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A huge earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing hundreds of people and setting off a mammoth rescue operation along a mountainous stretch of provinces where communities already face hunger and economic crises. At least 800 people were killed and more than 2800 others injured after the 6 magnitude quake hit towns and villages close to the Pakistan border, according to Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Three villages were razed in Kunar province alone Reuters reported citing local authorities

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A huge earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing hundreds of people and setting off a mammoth rescue operation along a mountainous stretch of provinces where communities already face hunger and economic crises.

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Around 8:30 on Wednesday morning, a shooter walked into a catholic school's church during mass with a shotgun, a handgun, and a rifle. As of now, two children have been killed, and 17others have been injured as well. To shine light in a dark time for the families affected, news has been released that the other victims are expected to survive. This tragedy was a domestic terrorist attack that has deeply affected the families of the 8 and 10-year-olds who died today.

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Minneapolis Catholic school shooting: two children killed and 17 injured

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Since 2005, 3,200 local news outlets have closed. This week, several towns in Wyoming were about to join one of those news deserts due to the growing economic struggle for these local businesses. Luckily, with the help of a few Wyoming news executives, they were able to buy out and effectively save these shuttered news publications. It was a great thing that this happened, due to Wyoming being a smaller state in population, that these local news outlets stay open. This is especially true as the town has no local radio station, nor a local TV station.

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Wyoming saw a resurrection last week.

Eight small towns across the vast rural state were reeling from the gut punch of the abrupt closures of their newspapers just a week earlier. Staff had woken up to an email from News Media Corporation (NMC) announcing the immediate closures of the printing presses.

"It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you that NMC will be closing its doors permanently," NMC said in the email on 6 August. "Unfortunately, due to financial challenges, a significant economic downturn impacting our industry, revenue losses and increasing expenses, and the recent failure of an attempt to sell the company as a going concern, we have reached a point where continuing business is no longer feasible. This was a difficult decision, and it is in no way a reflection of your individual performance or dedication to the company."

The scene was not unique. According to the Local News Initiative, 3,200 local news outlets have vanished across the US since 2005. An estimated 55 million Americans do not have access to a local news source.

Before the Wyoming residents were nearly added to the growing lists of news deserts, a miracle came. A group of Wyoming news executives stepped into the fold, buying eight of the papers - seven in Wyoming, and one just across the border in Nebraska. Printing would resume, and staff at the papers, who never stopped working during the closure, would receive full pay.

Four South Dakota papers were brought back from the brink in a separate transaction as well.

Rob Mortimore, one of the news executives who stepped up to purchase the Wyoming papers and the publisher of the Torrington Telegram, has worked in Wyoming news for 24 years, and sees the mission as vital.

"When communities lose their newspaper, they lose their voice," he said.

Wyoming, the least populated state in the union, has just 11 towns with more than 10,000 people, and a total population clocking in at just under 600,000. Its windy plains, high sagebrush deserts and alpine peaks all contribute to a landmass larger than the United Kingdom's.

According to Jen Sieve-Hicks, executive editor at the Buffalo Bulletin, the state's rural nature makes local papers all that more important. Sieve-Hicks noted that the town had no radio station, the nearest television station is 110 miles away, and the Bulletin is the only news source in a county as big as Delaware and Rhode Island combined.

"We really are not only the main source - we are the only source of news in our community," she said. "We are a connective tissue in the community."

Hicks has been at the Bulletin for 20 years, and her husband, Rob, have family roots in the Wyoming news business dating back 70 years. The couple, along with Mortimore, pooled together to buy the papers after their closure. The outlets are "100% locally owned" and the purchase has none of the private equity or hedge fund involvement that has gutted papers across the country.

To Cali O'Hare, managing editor at the Pinedale Roundup, local control of rural news is vital.

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"Local ownership is key," O'Hare said. "I think keeping the corporation, which sees us all as a bottom line and a number, I think keeping them out of it is so incredibly important."

O'Hare is no stranger to the demands of a rural newspaper or the dangers of news deserts. After earlier cuts, O'Hare has been a one-woman show at the Pinedale Roundup, which serves a county just smaller than the state of Connecticut, for the last 18 months. She handles everything from obituaries to the sports page. O'Hare has stuck through out of a commitment to her local community.

"The first newsroom I ever worked in, we had a sign that hung in the back that said, 'The hours are long, the pay sucks, but at least everybody hates you,'" O'Hare said. "So that's kind of the mentality that I fall back on, just in service and sacrifice to my community."

O'Hare had a 100F fever the morning of 6 August, when she learned about the Roundup's closure. She proceeded to pull an 18-hour day, cleaning out the office, stopping the presses for the coming issue and taking visits from long-time Sublette county residents wanting old copies of the paper that had served their community for the last 121 years.

O'Hare spent the next two days working from a bed of Sublette county's new hospital, whose opening she had covered just a week before, much to the chagrin of her doctors. She said that she, and other local Wyoming journalists, were firm believers that the closure wouldn't stick.

"Corporate could close its doors, but this was far bigger than corporate," O'Hare said.

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Seven Wyoming newspapers were about to be shut. They were given a second life

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Famine has been determined in Gaza Governorate by the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification). The IPC found that more than half a million people in the Gaza strip are experiencing catastrophic levels of food insecurity. About 54% of the population is facing phase 4 conditions, which is about 1.07 million people. Between mid august and the end of september almost a third of the population are expected to face Phase 5 catastrophic conditions.

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Trump and the case of the nonexistent $600 billion EU ‘gift’ it is stated that trump recevied the money directly to him, but the EU saw it as a way of Trade especially because the European side had said that the $600 billion figure referred to private-sector European companies’ “intentions” to invest in the US over time rather than some sort of lump-sum EU handout to the Trump administration. A CNBC journalist said since they had been trying to figure out the details surrounding the $600 billion when asked about details, Trump responded: “There are no details."

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An immigration jail in the Florida Everglades has been ordered to be closed within 60 days by a Miami judge, Kathleen Williams. The order states that the camp is causing irreparable damage to the Everglades and causing much environmental harm. The judge says that just like a tourist airport, which was denied to be built in that area decades ago for the same reason, the jail should be removed. She says that after the 60 days, nothing that makes it a detention camp what it is should remain, and the amount of detainees there should not increase. The closure of this jail has also been discussed in the past, with parties suing them for the same reason. The judge also states that "...environmental laws must be respected by leaders at the highest levels of our government, and there are consequences for ignoring them.”

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A federal judge in Miami late on Thursday ordered the closure of the Trump administration's notorious " Alligator Alcatraz" immigration jail within 60 days, and ruled that no more detainees were to be brought to the facility while it was being wound down.

The shock ruling by district court judge Kathleen Williams builds on a temporary restraining order she issued two weeks ago halting further construction work at the remote tented camp, which has attracted waves of criticism for harsh conditions, abuse of detainees and denial of due process as they await deportation.

In her 82-page order, published in the US district court's southern district of Florida on Friday, Williams determined the facility was causing severe and irreparable damage to the fragile Florida Everglades.

She also noted that a plan to develop the site on which the jail was built into a massive tourist airport was rejected in the 1960s because of the harm it would have caused the the land and delicate ecosystem.

"Since that time, every Florida governor, every Florida senator, and countless local and national political figures, including presidents, have publicly pledged their unequivocal support for the restoration, conservation, and protection of the Everglades," she wrote.

"This order does nothing more than uphold the basic requirements of legislation designed to fulfill those promises."

No further construction at the site can take place, she ruled, and there must be no further increase in the number of detainees currently held there, estimated to be about 700. After the 60-day period, all construction materials, fencing, generators and fixtures that made the site a detention camp must be removed.

The ruling is a significant victory for a coalition of environmental groups and a native American tribe that sued the state of Florida and the federal government. Williams agreed that the hasty, eight-day construction of the jail at a disused airfield in late June damaged the sensitive wetlands of a national preserve and further imperiled federally protected species.

"This is a landmark victory for the Everglades and countless Americans who believe this imperiled wilderness should be protected, not exploited," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit.

"It sends a clear message that environmental laws must be respected by leaders at the highest levels of our government, and there are consequences for ignoring them."

The alliance plans to hold a press conference on Friday morning to discuss the ruling in detail.

Conversely, the ruling is a blow to the detention and deportation agenda of the Trump administration. The president touted the camp, which recently held as many as 1,400 detainees, as a jail for "some of the most vicious people on the planet", although hundreds of those held there have no criminal record or active criminal proceedings against them.

There was no immediate reaction to Williams's ruling from the Florida department of emergency management, which operates the jail on behalf of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice), or from the Department of Homeland Security.

But lawyers for the state told Williams in court last week that they would appeal any adversarial ruling, the Miami Herald reported.

In addition, hundreds of detainees were moved from "Alligator Alcatraz" to other immigration facilities at the weekend in anticipation that Williams would order its closure, the outlet said.

Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor, announced earlier this month that the state will soon open a second immigration jail at a disused prison near Gainesville to increase capacity.

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Federal judge orders closure of Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration jail

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After killing his parents with his brother 36 years ago, Erik Menendez was denied parole. They said that the severity of the crime was not the problem for denying parole, but it was the way he was acting during his stay. The next time he is eligible for parole is in 3 years.

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Erik Menendez denied parole, Lyle Menendez to learn his fate on Friday

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Erik Menendez was denied parole during his first-ever parole hearing on Thursday, 36 years and one day after he and his brother killed their parents.

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Lyle Menendez to face California parole board after brother Erik denied freedom

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After 30 years in prison for the murder of there parents in there California mansion, the Menendez brothers are fighting for freedom. Erik Menendez has been denied parole for three years and was denied Thursday because of his continued misbehaviour during decades of being in prison. His older brother Lyle Menendez is scheduled for a parole hearing Friday morning with the strong support of family members advocating for there release.

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Six people died in a accident in a farm in Keenesburg Colorado. They sent out Fire crews to go start a "confined space rescue." The crews took proper precaution, but they could only retrieve the six dead individuals. No other details were released about the indecent.

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Six people died in an accident at a dairy farm in Colorado, authorities said.

Fire crews were dispatched to a dairy farm in Weld County on Wednesday evening for a "confined space rescue," Southeast Weld Fire District Chief Tom Beach said in a statement.

A dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, Aug. 21, 2025.

"Crews responded and took appropriate precautions to enter the confined space to perform rescue operations," Beach said in a statement on Thursday. "Unfortunately, District personnel recovered six deceased individuals from the space."

No additional details on the incident were released by the Southeast Weld Fire District.

The dairy farm is located in Keenesburg, in a rural area about 45 miles northeast of Denver.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it is investigating the incident.

The Weld County Sheriff's Office said there is not believed to be any criminal element.

A dairy farm in Weld County, Colorado, Aug. 21, 2025.

The Dairy Farmers of America said the "tragic accident" occurred at one of its member farms.

"We are deeply saddened by this incident, and our thoughts and most sincere condolences go out to the friends and families of the deceased," the organization said in a statement. "At this early stage, we have no further details."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. ABC News' Jeffrey Cook contributed to this report.

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6 dead in accident at Colorado dairy farm: Fire chief

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Fire crews were dispatched to a dairy farm in Weld County on Wednesday evening for a "confined space rescue," the Southeast Weld Fire District said.

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A man-made famine was confirmed in parts of Gaza. Since the famine is man-made it can be reversed. Without cease fire the people in Gaza won't be able to get food and the number of deaths will increase. Since Israel is the occupying power they are responsible for getting the people food so at least 2 in every 10,000 people die daily without their help.

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Nadeen Ebrahim, Eugenia Yosef, Oren Liebermann, Kareem Khadder

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Gaza City suffering a ‘man-made’ famine that’s likely to spread, UN-backed initiative says | CNN

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Parts of Gaza are officially experiencing a “man-made” famine, according to a Friday report by a United Nations-backed initiative, which added that the situation is expected to worsen after months of relentless conflict.

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Scientist have been able to spot an exploding star due to the star's outer layer peeling off, due to this scientist have been able to figure out what stars are going to look like right before they explode, even though stars can live for millions of years once they start losing fuel they explode which they call a supernova, scientists are still trying to figure out what caused this either layers were flung off or if it was taken by another star.

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NEW YORK -- Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution.

Stars can live for millions to trillions of years until they run out of fuel. The most massive ones go out with a bang in an explosion called a supernova.

Using telescopes that peer deep into space, researchers have observed many such explosions. The cosmic outbursts tend to jumble up a dying star's layers, making it hard for scientists to observe the inner structure.

But that wasn't the case for the new discovery, a supernova called 2021yfj located in our Milky Way galaxy.

The collapsing star's outermost layers of hydrogen and helium had peeled away long ago, which wasn't surprising. But the star's dense, innermost layers of silicon and sulfur had also shed during the explosion.

"We have never observed a star that was stripped to this amount," said Northwestern University's Steve Schulze, who was part of the discovery team that published the research Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The finding lends evidence to ideas scientists have about how large stars look near the end of their lives, organized into layers with lighter elements on the outside and heavier ones close to the core.

"Because so many of the layers had been stripped off this star, this basically confirmed what those layers were," said Anya Nugent, who studies supernovas at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She was not involved with the new research.

It's not yet clear how this star got so whittled down - whether its layers were flung off violently in the final stages of its life or yanked away by a twin star. Future research may yield clues, though scientists acknowledged such an event may be tough to capture again.

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Summary of Gaza famine.

In the midst of a big war happening in the shadows is a major problem on the Gaza Strip. The famine on in Gaza has gotten so bad they are starting to face phase 5 hunger conditons which is a 3rd of there population (641,000 in phase 5) and the other people are in phase 4 is 54% of the population (1.07million people).

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Famine determined in parts of Gaza, 500,000 experiencing ‘catastrophic’ hunger: Report

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Famine has been determined in Gaza Governorate, where Gaza City is located, according to a warning issued Friday by the IPC.

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Trump's half-billion-dollar fine has been appealed in court. Trump was given the fine because of civil fraud. Two judges said, "the fine was excessive." Another two judges said the court was wrong for saying Trump committed fraud. The last judge said the cause should've never been brought up.

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Appeals court throws out Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment

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A New York appeals court has thrown out the half billion-dollar civil fraud judgment against President Donald Trump, his family and his company.

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In the article it discusses about Current NBA player Jaylen Browns Father being charged with attempted murder in Las Vegas. The report says Mr. Brown allegedly dinged someones car with his door. Which escalated and encouraged Mr. Brown to pull a weapon and stabbed the man twice in the back and in the stomach.

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Father of Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown charged with attempted murder in Las Vegas

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Jaylen Brown’s father, Quenton, was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with attempted murder after police say he stabbed a man in a parking lot

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Hurricane Erin heads to the East and coastal flooding still remains. North Carolina's Outer banks is currently getting hit with rough waves. It is bringing deadly rip currents to the shores. The very large storm is impacting many places along the East Coast.

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Hurricane Erin live updates: Storm races east, but coastal flooding threats remain

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Hurricane Erin is marching north, lashing North Carolina’s Outer Banks with rough waves and coastal flooding.

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Joshua Haymes posted online that "Liberalism is a greater threat to the U.S. than neo-Nazism." Haymes claimed that the Bible backs up the Ice-raids and that all pride parades should be shut down. His reasoning was that he is a proud Christian and has very traditional Christian views.

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The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has repeatedly endorsed the Reformation Red Pill podcast, and has appeared on four episodes. But the former pastor who hosts the show, and who attends Hegseth's theocratic church, has voiced a range of extreme positions in recent months on issues including Ice raids, capital punishment, the racist "great replacement" theory, adultery and neo-Nazism.

The revelations come on top of recent media reports focused on Hegseth also boosting a video of Douglas Wilson and other Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) pastors arguing that women should lose the vote in the United States. They also follow previous revelations about Hegseth's links to or apparent sympathies for Christian nationalist positions.

Joshua Haymes is a member of the CREC-aligned Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship (PHRF), and his podcasts advocate for the CREC's moral and theological positions. As the Guardian previously reported, he once served as a pastoral intern at the church. Online he has claimed that liberalism is a greater threat to the US than neo-Nazism, and that the Bible is "pro-Ice raids". On X, he has also advocated for capital punishment for adultery and abortion, and appeared to call for the drowning of LGBTQ+ Pride marchers.

In an emailed comment, Haymes clarified his current professional role. "I am not a pastoral intern. I have gone full-time into media and content creation. I am not employed by Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship," he said.

Despite distancing himself from the PHRF, Haymes regularly hosts Brooks Potteiger, the congregation's pastor and Hegseth's closest spiritual adviser. Potteiger's most recent appearance was just over a week ago. Pottiger appears alongside Haymes in the profile image for the podcast's channel on YouTube, whose description reads: "We created this podcast as a resource to serve you in your reformation red pill journey."

These materials, mostly published since Hegseth was confirmed as secretary of defense, underline the extreme Christian nationalist positions at Pilgrim Hill, in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, the community within which Hegseth acquired an 8,800 sq ft, $3.4m mansion in 2022.

The Guardian repeatedly sent requests for comment to Hegseth via the Pentagon's centralized communications office. A Pentagon spokesman offered a link to a transcript of a 14 August press conference in which Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters Hegseth "is a proud member of a church that is affiliated with the Congregation of Reformed Evangelical Churches which was founded by Pastor Doug Wilson. He is a very proud Christian and has those traditional Christian viewpoints."

Heidi Beirich, co-founder and chief strategy officer of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told the Guardian in an email: "It is completely unacceptable, and frankly terrifying, that our defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has appeared on Joshua Haymes's podcasts."

She added: "The leader of the Pentagon is in league with white supremacists, Confederacy lovers, people who want to take away women's right to vote and slavery apologists. In earlier eras, a person with ties like that would never have reached the heights of federal power or been acceptable to the GOP."

Joshua Haymes

The Guardian previously reported that Hegseth appeared on four consecutive episodes of the Reformation Red Pill podcast, which Haymes hosts, in which he appeared to endorse the radical doctrine of "sphere sovereignty", which sees all aspects of human life, including government, as being bound by a vision of biblical law that includes Old Testament precepts of morality and punishment.

In those podcasts, Hegseth also explains that he and his wife moved to the area initially to enroll their children in a "classical Christian" school associated with the church, and that the move had shaped his world view.

"We thought we were moving to a school, but we moved to a church and a community and a whole view of the world that has changed the way we think too," he told Haymes.

Haymes has also supported Hegseth. After Hegseth's nomination for defense secretary triggered a wave of reporting about allegations against him of sexual assault and public drunkenness, Haymes began a 15 November X post with "@PeteHegseth is a sinner saved by grace ... Pete is a member in good standing in our church."

By his own account in posts and podcasts, Haymes tried and failed to establish a church in Los Angeles, a failure he has attributed to his own conversion to theological postmillennialism partway through the attempt.

Postmillennialism holds that Christ will return after a golden age in which Christianity dominates the world, a belief that often fuels Christian nationalist movements seeking to transform society through religious and political means.

The same theological framework undergirds the positions of CREC churches and Douglas Wilson, who advocate for implementing Old Testament civil law in modern governance.

Since 2023, according to data brokers and Sumner county property records, Haymes, 33, has lived in Hendersonville, Tennessee. His home is located just 15 minutes' drive from Hegseth's Goodlettsville estate, but is on a far more modest scale than the defense secretary's four-bed, seven-bathroom pile, which sits on almost 80 acres, according to property records and realtor advertisements.

Hegseth has repeatedly boosted Haymes's X account and podcasts. On 4 October 2024, Hegseth quote-posted Haymes's own link to a Reformation Red Pill episode entitled "Should you join a CREC church?" with the comment "Great discussion👇".

'The Bible is ... pro-Ice raids'

In a 17 July podcast, Haymes reacted to a podcast by the New Evangelicals, a Christian non-profit critical of Christian nationalism, in order to argue the case that Ice immigration raids have a biblical basis, and went on to link his claims with a version of the "great replacement" conspiracy theories.

"Is the Bible in favor of these Ice raids?" he asked listeners near the start of the recording. "The answer is yes."

He added: "The Bible does not require wealthy Christian nations to self-immolate for the horrible crime of having a flourishing economy and way of life, all right? The Bible does not permit the civil magistrate to steal money from its citizens to pay for foreign nationals to come destroy our culture."

He then joined these remarks up with the idea of white replacement, saying: "And make no mistake, mass immigration is designed by liberal globalists to destroy, to destroy our culture ... Anglo-Protestant culture."

The same "liberal globalists", he warned, "they want open borders and they didn't hide it, right? They, and specifically, they want more non-Christian, non-white people to come [to] supplant and replace the white voting population."

Tim Whitaker, a co-host of the New Evangelicals podcast, told the Guardian: "This idea that mass immigration is designed by liberal globalists to destroy Anglo-Protestant culture? This is literally what the KKK preached."

He said that on immigration, Haymes had adduced "classic white supremacist talking points", adding: "As a Christian, I reject such claims."

Whitaker said: "They call themselves followers of Christ, but then when Jesus says to welcome the stranger, and that word's really better translated as immigrant or refugee, that is ignored."

In an email, Haymes reaffirmed his comments in the podcast recording.

He said: "I believe that it is indisputable that the left is bribing the third world to come to America, primarily to try and gain a permanent electoral majority. And they have no problem destroying American culture to accomplish their ends. You can call that whatever you want."

In the podcast, Haymes also appeared to regret the demise of the slaveholding US Confederacy, depicting it as a constitutional matter during which the south simply wanted to secede, and "Lincoln and the north, the federal government said: no, you may not, you may not secede, and we'll kill you if you try."

He added: "The south was conquered, in a sense, which is sad. And yeah, we really did lose that federalism, that localism in that and [then] the federal government blew up. I mean, expanded in a way that it was never meant to. And we've never recovered from that. I pray that we can recover from that, but we haven't."

'Terms like "antisemitic" don't mean anything any more'

In a 10 July podcast, Haymes discussed the incident that month that saw Elon Musk's Grok AI spout neo-Nazi and antisemitic talking points on X, at one point describing itself as "MechaHitler".

Near the beginning of the recording, Haymes said: "I used to use the term 'antisemitic'. I used to think that it was a helpful term, but I've since come to believe that that term is not helpful, maybe at all."

He said the word was "left-coded", and that it could be applied in criticisms of the Bible, saying: "This book says that the Jews killed Christ, which they did. There's no question about that. That's literally what the Bible says. So that [critics say] verses like that are antisemitic."

He added: "So whenever Hitler can be antisemitic and all Christians who believe the Bible are also antisemitic, I've just come to believe that it's not a useful word."

He instead uses the term "Jew-hatred", and acknowledged that "a lot of guys really are going that way", but immediately said: "I think we can laugh about it because it's not an existential threat like the media wants to make out."

He added that "the real existential threat is not coming from neo-Nazis" and "liberalism, that's the existential threat that we face".

"I know they're gonna call me antisemitic, but that's OK," adding: "I'm not concerned about being called that because I know that I actually don't hate Jews.

"I love all people that truly Christ calls us to love people. And I genuinely want them all to repent and come to Christ."

The idea that Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity are sinful is one aspect of what scholars of religion and Jewish advocates have called supersessionism, which can itself be antisemitic, depending on the context.

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Haymes has aired the same sentiment on X in recent weeks, writing in a 13 August post: "One Day EVERY Jew Muslim Hindu Buddhist Atheist & Agnostic Will bow before King Jesus and call Him Lord."

In the podcast, Haymes then characterized rising neo-Nazi and far-right sentiment on X as "the price of free speech", saying: "You're either gonna have free speech or you're not. I mean, if you're gonna have free speech, you're gonna have people saying deplorable things."

On those venting neo-Nazi sentiment online, Haymes said: "I think a lot of it is guys who ... don't actually believe that Jews should be exterminated. They don't actually believe that Hitler was some great guy."

Rather, he said: "A lot of young men in particular, they've seen the media, they've seen all of our institutions, all our liberal institutions, completely beclown themselves and totally discredit themselves."

In an emailed comment, Haymes underlined his claims about the relative threats posed by neo-Nazism and liberalism.

"Liberalism is the greatest threat to the flourishing of our nation at the moment. Neo-Nazi ideology ... it's basically non-existent in the west today."

Haymes also said: "No one should be hated simply because of their race. I am totally against Jew-hatred. I have made it very clear publicly on multiple occasions."

On X

Recently on X, Haymes has expressed views that are, if anything, more extreme than those he has expressed in podcasts.

In a 1 August post, Haymes flatly endorsed the views of the white nationalist founder of the American Renaissance journal and conference, Jared Taylor.

Reposting a video of a 2017 interview of Taylor by broadcast journalist Amna Nawaz in which Taylor recited a version of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, Haymes wrote: "Correct. Diversity is not our strength ... It is good to love your people & your place and seek to preserve it from destruction. This is a Christian impulse."

In an emailed comment, Haymes wrote: "I am not a white nationalist or white supremacist. My cousin is black, and my brother-in-law is Chinese, and I'm glad they're here. I have no idea who that white nationalist is."

On 27 July, reacting to a controversial appearance by Mehdi Hasan on the Jubilee broadcast in which Hasan faced down self-confessed "far-right" adherents and "fascists", Haymes posted: "White People Are Native Americans."

In X posts, Haymes has recently called for bans on the adoption of children by LGBTQ+ parents.

Commenting on a clip of his own podcast on 12 August, in which he had discussed the apprehension of an alleged child sexual abuser, Haymes wrote: "Public executions are Biblical. Therefore public executions are good. Therefore we should bring back public executions."

He has also called for capital punishment for a wide range of other perceived infractions such as adultery and abortion.

In an emailed comment, Haymes qualified his support for executions on moral grounds. He wrote: "I believe that murdering a baby should receive capital punishment. I believe that would effectively end child sacrifice in our nation."

He added: "I am not in favor of rushing to capital punishment for adultery. Though in principle I am not against it. I am certainly in favor of completely overturning no-fault divorce and outlawing adultery, and enforcing serious penalties for it."

In a 28 June post, Haymes appeared to hint that Nashville Pride marchers should be drowned.

Reposting footage of the parade, he wrote: "We're short on millstones at the Nashville Pride parade. This is sick. This is child abuse."

In Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42 and Luke 17:42, Jesus purportedly says words to the effect that for those who cause children to stumble or sin, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the sea.

In an emailed comment on this post, Haymes wrote: "I do not advocate for violence against Pride marchers. I do not advocate for violence of any kind."

He added: "I do not believe that anyone should be drowning anyone in this scenario. I am simply stating the fact that Christ says that drowning is better than causing little ones to sin."

Haymes continued: "My role is simply to give that warning. Pride marchers who are sexualizing children are in for a very, very harsh judgment when they stand before their maker."

On 5 August, Haymes posted that homosexuality is "uniquely evil".

Haymes has habitually portrayed non-Christian faiths and non-Christian immigrants as sinister.

On 9 August, he posted: "You guys remember the Muhammadan travel ban from Trump 1? That was awesome." On 5 August, reacting to news of the erection of a statue of the Hindu deity Rama in Mississauga, Ontario, he posted: "This is what a conquered nations [sic] looks like."

On 2 August, he posted a screenshot of a link to a listicle entitled "Ten Hindu deities to know as a yoga teacher" with the comment: "I'm pretty positive yoga is demonic."

In a post characterizing his political views, Haymes put himself to the right of "far right" on a diagram, characterizing his own position as "God's law".

Along with adultery, Haymes has posted that gender-affirming surgeries and abortion should be capital crimes.

On execution methods, in a 17 November post Haymes wrote that he was "not yet sold on the idea that all capitol [sic] punishment must be a public stoning where the community partakes", and said his preference was a "death by a public firing squad wherein the accuser and witnesses partake in the firing".

On 29 July, he straightforwardly outlined his own preferred political program: "Republican Platform 2032 - Abolish Abortion & IVF - Ban Pornography - Bring Back Public Executions For Violent Offenders - Outlaw No Fault Divorce - Overturn Obergefell - Ban Gay Adoption - Ban public indecency (Which would ban pride parades). What did I miss?"

In a 9 August post, Haymes hinted he believes not all citizens should be allowed to vote when he reiterated the position of other CREC pastors: "Voting is not a sacred right granted by God."

Beirich, the extremism expert, said: "Haymes is a white supremacist who endorses the racist 'great replacement' conspiracy theory and talks of American culture as 'Anglo-Protestant'."

She added: "He is pro-Confederate, calls the LGBTQ+ community 'uniquely evil', endorses the ideas of Jared Taylor, one of our country's most prominent white nationalists, and calls for insane things like public executions. This is what the Trump era has brought us."

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