish your argument, did you...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to hold a press conference at 11 am PST in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is expected to announce his withdrawal from the 2024 Presidential Election and endorse Donald J. Trump for President.

After more than four years of planning and preparation to challenge President Biden for the White House, the Republican Party must pivot its massive machine toward a fresh foe. But as autumn looms, Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair (and daughter-in-law of the presidential nominee), says she is more than prepared to take on Vice President Kamala Harris — and has been for quite some time. “It’s very unprecedented. This has never happened before really in US history,” she told The Post. “But of course we’re not entirely surprised. For years we’ve had this in the back of our mind...

Russia has suspended a ferry service between southern Russia and Crimea after a Ukrainian attack the previous day hit a vessel loaded with rail cars carrying fuel, Russia's Transport Ministry said on Friday. Ukraine's Navy said on Friday that it had destroyed a ferry at Port Kavkaz in Russia's Krasnodar region, one of Russia's largest outlets on the Black Sea, which it said had been used to deliver fuel and weapons to Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The Russian Transport Ministry said in a statement that the ferry service to Crimea had been temporarily suspended...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said. The rules, promoted as in line with Islamic sharia law and to be enforced by the morality ministry, were based on a decree by the Taliban's supreme spiritual leader in 2022 and were now officially published as law, a Justice Ministry spokesman said.

PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. - Family and friends are gathering for a funeral service and graveside service for Paulding County Sheriff's Office Deputy Brandon Cunningham on Friday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers are also attending the services, with some coming from as far away as New York City.

The Biden-Harris administration kicked off what critics call an amnesty program for illegal immigrants during the week of the Democratic National Convention.... "Keeping Families Together," ... will make an estimated 500,000 noncitizen spouses and another 50,000 noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens eligible for parole.... "This is a massive amnesty that Congress never authorized," Andrew Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Fox News Digital..... "It would hold Republicans' feet to the fire to undo it thereafter, but as we’ve seen with DACA, administrative amnesties are difficult to undo."... Noncitizen stepchildren of U.S. citizens...

A new flu vaccine candidate incorporates proteins from 8 strains of influenza

Former President Donald Trump played a much different tone than previously on the topic of abortion and women’s rights, saying his administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.” After delivering on his promise to anti-abortion groups to pick justices on the Supreme Court who would get Roe v. Wade overturned, the former president has sought to establish a middle ground on the topic of abortion. Following a series of devastating Republican electoral defeats that were largely over abortion rights, he has sought to distance himself from the topic altogether, culminating in him adopting vastly different rhetoric on...

Former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has doubled his support among Black voters, a recent Morning Consult poll found. A Morning Consult survey of 11,501 registered voters conducted between August 15 and August 18, 2024, found that Trump has garnered significantly more backing from Black voters compared to his 2020 run. The 2024 poll shows 21 percent of Black voters supporting Trump, a 12-percentage point increase from a 2020 Morning Consult poll. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point. Trump's increase in support among Black voters contrasts with the poll's findings...