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Happy Father’s Day – American Minute with Bill Federer

U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and other agencies report that children from fatherless homes are: Five times more likely to live...

Memorial Day – American Minute with Bill Federer

Memorial Day in America, as an annual observance, can be traced back to the end of the Civil War, a war in which over a half-million died.  Southern...

Clara Barton & the American Red Cross – American Minute with Bill Federer

When Clara Barton was ten-years-old, her older brother, David, fell off the roof of a barn during barn-raising in Massachusetts. The doctors had given up hope on him, but Clara helped...

Mother’s Day: American Minute with Bill Federer

After the Civil War, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic, led a Mother's Day for Peace in New York on June 2,...

National Days of Prayer – American Minute with Bill Federer

Do you know America’s tradition of Days of Prayer? In Alexander Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims, (Boston, 1841), Edward Winslow recounted: “Drought and the like … moved...

Battle Over Abortion Law Continues in Arizona as Repeal Efforts Stalled

Arizona Republicans in the state House blocked a Democratic attempt for the second time in as many weeks to repeal a Civil War-era law...

Income Tax: American Minute with Bill Federer

On APRIL 15, 1865, President Lincoln died. He was shot the night before in Ford's Theater. On APRIL 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. It struck an iceberg the night...

Hospitals & Healthcare began with Christian Charity – American Minute with Bill Federer

 The Byzantine Empire's School of Nisibis, founded in the 4th century, sometimes referred to as the world's first university, was a Christian center of scientific and medical learning, located in...

The Rare Event of Solar Eclipse Paths Crossing – American Minute with Bill Federer

Do you know how rare it is for a total solar eclipse to cross over the same place twice? To answer that, we have to...

Attorneys General File Lawsuit Against Biden’s Student Loan Plan

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and 10 other attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

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