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Representative Jim Banks (R, IN) is fighting back against proposed Health and Human Services (HHS) rules that would essentially block conservative Christian parents from adopting through foster care. Earlier this year, HHS announced a new rule that “would require that child welfare agencies ensure that each child in their care who identifies as LGBTQI+ receive…

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Neighbors in the Massachusetts town of Lowell were shocked to learn that Lauren Erickson Van Wart, 44, had been killed in the Bahamas while on a trip with her husband. “How can you process something like this? It was a tragedy,” said neighbor Beth Stack-Emerson. “Trip of a lifetime, it’s heartbreaking, it really is. Shocking,”…

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GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy shared stories about how their faith helped their families through miscarriages earlier last month at the informal FAMiLY Leader’s Thanksgiving Family Forum. Ron DeSantis shared his and his wife’s own difficulties with struggling to start their family, saying, “We were married, doing our thing. I was in…

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Speaker Mike Johnson had some strong words for political consultant James Carville, who called him a Christian nationalist and said he was worse than al-Qaeda. Carville appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show and was asked by Maher what he thought of him as a Louisiana native himself. “Mike Johnson and what he believes is one…

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