Tag: Predicts

Outgoing United Methodist leader predicts fallout if LGBTQ rules relaxed at upcoming meeting

The United Methodist Church could face a “seismic shift” if next week’s business session approves sweeping measures to relax long-held denominational restrictions and policies on homosexuality, an outgoing leader said Wednesday. On the ballot are proposals to drop restrictions on the roles available to LGBTQ people in the denomination, to eliminate policy language calling homosexuality […]

Chris Christie predicts Trump’s second term would lack talent

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says former President Donald Trump got solid people to work in his first administration but thinks a second term would be “mayhem” with a “huge personnel problem.” Mr. Christie, a Trump supporter-turned-critic who dropped out of the GOP presidential race a month ago, said Mr. Trump will pivot from […]

Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil predicts an early spring

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring Friday in Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, the scene of the country’s largest and best known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. The annual event is a tongue-in-cheek ritual in which Phil’s handlers, members of a club with roots in the late 19th century, reveal whether […]