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Faith FactsAuthor Preston Sprinkle, raised in a complementarian tradition, re-examined Scripture regarding women in church leadershipSprinkle concluded that biblical arguments against women in leadership positions did not align with the full witness of ScriptureThe theologian discovered numerous examples of faithful, courageous women serving in significant roles throughout the BibleA well-known Christian author and theologian has sparked conversation in conservative Christian circles after publicly explaining his shift on the controversial topic of women in church leadership. Preston Sprinkle, who was raised in a church environment that taught complementarianism—the belief that leadership roles should be reserved for men—has shared his journey of...

Brandon Magni says when he asked for a forfeit, he was told he could forfeit himself or call the policeThe travel baseball industry was rocked over the Memorial Day weekend by yet another shocking incident in what is shaping up to be one of the ugliest on record for youth baseball. Did an Oklahoma 11U baseball coach order his pitcher to hit an opponent? Was that boy then ordered to throw a fastball at the opposing team's dugout? Those are the accusations being thrown around by a coach out of Nebraska who says his dugout was targeted at a...

Former President Joe Biden sued the Department of Justice late Tuesday to block the release of dozens of hours of audio connected to a now-shuttered investigation into his handling of classified documents. At issue: Seventy hours of audio recordings and transcripts dating back to 2017, which are records of conversations between the former president and Mark Zwonitzer, an author who worked with Biden on a memoir about the death of his son, Beau. The records were obtained by the Justice Department by then-Special Counsel Robert Hur, who was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2023 to investigate Biden.

Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a scathing dissent Tuesday as the Supreme Court refused to let Florida sue California and Washington over their lawless practice of handing out commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens who cannot read English road signs. The Court denied Florida’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint in the original jurisdiction case, leaving the state with “nowhere else to bring” its claims, Thomas wrote. He was joined by Justice Samuel Alito. This decision comes after the horrific August 12, 2025, crash on the Florida Turnpike. Illegal alien Harjinder Singh, an Indian national who entered the...

NASA has unveiled plans to construct a $20 billion moon base by 2032, giving humans their first permanent outpost on another celestial body. But what will this 'city' on our lunar satellite look like? The lunar outpost will initially be fairly basic, using a simple collapsible structure carried all the way from Earth. However, as NASA's presence becomes more permanent, the small camp will soon expand into a sprawling modular metropolis. Dr Simeon Barber, a lunar scientist from the Open University, told the Daily Mail that Antarctic research stations are a good comparison for NASA's moon base. Just like a...

Findings by academic researchers suggest that hyperscalers' AI data centers contribute to local warming, but not everyone agrees. Findings of a new study conducted by a group of academics from around the globe have revealed that land surface temperature (LST) increases by 2°C (3.6°F) on average after the start of operations of an AI data center, an effect detectable up to an estimated 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away. The study, The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world, was conducted by a dozen experts from leading universities in the UK, Singapore, France,...

‘Revolutionary America’ Coming to Theaters from Fathom Entertainment May 31 – June 2 HILLSDALE, Mich. and DENVER, Colo. — April 17, 2026 — “Revolutionary America,” produced by Hillsdale Studios and distributed by Fathom Entertainment, the leading specialty distributor of content to theatrical partners worldwide, is Hillsdale College’s first feature-length documentary. Narrated by Tom Selleck, the film explores the Revolution through the experience of Americans between 1763-1791, bringing into focus the political principles that animated their fight for independence and self-government, as the Founding Fathers risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” in a fight for liberty that would shape a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will meet with his Cabinet on Wednesday at a precarious moment for talks aimed at ending the war with Iran, just days after insisting that his administration and Tehran had “largely negotiated” a settlement but with the negotiations still in a state of flux. As he prepares to huddle with his top aides, Trump is projecting confidence that he's closing in on a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide him a credible argument that Iran’s nuclear capability has been diminished enough to declare victory, winding down a conflict that's been...

WASHINGTON—President Trump and Democrats rarely find themselves in alignment. Yet both sides wanted the same outcome in Tuesday’s Texas Senate primary runoff election. Ken Paxton’s trouncing of incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican runoff represents Trump’s latest triumph in maintaining his grip on his MAGA base after he similarly ousted rivals in Indiana, Louisiana and Kentucky. But to the delight of Democrats, the president’s decision to make an 11th-hour endorsement of Paxton could put the Senate seat in play for James Talarico after decades of Democratic futility in the Lone Star State.

John Wilson’s Varsity Blues fight shows how quickly prosecutors, media outrage, and public narratives can bury facts beneath the presumption of guilt. Most Americans assume the justice system only comes crashing into your life if you clearly did something wrong. That is part of what makes the story of John Wilson so unsettling. Wilson was a successful businessman, philanthropist, husband, and father … with no criminal record. Then, almost overnight, he found himself at the center of one of the biggest true crime sagas in America: Operation Varsity Blues. The case exploded across headlines worldwide because it had everything cable...

What you need to know about Trump and sanctuary cities Trump administration considers plans to halt immigration and customs processing at airports in Democratic Party-run cities Travel and trade could face disruption with the suspension of international passenger and cargo arrivals Airlines, tourism groups, and even some administration figures warn the move would severely harm the economy The Trump administration is "drawing up plans" to halt immigration and customs processing at so-called "sanctuary cities," US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has said. The cities, which are all run by Democrats, have refused to work with the White House in its...

Donald Trump loves the words sleazebag and scumball, so much so that he’s surrounded himself with the very definition of those two offensive terms. And it’s hard to be more offensive than Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, unless you’re Donald Trump, of course. Last night, Paxton, impeached, indicted, accused of bribery, and credibly alleged to have used the Texas Attorney General’s office to benefit a donor who was simultaneously employing the woman he was having an affair with, won the Republican Senate primary in Texas by a landslide.

Department of Homeland Security leader Markwayne Mullin is desperately trying to get his wife, Christie Mullin, hired onto DHS's payroll, four insiders have told the Daily Mail. Mullin, 48, is accused of trying to obtain government employee status for his wife, 47, so that he does not have to pay for her airline ticket when she flies, according to sources familiar with DHS and ICE. The secretary frequently travels on his $70 million government jet to fly home to his family in Oklahoma, often leaving on Thursday mornings and not returning until the following Monday afternoon, multiple DHS insiders said....

Albert Einstein wrote the following in a letter to his son in the 1950s about American politics: "There’s something amazing about America’s democracy, it’s got a gyroscope, and just when you think it’s going to go off the cliff, it rights itself."Some 70 years later, we see that gyroscope is once again at work. As the communists who cosplay as Democrats continue to push "woke" codswallop down the throats of any American still too daft to recognize cultural Marxism, even as a bearded lady showers next to their tween daughter, many Americans living on the West Coast — including those...

To reach the church, we walked single file. The path was narrow. On either side of us were landmines. The Burma military had bombed the church in 2023. The roof was mostly gone. The walls were cracked and scorched. But the building was still standing, and so the people of this village in Karenni State still used the church. Not because it was safe but because it was theirs, and because there was nowhere else to go. On this day, myself and the Karenni demining team were going there to meet some survivors of landmines - the Karenni leadership had...

Police officers in New Mexico were recording as they spoke with a witness who allegedly had dinner with William Neil McCasland the night before he vanished without a trace on February 27. The bodycam footage, obtained by the Law&Crime Network, captured a phone call with an unidentified woman who said McCasland met with her and members of the US Space Force at a restaurant in Albuquerque around 6pm local time. 'I was shocked this morning when I saw the alert because what I noticed Thursday evening [February 26] is he wasn't his usual self. He was kind of spacey and...

"Colorado and California are moving towards exempting open-source operating systems and software distributions from proposed operating-system-level age verification laws, offering a significant regulatory win for the Linux and broader open-source ecosystem. Colorado’s bill, which has already reached its “Final Act” stage, explicitly excludes software distributed under licences that allow users to copy, redistribute, and modify software without platform-imposed technical or contractual restrictions. The law is scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2028." Snip... "The proposed California language states that an “operating system provider” does not include entities distributing software under licences permitting users to “copy, redistribute, and modify” the...

Russia is stuck on the Ukrainian battlefield and lashing out with massive strikes on Kyiv. The growing fear in European capitals is that President Vladimir Putin will try next to reshuffle the cards by expanding the conflict to Europe. In recent weeks, Russia has made increasingly bellicose statements against the Baltic states. It has threatened to bomb “decision-making centers” in Latvia after accusing the country of hosting Ukrainian drone operators, an allegation denied by the Latvian authorities. Air-raid alarms were sounded in Lithuania last week, forcing the government into a bunker, after suspected Russian drones approached its airspace from Belarus....

Gingrich said the impeachment of Bill Clinton argued that the proceedings became overly focused on sex instead of perjury and obstruction of justice. Gingrich said the effort was undermined because it became publicly associated with Monica Lewinsky rather than the broader legal issues surrounding sworn testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. Ken Starr's investigation later expanded to include allegations surrounding Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky and testimony tied to the Paula Jones lawsuit. The findings led House Republicans to impeach Clinton making him the second president in U.S. history to be impeached. "Is he allowed to commit felonies?'" Gingrich...

On a warm night last May, Nikhil Somwanshi sent his roommate a WhatsApp message asking him to tell his family that what was about to happen next was an accident. The message triggered a frantic search for the 24-year-old machine-learning engineer in southeast Bengaluru Somwanshi was a star student from a small village in the farm-dotted countryside. 9mths earlier he’d landed a coveted job at Ola Krutrim, an artificial intelligence startup worth $1 billion. Getting a job at Krutrim was a big deal for Somwanshi and his community. Banners went up in his village, congratulating him. He sent funds from...