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A partial government shutdown has left TSA's roughly 50,000 screeners without pay for over 40 days, leading to many simply not showing up. Democrats have stonewalled funding for DHS, demanding immigration enforcement reforms for ICE. The effects? Even after the spring break rush at airports across the
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Brother Nathan and Sister Regina Tittley just returned from a three-week visit to the Heritage New Zealand church. When they last visited in 2023, the region had just been devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle, leaving the community land—Mohaka River Farm—badly damaged, as well as devastating the surrounding region'
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Nearly three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. finds itself in a conflict that, at least on paper, looks like military success. Reportedly, Iran's air force has been rendered nearly useless, and its anti-aircraft systems have been largely destroyed, leaving the skies open to the U.
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Fourteen days into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, at least 20 countries are now militarily involved in some capacity. Iran has struck targets in at least 10 countries. France has deployed about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft carrier strike group, to various locations in the Mediterranean;
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Last Saturday, the United States and Israel jointly launched Operation Epic Fury — a campaign explicitly aimed at toppling Iran's government — and preceded by the largest U.S. military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The administration had warned Iran that failed nuclear talks
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The United States and Israel launched what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” in the early hours of Saturday morning, striking targets across Iran with the stated aim of destroying the country's military capabilities, dismantling its nuclear program, and fostering regime change. President Trump announced the operation in
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In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Trump had exceeded his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 — a law that doesn't explicitly mention tariffs. Chief Justice John
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Something has shifted in the AI world, and the people closest to the technology are the ones most unsettled by it. Top safety experts at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI companies are warning — loudly and publicly — that the technology they're building is advancing faster than anyone anticipated.
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President Trump said Friday that the U.S. and Iran had “very good talks” in Oman and claimed Iran's position is more favorable regarding a nuclear deal than before last June's 12-day war. Iran, for their part, flatly refused to cease uranium enrichment, but looked forward
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Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an encounter last weekend in Minneapolis‘s Whittier neighborhood. Pretti was a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Various video angles were unclear and inconclusive, and the agents retained counsel and have not
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The World Economic Forum met in Davos this past week, and, as anticipated, the conversation centered around Greenland. President Trump emerged from a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to say that they had reached a preliminary framework for a deal. The arrangement, which Trump says “gives us everything we
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Greetings from South Africa Contributed by Dylan Kraijenoord We thank the Lord as we look back over the last few months and share some of the highlights from the Heritage South Africa community. This year God helped us forge meaningful connections with other congregations around the world, as well as
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Anti-government protests have swept across Iran over the past few weeks, beginning in Tehran's historic bazaars after the Iranian rial collapsed to new lows against the dollar. The demonstrations have since evolved into a broader revolt against the country's clerical rulers, spreading from the capital to
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Minneapolis finds itself at the center of another national controversy following a deadly encounter between a protestor and immigration enforcement officers. The incident unfolded in a south Minneapolis neighborhood when Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman using her car to block immigration enforcement activities, was shot and killed by an ICE
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After a months-long pressure campaign against Maduro’s regime, President Trump confirmed that the Venezuelan dictator had been captured by U.S. Special Forces on Friday night and extradited to the U.S., where he will be tried on charges related to narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation, and weapons offenses. Maduro
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Christmas day brought unseasonably warm heat across much of the South, with highs in the 80s in parts of Texas. Houston hit 81°F, and Dallas tied its second-warmest Christmas on record at 80°F. 🇳🇬 U.S. strikes ISIS in Nigeria: Amid reports of escalated attacks in Nigeria against Christians
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Blessing All the Families of the Earth Christmas is all about family, isn’t it? We find evidence of this in the Gospel of Matthew, where the Christmas story begins not with angels and wise men but with a genealogy—a family tree. Tracing twenty-eight generations, it reaches all the
Dearest Daughters
A New Song in the Wind “From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” (Eph. 4:16) Dearest Daughters, Today
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Bondi Beach Massacre Two gunmen opened fire on families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah at Sydney, Australia's Bondi Beach last Sunday, killing at least 15 people. The father-and-son attackers used long guns to target the gathering, with the elder suspect dying at the scene after being shot
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Merry Christmas, church family and friends— This morning’s post is a Christmas story titled “Home for Christmas.”It’s drawn from true events in December, 1977, recounting a pivotal season in my parents’ lives when an unexpected and challenging turn clarified what home really is—and what kind of
Dearest Daughters
That they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God… (Psalm 78:7) My Dearest Daughters, As we rolled out the tubs, trunks, and boxes of holiday decorations this year, my thoughts returned, as they usually do, to the days when all of my children
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The Ukraine/Russia peace agreement that the Trump administration has been working hit a roadblock: territorial concessions. Trump advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are meeting with Zelensky and European leaders in Berlin next weekend to push the U.S. peace plan, which includes Russia's demand for full
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Greetings, church family and friends! Since I already filled your inbox with a book-length essay earlier this week, I thought I’d offer something a bit more concise this morning. On our drive back from Colorado this fall—everyone squeezed into the pickup, music playing, conversations rising and falling like
Dearest Daughters
You are not your own… therefore glorify God. (1 Corinthians 6:19–20) My Dearest Daughters, There is a kind of weariness that comes not from work, but from striving. Striving is what a soul does when she’s not yet sure who she is or where she belongs. A