We’re starting this week’s newsletter with a viral story that fortunately had a positive ending. Police in Pennsylvania arrested a man Sunday who tried to shoot a church pastor because “God told him to do it.” But the preacher’s life was spared when the assailant’s gun somehow jammed. Video shows the moment it all unfolded. It’s almost too […]
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — The final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest took the stage Saturday in the Swedish city of Malmo after days of protests and offstage drama that have tipped the feelgood musical celebration into a chaotic pressure cooker overshadowed by the war in Gaza. A raucous Croatian rocker, a nonbinary Swiss performer […]
Baptisms are taking over America, with yet another massive effort set to make history. Meanwhile, the state of denominational Christianity continues to be in an intriguing place. The United Methodist Church made some major changes on the LGBTQ front — and the Southern Baptist Convention lost hundreds of thousands of members (but is seeking a […]
There’s a manhunt underway in Los Angeles, one in which the police are bringing to bear all the very latest in technology in pursuit of their quarry. If you suppose it’s a serial killer they’re after, or perhaps members of the many robbery and burglary rings recently plaguing Southern California, you haven’t been paying […]
WASHINGTON — As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection campaign. Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March […]
A pastor found himself looking down the barrel of a gun Sunday when a man rushed the front of his church during the sermon. Video of the incident posted to the church’s Facebook page showed Pastor Glenn Germany preaching at Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, when a man entered the frame of […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson, hobbled by a one-vote majority and dogged by a small band of disgruntled archconservatives who want to fire him, is determined to defy his critics and remain speaker in the next Congress. He is also adamant that he is incrementally advancing a conservative agenda while battling a Democratic-run Senate and White […]
A leading Muslim advocacy group slammed President Biden’s speech Thursday decrying the anarchy on college campuses, saying he failed to condemn attacks on protesters by law enforcement and supporters of Israel. Edward Ahmed Mitchell, national deputy director for the Council for American-Islamic Relations, said the Democratic president should have called out attacks on protesters and […]
The University of California, Los Angeles campus turned into what one observer called “absolute chaos” early Thursday as police cleared out anti-Israel demonstrators at a tent encampment. California Highway Patrol officers in riot gear began taking apart barricades and arresting protesters at about 3 a.m. local time, according to NBC News. Many of the demonstrators […]
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected questions Wednesday about President Biden‘s steadfast refusal to speak about the anti-Israel protests that have roiled college campuses for over a week. Mr. Biden hasn’t addressed the chaos at universities across the nation since April 22, when deemed the actions of the demonstrators as “antisemitic” but also criticized […]
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