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Daily Readings from the USCCB“‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’” Luke 13:7–9How much good fruit is born from your life? This is an important question to answer honestly. One of the best ways to discern whether or not we...

Why do many Christians refuse to acknowledge or be included in the New Covenant of Jesus Christ, and as a result will not partake in the Lord’s Supper/Communion, in remembrance of Him?

NEW DELHI — India has a teeming population of able-bodied workers, tens of millions more than its employers can accommodate. Many other countries have the opposite problem: more jobs than workers. Today, across India’s government and business sectors, a movement is gaining steam to begin exporting more workers. The idea, which economists call labor mobility, is to connect young Indians to companies in places with shrinking populations where labor shortages are holding back growth. The challenge for India and its partners overseas is the growing opposition to immigration in many countries. Officials are trying to craft policies to make it...

A media shop affiliated with a radical preacher in Dearborn, Mich., recently published a 39-minute video celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination as a "praiseworthy action" that Muslims across the United States should celebrate and repeat. The call to violence has raised red flags with Trump administration officials as they seek to deport foreign terrorist sympathizers and combat radicalism across the nation. "The Fate of Charlie Kirk: The Insulter of the Messenger [Prophet Muhammad] and His Ruling According to Islam" was published on Oct. 10 by the English-language media outlet Project Guiding Light, a radical content mill affiliated with "pro-Islamic State" preacher...

A California gubernatorial candidate has been caught up in scandal after getting testy with staffers in a pair of videos—and now her ex-husband is offering his two cents. Matthew Hoffman, who was married to former California congresswoman Katie Porter from 2003 to 2013, has lashed out at his ex-wife, saying the negative image people have of his ex is all true. Speaking to the New York Post, Hoffman, 50, said Porter, 51, is a “master manipulator” who is the kind of person who makes it “hard to like politics.” Porter has been ramping up her campaign for the 2026 California...

The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani may have to confront if elected could be his own – as two House Republicans push the Justice Department to probe his path to citizenship and possibly boot him from the US. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani.” “I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Fine told the Post.

Hamas terrorists released under the Gaza peace deal are staying in a five-star hotel alongside unsuspecting Western tourists. Experts warned of a radical new threat to global security after the Daily Mail tracked down more than 150 of the highly dangerous extremists to a luxury hotel in Cairo. Israel was forced to empty its prisons of nearly all its most feared jihadists held on life sentences as part of Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. Some 154 of the 250 fanatics who were freed are currently staying in the Marriott’s five-star Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel in the Egyptian capital, a...

Democrats’ meltdown over “Islamophobic” comments allegedly chuckled over by Andrew Cuomo is a foretaste of a future Mamdani mayoralty: Expect all criticism of the devoutly anti-Zionist socialist to be denounced as attacks on his religion. Let’s be clear: Calling Zohran Mamdani an anti-American supporter of terrorism has nothing to do with his religion and everything to do with his record of statements, actions and associations. It was Mamdani who wrote and sang a rap song giving his “love” to the Holy Land Five, American Hamas financers convicted and sent to prison for up to 65 years. It is also Mamdani...

Liberal white woman says she has “lost all hope” These people aren’t gonna make it 3 more years.. 🤣🤣 2:45 VIDEO AT LINK................... Enjoy!.......................

Last Thursday, EMD Serono became the latest pharmaceutical company, after Pfizer and AstraZeneca, to agree to a deal with the Trump Administration to reduce the prices of its drugs. Under these deals the companies must sell their drugs to the federal government at the “Most Favored Nation” price. Under the Most Favored Nation system, the price pharmaceutical companies can charge for a drug is equal to the lowest price among selected high-income countries. Many of those countries are in Europe, where they have lower drug prices because they impose price controls. The Trump Administration is trying to address public frustration...

A serious struggle is flaring up in South Carolina represented by Lindsey Graham. Republicans Mark Lynch and Paul Danshave already announced their campaigns opposing Graham. Recent polls show that a growing number of his constituents believe that the senator is doing a poor job. Graham has a whole year to set his face toward the people’s problems and review his political program to evade a ghastly failure at the U.S. Senate elections in 2026.

Is this a new trend now? ICE officers being hit by cars? 🚨2 more ICE Agents now hospitalized after another vehicle ramming attack in Arizona.The Democrat Party has marked federal agents for death and their followers are targeting them. pic.twitter.com/pq7pYhmkJe— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) October 24, 2025Here's AZ Family News on the incident: Law enforcement surrounded a home in Avondale after investigators said the two people inside rammed two ICE officers' car on Thursday morning. According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE officers tried to pull over a pickup truck driver and a passenger but they didn't stop around 8...

As the walls come down on the part of the White House that’s been synonymous with American first ladies for decades, Melania Trump has remained silent. The first lady has not publicly spoken about the demolition of the East Wing, which has served as the headquarters for presidential spouses since the Carter administration, even though its destruction has now upended her team’s office space and forced the halt of White House tours for the general public. Her office declined to comment when asked by CNN if she had a reaction to the gutting of the historic wing. Crews began work...

That annoying low-tire-pressure light could also be an intruder alert. Hackers have found another way into your car's computer system: where the rubber meets the road. Thanks to the TREAD Act, every new car since 2008 comes with a tire pressure monitoring system. It's what turns on that annoying low-pressure light we're all familiar with. By monitoring the the air pressure of each tire and alerting the driver when the pressure falls below a certain threshold, you car's TPMS makes you safer. It also makes you a bigger target for hackers. The problem is that TPMS uses unencrypted radio frequencies...

The first illicit production facility for weight loss medicine found in the UK has been dismantled. The discovery, in Northampton on Wednesday, led to the largest single seizure of trafficked weight loss drugs ever recorded by a law enforcement agency worldwide, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said. It said it seized tens of thousands of empty weight loss pens ready to be filled, raw chemical ingredients and more than 2,000 unlicensed Retatrutide and Tirzepatide pens due to be sent to customers. Andy Morling, head of MHRA's criminal enforcement unit, said: "These products are untested, unauthorised and potentially...

Who knew that Walmart, of all places, would prove the wisdom and justice of President Donald Trump’s economic policies? According to Bloomberg, the retailing giant has suspended all job offers to candidates whose employment with the chain would require a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas under rules implemented last month by the Trump administration. With 2,390 H-1B visa holders in its employ, Walmart would have had to shell out nearly $240 million had it hired those foreign workers under the new rules. “Walmart is committed to hiring and investing in the best talent to serve our customers, while remaining thoughtful...

Five people police say are part of the "South American Theft Group" – a Colombia theft group that police say are targeting Florida homes and businesses – were arrested Oct. 20 after a robbery was caught on police drone camera. Police say the group targeted Asian business owners. Now, the five suspects are on ICE detainers at the Osceola County Jail. What we know: Five people – Wendy Farias-Suarez, Johan Beltran-Prieto, Laura Pedraza-Sarmiento, Julio Lozano-Trujillo and Elkin Cubillos-Jimenez with the "South American Theft Group" – were charged by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office with burglary, grand theft and criminal mischief....

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Trump-appointed Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), just dropped a bombshell on national television, exposing over one BILLION dollars in fraudulent healthcare spending for illegal immigrants. Appearing on Mornings with Maria on Friday, Oz revealed that his agency uncovered billions of taxpayer dollars funneled to illegal aliens in Democrat-run states, a direct violation of federal law. “Maria, just in the last few months, in the few states that we’ve examined—less than half a dozen—we’ve identified more than a billion dollars, with a B, of federal tax dollars that have gone to illegal...

The Bible is selling out, Christian music is breaking charts, and millions are rediscovering what truly matters They told us faith was fading in America. That the old stories, the old institutions, the old Book — it was done. That people no longer needed the scriptures, the songs, the Sunday-morning rituals. But if you peer beneath the surface, if you look at the numbers creeping up behind the headlines, you’ll see something quite different: a quietly rising tide of spiritual engagement. The Bible: not just still alive — booming Here’s one part of the story: in the United States, sales...

We have no idea how the government shutdown, now in its fourth week and the second longest in history, will end, or how. But what is increasingly clear is how badly Democrats miscalculated on this one. Consider three bits of news from this week: First, the shutdown isn’t hurting Republicans. In fact, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that President Donald Trump’s approval rating has ticked up by two points to 42% since the shutdown started. Other polls find it unchanged. The Real Clear Politics average shows Trump’s disapproval at 52%, which is down a point from the day before the shutdown...