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Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule, scheduled to go into effect November 18, that will change the organ donation process. According to HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy: [W]e are holding failing organizations accountable, strengthening patient safeguards, and helping high-performing organizations reach more patients. We will honor donors’ gifts by demanding results. Tens of thousands of organ donation operations happen each year in the United States, for everything from hearts to kidneys to corneas. Before this rule change, a clear line had been drawn between the two teams of doctors involved in organ donation. Doctors working...

"By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith" (Heb. 11:7). True faith works. When James said, "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26), he stated a principle that's consistent throughout Scripture: True faith always produces righteous works. The people described in Hebrews 11 made their genuine faith known in the things they did. The same applies to us today. Paul said, "The grace of God has appeared,...

On Sunday, November 1, 2026, a Learjet 60 (N722BD) flying from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas fell from 35,000 feet inside a thunderstorm over South Florida and crashed near Greenacres in Palm Beach County. All nine people on board were killed. Seventeen other jets were in the same stormy sky above 25,000 feet that afternoon, and all of them landed. Under our last video, many of you said the others simply went around the storm. We checked every one on the real NEXRAD weather radar: most came close to the same storms, and two flew straight through...

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Canadian Christian apologist Wesley Huff has admitted to “problematic work” and not properly citing others’ ideas in an academic paper he wrote as a seminary student in 2016. But he also accused the biblical scholar who called him out for plagiarizing a Florida pastor of having an “agenda.” The matter has caused a stir online about what defines plagiarism and when it occurs. Some said Huff, vice president of Apologetics Canada, has also plagiarized other authors. On Nov. 10, Huff told his one million YouTube subscribers that he regrets his early attempts at academic research. “If you want to cancel...

In October 2024, a woman entered the emergency room in North Texas. She was presenting with extreme fatigue, pain, and heavy bleeding. Just two days prior, she had an ultrasound confirming a viable pregnancy with a heartbeat. She was happy to hear about her prenatal child’s health. But in the emergency room, doctors told her that she was going through an inevitable miscarriage. A police investigation revealed that the father of the woman’s child was Justin Anthony Banta. He pleaded with her to get an abortion, which she refused. Afterwards, he invited her to a coffee shop where he offered...

The world’s fertility crisis is more severe than is commonly understood. Last year, humanity’s total fertility level dropped below what demographers call the replacement rate—that is, the average number of children that a woman must have to keep a population constant over the long run. This has never happened before. There have been periods when the human population declined because of wars or epidemics, such as the Black Death, in the fourteenth century, or the diseases brought by Europeans to the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. But now, simply as a function of their choices, humans will see...

Reflection Date: November 11, 2026 | Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop Daily Readings: Titus 3:1-7; Luke 17:11-19 Children of God: November 11 is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours, France. He was born around the year 316 in what is now Hungary, and he grew up in a family connected to the Roman military. As a young soldier serving in Gaul, present-day France, he encountered a poor man shivering in the cold and shared his military cloak with him by cutting it in half. According to tradition, Martin later dreamed of Christ wearing the portion of...

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Vivek Ramaswamy, once a prominent MAGA voice with a large online following, has gone silent and off social media after losing the Ohio governor’s race to Democrat Amy Acton by nearly eight points. Following the defeat, Ramaswamy appears to have left both the state and country, signaling a humiliating retreat for the Trump-backed candidate. Ramaswamy’s Online Silence and Flight Known for his frequent and fervent online presence, especially on X where he amassed 3.5 million followers, Ramaswamy has now deactivated active management of his accounts. His profile bios on X and Instagram carry the disclaimer: “Account is not actively managed.”...

At first, I thought NSW Liberal Senator Jess Collins was being frivolous when she asked questions in a Senate inquiry about who’s allowed to change a lightbulb on a Defence base in Australia and how much it might cost.Senator Collins is chair of the Management of Defence Estate Assets inquiry, following a Federal Government decision to sell 67 Defence properties because they are too costly to maintain. At the inquiry, Senator Collins suggested that a combat engineer, someone trained in an array of difficult and complicated (and sometimes dangerous) tasks, can’t change a faulty lightbulb on an Australian Defence base...

The U.S. Navy quietly relieved Commander Caitlin Cunningham as commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) on September 27, 2026. Cmdr. Caitlin Cunningham, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), was relieved of her duties on September 27, 2026, over what Navy officials described as a “loss of confidence.” The Navy never publicly announced the dismissal when it happened. The stunning development was first reported Thursday by USNI News, which confirmed the removal with a Navy spokesperson. Cunningham had been in command for less than a year, having taken over the...

Democrat Mary Peltola extended her lead over Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race after the state Division of Elections tallied an additional 5,000 ballots on Thursday, bringing the total number of ballots counted to over 256,000. In the governor’s race, Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had over 50% of first-choice votes after the latest ballot count, ahead of three Republican candidates. Kreiss-Tomkins said Wednesday that he expects that after all ballots are counted, he will have a comfortable majority of votes on his way to becoming the state’s first Democratic governor since 2002. Thousands of absentee ballots remain...

Daily Readings from the USCCBMemorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States]“Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.” Luke 17:33–37In today’s Gospel, Jesus recalls the tragic...

The Associated Press has called the Kansas gubernatorial race for Democrat Cindy Holscher, who defeats Republican Ty Masterson. Holscher and Masterson were neck and neck on election night, leading to a post-election audit because the margin was so narrow. She will replace outgoing Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a two-term Democrat who could not run for a third term due to term limitations. With her victory, it will be the first time the same party has won three consecutive gubernatorial elections in Kansas since four-year terms began in 1974. Masterson said Thursday that he called Holscher and congratulated her. "I've called...

Texas Democrat Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa says she plans to freeze residential electricity rates within hours of taking office, declaring an emergency over rising energy costs. That idea is likely to trigger the first major tug-of-war between Hinojosa and a Texas legislature with plenty of Republicans. Hinojosa says the move is part of her effort to address Texas’ affordability crisis and force corporations to pay more, although she did not clarify what more means. The proposal is already raising questions about its legality and potential impact on the state’s competitive energy market. Nick Loris, president of C3 Solutions, told Fox News...

Left wing Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has confirmed he's going to challenge longtime Democrat leader Chuck Schumer to become Senate Majority Leader. Despite having orchestrated the Democrats' 'blue tsunami' in the midterm elections, Schumer remains unpopular with the party's liberal base. In an interview with Jen Psaki on MS Now Thursday night, Van Hollen confirmed he will try to usurp Schumer.

Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life. It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI. I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it. Look at the sequence. Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills. One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one....