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CBN.com - Addison Adamu grew up in a strict Muslim family in Ghana. “We were taught and trained that once born a Muslim, you are always a Muslim,” remembers Addison. “I used to follow my father to the mosque five times a day.”Addison never seriously questioned the rituals of his family’s faith until a friend at school showed him a Bible.“I didn’t want to read the Bible because if I’m caught, it will be another story,” says Addison. “It’s like the highest degree of crime to convert from Islam to Christianity. He told me that God is love. It’s not...

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You know that feeling when you scroll through your phone contacts and realize half the numbers belong to people you haven’t spoken to in years? Last week, I did exactly that while looking for an old colleague’s number. What struck me wasn’t just the silence between us – it was remembering how we used to grab lunch together three times a week, share weekend barbecue invites, and text about everything from work drama to our kids’ soccer games. Then I retired at 62, and within six months, we’d become strangers That’s when it hit me: we weren’t really friends. We...

The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting has been identified as a California teacher. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from Torrance, California is the alleged shooter who opened fire at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. The educator from the Los Angeles area faces firearms and assault charges after he allegedly breached a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement. Police revealed the suspect had a number of weapons on him including a shotgun, handgun and multiple knives. President Trump shared a stunning image shortly after the shooting, showing the suspect shirtless and lying face down on the...

Ukraine is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday amid lingering fears that Russia's 4-year-old war could spark a repeat of the world's worst nuclear disaster. "The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a reactor experiment ordered ⁠by Moscow, in violation of safety protocols, and followed by lies and cover-ups," Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a ⁠statement. "To this day, the world has to face consequences brought by a totalitarian system that subordinated truth and science to ideology and political power." Millions were exposed to radiation, hundreds ⁠of thousands forced to flee, and wide swaths of...

In the ancient Mitanni Kingdom, an Indo-Aryan language very closely related to Sanskrit was used by the ruling class -- but only for very special occasions... Jack of All Languages explores the surprising linguistic links between ancient Indo-Aryan terms found in Syrian horse training manuals and early Sanskrit. By analyzing archaeological tablets and royal treaties, this investigation sheds light on how a prestige language influenced elite cultures in the Middle East centuries before the oldest known Vedic texts were composed. The Indo-Aryans of the Middle East | 13:16 Jack of All Languages | 7.33K subscribers | 2,142 views | April...

An al Qaeda affiliate and Tuareg rebels claimed responsibility on Saturday for coordinated attacks across Mali, in one of the boldest operations ​insurgents have mounted in their campaign against the military-led government.Mali's army said in a statement it had killed "several hundred" assailants and repelled the assault, which hit ‌multiple sites in or near the capital, Bamako. It said a large-scale sweep operation was underway in Bamako, the nearby barracks town of Kati and elsewhere in the gold-producing country.It was unclear how many soldiers or civilians were killed in the attacks. In a statement read out on state television on...

Watch this exchange and understand: 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡. A Cambridge student confronts Hasan Piker about the October 7th massacre at the Supernova Music Festival. Piker’s response? “𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮∗𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴?” “𝘠𝘦𝘴. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴.” The student pressed him to unequivocally condemn the m∗rders, the mutilations, the r∗pes. His answer? “𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴.” When told the Houthis he platforms have “𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬” 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧, he shrugged: “𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭.” This is the man who 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬...

The Baby Boom were mostly still in their cradles or unborn when The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer came out in 1947, which makes the film a historical document – one of our first glimpses of a generation gap forming in postwar America. The whole idea of the teenager is really less than a century old, and by the late '40s it was edging out the "bobby-soxer" – a largely female phenomenon that was launched into public consciousness with the shrieking fans who descended on Frank Sinatra's performances at the Paramount Theater in New York during the war. In his book...

Members of the screenwriters union overwhelmingly ratified a four-year agreement with Hollywood studios and streamers on Friday, bringing an end to a surprisingly smooth and quick process that brought a prolonged strike the last time around. Union leaders said 90% voted to approve the deal struck between the Writers Guild of America West, Writers Guild of America East and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Studios will now shift to negotiations with actors and directors. Leaders of the unions emphasized gains in health coverage. “In the face of industry contraction and runaway health care cost inflation, writers were able...

April 30, 2011 turned out to be one of Washington’s weirder nights. The president of the United States had just secretly ordered the raid that would take out Sept. 11 attack mastermind Osama bin Laden and he was about to deliver jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. But it was the barbs that President Barack Obama and headliner Seth Meyers hurled at real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star Donald Trump that created a political narrative that lives on: jokes = presidential revenge campaign. (For the record, Trump has said he had a good time. He told The Post’s Karen...

More Americans are choosing to walk away from difficult relationships instead of working through them, a new survey has revealed. Nearly two in five Americans — 38% — say they have gone "no contact" with a friend or family member in the past year, according to a survey of 2,000 adults conducted in March by Talker Research for the therapy platform Talkspace... Younger Americans were far more likely than older generations to report cutting someone off. The survey found that 60% of Gen Z respondents had gone "no contact," compared to 50% of millennials, 38% of Gen X and 20%...

California drivers could be seeing lower gas prices once a new mega-pipeline project reaches completion, flooding the state with the much needed black gold. In a recent joint announcement, Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan, Inc. said its Western Gateway Pipeline project was moving forward following the closure in the state of multiple refineries. “Customer response during the open season underscores the importance of Western Gateway in addressing long‑term refined products logistics needs in the region,” Phillips 66 Chairman and CEO Mark Lashier said. Once fully operational, the massive pipeline will stretch from St. Louis, MO. to California, and be able...

San Francisco health authorities are raising urgent concerns after a powerful synthetic opioid was detected in the city for the first time, and is already being tied to a fatal overdose earlier this month. Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health say the drug, known as cychlorphine, surfaced in a counterfeit pill, prompting alarm over its extreme potency and unpredictable presence in the illicit drug market. “We believe it is more potent than fentanyl. It was found we believe in someone using a counterfeit pill,” Daniel Tsai, director San Francisco Department of Public Health told ABC7. Law enforcement...

World map of gasoline prices…..Germany 9.36, France 8.80, Russia 3.30, Hong Kong 15.36…..

In the summer of 1905, two men held a private conversation in Tokyo that the world wouldn't find out about for nearly two decades. No treaty was signed. No announcement was made. But in that room, the United States quietly handed an entire nation over to colonial rule — and set in motion a chain of events that would end at Pearl Harbor forty years later. This is the story of the Taft-Katsura Agreement, the secret deal that validated Japanese imperial ambition at the exact moment it needed validation most. We cover the Meiji Restoration and Japan's transformation from feudal...

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Amid the ruins and the devastated homes, a new hope for a better future arose in Gaza after more than two years of war PUBLISHED: Sat 25 Apr 2026, 5:46 PM UPDATED: Sat 25 Apr 2026, 5:54 PM By: Yasmin Hussein Add as a preferred source on Google Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp “Gaza deserves joy” read a large banner at a mass wedding for 300 Palestinian couples in the Gaza Strip, held after more than two years of war that reduced much of the enclave to rubble. More than 72,000 Gazans have been killed since the war started in...

In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them. It’s not looking good for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Plagued by dismal approval ratings, he has also acquired a reputation for being thin-skinned, censorious, and authoritarian. Last week, the Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg ordered Merz’s office—the Federal Chancellery—to disclose information on proceedings related to alleged insults against him, including which public prosecutor’s offices are investigating the cases and under which file numbers the proceedings are being conducted. In total, this involves approximately 300 cases. The news caused a stir and has the...