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A bloody, late-night brawl in downtown Cincinnati last weekend has generated national attention. Several people took videos of the attack, but only one person called 911. Video evidence shows the man and woman who were beaten to be white and their assailants to be black. A senior figure in the US Justice Department suggested that the attack may have been motivated by race and that suspects could a...

One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck yesterday in Russia’s Far East, triggering tsunami waves in Hawaii and Japan and prompting warnings and evacuations across the Pacific. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula ranks among the six strongest on record.  Today's Special Edition Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins.

Christian persecution in the Middle East is on the rise as Hamas and other terrorist organizations gain traction. As the number of Syrian Christians declines dramatically, believers in the land where Paul met Jesus could one day be no more. Yesterday we focused on the compassion we should have for hurting people, since they are loved by our Father and should be loved by his children as well. Today...

A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle walked into a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper last night and began firing. He killed four, including a New York police officer. The news has been filled with such tragedies in the last few days. However, the cultural prism we have inherited competes with the sanctity of human life and the solidarity of our race. From Socrates to today, we’ve been taught that...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, mitochondrial diseases are “a group of genetic conditions that affect how mitochondria in your cells produce energy.” They can cause developmental delays in children, profound muscle weakness, hearing loss, blindness, strokes, and heart failure. Those with the worst symptoms die earliest, often before the age of three. Now there’s a way to prevent the transmissio...

Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a controversial bill placing independent anti-corruption agencies under the control of the prosecutor general, sparking widespread protests and international condemnation. Though the law aimed to curb Russian influence and speed up stalled investigations, critics saw it as a step back toward corruption. Under intense pressure, Zelens...

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a US defamation lawsuit against an influencer and podcaster who has said France’s first lady “is in fact a man.” If the Macrons had remained silent, their decision not to defend themselves could be interpreted as a lack of defense, but choosing not to hold their accuser accountable could only embolden and escalate such accusations....

Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday at the age of seventy-six. To understand the cultural insight Osbourne’s career illustrates, ask yourself whether his music celebrating themes of horror, doom, paranoia, drug abuse, and the occult would have been popular (or even possible) twenty years earlier. In other news, Monday was the one-hundredth anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial conclusion. At issue was T...

Last night, Stephen Colbert responded to CBS’s shocking announcement that The Late Show will end next May. In his monologue, he asked rhetorically, “How could it be purely a financial decision if The Late Show is No. 1 in ratings?” Many are asking the same thing, pointing to shifts in mainstream media from liberal to conservative bias. However, studies show that younger viewers are turning to stre...

To no one’s surprise, Scottie Scheffler won The Open Championship yesterday in convincing fashion. His victory was so dominant that, according to CNN, it left his rivals “awestruck.” Before the tournament, Scheffler said, “This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.” Scheffler’s statement...

Last night, President Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to ask a court for the release of all relevant grand jury testimony from the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi responded that she is “ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.” Meanwhile, people are responding to the Central Texas floods with a massive outpouring of financial support and personal engag...

Last month, Iowa passed a new law that requires public schools to teach prenatal development classes as part of their standard curriculum. As the bill’s authors describe, the hope is that these materials will help to demonstrate “the humanity of the unborn child by showing prenatal development, starting at fertilization.” While much of the discussion and debate about abortion treats the concept as...

According to the Dallas Morning News, Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show Back to the Frontier “follows three families in the Canadian Rockies as they navigate a technology-free, laborious summer meant to mimic the lifestyle of 1880s homesteaders.” Among the participants is a gay couple from Dallas who share a cabin with their adopted ten-year-old twin sons. The key to our response is “speaking the t...

The Jeffrey Epstein files saga is leading the news again, fueling distrust in government and media at a time when fewer Americans than ever say they trust either. Now comes news that Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to tell Congress what she knows about Epstein. As people rewatch old TV shows and pull back from risk, we're living in a culture that values this life more than ever—because for many,...

On July 13, 2024, twenty-year-old sniper Thomas Crooks fired an AR-15-style rifle from the roof of a building around four hundred feet from the stage where Donald Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump told journalist Salena Zito, “It was the hand of God. He was there.” A month after returning to the White House, he said, “I feel, I feel e...

Be a part of Denison Forum’s Summer of Transformation . Give today! Last month, an imposter created a Signal account pretending to be US Secretary of State Marco Rubio using the display name “Marco. Rubio@state.gov.” The perpetrator then used AI to simulate Rubio’s voice and contacted three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress. Global cybercrime is projected to cost upwards o...

Last Friday morning, several storm cells merged and then stalled over Kerr County in Central Texas. As a result, an entire summer’s worth of rain fell in some areas. Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly said the area floods frequently, but officials “had no reason to believe that this was going to be anything like what’s happened here. None whatsoever.” Nonetheless, critics are implicating the Trump admini...

Be a part of Denison Forum’s Summer of Transformation . Please give today! Article Description As floodwaters recede in Texas, stories of survival and hope rise: children weeping for joy as they’re reunited with parents, families clinging to faith in the face of unimaginable loss. “Trust doesn’t mean you’re over the pain,” wrote Tavia Hunt. “It means you’re handing it to the only One who can hold...

Camp Mystic confirmed that at least twenty-seven campers and counselors were killed in flash floods last Friday, with ten children and one counselor still missing. As of this morning, the death toll across the area has now climbed to at least 104 people. The massive search continues for survivors and victims. Why didn’t our omnipotent God do all his power enables him to do to prevent this tragedy...

Dick Eastland, owner of Camp Mystic, died while attempting to rescue campers after a storm caused the Guadalupe River to rise twenty-six feet in forty-five minutes this weekend. At least eleven of its young female campers and counselors died in the flooding. Ten campers and one counselor from the camp are still missing. Today, we center on the practical. How would the Lord want us to respond perso...

A new poll shows a record-low 58 percent of US adults are either extremely or very proud to be American. Despite the drop, nearly 90 percent still express at least some level of national pride. Generational divides and growing discontent with politics, economics, and culture have shaped this trend, especially among younger Americans. But America’s flaws should not blind us to its blessings—nor sho...

Be a part of Denison Forum’s Summer of Transformation . Give today! Article Description A New York Times article written about this week’s passing of Jimmy Swaggart was authored by a journalist who himself died five years ago. So we know that the Times has, for several years, planned to run a profile of the evangelist that was written years before his death. The good news is that, with God, our st...

Be a part of Denison Forum’s Summer of Transformation . Give today! Yesterday afternoon, the US Senate passed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” President Trump’s signature legislative priority. The tally was fifty-fifty, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The legislation now returns to the House, where voting is scheduled to begin later today. The complicated process throu...

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a new “Superintelligence” division within Meta Platforms and recruiting artificial intelligence (AI) experts to lead it. He is racing to build AI technology that is smarter than humans, seeking to advance what he calls “a new era for humanity.” He plans to spend upward of $70 billion on capital expenditures, largely on AI investments. Is creating AI that is smarter than...

Be a part of Denison Forum’s Summer of Transformation . Give today! Article Description The Supreme Court last Friday upheld a ruling that allowed Texas to enforce a state law requiring pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access. Nearly half of all states have passed similar laws to keep children under the age of eighteen from seeing online pornography. Such laws ar...