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Independent MP Zarah Sultana said last night that she and the former Labour leader will co-lead the founding of this new party...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman who lives near the South Portland ICE facility and its near-nightly protests is suing the city over the noise. Sirens, bullhorn messages from protesters, buzzers, bells and revving engines are among the cacophony Cloud Elvengrail says are making her home, where she's lived since last July, "akin to a torture chamber." According to the lawsuit, Elvengrail lives in low-income housing, Gray's Landing, across the street from the ICE facility, as well as near a Tesla showroom. She said the noises have been happening well into the night for weeks, with the lawsuit describing an incident...

For decades, Pluto remained one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, until July 14, 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft became the first mission to visit it up close, capturing breathtaking images of the distant world.It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After traveling billions of miles through the solar system, New Horizons sent home stunning images of Pluto and its moons, making headlines around the world. It took more than 15 months for the spacecraft to send all of the...

The account of Peter walking on water is one of the most remarkable and faith-inspiring narratives in the New Testament. This event, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, not only demonstrates the miraculous power of Jesus but also provides profound lessons about faith, doubt, and trust in the Lord.

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg Two lesbians are appalled by the gay propaganda books in the children’s section at Barnes & Noble. “Okay, we're gay. But we're in Barnes and Noble and there's a gay kids book section. And this is crazy.” “It's pushing it. For a baby. This is pushing it.” Why are you promoting s*x to small children, @BNBuzz ? Video: nevernotcringe / tt

It was announced on Sunday, July 13, that John MacArthur, 86, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church (GCC) in Sun Valley, California, has contracted pneumonia and is expected to be in the presence of Jesus soon.

What President Donald Trump has achieved over the past three weeks, most presidents could only dream of for an entire term. Trump has revitalized military recruitment and turned the armed forced from “fat” to “fit,” reshaped America’s foreign alliances, and delivered bold results that no one expected—and many actively warned against. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down why, in the face of naysayers and “experts” claiming it couldn’t be done, this even more of a momentous feat on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Base, HawaiiMarine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), formerly Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay and originally Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, is a U.S. Marine Corps facility and air station located on the Mokapu Peninsula of windward O'ahu in the City & County of Honolulu. For census purposes, the area is demarcated as the Kaneohe Station census-designated place, with a population at the 2010 Census of 9,517. Marine Corps Base Hawaii is home to Marines, sailors, their family members and civilian employees. The United States Marine Corps operates a 7,800-foot runway at...

Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer, died Monday at age 49. Gibson’s death was announced on social media by their wife, Megan Falley. Gibson and Falley are the main subjects of the documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light,” winner of the Festival Favorite Award this year at the Sundance Film Festival and scheduled to air this fall on Apple TV+.

Sending Ukraine offensive weapons could push Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, retired Adm. James Stavridis, the former NATO supreme allied commander, said on Monday. Speaking ahead of the announcement of the U.S.-NATO weapons deal for Ukraine, Stavridis said he was hoping the deal would “move beyond strictly defensive weapons, such as the Patriot missiles, which are the air defense systems that the Ukrainians desperately need.” “What I would like to see is a provision for the United States to send more harpoon missiles to go after the Black Sea fleet, more HIMARS, surface-to-surface weapons that can reach...

The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff. Proponents said the import tax will help rebuild the shrinking U.S. tomato industry and ensure that produce eaten in the U.S. is also grown there. Mexico currently supplies around 70% of the U.S. tomato market, up from 30% two decades ago, according to the Florida Tomato Exchange. Robert Guenther, the trade group's executive vice president, said the duty was “an enormous victory for American tomato farmers and American agriculture." But opponents said the...

RFK Jr. has hired at least four people with a history of criticizing vaccines, including the former president of his anti-vaccine groupRobert F. Kennedy Jr. spent much of his confirmation process before becoming the nation’s health secretary reassuring lawmakers that he would not undermine public confidence in vaccines and seeking to distance himself from the anti-vaccine group he founded, Children’s Health Defense. As health secretary, he has installed former prominent members of that group and other vaccine skeptics in positions at the department he runs or agencies it oversees. The appointment of officials from CHD, including a former president of...

14 July 2025 Saint Kateri Tekakwitha on Monday of week 15 in Ordinary Time side chapel at the back of the church on the right side is kept this Crucifix; as St Camillus was praying before it, the arms miraculously opened up and Christ spoke to him from it. St Mary Magdalen, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 1:8-14,22The Egyptians force the sons of Israel into slaveryThere came to power in Egypt a new king who knew nothing of Joseph. ‘Look,’ he said to his...

Jeffrey Epstein traveled throughout the Middle East and Africa in the 1980s, frequently requesting multiple passports for the trips, according to newly obtained documents. Between 1980 and his death in 2019, Epstein visited Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Gabon and countless European countries. He often reported lost passports and requested multiple to accommodate his many travel visas, the documents obtained by ABC News, reveal. 'Please issue me a second passport so I may have the 3 visas issued for Africa while I am using my current passport in France.' At the time, he carried a conviction for soliciting child...

President Trump on Monday suggested that first lady Melania Trump convinced him that Russian President Vladimir Putin has continually backed out of his promises over a possible peace deal with Ukraine. He explained that his wife pointed out Putin's false promises following Trump's phone calls with the Russian leader amid calls for a deal to end the conflict. "I go home. I tell the first lady, ‘You know, I spoke to Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She said, ‘Oh, really? another city was just hit,'" he said. "There's times I'd get home. I'd say, 'First lady, I had...

@WallStreetApes Remember how we were told Jeffrey Epstein made his money in finance, wealth management and trading Charlie Kirk exposes Jeffrey Epstein HAD NO TRADES EVER made under his name “There are no trades to Jeffrey Epstein name at any of the trading desks — yet he ends up with a lifestyle you would think that he's worth $50 billion dollars” “He had multiple Gulf Streams jets, multiple. Each one is $30, $40, $50 million”

Grade A student Courtney Wright, 12, wore a Union Flag dress and wrote a piece about history and traditions as part of the celebrations at the school on Friday. But her dad, Stuart, collected his daughter after she was told to stay in the school’s reception. Stuart said: “Courtney was so embarrassed and couldn’t understand what she’d done wrong. "She was told she wasn’t allowed in school with the dress on because she gets to celebrate her culture every day.” In a permission letter sent to parents, it said the day was "designed to promote inclusion, understanding, and appreciation of...

When anti-vaccine activists and others argue that the immunizations used to protect children from infectious diseases are risky, they often point to aluminum salts, a product added to many childhood vaccines to increase their effectiveness. A new large study from Denmark directly counters those claims. After mining the vaccination and medical records of more than 1.2 million children over a 24-year period, researchers could see no evidence that exposure to aluminum in vaccines led to a statistically significant increase in a child’s risk of developing any of a wide variety of conditions that can be diagnosed in childhood, including asthma...

30 new cases reported in Alberta over the weekendAlberta has now confirmed more measles cases than the entire United States has reported this year. The province has been battling outbreaks since March and as of noon Monday, total case counts in the province had ballooned to 1,314. The latest update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that country has amassed 1,288 cases this year. "Looking at the numbers it saddens me," said Dr. Sam Wong, the president of the section of pediatrics with the Alberta Medical Association. "I think if we had gotten to it sooner...

Swap meet vendors say Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias’ comments about an immigration raid that never occurred cost them business. Now, they want the council to sanction their colleague while also calling for Arias to resign. During the June 12 council meeting, Arias said from the dais that a “massive immigration raid” would take place at the Cherry Avenue Auction that weekend. “So I would advise our immigrant community that they should stay away from the Cherry Auction this weekend, as they would put themselves and their families in the most vulnerable position to be picked up and taken out...