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Simone Biles recently won her fifth gold medal and eighth medal overall at the Paris 2024 Olympics, making her the most decorated American gymnast in Olympics history, as the Deseret News previously reported. Biles, who is Catholic, has previously credited her faith in God for her success.

A member of Kamala Harris's team who is also a prominent member of the Democratic National Committee was filmed conceding that she will not 'win this year.' Kamala Harris Campaign Compliance Manager Joyce DeCerce - who is a Compliance Manager for the DNC - could be seen lamenting how Harris is 'weirdly unpopular', while seemingly admitting to making empty promises to donors. In the footage, DeCerce agrees that the campaign fundraising strategy is to 'take their money and tell them what they want to hear.' The devastating rundown comes as Harris prepares to accept her party's nomination, while airing a...

Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that he believed former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), would have a hard time getting away from his “cat lady” comments. Carville said, “They’re not weird, they’re over the top. JD Vance is for something called menstrual surveillance. How much weirder can you get than that?” He continued, “The whole outfit is obsessed and consumed with women’s reproductive decisions. They really are. And that is going to, that whole cat lady thing, man, that’s going to haunt him for a long time. Because what he said...

Last week a severe storm froze Dallas under a sheet of ice, just in time to disrupt the plans of the tens of thousands of (American) football fans descending on the city for the Super Bowl. On the other side of the globe, Cyclone Yasi slammed northeastern Australia, destroying homes and crops and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Some climate alarmists would have us believe that these storms are yet another baleful consequence of man-made CO2 emissions. In addition to the latest weather events, they also point to recent cyclones in Burma, last winter's fatal chills in Nepal and...

Weather gets even weirder By Philip Eden (Filed: 21/01/2006) On the face of it, the catalogue of extraordinary weather events culled from around the world during the last year suggests that the global climate is in turmoil. But do a clutch of catastrophes and a ragbag of records represent anything unusual? Moscow: A man ventures out as temperatures reach minus 30 Climatologists look for evidence of underlying change and are particularly interested in events which are clearly outside previous experience. We should remember that we live in a world where natural disasters can be brought to our television screens as...