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TERRORISM & SECURITY

After Attack, President Trump’s Upcoming Public Events Get a Fresh Security Look

Federal law enforcement officials are evaluating how to proceed with some high-profile public events featuring President Donald Trump after the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

More Countries Are Turning to Nuclear Power 40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster

Associated Press – The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there is a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East.

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RELIGION

Did the New Testament Make All Meats Clean?

“Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.”

In a vision recorded in Acts 10, the apostle Peter witnessed a sheet lowered from heaven, filled with animals—“fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air” (vs. 12)—many of them considered unclean under the laws found in the Old Testament. In verse 13, a voice tells him to kill and eat.

Here is one of Jesus Christ’s apostles, in the early days of the Church, being told to eat what had long been forbidden. For many Christians, this moment appears to signal a turning point. Old restrictions are gone. Case closed.

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WEATHER & ENVIRONMENT

Record U.S. Drought Sparks Worries About Fires, Water Supply and Food Prices

Drought in the contiguous United States has reached record levels for this time of year, weather data shows.

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RELIGION

The Law of Kindness

A new Personal by Editor-in-Chief David C. Pack.

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ASIA

Japan Scraps a Ban on Lethal Weapons Exports in a Change of Its Postwar Pacifist Policy

Japan has scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese and North Korean aggression.

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GEOPOLITICS

Foreign Intervention: Why Nations Cannot Fix Each Other

The petrodollar system is a symbol of American influence. It arose from a series of agreements in the mid-1970s that ensured oil would be traded in U.S. dollars. This strengthened America’s influence across the Middle East and helped fuel regional economic growth.

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AMERICAS

Trump Administration Reclassifies Medical Marijuana as a Less-Dangerous Drug in Historic Shift

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government.

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AMERICAS

America at 250: Why the Nation Was Inevitable

God has clearly blessed the United States. But those blessings do not tell the whole story.

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RELIGION

Has Your Life Been Predetermined?

What is the plan of God? Is He trying to save all men now? And does the Bible teach predestination?

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AMERICAS

As Freed Prisoners Celebrate in Cuba, Human Rights Groups Demand Clarity and Release of Protesters

The release comes as the Cuban government navigates extreme pressure and a crippling oil blockade by the Trump administration, which has openly expressed the desire for regime change and the release of those arrested for protesting.

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RELIGION

The True Church—Identifying It

Part 1

God’s Church has existed unbroken for 2,000 years. It can be found in history and traced to the present day. How is it identified?

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MIDDLE EAST

Driven by the Pressures of War, Iran Gives Its Field Commanders More Power over Militias in Iraq

Iran has granted its commanders greater autonomy over militias in Iraq, allowing some groups to carry out operations without Tehran’s approval, three militia members and two other officials said.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Artemis II Moon Mission Breaks Record for Distance from Earth

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia’s Internet Crackdown Leads to a Spring of Growing Discontent

Several dozen people lined up outside a presidential administration building on a sunny spring weekend in April in central Moscow as police stood nearby and watched them closely.

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SOCIETY & LIFESTYLES

Weapons-Grade Chemical Carfentanil Surges as Dangerous Substitute for Fentanyl

Carfentanil, a weapons-grade chemical that authorities say is 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times stronger than fentanyl, has seen a drastic resurgence across the U.S., killing hundreds of unsuspecting drug users.

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ANALYSIS

Gap Between Rich and Poor Nations Is Growing Even Wider, UN Report Says

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises, a UN report concludes.

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MARRIAGE & FAMILY

U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Record Low in 2025 as Births Fall

The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low last year, extending a nearly two-decade decline, data from the CDC showed on Thursday.

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ANALYSIS

Gaza Marks 6 Months of a Ceasefire That May Offer Lessons for the Iran War

Friday marked six months since Gaza’s ceasefire deal took effect, a milestone largely lost in the confusion over the new and even more fragile ceasefire in the Iran war.