The U.S. military is joining forces from around the world in rushing to the Philippines to help in search and rescue after the strongest storm in recorded history destroyed entire towns.
Two U.S. C-130 planes with water, generators and U.S. Marines flew to the city of Tacloban where officials say Super Typhoon Haiyan killed at least 10,000 people. The Marines will help in search and rescue along with working to help restore communications throughout the region.
The Philippine National Red Cross said their efforts to help those who lost everything in the storm is being hampered by attacks from looters. The group says an entire shipment of food and relief supplies was hijacked from a port city where the items were on the way to rescuers.
The government says it is considering a state of emergency and martial law in the region because of the looting and other civil disruptions that threat the local government’s ability to help those in need.
Authorities say at least 2 million people have lost or damaged homes as a result of the storm. The storm surges from the Super Typhoon were so strong that large ships such as oil transports were washed into the middle of coastal towns.
While over 800,000 people were evacuated before the storm’s arrival, the thousands were killed because shelters like schools, churches and government buildings could not withstand the high wind and storm surges.
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing plans to force the phasing out of trans fats from the American diet.
The FDA will be requiring the food industry to phase out all trans fans, calling them a direct threat to public health. The FDA believes the elimination of trans fats will prevent 20,000 heart attacks a year and 7,000 deaths.
Health professionals have long cited trans fats as a detriment to good health. Some major cities such as New York have already banned their use.
The agency would not put a timetable on the requirement to remove all trans fats saying they wanted to work with various food markets to lessen the overall economic impact. The plan will take two months for public comment before any final action could be taken on the measure.
Trans fats are found mainly in processed foods like microwave popcorns, frozen pizzas and ready-to-use frostings.
Billy Graham turns 95 on November 7. Happy Birthday!
While age and health restricts his mobility, Graham is still doing what he’s always done since 1949, he’s preaching the Gospel.
For more than 60 years, the country preacher from humble beginnings in North Carolina has become a global evangelist and statesman for God.
In that role, he has prayed personally with presidents, kings, queens, world leaders, celebrities and filled stadiums with common folk eager to hear his inspiring message. He is celebrating his birthday with a national outreach called “My Hope America.”
Source: FOX News – FOX News: Why Billy Graham has hope for America
After coming out as one of the harshest critics of the United States National Security Agency’s spying revelations, reports have surfaced that Brazil was actively carrying out counter-intelligence activities against the U.S. and others.
Brazil’s justice minister said that his spies were acting in a lawful manner when they followed around diplomats from the U.S., Russia and other nations while they were engaging in daily activities.
Jose Eduardo Cardoso took great pains to say the situations in his nation and the actions taken by the NSA were not the same.
“I see completely different situations. What happened in relation to Brazil and other countries was a violation. Emails and phone calls were violated, which is an affront to Brazilian sovereignty,” Cardoso told a press conference.
The U.S. State Department said the discovery reported in Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo newspaper proves what they’ve been saying all along regarding all nations conducting spy activity on diplomats of other nations.
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a case Monday, meaning a lower court’s ruling to invalidate an Oklahoma state law restricting abortion drugs will stand.
The Oklahoma law would have restricted the way abortion inducing drugs like RU-486 could be used in the state. Pro-abortion groups sued claiming the law violated previous court ruling regarding how abortion drugs could be dispensed.
The bill would have prevented doctors from using mifepristone, which induces abortions up to the seventh week of pregnancy.
In a related action, pro-abortionists from Texas have filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to block enforcement of Texas abortion law. The appeal goes before Justice Antonin Scalia for consideration.
Rachel Poole, the Texas woman who was beaten and stabbed while on a FaceTime video chat with her soldier husband who was in Afghanistan, has given birth to a healthy baby girl.
Isabella Poole was born via caesarean section at University Medical Center in El Paso.
31-year-old Rachel Poole was attacked in her home Wednesday night while chatting with her deployed husband. The assailant, Cory Moss, stabbed Rachel with a knife and then beat her severely. She suffered stab wounds, a collapsed lung, dislocated vertebrae and broken bones in her eye socket from the brutal attack. She is unable to see out of one of her eyes.
Moss reportedly owed the Poole’s money for car repairs because he had borrowed one of their cars and wrecked it.
Justin Poole was able to reach Moss’ co-workers at Fort Bliss who captured and held him until police arrived on base. Moss is facing charges of criminal attempted capital murder.
Rachel Poole remains in critical condition at University Medical Center. Her family would not release her prognosis to the press.
The father and stepmother of a Georgia girl have been charged with murder after the girl’s burned corpse was discovered in a trash can.
Eman Moss called police to say that he was suicidal and that his daughter had drank some kind of chemical that killed her.
When police arrived, Eman repeated his story about his daughter drinking a chemical and dying. He then lead them to a park area near the metro Atlanta apartment complex where he lived and showed them the burnt corpse of his daughter in a trash can.
Eman Moss and the girl’s stepmother, Tiffany Moss, are charged with felony murder, cruelty to children in the first degree and concealing a body.
Anti-life groups are organizing a campaign with the goal of trying to end “the stigma” of abortion.
The groups have even taken a slogan used during the Clinton administration of “safe, legal and rare” and dropped the word “rare” to add “affordable.”
The group is calling the event “1 in 3 Week of Action” claiming that one in every three women will have an abortion during their life. The group will be handing out books from women who are celebrating ending their baby’s lives via abortion.
The group also hired Katie Stack, a young women from the MTV show 16 and Pregnant, to come out and speak to the group about her decision to end her baby’s life via abortion. She will speak at an event being held at the University of Michigan.
“The fact of the matter is, no matter what anyone wants to debate about abortion and its morality, I feel that I made the right decision. And that’s threatening to people, the fact that I will say that,” Stack told an anti-life blog site.
A new survey shows that 76 percent of America believes in the existence of a God and 38 percent of those surveyed said they do what God tells them to do.
Most of those who believe in God are also more likely to give credit or blame for weather and disasters to God rather than some excuse like man-made global warming.
The YouGov.com survey found that born again Christians are more likely to do something because God told them. Protestants were more likely to do something than Catholics by a result of 56 percent to 39 percent.
The survey was surprising in that the difference between Republicans and Democrats was not as wide as researchers had expected. The number of Republicans who complied with what they felt God say was 42 percent compared to 40 percent for Democrats.
Thousands of American churches will be participating in Orphan Sunday this coming weekend aimed at raising awareness of children in need of finding a loving, Christian home.
However, many in the adoption movement say criticisms and actions by international governments to curb adoption numbers are hurting the movement.
Critics of Christians attempting to derail the ongoing adoption processes have used high profile incidents of adoption-related fraud and human trafficking as scare tactics. However, Judd Medefind of the Christian Alliance for Orphans who organize Orphan Sunday said that while they listen to critiques and take them to heart, their partners are eager to support a broad range of orphan-care programs.
Major Christian organizations have joined the call for Christians to adopt children in need such as Focus on the Family in 2007 and the Southern Baptist Convention in 2009.
The number of international adoptions by Americans has been falling over the last decade from 22,991 in 2004 to just 8,668 last year. However, the U.S. foster care system has around 100,000 children who need a home for Christians seeking to adopt a child domestically.