A few years ago “prophetess” Opal Covey, Toledo’s tongues-speaking perennial mayoral candidate, warned that God would rain fire down on the city if she wasn’t elected. So this just happened: Opal Covey’s now famous campaign van caught fire on Navarre Avenue in east Toledo. She says the motor shut down as she was driving. When she tried to restart the …

MarketWatch reports: Some 211,000 people found new jobs in April as hiring rebounded from a wobbly showing in early spring, offering fresh evidence the U.S. economy is still growing at healthy pace after a slow start to the year. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, dipped to 4.4% from 4.5% to set a postrecession low. The last time the rate was so …

Salon reports: Despite her devastating loss to Donald Trump in the November election, Hillary Clinton apparently has no plans to give up on politics. The former secretary of state is creating a new political group that will send money to organizations that are resisting President Trump’s agenda, according to a new Politico report. The group, expected to be called “Onward …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump remains committed to investigating a link between vaccines and autism, and his staff are still in contact with environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about leading a “vaccine safety commission” to investigate the issue, Kennedy told reporters Wednesday. Kennedy, in his first comments on the proposed commission since meeting with Trump on Jan. 10, said he …

CNN reports: Hours after scoring a victory in the House to effectively kill Obamacare, US President Donald Trump praised Australia’s universal health care system during a press conference with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. “It’s going to be fantastic health care,” Trump said, referring to his new health care plan. “I shouldn’t say this to our great gentleman and my friend …

Todd Starnes wants to reassure his fellow haters that the Trump administration still plans to destroy LGBT rights. He writes: An Army of militant atheists and LGBT activists are hell-bent on eradicating Christianity from the public marketplace and punishing Christians who follow the teachings of Christ. That’s why President Trump signed an executive order on religious liberty today in the …

BOOM. Via press release from the ACLU: Today’s executive order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome. After careful review of the order’s text we have determined that the order does not meaningfully alter the ability of religious institutions or individuals to intervene in the political process. The order portends but does not yet do harm to …

Just in from hate group leader Brian Brown: President Trump has repeatedly promised that he would do everything in his power to protect the religious liberty of people of faith and faith-based groups. It was a major factor in his election. However, an executive order he signed today, while containing some helpful provisions for pastors and religious medical providers, falls …

Blue Virginia reports: Minutes after congressional Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a law that could lead to millions of Americans losing insurance coverage, Tom Perriello, Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, is releasing a powerful new TV ad vowing to protect Virginians from the crushing agenda of President Trump and Republicans in Washington …

American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer is ever so pissed at “liberal Ivanka” for the lack of an overty anti-LGBT message is her father’s religious liberty order. He wails: The draft of this executive order that was leaked to the liberal media in February contained robust protections for Christians engaged in business from being compelled by government to violate …

After voting to eviscerate health care in the United States, House Republicans leapt onto buses to celebrate in the Rose Garden with Trump and Pence. Watch if you can stand it.

Reuters is reporting the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that he’ll wait for Trumpcare’s CBO report before bringing the bill to a Senate vote. More from The Hill: Senate Republicans are signaling they are in no hurry to move legislation replacing ObamaCare after it passed the House Thursday. “There is no timeline,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the …

ABC News reports: House Republicans have passed their ambitious plan to repeal and replace Obamacare after several fits and starts, sending the measure to the Senate, where it is expected to be significantly revised. House Republicans will now head to the White House for a press conference. Democrats warned that the changes will leave Americans worse off. “Make no mistake …

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump, ahead of the expected vote in the House on Thursday to partially repeal Obamacare, accused Democrats of defending an “Obamacare lie.” “I am watching the Democrats trying to defend the ‘you can keep you doctor, you can keep your plan & premiums will go down’ ObamaCare lie,” Trump tweeted. Trump, according to the White …

TIME reports: The House of Representatives is slated to vote on a new health care bill Thursday that will repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), just six weeks after an earlier GOP bill was abandoned amid concerns it would not pass in the House. The vote is expected to take place early Thursday afternoon, according to the Associated …

Inverse recaps: The latest trailer for Netflix’s Sense8 has finally done the inevitable and introduced an entirely new cluster of eight sensates, and they won’t be friendly, at least at first. We already knew that the Cluster would be taking the fight to Whispers in Season 2, but now we’re getting more insight into their actual plans. The new season …

The Hill reports: Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez blasted the Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare ahead of the House vote on Thursday, saying President Trump and Republicans “will own every preventable death” as a result. “Trump and Republicans will own every preventable death, every untreated illness and every bankruptcy that American families will be forced to bear if this …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: The Orlando shooting at Pulse Nightclub on June 12 will be memorialized with an “iconic, meaningful, national” memorial and eventually a museum, where Orlando’s millions of visitors will learn about the club, the tragedy and the victims. Leaders of the not-for-profit onePULSE Foundation officially launched the effort to building the memorial Thursday morning. “Today, I’m able …

But we still don’t know for sure. Dominic Holden reports at Buzzfeed: Many had expected — on the left and right — that the order would offer protections for people and corporations with a religious objection to LGBT people, far more hot button issues. The White House official said there were not plans for a separate order that addressed LGBT …

The Washington Post reports: Barack Obama is weighing into France’s presidential election, in support of Emmanuel Macron. In a message posted on Macron’s Twitter account, the former U.S. president said he was endorsing the centrist candidate “because of how important this election is.” Macron is facing far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s runoff vote. Polls suggest Macron is well …