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Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. Rosh Hashanah 5785 (2024) Also at your times of rejoicing— your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts— you are to sound the trumpets over...

Nasrallah’s presumed successor said to be target of heavy Israeli strike in Beirut No word yet from army on whether it targeted Hashem Safieddine * IDF, Shin Bet say head of Hamas terror network among the 18 Palestinians reported killed in Tulkarem airstrike

The political arm of Planned Parenthood Northern California has endorsed four candidates running for seats on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and all four of them are men. The decision has drawn ire from more than 50 Bay Area organizations, activists and politicians, who sent a joint letter to Planned Parenthood Northern California, whose administrative office is in Concord, chiding the chapter for its endorsements and demanding to know what considerations went into its decision process. “It is impossible to miss the fact that NO WOMEN were endorsed in any of the Supervisorial district races, especially when there are...

So-called “policy experts” at the libertarian Cato Institute, known for its defense of open borders, are admitting that Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) is correct when he says “immigration increases housing prices” for Americans. “We don’t want to blame immigrants for higher housing prices….

A week after Hurricane Helene made its deadly, destructive landfall and swept across the interior Southeast, the storm’s victims say they still haven’t seen much help from the Biden-Harris administration.“I haven’t seen any federal folks. I haven’t seen FEMA or local emergency crews. It’s just neighbor helping neighbor,” said North Carolina state Rep. Donnie Loftis told The Washington Times.Mr. Loftis, a Republican, was delivering much-needed supplies on Thursday to a local church in Hendersonville, which sits about 30 minutes north of Asheville, in one of the hardest hit areas in the state. He said the church is providing supplies, water,...

Researchers say antibiotics given in infancy can disrupt development of the microbiome, resulting in increased levels of aggression later in life.Giving antibiotics to young mice is likely to make them more aggressive in later life, according to a new study. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, central Israel, believe their findings could well apply to humans as well. They say there is a significant link between antibiotics – medication used to treat bacterial infections – and the diverse microorganisms of the gut, known as the microbiome. Antibiotics given in infancy can disrupt the development and limit the diversity of...

Opposites attract - including when it comes to food and drink. If you've ever enjoyed a bar of sea-salted chocolate, you'll know just how weirdly well sweet and savoury can sometimes go together. But there's another unfamiliar combination that's been appearing in more and more recipes: sweet and spicy, often known as "swicy". Social media is filled with the likes of swicy Korean chicken, swicy salsas and even swicy brownies. Machine Qualification - Discover your benefits koerber-pharma.com Machine Qualification - Discover your benefits Ad Swicy dishes are great for their complexity, since the sweetness adds a contrast to the hot...

[Catholic Caucus] Priesthood about a person's gifts, 'not their genitalia,' says woman priestThe U.S. representative of a women's ordination movement said she is encouraged by people praying that the Catholic Church will open the priesthood to all who feel called to the ministry — particularly women. "What I feel right now is excitement and solidarity because I feel like there is a lot of good energy and movement in the greater body of the church that really wants to see equality come in so many different ways," said Rev. Angela Nevitt Meyer of Roman Catholic Womenpriests-USA. She is in Rome...

...Voting for any other candidate, Joan believes, “will be a vote for Kamala Harris and the Democrats who are PRO-DEATH to the core”: Please remind our friends who are backing away from Trump to trust God. Remind them that God often chooses people who fail to trust Him! That’s why Trump appears to be a traitor. Remind them that his heart is still prolife, and that even if he is not as strong a pro-lifer as he was before that he will NEVER BE PRO-ACTIVE PRO-ABORT. NEVER! Whereas a vote for any other candidate will be a vote for Kamala...

The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has snubbed the Harris-Walz ticket with a non-endorsement — news which comes after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) spoke at their event in August.IAFF President Edward Kelly made the announcement on Thursday following an executive board meeting, where the determination was made.“Today, the IAFF Executive Board, by a margin of 1.2 percent, voted to not endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election,” he announced, noting that IAFF took “unprecedented steps to hear out members’ views on the candidates and the policy issues that matter most to them” over the last year.“As we have over...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D) and Republican challenger Dave McCormick will meet in Harrisburg for their first debate in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. Both candidates were largely unopposed in the spring primary, setting up a race that could swing the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.

The most important exchange in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate has been almost entirely ignored by the corporate media. Not surprisingly, that’s because it makes Walz look like an authoritarian and a fool in one fell swoop:J.D. Vance: The most sacred right under the United States democracy is the First Amendment. You yourself have said there’s no First Amendment right to misinformation. Kamala Harris wants to use …Tim Walz: …[inaudible] threatening or hate speech …J.D. Vance: … the power of government and Big Tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive...

Guatemalan security agents arrested 25 mostly active police officers implicated in a human trafficking network that operated along a route used by mostly U.S.-bound migrants, Interior Minister Francisco Jimenez said on Tuesday. Guatemala has been a major transit country for decades for migrants from Latin America and beyond as they travel north to Mexico's border with the United States. The minister said two of the detained police officers were retired, and an additional 11 civilians were also arrested on charges including money laundering on behalf of an organization known as "Los Rs."

A former federal law enforcement officer says multiple government failures allowed an MS-13 gang member and suspected killer, who has since been convicted of murder, to attend two Maryland public schools. “My message is be outraged, be mad, be angry and take action,” Mark Morgan, a former FBI agent and the former Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said about what he would tell parents whose children were sitting in class with an MS-13 suspected murderer, and they didn’t know it. Morgan’s been watching, over the past few weeks, as FOX45 investigated the death of Kayla Hamilton, and...

On Tuesday, I was part of a City University of New York event about economic perceptions, which was briefly disrupted by a protester yelling out that President Biden isn’t helping some of the areas afflicted by Hurricane Helene. The guy’s politics were unclear — he was also yelling something about Israel — but it was an indication that Donald Trump’s latest lie has gone viral.In case you missed it, Trump has been trying to exploit the natural disaster for political gain, claiming he heard that the federal government — Biden — and North Carolina’s Democratic governor are “going out of...

Israel conducted a targeted strike in Beirut on Wednesday night local time against the head of Hezbollah's executive committee Hashim Safi al-Din, three Israeli officials said. Why it matters: Safi al-Din is the leading figure to succeed Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah's leader. An Israeli official said Safi al-Din was in a bunker deep underground and it isn't yet clear whether he was killed in the strike. -snip- According to Lebanese press reports, the Israeli strike was far larger than the one that killed Nasrallah last week.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said during a news conference that attorneys for Erik Menendez, 53, and his 56-year-old brother, Lyle Menendez, have asked a court to vacate their conviction. Gascón said there is no question the brothers committed the murders, but that his office will be reviewing new evidence and will make...

One of Ritchie Blackmore's former classmates has been scammed out of almost $184,000 by someone pretending to be the former Deep Purple cofounder. Valerie Horwood, a terminally ill cancer patient, was conned into sending a series of Apple gift cards over a period of three years. The fake Blackmore connected with Horwood through Facebook then began requesting money for fake investments through messaging apps. The gift cards can be redeemed at many retail outlets and supermarkets. "My mum is not a stupid old lady," Horwood's daughter Debbie told The Sun. "She is very streetwise and very switched on. She was...

Polling continues to show a very tight race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The incumbent vice president has a very narrow lead nationally, in the RealClearPolitics average. Some battleground polling gives Trump small leads in most of the swing states. Other battleground polling seems to slightly favor Harris. Pennsylvania continues to look crucial and tied. One pollster that recently released a batch of generally Trump-positive data from key battleground states (not dissimilar to this set of numbers from 2020's most accurate pollster) also included an intriguing note about their results.Before we get to that, here were the results themselves:...