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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(9/24/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the Bible1 Kings 17:1Elijah Announces a Great Drought 17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.________________________

The United Nations issued a statement about the mishap, saying that the elevator stopping might have been triggered for safety as a videographer was standing backwards ahead of the president trying to film him. "The safety mechanism is designed to prevent people or objects accidentally being caught and stuck in or pulled into the gearing. The videographer may have inadvertently triggered the safety function described above," the U.N. statement said. “Our technician, who was at the location, reset the escalator as soon as the delegation had climbed up to the second floor. A subsequent investigation, including a readout of the...

Democrats on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners claim that they can’t comply with a court order to seat nominated Republicans because those Republicans are “election deniers.” Georgia Democrats are defying state law and a standing court order. Like Nancy Pelosi, who refused to seat Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on the January 6th committee, Fulton County Democrats are refusing to seat two Republicans on the Fulton County Elections Board. This lawless action is in direct violation of a Fulton election ordinance: Two members shall be appointed by the governing authority of Fulton County from nominations made by the...

The New Statesman @NewStatesman EXCLUSIVE: ANDY BURNHAM’S PLAN FOR BRITAIN by @TomMcTague Andy Burnham tells me that changing Westminster needs to be the focus of this year’s Labour Party conference. “The issue for the conference is: where is our plan to turn the country around?” Still, it is impossible to avoid the implicit point here. Burnham does not believe the current government’s plan is anywhere near good enough. Being with Burnham in Manchester, it was striking just how at home he seemed. Everywhere we went, people stopped him in the street as if they knew him. Boy done good. Our...

...This is the last chapter of my report on Charlie’s murder. You can find all the chapters here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7. I suggest you read them in order - they build on each other to create the whole picture....

One of the biggest progressive stars in American politics is throwing her support behind Proposition 50, which would redistrict California for congressional elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom released an ad Tuesday morning showing New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez forcefully backing the controversial proposal. “California, you know we don’t back down from a fight,” Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, says in the ad. “And this November, the fight belongs to you.” Newsom and California’s Democrats say the unprecedented measure is required to counter President Donald Trump’s nationwide plan to redraw districts in Republican-controlled states like Texas, Missouri and Ohio. “Donald Trump is...

When President Trump visited King Charles III at Windsor Castle on September 17, members of Antifa stood outside and chanted, “Charlie’s in a box.” They were referring to the great Charlie Kirk, who had been assassinated one week earlier. Charlie’s assassin is a left-wing zealot who engraved “anti-fascist” taunts on his bullet casings and may have had direct ties to Antifa terrorist cells in the United States. More Antifa supporters stood outside Charlie’s public funeral in Arizona on September 21 and shouted disgusting insults at the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had come to mourn and pay their respects....

In Abilene, Texas—in the heart of what locals call the Big Country, long defined by ranching, farming, shale oil exploration, and now dotted with wind turbines—OpenAI and Oracle staged a carefully crafted media showcase on Tuesday to talk about the latest boom underway... In Abilene alone, a crew of 6,400 workers have already moved massive amounts of soil to flatten the hills, and laid down enough fiber optic cable to wrap the Earth 16 times.... The five new Stargate projects—in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, and in an undisclosed Midwest location—will bring Stargate’s current pipeline to nearly 7 gigawatts and more...

The challenge to the Gun Free School Zone (GFSZ) case from Billings, Montana, involving Gabriel Metcalf, has an interesting twist. The judges in the case asked the attorneys on both sides to present briefs addressing the impact on the case from Rehaif v. United States, 2019. Rehaif established a precedent that, in order to be found guilty, the defendant had to know he belonged to a category that was barred from possessing a firearm, as that was one of the elements of the crime. As mentioned in previous articles, local officials repeatedly told Gabriel Metcalf he was not violating the...

24 September 2025 Wednesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St Rupert's Cathedral, Salzburg Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEzra 9:5-9'God has not forgotten us in our slavery'At the evening sacrifice I, Ezra, came out of my stupor and falling on my knees, with my garment and cloak torn, I stretched out my hands to the Lord my God, and said: ‘My God, I am ashamed, I blush to lift my face to you, my God. For our crimes have increased, until they are higher than our heads, and our sin has piled up to heaven. From the...

At least two people were killed and three injured in a drone attack on Novorossiysk, the local governor has said At least two people have been killed and three injured when Ukrainian drones struck the downtown of Novorossiysk, a Black Sea port city in southern Russia, the regional governor has said. DETAILS TO FOLLOW (RT.com)

“Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I said to you, “You must be born again”’” (John 3:5–7). Jesus answered Nicodemus’s objection by elaborating on the truth He introduced in verse 3: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” “Water” and “Spirit”...

Republicans are turning the heat back up on the Trump administration for its handling of the Epstein files. Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie torched FBI Director Kash Patel over the weekend after he caught the bureau chief off guard on information that Patel should have already been privy to. “I told Director Kash Patel that the FBI has names of 20 men to whom Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and girls,” Massie wrote on X. “This basic fact seemed to surprise him. Why? “Is the FBI withholding those names to protect the President’s rich and powerful friends?” Massie continued, before demanding that...

Ukraine’s relentless drone campaign has dealt another blow to Russia’s war machine, setting fire to the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, more than 800 miles from the front lines. The attack, reported by local authorities on Wednesday, marks a bold escalation in Kyiv’s strategy to cripple Moscow’s energy infrastructure, a key pillar funding its invasion. As Ukrainian defenders repelled 172 Russian assaults across the front, the drone strikes appear to signal a war fought on two fronts: the battlefield and Russia’s economic heart. Confirming the attack on Telegram, Radiy Khabirov, head of Bashkortostan, said: “All emergency services are...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional.... Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesman, said a videographer from the U.S. delegation who ran ahead of him triggered the stop mechanism at the top of the escalator.... In recent months, U.N. offices in New York and Geneva have intermittently turned off elevators and escalators as part of steps to save money because of a “liquidity crisis” at the world body. That’s due in...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that Russia is a “paper tiger,” APA’s Moscow bureau reports. Peskov stated that Russia is not a tiger, but a bear. “Russia is a bear, there is no such thing as a ‘paper bear,’” he said while commenting on Trump’s remarks.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr blasted Democratic California state Sen. Scott Wiener on Tuesday for calling to break up Sinclair Broadcast Group because it's keeping late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off its ABC stations. Carr pointed to Wiener as an example of Democratic lawmakers accusing opponents of stifling free speech while engaging in it themselves. "And there it is. On Kimmel, the Democrats are engaged in nothing more than Projection and Distortion," the Trump appointee posted on X in response to Wiener’s post... He added Democrats distort the issue by blaming Trump rather than Disney...

Along comes the hard-left Guardian US to save the day with an article by Adrienne Matei entitled "From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home." It's a l-o-n-g and rambling piece, but one thing can be said in its favor: it doesn't lack a sense of humor. Thus, a "cultural historian" is quoted as saying: “There’s been a reluctance to name this moment as fascism.”Right! So much reluctance that Googling "Trump fascism" yields only 20.4 million results in 0.33 seconds. Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels makes an appearance before long, and sure enough, Trump's "pro-natalist" policies...

Violet Affleck, the daughter of Hollywood A-listers Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, appeared before the United Nations in New York City on Tuesday. The 19-year-old activist spoke about the importance of masks and other preventative devices more than five years after the COVID-19 pandemic changed life on the planet for all. Violet was appearing as part of an event titled Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action.

Free speech campaigners have warned Muslims have been 'given the green light to take the law into their own hands' after a man was spared jail for attacking a protester who was burning the Koran. Activist Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted 'f*** Islam', 'Islam is religion of terrorism' and 'Koran is burning', as he held a flaming Islamic text aloft outside the Turkish consulate during a protest in Knightsbridge on February 13. During his protest, Moussa Kadri rushed out of a residential building and told Mr Coskun 'I'm going to kill you', before slashing at him with a knife. Kadri later...