Author: Shalem John
President Donald Trump earned $1.3 million off the sale of Bibles in 2024. The White House released financial disclosure forms on Friday as the nation prepared for protests and a military parade celebrating the anniversary of the US Army. The 234-page report, covering the 12 months before Trump was sworn into office, shows his wealth vastly increased while he was running for president. Trump earned $57.4 million as the “chief crypto advocate” and “inspiration” for a cryptocurrency company founded in 2024, in addition to other more traditional sources of revenue, such as the $50 million he earned from his Palm…
Vance Boelter, the man arrested in connection with the killing of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and the shooting of a state senator and his wife on June 14, is an evangelical missionary who has preached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent years. The FBI identified Boelter, 57, as a suspect in the killing of Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democrat, and Mark Hortman at their home in Champlin, a suburb of Minneapolis. The suspect, who impersonated an officer to gain entry to the Hortmans’ home, was still at the crime scene when police officers arrived,…
Malaysia cabinet minister Hannah Yeoh won a defamation case in late May against university lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, who accused her of using her memoir to turn Malaysia into a Christian nation. The long-running suit, which Yeoh filed in 2022, centers on two of Kamarul’s Facebook posts from May 2017 that suggested she was “pushing a Christian agenda” through her political position. One of the posts specified Yeoh’s autobiography, in which she wrote about her faith journey and why she decided to run for office. High Court judge Aliza Sulaiman ruled both posts defamatory and said they portrayed Yeoh as…