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Vice President Kamala Harris was hailed as a “phenomenal servant of God” Sunday by Bishop Rosie O'Neal, founder and senior pastor of Koinonia Christian Center Church in Greenville, North Carolina, moments before she encouraged congregants at the megachurch to not grow weary in well-doing from Galatians 6.Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee looking to get elected as America’s first female president on Nov. 5, highlighted how challenging having faith can be in times of crisis. She cited, in particular, the devastation suffered in states like North Carolina and Florida due to recent hurricanes.In recent weeks, both Hurricanes Helene and Milton have...

Kamala Harris kept hundreds of black men in prison past their release date so she could use these men for cheap California state labor at $2 per day. That alone should have disqualified Kamala Harris from public office. Extending prison sentences for cheap labor sounds like criminal activity! In February 2019, Jackie Kucinich at The Daily Beast wrote about Kamala Harris’s Attorney General office keeping inmates locked up so the state could use them for cheap labor. Just like slavers. Kamala also locked up 1,500 people for marijuana violations.

Pope Francis popularity plummets in the U.S. and 6 Latin American countriesPope Francis Faces Shifting Sentiment Across Latin America and the U.S. in 2024(ZENIT News / Roma, 10.13.2024).- A decade after his election as Pope Francis, once a highly popular figure across Latin America, is now seeing a decline in his favorability among the public in the region, according to a recent 2024 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. The poll, which gathered data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, highlights both waning support and growing criticism of the Argentine-born pontiff. ... A Significant Decline in ArgentinaThe...

Citing safety, authorities are closing two Milwaukee-area public parking lots where people have been living in tents, trailers and cars. “The environments continue to degrade and become less safe every day,” the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said Monday. “First responders including law enforcement, fire service personnel and paramedics are responding to a heightened number of emergency calls regarding dangerous and unsafe activity in and around the lots,” the department said. The lots are park-and-ride lots where people can catch a bus or another ride. The state said it will begin closing two lots and a portion of a third, starting...

The vicious migrant gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) has been recruiting increasingly younger members to engage in coordinated crimes and attacks in Times Square, in the heart of New York City. As reported by the New York Post, the ring consists of at nearly two dozen illegal aliens, with some as young as 11 years old so that they appear less threatening at a first glance. The gang coordinates their efforts to commit various crimes such as snatching purses and holding civilians at gunpoint, primarily targeting New York residents and tourists. But due to their age, their migrant status, and...

Those who identify as non-religious experience a lower level of human flourishing than the general public, while practicing Christians enjoy the most flourishing, according to a new report. The latest installment of the State of the Bible USA 2024 report, released by the American Bible Society on Thursday, focuses on “Nones and Nominals.” The title of the seventh chapter of the report refers to the religiously unaffiliated and those who identify as a member of a religious group but do not attend religious services at least once a month.The latest batch of research, based on 2,506 responses to a survey...

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 7:30PM EDT. Georgia households are reeling from the failed policies of the Harris-Biden administration. After four years of Kamalanomics, the Peach State is ready to retire Kamala Harris. As a result of the disastrous policies of the Harris-Biden administration, Georgians are struggling to support their families. With inflation over 20%, Georgia families are spending an average of over $1,000 more per month on basic goods like gas and groceries, and have lost $29,580 on average due...

National drugstore giant Walgreens will shutter some 1,200 locations over the next three years as it seeks to stem a $3 billion quarterly loss across its businesses generated by a sluggish U.S. economy. The company forecast about 500 store closures will come in the current fiscal year and should immediately support adjusted earnings and free cash flow, AP reports. Walgreens didn’t say where the store closings would take place. Its shares jumped 5.4 percent to $9.50 in premarket trading on the back of the news, Reuters reports.

Former President Donald Trump is leading his opponent Kamala Harris among early voters in the swing states, according to a new poll. The poll, conducted by Harvard University, HarrisX, and The Harris Poll between October 11 and 13, found that Trump has a narrow lead among early voters in the battleground states, with 48 percent of the vote to Harris' 47 percent. The poll surveyed 3,145 registered voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 1.8 percentage points. It did not specify how many early voters were surveyed.

[Catholic Caucus] Amazon cardinal ‘lays hands’ to confer ‘ministry’ on women going to ‘celebrate a sacrament’Brazil’s Cardinal Ulrich Steiner told a press conference that he ‘lays hands’ on women who will baptize people in the Amazon region, asserting that 'in our reality, women exercise the deacon's ministries.’Calling for a female diaconate, Cardinal Ulrich Steiner, from Brazil’s Amazon region, has revealed that he “lays hands” on women who he has commissioned to baptize since they are going to “celebrate a sacrament.”Addressing a press conference in Fatima, Portugal, over the weekend, Steiner renewed his prior calls for a female diaconate.“In our reality,...

Walgreens said Tuesday it plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years as it seeks to further downsize its footprint amid flagging sales and changing consumer behavior. The pharmacy chain said 500 of the closings would occur over the next 12 months. It estimates a quarter of its 8,700 stores in the U.S. are unprofitable. Walgreens announced the closures as part of its fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year earnings, which beat Wall Street's expectations. In a statement, CEO Tim Wentworth acknowledged the company was in the midst of a "turnaround" that would "take time." "We are confident it will...

TOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. “These two gentlemen were really the pioneers,” said Nobel physics committee member Mark Pearce. The artificial neural networks — interconnected computer...

Three immigrants to America have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, illustrating continued contributions by immigrants to the United States. The three immigrants—one from Turkey and two from the United Kingdom—are affiliated with U.S. universities. Immigrants have been awarded 38%, or 45 of 117, of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy (updated through the 2024 awards). Immigrants also have been awarded 31% (24 of 78) of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in economics, including 28% since 2000. The 2024 Award...

Politicians and activists repeating platitudes in support of the transgender agenda have become accustomed to going unchallenged. Their casual endorsement of sex change procedures on minors has resulted in scores of children having their genitals mutilated, other parts of their bodies surgically disfigured, and their fertility extinguished before they even reach adulthood. At best, these children become lifelong consumers of the services offered to them by the same medical industry that brutalized them. Too often and too late to reverse them, they regret the “choices” they made and are forced to reconcile themselves to a body which the adults in...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapon is under pressure.” He said the Nobel committee “wishes to honor all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace.” Efforts to eradicate nuclear weapons have been honored in the past by the...

Florida's recent back-to-back hurricanes, Helene and Milton, revealed the stark contrast between "real" and "fake" politics and jobs. Florida has been battered by back-to-back hurricanes. First, Hurricane Helene snuck up on us just a few weeks ago. Those living on Florida’s West Coast first thought we were saved when it veered towards the less populated panhandle. But, while it avoided a direct hit upon the Tampa-Saint Petersburg area, it sent an enormous storm surge our way, which led to flooding in low-lying areas. Helene did even more damage in North Carolina, where rainfall and the local geography combined to create...

There have been several recent news stories about the low participation of Christians in elections. According to one, more than 100 million “people of faith” choose not to vote, including 40 million plus professed Christians.There are multiple reasons cited for this low participation. Many say Christians are uninterested in politics. Others will say that they find all candidates unworthy of their vote. Since there was never any opportunity for early Christians to vote, the New Testament is silent on this issue.Many Christians believe that God is in control of all things and that voting is not even necessary. A sovereign...

Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled an “Opportunity Agenda” proposal for Black men Monday, which includes plans to provide 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs and new pathways to help Black Americans succeed in the legalized marijuana industry. *** Harris’ announcement is aimed at increasing her support among Black male voters, and comes in the final weeks of an extremely close race between the Democratic vice president and Republican former President Donald Trump.The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be...

When individuals bury themselves deeply in an echo chamber for a prolonged period of time, they begin to assume that not only their world but the entire world is the echo chamber. This is probably what happened to those who greenlit the hateful anti-Trump propaganda picture, The Apprentice.Trump-hating studio executives were approached by Trump-hating filmmakers and the project was instantly approved. Everyone they know is a rabid and baseless Trump-hater, so they assume that each of these individuals will be a willing and eager viewer. They probably thought at the very least the film would become a sensation in liberal...

Disturbing bodycam video captured the moment a towering 6-foot-tall woman was fatally shot by a veteran Virginia cop just seconds after she charged at him with a knife and repeatedly slashed him. Sydney Wilson, 33, was fatally shot by Fairfax County officer Peter Liu in the hall of her apartment building in Reston, just outside Washington D.C., on Sept. 16 after cops were called to carry out a welfare check on her, police said. The graphic footage, released by police on Monday, showed an “agitated” Wilson opening and then abruptly slamming her door in the officer’s face after he knocked...