Josh Mann

From education to politics, 2024 was a year for the record books. More students than ever before are receiving a Christian education in the United States, whether from traditional Christian schools, homeschools or hybrids. Alternatives to public education are only expected to grow more in 2025, thanks in part to a record number of states […]

Gifts ordered on Amazon to arrive before Christmas may face delays after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters declared a strike, beginning Thursday, against the retail and technology company. Teamsters estimates 10,000 workers have joined the union, which if true, is a very small percentage of the more than one million employees at Amazon, Axios reported. […]

Three are dead and six others were injured at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, where a female student allegedly opened fire on Monday, just nine days before Christmas. The teenage shooter, identified by police as Natalie Rupnow, 15, is believed to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A teacher and another teenage […]

It’s no coincidence the NFL’s sharpest kicker has launched a made-to-measure menswear company. “I’ve always been drawn to dressing well,” says the Kansas City Chiefs’ Harrison Butker, who approaches his wardrobe with the same discipline as a game-winning kick, believing excellence will follow. It’s working. Butker, who is expected to return from injury later this month, […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump made the announcement Thursday afternoon on Truth Social. “I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),” Trump wrote. “For too long, Americans have […]

A month after Kentucky’s governor signed an executive order to ban “conversion therapy,” neither he nor the state’s family services agency has answered how the order may affect fostering and adoption. The order prohibits the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) from using state or federal funds on therapy or counseling that seeks to change […]

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, pushed top Army brass over two years, publicly and privately, to fund new military housing at Fort Leonard Wood (FLW) in the heart of Missouri’s Ozarks. So why is St. Louis NBC affiliate KSDK claiming Hawley’s campaign boast to have secured the funding is false? The news station cited the senator’s negotiations, but […]

The St. Joseph, Missouri Board of Education voted 4-3 Monday night to retain “without restriction” a library book that had been challenged in part for a detailed account of the incestuous rape of an 11-year-old by her father. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison was written for ages 14 and up, but several schools and libraries have […]

How is it that 24-year-old former collegiate swimming star Riley Gaines, with her endearing and disarming demeanor, so easily and frequently makes grown men cry? And when she walks into a room, as she did Wednesday evening before a crowd of nearly 300 people in Smithville, Missouri, it causes grown-ups to rise to their feet […]

“Getting shot hurts,” wrote President Ronald Reagan in his White House diary entry for March 31, 1981, a day after an assassin’s bullet pierced his flesh, breaking a rib and puncturing the lung where it became lodged. As the president lay in the emergency room, drawing breaths but “getting less and less air,” he had […]