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An Inland Empire lawmaker is demanding answers after she said “chemical agents” were used against her and members of Congress who were illegally denied access to a federal building. In a Thursday, June 12, letter, Rep. Norma Torres, D-Pomona, said she went to the emergency room and must take medication after the Saturday, June 7, incident at the Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles. ...

On the way to its initial Arctic deployment U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis (WAGB 21) has transited through the Panama Canal. The polar class 3-equivalent vessel departed from the Bollinger Shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 3, 2025. The vessel arrived near the canal’s northern entrance on June 11. After an 18-hour hold outside Limon Bay near the Gatun locks, Storis proceeded through the first set of Panama Canal locks on its route to the Pacific. The transit took around 8 hours and the vessel exited the canal through the Miraflores locks late on June 12. U.S. military ships have...

Seven men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped and assaulted in Rochdale for five years. The gang was convicted of various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims, known as Girl A and Girl B, were groomed from the age of 13 and treated as "sex slaves", being expected to "have sex with the men whenever and wherever they wanted", the trial heard. Girl A told the jury she could have been targeted by more than 200 men, while Girl B said social workers had regarded her as...

MIAMI — A judge in South Florida on June 11 signed an arrest warrant charging former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown with, attempted murder with a firearm. The criminal charge stems from a shooting at a celebrity boxing event on May 16 in Miami. The warrant also calls for Brown, 36, who played 12 seasons in the NFL, to post a $10,000 bond and remain under house arrest pending trial. Efforts to reach Brown were unsuccessful Thursday evening, The Washington Post reported.

Iran officially announced its withdrawal from nuclear negotiations with the United States- a decision that comes amid heightened hostilities following Israel’s large-scale military strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites and Tehran’s retaliatory drone barrage. The now-collapsed talks were aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement, which had limited Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief- a deal the US exited in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration.

Recently indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” that “Republicans have sold their soul for Donald Trump.” Discussing Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed from a press conference, McIver said, “It was disgraceful. I mean, to see it honestly brought tears to my eyes. someone had dropped it in a chat to me. I watched the whole video and just the idea of how they were handling him with no regard, just throwing him on the floor, his hands up. I mean, it just brought back just a time that you don’t want to be...

Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10 billion years ago. Credit: M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration ************************************************************ A new cosmic deep field map from the COSMOS collaboration, powered by the James Webb Space Telescope, is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the early universe. Spanning nearly the full history of cosmic time and featuring nearly 800,000 galaxies, the data shows a universe forming stars and supermassive black holes far earlier—and in greater numbers—than previously predicted. This unprecedented scope offers...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday gave a fulsome endorsement of Israel's strikes against Iran's nuclear and military targets, saying that there was "much more to come" if Iran fails to give up its uranium enrichment program.

A court battle is brewing over Jimmy Buffett's $275 million estate. The late singer's widow, Jane, and the co-trustee of the estate, Richard Mozenter, have filed lawsuits against one another. Attorneys said the Buffett case offers important lessons for families planning wealth transfers. A court battle over the late-singer Jimmy Buffett's $275 million estate has highlighted the growing litigation over the trillions of dollars in wealth being passed down to spouses and families, experts said. Jimmy Buffett's widow, Jane Buffett, filed a petition last week in a Los Angeles court to remove her co-trustee, Richard Mozenter, from the marital trust...

A new cholesterol-lowering pill may offer a breakthrough for those at risk of heart attack and stroke. A major international study led by Monash University has revealed a promising new way to help protect people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes. Researchers found that a new cholesterol-lowering medication could be more effective and easier to use than current treatments. The study, known as the BROADWAY trial, tested a once-daily oral drug called Obicetrapib. Results showed that it significantly reduced levels of LDL cholesterol and lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a). Both are key contributors to heart disease and are often difficult...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/13/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleDeuteronomy 1:6-86 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, “You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the...

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“‘But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you’” (Matthew 6:33). When Christians think like the world and crave things in the world, they will worry like the world, because a mind not focused on God is a mind that has cause to worry. The faithful, trusting, and reasonable Christian is “anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving [let his] requests be made known to God” (Phil. 4:6). The antidote to worry that results in contentment is to make God and His kingdom your priority. Jesus is...

Veteran actor Harris Yulin, who appeared in “Scarface,” “Ghostbusters II” and “Training Day,” died on June 10. He was 87. Yulin stood out as the corrupt Miami detective who tried to extort money from Al Pacino’s Tony Montana in Scarface (1983), and as a manipulative national security adviser in the 1994 film “Clear and Present Danger.” He also played a corrupt police officer named Rosselli in the 2001 film, “Training Day.” Yulin died of cardiac arrest in New York, his manager, Sue Leibman, and his family confirmed in a statement. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Leibman said...

Israel’s precision strikes on Iranian nuclear infrastructure on June 12th were a necessary and proportionate act of preemptive self-defense, not a reckless escalation. The action came after the IAEA reported Iran had amassed enough near-weapons-grade uranium for at least three nuclear bombs, crossing a long-established red line.

Prince William’s longtime friend, Sunjay Kapur, has died at age 53 after swallowing a bee, which had triggered a fatal heart attack. The billionaire businessman and chairman of global car parts giant Sona Comstar collapsed during a polo match in England on Thursday, the Mirror reports. Kapur, who is the former husband of Bollywood superstar Karisma Kapoor, was stung by a bee on the mouth, which subsequently triggered anaphylactic shock that caused his heart to stop, the outlet added.

Several European leaders urged Israel and Iran to de-escalate after Jerusalem launched a “pre-emptive” strike on Iranian military leaders and facilities over night. Iran’s Ayatollah has vowed “harsh punishment” in revenge after Israel launched targeted strikes overnight and launched a flight of suicide bomb drones, but European leaders urged both sides to stay their hands and engage in diplomacy. The United Kingdom, which has given Israel the cold shoulder in many respects since the new left-wing government took power last year rushed to assert it was “not involved in what happened overnight” and said its goal is to “prevent escalation”....

13 June 2025 Saint Antony of Padua, Priest, Doctor on Friday of week 10 in Ordinary Time Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Saint Louis, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Corinthians 4:7-15Such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from usWe are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us. We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our...

President Trump on Friday called on Iran to go back to the negotiating table and cut a nuclear deal "before there is nothing left" after Israel attacked its nuclear sites. -snip- The Trump administration wants to use the war Israel started to get the Iranians back to the nuclear talks when they are in a weaker position. A U.S. official said White House envoy Steve Witkoff still wants to meet Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday for the planned sixth round of the nuclear talks. But the Iranians said they are not going to participate. -snip- "I gave Iran...

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.” Many believe that masculine industries, such as military and defense, are naturally immune to left-wing race and gender ideologies. This is mostly a myth. These institutions are organized according to prestige and profit—and when those signals point to “woke,” industry leaders have dutifully followed. Take America’s largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin. As we have previously reported, after the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Lockheed adopted radical DEI policies and, in one instance, required white men in leadership...