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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(5/19/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleGenesis 24:1-26Isaac and Rebekah 24 Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way. 2 He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh. 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 4 but will go to...

Senate Republicans say the House-drafted bill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda has “problems” and are taking a second look at breaking it up into smaller pieces in hopes of getting the president’s less controversial priorities enacted into law before the fall. Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) manages to squeak Trump’s agenda through the House, it faces major obstacles in the Senate, where moderate Republicans say they oppose proposed cuts to Medicaid and fiscal conservatives say it doesn’t go nearly far enough in cutting the deficit. “There are still a lot of problems,” said one Republican senator who requested...

In 1984, the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was the first Annual Meeting this correspondent attended. It was characterized by manipulation, lies, and betrayal.In 1984, this correspondent was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. A masters degree in mining engineering was nearing completion. A life membership in the National Rifle Association had been paid off in installments. When informed the annual meeting would be held in Milwaukee, this correspondent, his brother, and a mutual friend, Jim Blair, made plans to attend.Neal Knox had been booted as head of the Institute for...

The latest findings at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem align perfectly with the description of Jesus' tomb in the Bible, according to the team Recent finds at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have remarkable parallels to the Bible's depiction of Jesus' burial place. At the renowned church, architects have pinpointed a site which echoes the Gospel of John's portrayal: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulcher, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus." Evidence of ancient olive trees and...

I infiltrated the movement on Cornell’s campus, and the results are exactly what you’d expect... Cornell University’s pro-Palestinian protests may not have captured the same headlines as places like Columbia University in New York City, but they’ve had their fair share of vandalism, suspensions, and arrests — as well as heated debates over free speech, university policies, and campus safety. Student protests began just weeks after the October 7, 2023 slaughter of innocents in Israel. That’s when the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) rallied outside Day Hall, demanding Cornell divest from its partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and...

A 23-year-old man has been jailed for life for the murder of a 65-year-old man who had taken his mother into his home after learning she was sleeping in her car. Brian Ibe, of no fixed abode but formerly of Moore Park in Newbridge, County Kildare, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Peter Kennedy by reason of insanity. Peter Kennedy took Brian Ibe’s mother, Martha, into his home after learning she was sleeping in her car. In 2019, he also allowed Ibe to move in but called gardaí (police) when Ibe became aggressive and threatened him around Christmas...

Medical experts have declared it 'inconceivable' that former President Joe Biden's 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer was not caught earlier by doctors. ......................................................... Upon hearing the news, some of America's top doctors also questioned how a former president could be diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer - which can be detected early with routine bloodwork recommended for all men over the age of 50.

19 May 2025 Monday of the 5th week of EastertideSt Dunstan's Church, Stepney, EnglandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingActs 14:5-18We have come with good news to turn you to the living GodEventually with the connivance of the authorities a move was made by pagans as well as Jews to make attacks on the apostles and to stone them. When the apostles came to hear of this, they went off for safety to Lycaonia where, in the towns of Lystra and Derbe and in the surrounding country, they preached the Good News. A man sat there who had...

Voters in 2024 gave Trump a mandate to execute his agenda. At the top of that agenda is the deportation of millions of people who entered the country illegally but were enabled by what amounted to treason by the Biden administration. Many of these illegal aliens present significant threats to national security and public safety. Democrats are using the court system to block Trump from doing a job that needs to be done. Democrats wanting to throw a monkey wrench into Trump’s agenda have been able to “forum shop” by seeking out sympathetic district court judges most likely to block...

and why some critics are 'unfair' The long rows of tiny Victorian terraced houses are like hundreds of others around the Midlands, the North and any of the towns and cities whose occupants powered Britain's industrial past. But Mornington Street, in St Matthew's, Leicester, can 'boast' something the others cannot. It is, according to official statistics, the road with the lowest proportion of English speakers in the UK. It's hardly a surprise to find that dubious title is claimed by a street in Leicester. After all, according to the 2021 Census, only 57 per cent of the city's residents were...

In an amusing twist, many Democrats have come out against President Trump’s plan to cut prescription drug prices, raising the distinct possibility that there is nothing [...] Trump could propose that they would approve. ... I firmly believe if Trump came out fervently against painful rectal itch, Lyme Disease, and the repeated clubbing of baby seals over the head with a large mallet, Democrats would immediately and zealously defend these things... ... This reminds me of an early Saturday Night Live skit in which the host of an A.M. radio program couldn’t get any listeners to call in with the...

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, will speak by phone on Monday evening. During a press conference in Moscow on Monday, Peskov confirmed that the call is scheduled for 5 p.m. Moscow time (GMT1400). According to him, the purpose of the call is to discuss the outcomes of the recent Russia-Ukraine talks held in Istanbul last week. Peskov described the upcoming contact as "important," noting that the leaders will also discuss future communications between the two countries.

Sen. Rand Paul attacked the economic logic of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff strategy on Sunday — and agreed that the policies raise constitutional concerns. The Kentucky Republican said Trump’s sweeping tariffs on foreign trading partners are based on “an economic fallacy” about trade deficits and objected to the president’s move to pursue them without congressional approval during an interview on ABC’s “The Week.” “In the past, the court has allowed these things, but I think it’ll be an interesting thing because most tariffs in our history have been passed by Congress,” he said. “We’ve never had widespread tariffs that...

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A Los Angeles business owner has found a novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building: playing a children’s song on an annoying loop. “They played ‘Baby Shark’ all night long,” Tracy, a woman who lives in an encampment next door to the building at the corner of West 11th and Main streets, told NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy. But it’s doing the latter. It’s driving people crazy.” The building owners began playing the song through a loudspeaker pointed directly at the encampment, which Tracy told...

Hundreds of youths descended upon a north Jersey mall Saturday night in a meet-up that was reportedly pre-planned on TikTok and led to a massive brawl. Seven minors were arrested in the chaotic melee that was spurred by TikTok posts calling for juveniles to meet up at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey, that night, according to officials and local reports. The out-of-control gathering soon grew exponentially from just 100 people to “over 300 youth” from across the Garden State shortly after 8 p.m., Edison Mayor Sam Joshi wrote on social media. At least four of the seven...

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he Trump administration’s campaign against higher education has proceeded on so many fronts, and at such breathtaking speed, that it is hard for individual elements of it to capture the news cycle for long. But one especially notable development occurred in the first week of May, when Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote a letter to the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, announcing that his institution would be cut off from future government grants. This followed the extraordinary list of demands that the administration issued (by mistake?) to Harvard a month earlier. The more recent McLetter is worth reading for...