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The Government Accountability Office found Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency inflated the $110 billion it said it saved the federal government...The GAO report was requested in June last year by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine may exclude Christian schools from public funding if they refuse to comply with the state’s gender- and sexuality-related nondiscrimination laws, Catholic World Report reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on July 2 denied an injunction sought by St. Dominic Academy in the Diocese of Portland, which had objected to requirements that it facilitate student “gender transitions” and compel staff to use opposite-sex pronouns. A similar suit by Bangor’s Crosspoint Church, which runs a K–12 Christian school, was partly combined into the ruling. The court held that “combatting sexual-orientation...

Born during the Roman Empire's consolidation, Titus Flavius Domitianus was the youngest son of Emperor Vespasian and brother to Titus. As The People Profiles explores, their career included notable military campaigns and a dramatic rise to power during the turbulent Year of the Four Emperors. Emperor Domitian - Rome's Tragic Tyrant Documentary | 55:45 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 185,137 views | April 10, 2024

I'm a cardiologist. For my entire career I've told patients arterial stiffness can only be slowed, never undone. I may have been wrong — and I'm glad. Something recent was framed as a skincare story. It isn't. For the first time, scientists erased a form of damage considered permanent since the 1980s — in a human artery. Sugar reacts with proteins the way heat browns bread, leaving CML (Nε-carboxymethyllysine), the most abundant advanced glycation end-product. It welds onto collagen and elastin in arteries, skin, and the eye lens. Arteries stiffen. CML binds RAGE (receptor for advanced glycation end-products), fueling chronic...

Beloved, This brief You Tube video by Greg is absolutely incredible! I had to share it! Be sure to check it out, share it, and follow Greg. O how the last days church needs to hear this! Rise up church of God in Spirit and Truth! Maranatha ☝️ Col. 1:18☝️

Tracing the rise of the Flavian dynasty, this documentary explores the political climate of a transforming Rome. It examines the military career of a future emperor during the tumultuous Jewish Revolt. Titus - The Good Emperor Documentary | 1:10:49 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 643,007 views | June 14, 2023

An online debate about the cost of food has erupted among GOP conservatives after Andrew Kolvet’s viral tweet regarding a college student’s complaint that “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” There was no shortage of feedback. Pundit Marc Thiessen encouraged students to economize like he did as a young person and to lean into prepaid cafeteria meals. This prompted an acidic reply from Vice President JD Vance, who posted on X, “If you’ve ever met (Thiessen) in person, it’s quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito.”

First of all, you should watch the entire episode of Fly Out Day with President Donald Trump. It was a very interesting 30-plus minutes. What Trump told us. Trump said GOP voters are “very angry” with congressional Republicans, and he declined to back Senate Majority Leader John Thune for another term as the top Senate Republican. Trump also said he thinks he could do business with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, an eye-opening remark for top House Republicans. During his appearance on Fly Out Day – one of our longest and newsiest episodes this season – Trump spoke expansively about...

Russia has attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 21 people, as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said interceptors "could have saved lives". Kyiv and the surrounding region experienced the deadliest strikes it had seen this year overnight, with 17 people reported dead. Attacks in Kharkiv and Donetsk also killed one and three people respectively. Ukraine, who has consistently urged allies for more US-made Patriot missile interceptors to defend against Russian ballistics, has not reported intercepting any of the missiles in the overnight attack. Zelensky added delays in receiving anti-ballistic systems from partners leads to "horrific casualties and...

James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate from Texas, headlined an LGBTQ festival that featured "the absolute cutest & youngest of our drag performers," an 11-year-old boy "drag queen" who goes by the stage name Kween Kee Kee. Taylor PRIDE, a group in the town of Taylor, Texas, held the June 26, 2021, event to raise money to help "rural LGBTQ communities." The Pride Month festivities included a series of pro-LGBTQ speakers, live music, a "drag story hour," and adult drag performers such as Brianna Brinxx and the provocatively named Sedonya Face. Talarico and Kween Kee Kee, a...

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) could quit his bid to stay in Congress “by the end of this week,” sources behind the scenes have predicted to Axios. The scandal-plagued Miller, 43, has been locked in a contentious, headline-making divorce rife with domestic abuse allegations from Emily Moreno, whose father is Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). His backers insisted to Axios that Miller — who just plowed $1 million into his re-election bid — isn’t going anywhere precisely because he is innocent. “He’s really worried about what his daughter is going to think when she gets older,” one colleague told the outlet, while...

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a joint defence agreement, saying an attack on one of them would be seen as an attack on all three. The pact was announced at a meeting between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Saudi city of Mecca. The three countries have been looking to strengthen security ties as the war between the US and Iran has drawn in Saudi Arabia and disrupted maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial oil shipping channel, and the Red Sea. Saudi...

Tracing a journey from a minor equestrian family to the pinnacle of Roman power, this documentary explores the career of the future Emperor Vespasian. Follow the path through early military service in Britain and political challenges during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Vespasian - The General Who Became Emperor Documentary | 1:06:04 The People Profiles | 1.66M subscribers | 275,077 views | April 21, 2023

Scientists from the Beijing Institute of Technology have revealed a colloidal quantum dot (CQD)-based infrared-to-visible upconverter that transforms the infrared spectrum into full color, allowing people to ‘see’ the infrared in the visible light spectrum. The research team behind the novel invention said their upconverter can be used in eyeglasses to improve human vision and for augmented reality (AR) applications. They also reported a successful implantation of an upconverter in mice, opening the possibility of an implantable photoreceptor to repair or improve vision in human eyes. Attempts to Convert Infrared to Full Color Face Limitations In a published study detailing...

A surrogate-born child of a foreign national receives a birth certificate, SS number, and passport at birth. At age 21, he can petition for green cards for his family, turning one commissioned pregnancy into chain migration for an entire family, at a fraction of the cost of the half-million-dollar EB-5 investor visa. Children with American passports who are raised under Chinese Communist Party rule can vote as adults in elections, join our military, work in sensitive research, and even run for president. Beijing exploits every vulnerability American citizenship offers, whether the parents intend it or not. Why would it ignore...

In a moment that surprised approximately no one, President Donald Trump recently complained that oil companies are making too much money, and they ought to give some of it back. Left unsaid, of course, is that oil companies are making money because of increased prices for the product they sell. Those increased prices are a direct result of a conflict that the companies did not start and almost certainly would rather not have. This follows on the president’s order to the Justice Department in June to investigate big oil companies for not bringing gasoline prices down fast enough, as crude...

Both nonfarm payroll employment (-23,000) and the unemployment rate (4.1 percent) changed little in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment declined in local government education and retail trade. Employment continued to trend up in health care. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note.

The Illinois government has passed Senate Bill 2756 into law. The bill reforms the limitations on what firearms may be legally used for hunting deer in Illinois. The previous limitations allow centerfire rifles to be used if they are limited to one shot. Bill SB2756 passed the Senate third reading on April 15, 2026. It passed the House at third reading on May 21, 2026. Democratic Governor Pritzker approved the bill on July 24, 2026, now known as Public Act 104-0627. Beginning January 1, 2027, Illinois deer hunters will no longer be limited to single-shot centerfire rifles. Public Act 104-0627...

THY WILL BE DONE SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, the Christian pilgrim life is a life of full surrender to the will of Almighty God, but in doing so we will find true liberty and freedom in Jesus. The surrendered heart is the abiding liberated heart, where the internal peace of Almighty God reigns. As God faithfully disciples His children, He lovingly leads them through seasons of joy, burdens, testing, and refining. Though the fires of life may be difficult, they are never without purpose. Our Heavenly Father is continually working all things together for our good, shaping us into the likeness...

Being a Nazi not enough to be disqualified, ..[if] he has a chance of winning... Mamdani . .., a direct attack on Jews for having the temerity to think of acting in their own interests or opposing genocidal Hamas supporters who want to see their beloved terrorists finish job Hitler started... Abdul El-Sayed won a narrow victory over Rep. Haley Stevens.. was much closer than the blowout polls had suggested, but that is scant comfort .. described as the “most antisemitic US Senate candidate in America" .. DSA.. he fully embraces their anti-Jew and pro-jihadist agenda .., endorsed the genocidal...