Five of the seven republican Indiana state senators that voted against the redistricting measure that would eliminate Democrat seats in the U.S. House lost decisively to Trump-endorsed candidates in the GOP Primary. Four other Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries decisively as well.
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If not an outright cure, a new discovery could turn Sickle Cell Anemia from a deadly and painful chronic disease to a curable, or at least manageable disease. The discovery comes from Swee Lay Thein and Stuart Orkin.
A 15-year-old teen boy from Louisiana was running out of options in his fight against cancer. A viral video brought his plea to President Trump, who promptly moved to get the boy the special treatment he needs to continue his fight for life.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it eliminated Hamas Commander Anas Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed, who infiltrated Israel and participated in the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival Massacre.
Hamed was killed during a targeted Monday strike in Gaza, the IDF announced Tuesday.
“The IDF struck yesterday in the center of the Gaza Strip and eliminated Ans Muhammad Ibrahim Hamed, Nukhba commander in the Hamas terror organization, who raided the territory of the State of Israel and the Nova festival during the murderous massacre on October 7,” the IDF wrote in a Tuesday morning post on X.
The IDF called Hamed an “immediate threat to IDF forces operating in the Gaza Strip,” and said he was “eliminated in a precise airstrike.”
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Indiana’s May 5 primary election tested President Donald Trump’s influence after he endorsed several state Senate candidates seeking to unseat Republican incumbents who had previously broken ranks with him by opposing a redistricting map.
At least six out of the eight Indiana Senate challengers endorsed by Trump won their respective primary elections on Tuesday, most with significant leads.
A ‘big night for MAGA in Indiana.’
Twenty-one GOP state senators voted with their Democrat colleagues in December to block a new congressional map that would have created two more Republican-leaning districts and potentially strengthened the GOP’s control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The effort failed in a 31-19 vote, despite Trump’s warnings that he would target Republicans in the upcoming primary election who voted against it.
Republicans who voted against the redistricting effort and who were seeking re-election in the May primary included:
- James Buck (District 21)
- Spencer Deery (District 23)
- Dan Dernulc (District 1)
- Greg Goode (District 38)
- Travis Holdman (District 19)
- Rick Niemeyer (District 6)
- Linda Rogers (District 11)
- Greg Walker (District 41)
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On Thursday, the State Senate will begin considering HCR 26, the Prenatal Development Education Resolution. HCR 26 is the first step to making sure students in Louisiana learn, through scientifically-accurate information and video, about the amazing process of a baby’s development in the womb.
On Monday April 13th, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed HCR 28, the Prenatal Human Development Education Resolution.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a new U.S. House redistricting plan that will give the GOP 4 more seats. The law was immediately challenged in state courts.
President Donald Trump announced a 5,000 troop cut in Germany, adding more is to come. He said, “We’re going to cut way down. And we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000.”
Leaders of the separatist movement of Canada’s western province Alberta claim to have enough signatures to trigger a vote on separation from Canada.
Harvard has created a digital open-source wallet that keeps your private data from being shared online. The digital wallet keeps your personal data on your phone, validating your purchases without relying on a third-party source to do so.
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Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way large language models like ChatGPT read text. Scanning the genome for biological mutation patterns, the computer model traces pairs of genes back in time to their last common ancestor.
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An Oklahoma couple and their pets got to safety in the nick of time on Friday when a possible tornado hit their community.
Shari and Dwain Short live in Ponca City, where video footage recorded outside their home shows the tense moments as the sky darkened and the wind whipped around their property, Fox Weather reported Saturday.
The clip shows Shari opening the door to what appears to be an underground storm shelter. The trees sway back and forth in the wind and the grey sky looks ominous as the couple prepares for the worst.
Moments later, Dwain is seen carrying a dog as he climbs into the shelter behind his wife. The second he tries to shut the door, the wind picks up. Dwain emerges from the shelter for a moment, then goes back inside as the storm hits.
Debris flies through the air, the camera shakes violently, and outside lights flash as gust after gust of wind hits their property and the surrounding community. A flash is seen in the sky seconds before the video ends:
In a social media post Sunday, Shari recalled how intensely frightening the experience was for them before acknowledging God’s hand in it.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by parents to sue a public school district in Massachusetts over actions by teachers and officials to support the gender identity of students by not disclosing name or pronoun changes to parents without the child’s consent.
The justices turned away an appeal by the parents of a student who had self-identified as “genderqueer” while attending a middle school in the Massachusetts town of Ludlow after a lower court threw out their lawsuit.
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The pro-life activist and father of seven who was targeted with an FBI raid under the Biden administration won a lawsuit payout of over $1 million, one of the ministries supporting him announced earlier this month.
Mark Houck, who lives near Philadelphia, regularly ministered outside the Planned Parenthood location in the Center City neighborhood, sometimes taking his 12-year-old son to experience the harrowing work of trying to save babies on the brink of murder.
On one occasion in October 2021, a volunteer clinic escort verbally harassed his son with profane language, prompting Houck to shove the man to protect his child.
The Thomas More Society, which represented Houck, noted that the private case against him was dismissed after the clinic escort failed to appear at the hearing.
Armed agents pointed weapons at his wife and children.
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- The National Association for Gun Rights advocates for nationwide Constitutional Carry, citing data from the safest states without permit requirements.
- Recent data shows that crime decreased in Florida and Ohio after adopting Constitutional Carry laws, contradicting opponents’ claims.
- The safest states include Maine, New Hampshire, and North Dakota, all of which permit lawful carry without a permit.
- Strict gun control states like California and New York report higher death rates compared to Constitutional Carry states.
- Twenty-nine states now support the principle of carrying firearms without government permission, aligning with Second Amendment rights.
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- A 16-year-old boy shot two people in downtown Seattle before being killed by a licensed concealed carrier.
- The shooting occurred near the Four Seasons Hotel during a fight that escalated with gunfire.
- Two victims, aged 18 and 17, were hospitalized in serious condition following the incident.
- The armed citizen cooperated with police and was not arrested after the event.
- This incident highlights the importance of lawful concealed carry in responding to active threats.
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SEATTLE, WA — A 16-year-old boy who shot two people in downtown Seattle Wednesday night was killed by a licensed concealed carrier who intervened at the scene. As reported by MSN, the initial shooting happened around 10 p.m. near the Four Seasons Hotel on Union Street.
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes said three people got into a fight when one pulled out a gun and shot two bystanders before fleeing the scene. A private citizen who was licensed to carry a firearm stepped in and shot the suspect.
Seattle Fire Department crews treated an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy, both transported to the hospital in serious condition. The 16-year-old suspect was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
Over 5 Million Children Have Signed Up for Trump Accounts– slaynews.com
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More than 5 million children in the United States have already been enrolled in the Trump administration’s new “Trump Accounts” program, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced.
The initiative is aimed at building long-term financial stability for young Americans.
The program provides a federally funded $1,000 seed investment for eligible children, starting at birth.
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The Department of Justice awarded more than $1 million to a pro-life advocate wrongfully arrested in his home, his defense announced last week, marking a legal win for free speech and a de facto acknowledgment of federal lawfare deployed against pro-life Christians under the Biden administration. The announcement came just days before Tuesday’s release of a detailed report that further exposes the Biden DOJ’s egregious abuse of the FACE Act.
In 2022, Catholic pro-life father Mark Houck was arrested at his home in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Houck had been charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act after pushing away a Planned Parenthood volunteer who was harassing his 12-year-old son. Although local police and the district attorney rejected the volunteer’s attempt to bring Houck to court, and a municipal court dismissed a lawsuit against him, the Department of Justice picked up the case, threatening Houck with a maximum 11-year prison sentence. Houck agreed to turn himself in peacefully, but federal agents ignored his compliance, staging an aggressive arrest in front of his wife and seven children. In custody, Houck was chained to a table for six hours.
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A federal appeals court has halted a controversial attempt by a Democrat-aligned district judge to pursue criminal contempt proceedings against several Trump administration officials, delivering a sharp rebuke to the lower court’s actions.
In a brief, unsigned order issued April 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated an earlier ruling by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.
The appeals court ordered the activist judge to terminate the contempt investigation he launched.
The dispute stems from the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal immigrants, identified as suspected gang members, to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, from left, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 21, 2025.J. Scott Applewhite/AP
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In 2023, after Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress, the Justice Department noted the stiff sentence reflected the court’s conclusion that Rhodes’ “conduct was terrorism.”
“The Oath Keepers plotted for months to violently disrupt the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next,” then–Attorney General Merrick Garland said. “The Justice Department will continue to do everything in our power to hold accountable those criminally responsible for the January 6th attack on our democracy.”