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    We’re nearly two months into the saga of federal troops entering American cities for crime crackdowns. As with every other politically charged issue, believers aim to take our cues from Scripture—not politicians, media personalities, social media influencers, or that one opinionated friend...
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    “It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master.” Matthew 10:25 No one will dispute this statement, for it would be unseemly for the servant to be exalted above his Master. When our Lord was on earth, what was the treatment he received? Were his claims acknowledged, his instructions...
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    What’s a Nobel Prize? Every year, prizes are awarded for contributions in six areas: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and peace. They’re named after Alfred Nobel—the inventor of dynamite and 354 other things—who decided to award those who had “conferred the greatest...
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    Middle East Milestone Negotiators for Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire and hostage deal—phase one of President Trump’s larger peace plan—in Egypt yesterday. Israel’s cabinet signed off hours later, starting the 24-hour countdown to a total ceasefire. Under the deal, IDF troops will start...
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    Peace Shuffle Promising peace talks continued yesterday on the second anniversary of the Gaza war. “Shuffle meetings”—indirect talks between Israel and Hamas with Egyptian and Qatari officials acting as go-betweens—began Monday in Egypt. The warring parties are hashing out the particulars of...
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    Back in the Chamber The Supreme Court kicked off its 2025-26 season by deciding that a few high-profile cases would not be on the docket. On Monday, SCOTUS: Rejected former Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal against her sex-trafficking conviction; Declined to revive...
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    Tentative Truce Hamas has accepted President Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza… with an asterisk. Israel approved Trump’s peace plan last Monday, and on Friday, Hamas announced it also agreed “to the plan’s main outlines in principle, but its implementation requires negotiations.” Hamas...
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    On Guard The National Guard is blowing into the Windy City. For weeks, tensions have been brewing in Chicago over increased immigration enforcement, including some violent clashes between protestors and ICE agents. On Saturday, President Trump authorized federalizing Illinois’s National...
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    What’s Going on with Israel and Palestine, and How’d We Get Here? Nearly two years ago, on October 7, 2023, Hamas militants broke through Israel’s border, killed ~1,200 people, and took 251 hostages back to Gaza. Israel immediately declared war. It is just the latest conflict stemming from a...
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    Synagogue Attack Two people were killed and four others were seriously injured in an attack outside a synagogue in northwest England on Wednesday, which was Yom Kippur (the holiest day of the year in Judaism). Police fatally shot the suspect outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in...
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    Highly Premeditated Attack Three people were killed and five others injured at a packed North Carolina waterfront bar late Saturday. A 40-year-old gunman was detained by the Coast Guard and charged with three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder, and five counts of...
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    Olive Branch The U.S. and Israel say they’re “setting the stage for dramatically advancing peace in the Middle East,” starting in Gaza. After a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted Uncle Sam’s 20-point plan that ends fighting...
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    Comey Indictment James Comey was indicted by the Department of Justice late on Thursday. A grand jury charged the former FBI director with lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding in his 2020 testimony, claiming collusion between Russia and then-candidate Trump’s 2016...
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    Grand Blanc Attack At least five people are dead and eight are injured after a shooting and fire at a worship service yesterday. During the gathering of over one hundred people at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan (~60 miles northwest of Detroit), a man...
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    What are the Epstein Files? Just to be clear… y’all asked for this topic. Let’s start with who Epstein was. Epstein was a “financier” (think: big-time money manager) who gained fame in the 1990s for building a mysterious group of ultra-wealthy clients, and for rubbing shoulders with...
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    ICE Attack One immigration detainee was killed and two others were critically injured in a sniper-style attack on a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday morning. The shooter, identified as a 29-year-old man, opened fire from a nearby rooftop with a bolt-action rifle around 6:30 am, striking the...
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    Turn Tables President Trump is flipping his script on Ukraine. After meeting with President Zelenskyy in NYC, President Trump said Ukraine can get back “the original borders from where this war started” or “maybe even go further” with support from the E.U. and NATO. He promised to continue...
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    UNGA The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly is meeting in the Big Apple this week. In his 56-minute speech, President Trump covered “historic trade deals” and ceasefires, the necessity of freeing Hamas-held hostages, Palestinian statehood rewarding Hamas, the “con” of...
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    Tylenol use in pregnancy is stirring debate. On Monday, President Trump and top federal health officials announced a possible link between autism and the use of Tylenol (acetaminophen) in pregnancy. They point to a recent Harvard-led meta-analysis of 46 studies with ~100,000 participants that...
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    Gold Cards and H1-deBate Hiring immigrants just got more expensive. On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order that will hike the price of H1-B visas—a program that allows U.S. companies to hire skilled foreign workers. The White House says tech companies have been prioritizing...
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