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Archaeologists excavating in the famous prehistoric Hohle Fels cave in Germany have uncovered two bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory. ‪‪The thumbnail-size carvings add to the existing ‬‬evidence that ice age humans had a sophisticated artistic sense 40,000 years ago...When the birds were found in 2025, they were lying just 5 feet (1.5 meters) from each other in a layer dating back 40,000 years, according to the statement. The sculptures bring the total number of bird figurines from Hohle Fels up to three; a small water bird was found there in 2001. Hohle Fels was occupied by early Homo sapiens...

"Obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls" (1 Pet. 1:9). Your present deliverance sets you free from the penalty and power of sin. In 1 Corinthians 1:18 Paul says that "the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" (emphasis added). That emphasizes the marvelous reality of the believer's present deliverance from sin. Peter stressed the same truth in 1 Peter 1:9, where he says that believers obtain as the outcome of their faith the salvation of their souls....

Earlier today, our team arrived at the office to find our Aftermath Traveling Memorial van had been broken into and vandalized. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time our van has been broken into and its windows smashed. This is the second time we’re experiencing this same vandalism — just within the last year. It’s frustrating, costly, and serves as a reminder that not everyone welcomes the life-saving message we bring to communities across Kansas. As disappointing as this incident was, it didn’t shake our resolve to continue speaking up for vulnerable women and preborn babies. We take the Aftermath Traveling...

Former NFL QB Sean Salisbury disagrees with Dan Orlovsky take on men getting pedicure.Dan Orlovsky has an uncanny habit of riling up the internet. The former NFL quarterback’s remarks on the stigma regarding male hygiene have recently made headlines. On a recent segment of ESPN’s Get Up, Orlovsky claimed that “muscular men” tend to avoid getting pedicures. Another former NFL quarterback quickly corrected Orlovsky. Sean Salisbury, who played for the Seahawks, the Colts, the Vikings, the Oilers and the Chargers during his playing days, called out Orlovsky. Love my guy [Dan Orlovsky], but he is absolutely wrong here. We...

Fauci's diary WASN'T leaked, stolen, or hacked. It wasn't even "private." @SecKennedy breaks down exactly how he uncovered it: “If you do something on a government server, it belongs to the government. He was keeping a diary for the book that he intended to write about his life. And at the end of his term, just before he was leaving, he emailed the entire diary to himself... And that's how we found it, through those emails. It's not a diary in the sense, like you said, that a teenage girl keeps a diary that's private and has a lock on...

Millions of Americans spend decades preparing for retirement, only to discover one of the biggest expenses isn’t housing, travel, or taxes. It’s healthcare.A new estimate from Fidelity suggests that a 65-year-old retiring today should expect to spend $185,500 on healthcare throughout retirement. That’s a 7.5% increase from last year and the steepest annual jump in more than a decade.Even more concerning, more than half of Americans approaching retirement don’t realize Medicare leaves them responsible for thousands of dollars in costs.Retirement Healthcare Costs Just Hit a New HighAccording to Fidelity’s 25th Annual Retiree Health Care Cost Estimate, a typical 65-year-old retiring...

Mother Jones on Dr. Anthony Fauci: The diary entries contain plenty of cringeworthy moments—Fauci congratulating himself on how famous he had become, for example, and basking in the attention of female celebrities like Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand. What they don’t contain—much to the dismay of Paul and Fauci’s other critics—is any kind of smoking gun proving that the public health leader deliberately misled the American people. I wonder what Mother Jones would consider a smoking gun. On February 9th, 2020, appearing on the Newt Gingrich podcast “Newt’s world,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said the idea that Covid-19 came from a...

Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. "(1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

“Squad” Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s husband, Conan Harris, is still involved with a real estate firm that locked down a controversial $2 billion deal for the development of a new courthouse in Massachusetts despite a key partner divesting from that company due to ethical concerns. Harris had been partners with John Barros in CoJo Real Estate, which was involved in clinching the winning bid for a 40-year lease to build a new courthouse in Springfield, Mass. On Wednesday, Barros, the interim executive director for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, announced he was divesting from the firm due to an ethics controversy....

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. James Martin to lead ‘LGBTQ Catholic history’ pilgrimage this fallHeterodox Father James Martin's Outreach group will make pilgrimage stops at 'important LGBTQ sites' in New York City in late September after traveling to Rome last year.The notoriously heterodox pro-LGBT Father James Martin, SJ, will lead his Outreach organization on an “LGBTQ Catholic history” pilgrimage in New York City at the end of September.The September 25-27 pilgrimage will seek “to bring together LGBTQ Catholics, allies and those who minister to them both in New York City and abroad” by praying at “important LGBTQ sites.” These “LGBTQ sites” include...

A man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after authorities say he pleaded guilty to sneaking into Canada with a loaded, prohibited handgun. Federal RCMP officers were notified by U.S. authorities on Sept. 11, 2025, about a man illegally crossing the border crossing near 183 Street and 0 Avenue in Surrey, B.C. Canadian border enforcement officers responded and arrested the man. Investigators identified him as Jaskaran Banth, who was carrying a loaded handgun later determined to have been stolen in Nevada, the federal RCMP said in a statement Thursday. Banth pleaded guilty this past May...

WASHINGTON – President Trump on Thursday unveiled a plan to give military veterans a priority on trucking jobs, cutting out illegal immigrants who “cannot read” road signs. “We’re going to make it as easy as possible for the veterans,” Trump said at an event at the White House. Flanked by two massive truck cabs, one a military green and the other blue with a large American eagle painted on it, the president praised veterans for having “a talent” for truck driving while blasting states that gave commercial driving licenses to illegal immigrants. “Radical left maniacs at the state level have...

New Documentary: "The Jihad from Within", 02:00:42I want to personally thank PragerU for helping us do something pretty unusual.My latest documentary, The Jihad from Within, is one of the most important investigations my team and I have ever produced.So when PragerU reached out and asked if there was anything they could do to help spread the word, I was thrilled to partner with them.Instead of keeping this special behind a paywall or limiting it to our own audience, we made the decision to release it for free in partnership with PragerU.Not because it benefits us financially. It doesn’t.But because this...

The number of births to Black women in the United States fell more sharply than for any other major racial or ethnic group in 2024, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result of skyrocketing abortions in recent years due to the expansion of the abortion pill, the black birth rate is reaching levels described as among the lowest on record. The CDC report, “Births: Final Data for 2024,” recorded 473,377 births to non-Hispanic Black women, a 4 percent decline from 491,494 in 2023. The general fertility rate for Black women dropped 5...

Western media are downplaying the numbers, continually saying a “few thousand.” However, local officials and eyewitnesses are describing the migrant invasion as something substantially more; over 50,000 more.As night fell, the horde of migrants continue to overwhelm the region of Cueta, a region of Spain in North Africa. The invasion force shows no signs of slowing down and the region is entirely overwhelmed. There are 80,000 Spanish residents trying to retain their safety against the arrival of 50,000 invading north-Africans.The video images from the region are jaw-dropping.(REUTERS) – […] A Guardia Civil spokesperson said earlier migrants were “massively entering from...

The Army, Navy and Space Force have completed the first test at sea of an experimental electronic warfare system designed to disrupt navigation data used by enemy precision weapons. The maritime version of “Hammer of the Gods” was tested off Southern California in mid-July during Project Convergence-Capstone 6, the Army’s largest experiment involving emerging battlefield technology. The military said the counter-positioning, navigation and timing system was successfully deployed, controlled and recovered during the test. The Army has not disclosed the system’s range, contractor, cost or anticipated fielding date. It also has not said whether the experiment disrupted live signals or...

Most humanoid robots share a single design assumption: that the human body is the template worth copying. Two legs, two arms, upright posture. The logic is intuitive. Factories, vehicles, and buildings were built for people, so machines that fit through the same doors and operate the same tools should slot right in. But the human body is not optimized for dangerous work. Bipedal robots are inherently unstable, requiring constant active computation just to remain upright. Lose power on a two-legged system and it topples. Put one on uneven terrain and the control problem multiplies. The robotics industry has responded with...

They had to chuck him out. A self-described “journalist” interrupted and berated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as he was touting his proposal to establish a new federal agency called the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Sam Husseini, an activist whose father was a Palestinian Christian, began shouting at Schumer (D-NY) about Israel, accusing him of supporting genocide. “What can be more corrupt than backing genocide?” Husseini screeched. “This is part of the same con with you and Trump trading off with each other, ‘Oh, he’s worse, no he’s worse.'” “You were put on notice in November of 2023 by the Center for...

About a dozen Democratic Socialists of America activists have publicly pledged to “support” and “defend” China amid an apparent push by the communist nation to court members of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s party. Friends of Socialist China, a London-based group, touts 952 signatories on its pledge to “support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism.”Eleven self-described DSA or DSA International Committee members are among those that “resolve to support, defend and build understanding of Chinese socialism,” The Post found.The pledge argues that “the global advance to socialism is indispensable if humanity is to...