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Pete Hegseth, president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Defense , has close ties to an Idaho-based Christian nationalist church that aims to turn America into a theocracy. Hegseth is a member of a Tennessee congregation affiliated with Christ Church, a controversial congregation in Moscow, Idaho, that has become a leader in the movement to get more Christianity in the public sphere. In an appearance last year on the Christ Church-connected streaming show “Crosspolitic,” Hegseth talked about how building up fundamentalist Christian education systems is important in what he sees as a “spiritual battle” with the secular world. He sees Christian students as foot soldiers in that war and refers to Christian schools as “boot camp.” “We’re in middle phase one right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat where you regroup, consolidate and reorganize and as you do so, you build your army underground with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations – and obviously all of this is metaphorical and all that good stuff,” he said on the show. Hegseth did not immediately respond to requests for an interview. Hegseth has spoken positively about Christ Church Pastor Doug Wilson’s writings Christ Church is led by Pastor Doug Wilson, who founded the Calvinist group of churches called the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or CREC. CREC has congregations in nearly all 50 states and several foreign countries. Hegseth’s church is a member of CREC, and Hegseth has spoken positively of Wilson’s writings. Wilson and his allies have a rigid patriarchal belief system and don’t believe in the separation of church and state. They support taking away the right to vote from most women, barring non-Christians from holding office and criminalizing the LGBTQ+ community. Recently, Wilson has increased his influence nationally as he’s built a religious, educational and media empire. His Association of Classical Christian Schools has hundreds of fundamentalist schools around the country, and his publishing outfit Canon Press churns out dozens of titles a year as well as popular streaming shows that highlight unyielding socially conservative ideals. In the recently released podcast, “Extremely American” (created by this reporter), Wilson says one of his goals is to get like-minded people into positions of influence. In an emailed response for this story, he said he’s closer to that post-election and that he supports Hegseth’s nomination, though he downplayed any influence he has on him. “I was grateful for Trump’s win, and believe that it is much more likely that Christians with views similar to mine will receive positions in the new administration,” he said. Hegseth nomination could threaten cohesion, diversity of U.S. military, experts say That’s what worries Air Force veteran Mikey Weinstein, who is the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Weinstein says Hegseth, if confirmed as secretary of Defense, would threaten the cohesion of a religiously and racially diverse U.S. military. “Pete Hegseth is a poster child for literally everything that would be the opposite of what you would want to have for someone who’s controlling the technologically most lethal organization in the history of this country,” he said. Weinstein sees Hegseth’s nomination as an example of the dangers of Project 2025, a 900-page policy paper written by far-right political activists. It lays out a plan to gut the federal government and install Christian nationalist ideals. “Christian nationalism is an absolute fatal cancer metastasizing at light speed (for) the national security of this country,” he said. “It is a Christian version of the Taliban.” Matthew D. Taylor, senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, said Hegseth is “one of the most extreme far right figures ever nominated to a cabinet post, at least in modern memory.” Taylor said he’s broadly concerned about Christian nationalists, who tend to take a dim view of democracy, potentially having a lot of sway in this administration. “I think we should expect a profound degradation of our democratic norms of the rule of law, and I think we are edging closer to a de facto Anglo Protestant establishment, of the kind where Anglo Protestant Christianity as the de facto official religion in the United States,” he said. Hegseth faces some headwinds in his nomination process due to multiple marital sex scandals and the recent revelation that he paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault in exchange for her not speaking about it. He denies he assaulted her but admits he paid her . He’s also gotten criticism for tattoos that are symbols of the Crusades and wrote a book titled “American Crusade,” where he derides Muslims. Before becoming a TV personality, Hegseth led the conservative veterans group Concerned Veterans for America, which advocated for increased privatization of veterans’ health care. He has also said that women should not be allowed to serve in combat roles in the military, and has complained about what he terms “woke” policies in the military. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBE Idaho Capital Sun is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Idaho Capital Sun maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Christina Lords for questions: [email protected] . Follow Idaho Capital Sun on Facebook and X .The daughter, whose name was Sara, had received an urgent call informing her that her father had been rushed to the hospital after suffering a sudden heart attack. Without a moment's hesitation, she had leaped into action, abandoning all other thoughts and concerns in her quest to reach her father's side as quickly as possible.Real Madrid is set to face Atalanta in an intense Champions League clash, and fans are eagerly awaiting the lineup predictions from renowned sports news outlet, AS. The highly anticipated duel between Kylian Mbappé and Luka Modrić has created a buzz among football enthusiasts worldwide.The implications of JHU's revolutionary discovery are far-reaching and profound. Industries that rely on high-speed systems, such as information technology, telecommunications, and scientific research, stand to benefit greatly from this newfound capability. With the potential to boost productivity, efficiency, and innovation across various sectors, JHU's method has the power to shape the future of technology in ways previously thought impossible.
The battle for Havertz's signature highlighted the fierce competition between the Premier League giants, both eager to bolster their squads with top-quality talent. For Liverpool, missing out on Havertz was a bitter blow, as they had believed they were on the cusp of securing a major coup in the transfer market.A day after the party faced a big defeat at the hands of the Congress-led UDF in the Palakkad assembly bypoll on Saturday, murmurs of discontent grew within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) particularly aimed at state president K Surendran. On the eve of counting, Surendran had put up a Facebook post, in which he claimed that the BJP would not only win Palakkad, but that the UDF would also be pushed to the third position. However, when results came in by Saturday afternoon, UDF candidate Rahul Mamkootathil defeated BJP’s C Krishnakumar by 18,840 votes, the highest margin in the history of the constituency. LDF candidate P Sarin finished a close third. A closer look at the results showed that Mamkootathil secured 58,389 votes, up from 54,079 votes in the 2021 assembly elections. At the same time, the BJP lost 10,671 votes — plunging from its best-ever performance of 50,220 votes in 2021 to 39,549 votes this time. In the 2021 elections, the BJP had fielded E Sreedharan — the acclaimed engineer behind several Metro and railway projects in the country — in Palakkad, who was instrumental in winning over support apart from the party’s traditional vote base. The defeat by over 18,000 votes this time compared to just 3,859 votes in 2021 has sent alarm bells ringing within the BJP as it suffered a major dent in its vote bank in the areas under the Palakkad municipality, one of the two municipalities it governs in Kerala. In 2021 assembly elections, the party received 34,143 votes in the booths under the municipality. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it slipped to 29,355 votes and further dipped to 27,197 votes this time, an overall loss of nearly 7,000 votes compared to 2021. Following the defeat, several questions have been raised on the lapses of the party during the campaign, why it lost an important contest despite the state president camping in the constituency, the candidate selection as well as the alleged failure to respond to criticisms of the UDF and the LDF. Party spokesperson B Gopalakrishnan admitted that there were deep organisational lapses during the campaign in Palakkad. “We made some serious efforts to rectify the lapses. Like they say, there’s no point putting oil on the skin surface (when deeper issues exist). It is a reality that there were issues here,” he said during a TV debate on Saturday. Sandeep Vachaspathi, the state BJP spokesperson, took a jibe at Surendran, who wrote in a Facebook post that the real political fight took place in Chelakkara bypoll, where the party was able to increase its votes by nearly 10,000 compared to the 2021 elections. “The Thrissur district committee, which led the campaign there, deserves all the credit,” he wrote, hinting that the party did very well despite Surendran not being active in Chelakkara. “In Palakkad, all the issues raised were personal such as communalism, corruption, and defections. It has to be examined if the party failed in defending itself on such issues. Such a setback was not expected. It will be seriously examined how there was an erosion in our vote base despite the state president leading the campaign,” he wrote. Surendran, who took over as the BJP chief in February 2020, has already finished one term. If the party had won the Palakkad bypoll, he would have been allowed by the central leadership to continue till the 2026 assembly elections, a party source said. In the backdrop of the defeat, the demand to get Surendran removed as the state chief raised by other factions in the state unit will strengthen, he added. While the BJP won its first-ever Lok Sabha seat in the state this year — Thrissur — it still has no representation in the state assembly. It has two Union ministers of state from Kerala in the cabinet — Suresh Gopi and George Kurian.
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US to require passenger vehicles to sound alarms if rear passengers don't fasten their seat beltsAMMAN — The Arab Water Council (AWC) opened a preparatory meeting at the Dead Sea ahead of the 6th Arab water conference on Wednesday under the umbrella of the Arab League. Secretary-General of the Ministry of Water Jihad Mahamid said the AWC Technical Scientific Advisory Committee discussed the executive plan of the water security strategy in the Arab region for 2030, as well as relevant strategies prepared by the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, FAO, UNESCO, and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). He also said that the session also discussed the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan in Arab countries, sixth goal indicators, preparations for global water forums, cooperation in exploiting shared water resources, in addition to the regional initiative on the interconnection between the water, energy and food sectors, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. In its three-day meeting, the technical committee will discuss other items, including strengthening the negotiating hand of Arab countries that share water resources with non-Arab countries, expanding use of non-traditional water sources, developing the Palestinian water sector, supporting Iraq's rights regarding the preservation of water resources in the Tigris and Euphrates basin, and legislation regulating the water sector, according to Petra.
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