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The Global Methodist Church, a conservative alternative to the thoroughly embattled and progressively captured United Methodist Church, announced last week that more than 6,000 member churches have joined their denomination, reaching a milestone that few thought possible just a few years ago. The Global Methodist Church was formed as a direct result of the UMC’s acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage, which conservative churches found untenable. Launched in 2022 with only two dozen churches, thousands of churches followed and sought union. It wasn’t without its difficulties, however. Many churches were forced to jump through hoops to leave the UMC with...

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has launched ‘Project Firewall’, a sweeping enforcement initiative aimed at curbing misuse of the H-1B visa program and protecting American jobs, particularly in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The objective is to ensure employers prioritize qualified Americans when hiring workers and to hold violators accountable. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said the measure would ensure “highly skilled jobs go to Americans first.” For the first time in history, the Secretary of Labor will personally certify investigations into suspected H-1B violations, which officials described as a “historic action.” Employers found guilty could face...

As the federal government shutdown stretches into its 14th day, reports from Capitol Hill and the White House suggest that the impasse won’t end anytime soon, with the Trump administration refusing to budge on the Democrats’ demands of expanding COVID-era Obamacare subsidies and other spending by $1.5 trillion. According to a report from Punchbowl News, the Trump administration appears to be finding new sources of federal dollars in order to fund critical functions such as paying federal law enforcement officers and continuing to serve the over six million Americans who rely on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,...

In a clear sign that the radical gender ideology push is losing steam, new data reveals a shocking drop in the number of American college students identifying as transgender or non-binary, just two years after the trend peaked under the Biden-Harris administration’s influence. According to a report from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), analyzed by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, the percentage of U.S. undergraduates claiming identities other than male or female has declined from 6.8 percent in 2023 to just 3.6 percent in 2025, representing a nearly 50 percent decrease. The report states: The scale...

Pro-life advocates are hailing a growing boycott by construction contractors as a moral stand against New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s push for a new taxpayer-funded abortion facility. Local businesses are refusing bids to build what critics call a “megacomplex” for late-term abortions in the state’s northern part, where most people reside. Grisham’s $10 million taxpayer-funded project to kill more babies, slipped into House Bill 450 as part of a $1.2 billion capital outlay package, aims to construct a second Planned Parenthood center in northern New Mexico following a similar allocation last year for a facility in Las Cruces. The...

The blanket $100,000 fee and Project Firewall are nothing but various elements being employed by the Trump government to turn the existing H-1B visa program upside-down. The focus has now shifted to hiring American workers. -snip- US Labor Department issues reminder to ‘hire American’ Merely hours ago, the US government department reiterated the sentiment in yet another official social media warning addressed to companies relying on the H-1B visa. “Under our Project Firewall plan, we’re eliminating fraud and abuse in the H-1B program and ensuring AMERICANS are prioritised in the hiring process,” the new tweet stated. The post also highlighted...

Researchers at Science Tokyo have uncovered two distinct stem cell lineages responsible for forming tooth roots and surrounding bone, revealing the signaling networks that orchestrate their development. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers uncover how cells develop and specialize, advancing prospects for regenerative dental treatments. Researchers at Science Tokyo have identified two separate stem cell lineages responsible for forming tooth roots and the alveolar bone that anchors teeth in the jaw. By using genetically modified mice and lineage-tracing methods, the team uncovered how specific signaling pathways direct stem cells to specialize during tooth development. Their findings provide valuable insight that could help advance...

In Euless, Texas, three Muslims have been charged vandalizing a church in 2023. One of them is Raunaq Alam who claimed that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights. He pointed out that "the church had raised an Israeli flag they claimed was a show of solidarity with the victims of the October 7 massacre. My spray painting 'f*** Israel' and putting Hamas stickers on the outside of the building was my rebuttal. I admit that they may have considered my rebuttal offensive, but their message was offensive to my religion. Allah commands us to slay the Jews. October...

If the dollar dominates stablecoins, America could dominate global finance for centuries“I will make sure the US is the crypto capital of the world,” Donald Trump vowed earlier this year. In July, he signed the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (Genius) Act. The Act creates federal guardrails for dollar-pegged stablecoins and regulates who can issue and redeem them. Concerns from law enforcement are also addressed, by making sure anti-money laundering and consumer regulation applies. But what are stablecoins? They are digital tokens built to stay at a stable price, usually one dollar. They sit on the blockchain...

You get the sense that Taylor Greene has lost interest in the Republican projectGeorgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent the last week gnawing on the hand that feeds her, showing that no one in American politics is worse at reading the tea leaves. Taylor Greene entered Congress in 2021 wearing a face mask that read “Trump Won.” She was so fervently a supporter of January 6 pardons that Georgians invoked an “insurrectionist disqualification clause” to try to remove her from Congress. But now that MAGA is riding high on a wave of world peace and prosperity, Taylor Greene has...

A White House spokesperson tells Fox News Digital that 'Criminal illegal murderers and rapists received Medicaid at the American taxpayers’ expense' The White House unveiled a number of criminal illegal migrants who received Medicaid as the Senate remains in gridlock over the government shutdown. Fox News Digital obtained detailed information surrounding the arrests of 49 illegal migrants, who have all been deported under the Trump administration, who were arrested for an array of crimes that occurred in the U.S. Charges include murder, assault, theft, burglary, rape and sexual abuse of a minor among other serious charges. In Congress, the federal...

A grand jury is convening Wednesday afternoon to consider charges against former national security adviser John Bolton over his alleged sharing of highly sensitive classified materials on a private email server, The Post has learned. The proceeding comes two months after federal investigators raided Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, DC, office in search of evidence in the Trump critic’s alleged theft of “highly sensitive national security” information. Justice Department officials expect an indictment to be handed up either Wednesday or Thursday, with one telling The Post that the case against the 76-year-old is “airtight.”

Apparently, when Pope Leo isn’t busy blessing a block of ice, he is approving prayer rooms for Muslim scholars visiting the Vatican Apostolic Library.Fr. Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.”How very inclusive of them.Actually, that’s apostasy.But, incredibly, today’s Vatican appears more willing to offend Christians than Muslims and more terrified of engaging in apostasy against the world view of the left/progressives than of the dictates of their own religion.This is disturbing to say the least.Care...

15 October 2025 Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, Doctor on Wednesday of week 28 in Ordinary TimeBasilica of St. Teresa, ÁvilaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 2:1-11Do you think you will escape God's judgement?No matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. In judging others you condemn yourself, since you behave no differently from those you judge. We know that God condemns that sort of behaviour impartially: and when you judge those who behave like this while you are doing exactly...

Picture this: America’s most-watched sporting event, played on American soil, featuring American teams, suddenly demanding its audience learn a foreign language to enjoy the entertainment (yes, really). It sounds like satire, but this is the reality facing Super Bowl fans come February. The NFL, in its infinite wisdom, has chosen a performer who not only refuses to tour in the United States but actively mocks Americans who speak English. The league’s selection of Bad Bunny for Super Bowl LX’s halftime show represents more than just a questionable musical choice. This Puerto Rican rapper, known for his cross-dressing performances and anti-American...

Apparently, the new era of law and order in Washington, D.C., has not penetrated the highly corrupt court system, which just let off the attackers who almost killed a DOGE employee in a bloody assault that spurred Donald Trump‘s federalization of the police force there. True, the attackers were minors, but that does not obviate the severity of their attack on Edward Coristine. One would think that at least a little time in juvenile jail would be warranted. But, no. The D.C. court system is too heavily pro-crime and anti-Trump for that. Now, if only the attackers had been Jan....

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had pushed Ukrainian forces out of two settlements. It said Russian forces had taken control of the village of Oleksiivka in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region as well as the settlement of Novopavlivka in the Donetsk region.

They are part of Russia's broader targeting of infrastructure that now is being carried out with greater precision thanks to advances in long-range drone technology that include onboard video feed. In the attack in Shostka, less than 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the Russian border, two explosives-laden drones struck two commuter trains in quick succession. Russia has stepped up railway attacks over the past three months, seeking to sow unrest in Ukrainian regions it borders by depriving people there of rail connections, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the CEO of the Ukrainian state railway, told The Associated Press. “What happens is not just...

It’s getting harder for scientists not to believe in GodMany Baby Boomers are sceptical about God. They think that believing in a higher power is probably incompatible with rationality. Over the last few centuries, religious belief has appeared to be in rapid decline, and materialism (the idea that the physical world is all there is to reality) has been on the rise, as the natural outcome of modern science and reason.But if this scepticism is common among my older generation, times are changing. As we come to the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, the tables are...

Layoffs hit NBC News Wednesday, with the network news division facing cuts ahead of Comcast’s spinoff of Versant. About 150 jobs were eliminated, representing about 2 percent of the workforce of the NBC News Group. The cuts were across the News Group, without specific teams being targeted. The Versant spin will see MSNBC and CNBC separated from NBC News. NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC are currently all part of the NBC News Group, led by Cesar Conde. Per a source, the cuts were driven by the fact that NBC News will no longer be providing newsgathering capabilities for CNBC and...