Democratic Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner announced they were introducing legislation targeting the rights of gun owners, including a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms and a nationwide “red flag” law. Democrats in the Virginia state Legislature passed a host of laws, including a ban targeting so-called “assault weapons,”...

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Municipal government is usually defined by procedure, paperwork, and painfully slow decision-making. Not in the small town of Cohutta, Georgia. In the span of a little over a week, the town went from a workplace mediation involving the mayor’s wife, to the firing of the entire police department, to an...

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Three Australian women were refused bail when they appeared in courts on Friday charged with slavery and terrorism offenses after they arrived home from Syria with another 10 others whom police allege are linked to the Islamic State group. The four women and nine children, who have spent years in...

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Bexar County Court-at-Law Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez resigned and accepted a permanent disqualification from judicial office in order to resolve misconduct complaints. KSAT reported last month that special prosecutor Brian Cromeen filed a motion to dismiss felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from a 2024 incident in which Speedlin-Gonzalez had a defense...

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For centuries, the windswept sands of the Giza Plateau have guarded some of the world’s greatest mysteries. Towering pyramids, hidden tombs, and the legendary Great Sphinx of Giza continues to inspire wonder among archaeologists and travelers alike. The Daily Mail reported that a new potential discovery recently discussed on the...

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Google has settled with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black...

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Health experts are seeking to reassure people that a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship off the coast of Africa is not the beginning of the next COVID-19 pandemic. The biggest distinction is the virus, though it has proved deadly for three passengers on the Dutch-flagged ship MV Hondius and...

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) dropped a headline-grabbing report last week touting a massive lithium discovery in the Appalachian region. According to the agency, pegmatite deposits stretching from Maine and New Hampshire down through South Carolina hold an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of economically recoverable lithium oxide, enough to...

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A 39-year-old man allegedly put rat poison in at least five baby food jars sold across central Europe, leading to his arrest in Austria. The poisonings resulted in HiPP, the manufacturer of the baby food, recalling jars across Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, according to a report from the...

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The world needs to stop turning a blind eye to the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria. Two weeks ago, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram released footage stating via translation they would beginning killing women and children after failed negotiations with the Nigerian government over an ultimatum. "The 72 hours...

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The Southern Baptist Convention is witnessing rising baptisms and attendance, but declining church membership and stagnant giving to its national institutions. Total membership in the SBC declined by 3 percent between 2024 and 2025, according to a report from Lifeway Research released on May 5, marking the 19th straight year...

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Should ultra-progressive talk show "The View" be considered news? That peculiar question is at the heart of a roiling feud between the show's parent network and company (ABC and Disney respectively) and the Federal Communications Commission. According to CBS News, the ABC and FCC are in a war of words...

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It's bad enough to be swept by a division rival in baseball. It's much worse when that sweep to simultaneously bolster one rival's win streak and another's losing streak. And it's something else entirely when that sweep is capped off by the sort of blunder that would make grade school...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio disclosed new details Thursday about a private meeting with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Speaking to reporters after the closed-door meeting, Rubio said “[I] updated them on the situation with Iran, expressed our point of view about why this was important and the danger...

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When my one-month-old daughter was diagnosed with biliary atresia — a rare disease that for most of human history was 100% fatal — I entered a world where hope and terror coexist. Thanks to pioneers who pushed the envelope when everyone else had given up, at thirteen months old she...

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Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, alongside Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas, represented by legal counsel, petitioned the Supreme Court of Virginia...

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The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on multiple individuals and entities based in China and the Middle East for allegedly being “involved in Iran’s efforts to acquire or use arms” and other military equipment. The State Department announced late Friday it is sanctioning 11 entities and three individuals across Iran,...

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The Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, was thrashed in their local election battle on Thursday. Labour faced a flood of criticism earlier this year aimed at the Starmer administration over reliance and accountability, including most notably, concerns over immigration policy. Former United States Ambassador Peter Mandelson also...

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Sam Allberry, who served as a pastor at Immanuel Nashville in Tennessee, was determined to be disqualified from ministry over an "inappropriate relationship with an adult man.” The evangelical church said in a statement that the relationship between the unnamed man and Allberry, who was an associate pastor, had started...

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The largest U.S. grid operator proposed cutting power to newcomers during periods of high demand in a Wednesday white paper. PJM Interconnection serves over 67 million consumers across its operational area. Its infrastructure is now strained by data center expansion and disruptive environmental policy, according to the operator’s “Powering Reliability...

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It's telling when you finally find a rich person or moneyed entity that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani can get behind. Sure, he'll berate Citadel hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin outside Griffin's home with a video touting new property taxes, even though it wasn't terribly far from where UnitedHealthcare...

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