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Vice President JD Vance visited the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel, on Thursday, paying his respects to the traditional site where many Catholics believe that Jesus Christ was buried after his crucifixion. Many Protestants believe that the true site lies outside the Old City in an area known as the Garden Tomb. Nevertheless, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre draws Christian visitors and pilgrims from all backgrounds. Vance, who is on a three-day trip to Israel with his wifeto show solidarity with the Jewish state and to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal in…

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to the U.S. Treasury Department’s latest round of sanctions against Russian oil on Thursday by dismissing them as irrelevant, claiming Russia will “not face any particular problems.” Zakharova condemned the sanctions as “extremely counterproductive,” particularly in the context of President Donald Trump announcing plans for meetings with Putin intended to find an end to the latter’s ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine. She nonetheless claimed the country has endured years of sanctions and its economy is properly isolated, such as to not feel the pain of elevated sanctions as much as it once did.…

Christian singer Chris Tomlin, who performed at Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s memorial last month, is seeing signs of a spiritual revival and real “awakening” in America. “There’s no playing games anymore,” the Grammy Award-winning worship leader said. “There’s a hunger I haven’t felt in a while,” Tomlin told the Christian Post on the red carpet at the GMA Dove Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, adding that the phenomenon is unlike anything he has ever seen in his decades of ministry. “People are coming hungry, wanting to connect with God. There’s no playing games anymore. It feels like we’re in a real moment, an awakening,”…

Germany will cover wages for personnel working on US military bases in the country Germany plans to pay thousands of employees stationed at American military bases in the country whose salaries have been affected by the US government shutdown, the Finance Ministry in Berlin has announced.The US federal government shut down on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a spending bill in the Senate. The impasse has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees either furloughed or working without pay as the standoff enters its fourth week.A spokeswoman for the German Finance Ministry told AFP on…

Using a headlamp for illumination, a Free Burma Rangers medical team treats a man wounded by the Burma Army. Photo courtesy of Free Burma Rangers (FBR).   Thick black smoke billows into the sky, twisting above the charred remains of what was once a thriving village. Flames consume wooden homes, their roofs collapsing as fire spreads relentlessly through the community. The air is heavy with the acrid scent of burning thatch and scorched earth, while displaced villagers watch helplessly from a distance, their lives reduced to ashes. This scene of devastation followed a Burma Army airstrike on a civilian village…

Bessent mentioned seven price floor areas in a CNBC interview but did not name them.Price Floors Across a Range of IndustriesThe discussion of price floors is in relation to the US trade war with China, especially rare earth metals.However, it’s not just rare earths.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said “We’re going to set price floors and the forward buying to make sure that this doesn’t happen again. And we’re going to do it across a range of industries.”CNBC reports Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says “When you are facing a nonmarket economy like…

Seek and ye shall find. An amateur metal detectorist profoundly believes in that maxim and it came true when he uncovered up to 15,000 Roman coins buried in a hoard that could be Wales’ biggest-ever treasure find. The BBC reports David Moss, 36, from Cheshire, made the discovery that left him in disbelief after he dug up up two clay pots in an undisclosed northern part of the country. But the epic find in a muddy field left him fearing they could be stolen, so he slept with the treasure in his car for three days before taking the coins to…

Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts that President Donald Trump’s request for roughly $230 million from his Justice Department to be compensated for the past investigations against him was “extorting and looting the federal government.” Hostin said, “I think we need to speak plainly to people and think we need to call it what this is. This is giving mob boss. That is what it is. He is extorting and looting the federal government, in my view. And he’s extorting and looting the federal government that he is already extorting and looting.  As you mentioned, since 2017, his…

The list includes a pledge to further reduce Russian gas and oil imports, according to dpa The European Union has agreed a new sanctions package on Moscow, including a pledge to further reduce imports of gas and oil, dpa reported on Wednesday.According to Reuters sources in the EU, the package will list four companies involved in China’s oil industry that allegedly circumvent Western restrictions.The final text was agreed upon by member states but had not been adopted yet owing to reservations from Slovakia “on unrelated matters,” Reuters wrote earlier on Wednesday. According to journalist Finbarr Bermingham, citing the Danish presidency,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied en banc rehearing in Newsom v. Trump, effectively upholding the earlier panel decision that sided with Trump and affirmed his authority to federalize the California National Guard to support federal immigration enforcement. When California officials refused to cooperate with federal agents, Trump invoked § 12406(3), federalizing and deploying 4,000 members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles to secure ICE facilities and restore order. California Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California sued over President Trump’s order, claiming it was unconstitutional and violated state sovereignty. Newsom wrote at…