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The Senate committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday voted to refer former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci to be held in contempt. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a party-line, 8-5 vote, with two additional “no” votes by proxy, approved a resolution to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress following his hearing last week, during which the doctor invoked his Fifth Amendment rights 111 times and refused to answer a single question posed to him by the panel centered on the COVID-19 pandemic. “Holding a witness in contempt is a serious thing,...

MADISON, Wis.— Wisconsin non-profit Freedom Inc. bailed out over 30 protesters out of jail after they were arrested for taking over the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets before moving to the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Baldwin on Tuesday. As of 4:45 p.m., Freedom Inc. bailed out 32 protesters and said the goal is to bail out 50. News 3 Now spoke to a protester who said the city has wrongfully imprisoned these individuals and they are here to welcome them out with food and other resources. Police said protesters emptied dumpsters and trash cans in the intersection...

The man suspected of setting a fire that destroyed hundreds of Spokane homes and forced 60,000 people to evacuate was contacted by law enforcement last summer for two fires but never arrested, according to court documents. Detectives say Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was wearing the same green shirt, which says “Who needs luck, I have charm,” at one of last summer’s fires as the wind-driven Old Trails fire started Saturday on the West Plains that rapidly moved east, ravaging neighborhoods in northwest Spokane. Law enforcement contacted Farinacci shortly after the fire started Saturday and released him without charges. They later...

Arizona's largest county suffered a significant breach of its election data in the days before the 2020 presidential election when a self-described hacker foiled security and obtained 633,000 voter registration files but the Biden Justice Department and local prosecutors declined to bring charges even after the FBI got the suspect to confess, according to declassified documents made public Thursday by the White House. The scraping of Maricopa County's voter registration files was the most flagged security incident in a cyberintrusion log kept by U.S. spy agencies in the days around the Nov. 3, 2020 election, and it caused an extensive...

Milton Friedman said we can't have free immigration and a welfare state He was wrong Turns out that if you create pathways for illegal immigrants to vote, then actually, 100% of the time you INEVITABLY end up with both a welfare state and free immigration Because incentives determine actions Whichever politicians realize they can essentially use taxpayer dollars to fund welfare to import voters will exploit this hack ruthlessly 1. Offer welfare 2. Allow illegal immigration 3. Let illegal immigrants vote (they will 100% of the time vote for more welfare) 4. Win office 5. Raise taxes, offer more welfare,...

A Wake County lawmaker wants to prevent elementary school employees from dressing in ways that don't conform with their biological sex. State Rep. Erin Paré, R-Wake, in a post on her campaign Facebook page Monday night, floated the idea of a state law that would require sex-based professional attire for public-school employees. Mrs. Paré posted about the issue after hearing concerns from parents about the possibility of a transgender teacher in their southern Wake County elementary school, describing the teacher as “biological male, who dresses as a woman.” In a post Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter, Mrs. Paré added that...

A Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate was knocked unconscious during a profanity-laced beach confrontation captured on video days before he appeared in court on two felony terroristic threatening charges. The video opens with Hawaii Democratic congressional candidate and U.S. House candidate Kirill Basin approaching a group of beachgoers and telling one man, "Put your bag away, bro. Put your bag away." A woman then approached Basin as music by the Pixies played from a nearby speaker. Basin told the group, "I told him if he wants to go to the hospital, come here." The confrontation briefly appeared to cool when Basin...

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed what she calls the strongest law in America for blocking and punishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. The sweeping PROTECT Act restricts civil immigration arrests in courthouses, public schools, child-care centers, and health-care facilities unless agents have a judicial warrant. It also limits cooperation between state and local authorities and federal immigration officers. Healey did not hide the target. At the signing, the Democrat repeatedly attacked ICE, President Donald Trump, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller while promising that federal agents who violate state residents’ rights will face consequences. Her same-day...

Fox News Digital has confirmed that a key investigative panel in the Senate has obtained Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era cellphone. The cellphone was transferred from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. A spokesperson for the senator told Fox News Digital the subcommittee "obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s iPhone that was used during his time at HHS." Whether the panel has access to the phone remains unclear. The committee’s procurement of the phone, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, comes as the...

The demographic tide is changing. And it’s rising rapidly for Muslims. And Marxists. Momentum is with the Dark Side. This didn’t just happen. It was a deliberate plan. The schools and media didn’t just happen to be captured by anti-American forces groups. Mainline churches didn’t just happen to be watered down and rendered unrecognizable (or even made into hotbeds of apostasy). Corporate CEOs and their human resources minions didn’t just happen to go woke and woker. The nuclear family didn’t begin to deteriorate by accident. IQs, testosterone levels, sperm counts, and birth rates didn’t all decline simultaneously by happenstance. The...

Abdul El-Sayed is the latest Islamo-socialist terrorist-sympathizer star of the Democrat Party, after squeaking to a win in the Michigan Senate primary Tuesday. Although he underperformed his poll numbers and the predictions of his media boosters, the lockdown-loving health bureaucrat has accelerated the radical left’s conquest of the Democrat Party from within. If El-Sayed can pull off a victory in November in the Midwest, in the swingiest of swing states, what will stop a Marxist heading for the White House? This menacing hard-left takeover is disastrous for Democrats and frightening for America, but it is also a potential golden opportunity...

"If I have the gift of prophecy . . . but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Cor. 13:2). Love motivated God to communicate with fallen humanity. That must be your motivation too. The word prophecy as used in 1 Corinthians 13:2 is the ability to publicly proclaim God's truth accurately and authoritatively. It's a greater gift than tongues because tongues were given as a sign to unbelieving Israel in the first century (1 Cor. 14:21-22), whereas prophecy instructs and edifies believers throughout the centuries. Paul said, "one who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and...

The WNBA is a joke. It just is, sorry. The only way it'll survive is with NBA subsidies and more political drama. And that's why I love this idea from OutKick's Clay Travis. Introducing the most inclusive team in @wnba history: the Nashville Balls. A 100% trans organization — men finally breaking the glass ceiling in women’s sports! This is all, of course, in response to the Sophie Cunningham drama, which, again, is the only way this league survives: on drama.

A custom, American-made chicken coop has been installed at the historic Naval Observatory, the official residence of Vice President JD Vance. To respect the heritage of the site, the coop was designed to match the architectural elements of the historic facility, a spokesperson for the vice president told Fox News Digital. A source familiar with the project noted the coop was built at no cost to American taxpayers. The coop was crafted by Carolina Coops, an American-owned, family-operated small business that has spent the last 18 years handcrafting premium chicken coops in the U.S. Founded in 2008 by Matt and...

KEY POINTS Younger American churchgoers are twice as likely as older worshipers to desire more liturgy and structure in church services, according to Lifeway Research. The findings challenge common assumptions that younger believers prefer exclusively contemporary, informal worship styles. The data suggests a growing hunger among young Christians for traditional worship elements rooted in historic Christian practice. A new survey from Lifeway Research has uncovered a striking trend in American churches that may surprise many church leaders and cultural observers. Younger churchgoers across the United States are showing a marked preference for more liturgical and structured worship—at twice the rate...

In both Islam and communism, there is an “In” crowd and an “Out” crowd, and both ideologies have as their relentless goal destroying the “Out” crowd. In revealing the commonalities of the Reds and the Greens in the Red-Green Axis, we have elucidated their shared goals of violence, wealth redistribution, and inequality before the law. Here we explore their binary worldview. Both Islamic political systems, as developed in classical jurisprudence, and Marxist-Leninist communism organize the world into a permanent binary division. One domain is the legitimate, correctly ordered sphere; the other is the external sphere that remains incomplete, illegitimate, or...

Key Points Christians are called to be in the world but not of it, a principle that applies directly to social media engagement and digital communication. Every post, comment, and share reflects our witness for Christ and can either advance or hinder the Gospel message in the digital public square. Biblical discernment requires believers to pause and evaluate their online activity through the lens of Scripture before engaging with others on social platforms. In an age where a single click can broadcast our thoughts to the world, Christians face a unique challenge in maintaining their witness while engaging on social...

A growing anti-Muslim movement is gaining traction in Japan. When most people think of Japan, they don’t picture a country with a significant Islamic presence or a growing number of mosques. But the reality may surprise them. Japan has long been viewed as one of the few remaining countries willing to fiercely protect its national identity, traditions, and culture. What many of us didn’t realize was that the left had been quietly working its way in all along… just take a look at these numbers. East Asia Forum: Japan’s Muslim community has grown rapidly to around 420,000 people What Japan...

6 August 2026 The Transfiguration of the Lord Feast San Sisto Vecchio: the Old Church of Saint Sixtus II Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.(This rule is not followed in the United States, so two separate readings are shown here).First readingDaniel 7:9-10,13-14His robe was white as snowAs I watched:Thrones were set in placeand one of great age took his seat.His robe was white as snow,the hair of his head...

What if the current unrest in the country leads to a second American Civil War? How would that play out in the modern era? Let’s allow ourselves a daydream — or nightmare — about how it might go. Granted, there wouldn’t be battles like those that were fought in Gettysburg or Vicksburg, but it’s conceivable each side would come up with their own flag design, since symbols are essential. The Right might construct a “freedom” flag, which would stand in stark contrast to the flag of the Left: a raised fist decorated with small anarcho-feminist and transgender icons — with...