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The US Has Approved $42 Billion in Loan Forgiveness for Public Service Workers. Here’s What to Know

The United States has approved more than $42 billion in federal student loan debt forgiveness for more than 615,000 borrowers in the past 18 months as part of a program aimed at getting more people to work in public service jobs, the U.S. Department of Education said this week. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program…


Mayor Candidate in London Fired for Saying ‘Marriage Is Between a Man and Woman’ Wins Lawsuit

The Christian mayoral candidate in London’s civic election has scored a “massive win” after tasting bitter discrimination from her former employer, housing association L&Q. It wasn’t discrimination for her skin color—she’s the daughter of Jamaican immigrants—but the religious views she espoused during her campaign that marriage is “between a man and a woman.” For this,…


The Glass-Half-Full Poet: Edgar Guest and the American Spirit

Like millions of other immigrants to America, Edgar Albert Guest (1881–1959) worked hard, overcame adversity, made good, and loved the land that gave birth to his dreams and ambitions. He was born in Birmingham, England. In 1891, his mother and father moved the family to Detroit, Michigan. There, at age 11, Guest began working odd…


‘I’m Still Quite Shocked’: 4 Sisters From Scotland Who Are Pregnant at the Same Time Are Due This Year

A family in Scotland is all set to welcome four newborns this year. Four sisters, mom of one Kerry-Anne Tomson, 41; mom of one Jay Goodwillie, 35; mom of one Amy Goodwillie, 24, and first-time mom Kayleigh Stewart, 29, who are pregnant at the same time are expected to give birth a few months apart from…


Book Recommender: A Refreshing Bestseller Saluting the True and Proud History of America

The weighty, 944-page “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” originally published in 2004, has been lauded by mainstream press as “refreshing” in its absence of a political agenda or social rebuke. Numerous pages of research notes and cited sources back up its content, which goes “From Columbus’s Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement,”…


Faith-Based Clinic Treats the Poor and Uninsured, Without Resorting to Government Aid

When Dr. Scott Morris first opened Church Health at 1210 Peabody Avenue in Memphis in 1987, he saw 12 patients that first day. Today, Morris’s efforts to serve the uninsured and underserved people have surpassed 80,000 at his expanded primary care clinic in downtown Memphis. His mission? To successfully establish a faith-based health care not-for-profit…


Butterfly Mama: Fashion Photographer Raises Over 1,000 Monarch Butterflies, With Young Daughters’ Help

Every time Elle Muliarchyk Johnson watches a butterfly emerge, she remembers marveling at the loud thumping of her daughter’s heart: “Something so tiny and so delicate, and it’s pushing so, so hard inside her chest to grow and to become the beautiful butterfly that this human being will become. It was this most incredible moment,…


Closing Prices for Crude Oil, Gold, and Other Commodities (May 12)

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for June delivery fell 83 cents to $70.04 a barrel Friday. Brent crude for July delivery fell 81 cents to $74.17 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for June delivery fell 3 cents $2.43 a gallon. June heating oil fell 4 cents to $2.31 a gallon. June natural gas rose 8 cents to…


Film Review: ‘Fool’s Paradise’: Day’s Fish-Out-of-Water Filmmaking Debut is an Interesting Misstep

R | 1h 38min | Comedy, Satire, Drama | 12 May 2023 (USA) As inflated and full of itself as it frequently is, Hollywood isn’t beyond occasionally looking into a mirror, realizes just how phony and shallow it appears to the world, and indulges in some hearty self-mocking. Well over 100 movies fit this description and there are only a handful…


Young Boy Prays to God to Take His Life, Receives Huge Response Immediately

In our youth, sleep comes easily. Those precious minutes after our heads hit the pillows and before we drift off to sleep were frequently filled with joyous imaginations and rosy possibilities—”What new excitement will tomorrow bring?” Yet, for one little 8-year-old, each night was just a harbinger of another awful morning to come. One night…