An emotional and sometimes tearful Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared his innocence Thursday of a high-profile sexual abuse allegation, moments after his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, said she was “100 percent” sure Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her while in high school.

“I was not at the party described by Dr. Ford. This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” Kavanaugh said. “The Constitution gives the Senate an important role in the confirmation process, but you have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.”

Minutes earlier, Ford had said Kavanaugh did something that scarred her for life.

The two spoke in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee during a historic hearing, with Kavanaugh’s nomination hanging in the balance – and with all eyes on a handful of key votes within the Republican caucus that could determine whether he sits on the nation’s most powerful court. Among those key votes: Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.  

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of North Carolina expressed frustration at the process  

“We’re 40-something days from the election, and [the Democrats’] goal – not Ms. Ford’s goal – is to delay this past the mid-terms so they can win the Senate and never allow Trump to fill this seat. I believe that now more than ever,” Graham told reporters.

“I feel…

An anonymous letter has been released by the Senate Judiciary Committee outlining a fourth allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 

The letter, posted on Twitter by CBN News, is completely anonymous and appears to be written by the mother of a daughter whose friend was allegedly assaulted by Kavanaugh in 1998. 

The letter reads, “when he [Brett Kavanaugh] was author of the Starr Report, my daughter (from Boulder Colorado) occasionally socialized with Brett Kavanaugh.” 

“She and a group of four (including Kavanaugh met in a Washington D.C. bar). Her friend was dating him. When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually,” it continues.

The letter goes on to say that the woman who was allegedly assaulted called the author’s daughter on September 21 to seek guidance on whether or not she should come forward with the allegation, noting that they decided that she should remain anonymous.

The letter makes mention of “at least four witnesses” being present. 

“We have no reason to assign the letter credibility, and even if we did, we’d have no way to investigate the allegation as it was made anonymously and cannot be corroborated.” @senjudiciary releases anonymous letter detailing new…

This week tens of thousands of Christians are gathering for mass prayer and worship in state capitals across the United States.

As a part of an event called “Tent America 2018,” hosted by Awaken the Dawn, Christians from across the U.S. are heading to their state capitals for a three-day prayer session and celebration where they will pray for the healing of our nation and celebrate the works God is doing. 

The event is running from September 27-29 and is taking place simultaneously with the Feast of Tabernacles which is happening in Israel. 

The event will have a tent city set up where people can come to worship, listen to and sing music, pray and hear gospel proclamations. According to Awake the Dawn, the hope is to be able to bring prayer tents to all 50 state capitals as well as to hundreds of college campuses across the country. 

According to the Awaken the Dawn website, “The Tent of Meeting represents the raw, unfiltered presence of God, unrestrained by cultural norms – extending an invitation to weak men and women to cry out to meet with Him, face-to-face. This is the cry that must arise from the generations as we tabernacle together in September: We want to meet with You face-to-face! …John 1:14 declares that ‘the Word became flesh and dwelt among us’ – we want Jesus to tabernacle among us during Tent America 2018 in His full…

Archaeologists may have found historical evidence for the biblical account of the Exodus near the River Jordan.

Experts are currently analyzing ruins near the River Jordan as potential proof that the story of the Exodus, is more than a legend and indeed a historical fact. 

According to U.K. Daily Express, a United Kingdom media outlet, archaeologists generally agree that the Israelites were natives of Canaan, which contradicts the account in the Biblical book of Exodus.

According to the Bible, Moses liberated the Israelites from Egypt leading them through Sinai and across the River Jordan to Canaan.

Archaeologists Ralph K. Hawkins and David Ben-Shlomo have now found some evidence in the Jordan Valley site of Khirbet el-Mastarah, which they believe are remnants of ruins from a nomadic people who they believe to be the Hebrews coming from Egypt.

On Tuesday Ben-Shlomo told U.K. Daily Express that based on his expertise the ruins offer great potential to be evidence for the Exodus.

“We have not proved that these camps are from the period of the early Israelites, but it is possible,” noted Ben-Shlomo.

“If they are, this might fit the biblical story of the Israelites coming from east of the Jordan River, then crossing the Jordan and entering into the hill country of Israel later.”

Ben-Shlomo and Hawkins published their findings in the July/August 2018 edition of Biblical…

Teacher and Pastor David English is facing domestic violence charges after he beat up his 31-year-old wife who had kidnapped a newborn.

On Friday, Jennifer Bunting English kidnapped an infant she had been babysitting in Laurens County, S.C. According to WYFF, a local news station in South Carolina, the baby’s mother called the police after English failed to return the infant and had stopped communicating with her. 

The baby was found within three hours of the call being made, she was in a home in Joanna County, S.C. with English who was reportedly high on drugs. 

According to the news outlet, English had smoked marijuana in front of the baby. The woman is being charged with kidnapping and unlawful conduct toward a child. 

The baby was immediately brought the hospital to be evaluated. 

English’s husband, David English is also facing charged as he reportedly beat his wife casing “significant injuries” during an argument about her whereabouts on Friday. 

WYFF is reporting that the New Hope Baptist Chruch pastor was both aware of his wife’s drug addiction and complicit in helping her obtain the illegal drugs. 

Deputies arrested David English on Monday and charged him with second-degree domestic violence and unlawful conduct toward a child. 

“This was a terrible incident but, luckily, we found the baby before this turned out to be much more…

A federal judge has reversed law in Hawaii requiring pro-life pregnancy centers to display information about government contraception and abortion programs.

The judge struck down this law after a recent decision was made by the Supreme Court in the case of Nat’l Inst. of Family & Life Advocates v. Becerra which found a similar statute to be unconstitutional.

In the decision document released on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson wrote, “In light of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Nat’l Inst. of Family & Life Advocates v. Becerra, and the parties’ stipulation for entry of permanent injunction and final judgment in favor of plaintiffs, it is hereby ordered … that Hawaii revised statutes § 321-561(b)-(c) [are] declared to be unconstitutional under the United States Constitution as applied to plaintiffs with respect to plaintiffs’ First Amendment free speech claim.”

In July, A Place for Women Pregnancy Care Center and the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates filed suit to challenge the S.B. 501 bill that required all “limited service” pregnancy centers to display or distribute information that states in part: 

“Hawaii has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services, including, but not limited to, all…

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has cut its contract with a biomedical procurement company that would have allowed the FDA to purchase “fetal tissue” for drug testing.

The decision comes after 85 members of Congress signed a letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, calling for an end to the contract.

“Unborn children are not commodities to be bought and sold,” the letter said. “The practice of conducting research using the body parts of children whose lives have been violently ended by abortion is abhorrent.”

The FDA initially wanted to contract with the company to buy fetal tissue that would have been used for research, but this week HHS announced it would not be working with the company and canceled the $15,000 contract.

“HHS was not sufficiently assured that the contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements,” the department said in a statement released Tuesday.

HHS also said it would review all federal contracts that involve buying fetal tissue.

According to NBC News, in previous years, the HHS has said that fetal tissue “continues to be a critical resource for important efforts such as research on degenerative eye disease, human development disorders such as Down syndrome, and infectious diseases, among a host…