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Palestinian NGO tells journalists exactly how to adopt anti-Israel propaganda - like normalizing terrorism The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) is an NGO "advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism." They have a separate website, called "Communicating Palestine," which includes a set of rules for Palestinians and those who claim to support Palestinians to use. It is essentially a course in anti-Israel propaganda. For example, it provides a flowchart on what kinds of photographs of Palestinians are allowed to be published in the media and by NGOs. Obviously, Hamas terrorist, or shooting rockets, or...

Explanation: The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual. The galaxy up top is NGC 3660, a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy in that it has several bright blue spiral arms and a central bar of stars, dust, and gas. Captured by chance in the featured deep and colorful image, surprisingly, is SN 2026cff, a supernova found just to the right of the central bar. Farther in the distance is the bottom galaxy, known informally as Burçin’s galaxy, but formally cataloged as LEDA 1000714. The center of this galaxy appears...

Israel has accused the Gaza flotilla protestors of faking their injuries after several organisers alleged abuse, sexual assault, and beatings in custody.

As David Glade, the rector of our home parish Christ the King Anglican, recently noted, the contentious issue of our day is not “Who is Jesus? or how can man be saved?” (These questions were asked and answered in previous centuries.) The question of our day is anthropology. What does it mean to be human? To put it simply, the Church in our day needs to preach “the good news of biblical anthropology.”... Southern Baptist theologian Andrew Walker and Matthew Lee Anderson (a member of the Episcopal Church), address the underlying theological issues at play, "For many evangelicals, the ethics...

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has filed a formal complaint accusing incumbent Mayor Karen Bass of violating election laws by allegedly campaigning too close to a ballot drop box during early voting.The complaint, sent Tuesday to the Los Angeles City Clerk’s Office, claims Bass engaged in illegal electioneering while encouraging voters to cast ballots ahead of the June primary.Attorney Peter McNulty, representing Pratt’s campaign, alleged she appeared in social media videos “soliciting votes” and “holding signs asking voters to vote for her” near a polling place and ballot drop box.The letter further claims Bass “flagrantly violated” both City of...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s push to reshape congressional districts ahead of the November elections suffered a double setback Tuesday, as South Carolina senators declined to do so and a federal court blocked a Republican-backed map in Alabama.As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a Republican plan to cancel those congressional votes and instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the GOP oust a longtime Democrat.Some senators said it was simply too late to make a change.“South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today. And neither...

A tropical area of interest may develop in the western Caribbean or Gulf and track toward the waters along the eastern Gulf and the southern Atlantic coast of the United States from the final weekend of May into early June. Should a storm evolve, it could add to and extend existing rain in parts of the Southeast that will occur regardless during this week. "Rain will fall across parts of the south-central and southeastern United States this week regardless of whether tropical activity develops in the western Caribbean, southern Gulf or southwestern Atlantic," AccuWeather Expert Meteorologist Adam Douty said. "However,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dangerous heat wave shattering March records all over the U.S. Southwest is more than just another extreme weather blip. It’s the latest next-level weather wildness that is occurring ever more frequently as Earth’s warming builds. Experts said unprecedented and deadly weather extremes that sometimes strike at abnormal times and in unusual places are putting more people in danger. For example, the Southwest is used to coping with deadly heat, but not months ahead of schedule, including a 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 degrees Celsius) reading in two Arizona communities on Friday that smashed the highest March temperature...

Logan’s Run was the last great sci-fi movie of the the “tinsel/synthesizer” era — camp, fun, brightly-lit movies where production design communicated THE FUTURE with shiny interiors, rainbow colors, boop-zoop sounds, and (in the case of Zardoz and Barbarella) sets that were sometimes literally just tinsel. In the Hollywood imagination from 1968-1977, it was expected that the third millennium would look like The Cher Show, or that Peter Brook production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream but with even more multicolored robes, wires, and tubes that made cool space sounds. Logan’s Run is a capstone for this era, a fantastic high...

He said: 'The biggest lie, ladies and gentlemen, is why he drew his knife. He told you from that witness box, Henry Nowak said he was going to kill me. He was going to f*** me up. 'We suggest that was never said. You can be sure it was never said because why, if it had been said, would you not tell the 999 (911) operator the most important thing as to why you acted. ... 'If this was in the forefront of his mind, seared into his memory, why wouldn't you tell someone. 'Instead, he didn't even put the...

Trans athlete AB Hernandez came in first at three events during a recent California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section championship final: long jump, high jump and triple jump. Girls who finished second to him were allowed to share the victor's podium. Nereyda Hernandez, AB's mother complained "my trans girl beat those cis girls fair and square. Making AB share the podium with those losers was a travesty that devalued the ceremony. It's time that everyone admits that there is more to being a girl than just DNA. AB has the courage and the work ethic to overcome being short-changed with the...

LONDON -- The New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid organization warned on Tuesday that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda is now spreading faster than responders can contain it and risks becoming "the deadliest on record" without urgent international action. What is especially alarming, the IRC said, is that the outbreak is no longer limited to remote areas of the DRC's northeastern province of Ituri, the epicenter of the current epidemic. Cases and contacts are now spreading into larger regional hubs, the IRC warned, including the major city of Goma...

An enemy bullet hit his leg as a Green Beret special forces operator in Vietnam, he was burned in a helicopter crash training to be a pilot, and on a May day in 1967 was shot seven times times while flying a UH-1 Huey on a mission. He kept flying and completed the mission. But Jerome “Jerry” Montoya, 86, of Cheyenne would go on to take the controls of a chopper again and finish a 25-year career with the U.S. Army. His scars leave him with no regrets. “Do the thing that you are good at and do the thing...

People have a lot of different ideas about healing that are not scriptural. And sometimes people hold fast to ideas because of tradition, but what good is a tradition if it's not based on the word. Mark 7:13 says, Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. So, let's see what The Bible shows about healing so we all can be on the same page. Some people actually think it's wrong to go to God for healing, people have told me that's just using God, if...

Remember when everyone thought Ferrari was cool? Not anymore. Yes, even the manufacturer who once furnished Magnum P.I. with his sweet red convertible has gone electric. Here's a video announcement of the car if you want to see the fine details: Needless to say, the internet was not universally excited by the electric Ferrari reveal. Who wouldn't want to shell out (checks notes) $640,000 for an electric sports car? Don't worry, though. This model is sure to die a quick death and be relegated to the dustbin of automotive history. On a positive note, this toy-looking electric Ferrari is almost...

Rise and Remember had three days of programming commemorating six years after George Floyd’s death. The final day ended with a festival and candlelight vigil on Monday. Organizers say the event held on the 6th anniversary was the largest one yet. SNIP

President Donald Trump will convene a rare Cabinet meeting at Camp David Wednesday as negotiations with Iran enter a critical phase. All Cabinet members are expected to attend the meeting, first reported by the New York Post and confirmed by Fox News, including outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The gathering comes as the administration weighs next steps in high-stakes negotiations aimed at securing a broader agreement with Tehran amid a fraying ceasefire. Trump in recent days has suggested the sides are nearing a potential breakthrough, while Iranian officials have publicly pushed back on claims that a deal is...

Some might call Hasan Piker a gadfly. Others might call him something else. I'm one of them. Piker, a podcaster, lives for controversy. He has said that America deserved 9--11. The Democratic Party’s new campaigner, Hasan Piker: “America deserved 9/11” pic.twitter.com/mTatna42Sn — Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) May 23, 2026He's attempted to Justify the Oct 7 slaughter of Israelis. WATCH Hasan Piker justify the Oct. 7 massacre to a Cambridge student. Hasan: These (terrorists) aren’t barbaric monsters… it is not coming from a place of antisemitism or wanting to do mass rapes. Student: The slogan of the Houthis that you so admire...

The Democratic Party's official X account deleted a post politicizing the deaths of American service members in Iran on Memorial Day after one of its most prominent veteran lawmakers publicly pushed back. The post was one of several made by both liberal and Democratic organizations using the day to pin the deaths of troops on President Donald Trump, some of which remain up: However, while these posts may have drawn some ire, none of them came from the official account of one of America's two major political parties. "Today, we honor the American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Trump administration a win by reversing a lower court ruling against a requirement that immigration judges seek official approval before giving speeches in their official capacities. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals last year intervened in light of President Donald Trump's firing of several agency heads responsible for hearing complaints, Reuters reported. The policy stems from the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees roughly 750 immigration judges. The justices did not rule on the merits of the case, but merely reversed the lower court decision and sent it back for additional proceedings.