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The Supreme Court will be announcing opinions from the bench at 10:00 a.m. this morning.Scotusblog will be live-blogging the opinions the opinions at Scotusblog and we will be following along and trying to make sense of the court's decisions.There are 20 cases remaining undecided for this term. A list of the cases can be found at October 2024 cases.All opinions from the October and November sitting have been announced. The only remaining case from the December term is Skrmetti.Issue(s): Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as,...

Galatians 6:9, “And let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.” I confess today that I’m tired, I’m weary. But I haven’t grown weary in well doing. In fact, that’s what gives me the power and strength to get up every day and press on. But I’m very tired and weary of the biblical illiteracy and lack of knowledge of the Lord and His ways that so many who claim His name demonstrate all the time. Jesus told us not to worry. Scripture tells us over and over again...

Dwindling enrollment has left about 150 Chicago schools half-empty, while 47 operate at less than one-third capacity, leading to high costs and limited course offerings, a joint report from Chalkbeat Chicago and ProPublica reveal.

A report on the largest survey ever of trans Americans’ health was released on Wednesday, June 11, and its findings reaffirmed what many academics, health care providers and trans people already know: gender-affirming care saves and improves lives, but transphobia often dissuades people from pursuing or continuing it when they need it most. Over 84,000 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people aged 18 and up responded to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, spearheaded by Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). Of respondents who had transitioned, 9% had gone back to living as their sex assigned at birth at some point in...

In a defiant response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the "unconditional surrender" of Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected the demand outright, Reuters reported. Speaking from Tehran, Khamenei stated, “We will not bow to foreign demands or abandon our rightful cause. Iran will continue its path to secure its independence and sovereignty, regardless of the threats or ultimatums from the United States or any other nation.” In a public meeting with his national security team, Trump affirmed that the U.S. would stand by Israel "until the Iranian threat is neutralized." Khamenei's refusal to surrender comes as Israel's airstrikes...

Key Points: * A touring helicopter crashed at Destin Executive Airport on Thursday evening. Four passengers sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to a local hospital. * The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Destin Fire Rescue responded to the scene. * The crash is currently under investigation by the OCSO Airport Security Unit. What were all the sirens about Thursday night in Destin? About 6:45 p.m. June 12, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office and Destin Fire Rescue responded to reports of a touring helicopter crash on the runway at the Destin Executive Airport off Airport Road in Destin, according to...

For the first time in recent history, a federal judge on Tuesday found Florida’s attorney general in contempt of court for referring to the court’s order blocking a new state immigration law as illegitimate and unlawful. While U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ ruling is extraordinary, she spared James Uthmeier from paying hefty fines or spending time in jail. Instead, Williams ordered the state’s chief legal officer to submit biweekly reports to ensure police don’t arrest anyone under an immigration law she blocked in April. “Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a...

Carbon dioxide, we’ve been told over and again, is the enemy that must be subdued if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming. It is, however, a faulty premise. Physics, not politics, tells us that man’s CO2 emissions will not cause catastrophic climate change nor an increase in extreme weather. “The common belief that CO2 is the main driver of climate change and the EPA Endangerment Finding assertion that ‘elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated’ to endanger the public health and welfare are scientifically false,” conclude the authors of a new paper. Richard Lindzen...

Fort Cavazos is returning to its original name, Fort Hood In 2023, President Joe Biden chose to rename posts across the country that honored Confederate soldiers Now, President Donald Trump is erasing that recent changeFORT HOOD, Texas - The United States Army reinstated the names of seven posts, including one historic site in Central Texas. Fort Cavazos is returning to its original name, Fort Hood. Why is the post changing back to Fort Hood? What they're saying "We never served at Cavasos," said Lee Opacki, who previously served at Fort Hood. "I never served at Fort Cavasos, but I did...

'Fighting 1,500 km from home isn’t a walk in the park,' says IAF pilot Maj. N’ of the first strike in Iran; 'We saw Iranian jets take off—then flee and vanish, and we stayed two hours and could’ve gone back—again and again'“This is my correction for October 7—this time we were the initiators,” says Maj N. (31), an F-15 pilot from Squadron 133, one of the first to take part in the unprecedented Israeli airstrikes over Iran at the start of Operation Rising Lion Now, he shares what it was like to wait for the green light, the challenges of...

The struggling news network is expected to face massive spending cuts by company chief Gunnar Wiedenfels ... CNN staffers are bracing for impact as the network faces yet another corporate restructuring by its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), fueling an unsettling morale in the newsroom. "I'd say the mood remains really grim," ... WBD announced that it was splitting into two companies, separating the studios and streaming business from its cable networks ... "We knew this was happening," the CNN staffer said. "And it was required to be able to sell the company. People are hoping CNN will be...

Without intervention, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge will be separated from the Army on September 1 for his objection to the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 shot in 2021, which was determined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be “unlawful as implemented.” In March, with the hope of restoring his career, the Black Hawk helicopter pilot was advised by Gen. Randy George, the Army’s Chief of Staff, to submit his request for relief to the Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR). And at the time, the general promised he would “get it fixed,” CW3 told The Gateway...

#RefugeesWelcome meant #RapistsWelcome all along. ... The very cautious ‘National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ report on the Muslim sex grooming gangs is out in the UK and it contains much that is both very revealing and very troubling. While the report primarily delves into past events, it also mentions current abuses that are ongoing now and are the subject of police investigations. During the course of this audit, we saw evidence of around a dozen live, complex, group-based child sexual exploitation police operations, the full details of which cannot be included in this report so as...

Tucker: How many people live in Iran? Cruz: I don't know the population. Tucker: You don't know the population of the country you seek to topple? Cruz: How many people live in Iran? Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that? Brutal.

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was an era, not an event. But those who lived through it had no doubt that it was a catastrophe. What was it like to live through the Fall of the Roman Empire? | 10:34 toldinstone | 583K subscribers | 316,756 views | August 19, 2022 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Reactions to the Fall of Rome 2:09 St. Germanus and Britain 3:27 St. Severinus and Noricum 4:39 HelloFresh 5:46 St. Severinus (cont.) 6:56 Sidonius Apollinaris and southern Gaul 8:31 Boethius and Italy

Tyler Perry has been accused of sexual assault and years of sexual harassment by actor Derek Dixon, who’s suing the “Madea” creator for $260 million. Dixon — who’s an actor on Perry’s show “The Oval” — alleges that the movie producer first made sexual advances toward him after inviting him to his home in Atlanta in January 2020, according to court documents obtained by Page Six. Dixon, who says in his complaint that he first met Perry after he picked him out of a crowd at a 2019 event and asked for his phone number for a possible role, further...

Jewish Ingenuity: Exploding Pagers, Greenwald's Fetish Videos, Drone Bases in Iran, Mossad Does It All. The world's most dynamic intelligence service strikes again.Mossad is having a bang-up year. The Israeli intelligence agency pulled off one of the most sophisticated attacks in 2024, targeting Hezbollah operatives by blowing up their pagers and walkie-talkies, resulting in several terrorists suffering unfortunate injuries to their scrotal regions. What Mossad has managed to pull off over the last several months is arguably even more impressive, highlighting the unique versatility of an organization that stands as a testament to Jewish ingenuity....

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border. That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk...

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Briefing,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she would assist the Trump administration with deporting violent criminals from her state, but not employed immigrants seeking asylum. Hochul said, “I will work with the Trump Administration to remove the people he said he was going after. I will help you get the criminals out of here, the ones who are violent criminals who are hurting other people, the human traffickers, the people who are dealing in drugs, people with guns. I want them gone. I’ll help you, but don’t take the home health care aides, the...