Since its establishment in 1979, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has shaped federal student loan policies, which have, in turn, influenced the rising cost of an education and the loans to pay for it. As President Donald Trump moves to significantly downsize, and eventually shutter, the DOE, one expert says a completely private loan…
A new animated series from Disney-owned Pixar, “Win or Lose,” features a character who makes a Christian prayer. Original plans to have a transgender character in the same show were scrapped. The first episode in the new series, “Coach’s Kid,” shows “Laurie” bowing her head in prayer ahead of a game, according to The Christian…
Ty Gibbs was unhappy with Tyler Reddick during the NASCAR Cup Series’ Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday afternoon as Denny Hamlin won the race after finishing fifth at Homestead last week. The incident between Gibbs and Reddick on Lap 298. Gibbs got a little too wide in one of the corners, and…
Imagine skipping the gridlock and soaring over the English countryside, arriving at your destination in a fraction of the time. What sounds like a scene from a futuristic movie is about to become a reality in the U.K., thanks to a partnership between Joby Aviation, a California-based company, and Virgin Atlantic. They’re teaming up to…
Today, March 31, my diocese will stand before the Supreme Court of the United States to defend our right to continue our decades-long mission of serving the most vulnerable. It’s shocking it had to come to this. Yet, officials in Wisconsin seek to impede our efforts by claiming this charitable ministry is not religious. Guided by Catholic…
Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is a sovereign citizen. Steven Bixby and his father, Arthur Bixby, led a 12-hour gun battle with law enforcement in Abbeville, South Carolina,…
A suspected illegal immigrant convicted in a deadly Colorado crash last year involving a semi-truck he was driving was detained on Sunday by federal immigration authorities. Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza, 47, a Mexican national, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the lobby of the Jefferson County Detention Center shortly before 8:30 a.m. on…
Warning: This story contains disturbing details. A Honduran illegal alien accused of murdering a Georgia mother of five in a random attack earlier this month, faces additional charges including rape and necrophilia. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, has been the subject of a deportation order since July 2023. Earlier…
Several New York Yankees used redesigned bats during the team’s season-opening series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The new design places the barrel closer to the hands instead of the more standard placement toward the end of the bat. Brewers closer Trevor Megill took issue with the use of the “torpedo” bats and shared his frustrations…
Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the time period that began 2,025 years ago in most historical works. Though at first glance this may appear to…
