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The Christian site Beliefnet reports: In a bold move to reaffirm tradition and honor faith, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the Academy’s historic crest to Bibles housed in the West Point Cadet Chapel. “Since the founding of West Point and before, generations of cadets, officers, and Soldiers have …

NewsNation reports: One Tennessee school district will no longer accept doctors’ notes to excuse an absence despite objections from parents. Lawrence County School System officials said the school is instituting the policy to teach students work ethic and reliability, saying that students will be expected to go to work sick or injured as adults. With no federally mandated sick leave, …

Albany’s ABC affiliate reports: A man once entrusted to run political parties has admitted to stealing campaign funds. NYS Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that 49-year-old Jason McGuire, the former chairman of the Livingston County Conservative Party, pleaded guilty to pocketing $16,000 of the party’s funds from 2020 to 2021. Officials said he spent the stolen money on meals …

The San Antonio Current reports: A month after unveiling his reelection campaign, Texas House Republican and state DOGE Committee Chairman Giovanni Capriglione shocked the Texas capitol Tuesday by announcing he no longer plans to run. The about-face came just before a bombshell interview surfaced Friday with an exotic dancer who maintains she had a 17-year affair with the conservative Dallas-Fort …

The Associated Press reports: Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison Friday on two murder conspiracy convictions in Arizona, marking an end to a winding legal saga for the mother with doomsday religious beliefs who claimed people in her life had been possessed by evil spirits. Prosecutors say Vallow Daybell conspired to kill her husband so she could …

The Barbed Wire reports: State Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, who authored Texas’ “trigger ban” on abortion, said in a statement on Friday that he has never paid for an abortion. The statement, posted on X, came after Alex Grace — who describes herself as a mother of four, political news curator, and exotic dancer — alleged that the Southlake-based Republican has …

The Texas Tribune reports: Legislation identical to two failed regular session bills seeking to restrict what bathrooms transgender people can use in government and school buildings have been filed in the Texas House and Senate after Gov. Greg Abbott outlined the restrictions as a special session priority. State Sen. Mayes Middleton filed Senate Bill 7 on Thursday, days after Lt. …

“For most of this country’s history, this wouldn’t be a controversial point, but suddenly we’re expected to believe that only a bigot, only a far-right white supremacist would dare to say that being an American actually means something. Only the most racist person imaginable would believe that Americans have a shared culture, a shared language, a shared loyalty. That’s the …

The Christian Post reports: Former My Faith Votes CEO Jason Yates, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, months after his arrest. Yates pleaded guilty to two of the eight felony counts of possession of child pornography that he had been charged with last year, in return for the dismissal of the other six counts. …

Posted today by hate group leader Tony Perkins: “Promises made, promises kept” became a hallmark of the first Trump administration — and for many Americans, it set the expectation for his second term. But that expectation, combined with a historic level of distrust in government — now rivaling or even surpassing the lows of Watergate and Vietnam — has ignited …

The Lexington Herald Leader reports: Kim Davis has persistently fought back against lawsuits filed against her by the couples she denied licenses to. The former Rowan County clerk who was briefly jailed for denying marriage licenses to gay couples a decade ago has again asked the Supreme Court to hear her appeal in hopes of overturning the nationwide right to …

The Ohio Capital Journal reports: Ohio House Bill 249 would ban drag performers from performing anywhere that is not a designated adult entertainment facility. State Reps. Angie King, R-Celina, and Josh Williams, R-Sylvania Twp., introduced the bill, which has had sponsor testimony.  Ohio House Bill 190 would require parental permission for schools to use different pronouns or different names for …

The Denver Post reports: A Colorado pastor and his wife face dozens of charges connected to a cryptocurrency scam that investigators say they used to deceive and steal from their Christian community, according to the Denver district attorney’s office. Eli, who ran the online-only Victorious Grace Church, and Kaitlyn Regalado were indicted by a Denver grand jury on 40 felony charges …

The Huffington Post reports: Senate Republicans handed Trump a win on Tuesday with confirmation of one his first judicial nominees, Joshua Divine. Divine, 35, will now hold a lifetime seat on a U.S. district court in Missouri. He drew strong opposition from Democrats and civil rights groups over his long record of litigation against women’s reproductive rights, including leading a …

“Some of our most shameful moments as a country relate to how we treat immigrants, she says. Right. Well, a couple of questions. First of all, what do you mean by our, what do you mean by we Maria? OK. You’re Cuban. Your greatest priority is to destroy our national sovereignty and identity. “You talk about American history like it’s something …

Mississippi Today reports: A federal judge has temporarily paused enforcement of the state law that prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion programs from Mississippi public schools and universities. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate approved the request for a temporary restraining order sought by a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations on behalf of students, parents and educators. The American Civil …

The Telegraph reports: A Texan father who moved his family to Russia to escape “woke” America has been sent to the front line. Derek Huffman, 46, relocated to the small town of Istra, around 25 miles from Moscow, with his wife, their three daughters and their husky earlier this year. They did this through Russia’s “shared values” visa scheme, aimed …

Rachel Wells reports at Substack: Last Thursday, at a town hall in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a 35-year-old woman shared her story: she was denied prenatal care by her physician because they objected to the fact that she wasn’t married, nor did she plan to be. She’d been with her partner for 15 years, and they have a 13-year-old child. While going …

The New York Post reports: Edwin J. Feulner, a prominent figure in the American conservative movement and co-founder and former president of the Heritage Foundation, died on Friday at the age of 83. He was well known for transforming the once-obscure think tank into one of the most influential policy powerhouses in Washington, DC. He was its longest-serving president after …

“There are a lot of praises to sing, and everyone will be singing that tune, and certainly the voters will when they come to the midterms in 2026. This is the beginning of a great run for America. President Trump called me early this morning, we were doing a victory lap together on the phone about the passage of the …