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🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (8/4/26)[Prayer]Personalities1 Samuel 28:3-25 Saul and the Medium at Endor 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land. 4 The Philistines assembled and came and set up camp at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and set up camp at Gilboa. 5 When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid; terror filled his heart. 6 He inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him by dreams or Urim...

Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling.

• The original goal of Trump's peace plan was not to relocate Hamas's arsenal. It was to eliminate it permanently. • Weapons stored in warehouses remain weapons that function. Explosives stored today can be easily recovered tomorrow. Rocket factories that are preserved can resume production. Tunnels that are mapped rather than destroyed can be used again. • The issue has never been where Hamas keeps its weapons. The issue has always been Hamas having access them. • Transferring weapons from one Palestinian group to another is not demilitarization. • Even more disturbing is the new deal's assertion that "no weapons...

Outkick founder Clay Travis on Monday challenged the defending Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) champions, the Las Vegas Aces, to play a boys’ high school basketball team, offering to pay the winners $10 million. This offer significantly increases the $1 million wager Travis initially proposed in 2023, which was rejected by the Aces. “Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state title team of my choice,” Travis posted on X Monday. “If the Aces beat my team, I will...

4 August 2026 Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest on Tuesday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. John Vianney Parish, Johnstown PA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 30:1-2,12-15,18-22Your wound is incurable but I will heal youThe word addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord: the Lord, the God of Israel says this: Write all the words I have spoken to you in a book.Yes, the Lord says this:Your wound is incurable,your injury past healing.There is no one to care for your sore,no medicine to make...

Inside Elections 2026 Midterm Forecast House: 🔴 Republicans: 215 🔵 Democrats: 206 🟡 Tossup: 14 Senate: 🔴 Republicans: 52 🔵 Democrats: 45 🟡 Tossup: 3 Swing States: Maine: 🔴 Tilt R Michigan: 🟡 Tossup Georgia: 🟡 Tossup North Carolina: 🟡 Tossup New Hampshire: 🔵 Tilt D

Hollywood pulled out all the stops for “The Odyssey” – They relied heavily on director Christopher Nolan’s built-in and generally pretentious audience to drive early box office revenues. The hype machine was running non-stop for months before the release. The distributor’s focused heavily on IMAX ticket sales, which cost more than double a normal theater ticket. They attempted to hide the woke content of the film from the public for as long as possible (an ancient Greek epic with no Greeks, featuring black, Asian, Hispanic and trans actors with a story that deconstructs the hero’s journey of Odysseus, making him...

The farther today's Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers—and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism. It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists”—once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists. With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists. How about declaring capitalism a failure? All the socialists now do that—and even Democratic California governor...

A 34-year-old UFC fighter died of a heart attack on Monday. Flyweight fighter Allan Nascimento reportedly died in his sleep. The São Paulo native would have turned 35 this September, ESPN Brazil reported. "This morning, Monday, August 3rd, our beloved flyweight fighter, Allan Nascimento, was found unresponsive after suffering an apparent heart attack in his sleep. Despite the efforts of the responding medical team, he was pronounced deceased at the scene," the UFC said on Monday. "Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with Allan's family, friends, teammates, and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time," the UFC said. This morning,...

A notorious Iran-linked hacker group was likely behind the recent attacks on dozens of water systems across the US — and the shadowy cyber-soldiers may not be done with their assault, experts warned. The self-proclaimed “Cyberav3ngers” group appeared to carry out the attacks which hit seven states in recent months, according to cybersecurity company Tenable, which told The Post the devious group began posting on the dark web about plans to hit the US within weeks of war breaking out with Iran. “We listened or observed them kind of declaring that they were going to start targeting US Water infrastructure...

The platform and policies of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are presented as bold, modern solutions to the economic challenges facing Americans today. But in reality, their ideas are not new. Their central complaint—wealth inequality—has echoed through political movements for centuries. Their rallying cry for the “working man,” their insistence that capitalism is inherently exploitative, and their promise that government redistribution will create fairness are all familiar themes in political history. The DSA frames its agenda as a moral correction to the greed of capitalism, but it is simply the latest iteration of a very old argument. The DSA...

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An Alaska nurse hired to serve as a surrogate for a couple in California is desperately trying to save their unborn baby's life after they demanded an abortion. McKenna West, a single mother of two young children, applied to Connecticut-based Worldwide Surrogacy Specialist in LLC last year and received a preliminary approval based on her medical history, Live Action reports. She was then shown the profile of a couple whom she felt would be a 'good match' for her and she met on Zoom with the couple, only referred to in court documents as AB and CD.

@PolitlcsUK 🚨 BREAKING: A small boat carrying around 160 migrants has caught fire in the English Channel A huge rescue operation is underway with 11 Border vessels and lifeboats in attendance

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A deeply unpopular Republican president, high gas prices, a seemingly endless war against Iran that has little popular support. Many factors in the current U.S. political climate should be favorable to Democrats. Instead, the Democratic Party is left with much hand-wringing ahead of November's midterm elections and growing calls for the party's executive leader to step down. One of the people voicing those calls is David Hogg, a gun violence prevention advocate who previously served as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. He now runs Leaders We Deserve, a group to elect young progressive leaders to Congress and state...

Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71 Prominent Palestinian activist spouting rhetoric used by Hitler to demonize German Jews. susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa Jul 25, 2026 The way .. keep boasting about the extraordinary power they wield reminds me of how they also boasted and took credit for Germany’s defeat in the First World War that culminated in the Treaty of Versailles and led to the rise of extreme anti-Jewish sentiment. Readers added context. German Jews fought loyally for Germany in WWI and did not boast about or take credit for its defeat; the post distorts...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint John Vianney, PriestHe summoned the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand. It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.” Then his disciples approached and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?” Matthew 15:10–12Jesus’ words would have stunned His Jewish listeners because He challenged deeply rooted religious beliefs about purity and impurity. He was not denying the value of external practices when they are rightly understood and ordered....

Michigan will offer the country its clearest gauge yet on the direction of the Democratic Party, as primary voters in the battleground state choose between a progressive standard-bearer and an establishment-backed candidate. Although there have been similar contests around the country, this one will hold extra weight because Michigan is a key state in presidential races. Abdul El-Sayed, backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is up against four-term Rep. Haley Stevens, supported by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Democratic and Republican voters in Michigan are also deciding on their parties’ nominees to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In Kansas, Missouri,...