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The western Canadian province of Alberta requesting military assistance to fight unprecedented wildfires... Israel striking Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip late tonight... Joe Biden extending US sanctions on Syria...The US State Department expressing disapproval of the Arab league decision to readmit Syria... Canada expelling a Chinese diplomat over alleged harassment of an opposition MP... Russia deciding to suspend operation of reactors at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant with a Ukrainian offensive expected at any time in the region... In Brownsville, Texas today the suspect in the deadly crash of an SUV into pedestrians yesterday charged with manslaughter... In...

What is a cult? What isn't a cult? Reverend Jim Jones and his Marxist-Leninist People's Temple at the intersection of Jesus and Lenin one example. Jones fancying himself a bit of both seemed to fit the description once the "Kool Aid was passed" and innocent people were gunned down in Guyana back in 1978. In the Conservative Christian subculture I experienced a doctrinal clarity that meant questioning other religious groups from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Seventh Day Adventists not to mention Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. Then there was the Unification Church of Reverend Moon...

Among Americans 37 percent approval for Joe Biden's performance, 72 percent very concerned about the price of food... China announcing three days of military maneuvers around Taiwan starting on Sunday... North Korea says it conducted another test of an underwater nuclear-capable drone... The Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee seeking bank records for the Biden family... A Russian humanitarian official says that Ukraine is planning a false flag incident... Another deadly terrorist attack in Israel tonight... A federal judge in Texas revoked FDA approval for the abortion drug mifepristone but suspended his ruling for seven days to allow for an appeal...Then an...

June 3, 2002 Elvis Impersonator Running for Gov.By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:00 p.m. ET MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A challenger to Gov. Scott McCallum has entered the race.Elvis impersonator and former state Rep. Bill Lorge will seek the Republican nomination in the November race for governor.Lorge made the announcement late Friday as Republicans gathered in Green Bay for their annual convention, but he said he had no plans to attend.``I'm going to be out with the real Republicans,'' around the state, Lorge said.Delegates on Saturday approved McCallum as their choice for governor.Lorge said he thinks he can...