The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a mother in the state now allowing her to sue her 14-year-old son’s public school system and a medical provider for reportedly forcing him to get the COVID-19 shot without his or her consent and without her knowledge. Emily Happel …
Read More »Beyond Bars: Celebrating Women’s History Month Inside and Out
CHRISTIAN COMMENTARY When I was locked in a county jail, staring at a wall covered in photos of family milestones I had missed, I didn’t feel like a woman worth celebrating. If someone had asked me about Women’s History Month—a time to celebrate women and their contributions to society—I would …
Read More »‘I Was in a Serene, White-Enveloped Place’: Bishop TD Jakes Describes Recent Near-Death Experience
Megachurch pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes of the Potter’s House in Dallas recently shared new details about the reason for the medical emergency he suffered while preaching at his church on November 24. “I didn’t really realize what was happening to me on stage until I got to the hospital and …
Read More »Parents File Complaint After Daughters Punished for Refusing to Share Locker Room With Male Student
The parents of two Wisconsin high school students are seeking a federal investigation into an incident in which their daughters were forced to share a locker room with a biological male transgender student and then punished when they refused to change in front of him. The Wisconsin Institute for Law …
Read More »Firefighters Make Progress on Containing Some Carolina Wildfires, but Others Grow
Firefighters announced progress Wednesday night on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but they warned that fire danger remained from dry and windy conditions. The news was worse in South Carolina, where two fires nearly doubled in size Wednesday, but crews kept the blazes …
Read More »OpenAI’s viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.” In the last 24 hours, …
Read More »602 Make First-Time Decisions for Christ at Youth Outreach in Louisiana: ‘Great Move of God’
Hundreds of young people hungry for God packed out a football stadium in Denham, Louisiana last week to hear the gospel message of Christ. A handful of local churches with the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association hosted the GO TELL AMERICA Crusade in partnership with evangelist Rick Gage, founder of GO …
Read More »3 Houston Teens Try to Kill Their Own Mother with Knives After She Turns Off the Wifi
Three teenage girls have been arrested, accused of trying to kill their own mother after she turned off the wifi in their house, according to a report from the Harris County Sheriff’s office in Houston, Texas. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has revealed the three girls are 14, 15, and 16 years …
Read More »ChatGPT’s image-generation feature gets an upgrade
During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major upgrade to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year. ChatGPT can now leverage the company’s GPT-4o model to natively create and modify images and photos. GPT-4o has long underpinned the AI-powered chatbot platform, but until now, the …
Read More »We read the email Jack Dorsey sent when he cut 931 of Block’s staff
Fintech Block laid off 931 people Tuesday, according to a leaked message from the company seen by TechCrunch. The news was announced to staff in an email from Block’s co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey. Dorsey told staff that on Tuesday, Block will be “making some org changes, including eliminating roles …
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