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Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, a vulnerable Democrat running for re-election, plans to tap a longtime Republican and former mayor of a Phoenix suburb to serve as her running mate, according to two people familiar with the decision. John Giles, a former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., is expected to be announced in the coming days as Ms. Hobbs’s lieutenant governor nominee. Neither Ms. Hobbs nor her campaign would confirm the choice, and nothing is final until an announcement. But the apparent pick is a nod to bipartisanship in a campaign that will pit Ms. Hobbs, a low-key Democrat, against Representative...

Daily Readings from the USCCBAt that time Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us.” Matthew 15:21–23At first glance, this interaction is surprising. Yet Jesus is performing an act of love toward the Canaanite woman, while at the same time offering an important lesson to...

FIFTY LABORATORIES OF DEMOCRACY One of the most common misunderstandings about our Founding Fathers is that they intended for each state to be free to decide how big or small a government to have. This idea, taught for generations in the schools and regularly repeated by the press and political class, posits that the Founding Fathers were specific about the federal government, but they didn’t care at all how big each state, county, or local government became. They teach that each state was to be its own “laboratory of democracy,” free to be anything from libertarian to dictatorial, as each...

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"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Cor. 13:1). Love distinguishes true communication from useless chatter and meaningless noises. Paul begins his discourse on love by stating the futility of languages without love. The Corinthians were enamored with the showy spiritual gifts, apparently to the neglect of those they deemed less spectacular (see 1 Cor. 12:12-31). One of the gifts they prized most highly was tongues, which was the Spirit-given ability to declare God's truth in a language unknown to...

Fourteen people have been killed and 27 are injured after a wave of Russian strikes on the region surrounding Kyiv overnight, the capital's emergency services have said.

Andy Burnham is "looking into" the possibility of holding a public inquiry into the UK activities of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to victims minister Alex Davies-Jones. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Davies-Jones said that the prime minister had agreed to meet Epstein's victims. She said the government is also reviewing whether the alleged actions of former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed could also be part of an inquiry. Davies-Jones resigned from former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's government in May, later accusing his government of failing to listen to Epstein's survivors. She was reappointed as victims minister when...

Taylor Fresh Foods has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the former president of its Tennessee subsidiary, his wife and two others of orchestrating a yearslong fraud scheme that allegedly stole more than $32 million from the company. Taylor Fresh Foods filed the federal lawsuit at the beginning of June, 2026, accusing the former president of its Tennessee subsidiary, his wife and two others of orchestrating a yearslong fraud scheme that allegedly stole more than $32 million from the company. According to the complaint, Brian Thure served as president of Taylor Farms Tennessee from about 2012 until March 2026 and allegedly...

The sale of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) for $55bn (£41bn) to a group of buyers including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been finalised. The American company is known for making and publishing best-selling games such as EA FC, formerly known as Fifa, The Sims and Mass Effect. The investors, who include Affinity Partners - led by President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner - are taking EA private, meaning all of its public shares will be purchased and it will no longer be traded on a stock exchange. It is thought to be the largest leveraged buyout in...

An armed man, said to be creeping around and monitoring “security-planning activities,” was arrested Sunday with a pistol and ammunition outside Trump National Golf Course Los Angeles — just two days before the president’s visit to the very same location. Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, Calif., was taken into custody outside the Rancho Palos Verdes site by sheriff’s deputies after federal agents first spotted him lurking in the area, taking photos and videos, and monitoring security-planning activities, law enforcement said. When deputies assigned to the Lomita Sheriff’s Station first made contact with Taele, they determined he was being investigated...

Questions remain in western Pennsylvania after two young children were found inside a home with the bodies of two adults. The discovery was made Monday afternoon in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny County. Advertisement Police believe the 42-year-old and 31-year-old died on Friday. The two little girls, ages one and three, were checked out at a local hospital and then released to Allegheny County's Office of Children, Youth and Families. Police say there were no signs of trauma on the adults. The county medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death.

She’s gotta maple-leave! The lefty Canadian illegal immigrant who attacked a teen in patriotic clothing on a New Jersey boardwalk is getting the boot back to Canuck. A Texas immigration judge ordered Kaitlyn Tracey to be deported back to her home country Tuesday – before the teen slapper entered a guilty plea on an assault charge stemming from the Fourth of July weekend brawl at Point Pleasant boardwalk, a courtroom heard. Tracey, 33 – who attended a criminal court hearing in Toms River over the phone from a Texas ICE lockup – only copped to one count of simple assault,...

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Replacing the Cross with a Portrait of XiThe CCP is mandating the removal of thousands of crosses, icons, and sacramentals from Catholic churches and replacing them with portraits of former Chairman Mao Zedong and those of President Xi Jinping.While the Vatican is apparently counting the secret payoffs it receives from the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP is mandating the removal of thousands of crosses, icons, and sacramentals from Catholic churches and replacing them with portraits of former Chairman Mao Zedong and those of President Xi Jinping, which must be affixed above the pulpit and elsewhere. For example, in Anhui Province...

Adam Hamilton has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Kansas. Hamilton, a political outsider who works as a megachurch pastor and author, was selected as the nominee on Tuesday evening shortly after polls closed. GOP leaders are working to send incumbent Republican Roger Marshall back to the Senate from a state typically seen as a conservative stronghold, but currently has a Democrat in the governor's office. 1932 was the last time Democrats won a US Senate election in Kansas, but the state's current governor, Democrat Laura Kelly, won in 2018 and 2022. As results rolled in Tuesday...

Former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has hit back at Aaron Rodgers after the quarterback launched a scathing verbal assault on him on-air. Rodgers, who has long been a vaccine skeptic and was extremely outspoken about the Covid-19 pandemic, didn't hold back as he eviscerated Fauci in the wake of his decision to continuously plead the fifth amendment in a hostile senate hearing. Appearing on ESPN on Monday, Rodgers attacked Fauci in a 13-minute monologue, labeling the 85-year-old an 'absolute criminal' and an 'absolute coward'. On Tuesday, Fauci’s attorney, David Schertler, responded to Rodgers delivering a swift...

Jeanine John Taele, a 38-year-old resident of California, was apprehended on Monday outside the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. Law enforcement officials reported that Taele was found in possession of a concealed firearm while allegedly surveilling security operations in anticipation of President Donald Trump's visit to the venue.

119,511 views Aug 3, 2026 Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd gives an update on an Uber driver who was shot and killed by deputies after they say he rammed their patrol vehicles and racked a stolen gun. "We shot him a lot."............. Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. 11:52 VIDEO

If The Onion or the Babylon Bee wanted to spoof the absurdity of DEI — the woke ideology of “diversity, equity and inclusion” — they couldn’t have invented a character as unbelievable as Jason Arday. *** Born in 1985, in 2023 he became the youngest black man ever to hold a professorship at Cambridge University. Naturally, he had to overcome great adversity to do so. *** because Arday, the son of a Ghanaian immigrant to London, isn’t just black, he’s autistic and was nonverbal until the age of 11, according to the glowing media profiles he’s received. And he’s epileptic,...

Police arrested a Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate Aug. 1 after a violent altercation with another beachgoer at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei, Hawaii. Authorities charged 40-year-old Kirill Basin with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening after the altercation with a 61-year-old man, according to Hawaii News Now. Basin is running to unseat incumbent Democratic Rep. Jill Tokuda. Police said the incident began when Basin threatened the bystander, who had asked him to turn down his music, according to the outlet. Basin allegedly suggested he had a firearm and threatened to shoot the man’s wife. A physical altercation ensued, during which...