Former President Donald Trump’s visit to the family of slain New York City police officer Jonathan Diller was an important moment for the suffering family the officer left behind, one local official said. Diller, 31, was shot to death Monday night during a traffic stop in Queens. Police have arrested...
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Trump Was 'Tremendous Comfort to the Family' at Wake of Slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, Official Says
Former President Donald Trump says America needs to rise up to fight crime. "We have to stop it. We have to get back to law and order."
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Tragedy struck a busload of worshippers heading to an Easter celebration in South Africa. Authorities said a bus carrying 45 people from Botswana to the South African community of Moria on Thursday tumbled off the Mmamatlakala bridge and fell about 165 feet before it exploded in flames, according to Fox...
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Devastating Bus Crash Kills 45 Who Were Headed to Easter Worship Event - Young Girl Miraculously Survives
Tragedy struck a busload of Christians as they were making an Easter pilgrimage. Only one 8-year-old girl survived.
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Washington state Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday that creates a hotline to report hate crimes and "bias incidents." Substitute Senate Bill 5427 requires the state Attorney General's Office to staff the hotline and in effect create a database of maltreatment related to someone's race, religion,...
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Democratic Governor Criminalizes Free Speech with Law Establishing Soviet-Style Snitch Hotline
On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee created a hotline that is a blatant attack on Americans' First Amendment rights.
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"When you are the salt of the earth, you're going to make people 'salty,' okay?" Sage advice from Taylor Trice, a young woman who applied to work at a Starbucks coffee shop because she was interested in their tuition assistance program for Arizona State University's online program. "Prior to working...
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Woman Goes Viral with Story of How Her 'Christian Conservative Values' Got Her Fired from Starbucks
Her post went viral, and many commenters shared similar experiences at Starbucks or expressed support for the young woman.
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Only a few months into his fifth term as mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tom Henry died Thursday at the age of 72. Henry’s death came a day after it was announced that he had suffered a medical emergency related to his stomach cancer, according to The Associated Press. Henry...
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Longtime Dem Mayor Dies After Brutal Health Battle
The mayor of a heartland city who hoped to be remembered as “someone who tried to make a difference" has died of cancer at the age of 72.
John Barnett was found dead in his car in the parking lot of the Charleston, South Carolina, hotel where he was staying while giving testimony in a whistleblower case against aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Authorities are still investigating the cause of death, but Barnett's mother, Vicky Stokes, said she already holds...
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Mother of Dead Boeing Whistleblower Blames Company for Son's Death: 'Nobody Would Listen'
"Boeing quit listening to their employees. So every time I'd raise my hand and say, 'hey we got a problem here', they would attack."
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Few -- if any -- superhero films are held in higher esteem than the seminal 2008 Batman film "The Dark Knight." Between the mature sense of gritty realism that the movie brought (the Batman franchise had largely been known for campy live-action movies prior to the Dark Knight trilogy) and...
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Legendary Filmmaker Admits His Most Iconic Movie Line Wasn't Even Written By Him
"It kills me, because it’s the line that most resonates. And at the time, I didn’t even understand it," the filmmaker said.
There is going to be a very difficult, very somber conversation about what Hollywood and the film industry will look like in the near future -- and that conversation may be faster approaching than Tinseltown would ever like to admit. At nearly every step of making a movie, Hollywood is...
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Nation's Largest Theater Chain Braces for the Worst: Shares Plummet After Nasty Forecast
A massive theater chain is grappling with the ongoing reality of the movie industry, and it's proven to be a costly reality.
This Sunday marks the end of the Christian Holy Week, a week that commences with Palm Sunday -- the day when Christ entered into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, being met as a conquering king. Holy Week climaxes on Good Friday -- the day when that same formerly...
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How Can Christians Agree on the Gospel But Live in a World Antagonistic to Biblical Values?
If Christians had a proper understanding of what took place this week 2,000 years ago, our world would look radically different.
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Plenty of people wonder why it is that Good Friday is called Good Friday. Have you ever thought about this, as the son of God was murdered on that day? Good Friday occurs on the Friday before Easter. Labeling and even celebrating such an atrocity as something good could be...
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Why It's Called 'Good Friday' Even Though It's When 'The Most Wicked Event' in History Occurred
"We don't call it 'bad Friday' because what God wrought in that action was the greatest good in the history of the world."
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Back in February, fans of the classic 1990s cartoon "X-Men: The Animated Series" were not too pleased with Disney's decision to change it. The company chose to revive the series this year, but with one alteration -- one of the show's male superheroes was turned into a "nonbinary" character. Well,...
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Disney Appears to Walk Back Nonbinary Character: 'It Was Just in No Way a Mainstream Term'
A male character Disney previously promoted as "nonbinary" appears to have no understanding or affinity for gender ideology.
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Easter Weekend 2024 is about three things: Prayer and worship Easter egg hunts Family time If that third thing involves going to the theaters over the weekend, you and your family would hardly be alone. If you do find yourself at the movies, here is a quick rundown of the...
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One Blockbuster Stands Head and Shoulders Above the Competition This Easter Weekend
There are some big movies in theaters right now, but one action-focused movie was poised to stand above the rest.
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Jerry Seinfeld is making his return to film, and he's doing so with the help of a long list of fellow comedy legends. The trailer for Seinfeld's upcoming movie, "Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story," debuted Thursday. The film, a Netflix production, will be Seinfeld's directorial debut. According to...
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Seinfeld Returns to the Big Screen, Is Directing and Starring in New Film with Long List of Comedy Legends
The new trailer for Jerry Seinfeld's upcoming film debuted on Thursday. The trailer revealed a large cast full of comedians.
This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the myths and misconceptions of the nature and teachings of Jesus Christ. What would Jesus do? This phrase, originally attributed to a 19th-century novel by Charles Sheldon, resurged in popularity in the 1990s when a youth leader in Holland, Michigan, put...
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The True Jesus: Dispelling the Liberal Myths and Misperceptions - Part One
In order to imitate Christ, we must first have the proper image of Christ. So what did he look and sound like, that we may follow?
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The family of a Missouri school girl who was badly beaten earlier this month says she is out of her coma -- and out of the intensive care unit. "Kaylee is now out of the intensive care unit, and in the past few days Kaylee has been able to engage...
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Missouri Teen Kaylee Gain Awakens from Coma After Brutal Beatdown from Classmate, Only to Face Another Big Problem
"Kaylee is fighting hard to stay alive and heal but this is only the beginning of a very uphill battle for Kaylee and her family."
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I don't think I need to tell you, when Google's Gemini AI has been spitting out images of black female founding fathers, that generative AI is hopelessly woke. The assumption, of course, was that Silicon Valley progressives were the ones behind this sinister social engineering and that, deeply embedded in...
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Chilling: They Can't Even Train AI to Be More Conservative Than It Is Leftist
The models, the study found, "tend to be politically left of center and lean libertarian instead of authoritarian."
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On April 2, Wisconsin voters will have the opportunity to kill the "Zuckerbucks," which played an important role in the 2020 general election. The ballot initiative known as Question 1 would create a constitutional amendment that would bar election officials from accepting private grants to fund their operations. Meanwhile, Question...
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Wisconsin Voters Can End 'Zuckerbucks' for Good by Ballot Initiatives on Tuesday
On April 2, Wisconsin voters will have the opportunity to kill "Zuckerbucks," which played a role in the 2020 general election.
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I very clearly remember that dark cold morning about 1980 driving through the small southwest Missouri town of Reeds Spring. There was a pre-dawn temperature inversion that day, and the warmer air above captured in that Ozark valley great clouds of smoke from the wood stoves heating people’s homes. Wow,...
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They're Finally Doing It: Begin Kissing Your Gas Stove Goodbye
Even though a substantial percentage of Washington state's energy comes from natural gas, its legislature and governor want it gone.
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As Easter 2024 approaches, more and more people are getting ready to celebrate the holiday. As time has passed, many have begun to separate the idea of Easter from being a religious holiday, as people have simply celebrated it as a fun spring event. The decline in religious values can...
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Hope or Doom? Shock Poll Finds High Percentage of Americans Believe Jesus Rose from Dead
While Christianity is seeing a decline in following within America, religious holidays such as Easter still hold strong.
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The War of the Sausage Dog is raging in Germany. German officials are currently debating a law that could put restrictions on dog breeders, saying the law is designed to ensure that traits that cause the animals pain are banned, according to Sky News. So far, so good. But the...
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New Law Could Make It Difficult if Not Impossible for Some to Own Dachshunds
Dog owners are showing their teeth over a law in Germany some think could be used to ban a popular breed of dog.
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At this point, is anything we're hearing out of Democrat-run cities surprising? A New York woman suffered a broken jaw on Tuesday when she was attacked while walking home from work. PIX11 reported that Dulce Pichardo was attacked by a man, later identified as Franz Jeudy, while walking down the...
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Another Dem Win on Crime: Man Arrested for Savage Street Attack on Woman, Arrested Twice Before, Once for Attacking Cop
An unprovoked attack on Tuesday in New York City has left one woman battered while her attacker still walks the streets.
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