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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that deaths due to influenza and pneumonia have hit “epidemic” levels in the U.S. The CDC situational update, which is a summary of weekly flu activity, is now saying that the proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza has reached the epidemic threshold. Also, they report there are now 49 states reporting widespread flu activity … Read More

Disasters as Hurricane Maria and diseases as the flu and hepatitis are creating shortages of widely-used and critical healthcare products. These have quickly become a crisis and looming threat to the public’s health with hospitals running out or extremely low on medications. An ongoing shortage of IV  fluids used to deliver medicine and treat dehydrated patients has hospital workers scrambling in the … Read More

A hepatitis outbreak has been spreading hitting several states across the country, sickening thousands and killing dozens of people. The epicenter was California starting in San Diego but the virus spread to other states as Utah, Arizona, Colorado,  and Michigan. Michigan has been the hardest-hit other than California in terms of deaths, with 22.  They currently have 677 cases in … Read More

Facebook is coming out with a video screen chat device named “Portal” that uses facial recognition for logging into Facebook and connecting with people. Reports say, which Facebook declined to comment on, that Facebook intends to pitch Portal as a way for families and friends to stay connected through video chatting and other social features. The Portal will be the … Read More

Freshman Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was asked by a SEC sports writer how he stayed calm to come off the bench with an incredible second-half performance during Alabama’s pressure-filled overtime victory to win the championship game. When asked how, in the name of Bear Bryant, did a freshman bench jockey rise to this ridiculously pressurized occasion and become an instant … Read More

Authorities and experts are warning about the threat of returning jihadists to the U.S. homeland since the fall of ISIS strongholds as Mosul and Raqqa with varying reports indicating hundreds are unaccounted for. According to a report by the Soufan Center — a Washington-based security intelligence consultancy — there were 129 fighters from the U.S. who succeeded in leaving the country and joining … Read More

This is eerily familiar. A record setting “bomb cyclone” slamming the Northeast Coast is happening near a rare celestial event. And just 3 to 4 months ago near another rare celestial event, rare superstorms were devastating the Gulf coast. Happening now in the Northeast, meteorologists are saying an uncommon cyclone surprising them with deep intensification has made this storm a … Read More

Experts at the Geological Society of America say that the new year could bring an increase in massive and devastating earthquakes according to their research. According to researchers from University of Colorado Boulder,  the Earth’s rotation has slowed and the decrease can spark an increase in severe earthquakes for 2018. According to the team’s research, which they presented at the Geological Society of … Read More

The Louisiana Attorney General says that students are free to pray, read their Bible, discuss their faith and invite others to religious events during non-instructional time in school because all are a forms of speech protected by the U.S. Constitution. This was in a 15-page guide, a document that aims to provide guidance on prayer and religious expression in public schools, … Read More

As the world is celebrating a new year with fireworks and champagne, I am thinking about God’s prophetic plan for the world,  about you His believers and followers, and about Jesus’ teaching for us to lift Him up to the world as their true hope for salvation and peace. And how we can be servants of Jesus in His work … Read More