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A homeowner shot and killed a man early Monday morning in Chicago’s South Deering neighborhood after the man allegedly entered a residence and charged at the homeowner. ABC 7 reported that the incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Chicago 32 noted that police responded to a report of a person being shot and arrived to find the 33-year-old alleged intruder fatally wounded. The alleged intruder died on the scene. The homeowner told police that the alleged intruder made his way into the home and charged at him, prompting the homeowner to shoot. The 33-year-old alleged intruder was struck in the chest…
Footage circulating online shows the blaze nearly engulfing vehicles passing over the Bridge of the Americas A huge fireball and towering columns of black smoke erupted beside the Bridge of the Americas in Panama, with dramatic videos on social media showing flames tearing through the fuel terminal next to the landmark crossing.The blast, reported in La Boca, Balboa, forced the immediate shutdown of traffic on the bridge, one of the country’s most important transport links. While the explosion did not occur directly on the bridge, flames billowing beneath the crossing fueled concern over its structural integrity.Panama’s fire service said the…
NASA astronaut and pilot for the Artemis II mission, Victor Glover, shared the Gospel and teachings of Jesus Christ, moments before losing signal with Earth as he and the other astronauts reached the dark side of the Moon. Glover shared that as he, and the three other astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, got closer “to the nearest point to the Moon, and farthest point from Earth,” he wanted to remind people of one of the “most important mysteries” on Earth, love. Glover shared how Jesus Christ said that the “greatest command” was to…
The Iranian Foreign Ministry claimed on Monday that Sunday’s daring American rescue of a downed pilot might have been a “deception operation” for a failed attempt to steal Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. “The area where the American pilot was claimed to be present in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province is a long way from the area where they attempted to land or wanted to land their forces in central Iran,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei. “The possibility that this was a deception operation to steal enriched uranium should not be ignored at all,” he insisted. Baqaei disputed accounts…
Former Saturday Night Live cast member Siobhan Fallon Hogan, perhaps best known for her role as Beatrice in Men in Black, explained why Catholicism is growing in the U.S. today and also recalled attending Mass with SNL legend Chris Farley. On her Catholics and Cappuccinos podcast, Hogan hosted King of Queens star Kevin James and the topic turned to faith and religion. During the conversation, which went viral online on the eve of Easter Sunday, Hogan spoke about her experience with Farley and her religious beliefs. She told James that Farley was a “very faithful” Catholic and recalled that he often…
Venezuelan journalist and former political prisoner Carlos Julio Rojas on Sunday accused the nation’s socialist regime, now led by “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez, of criminalizing the Catholic “Burning of Judas” Easter tradition. Rojas, who was unjustly detained by the Venezuelan regime days after he participated in a 2024 Burning of Judas in Caracas, denounced that members of the Bolivarian National Police prevented his local community from carrying out the tradition. The “Burning of Judas” is a centuries-old activity celebrated by Catholics in some Latin American and European nations throughout the Easter weekend that consists in crafting an effigy of Judas Iscariot and burning…
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host the White House Easter Egg roll on Monday, April 6. On Easter Sunday, the White House released a list of ways the president has reaffirmed “America as a beacon for Christian liberty.” President Trump also issued a video message to wish Christians a happy Easter ahead of Sunday. Read the full article here
The US president did not name the outlet or the reporter he called “a sick person” President Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist as part of an administration hunt for the source who leaked details and “complicated” the rescue mission for the crew members of the US F-15E Strike Eagle shot down over Iran last week.Speaking at a White House press conference alongside top defense officials, Trump said that the pilot was recovered within hours on Friday, while the weapons systems officer – badly injured and hiding in a mountain crevice – was rescued early Sunday after a complex…
An official from a Lebanese Christian party was reportedly killed amid an Israeli airstrike east of Beirut on Sunday, adding to the growing tension between Hezbollah supporters and opponents after the Iran-backed terrorist group forced Lebanon into war against Israel. The airstrike on Sunday targeted an apartment building in the majority-Christian town of Ain Saadeh near Beirut. The mayor of the town said three civilians living beneath the apartment targeted by Israeli forces were killed. Two of the dead were identified as Pierre Moawad, a local official from the Lebanese Forces party, and his wife Flavia. The Israel Defense Forces…
The Puzzle of Rising Wages and Low Payroll Growth Here is a question that has been nagging at economists: why has wage growth held up so well when payroll growth has been so weak? In 2025, the U.S. economy added just 181,000 workers to payrolls — a number that would have been considered anemic in any recent year. Yet nominal wages grew at an above-average 3.8 percent across the economy and 4.3 percent in manufacturing. On Friday, the March jobs report came in at 178,000 against expectations of just 59,000 — a blowout that caught the consensus flat-footed. Unemployment fell…