The central military base in Afghanistan, Bagram Air Base, has been vacated by US troops after 20 years of continued presence.

A new poll from The Trafalgar Group, in cooperation with the Convention of States Action, shows that over half of Americans believe that President Biden is not “fully executing the duties of his office,” and that “others” are in charge of direction instead.

It is a dark world indeed, when it becomes newsworthy that a historically faithful church continues in that trend of faithfulness.  Still, continual faithfulness is always worth celebrating. At last week’s General Assembly meeting, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) soundly approved the passage of Overture 23, which reaffirms the prohibition of homosexuals from serving as pastors or elders (1,438-417).

The NFL has historically owned the market on professional football in America.  In the early 1980s, another league was formed that originally appeared to be a challenger to the NFL.  The United States Football League (USFL) was created in 1983 to offer football fans the chance to watch their favorite sport in the spring and summer, when the NFL was in its offseason.

Nasdaq 100 futures are fractionally lower this morning. U.S. markets were closed for the July 4 Independence Day holiday on Monday, and West Texas Intermediate crude rose to a six-year high as an important meeting of OPEC to discuss crude output (among other things) has been called off.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Rescuers in Japan searched on Monday for 80 people believed to be missing two days after landslides tore through the seaside city of Atami, destroying houses and burying roads under mud and rock. The official death toll from the landslides that hit early on Saturday is four, according to Atami city spokesperson Hiroki […]

The heat wave that hit the Pacific Northwest last week has accounted for over 90 deaths in Oregon according to the state’s medical examiner office.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world have been affected by a ransomware attack centered on U.S. information technology firm Kaseya, its chief executive said on Monday. Fred Voccola, the Florida-based company’s CEO, said in an interview that it was hard to estimate the precise impact of Friday’s attack because those hit […]