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A diver has died during preliminary operations to recover British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht from the waters off the coast of northern Sicily, local police said. The accident happened on Friday while the diver was underwater in Porticello, police said, adding the precise cause of death was still unknown. According to local Italian media, the diver was a 39-year-old Dutch national who worked for a specialist salvage company. The salvage operation is being overseen by British marine consultancy TMC Marine and led by Dutch-based companies Hebo, a maritime services company from Rotterdam, and SMIT Salvage, with support from Italian...

Forty years ago, the idea of seeing Roe v. Wade overturned in our lifetime was little more than a dream and a prayer. Those of us in the pro-life movement – including and especially Southern Baptists, through the work of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission – worked tirelessly to that end, but we did so without any assurance of seeing it come to fruition. I had the privilege of serving as the head of the ERLC for 25 years (1988-2013), and I know from personal experience the critical difference the ERLC has made not just on the vital issue...

Mexico is suing Google for ignoring repeated requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps for US users, President Claudia Sheinbaum says. She did not say where the lawsuit had been filed. Google did not respond to the BBC's request for comment. Sheinbaum's government contends that...the US lacks the authority to rename the entire gulf. In January, Sheinbaum wrote a letter to Google asking the firm to reconsider its decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico for US users. The following month, she threatened legal action. At the time, Google said it made...

In the "socialist market economy" of China, some cracks are visible that show a country unprepared to stand up to Trump tariffs long-term. China has been increasingly opaque in markets and manufacturing information. As Beijing and Washington meet this weekend in Switzerand for trade talks, the Chinese economy is in more significant distress than is widely reported. The country is facing heightened pressure from an ongoing property crisis, protests, and a general economic downturn, in part because of recent U.S. tariffs. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is holding meetings with senior Chinese Communist Party Politburo member, Vice Premier He Lifeng,...

President Trump signed an executive order Friday authorizing government-funded flights and financial incentives to illegal migrants willing to self-deport. The program, dubbed “Project Homecoming,” tasks government agencies with facilitating travel for migrants without travel documents, providing flights “at no cost to illegal aliens,” offering concierge service at airports to assist with travel bookings and granting illegal migrants an “exit bonus” to leave the US. “We are making it as easy as possible for illegal aliens to leave America,” Trump said in a video posted on Truth Social. “Any illegal alien can simply show up at an airport and receive a...

In a recent broadcast, televangelist Jim Bakker announced that his ministry is facing severe financial difficulties and may cease operations within a month without an urgent infusion of funds. The last few years have not been kind to Bakker. A couple of years ago, the embattled Bakker had his credit card companies cut him off and reduced him to only taking checks to support his ever-dwindling ministry. This has made him desperate to hawk any prophecy, piece, or potion he can to keep the lights on, including selling a $1000 miracle blanket or having guests that claimed a Reptile Alien...

A group of self-described “Feminist Catholics” released clouds of pink smoke into the sky on a hill overlooking the Vatican on Wednesday, protesting the lack of female involvement in the choosing of a new pope and calling for the Church to reconsider its ban on women’s ordination. The demonstration, timed just hours before an all-male conclave to select a new pope, was led by activists from the Women’s Ordination Conference (WOC). Founded in 1975, they are the “oldest and largest organization working to ordain women as deacons, priests, & bishops into an inclusive and accountable Roman Catholic Church.” Chanting “smoke...

House Ways and Means Committee partially revealing tax legislation... leaders of at least four nations headed into Ukraine...Kremlin appreciation for President Trump's efforts to settle the war... South African officials criticizing the US plan to take in white... "I won't fight for a team that refuses to win"...Marjorie Taylor Greene...will not run for US Senate... Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka arrested at an immigration detention... A federal district judge ordering release...Turkish student from Tufts University... On Saturday morning India saying its armed forces are responding to Pakistan's Saturday morning attacks...Pakistan announcing retaliation against India...Indian airbases among the targets hit......

In May 2024, the Biden administration announced that it was providing $220 million in aid to Yemen which the United States had been at war with since the start of that year. Even while the US Navy was engaged in what the Associated Press would describe next month as the “most intense combat since World War II” with Yemen’s Houthi Jihadists, the U.S. Mission to Yemen boasted of having provided “nearly $5.9 billion” in aid beginning with the Obama administration, of being “the largest donor of humanitarian assistance” and urged that “other donors must join us in stepping up” to...

Bill Gates is shutting down his philanthropic foundation — but not for another 20 years, and not before he doubles down on his efforts to forge a dystopian future.The software tycoon just announced that December 31, 2045 will be the last day the doors of the Gates Foundation will be open. But the real news isn’t Gates’ decision to shutter in two decades the main vehicle he has used to shape the world according to his warped vision. Over those next two decades, he will intensify his efforts to vaccinate the world with every new technological concoction he funds, help...

For Catholics, the new pope’s disposition toward the Latin Mass will tell us far more about his pontificate than his views on immigration.It didn’t take long after Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, emerged onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday as the new leader of the Catholic Church for social media commentators on the right to begin decrying him as “Francis 2.0.”This snap judgment was based largely on his social media history of reposting criticisms of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on immigration policy, as well as a few reposts of left-wing claptrap...

In a saga that reads more like a political thriller than a real estate dispute, Texas businessman Timothy Barton is at the center of a high-stakes legal storm that some allege is less about justice and more about silencing dissent. Timothy Barton—a Christian businessman, proud Trump supporter, and founder of the successful JMJ Development—has, in yet another glaring example of Biden-era political persecution, become the latest target of lawfare by a weaponized federal government more interested in shielding the Chinese Communist Party than protecting American citizens. Barton’s “crime”? Sounding the alarm on what he believed to be a covert Chinese...

A federal judge on Friday issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking the Trump Administration’s effort to overhaul and reorganize 20 agencies in the Executive Branch. In February, President Trump implemented an executive order to completely overhaul the Executive Branch through the work of DOGE. US District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, said in order for President Trump to make such large-scale overhauls, he needs approval from Congress. “It is the prerogative of presidents to pursue new policy priorities and to imprint their stamp on the federal government. But to make large-scale overhauls of federal agencies, any president must...

The US embassy in Kyiv has issued a statement, warning US citizens in Kyiv of a "potentially significant" air attack that may occur at "any time over the next several days." Shortly afterwards, Russia announced a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) for the airspace around the Kasputin Yar Test Site, stating that the airspace will be closed for a 22-hour period from 9am on May 12 to 7am on May 13. The Kasuptin Yar Test Site is where Russia last launched an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile from. Interestingly, before that same strike, the US embassy in Kyiv issued a similar warning...

The ENLIST ACT Supports Military Readiness Our nation has allowed non-citizens to serve in our Armed Forces since the Revolutionary War. The Encourage New Legalized Immigrants to Start Training (ENLIST) Act, H.R. 60, is a widely supported bipartisan bill that would grant lawful permanent resident status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to America as children and enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he did not want to see taxes go up on anybody when asked about President Donald Trump’s comments on taxes. On Truth Social Trump posted, “The problem with even a “TINY” tax increase for the RICH, which I and all others would graciously accept in order to help the lower and middle income workers, is that the Radical Left Democrat Lunatics would go around screaming,“Read my lips,” the fabled Quote by George Bush the Elder that is said to have cost him the Election. NO, Ross Perot...

The case against a two-tour U.S. Army veteran facing deportation will continue for now. Forty-five-year-old Marlon Parris is from Trinidad and Tobago originally, and he’s been in the U.S. on a green card since the 1990s.

Predator caught at center for people who are severely physically disabled. The man got the woman pregnant, guess how he was caught?

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland headed to Kyiv on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a show of unity a day after Russia's Vladimir Putin hosted his allies in a Victory Day parade on Red Square. The summit will discuss a U.S. and European proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the Russian war in Ukraine that if refused by Moscow would see them jointly impose new sanctions, a French diplomatic source said, adding that the step had not yet been finalised. The visit by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German...

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