When Missouri man Travis Timmerman stopped talking with his family for seven months, a Syrian prison was the last place they thought he'd be. Syrian officials captured him earlier this year entering the country on foot during a Christian pilgrimage to Damascus, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Timmerman was freed along...

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Three days. That's how long a satanic statue lasted in front of the State House in Concord, New Hampshire. The robed Baphomet's legs remained standing, but its upper half had been severed and its head removed. Its accompanying panel featuring the Satanic Temple's seven tenets had also been shattered, New...

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Voluntary euthanasia in Canada led to more than 15,000 deaths in 2023, according to a government report. The procedures made up 4.7 percent of deaths in Canada last year, new government data shows, according to the BBC. The report put the mean age of those who died via assisted suicide...

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Christian history was made Tuesday as a Nativity scene was displayed at the U.S. Capitol for the first time. The event on the southeastern steps was the result of a federal court ruling in May that said the Capitol steps were a public area, meaning that public expressions of faith...

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A Florida high school student's life was cut short after a fatal hunting accident on Sunday. Malachi Lancaster, 18, was a senior football player at Newberry High School in Florida, according to WCJB-TV. Lancaster was also the school's homecoming king this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who...

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A wooden cross overlooking Malibu, California, somehow survived a sweeping fire unscathed, despite nearly everything around it being destroyed. Set on a hill above Pepperdine, a private Christian university, the 20-foot cross remained standing as the Franklin Fire blazed across the Santa Monica Mountains this week, FOX Weather reported. "The...

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Big Tech is trying to make nice with President-elect Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean they've changed their minds about him. National Public Radio reported Friday that several executives have made or plan to make donations to Trump's inauguration fund. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he will make a $1...

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More Americans than ever are skeptical of the health-care system -- and with good reason. According to data published last month by public health researcher Preeti Vankar at Statista, only 60 percent of Americans had trust in their health-care system -- lower than Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand -- in 2022....

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After the sweeping 312 electoral vote victory from President-elect Donald Trump, war instigators are quaking, money funneling nations are preparing to take a hit on their usual payday from the U.S., and entire global power systems are groveling. From France’s President Emmanuel Macron to Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sweet...

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President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House next month will also mean the return of first lady Melania Trump. With that in mind, and with millions of Americans eager to escape the era of wokeness, which the lazy President Joe Biden and his catastrophic administration have seemed to personify,...

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Almost 200 people were butchered in Haiti last weekend after a gang leader was incited by a voodoo priest. Volker Turk, human rights chief for the United Nations, said 184 people were killed. "Just this past weekend, at least 184 people were killed in violence orchestrated by the leader of...

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If you're a defense contractor, we have a very merry Christmas present for you: at least 18 years worth of weapons stock you need to rebuild in order to regain the stores the U.S. military had before we started shipping it to Ukraine. For the rest of us who prefer...

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There has been a blitz of media stories in recent weeks about methane from cows and other livestock, hitting the supposed issue from multiple angles. First, there was an unprecedented tax in Denmark levied against agricultural emissions of methane, particularly from cattle. Then, we had the Bovaer controversy, where a methane-inhibiting additive is...

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A California sheriff has defied an administrative board's attempt to turn her county into a "super sanctuary" for people illegally inside the United States. The 3-1 Tuesday vote from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors restricts assistance to federal immigration authorities. "Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, and our...

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"The mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is to provide daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings, climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration, and the supporting of marine commerce." That's a pretty straightforward mission. In fact, it's right there on the homepage of the NOAA on the...

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A key pillar to President-elect Donald Trump’s economic prosperity plan for America involves helping American companies better compete with Chinese competitors in ways that he hopes will ultimately lead to a resurgence in making and manufacturing more in the United States. The plan is supported with tariffs his first administration...

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Perhaps World War II Gen. George S. Patton’s finest hour as an American war leader came during the pivotal Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, when his army relieved the surrounded 101st Airborne Division in Belgium. In the days leading up to this make-or-break moment in the Allied push...

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The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations recently held a hearing on airline fees associated with carry-on-baggage, seat choice, and other amenities. The Capitol Hill showdown followed the release of a new Senate report showing how major U.S. airlines made a combined $12 billion between 2018 and 2023 from this flexible...

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President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to the White House affords a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tame or destroy the federal bureaucracy. To that end, last month Trump asked Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, and Vivek Ramaswamy, former Republican presidential candidate, to lead the "Department of Government Efficiency,"...

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In 1897, Mark Twain took pen to paper to deny rumors of his death that were circulating in London at that time. In his response, penned to the New York Journal, he stated flatly, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Right now, Democrats are saying the exact same...

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Talk about a turn of fortune. In less than a week, Daniel Penny -- the Marine veteran who subdued a threatening, mentally ill homeless man on the New York City subway only to be charged with manslaughter after he died -- went from facing decades in prison to facing an...

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