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While you celebrate Uncle Sam's 249th birthday today, we're bringing you a mid-year recap and a reminder that the stories we fret over in the moment often become old news as God's world spins on.

Fix your eyes on His Eternal kingdom. It changes everything. Here's your quote of the day. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

C.S. Lewis. Let's get into the month-by-month recap. In January, Louisiana mourned the deaths of 14 people after a man drove through a crowd on New Year's Day.

The country honored President Jimmy Carter with a state funeral, and fires in Los Angeles forced 180,000 evacuations. Then, Israel and Hamas reached

a phase-seas-fire deal. TikTok was banned and went dark for about 14 hours. President Trump was

re-inograted and signed a flurry of executive orders that set the pace for his 2.0 administration.

And Deepseek, a Chinese AI company,

briefly caused U.S. tech stocks to crash out of fear they'd lose the AI race.

In February, President Trump rolled out tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Doge chief Elon Musk

pushed to delete U.S. AID, a judge temporarily blocked it,

and federal employees got, What Did You Do Last Week, emails, as the administration offered

six months paid a quit.

Then, the Eagles dominated the chiefs in the Super Bowl, while Kendrick Lamar performed the

halftime show.

A Delta flight lost a wing and landed upside down. Amazingly, no one died. Microsoft unveiled a quantum computer,

and allegedly a new state of matter, and Hollywood lost Gene Hackman and his wife.

In March, a Trump-Selensky Oval Office meeting got heated.

Ukraine accepted a ceasefire proposal, but Russia dragged its feet. Federal layoffs continued,

Kilmar Abrago-Garcia was, quote, mistakenly deported to El Salvador, and President Trump

invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

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