While lauding a new partnership among Florida universities and Kennedy Space Center, Gov. Ron DeSantis shoehorned in a pitch to have NASA headquarters leave the nation’s capital in favor of the Sunshine State. “There is an interest in moving the headquarters of NASA right here to Kennedy Space Center and I’m supportive of that,” DeSantis…
Hundreds of people said their goodbyes Thursday to an Irondale police lieutenant who was struck and killed while preparing to direct traffic outside Church of the Highlands. Irondale police Lt. Mark Meadows, a 60-year-old husband, father and grandfather, was remembered as a “silent warrior,” a man of few words who made a big impact on those who knew and loved…
A bipartisan eight-bill package is aiming to modernize Maryland’s military laws and create consistent and equal benefits among the uniformed services and reserve units. The package, submitted by Republican Sen. Bryan Simonaire, an Anne Arundel County Republican, and supported by five House delegates, would restructure Maryland’s military laws to provide more than 100 benefits that…
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would impose sanctions on International Criminal Court officials in retaliation for their issuance of an arrest warrant last year against Israel’s leader for his wartime actions in the Gaza Strip. The bipartisan vote, 243-140, in favor of the legislation showed that supporting Israel in its military response to the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack…
Photo: aif.ru It was a long time ago—in the olden days. I can hardly believe it, but, nevertheless, it really did happen. At that time, Grandfather Frost was idly wandering around Holy Russia.1 He was such a mischievous old man—now he would freeze off someone’s nose, now someone’s ear, for no reason at all….
A Republican state senator backed by a coalition of gun rights advocates plans to file a suite of bills this month that attempt to repeal a major firearms law Gov. Maura Healey approved last year. Sen. Peter Durant of Spencer said he is preparing six different pieces of legislation that target a gun law top…
Six months after being cleared of criminal charges in the “Rust” shooting death, actor Alec Baldwin has filed a suit alleging malicious prosecution and defamation by New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement. The 73-page civil complaint, filed Thursday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, names special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey, 1st Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, Santa…
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) unveiled its list of the top 10 “most unusual items” discovered by officials at airport security checkpoints in 2024 in a new video this week. Sharing a video of the top 10 “most unusual items” in a post on X, formerly Twitter, the TSA tweeted, “TSA’s Top 10 Best Catches…
Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu) On July 11–12, 2024, by the decision of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, sixteen saints of God who shone forth in the twentieth century were canonized. One of them is Archimandrite Gherasim (Iscu), Hesychast of the Communist DungeonsAnd then I saw a miracle. I saw how a half-dead priest,…
The Nativity of Christ and Holy Pascha are primarily children’s feasts, and they seem to fulfill the power of Christ’s words: Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (Mt. 18:3). The other feasts are not so accessible to children’s understanding and are pleasing…
