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Is religion coming back into fashion in America? If that is so, here are a few logical and maybe not-so-logical reasons for that possibility.

There is no doubt that a wave of change is coming, and I doubt that America will just roll over and say, "We can't wait to be Nazi Americans! And unless the angels really do come down to Earth to save us, I don't think there is any cavalry coming to our rescue this time. We will have to fend for ourselves. It's already too late for the older generation to fix things; they will not survive the harsh environment we are about to confront. We will pass away, and it will be up to the younger generation to arrange, reorganize, and fix their world and their affairs.

*CAN YOU, DESCENDANTS OF THE BABY BOOMERS, FIX AMERICA AND THE WORLD BETTER THAN WE DID?*

_*As fall gets closer, disease, wars, civil wars, unrest, rioting, despair everywhere, and more unemployed people will be on the streets living in tents. It's not going to be a nice change, but a necessary one if you wish to return to a life of sanity and purpose. RIGHT NOW, there is no sanity or rules of law that work. Trump has turned a nation of laws and customary ways of doing business into a subplot of Star Wars in which he is Jabba the Hutt, the Oval Office is the Cantina from which he rules, and America is all that he surveys.*_

Religion is 'back in fashion' in America. Here's why

When the Rev. Fred Robinson saw the small, brick church he was asked to lead in suburban Atlanta, he couldn't help but be excited.

The parking lot had sinkholes; the bathroom flooring had rotted away, and the basement was filled with so much mold that Robinson had to don gloves and goggles just to enter it. The church had only nine members, $450 in the bank, and was on the verge of closing.

Robinson's new church was in such a dire condition because the Covid-19 pandemic had slammed into it like a meteorite. It halted in-person worship, and as members gradually drifted away, the building's condition deteriorated because there were no longer any staff or members to maintain it.

But where some saw a crisis, Robinson saw opportunity. He was looking for a church that was hungry for change. Four years later, the church's membership has surged, its message has been refined, and those sinkholes were filled when the sanctuary was renovated.

"New people came. People started coming back," says Robinson, senior pastor of Mt. Gilead Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia...

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Sunday's gathering mirrors a national trend:
How the pandemic forced innovation:
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PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 7:00 AM ET - 2 hr ago

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I was a flower child, a hippy, or just plain the shadow in the background; I call that being invisible, until I discovered the internet. Religion, I have nothing against; I'll go to any church that invites me. I just have my own conception of the universal consciousness. Something had to think this up before it could be manifested. Most call this entity G-d. The G ∞ d, thought•<- Big period, that's it.

BREAKING NEWS:

Why deportations don’t tell the whole story of Trump’s crackdown

ICE arrests and deportations often get most of the attention. But another side to the Trump administration’s crackdown is largely flying under the radar.

“They’ve slashed legal immigration for families. They’ve slashed legal immigration for employers. … There’s basically no category you can find that they haven’t targeted for reductions and cuts,” says David Bier of the libertarian Cato Institute, who argues this is a “radical change” – and an underreported story.

In what officials have billed as the largest mass deportation campaign in history, federal agents deployed in cities across the country became a familiar — and controversial — sight over the past year, with immigration authorities’ aggressive arrest tactics fueling fierce debate in Washington about agency funding. And actions by ICE have made frequent headlines since Trump returned to power, most recently this week with the news that a new acting director will soon assume the agency’s top job.

But Bier says there’s another story about immigration in the US that’s harder to tell, but no less significant. “You don’t see the backstory of all that’s leading up to that guy being handcuffed,” he says. Still, Bier says the way the administration handles legal immigration is “intimately connected to the chaos in the streets.”...

It’s getting harder for immigrants to come to the US legally:
Things are changing for many legal immigrants, too:
The courts are poised to play a big role in what happens next:

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PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Why Trump’s flip-flop on Iran’s uranium stockpile is a big deal

Trump says that Iran giving up its highly enriched uranium isn’t “necessary.” Wait, what?

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President Donald Trump has long presented himself as a genius negotiator who has mastered the “art of the deal.” But his latest comments about what he hopes to achieve in talks with Iran show how the most basic principles of deal-making elude him.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity asked the president on Thursday about whether the U.S. was considering the options of seizing Iran’s estimated stockpile of 970 pounds of highly enriched uranium, which can be enriched slightly further to make nuclear bombs, by force or whether the U.S. would try to “entomb it” and make it impossible for Iran to access.

• Trump’s surprise admission is exactly the kind of statement that Iranian negotiators will take note of.

Notably, U.S. intelligence assessments have estimated that the joint U.S.-Israeli bombardment campaign has failed to set back Iran’s nuclear capabilities....

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May. 15, 2026, 5:56 PM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Why the U.S. is noticing this Canadian security bill

Bill C-22 proposes to help police investigate online cases

A Liberal government bill that proposes giving police and spies easier access to information during investigations has fallen into the crosshairs of U.S. tech giants and two American congressional committees, threatening to become the latest irritant in the Canada-U.S. relationship.

The bill, this government’s second attempt at passing lawful access legislation, has already garnered intense domestic scrutiny from privacy and civil rights advocates, and is now attracting attention south of the border. Late last week, the heads of two American congressional committees sent a letter to federal Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree calling for changes...

WATCH | Tech giants 'misinterpreting' lawful access safeguards: public safety minister:

"The government will have the power to order the large communications companies to retain information about where you go, who you communicate with, literally for an entire year," said Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa’s Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law, and a vocal critic of the bill.

"This creates essentially a surveillance map," he said.

A new nuisance?:
Meta hoping concerns can be addressed:
Think of crime victims, says OPP commissioner:

CBC News · Posted: May 15, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 15

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Hantavirus has no cure. Here's where researchers are at with treatments and vaccines

Infections are rare but can have a 40 percent death rate

A hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship this month has put the spotlight on a deadly disease that has no cure. Hantavirus cases are rare and typically not contagious between humans. When people do catch it, it is usually after touching objects, eating food or inhaling particles contaminated with rodent droppings or urine. People can get it if they are bitten by an infected rodent, but that is also uncommon.

Infections can be deadly, and there is no dedicated treatment for hantavirus. Researchers around the world are working on a hantavirus vaccine, though they say development is in the early stages and rollout could be years away...