New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that he is dropping out of the race to serve another term. In a lengthy video posted to X on Sunday afternoon, Adams thanked his mother, touted his diverse appointments, discussed the corruption case against him that was dropped earlier this year, and stated that he was officially ending his campaign to remain Mayor of New York City. “It’s not always easy to see the impact of good policy in just three years. … I know some remain unsure of me after the unfortunate events surrounding my federal case. I was wrongfully charged because I fought for this city, and if I had to do it again, I would fight for New York again,” Adams said in the video. “And yet, despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign. The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board’s decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign. I hope that over time, New Yorkers will see this city thrived under our leadership, the policies we put in place should be continued and expanded. I hope you will see that despite the headlines and innuendo, I always put you before me.” Notably, Adams didn’t endorse any of his rivals during his video address. Only in America. Only in New York. Thank you for making my story a reality. pic.twitter.com/efHuyBnITJ — Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) September 28, 2025 Adams was running as an independent candidate against socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is also running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Get 40% off new DailyWire+ annual memberships with code FALL40 at checkout Adams had been consistently placing last in polling among the four main candidates, with Mamdani in the lead and Cuomo a somewhat distant second. Currently, the RealClearPolitics polling average has Mamdani at 44.4%, with Cuomo at 25.4%, and Sliwa at 13.8%. The New York City mayoral election is November 4.

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The Impressions were formed in 1958 when Sam Gooden, Richard Brooks, and Arthur Brooks of Chattanooga, Tennessee, moved to Chicago and teamed up with Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield. They first performed as Jerry Butler and the Impressions, signing with Vee-Jay Records. Their debut single “For Your Precious Love” reached the pop and R&B charts in 1958, launching them into national recognition. Butler soon left for a solo career, leaving Mayfield to step forward as lead singer and principal songwriter, joined by Gooden and Fred Cash, who rejoined after starting with the Roosters. The group’s early momentum carried them into The post Top 10 Songs By The Impressions appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A gunman opened fire on a Michigan church Sunday morning, which was then set ablaze. At least one person has been killed, with nine others shot. Responding officers shot and killed the gunman. A motive for the attack is yet to be determined. Hundreds of people were in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township when a 40-year-old suspect from Burton, Michigan, drove his car through the church’s front doors, exited his vehicle, and shot 10 people with an assault rifle around 10:30 a.m. ET, said Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye at a press conference. “There are multiple victims and the shooter is down,” police stated. “There is NO threat to the public at this time. The church is actively on fire.”  The ten gunshot victims have been taken to the hospital, including one victim who is dead, Renye said.  A source told FOX2 Detroit that it’s believed the shooter set the church on fire. Authorities fear some worshippers were unable to escape the blaze, which engulfed the building. Said Reyne, “We do believe that we will find additional victims once we have that scene secure.” The FBI was “immediately on scene” and will be “leading the Federal Investigation,” said President Donald Trump in a statement on Truth Social. “The suspect is dead, but there is still a lot to learn. This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America,” he said.  Donald J. Trump Truth Social Post 01:08 PM EST 09/28/25I have been briefed on the horrendous shooting that took place at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The FBI was immediately on scene, and will be leading the Federal Investigation,…— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 28, 2025 Vice President JD Vance also posted about the shooting on X, saying, “Just an awful situation in Michigan. FBI is on the scene and the entire administration is monitoring things. Say a prayer for the victims and first responders.”  Just an awful situation in Michigan. FBI is on the scene and the entire administration is monitoring things. Say a prayer for the victims and first responders. ?— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 28, 2025 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints responded to the attack with a statement. “We offer thanks to the emergency responders who are assisting victims and families,” church spokesman Doug Andersen said in part. “Places of Worship are meant to be sanctuaries of peacemaking, prayer and connection.” “We pray for peace and healing for all involved.” The shooting comes one day after Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President Russell M. Nelson passed away at the age of 101. Police plan to share more details on today’s attack at a 5 p.m. ET press conference Sunday. This is an ongoing story. The post Gunman Killed After Deadly Shooting and Fire at Michigan Church, FBI Leading Investigation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Why is human life valuable?Alex O’Connor, an online atheist whose popularity has skyrocketed in recent years, recently said this: “I call myself an ethical emotivist, by which I mean that I think ethical statements — statements like ‘Murder is wrong’, ‘Charity is good’, or ‘You shouldn’t steal’ — are expressions of emotional attitudes, and nothing more. They are not objective truth-claims.”What Christianity provides, and atheism lacks, is an objective standard that can be universally held up to defend human life.O’Connor, by all accounts, is an upstanding member of society. Not only does he not kill or steal, but he has become famous for treating his debate opponents with respect, especially in comparison to famous atheist polemicists like Christopher Hitchens. He should be applauded for that.But in his morally relativistic view, human life is only as valuable as his emotions, or anyone else’s emotions, permit.Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, had a very different set of emotions from Alex O’Connor. Whatever respect O’Connor subjectively chooses to show for human beings, Robinson allegedly chose the opposite. Robinson allegedly believed — subjectively — that the value of human life ended where his political resentments began.If you’re Alex O’Connor, what would you say to a political assassin? How would you convince him that he’s wrong to devalue human life?Objectively, you couldn’t. Because O’Connor doesn’t think the statement “human life has value” is objectively true, but rather a matter of personal tastes. Even if he personally finds Robinson’s alleged views and actions repugnant, he couldn’t point to any objective standard to justify that.The trouble with atheism isn’t that atheists personally live immoral lives. Everyone has met atheists who are good spouses, good parents, and good citizens. The problem is that atheism can't provide an objective defense to the proposition that all human life should be valued by everybody all the time.According to atheist Richard Dawkins, “We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”People discard machines routinely without any thought at all — laptops, phones, iPads, cars, and many other things. Drive down to the local junkyard and look at the decaying and forgotten corpses of old Toyota Camrys. No one mourns them, no one gave them a funeral, no one had moral qualms about throwing them away.If Dawkins’ description of human beings as “survival machines” and “robot vehicles blindly programmed” is accurate, then why would human beings be any different from those Toyota Camrys?Atheism has no answer to that question — but Christianity does.RELATED: Why atheism can't explain the one thing that matters AlessandroPhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus In his landmark work "Theology of the Body," Pope John Paul II said this:Man, whom God created male and female, bears the divine image imprinted on his body "from the beginning."This is a restatement of Genesis 1:26, which is the foundation of Christian anthropology. In this verse, God declares: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Man has objective dignity because man bears the divine image.Romans 5:8 goes on to say: “But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.” This shows that even serious moral failings do not eliminate the objective dignity of a human being."Dignitas Infinita," a Vatican document released in 2024 and approved by Pope Francis, further states that “every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter.”If Christianity is true, then God is the author of truth itself. And if God is the author of truth itself, and he has assigned infinite dignity to all human beings, then that dignity is a universal truth not dependent on the emotions or whims of any person.Of course, this does not guarantee that Christians will live by that. Many so-called Christians have warped ideas of what their faith demands. Some use it as a cloak for their political ideology. Vance Boelter, who allegedly murdered former Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, seemingly had no respect for human life.But what Christianity provides, and atheism lacks, is an objective standard that can be universally held up to defend human life against anyone who threatens it. It provides an objective way to say “Tyler Robinson is wrong,” instead of “I personally don’t like what Tyler Robinson [allegedly] did.”This matters deeply at the societal level, and the data bears it out.According to Pew Research, in 1972, 90% of U.S. adults identified as Christians, while 5% identified as religiously unaffiliated. By 2022, the percentage of Christians had shrunk to 63% while the religiously unaffiliated percentage had risen to 29%. This is mirrored in other Western countries, often even more precipitously: 90% of Canadians in 1971 identified as Christian, according to census data, with only 4% identifying as non-religious. By 2021, the Christian percentage was just 52% and the non-religious percentage had risen to 34%.Of course, “religiously unaffiliated” or “non-religious” are nebulous terms that might not refer to atheism in the strictest sense, but at best, they refer to a vague and subjective worldview that, like atheism, allows for someone to assign his own subjective morality, or lack thereof.The effects of this shift can be seen with the explosion of abortions in the U.S. that coincided with the acceleration of secularism in the 1970s and 1980s. According to the Guttmacher Institute, abortions skyrocketed from 744,000 in 1973, the year Roe v. Wade was handed down, to a peak of 1.6 million in 1990, and to this day they remain well above the 1973 levels, though they have mercifully declined in recent years.Euthanasia has gained immense popularity in the secular age as well. A horrifying report in the Atlantic — hardly a conservative publication — described how Canadians of all walks of life are requesting doctors to kill them in order to end some form of physical or emotional suffering they are experiencing.In fact, under Canada’s euthanasia law, mental illness alone will be sufficient for eligibility by 2027 to terminate one’s own life with the help of doctors.Mass shootings have dramatically increased as secularism has spread. While humans have been killing each other since the fall of man, such killing has usually had a clear motive of some kind: defeating another nation in battle or seeking some form of regime change.Mass shootings, however, represent a nihilistic form of violence apparently driven by narcissism that has no clear precedent in human history. According to the Violence Project, there were only five mass shootings between 1965 and 1969, but that number rose to 33 between 2015 and 2019 — a shocking increase of over 600%.Nearly everyone condemns mass shootings, though unfortunately, the same cannot be said about abortion or euthanasia.But in an atheistic paradigm, can that condemnation be based on anything other than personal emotions, as O’Connor admits his opposition to murder is based on?RELATED: How the godless elite let the truth slip about atheism Viktor Aheiev/iStock/Getty Images PlusAs people increasingly treat the value of human life as subjective, consistent with O’Connor’s “emotivist” view, it seems that more and more people are willing to subjectively insert exceptions into their worldview — situations where life can, in fact, be discarded like an old Toyota Camry.Does this prove Christianity? Not by itself. Just because something would be helpful if it were true doesn’t mean it’s true.But at the very least, it should make people open to hearing the arguments for Christianity. It should make people want it to be true, and it should move them to investigate the evidence for why it might be. Many people dislike religion and plug their ears when the topic comes up. But the alternative is too dark to just casually accept without any consideration.Why is human life valuable? In today’s chaotic age, a subjective answer to that question is simply not enough.