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AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – Jordan is reportedly preparing for war with Israel if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempts to expel Palestinians into its territory. The Middle East Eye (MEE) publication’s warning comes after U.S. President Donald J. Trump said he would like to see Jordan and Egypt take in Palestinians to “clean out” the Gaza Strip. Officials in Amman and Jerusalem told MEE that “the last thing Jordan wants is war,” adding that the kingdom is “eager” for a peaceful solution.......

6 February 2025 Saints Paul Miki and his Companions, Martyrs on Thursday of week 4 in Ordinary TimeTwenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument in NagasakiReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 12:18-19,21-24You have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living GodWhat you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or trumpeting thunder or the great voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week said that if the U.S. cannot guarantee a quick path toward NATO membership, then there are alternative security options Kyiv would accept: nuclear weapons. But don't think the United States is eager to agree to those terms. "The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none," retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told Fox News Digital. "Let's be honest about it, we both know that's not going to happen."

Taxpayer-funded radio stations are barred from ‘airing commercials or other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities’ National Public Radio on Monday ran a so-called "sponsor message" promoting pharma giant Procter & Gamble’s nerve-relief drug Nervive, "designed to reduce occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort." The message, effectively a commercial, is tied to one of hundreds of advertiser deals that are far more important to NPR than government funding. NPR brought in $100 million from corporate sponsors in 2023, compared to only $7 million in federal funding. The thinly disguised commercials such as the "sponsor message" from Procter & Gamble—aimed...

Universities occupy a uniquely privileged position in American life. They enjoy tremendous prestige and billions in public subsidies, even as their costs have exploded, saddling the country with $1.7 trillion in outstanding student debt. Do universities deserve their status? A growing number of Americans don’t think so. Far from delivering on their promises, most universities have devolved into left-wing propaganda factories. Nearly 60 percent of Republicans say that universities have a negative effect on the country, and only one in three independents has “quite a lot” of trust in higher education institutions. The trendlines suggest that the disillusionment has yet...

Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a remarkable story headlined, “DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems.” In other words, after exposing the Deep State’s regime-change operation, DOGE is sprinting into the Swampy engine room: the CDC and Medicare / Medicaid Services, the domestic versions of USAID, how the Blob effectuates its aims here at home. It’s impossible to overestimate the revolutionary significance of the abolition of USAID and its poisonous children. Emerging from the fog of bureaucratic and political war, we see dimly the rough outlines of the Golden Era that Candidate Trump promised, a...

A young man has passed away in agony after the price of his inhaler suddenly rose from $66 to $540. The pharmacist had informed him that his medication would now cost $539.19 - a shocking increase from his usual cost of $66.86.

US president Donald Trump will try to force Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to a ceasefire with Russia by Easter under a peace plan, according to a report. -snip- will include a ceasefire by April 20 that would freeze Russia's steady advance, a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO, and a demand for Kyiv to accept Russian sovereignty on annexed land. On top of this, Ukrainian troops will be made to leave Russia's Kursk region, where it launched a counteroffensive in August, while a contingent of European soldiers, which could include British troops, would be asked to police a...

We Found the Grants... Federal Grants Promoting Woke Gender Ideology At least 341 grants issued by the Biden administration were identified as promoting woke gender ideology, worth over $128 million in obligated federal funds. The grants were compiled through keyword searches entered into the USA Spending database and narrowed manually. Source: USA Spending Agency Amount Grants Department of Health and Human Services $83,731,895.39 60 Agency for International Development $17,983,753.00 8 Department of State $14,396,374.99 209 National Endowment for the Humanities $2,628,557.00 20 Department of Justice $1,944,620.00 3 Institute of Museum and Library Services $1,876,413.47 13 Department of Education $1,671,422.00 2...

USAID materials were found among weapons used by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to a newly-released photograph.Asher Fredman, a conservative policy analyst and peace advocate who also served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a reservist during the recent conflict in Lebanon, posted a photo Wednesday of a USAID box he had found in a Hezbollah weapons cache:The photograph, which has since gone viral, reinforces evidence published by Breitbart News in October 2024 that shows USAID materials among anti-tank missiles found by IDF soldiers after they defeated Hezbollah terrorists.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently become the target of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to slash government waste and spending, bringing increased scrutiny to the record of Samantha Power, the agency’s administrator during almost the entire Biden administration. Power, who previously served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 in the Obama administration after serving on his National Security Council, took the reins of USAID in the early days of the Biden administration and was tasked with overseeing the tens of billions of dollars budgeted for foreign aid. ... Critics...

Should Minnesotans be allowed to consume a beaver that damages their property? It’s the third-biggest question surrounding the animals in Minnesota, right behind the age-old question of “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” and “Who eats beavers?” A bill introduced by DFL State Senator Grant Hauschild aims to answer at least one of those questions by once again allowing Minnesotans to eat any nuisance beavers they killed.

The Columbia Journalism Review on Tuesday released a report on the importance of USAID’s donations to approved journalists at home and abroad. According to CJR, USAID spent $268 million to fund over 6,000 approved journalists. Obviously, these were the leftwing variety of journalist who did not question COVID, elections, climate change, DEI policies, etc. [Already, though, the new administration’s approach to USAID has had sharp consequences all over the world—after taking office, Trump signed an order freezing virtually all American aid spending for ninety days, grinding dependent humanitarian operations to an immediate halt across a dizzying array of different project...

President Trump on Thursday laid out how his proposed US takeover of the Gaza Strip would unfold, insisting it wouldn’t need military action and would ensure that “stability for the region would reign.” “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” Trump stated in an early morning Truth Social post.

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The Story Behind the Pro-Life PardonsAn insider tells the story of how pro-lifers were persecuted by the Biden Administration under the FACE Act, and how Trump pardoned them.Joe Biden is weaponizing the Justice Department to viciously persecute pro-life activists and Americans of faith. Just last month, the Biden DOJ got Paulette Harlow, a 75-year-old woman in poor health, sentenced to two years in prison for singing outside of a clinic…she was singing, actually a beautiful voice, she was singing beautifully outside of a clinic. And fearing she would die in prison, her husband pleaded with the judge for mercy and...

Elon Musk seems to be at the head of a drive to allow White South Africans to immigrate to America as refugees. The South African Whites are Westerners, and the West should not abandon its people to a vindictive, hostile, government in South Africa. But can anyone doubt that this country was far more stable when the core demographic was West European? Russia has already taken in 15,000.

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan said President Trump’s plan to eliminate the Department of Education is “not going to happen,” citing necessary congressional action. “First of all, (the Trump administration) cannot eliminate the Department of Education,” he told “NewsNation Now,” on Wednesday. “That takes an act of Congress. That’s not going to happen.” Duncan, however, stressed that the White House could still move to neuter the department. “Could they weaken the department? Could they move functions to other agencies — to Health and Human Services, to the Labor Department, to Treasury? That is possible,” he said. Trump is preparing to...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The Trump administration plans to seize a second plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s government that is currently in the Dominican Republic. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio intends to announce the seizure on Thursday during a visit to Santo Domingo, the last stop of his five nation tour of Central America, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter and a State Department document obtained by The Associated Press. Carrying out the seizure required that Rubio sign off on a foreign aid freeze waiver request to pay more than $230,000...

Participants who fell into the weekly category of egg consumption, that is, they consumed one to six eggs per week, had a 29% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause compared to those participants who ate eggs never or infrequently. There was no statistically significant association between egg consumption and deaths due to cancer. Previous research has observed a higher risk of mortality with egg consumption for those who have high cholesterol,” said Wild. “For this reason, we also explored the association between egg consumption and mortality in people with...