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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A planned celebration of an important Muslim holiday at a Grand Prairie water park has been canceled after backlash over religious discrimination. What we know: DFW Epic Eid was planned to be held on June 1st to celebrate Eid al-Adha, an important day of celebration in the Islamic calendar, at Epic Waters in Grand Prairie. Now, the private event will no longer take place. The City of Grand Prairie released the following statement to FOX 4 on Wednesday: "After further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid...

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., cautioned Republicans to be "very careful what you pray for" amid a Trump-backed effort by Republican South Carolina state lawmakers to redraw the state’s map — an effort that would target Clyburn, the lone Democratic member of the state’s U.S. House of Representatives. Deemed a "kingmaker" within the Democratic Party, Clyburn’s endorsement of then–presidential candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election was widely credited with helping Biden win the presidency. He has been in Congress for more than 30 years, but now faces uncertainty as the South Carolina legislature voted Wednesday to consider redrawing the state’s...

FRANKLY SPEAKING. By PAT FRANK. WASHINGTON| OF ALL the stories that have come out of Nazi Germany since the unhappy day that Hitler took power, the one that has caused more shivers to run up and down the spine of your correspondent was the news that the Nazis now practice euthanasia to eliminate from their super-state the ill and the aged. This practice isn’t directed against the Jews. It is directed against Hitler’s own people the last, of pure Aryan blood, and it is positive proof that when you deal with Hitler you must not regard him as a human...

On May 4, the organizers of the Alberta Independence Movement announced they had accrued a massive number of signatures, well in excess of the required number to submit their petition to trigger an independence referendum.They needed 177,732.🚨 BREAKING: 301,620 signatures have officially been announced for the Alberta independence petition.That is far beyond the required threshold to trigger the Alberta independence vote on October 19th.A massive day for the Alberta Independence movement. pic.twitter.com/RbeIDkNf7e— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) May 4, 2026Classically, it ain't over 'til it's over, and even getting the referendum on an October ballot is a dogfight.Just because you followed...

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt and his campaign have put out some brilliant ads as he competes against the failed Democrat incumbent Karen Bass and the far-left democrat socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman (and a host of also-rans), with some saying they are among the best commercials they’ve ever seen.There’s a new spot that debuted Sunday which shows the former reality star, whose house burned to the ground down in the disastrous Pacific Palisades fire in January 2025, that shows he’s got practical ideas to fix the failing city, he understands the pain of regular Angelenos who have seen...

It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored...The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy... Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored...The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world... Far from...

Sources: books, articles, papers, interviews, FOIA requests In the ongoing study of how effective handguns are when used as a defense against bears, this correspondent posted an article on AmmoLand showing the distribution of the number of shots fired vs the number of cases. The most common case was one shot fired, with the least common cases having the most shots fired. On examining the data, there is a significant difference noted among bear species.In cases involving brown bears, grizzly bears, Kodiak bears, (ursus arctos) more shots are fired per case.There are 109 total handgun-only cases involving Ursus arctos, of...

The West needs more mothers—with fathers—simply to sustain itself. The US birth rate is currently below 1.6 children per couple. (2.1 is needed to sustain the population).Women are delaying marriage. Many are not having children and putting their careers first. Almost thirty percent of Gen Z women identify as LGBTQ+. There is also a current trend that sees women deciding to have children without fathers.Over forty percent of births are paid for by Medicaid, which suggests that many are not just poor, but also single. One-quarter of American children are being raised in single-parent households. Divorce has become commonplace, as...

I'm not sure what's more of a clown show: The boy being allowed to take 1st in all these girls' track events, or a Fox News host calling him a "she." Host Brian Kilmeade referred correctly to the transgender high school athlete, AB Hernandez, as a male. But host Ainsley Earhardt then immediately and repeatedly referred to Hernandez as "she." The segment talked about the importance of saving girls' sports ... while accepting the delusion that boys can be called "she." Pick a lane, Fox News!

The rise of artificial intelligence was supposed to change how we work, shop, search and communicate. Few imagined it would also begin reshaping how young people pray, seek wisdom and understand God. Yet that is exactly where society now finds itself. A growing number of young Christians are no longer just using AI to summarize homework assignments or generate social media captions -- they are turning to it for spiritual counsel, moral guidance and even emotional reassurance once sought from pastors, parents or Scripture itself. And the numbers are startling. New research from the Barna Group found that nearly one-third...

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten is warning of a potential gerrymandering “nightmare” for Democrats at November’s midterm elections. Enten appeared on CNN on Sunday to discuss the impact a redistricting battle playing out across the country could have on national election results. Last week, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan. The court ruled 4-3 that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements by placing the amendment on the ballot to authorize mid-decade redistricting.

The United States is experiencing a quiet but profound shift in spiritual leadership—one that is reshaping who leads congregations, how they lead, and whether many churches will have leaders at all. Across denominations, the data points in one direction: fewer people are entering pastoral ministry, more are leaving it, and those who remain are carrying heavier emotional, financial, and cultural burdens than ever before. At the same time, the face of leadership is changing, with women now representing an all-time high share of clergy in the United States, which for many conservatives shows a much deeper theological and institutional rupture....

According to prosecutors, Morens, a former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, used personal email accounts to dodge FOIA, deleted records, and sought to circumvent federal records requirements. In one message about communications about Covid research, he allegedly wrote: “I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I’m FOIA’d but before the search starts. … Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to my Gmail.” If true, his actions were egregious and wrong, and accountability should be both proportional and consistent with previous cases of records...

Days before Donald Trump is scheduled to visit mainland China, a group of mostly Democrat senators reportedly is urging the president to move ahead with a long-delayed $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan.The bipartisan group pressed Trump in a Friday letter to formally notify Congress of the major arms sale ahead of his summit this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping, warning that U.S. support for Taiwan "is not up for negotiation," The New York Times reported. The senators argued Taiwan has already demonstrated its commitment to self-defense after lawmakers in Taipei approved a massive $25 billion special defense budget...

Fulton County, Georgia — the epicenter of so many lingering questions about the 2020 presidential election — has a new problem on its hands. On May 4, 2026, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a 27-page motion to quash in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia asking a federal judge to quash a grand jury subpoena demanding the personal identifying information of thousands of county election workers and volunteers who helped administer the November 2020 General Election. The original subpoena was issued under seal on April 17, 2026, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office...

Guests onboard Disney Cruise Line’s all-new Disney Adventure learned their four-night sailing embarking from Singapore was canceled — mere hours after they already boarded the ship. On Thursday, May 7, after guests boarded, settled in and started their vacation, the captain of the ship announced that there were technical issues and guests were to wait for further information. A Reddit user who was on the cruise said that they were told they “will set sail soon.” “Midnight now. We’ve been waiting here since 2 p.m., and they have no update for us,” they wrote in an update in the comments....

Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led "Election Integrity Group" that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections. Furthermore, Marc Elias, a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record, is also involved. This is the same disgusting individual who was responsible for the fake Russia dossier from a foreign nation to meddle in the 2016 Election, which I won in historic fashion. The Democrats are totally unhinged and we will not allow them to threaten the...

Washington — President Trump said in a phone interview with CBS News Monday morning that he aims to suspend the federal gas tax "for a period of time." "I think it's a great idea," the president said. "Yup, we're going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we'll let it phase back in." Gas prices have soared over 50% since the start of the Iran war on Feb. 28, hitting a high of over $4.52 on Sunday, according to AAA. Analysts say the prices are likely to remain high with Iran...

Starship Probably Isn't Launching May 15th... Here's Why | 6:39Ellie in Space | 224K subscribers | 40,749 views | May 10, 2026

It starts with the lamentation of their women: Things are going badly on redistricting, and Democrats are losing it. But it’s more than that. They’ve got themselves into a position — which began with Barack Obama’s hollowing out of the party over a decade ago — in which they can’t afford to lose the next couple of elections, even as their position erodes. Due to an “accidental error” in the 2020 census, blue states got more seats in the House — and more electoral votes — than they were entitled to. When that “error” is fixed, the situation will be...