(CNBC) U.S. equities closed higher on Thursday as retailers rose, led by Target. The Dow Jones industrial average rose about 25 points, notching a record close, with Wal-Mart, Goldman Sachs and Apple contributing the most gains. The S&P 500 gained 0.2 percent, with Target among the best performers. Shares of Target climbed 4.8 percent after [...]
Al Gore, the global warming entrepreneur who has made hundreds of millions of dollars since he was vice president under Bill Clinton, forecast in 2009 that, “the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.” See those claims: And when he [...]
(New York Post) It’s beach time for On the Money. and that means that while it’s time to kill some brain cells with tequila, it’s also time to fill ’er up with some serious reading. We canvassed the brightest minds to see what they’ve got on their bedside tables or in the beach bags this [...]
(CBC) – Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter received medical attention for dehydration while in Winnipeg on Thursday, where he is helping build a Habitat for Humanity home. A Habitat volunteer told CBC News he saw Carter, 92, collapse. Firefighters and paramedics were seen scrambling, and an ambulance was brought to the area. It left the [...]
(Charisma News) – Note: The following is an excerpt taken from Paul Kengor’s book, A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. On May 16, 1985, President Ronald Reagan met with CIA Director William J. Casey in the Oval Office. What did Reagan and [...]
(Statnews) – For years there have been warnings that advances in science could make it possible to cook up killer diseases in laboratories and unleash them on the world. This week came news that scientists at the University of Alberta have put together from scratch a relative of the smallpox virus — and a reminder [...]
(Faithwire) – Singer Jennifer McGill found herself alone, scared and desperately chasing broken dreams — then, God changed everything. McGill, who starred alongside Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and other well-known names in Disney’s “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” felt she was destined for stardom, but after her more than 300-episode run [...]
(Mysterious Universe) – Throughout cultures all over the world there have long been legends of giants living amongst us, colossal beings that our ancestors saw and even worshipped, but these creatures seem to have been lost to time and regulated to pure myth. Yet is there any chance that true giants really did exist at [...]
WASHINGTON – Today’s court hearing in the United Kingdom will decide the fate of Charlie Gard. Chris Gard and Connie Yates, 11-month-old Charlie’s parents, have been working non-stop since Monday to prepare arguments they hope will convince a judge to allow them to transport Charlie to a hospital outside of the U.K. for treatment. The [...]
(NBC New York) – Police are looking for a group of men who robbed a woman and forced her to perform a sex act as she left a church service in Queens earlier this week, and the victim’s pastor says she may have been raped if she hadn’t screamed a lie — “I’m HIV positive!” [...]
(The Hill) – The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump’s inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign last year that ensnared the president’s eldest son, members of Congress, journalists and State Department officials, according to court and Justice Department [...]
(Washington Post) – Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that an initiative that grants work permits to more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants may not survive a looming legal challenge. Kelly declined to take questions after the meeting, but his spokesman said the secretary told the [...]
(Daily Mail) – Authorities in Pennsylvania have found human remains of multiple bodies in a 12-and-a-half foot common grave on a sprawling tract of farmland, it was announced late Wednesday. The search of the Solebury, Pennsylvania, farm, belonging to the family of 20-year-old Cosmo DiNardo, was prompted after four young men went missing in a [...]
(London Independent) A newly married couple are hoping “to show the whole world that you can be gay and Muslim” after their wedding in the West Midlands. Jahed Choudhury and Sean Rogan married in Walsall, in one of the UK’s first same-sex marriages involving a Muslim partner. Footage showed the couple dressed in traditional Bangladeshi [...]
(Associated Press) A Michigan funeral home has been shut down after inspections found maggots on the floor of a garage where unrefrigerated bodies were being stored, according to the state. The mortuary science licenses of the Swanson Funeral Home in Flint and manager O’Neil Swanson II are suspended, Michigan’s Licensing and Regulatory Affairs department said [...]
(KFOR) A Logan County woman and her boyfriend are in jail, accused of making her 11-year-old brother smoke methamphetamine. Kirsten Burroughs, 18, and her boyfriend, Michael Crick, were arrested after her father, the boy’s stepfather, reported them to police. The two will be arraigned Tuesday and are expected to be charged with child neglect, possession [...]
(London Guardian) Christians who lay down their life to save others, “following in the footsteps and teaching of Jesus”, will now be eligible for beatification, Pope Francis has said. Beatification is the first step on the path toward sainthood and has in the past been reserved for three categories of people: martyrs, those who have [...]
(Business Insider) When North Korea shot off its first-ever intercontinental ballistic missile in the early morning hours of July 4, US military and intelligence personnel watched leader Kim Jong Un smoke cigarettes and stroll around the launchpad for a full 70 minutes, a source told The Diplomat’s Ankit Panda. The US knew North Korea was [...]
(NPR) Sales of recreational marijuana have blown past expectations in Nevada, threatening to leave some dispensaries with empty shelves. After Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed a statement of emergency in the first week of legal sales, regulators are looking to bolster the supply chain. The Nevada Tax Commission is meeting Thursday to determine whether the state [...]
(Grand Rapids Press) Jeff Sieting, the Kalkaska village president who’s been sharply criticized for what some are calling racist and hateful social media posts, said this week he does not owe anyone an apology for what he’s putting online, according to The Associated Press. Some of Sieting’s Facebook posts have denounced Islam and called for [...]
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There won’t be “film at 11,” after all. California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit officials are refusing to release surveillance video of assaults aboard its trains, saying to do so would “create a racial bias” and accusing the media of exploiting the images for ratings. BART announced last week it would also no longer issue press [...]
A federal judge linked to the abortion business says he’ll hold in contempt two lawyers for an undercover investigator who has reported on Planned Parenthood’s baby body parts trade – and likely will announce the same punishment for David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress. Daleiden, along with an employee, visited multiple abortion industry [...]
It’s more than just a vacation. It’s an extraordinary pilgrimage at sea, a chance to radicalize and deepen your faith in the most beautiful surroundings imaginable. And now, one lucky woman will be attending the life-changing WND 2017 Alaska cruise for free after winning the journey of a lifetime. Jennifer Pafford will be joining WND [...]
WASHINGTON – Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo, has joined the pro-life leaders expressing support for Charlie Gard in his struggle to live. Gard is an 11-month-old British infant who suffers from a rare genetic mutation of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome. The infant has brain damage, is blind and deaf, and needs a [...]