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Robert Morris, the disgraced former pastor of Gateway Church, once America’s largest megachurch, has filed a lawsuit against his former congregation, demanding millions in retirement payments. The church, however, is fiercely contesting his claims. Morris, 63, faces allegations that in 1982 he began sexually abusing 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire, who claims the abuse continued for over four years. Now indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, Morris faces up to 100 years in prison, with each count carrying a maximum of 20 years. Despite these charges, Morris is suing Gateway Church, claiming its elders verbally promised...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has slammed Sir Keir Starmer's expected deal with Brussels as European trawlermen look set to plunder Britain's coastal waters until 2038. Reacting to the announcement of the deal, Farage, the Clacton MP, said: "If true that will be the end of the fishing industry." Farage told GB News the deal was "an abject surrender - the end of the fishing industry", later blasting the Prime Minister as a "north London lawyer". Speaking to The Telegraph, Farage asked: "Why would a north London lawyer care?" It comes as British fishermen brace for European trawlermen to be...

In a nutshell AI resume screening tools showed strong racial and gender bias, with White-associated names preferred in 85.1% of tests and Black male names favored in 0% of comparisons against White males. Bias increased when resumes were shorter, suggesting that when there’s less information, demographic signals like names carry even more weight. Removing names isn’t enough to fix the problem, as subtle clues—like word choice or school name—can still reveal identity, allowing AI systems to continue filtering out diverse candidates. ================================================================= SEATTLE — Every day, millions of Americans send their resumes into what feels like a digital black hole,...

Daily Readings from the USCCB“I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” John 14:25–26Sometimes we forget all that God has spoken to us. For example, we may have some clear experience of God’s presence in our lives, such as a powerful spiritual insight gained through prayer, a deep conviction of His voice spoken through a sermon, the transforming freedom encountered through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, or some form of unmistakable clarity imparted...

Leading theologians have uncovered new evidence that when Noah's ark hit Mount Ararat, his wife was likely steering. Naamah, daughter of Lamech, is traditionally considered to be Noah's wife, and all historical evidence seems to indicate that she was to blame for the famed vessel violently crashing into the tip of a mountain. "After studying several extra-biblical ancient texts and consulting Jewish historians, it now seems Noah's stop on the top of Mount Ararat was completely unplanned, and totally his wife's fault," said biblical scholar Dr. Benjamin Abelman. "Every ancient source we currently possess now points to this as being...

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Ezekiel Emanuel said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that there are a lot of life-extending treatments available to treat former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer. Emanuel said, “When you have a lesion that’s in the bone, and therefore it’s metastatic and incurable, the prostate cancer will not go away. He will have it, that doesn’t mean he’s going to die from it because there are a lot of treatments. There’s androgen blockade that’s basically preventing the testosterone from circulating. There’s also androgen receptor signaling inhibitors, a second line of treatment that prevents, when the androgen does bind to the cell...

In 1939, Irish author James Joyce published Finnegans Wake, a piece of literature that defies comprehension. “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,” it begins, “from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.” The book starts and ends with a sentence fragment, combines multiple languages and has no clear or linear plot. It’s a work that’s so dense, one group that started in Austin has been working on it for more than a decade. “We’re only reading one page at a time,” said Peter Quadrino, founder and organizer...

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov held a high-level meeting with senior executives from U.S. defense contractor Raytheon on May 19, focusing on expanding collaboration in air and missile defense systems, particularly the Patriot platform. In a statement released after the talks, Umerov said he had a “productive meeting” with Joseph DeAntona, Raytheon’s Vice President for Land and Air Defense Systems. The conversation, he noted, centered on Ukraine’s urgent need for additional missile systems and interceptors to strengthen the country’s defenses against continued Russian air attacks. “The main topic was strengthening the protection of Ukraine’s skies,” Umerov said. “We discussed the...

Jason Collier, a special education teacher in Virginia, often needs to wait until payday to fill up the gas tank of his car — and in the meantime hopes he doesn’t run out. “Money is tight when you’re a teacher,” Collier, 46, said. Now he’s afraid that the U.S. Department of Education will soon garnish up to 15% of his wages because he’s behind on his student debt payments. Collier said he hasn’t been able to meet his monthly bill for years, while juggling the expenses of raising two children and medical expenses from a cancer diagnosis. If his paycheck...

CBS News President and CEO Wendy McMahon announced Monday she was stepping down in another stunning move for the embattled company, Fox News Digital has confirmed. Her exit follows that of longtime "60 Minutes" producer Bill Owens, who quit last month because he felt he'd lost journalistic independence amid an ongoing legal battle with President Donald Trump. "Today, I am stepping down from my position as president and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures. It has been one of the most meaningful chapters in my career. Leading this extraordinary organization has been the honor of a...

Tuning into today's Morning Joe, you might understandably have expected simply an outpouring of sympathy over former President Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, with few if any uncomfortable questions raised. Particularly so when the medical expert brought in was Dr. Zeke Emanuel, senior fellow at the left-wing Center for American Progress, and someone appointed by both Presidents Obama and Biden to White House advisory boards. Surprisingly though, the show promptly raised several tough issues on the matter. Emanuel said that very few people, only about 7%, get first diagnosed at this late stage, when the cancer has already metastasized. As another...

-snip- “I think the president’s going to say to President Putin, ‘Look, are you serious? Are you real about this?’ Because the proposal from the United States has always been: Look, there are a lot of economic benefits to thawing relations between Russia and the rest of the world, but you’re not going to get those benefits if you keep on killing a lot of innocent people,” Vance said. “If you’re willing to stop the killing, the United States is willing to be a partner for peace.”

On two occasions in 2020 and 2023, all nominations for general and flag officers (GFOs) were on a blanket hold from Senate confirmation. The 2023 hold lasted approximately 10 months, not two weeks. Senior leaders within DOD, including the Secretary of Defense at the time and a group of former Secretaries of Defense who served in bipartisan administrations, expressed concerns that the nomination hold in 2023 posed a risk to national security and the well-being of military families, among other things.You asked us to review issues surrounding past holds on GFO nominations. This report describes effects on military readiness, leadership...

As you’ve likely already heard, Biden has cancer. Again. We don’t yet know whether this one will stick, but it looks more legitimate than President Autopen’s previous cancer claims. Yesterday, the New York Times ran the story below the headline, “Joe Biden Is Diagnosed With an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer.” The announcement by his office, which created the story, conveniently streamed into media offices two days before the controversial exposé book Original Sin was due for release. CLIP: Biden rambles about how he got oil cancer in 2022 (0:27).Hearing the news, some uncharitable people are casting a skeptical eye...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a blistering verbal assault on the United States and President Donald Trump during a nationally televised speech, calling Trump a liar who brings shame on the American people, as the regime’s signature chant “Death to America” rang out repeatedly. The remarks were aired Saturday on Iran’s state-run Channel 1 and featured a crowd erupting multiple times into chants of “Death to America,” “Death to England,” and “Death to Israel,” as Khamenei accused U.S. leaders of using military power to spread war. “Some of the things the U.S. President said in his recent visit...

A top oncologist who once worked for former President Joe Biden claimed Monday that his old boss must have had prostate cancer long before Sunday’s public announcement of his diagnosis and suggested the oldest-ever president may even have had the disease for “a decade.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday night that a “wave of transparency” is coming to his agency, accusing the FBI of running cover for Hillary Clinton for nearly a decade — but that it’s all finally coming to an end. Sitting alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for a Fox News interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Patel explained how the Bureau is now heading down a long road toward rebuilding trust with the public after years under the microscope for its activities related to powerful Democratic politicians, theories about J6 involvement, and its infamous investigations into President Donald Trump. But...

A STEYN I-TOLD-YOU-SO MOMENT: As I have written often, the consistent message from the permanent ruling class around the west is that nothing will be permitted to change on anything that matters. Of the two principal popular revolts of almost a decade ago - the Trump election and the Brexit vote - the jury is still out on Trump 47 (America's last chance), but Brexit is dead. A theme of my book The Prisoner of Windsor is that there is no Brexit. It never happened - or, perhaps more precisely, it was never permitted to happen. And so, as the...

Last week, the famously straight-shooting G-man James Comey tweeted out an arrangement of sea shells he happened to "come across" on the beach:🧵 Former FBI Director Jim Comey posted a cryptic message that —as far as I can tell —can be read only to mean "kill Trump"I'm speechlessLiterally speechless — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 15, 2025 Mr Comey is always "finding" cool shells on his beach walks:weird how comey keeps finding sea shells that express all his nutty views pic.twitter.com/XcauSSeThN— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) May 16, 2025 Back in the Nineties, I used the term "eighty-six" in The Sunday Telegraph in...