Donald Trump recently spoke about American football. No other game more fully embodies his country's character. The sport is about capturing territory, and players need to be tough and fearless to win. A player who is afraid of being tackled by someone from the opposing team while running has already lost the game. "I don't even watch it as much anymore," Trump told a crowd of his supporters in Reno, Nevada. "The whole game is all screwed up."

A growing number of studies point to the devastating consequences of the many tackles in the game, in which players try to stop their opponents by throwing themselves at them head-first: brain trauma, depression, suicide. New rules have been created, and there are now stiffer penalties for the most glaring fouls. On the stage in Reno, Trump said he missed "what used to be considered a great tackle, a violent head-on tackle." He slammed his fists together and repeated himself, vulgarly pursing his lips as he said the word "violent." "You used to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right?"

And today? "Bing! Flag!" Trump shouted. "The referees, they want to all throw flags so their wives see them at home." "Football has become soft," he said, repeating the sentence as if it were a key hypothesis on the state of the nation. "Football has become soft like our country has become soft!" As he held up his index finger, the crowd cheered and people held signs up in the air that read: "The silent majority stands with Trump."

"Believe me, I'll change things. And again, we're going to be so respected. I don't want to use the word 'feared,'" he told the audience. But that is precisely what Trump wants: to be feared. His bid for the White House, long ridiculed, is a fight for a ruthless, brutal America. Behind his campaign slogan "Make America great again!" is the vision of a country that no longer cares about international treaties, ethnic minorities or established standards of decency. Trump wants to attack head-first again. The 69-year-old embodies a new harshness and brutality, and both a physical and emotional crudeness.

Tensions soared in the region after Pyongyang jubilantly announced to the world that its 9.31am launch of an earth observation satellite into orbit from a site near the Chinese border was a “complete success”. The launch of the satellite - just a month after a nuclear bomb test - is widely regarded by the international community as a covert means of testing technology in order to develop a missile capable of striking the US mainland.

Pyongyang claimed that the satellite was orbiting earth every 94 minutes, with the US Strategic Command declaring it had detected a missile entering space, while South Korea’s military stated that the rocket had put an object into orbit. Seoul and Washington also announced that they would explore the possibility of deploying an advanced missile defence system in South Korea “at the earliest possible date”, a move likely to prompt a surge in regional tension, with strong opposition from China and Russia.

The US Justice Department is considering legal changes to combat what it sees as a rising threat from domestic anti-government extremists, senior officials told Reuters, even as it steps up efforts to stop Islamic State-inspired attacks at home. Extremist groups motivated by a range of US born philosophies present a “clear and present danger,” John Carlin, the Justice Department’s chief of national security, told Reuters in an interview. “Based on recent reports and the cases we are seeing, it seems like we’re in a heightened environment.”

Over the past year, the Justice Department has brought charges against domestic extremist suspects accused of attempting to bomb US military bases, kill police officers and fire bomb a school and other buildings in a predominantly Muslim town in New York state.

But federal prosecutors tackling domestic extremists still lack an important legal tool they have used extensively in dozens of prosecutions against Islamic State-inspired suspects: a law that prohibits supporting designated terrorist groups. Carlin and other Justice Department officials declined to say if they would ask Congress for a comparable domestic extremist statute, or comment on what other changes they might pursue to toughen the fight against anti-government extremists.

He has been charged with supporting the Islamic State and with “illegally having a firearm while using a controlled substance”. Abu-Rayyan actually admitted that since he can’t be part of the jihad in the Middle East, that he would “do my jihad over here”. As I have warned so many times before, ISIS terrorists are already here, and what we have seen so far is just the beginning.

I can’t understand why this story is not headlines news all over America. If Khalil Abu-Rayyan had succeeded in conducting the megachurch attack that he was planning, hundreds of Christians could have potentially been killed. The people that go to that church might not ever know just how close they actually came to being slaughtered…

Unfortunately, mainstream media outlets in both the United States and Europe purposely downplay the hatred that these Islamic radicals have for ordinary Christians, because they don’t want to make Muslim immigrants look bad. That is why the mainstream media almost entirely ignored the fact that the main target of the San Bernardino shootings was a Messianic Christian, and that is why the mainstream media is burying this current story about Khalil Abu-Rayyan.

If a Christian baker refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding, that is front page news, but if a Muslim admits to planning to shoot up a church of several thousand people that is a non-event according to the media. This anti-Christian bias is growing stronger with each passing year, and it has now become institutionalized in our society in so many ways.

Why is this such a big deal? The production of hydrogen plasma is key to harnessing the clean, limitless energy of nuclear fusion - the process that powers our Sun. If we can achieve controlled nuclear fusion, it would quite literally change the world, because it would replace fossil fuels and nuclear fission facilities as a cheaper, more efficient, and more sustainable source of energy.

"It’s a very clean source of power, the cleanest you could possibly wish for. We’re not doing this for us, but for our children and grandchildren," one of the team, physicist John Jelonnek from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, told the Associated Press.

Nuclear fission, which is what our current nuclear facilities achieve, generates energy by splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller neutrons and nuclei. While fission is super efficient - the amount of energy it releases is millions of times more efficient per mass than that of coal - it requires very careful (and costly) management of dangerous radioactive waste.

Nuclear fusion, on the other hand, produces huge amounts of energy when atoms are fused together at incredibly high temperatures - but produces no radioactive waste or other unwanted byproducts. On top of that, nuclear fusion has been fuelling our Sun for the past 4.5 billion years, which means if we can harness it, humanity is pretty much set for its energy needs for as long as we’re in existence.

Cuomo, in a letter Saturday to the state Health Department and the Department of Environmental Conservation, called for the probe into the Indian Point NPP after he said Entergy, the plant's owner, reported "alarming levels of radioactivity" at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent.

It is unclear if the facility was taking a page out of the Fukushima "crisis response" book, or was being honest when it said that the contamination has not migrated off site "and as such does not pose an immediate threat to public health." For the sake of millions of downriver New Yorkers, we hope it was the latter.

"As a church we say that we need a reduction in the number of refugees," Cardinal Reinhard Marx, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, told the Passauer Neue Presse daily. Germany cannot "take in all the world's needy," Marx added. The question of how to respond to the migrant crisis, he asserted, should not solely be a matter of "charity but also reason." However, Marx also expressed concern at a rise in xenophobia in Germany amid the worst refugee crisis that Europe has known since World War II.

A recent example came when Germany's eurosceptic right-wing populist AfD party suggested last week that police "if need be" should threaten to shoot migrants seeking to enter the country. Border police "should be able if need be to have recourse to their firearms - as laid down by law," said party chairwoman Frauke Petry.

This type of speech is "unacceptable," said Marx, adding "Sadly there has always been a certain potential for right-wing extremism and racism in Germany."

This meeting of the Primates of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, after a long preparation, will be the first in history and will mark an important stage in relations between the two Churches. The Holy See and the Moscow Patriarchate hope that it will also be a sign of hope for all people of good will. They invite all Christians to pray fervently for God to bless this meeting, that it may bear good fruits. I ask everyone reading this report, no matter what your confessional Christian identification, to pray for this historic meeting between these two successors of the apostles.

In 1054 AD, the first formal division within what had previously been an undivided Christian Church occurred. The theological and doctrinal issues are substantive and the continuing divisions which followed are tragic. For nearly a thousand years, the prayer of Jesus has cried out to the Father - and reached out to summon all who bear the name Christian. It has beckoned all Christians to humble repentance, fervent prayer, and inspired action to bridge the division and help to heal the wounds:

"I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me." (John 17:20, 21)

One of a growing number of signs of the work of the Holy Spirit in the Third Christian Millennium has been the rediscovery between Orthodox and Catholic Christians of our common Baptismal bond as making us truly brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, called in common mission. I believe that the Holy Spirit is gathering a movement of Orthodox and Catholic Christians to collaborate in this critical hour. I have written, spoken and acted to further this work and I am eager to do everything I can to go forward.

There is growing recognition in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches that there is more that joins theologically faithful Catholic Christians and theologically faithful Orthodox Christians than that which still separates us. The urgency of the cultural decline of this age has compelled our collaboration in Jesus Christ. So too has the heartfelt humility of the leaders in both churches who have walked the fruitful way of repentance and forgiveness. It is leading us to a growing mutual respect which will pave the way toward some form of restored full communion between these sister churches.

However, there has been no formal meeting between the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, and the Patriarch of all of Russia, in almost one thousand years. That sad fact is soon to be erased from the history books, as the Holy Spirit writes a new chapter in the loving plan of God for the Church of His Son Jesus Christ, and for the sake of the world which He still loves.

As for me, I say, COME HOLY SPIRIT and work a miracle of healing and unity in this urgent hour! May these two Christians experience the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit during their time together and evidence the holy boldness the hour demands. May the Church of Jesus Christ find a way to full communion and common mission.

European leaders are so exasperated with Britain's demands that they are privately saying that "if Brits want to leave, let them leave", the President of the European Parliament has said. Martin Schulz made the comments at a speech in the London School of Economics in central London.

Mr Schulz, who has been the President since 2012, set out why he wants Britain to stay within the European Union, admitting that it "often tests our patience". Mr Schulz also said that MEPs could amend some of David Cameron's EU reforms after the referendum, telling Sky News that "nothing is irreversible", in apparent contradiction of Mr Cameron's claims that they would be binding.