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Germany's AfD was projected to win ​the most votes in ‌the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, ​exit polls showed, but ​the far-right party is ⁠unlikely to govern as ​other parties rule out ​working with it. The exit poll, conducted for public broadcaster ARD, ​showed the AfD ​at 37.0% and the governing centre-right ‌Social ⁠Democrats at 35.5%. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU slumped to 5.5% of the vote, ​its ​worst ⁠result in any state election since ​1949. With the ​threshold ⁠set at 5%, it remained unclear whether the ⁠party ​would secure seats ​in the state parliament.

A federal judge has temporarily barred UC from enforcing parts of its misgendering policy against members of conservative group, finding likely First Amendment violations. The injunction shields members who use pronouns or names assigned at birth when referring to transgender people. The case lands amid intensifying legal battles over transgender rights in California schools.

A conservative comedian perfectly exposed the shallowness of the support for admitted child killer Lindsay Clancy earlier this month with a simple, yet provocative question. As TGP readers know, a mistrial was declared in the Clancy murder trial after one male juror held the line. Clancy killed her three children and admitted to the crime, but the defense argues she is not guilty by reason of insanity. This set off Clancy’s legion of crazed fans, who have become infamous for their public behavior and wild conspiracy theories. They and the liberal media immediately sought to destroy the brave juror who...

For decades, many scientists have confidently dismissed the vast majority of the human DNA as useless evolutionary garbage. Yet a recently published scientific paper in Cell, one of the world’s most prestigious biology journals, declares a “paradigm shift” against the idea that huge portions of the human genome are merely “junk DNA.”After the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, a startling discovery was made. Only about 2 percent of the entire human genome codes for proteins. Scientists naturally asked, what is the other 98 percent doing?Evolutionary biology was ready with an answer. For decades, they had claimed that the...

Have you been to the library lately? I bet you haven’t. I bet, unless you have young kids, you haven’t been there in 10 or 20 years, at a minimum. Why would you go when you have everything they offer available to you at home, either delivered immediately digitally, or the next day physically? … why are we still paying for them?***There are two types of libraries: the small ones in rural communities, and the large ones in major cities. The small ones are cesspools of left-wing propaganda – go to one and look at the children’s book section and...

While the same 'current thing' leftists who spent years on climate, oil and "Palestine" now chants that AI will wipe out the human race, FBI Director Kash Patel just announced that the agency is using the technology to actively prevent mass shootings, including school attacks, before they happen.Patel said artificial intelligence helped the bureau prevent possible school shootings in North Carolina and about half a dozen other states, and that he has increased the FBI's use of AI by 605 percent.That is the version of AI that the pause-and-treaty crowd does not want discussed.? JUST NOW: In a MASSIVE win,...

LINGUISTS TEND to say that all languages are valuable, expressive and complex. They usually attribute negative attitudes to prejudice and politics. That is probably why no one has carefully studied the touchy question of which ones are seen as beautiful or ugly. That is until three scholars—Andrey Anikin, Nikolay Aseyev and Niklas Erben Johansson—published their study of 228 languages last year*. They hit upon the idea of using an online film about the life of Jesus, which its promoters have recorded in hundreds of languages. Crucially, most recordings had at least five different speakers, as the film has both exposition...

The German federal prosecutor’s office recently announced that it indicted seven people for allegedly securing weapons for the Hamas terrorist organization, with the goal of launching terrorist attacks on the second remembrance date of the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. The indictment has catapulted the danger of Hamas’ network in Europe to Israeli, American and European installations and citizens into the spotlight. According to the prosecutor’s office, "All of the accused belong to the foreign terrorist organization Hamas. Some time ago, the organization’s military wing (the so-called Qassam Brigades) began establishing weapons depots in Europe. No later than July 2025,...

A group of students at San Pablo, California’s Contra Costa College engaged in a “decapitation” of a Donald Trump piñata, which appeared to be celebrated by one of the school’s counselors. According to Fox News, the X account Libs of TikTok posted video of a person in a blindfold approaching a Trump figurine — donned in a “blue suit, red baseball cap and holding a sign that reads ‘F— ICE'” — and then beheading it. The event reportedly occurred “a few months ago,” but the video surfaced “just last week.” It “appear[ed] to be overseen” by Lorena Gonzalez, currently listed...

Explanation: If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year. The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK. In the foreground are the Callanish Stones, a stone circle built around 2700 BC during humanity's Bronze Age. It is not known if...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched tFalcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:47 p.m. EDT (6:47 p.m. local time; 0147 GMT on Sept. 20). It was a record 40th flight for one of the Falcon 9’s fairing halves. Blastoff! SpaceX launches & deploys 27 Starlink satellites, nails landing | 9:18 VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 19,461 views | September 20, 2026

20 September 2026 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Holy Korean Martyrs' Catholic Church in Baltimore, MarylandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 55:6-9My thoughts are not your thoughtsSeek the Lord while he is still to be found,call to him while he is still near.Let the wicked man abandon his way,the evil man his thoughts.Let him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on him,to our God who is rich in forgiving;for my thoughts are not your thoughts,my ways not your ways – it is the Lord who speaks.Yes, the heavens are as high above earthas my ways...

Former first lady Michelle Obama’s voter registration and engagement initiative is targeting Generation Z, launching a “Voting Squad” made up of popular content creators and aimed at urging young people to head to the polls. Some of the content creators joining the effort announced Tuesday include Brandon Edelman, who is known as Bran Flakezz on TikTok and boasts more than 1.4 million followers; “plant enthusiast” Paige Tailyn; physician and “medical mythbuster” Joel Bervell; and influencer Leon Ondieki, who’s followed by 4.5 million TikTok users. Cameron Jerrard, J.C. Carter, Wildlin Pierrevil, Justin Frett, Scot Louie, Olive Okoro, Carrie Snipes and Gabriel...

Beloved, Amir Tzarfati is an amazing Jewish believer in Yeshua who holds a pre-tribulation dispensational biblical position. He beautifully and simply explains the Day of Atonement and how it will be fulfilled upon Yeshua's return from the Right hand of the Almighty (Psalm 110:1, Dan. 2:43-44; Dan. 7:13-14, Zech 12:10-14, Matt. 26:64, Mark 14:62)! Maranatha! David

The measure was a final legacy item for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close ally and friend of the president who had just returned from Ukraine when he unexpectedly died in July.

Embattled German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party was projected to only just scrape into parliament, while the AfD was on track to win the most votes. Merz called the result "a disaster" for his party. In Berlin, the ruling CDU was also expected to be beaten by Die Linke (The Left). Merz is under mounting pressure, with poor approval ratings and rumours he could even be replaced mid-term in a so-called...

When a local pastor condemned officials for naming a busy intersection after Hezbollah-supporter Osama Siblani in September 2025, Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud (above in 2024) called the pastor “an Islamophobe,” declaring: “I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here. And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.”(Shutterstock) The chickens have come home to roost for Dearborn, Michigan, and its mayor, Abdullah Hammoud. A year and a few...

The FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT! WHEN YESHUA RETURNS TO ISRAEL! (Lev. 23:27-32, Zech. 12:10-14; 13:1;8-9; Rev. 19:11-21). An incredible teaching on the fulfillment of Yom Kippur! Yeshua Returns to Israel SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, throughout the Holy Scriptures, Yahweh's Word continually points forward to a day when Jesus Christ (Yeshua), Israel's promised Messiah, will return in ETERNAL power and glory to the very land where He first came in His humility. The very One who was rejected and crucified by His own will will return from the Right Hand of the Majesty on High as the rightful KING of...

This Thursday, September 24, Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Archbishop Sheen is rightly revered for the many contributions he made to the life of the Church, most especially through his promotion of daily Eucharistic Holy Hours for priests through retreats that he gave all over the world. For the honor and glory of God, however, we believe we are obliged to use this newsletter to show how even a man as gifted and devout as Venerable Archbishop Sheen was deceived by the arch-deceiver Satan through his chosen...

NOW THANKS BE UNTO GOD! SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ” (2 Cor. 2:14). What a glorious reason for thanksgiving! Our thanksgiving is not ultimately rooted in our circumstances, possessions, health, or earthly victories. It is rooted in the ETERNAL Person of our precious Lord Jesus Christ, our ETERNAL Victor! Throughout our pilgrim journey, we will experience both joys and trials, victories and tears. Yet through them all, Almighty God is faithfully working in us and leading us in Christ's triumph! At the cross, Jesus conquered sin; through His resurrection,...