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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump will read from 2 Chronicles 7 during a nationwide Bible-reading event this week, a passage organizers say was deliberately reserved for the president because of its decades-long role as a call to prayer in America.

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Trump is set to read 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 from the Oval Office as part of «America Reads the Bible,» a weeklong event marking 250 years of the Bible in America and featuring nearly 500 participants reading Scripture from Genesis to Revelation.

Organizers said Trump’s section was not assigned at random.

The event’s online schedule shows the 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 reading was reserved as a «special guest» slot during a prime evening hour on Tuesday, alongside figures like former HUD Secretary Ben Carson and members of Congress.

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In this photo shared with Fox News Digital, Bunni Pounds speaks at the lectern during the National Religious Broadcasters conference in Feb. 2026. (Courtesy of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB))

«We needed somebody special to read Second Chronicles chapter seven,» Bunni Pounds, founder and president of Christians Engaged, told Fox News Digital.

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«As my director and I were praying over different sections of scripture, it came to us that this is such a critical passage for the body of Christ,» she said.

Pounds said the passage, particularly verse 14, has been central to American prayer life for decades, often invoked during times of national reflection.

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US President Donald Trump bows his head in prayer during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in February 5, 2026. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

«It comes at a time where the Israelites were experiencing hardship and God spoke and said, ‘If my people that are called by my name would humble themselves and pray,’» Pounds said. «We’ve prayed this scripture for at least the last 50 years of American history on National Day of Prayer and other moments in this country.»

Verse 14 reads, «If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.»

«And so we instantly said — who needs to read that? The President of the United States,» she added. «We set it aside for him and have been praying for that for the last year.»

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prays during a roundtable discussion with Latino community leaders at Trump National Doral Miami resort in Miami, Florida, on October 22, 2024. (Chandan Khanna/AFP)

Pounds said Trump’s participation sends a broader message about faith in American life.

«I think he’s sending a message that faith matters in this country, and that it’s important not only personally, but for our nation overall,» she said.

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She added that the selected Scripture speaks to the country’s current moment.

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President Trump is set to speak at the Museum on the Bible on Monday to support religious liberty in education, according to a White House spokesperson. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

«We’re making a statement during this week as America reads the Bible, that there is so much in the Bible that we can gain wisdom and discernment from, there is so much that can heal our families, that can rescue us from depression and anxiety and can heal our inner cities and heal our land… I believe the president’s saying that by reading this scripture specifically,» Pounds said.

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The White House echoed that theme in a presidential message commemorating the event, calling the Bible «indelibly woven into our national identity» and urging Americans to «rediscover» its role in shaping the nation.

The event, held in partnership with the Museum of the Bible, will run from April 19 through April 25, and include nearly 500 Americans participating in a public reading of the entire Bible.

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According to Pounds, all participants will read from the King James Version Easy Read edition, which was licensed for the event’s livestream and a later audiobook version from the week’s readings.

The event will feature a wide range of participants, including actress Patricia Heaton, Candace Cameron Bure, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and House Speaker Mike Johnson, each reading portions of Genesis during the opening hours.

Readers range from elected officials and pastors to single parents and small business owners, reflecting what Pounds described as a nationwide cross-section of Americans.

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Worship music will accompany each hour of the readings, with different ministries and organizations partnering throughout the event.

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Pounds said viewers watching Trump’s reading from the Oval Office will notice the weight of the moment.

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«They’re going to see how passionate he is about it, how deliberate he was,» she said. «It really struck me to see the leader of the free world reading scripture from the Oval Office.»

«There’s a humility on him… and I don’t believe that he would have read it if he didn’t believe it,» she added.

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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«America Reads the Bible» begins 9 a.m. ET Sunday.

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Trump demands Thune keep Senate in session until SAVE America Act passes

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President Donald Trump doesn’t want the Senate to leave town with his flagship election security measure still on the line.

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It’s less than two weeks until the upper chamber makes a jailbreak from Washington, D.C., and the schedule is already jam-packed with key items, from blockbuster confirmations to a long-awaited sanctions package targeting Russia.

But only one legislative priority matters to Trump: the SAVE America Act. And despite the political reality in the Senate, the president wants the bill passed by any means necessary.

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Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and the GOP base want voter ID turned into law, but one barrier stands in the way: the political reality of the Senate. (Leon Neal/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

«John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep-throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929,» Trump declared on Truth Social.

«The Dumocrats will do it on day one and can’t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership,» he continued. «Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!»

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While Congress’ annual break during August is often viewed outside the Beltway as vacation time for lawmakers, during a midterm election year, it allows for crucial hours on the road for incumbents to have face time with voters and make their pitch to keep their seat.

Republicans are hungry to campaign and sell their agenda, particularly last year’s tax cut package, Trump’s «one big, beautiful bill,» but are facing headwinds from the war in Iran and affordability issues.

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And there are three races on the 2026 map that are troubling for the Senate GOP in its quest to maintain its majority: Maine, Alaska and Ohio.

Still, Trump has warned that unless the Senate passes the SAVE America Act, they will suffer the consequences at the ballot box, and he has routinely called for the elimination of the filibuster for many of his priorities, but neither has the votes to happen in the upper chamber.

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, spoke during a news conference about the SAVE America Act at the U.S. Capitol on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

It comes as tensions between the White House and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., are on the rise.

Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned that Trump’s patience was «running out» with Thune over the legislation, which prompted the top Senate Republican to fire back that the White House should focus its energy on Democrats blocking the SAVE America Act and work the phones to get Republicans to a «yes» vote.

Trump is also not alone in his push for Thune to cancel the upcoming break.

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Sens. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Ashley Moody, R-Fla., have all announced their intent online to object to Thune calling for recess toward the end of this work period.

«I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August — at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act — and hereby request a roll call vote,» Lee said on X.

«Do not assume you have my consent,» he continued. «You do not.»

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Typically, recess or state work periods are a consent exercise in the Senate, meaning that all lawmakers agree to skip town and head back to their states to do work on the ground. But a single senator can object on the Senate floor and force a vote to decide whether the upper chamber stays or goes.

Trump and the GOP trio’s demands come at an inflection point in the Senate.

Thune has prioritized averting a government shutdown and is encouraging ongoing negotiations between Republicans and Democrats to hammer out a deal before the break begins. He’s threatened to hold the House-passed budget resolution that would, among other things, set up a rough framework to pass the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation.

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All that comes after he and other Republicans have made clear the political reality that SAVE America Act, as written, does not have the votes to pass in the upper chamber, neither from Democrats nor the GOP.

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And whether the legislation, or a version of it, can survive the reconciliation process remains to be seen, given that, as written, the SAVE America Act is primarily policy and doesn’t have a budgetary impact — a key requirement of the party line process.

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«It’s still likely to be a 60-vote exercise, even if it’s done with a budget resolution,» Thune told Fox News Digital. «Unless it’s done with, you know, structured to allow grants to states that’s incentive-based, and principally budgetary, not policy.»

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¿Fueron nazis tus abuelos? La base de datos que revela el pasado oculto de millones de alemanes

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Millones de alemanes tuvieron un carnet del NSDAP (el partido nazi de Adolf Hitler) desde mediados de los años 30 y hasta 1945. No era obligatorio en la Alemania nazi ser miembro del partido, pero abría puertas, además de que muchos lo fueron por convencimiento.

Décadas después, los alemanes empezaron a interesarse por el pasado de sus padres y abuelos. ¿Fueron nazis? Durante muchos años la única forma de saberlo era acudir a un archivo nacional, hacer una solicitud formal y esperar meses. Muchas veces la respuesta, si llegaba, era incompleta. El proceso era largo y pesado y con los años se fue usando cada vez menos y quedaran básicamente para el acceso de historiadores.

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En febrero, el Archivo Nacional de Estados Unidos completó la digitalización de los microfilmes que el Ejército estadounidense había incautado en 1945 en Múnich tras la ocupación de Alemania.

Aquellos microfilmes fueron al Berlin Document Center, controlado por el ocupante estadounidense. En total, entre el archivo de Berlín y varios archivos regionales, había 10,9 millones de fichas de miembros del partido nazi. El archivo que fue creando la democracia alemana tras la guerra, que heredó todos esos fondos en 1994, suma 12,7 millones de fichas.

Esos 12,7 millones de documentos ya estaban digitalizados, pero no se podía acceder a ellos online debido a las leyes de protección de datos personales. El acceso seguía siendo a través de solicitudes individuales. Los documentos originales fueron devueltos por Estados Unidos a Alemania en la década de los 90 del siglo pasado y forman parte del Archivo Federal Alemán (Bundesarchiv).

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Estados Unidos acabó con esos obstáculos. La publicación en internet del archivo estadounidense hizo que los grandes medios de comunicación alemanes, como Die Zeit, Der Spiegel o Süddeutsche Zeitung, crearan motores de búsqueda propios conectados a esa base de datos. Con ayuda de tecnología de reconocimiento óptico de caracteres e inteligencia artificial, esos motores de búsqueda llegan a las fichas en cuestión de segundos.

En las primeras semanas más de un millón de alemanes se volcó a investigar si sus antepasados habían sido oficialmente miembros del partido de Hitler. Der Spiegel llegó a preguntar directamente a sus lectores si sus abuelos habían sido nazis.

Las fichas que tiene online el archivo estadounidense incluyen fecha y lugar de nacimiento, profesión y, en algunos casos, una fotografía, además del número de carnet del afiliado al partido nazi y la fecha de su afiliación. Los expertos consultados por los medios alemanes aseguran que casi el 90% de los afiliados al partido nazi están en esos archivos.

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Mientras muchos alemanes se van llevando la mala sorpresa de descubrir que sus parientes habían ingresado en el partido nazi, los historiadores recuerdan que hay un dato importante que sirve para contextualizar esa afiliación: la fecha.

En Alemania siempre se ha entendido que cuanto antes sea la afiliación al partido, más convencimiento personal de las bondades del nazismo tenía esa persona. Y que quienes se afiliaron antes de 1933, antes de la toma del poder por Adolf Hitler, tenían en su inmensa mayoría una convicción ideológica real.

Cuando Hitler llega al poder hay una masiva afiliación, que se entiende porque los alemanes empiezan a darse cuenta de que sin estar afiliado al partido todo se hace más difícil social y laboralmente. Los expertos también explican que, para hacer un informe correctamente habría que cruzar las fichas de afiliación al partido nazi con informes posteriores a la derrota alemana sobre desnazificación y con historiales militares.

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La puesta a disposición de cualquier persona de esos millones de fichas llega cuando el partido Alternativa por Alemania (AfD), de los más a la ultraderecha de Europa y con altos cargos conectados con grupúsculos neonazis y el servicio secreto tras sus pasos, aparece en los sondeos electorales como la primera fuerza política alemana de convocarse hoy unas elecciones legislativas.

AfD reclama desde su nacimiento hace más de una década que el país debe abandonar de una vez su culpa histórica por su pasado nazi y dedicarse al orgullo nacional. Ochenta y un años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y del nazismo apenas quedan alemanes vivos que recuerden aquellos años. Los protagonistas del nazismo están todos muertos.

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‘Allah commanded me’: Three women stabbed in Paris, crowd subdues suspect

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The suspect subdued after allegedly stabbing three women in Paris on Monday uttered, «it is Allah who commanded me» to a crowd that appeared to be holding him down after the apparent terror attack.

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The incident comes just days after another stabbing attack in England and a vehicular attack on a Pride parade in Berlin, Germany.

A 31-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, was seen on the ground after allegedly stabbing three women, one of whom was reportedly pregnant.

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Law enforcement patrol immediately following a stabbing attack in Paris on July 27, 2026. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)

French outlet «Le Figaro» reported his utterances translated to «it is Allah who commanded me» as police sources told the outlet the suspect has an «unbalanced» profile.

While many observers, including on X, immediately pointed to Islamic terrorism, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said he wanted to be «very careful about the motive for this violent act,» pointing to the suspect’s «incoherent remarks.»

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Another translation of the exchange quotes one man as responding, «there is no Allah, bro,» after the suspect allegedly attributed the stabbing to Allah, while another person says the crowd must «stampede this son of a b—-.»

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«No, seriously, he’s crazy,» a third person is quoted as saying in French.

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«He stabbed my girl here,» a woman says in French.

The suspect reportedly attacked women at the Two Domes brewery in the Porte de Clichy section of the French capital.

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Two victims were listed in «absolute emergency» condition, while the third was listed in «relative emergency» condition, according to local press.

Reuters reported it had verified imagery of the suspect stabbing one woman while holding a knife in each hand.

The Paris-area attack comes two days after six men were arrested for «suspicion of murder» in connection with the stabbing of a 22-year-old man in Clapham, southwest London, United Kingdom, last week.

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Metropolitan Police told the BBC the victim died after being stabbed at around 4:30 a.m. local time Saturday near Clapham High Street.

In Berlin, one person was pronounced dead and 29 were wounded after a suspect — later killed by German police — allegedly drove a vehicle into the public gathering.

The suspect in that case, Abdul Ballout, had German citizenship but «Lebanese roots,» according to the Associated Press.

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The outlet reported German officials are considering whether it was an act of Islamic extremism.

The cascade of violent incidents comes months after the White House released a National Security Strategy warning of «civilizational erasure» in Europe due to mass migration and demographic shifts, while highlighting a spate of terror attacks carried out by migrants.

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French police work a crime scene in Paris on July 27, 2026 following a stabbing attack. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Getty Images)

The White House pointed to a range of European data to support the administration’s concerns, citing studies showing asylum migration costing the Netherlands €475,000 per migrant, illegal immigration costing France €1.8 billion in 2023 and non-Western migrants committing disproportionate shares of violent crime in Denmark and Germany.

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The immigration status of the suspects in the three most recent attacks was not immediately confirmed.

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Fox News Digital’s Michael Dorgan and the Associated Press contributed to this report.



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