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The New York Post reports: “Saturday Night Live” alum Victoria Jackson said that she has “months” to live after her cancer returned. On Wednesday, Aug. 14, Jackson, 65, posted an Instagram video to share the news. In the caption, she wrote, “Cancer Update: I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a …

The Texas Tribune reports: County election departments across Texas are trying to reassure voters amid a flood of formal challenges questioning whether their registrations are valid. The challenges, filed by conservative groups and individual activists, seek to remove tens of thousands of voters from the rolls on the grounds that they don’t live in the county, are not citizens or …

The Hill reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is suing the Biden administration again over federal workplace protections for transgender employees. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Justice Department (DOJ), argues that agency guidelines clarifying what constitutes harassment under federal law are unlawful and asks the court to permanently …

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: The superintendent of Bixby Public Schools has filed a lawsuit claiming Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters defamed and slandered him during a news conference in late July. In a lawsuit filed by Robert Miller Jr. in Tulsa County, the Bixby Public Schools superintendent says Walters made “maliciously uttered slanderous and defamatory statements” during a July …

Megachurch Pastor Mario Murillo writes: This is the blog that will cost me friends and close doors to my ministry. If I was not writing this at the urging of the Lord, I would not dare. But write it I must. Because the cost of remaining silent would cost me the anointing. A price too dire for me to even …

Florida Politics reports: Can the ‘Demon Buster’ defeat 2 opponents this month? Duval County Democrats have three choices in one of this month’s Primaries. They can go with the incumbent, Rep. Kim Daniels, or with one of her two opponents. A former pastor and consultant, Lloyd Caulker is the owner of the “Salvation Navy,” which is described on LinkedIn as …

Courthouse News reports: An Iowa man fired for posting a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to God” was not illegally fired based on his religion, a federal appeals court said in a ruling Wednesday. Daniel Snyder was fired from Arconic Corp., an aluminum company with tens of thousands of employees worldwide, …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Jack in the Box restaurants may push away customers if the company continues advertising in a manner that offends parents with ads that include insinuated profanity. The company’s newest commercial has Jack, its iconic mascot, talking with Deadpool, the Marvel Studios character, after he and Wolverine destroy a Jack in the Box …

“Kamala Harris, she wants to take us to the Soviet grocery stores. Kamala Harris is ‘hearing the concerns’ of the American people. Her pollsters say, you gotta do something about this grocery problem, this price problem. “So Kamala Harris is going full Soviet. Kamala Harris, rejecting the lesson from Boris Yeltsin when he was marveling about the abundance in our …

CNN reports: Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But the men Vought was talking to actually worked for a British journalism nonprofit and were secretly recording him the entire time. The nonprofit, the Centre for Climate Reporting, …

Via email from FRC Action president Jody Hice: Like you, I was horrified to see Italian female boxer Angela Carini pummeled in the ring by boxer Imane Khelif from Algeria. After withdrawing from the fight, Carini told reporters that she had “never been hit so hard in her life.” Though Khelif has a rare intersex condition and doesn’t identify as …

Oklahoma City’s CW affiliate reports: Twenty-one Republican lawmakers have signed a letter that calls for a committee to investigate State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education. That committee could ultimately recommend that Walters be impeached. It is up to House Speaker Charles McCall to form that investigative committee. On Tuesday, he told his caucus that at …

The Daily Mail reports: An Ohio restaurateur who drew headlines after announcing a boycott of the Olympics over its controversial Last Supper recreation is now facing a string of serious criminal charges. Bobby George, 43, turned himself in this week on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, strangulation, assault and rape in relation to the alleged abuse of a woman between …

Posted to the Liberty Counsel’s website: Tim Walz, assistant high school football coach turned Minnesota governor, has been at the front lines of the LGBTQ fight for decades. While working at Mankato West High School, Walz founded the school’s first “Gay Straight Alliance” chapter and encouraged minors to join the group that encourages children to experiment with sex as early …

The Christian Post reports: Josiah Johnson, brother to the widely followed self-described prophet Jeremiah Johnson [photo], has publicly accused his sibling of fabricating prophetic visions and messages, particularly those involving former President Donald Trump. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Jeremiah admitted to inaccurately prophesying Trump’s victory, a confession that led to considerable backlash from his followers, including death …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: As the 2024 presidential election draws closer, more Americans tune in for information about the major candidates. For spiritually active, governance engaged conservatives (SAGE Cons), who know firsthand the formative role a church can play, a candidate’s church background is an important issue that often receives little coverage in the mainstream media. To …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Trump Administration Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told her local newspaper that she would be open to serving in the former president’s cabinet should he win again this November. The position is a 180-degree turn from the one she staked out on Jan. 7, 2021, the day she resigned from her post in protest following what …

CBS News reports: The leader of a Kenyan starvation sect went on trial on Monday for manslaughter over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in one of the world’s worst cult-related tragedies. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and dozens of other suspects pleaded not guilty in January to multiple counts of manslaughter, one of several cases against …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Gillette Venus has launched an ongoing series of commercials about shaving pubic hair – in the name of “normalizing” it. “Venus for Pubic Hair & Skin Regimen” is one of the commercials currently being aired by Gillette Venus. It features a female standing in her lingerie while the ad discusses pubic hair …

ABC News reports: Iowa can enforce a book ban this school year following a Friday ruling by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district judge’s earlier decision that temporarily halted key parts of the law. The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved in 2023, also forbids teachers from …