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GOOD NEWS: World poverty rates are dropping

Poverty rates around the world are falling dramatically, especially in the last few years but there’s still much work to be done. While the United States experiences record growth, global economic prospects ...

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Lynda Randle: Finding a new voice

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Lynda Randle’s heart smiles as wide as her mouth when she remembers the kitchen table. That’s where her parents gathered all six siblings as they dug into the Word, usually the Psalms ...

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Hyperloop between Kansas City and St. Louis possible?

Virgin Hyperloop One has announced the results of a feasibility study on a planned route connecting Kansas City, Columbia and St. Louis. The study, which has yet to be published in full, purports that ...

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Spared death, kidnapped girl made ‘slave for life’

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Kidnapped Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu will not be executed as threatened by a Nigeria terror group, Nigeria’s independent online newspaper, The Cable, reports. According to The Cable, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) says instead, ...

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Missourians to practice earthquake drill Thursday

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The Missouri Statewide ‘ShakeOut” earthquake drill is taking place on Thursday. The state has the record of the 9th most powerful earthquake in United States history. The New Madrid earthquake was so ...

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Driver of truck that hit church bus killing 13 was high on marijuana

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The 21-year-old driver who was formally charged last June for a crash that killed 13 members of the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels, Texas, lost control of his truck due to use ...

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New Apple watch will track you “all day”

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Consumers increasingly pay big bucks to give away their privacy. Mesmerized by consumerism and shiny new electronic gadgets, do they know what they’re giving up? Now Apple wants you to purchase their ...

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Politifact retracts support of McCaskill statement on planes

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Politifact, the self-described arbiter of truth in news and political statements found itself in hot water Tuesday. The organization rated a Republican Senate Leadership Fund ad concerning Missouri Claire McCaskill’s use of ...

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‘Gosnell’ is a good movie, not a sermon says director

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The film “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” opened in theaters on Oct. 12 in the top 10 nationwide in only 20 percent of the theaters that bigger movies showed. ...

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Why healthy adults shouldn’t fear the flu

Worried about the flu? Is your concern media driven or legitimate? Each year people get nervous about the flu and do their due-diligence with the hand sanitizer. Building up a strong immune system ...

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Pence: China is meddling in mid-term elections

Vice President Mike Pence accused the Chinese government of meddling through an aggressive military, economic and political campaign to expand its influence inside the United States. In a speech at the Hudson ...

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State to filmmakers: make same-sex marriage films or go to jail

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Two Christian filmmakers will appear before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul Tuesday to challenge Minnesota state law which they say illegally forces them to produce and create films ...

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New ad highlights leftist ‘mob’ that threatens democracy

The Republican National Committee (RNC) released a powerful new web ad that highlights how the extreme rhetoric from the left has created “an unhinged mob.” The minute-long ad, which is titled, “The ...

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Lindsey Graham an Indian? Will take his own DNA test

Fresh off his strong  performance in the Kavanaugh hearings, Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, is ready to show up Sen. Elizabeth Warren. He announced Tuesday he plans to take a DNA ...

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In undercover video McCaskill staff say showing the real Claire would ‘hurt her ability to get elected’

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Project Veritas, the organization that exposed Planned Parenthood in the baby body parts scandal, has released another bombshell video. This undercover effort took on Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her staff ...

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First Schlitterbahn trial started Monday

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Monday saw the first trial in the Schlitterbahn water park tragedy take place more than two years after 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated. That slide “Verruckt” has been closed ever since. Several people ...

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Kansas sued over gender and birth certificates

A federal lawsuit is challenging Kansas policy that prohibits changing the gender designation on birth certificates for people with gender dysphoria. The current law bases determination of gender on biology rather than ...

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Companies cite 1851 law in duck boat lawsuit

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Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer duck boat accident have invoked a 1851 law originally passed to protect paddle wheel steam boats plying the nation’s rivers. The law allows vessel ...

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FCA announces 2018 Hall of Champions inductees

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The Fellowship of Christian Athletes will induct six ministry partners into its Hall of Champions later this year. George Crace, Mark Mestemacher, Don Cockroft, Joel Dearing, Jerry Moore and Dr. Sam Nader have worked tirelessly ...

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Some parents won’t be told when hospital kills children

For years the pro-life community has warned that euthanasia was a slippery slope that would eventually lead to the forced euthanasia–including of children. Now, doctors from a Toronto children’s hospital have published ...

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Brownback: everyone can support religious freedom around the world

Sam Brownback is a diplomat, chosen by the Trump administration to travel the world promoting religious freedom. But he sometimes describes himself as a salesman, and he thinks he’s got a great ...

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Church works to make urban neighbors feel safer

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A church on the east side of Kansas City’s urban core reached out to teens in a response to increasing homicides and other violence. The Hip Hop and Health Festival braved chilly ...

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Hawley appears on Meet the Press

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Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley appeared on Meet The Press Sunday where he said the election would be based on the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation. Hawley repeated what polling has shown across ...

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Witches are ‘wiccan out’ over Kavanaugh

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We’re not sure if it’s as easy as wrinkling your nose (aka Bewitched from the 1960s) but a throng of real-life witches are doing their part for the Democrat Party and Nov. ...

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Libraries sued for giving kids access to online porn

A group of concerned parents is suing the Colorado Library Consortium and a data company for allegedly distributing pornography to unsuspecting students. “This case is about two things: protecting children and calling out corporate ...

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