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The ship that witnessed the death of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found in remarkable condition on the seafloor around 15 nautical miles from the coast of Canada.A team of international experts led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) located the ship, called Quest, at a depth of 390 meters (1,280 feet) along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.Shackleton was aboard the ship when he died of a heart attack in January 1922. At the time, the ship was anchored at South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, during a journey toward Antarctica. The ship continued its work for several decades, but eventually sank in 1962 after getting damaged by ice. All the crew were saved and survived.“Finding Quest is one of the final chapters in the extraordinary story of Sir Ernest Shackleton,” John Geiger, expedition leader for the search and CEO of the RCGS, in a statement.“Shackleton was known for his courage and brilliance as a leader in crisis. The tragic irony is that his was the only death to take place on any of the ships under his direct command,” added Geiger.                The wreckage was located using historical documents and maps, which were cross-referenced with modern technology and live information on currents and weather conditions, as well as knowledge from local Indigenous people.“I can definitively confirm that we have found the wreck of the Quest. She is intact. Data from high resolution side scan sonar imagery corresponds exactly with the known dimensions and structural features of this special ship. It is also consistent with events at the time of the sinking,” explained David Mearns, a world-renowned shipwreck hunter and oceanographer who worked on the project. A photograph of Quest sinking in 1962.Image credit: Royal Canadian Geographical SocietyShackleton was a major player in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, leading three British expeditions to the Antarctic. His most famous adventure was made in 1914 on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered in 2022 at a depth of 3,000 meters (almost 10,000 feet) in the Weddell Sea. In early 1915, the Endurance vessel became trapped in the dense pack ice of the Weddell Sea, unable to break free. For several months, the crew attempted to release the ship, but the shifting ice continued to tighten its grip. Eventually, in October 1915, the pressure from the ice began to crush the Endurance and it sank. Stranded thousands of miles from the nearest human, Shackleton and his crew survived on the ice for months before embarking on a perilous journey in lifeboats to reach safety. Against the odds, all 28 crewmembers of the Endurance managed to survive the ordeal – a feat that’s often credited to Shackleton’s leadership. 

CBS Sports is investing in women's mixed martial arts and will air events from the all-female promotion Invicta Fighting Champions throughout 2024.The network deal is a landmark for the small promotion, which currently lists just one champion on its website. However, Invicta FC is known in the fighting world as the premier female MMA brand, getting its start in 2012. It is owned by Anthem Sports and Entertainment, a media company that also owns the Fight Network, GameTV, TNA wrestling, and AXS TV.After parting ways with UFC Fight Pass in 2021, the promotion began airing its events on Anthem's networks. It will now move to the much larger platform under CBS. Five events will air on the network for the remainder of 2024, likely as a trial period, but it is unknown if the deal reaches into 2025."CBS Sports is the perfect partner for Invicta FC," President Shannon Knapp said in a press release. "By joining forces with their global platform, we're set to bring our world-class events to an even larger audience. 2024 will be a landmark year for us, packed with unparalleled matchups and title fights exclusive to Invicta," she continued."We are excited to showcase our world-class events and demonstrate why Invicta FC is the leading brand in women's MMA, giving fans around the world a front-row seat to the action."'Big networks put women's sports on primetime TV to prove a point and bump their viewership up.' — (@) Professional fighter and BTC Fight Promotions Champion T.J. Laramie told Blaze News that the deal was likely a move to prove a point about women's sports."I personally don't even know anyone who watches Invicta, it's a subsidiary of a bigger company and most likely just taking a loss every year," he explained. "If big companies like Bellator were in the red, I can only imagine what they were.""We're seeing this more and more with the PC culture," Laramie continued. "Big networks put women's sports on primetime TV to prove a point and bump their viewership up."The first event to air under the new deal will be Invicta FC 55: Bernando vs. Rubin on June 28, 2024.The card features Talita Bernando and Kay Hansen, both of whom have fought in the UFC. — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Messengers met this week in Indianapolis for the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting, electing Clint Pressley their new president. They also took up the controversial matter of female pastors. While the Executive Committee recently affirmed Article VI of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, which limits the office of pastor to men "as qualified by Scripture," a 2023 estimate put the number of female pastors in cooperating Southern Baptist churches at over 1,840. The disfellowship of such churches continues apace the emergence of new female pastors, but some Southern Baptists sought to simplify matters with a vote at the annual meeting. The effort did not ultimately go their way. Arlington Baptist Church Pastor Mike Law's proposed constitutional amendment to the SBC Constitution, which would have formally prohibited the affirmation, appointment, or employment of a woman "as a pastor of any kind," failed in a close vote on Wednesday. The amendment needed a 66.7% majority vote to pass — which messengers managed last year in New Orleans. In Indianapolis, it fell short, capturing only 61%. 'We are just as complementarian as we were before that vote ever came into play.' After noting he supported the amendment, the newly elected president made abundantly clear the SBC's view on female pastors. "The constitutional amendment, what is known as the Law Amendment, was there to provide some clarity," said Clint Pressley, reported the Baptist Press. "That's what it was given to us for, what it was voted on about. But it's not necessary [in order] for our convention of churches to maintain a real sense of complementarianism. We are just as complementarian as we were before that vote ever came into play." Complementarianism maintains that men and women are equal in personhood, but that God created them for different roles. "I was for the Law Amendment. I thought it provided really great clarity. I have brothers that are just as theologically robust as I would like to be myself that were against it," continued Pressley. "Then we have maintained a real sense of God’s good design, not only in marriage, but how He's given us to live as men and women." Pressley underscored that while messengers walk away with the amendment not passing, the SBC has "not abandoned biblical truth. At all. So, you can be confident as a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, as a member of a church within the Convention that holds to the BF&M that they are doctrinally robust." Former SBC president J.D. Greear said of the decision, "We made the right call on this amendment, since passing it would have too rigidly enforced uniformity in ways that are out of character with our principles of cooperation. A friend of mine compared getting the right balance on this issue to putting together a piece of furniture. The IKEA instructions always warn you, 'Don't overtighten the screws.'" Those unconvinced the Law amendment would have been redundant or ruinous — as Greear previously suggested — were not the only ones miffed over the result. Leftists outside the SBC suggested Southern Baptists need to do more than simply kill such an amendment: They must give in to the egalitarian creep. 'Even without a 66% vote, the Southern Baptist Church has attempted to devalue the very women who God has called to further the Gospel.' The progressive organization Baptist Women in Ministry said in a statement, "Baptist Women in Ministry offers appreciation to all the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) who voted against the Law amendment BECAUSE of their commitment to support and affirm women serving as pastors of all kinds in the SBC." The group added, "Decades ago, the SBC codified its ideological position of disregarding God's call on women in the Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Therefore, the amendment considered today was not constructed on its own merit since the basis for it was already decided. Instead, women in ministry were used as props for the display of extreme conservativism [sic] in order to advance the power of a faction within the SBC." Molly Shoulta Tucker, the pronoun-providing pastor of the progressive Ridgewood Baptist Church, noted in the Courier Journal, "Even without a 66% vote, the Southern Baptist Church has attempted to devalue the very women who God has called to further the Gospel. Instead of believing women, or even offering a humble 'I don't know,' the Southern Baptist Church has said, 'We know. (And it's not you.)'" Messengers signaled to Tucker and other progressives that despite the result, SBC is far from caving on the issue. On Tuesday, messengers voted 6,759 to 563 to remove the First Baptist Church of Alexandria over its support for female pastors, reported the Associated Press. The now-disfellowshipped church is home to a female pastor for children and women. "We find no joy in making this recommendation, but have formed the opinion that the church's egalitarian beliefs regarding the office of pastor do not closely identify with the convention's adopted statement of faith," said Jonathan Sams, chair of the SBC's Credentials Committee. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

MSNBC’s Joy Reid and fellow race-baiter Jemele Hill — whom Jason Whitlock calls "two delusional black queens" — made some recent comments about WNBA rookie sensation Caitlin Clark. Of course, these comments were as bigoted as they consistently claim others to be. “Somebody very smart said to me recently that the challenge with women’s basketball is that most of the great players are black, but most of the stars are white,” Reid said to Hill. “And like you said, if there were charter flights, Britney Griner would not have ended up in the gulag, right?” Whitlock is not a fan. Not only does he note that Reid ridiculously blamed Griner’s arrest on the WNBA not having charter flights, but that both Reid and Hill are “trying desperately to look like white women.” “Why do I bring this up? Because when I talk about bigotry over business, the bigotry and the hostility stems from [the fact that] these women hate themselves and hate that they’re not white women,” Whitlock says. “Why else would you put on some cheap wig, some horse's hair, over the top of your head to look like a white woman?” "They're so full of jealousy and rage towards white women. Anybody that would hop on TV day after day with these ridiculous wigs on is telling you everything you need to know about their mentality as it relates to white women," he adds. Reid then brought up the “marketability” of Caitlin Clark. “This is a league that is largely, as you said, black women. It’s also largely LGBTQ. She’s a white, heterosexual woman. And so, if you’re trying to get white dads to go spend their money and buy season tickets, she seems like a marketing opportunity. How much of it is that?” Reid asks Hill. “I don’t know why people find that to be controversial,” Hill answers, noting that while Clark is talented, “it helps that she’s white, straight, and from Iowa.” “So, when you say that Caitlin Clark’s whiteness and the fact that she’s straight plays a role, underlining a role, in her popularity, that’s not a diss to Caitlin Clark. It’s just simply America,” she adds. Again, Whitlock finds it interesting that while discussing Clark’s marketability due to the color of her skin, both Hill and Reid have altered their appearance to seem more white. Both of them have significantly lightened their hair to appear blonde. “Here’s two black women, dressed as white women to be more marketable on TV. This is just facts,” Whitlock comments. Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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Marine Le Pen's right-leaning National Rally Party would take the first of France's legislative election with 31% of the vote, while President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party would place third with 18% and an alliance formed of left-wing parties would net 28%.