Y Net News: The U.S. has deployed at least 12 warships to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, amphibious assault teams and over 4,000 Marines and sailors, in response to escalating tensions in the region following…

Yahoo News, by Rebecca Boone: Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation….

FOX News, by Ryan Gaydos: A drag queen who was one of the many torchbearers for the Paris Olympics had a message for the critics amid uproar over the opening ceremony which appeared to mock the Last Supper. Nicky Doll…

DailyMail, by Stacy Liberatore: A single county has reported more than 60 earthquakes in the last week, sparking a State of Emergency to be declared. Scurry County in West Texas was hit by a 5.1-magnitude quake on Friday, which was…

The Christian Post, by Lear Capital: Did you know that there is only enough physical currency for every person in the U.S. to have $2.50 in their possession? That’s less than half the price of a typical cup of coffee….

NBC News, by Dennis Romero: The largest wildfire burning in California grew to more than 350,000 acres Sunday, but there was hope that progress in containing it, as well as a cooldown, will help defeat it. Cal Fire officials said…

The Christian Post, by Michael Gryboski: Republican vice presidential nominee, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, assured a group of conservative Christians the morning after accepting the party’s nomination that they are still important to the Republican Party despite concerns with the…

Church Times, by Rebecca Paveley: Donald Trump has endorsed a new law which requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every school classroom in Louisiana, following the publication of the results of a poll showing that his supporters believe…

OA Online, by Bob Campbell: Like all churches, the pandemic hit the Catholic Diocese of San Angelo hard and Bishop Michael Sis says that recovering from it required a special effort. The Most Rev. Sis says it has been a…

The Christian Post, by Samantha Kamman: Many in Sudan are forced to fight over anthills for food as the country faces one of the worst levels of food insecurity ever recorded, according to the global Evangelical humanitarian organization World Vision. …

USA Today, by Thao Nguyen, Cybele Mayes-Osterman, and Minnah Arshad: Damaging thunderstorms and a reported tornado prompted a statewide response in New York late Tuesday, as rain, hail, and heat threatened millions of residents along the East Coast a day…

Newsweek, by Jess Thomson: Hundreds of thousands of lifeless fish have washed up on the shores of California’s Lake San Antonio in an unprecedented mass die-off affecting a wide variety of species. The deaths began last week, when smaller baitfish…