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CBN.com -Paula Abbott was only a child, but she was suicidal. “I was laying on my bed and I wrote a note that says ‘Why doesn’t my daddy love me?” And I looked at the fingernail polish remover and drank the whole bottle because I didn’t want to live anymore where my daddy didn’t love me. And my mom looked at my dad. She handed him the note and my dad said, ‘You can take her to the hospital if you want to, but I’m not going.’ And my dad sat down and he turned the TV on and he...

All living former first ladies attended former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday, except Michelle Obama. Former first lady Michelle Obama did not attend because she reportedly had “scheduling conflicts,” journalist Jeff Zeleny told CNN. “She’s still in Hawaii,” Zeleny said, underscoring the lack of an open seat next to her husband. “Mrs. Obama sends her thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from the remarkable former President,” her spokesperson told reporters. Because of Michelle Obama’s absence, former President Barack Obama sat in between President-elect Trump and former first lady Laura Bush. The former...

Joe Biden fell asleep during Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday. Former President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 last month. All five US presidents attended Jimmy Carter’s funeral: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Kamala Harris shot Trump a look as he conversed with Barack Obama. VIDEOS AT LINK...................... Carter will eventually be buried in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Biden will deliver the eulogy, however, he got in a quick catnap before his speech. 82-year-old Biden dozed off. WATCH: Earlier this week Joe Biden also fell asleep at a prayer...

As the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter gets underway, a host of ex-presidents and first ladies were seen exchanging pleasantries before taking their seats. However, one past presidential couple made a conscious effort to avoid any interaction with President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump. The video shows Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton entering the cathedral alongside the reverend, being guided to their seats by a guard. They exchange greetings with former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife before settling down next to former President George W. Bush and Barbara Bush without so much...

[Catholic Caucus] Chicago: Blase Cupich Wants Homosexual AdoptionHomosexual activist Blase J. Cupich, Cardinal of Chicago, a close friend of homosexual activist Robert McElroy, now Cardinal of Washington, has published an article on the website of homosexual activist James Martin, a Jesuit.In the article, Blase J. Cupich calls for "putting aside our preconceived ideas and really listening" in order to approach "people in a variety of life situations" [e.g. paedophiles, racists, abortionists, green politicians,...].Playing on emotions, the homosexual activist speaks of 'many encounters' he has had over the years with activists who promote homosexual sins.According to Cupich, these people '[rightly] feel...

Here’s a hard and ugly truth that many people don’t want to admit because they don’t want to face the inevitable consequences or take the necessary actions in response to it. There’s a huge part of the Western elite that hates its own people so much that it will happily subject them to sexual slavery by the semi-human Third World monsters it imports as part of a process of replacing its own citizens. What is it with the delight that our alleged betters take in the torture of their own? This is a problem across Western civilization, or what was...

<p>By Wednesday morning, it looked as if a bomb had detonated on Sunset Boulevard.</p><p>As the catastrophic Palisades fire receded from one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares, smoke and ash rendered the once-picturesque landscape into something oddly lunar.</p><p>There were charred buildings, some slightly damaged, others fully destroyed. A burned-out Shell station, the pumps intact but the convenience store gone; a Bank of America in a historic building hollowed out by fire, the metal skeletons of the ATMs out front left twisted by the intense heat.</p>

The Los Angeles County Fire Department shipped equipment to Ukraine in 2022, and now the Biden administration is working overtime to send the country millions more in handouts as wildfires devastate California.Perhaps ABC 7 put it best in 2022 when it declared that “all over southern California people are finding ways to keep Ukraine front and center and it’s no different for the Los Angeles County Fire Department.”The fire department donated its own “surplus” supplies to help a foreign regime and is now caught flat-footed without the capacity to respond to the Pacific Palisades wildfire, which continues to cause deaths...

John Goodman's home in Los Angeles was reduced to ashes amid the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfires. Photos of the Roseanne alum's, 72, former residence show not even a single room left standing. The latest images, taken on Wednesday, also captured the blackened remains of the swimming pool in the backyard after the blaze.

Watch live Los Angeles officials give update on wildfires US News Gov. Newsom passes the buck to ‘local folks’ when asked about hydrants running out of water during Pacific Palisades fire By Allie Griffin Published Jan. 9, 2025 Updated Jan. 9, 2025, 6:51 a.m. ET 792 Comments Gov. Gavin Newsom passes the blame to 'local folks' when asked about water situation Ad Loading 00:00 / 00:30 California Gov. Gavin Newsom passed the blame on to “local folks” when grilled over fire hydrants running out of water during the raging Pacific Palisades fire — and said he couldn’t even respond to...

NATIONAL APRICOT DAY Apricot lovers from all over the United States observe National Apricot Day every year on January 9th. #NationalAprcotDay Related to the peach, the apricot's velvety flesh is quite similar. However, the texture of the golden-orange fruit is firmer, and the flavor more tart than its cousin's. Since we easily preserve the apricot, we enjoy this versatile fruit all year long - fresh, canned, and dried. Apricots are found the world over but originated in northeastern China near the Russian border in ancient times. Later, the fruit was introduced to Europe and Armenia. The apricot found its way...

Ramstein Air Base, Germany — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said Donald Trump's return to the White House would open "a new chapter" and reiterated a call for Western allies to send troops to help "force Russia to peace." He made the plea as the Biden administration announced what will likely be its last major military aid package for Ukraine — a promise of weapons and other support worth $500 million.Zelenskyy spoke at a meeting of about 50 allies at the American military's Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the last such gathering before Trump takes office on January 20....

We have multiple reports Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass knew of the grave fire risk to her city before she abandoned it for a taxpayer-funded “diplomatic” trip to Ghana in Western Africa. Here’s the timeline of what we know so far courtesy of Lee Fang’s Substack page: Thursday, January 2: The “National Weather Service explicitly warned Los Angeles about “extreme fire conditions” over the next week Thursday, January 2: “Jonathan O’Brien, a meteorologist with the U.S. Forest Service, spoke to officials and posted openly about the incoming threat.” Thursday, January 2: “O’Brien noted that weather models for Southern California showed...

Huge win for girls and women everywhere!!! This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden's Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide.

The woke left's coordinated assault on merit stems from a nihilistic desire -- metaphorically speaking -- to watch the world burn. Thus, ironically, the wildfires raging in southern California might represent that desire's literal realization. Wednesday on the social media platform X, "Libs of TikTok," a prominent conservative account with more than 3.9 million followers, called attention to the Los Angeles Fire Department's "racial equity plan," part of the department's broader obsession with diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that, by definition, de-emphasize job-related competence

When fire fighters at the scene of the catastrophic Pacific Palisades fire got the wrenches out to open the fire hydrants...they were dry. And that, friends, is the avatar for all that is wrong with the incompetent leadership of Los Angeles and the state of California: a dry fire hydrant. I could have sworn that water was somewhere close to the top on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Yep, there it is, number one. Jesus described himself as "living water." It seems like water's kind of important to sustain life and put out fires.Where's the water, Gavin Newsom? We thought it...

A top Iranian general has accused Russia of lying to Tehran by saying its jets were attacking Syrian rebels while they were instead bombing the open desert. In a rare break from Iran's diplomatic line on Syria, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati partially blamed Moscow for the fall of Bashar Assad's government during a speech at a mosque in Tehran. An audio recording of the speech was published on Tuesday by Abdullah Abdi, a journalist in Geneva who reports on Iran. "We were defeated, and defeated very badly. We took a very big blow, and it's been very difficult," Esbati said...

[Catholic Caucus] Heretical New Ways Ministry ‘delighted’ with appointment of pro-LGBT McElroy as DC archbishopCardinal Robert McElroy brings with him to the nation’s capital a lengthy, disturbing history of promoting views at odds with the Magisterium of the Church.New Ways Ministry (NWM), a dissident pro-LGBT group presenting itself as a Catholic organization, issued a statement declaring that it is “delighted that Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy as the next archbishop of Washington, D.C.”“The most exciting feature about this appointment for New Ways Ministry is the cardinal’s strong positive statements regarding LGBTQ+ issues,” declared the group’s executive director, Francis...

With less than two weeks remaining before his triumphant return to the Oval Office, Trump is already making big moves, including declaring that the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America. What other new names does he have up his sleeve? The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of other things Trump plans to rename: All USB ports in the country will be renamed "USA Ports": Only patriotic connections for electronic devices from now on. The Statue of Liberty will now be "Lady Melania": The only proper name for the biggest, most beautiful woman in the...

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, fire-tracking app Watch Duty has added 600,000 users in the last 24 hours seeking real-time updates and critical information. The app, run by a nonprofit, relies on hundreds of volunteers including active and retired firefighters to provide accurate and timely information. The LA Times reports that in the wake of the catastrophic fires wreaking havoc across Los Angeles County, the Watch Duty app, a fire-tracking platform run by the nonprofit Sherwood Forestry Service, has seen an unprecedented surge in users. According to CEO John Mills, the app has gained 600,000 new...