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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/3/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleExodus 17:1-7Water From the Rock 17 The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” 3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did...

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials announced that a man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left a civilian and a police officer from Baldwin Park dead. The man, described by deputies as “the person believed to have shot and murdered a male adult then shot and murdered a Baldwin Park police officer,” was detained on Saturday – the night of the shooting – LASD said Tuesday. He was identified as 22-year-old Eduardo Roberto Medina-Berumen. Medina-Berumen has been booked on suspicion of two counts of murder, LASD said, and he remains hospitalized in stable condition Tuesday. Upon...

YIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, in which at least three people were killed and many others injured, was described by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “brutal.” According to authorities, a barrage of multiple rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in the center of the northeastern city a day after direct peace talks made no progress on ending the 3-year war. Zelenskyy said one of the rockets fired at Sumy pierced the wall of an apartment building but failed to detonate.

3 June 2025 Saints Charles Lwanga and his Companions, Martyrs on Tuesday of the 7th week of EastertideSaint Charles Lwanga Church, ZimbabweReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingActs 20:17-27I have without faltering put before you the whole of God's purposeFrom Miletus Paul sent for the elders of the church of Ephesus. When they arrived he addressed these words to them: ‘You know what my way of life has been ever since the first day I set foot among you in Asia, how I have served the Lord...

Russia fully supports efforts aimed at the peaceful resolution of Iran's nuclear issue, said Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of the President of Russia, APA’s Moscow correspondent reports. According to him, Tehran has no plans to acquire nuclear weapons.

New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies. Somewhere in the world last month, a State Department employee began the routine process of hiring a vendor for an upcoming embassy event — but quickly ran into a problem. The vendor was refusing to sign paperwork certifying that it did not promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or “DEI,” a new requirement under President Donald Trump’s executive order eradicating DEI from the government. The State employee — who spoke on the condition that neither he nor the location of his embassy...

A Ukrainian government delegation arrived in Washington on Tuesday to discuss military support and sanctions against Russia, a day after Kyiv and Moscow held their second round of peace talks. Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff, said he arrived in Washington together with the first deputy prime minister and other government officials. "We will actively promote issues that are important for Ukraine. Our agenda is rather comprehensive," Yermak said on the Telegram app. "We plan to talk about defence support and the situation on the battlefield, strengthening sanctions against Russia..." Yermak said the officials would also discuss the...

On May 29, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to First Lieutenant Mark Bashaw -- the only service member in U.S. military history court-martialed for refusing to comply with unlawful COVID-19 mandates. It was a long-overdue act of justice, but a pardon, while powerful, doesn’t come close to honoring the enormity of what this man endured -- or what he represents. Mark Bashaw was never a criminal. He was never disloyal. He was a principled officer who stood on the Constitution, federal law, and his faith, and for that, the U.S. Army tried to destroy...

SBU agents reportedly attached explosives to the bridge's concrete pillars, which were detonated earlier this morning, damaging it

A 2017 book lays out in detail the Koran’s reality, something that’s important for everyone to know as Muslims expand their presence throughout the West. A database search of 12 million books published in the 300 years before 9/11 reveals only one instance of the phrase “Islam is a religion of peace.” It appears in fiction and is spoken by Ayatollah Mahmoud Haji Daryaei, an Iranian leader in Tom Clancy’s thriller Executive Orders. But the dangerous notion that Islam is peaceful has been so frequently reiterated by world leaders, clerics, and the liberal media-academia complex that it has taken on...

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A California high school track star’s post-race celebration that paid homage to an Olympic gold medalist resulted in her disqualification and the stripping of her state championship title by outraged officials. North Salinas High School sophomore Clara Adams had just crossed the finish line as the winner in the 400 meters at Buchanan High in Clovis on Saturday when the excited teen ran over to her father to celebrate, the Mercury News reported. Her proud father, David, handed his daughter a fire extinguisher, and away from her competitors, she sprayed on her shoes as if they were on fire. However,...

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Operation Patriot, the largest ever ICE operation, resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegals, including murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and child sex predators, in the deep blue sanctuary city-heavy state of Massachusetts. Operation Patriot concluded on Saturday after netting 1,461 illegal aliens throughout the Greater Boston area and the state of Massachusetts, which includes numerous sanctuary jurisdictions. Sources at ICE told Fox News that 790 of those arrested had criminal convictions or charges and 277 had final removal or deportation orders. The sources said that all the targeted criminals were roaming the streets of Massachusetts cities freely before being...

A deputy of the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office arrested in April for battering a [dude perturbed to be a] woman he met at E11even nightclub has been cleared of all criminal charges. On Monday, state attorneys announced they will not prosecute 54-year-old Lt. Daniel Chala.

Almost 20 years since Madeleine McCann went missing, police are scouring more than 20 plots of land in Portugal. Authorities are looking for her body or an indication she may have once been there.Around 30 German police officers, including forensic experts, will start searching today. According to reports, Portuguese police will also be on the ground. While the UK's Metropolitan Police is "aware of the searches" carried out by the BKA (German federal police), British officers will not be involved. "The Metropolitan Police Service is not present at the search, we will support our international colleagues where necessary," the force...

During the 1970s, excavations at the Al-Asasif necropolis on Luxor's west bank uncovered an elaborate rock-cut tomb. Archaeologists theorized that it must have belonged to an Egyptian dignitary, but at the time they were unable to identify the deceased and the tomb was labeled with the generic name of Kampp 23. Now, Ahram Online reports, a joint Egyptian-Canadian team has finally determined that the Kampp 23 tomb was built for a man named Amun-Mes, the erstwhile mayor of Thebes during the Ramesside period (ca. 1295–1070 b.c.). Several inscriptions found elsewhere in Luxor mention a certain Amun-Mes along with many other...

“‘But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you’” (Matthew 6:17–18). Jesus’ statement “when you fast” indicates that fasting is normal and acceptable in the Christian life. He assumes His followers will fast on certain occasions, especially in times of testing, trial, or struggle. Fasting is appropriate during times of sorrow. On occasions of deep grief, fasting is a natural human response. Most people don’t feel...

...the account may best be understood as a form of conjectural history. This genre is a particular kind of narrative strategy which, as Christopher Pelling suggests, '[analyzes] the logical presuppositions of a functioning system and transposing them, for expositional clarity, into a historicist register.' Herodotus' narrative strategies interrogate the very same presuppositions on which Psammetichus' experiment is built: the primacy of language in human development, and the analogy between childhood and the world's first humans.Reading Herodotus' passage alongside Lucretius' De rerum natura and Plato's Cratylus, I argue that Herodotus exploits an ambiguity in terms φωνή and ἔπος in order to...

Texas lawmakers passed bills that will help build a Pro-Life culture, but House leadership ignored the biggest threat to women and babies: abortion pills. State officials began the 2025 legislative session in January with a major opportunity to stop the abortion industry. An estimated 30,000 Texan babies are killed each year by out-of-state procedures and abortion drugs, which also endanger mothers. Texas Right to Life urged the Legislature to save these children with two Pro-Life Priority Bills: 1 The Woman and Child Protection Act (SB 2880) to combat abortion pills; and 2 The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (SB 33)...