The point of the Donald Trump prosecution in New York City is to wound, smear, and slash his finances leading to the 2024 presidential election. It is meant to weaken and shrink the man, make no mistake. The media revel in this spectacle of Trump in a freezing courtroom, looking “old and tired” and like he’d rather be […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of their first legislative gathering in five years – one that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy. After a day off on Sunday, delegates to the General Conference […]
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza, a spokesman said Friday. The announcement by U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric provided the […]
NEW YORK — The U.S. flu season appears to be over. It was long, but it wasn’t unusually severe. Last week, for the third straight week, medical visits for flu-like illnesses dipped below the threshold for what’s counted as an active flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Other indicators, like […]
United Methodist Church delegates approved a restructuring plan that would allow church regions — including the U.S. — greater autonomy in deciding matters such as approving same-sex marriages and ordaining active LGBTQ clergy. Delegates to the church’s General Conference meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, approved the measure 586-164, sending it to local conferences, the equivalent […]
It is well-documented that the thousands of citizens of Communist China who have been entering the United States illegally over the past year are mostly military age single men. Once across the border of the United States, they are turned loose with pieces of paper telling them to appear for hearings that are now being […]
The United Methodist Church’s business session received two proposals Wednesday — one to scuttle the definition of marriage as being between “one man and one woman,” the other to slash the budget by 42%. Instead of supporting the definition of marriage held since 1972, the church would define it “as a sacred, lifelong covenant that […]
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organize nonunion factories. The union wound up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the ballots cast, compared with only 985 who voted no […]
A since-deleted Instagram video appearing to show a Colorado Rockies hitting coach in the cockpit of an active United Airlines flight is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration. The coach, Hensley Meulens, wrote in the caption of the April 10 Instagram post that he “had some fun in the cockpit on our flight from […]
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 […]
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