(CNBC) The Dow Jones industrial average fell for the first time in 10 days on Thursday, closing lower even after a small gain after the open of trading took the benchmark to a new record. The Dow fell 53.36 points to close at 22,359.23 following a nine-day span that saw the average jump more than [...]
Dozens of security experts, diplomats and security experts are sending a loud and clear message to President Trump: It’s time to ditch the Iran nuclear deal. The 45 former security officials who wrote to the president Wednesday urged him to consider the plan brainstormed by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. The officials included experts who [...]
Editor’s note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: My high-school English teacher was well known for being a fair, but hard, [...]
I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Psalm 34: 1-2
It was only a few months ago that James Clapper, the Obama administration’s director of national intelligence until just January, issued a flat denial when asked if he knew about a FISA court order for wiretapping then-presidential candidate and later President-elect Donald Trump. It came as part of his denial of any knowledge of any wiretapping [...]
(FOX NEWS) President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting North Korea’s trading partners, calling it a “powerful” new tool aimed at isolating and de-nuclearizing the regime. The president announced the order as he met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. [...]
(BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS) The growing phenomenon of Christians observing the Biblical holidays is bringing Jews and Christians closer while helping to eliminate anti-Jewish replacement theology. This phenomenon is creating a new Bible-based aspect within Christianity, and for some Jews, revealing a previously hidden aspect of the holidays. Learn stunning Bible scriptures that never seem to [...]
(JERUSALEM POST) One day before the Friday terrorist bombing of a London Underground train, a group of former top Mossad and IDF officials and terrorism experts played out an even scarier possible scenario: an ISIS attack on the Vatican. Playing roles for the IDC Herzliya International Institute for Counter-Terrorism conference, panelists simulated a meeting of [...]
(INDEPENDENT JOURNAL REVIEW) If history is any indicator, the road from Hollywood to Washington, D.C., can be quite short. Former President Ronald Reagan and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger come to mind immediately, but the number of people who belong to both worlds is actually quite large:
(IJR) Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, really stepped in it when he compared illegal immigrants living in the U.S. to Jews who suffered in Nazi Germany. Ellison made the comments Monday during a Minneapolis event to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which President Donald Trump’s [...]
(GUARDIAN) Hal Kempfer, a noted international security expert, is getting a roomful of California public health officials and emergency responders to think about the unthinkable – a nuclear bomb exploding at the port of Long Beach, about four miles away. His message – coming on the same day North Korea threatened to reduce the mainland [...]
(LIFEZETTE) A dairy farmer in Michigan pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of harboring more than 100 illegal immigrant workers and agreed to pay $1.38 million in penalties to the U.S. government. Denis Burke, who emigrated from Ireland, owns and runs two farms in the Michigan Thumb region: Dunganstown Dairy and Parisville Dairy. While appearing [...]
(LIFEZETTE) Many conservatives spoke out Wednesday after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel criticized the GOP’s proposed health care plan on his TV show Tuesday. One of the authors of the bill, Senator Bill Cassidy, said Kimmel did not fully “understand” the proposition, while Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade labeled the comedian as part of the Hollywood elite [...]
(MEDIAITE) Lawrence O’Donnell had a really bad night on August 29, 2017. We draw that conclusion based on the above clip obtained by Mediaite, showing behind the scenes footage of a furious O’Donnell absolutely going bananas in what appear to be breaks in his show. The video, which lasts a full eight minutes, is a [...]
(MEDIAITE) Politics and ESPN has been a hot topic since SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill‘s tweet last week in which she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist. Curt Schilling has not been shy about weighing in on the issue since. The former Red Sox pitcher and current Breitbart host, though, claims that politics — at [...]
(FOX NEWS) Some sorority sisters at the University of New Hampshire are being investigated after a video showing them singing along to a Kanye West song containing the N-word was posted on social media. The Snapchat video shows the members of Alpha Phi Sorority dancing at a party and singing the N-word as part of [...]
(FOX NEWS) Suddenly removed or unwanted Confederate statues and monuments might find a new home in the Woodlands, Texas, after a town leader offered to accept them. Gordy Bunch, the Woodlands Township Board Chairman, said Tuesday that his town — located near Houston — could take the statues that are being taken down across the [...]
(FOX NEWS) Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration that she averaged more than one request for every working day in 2016 – and even sought information in the days leading up to President Trump’s inauguration, multiple [...]
(FOX NEWS) A former high school teacher in Arkansas accused of sleeping with four different students — two of them in the same night — stood before a judge Wednesday. Jessie Lorene Goline, 25, faces one count of first-degree sexual assault, Arkansas Online reported. Four students — three from Marked Tree School District and one [...]
(London Daily Mail) All of Puerto Rico has lost power after deadly Hurricane Maria swept through the island on Wednesday – with winds that blew the roofs off homes and flash floods that turned roads into rivers. Leaving at least nine people dead in its wake across the Caribbean, Hurricane Maria blew ashore in the [...]
(Agence France-Presse) A pet parrot managed to place an online shopping order by mimicking its owner on a voice-controlled smart speaker, a British newspaper reported Wednesday. Buddy the parrot ordered a ?10 ($13.50, 11.50 euro) set of gift boxes via Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled system, The Sun reported. The mystery order triggered an inquest in Corienne [...]
(Fox News) CNN on Monday debuted a documentary series meant to investigate sex education in America — but the first part of the series showcased surprising scenes about what’s being taught in some schools. The series is titled “This is Sex with Lisa Ling” and the network describes it as a series “exploring the taboos [...]
(Daily Caller) Multiple women in relationships with Imran Awan, the indicted former IT aide for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have recently called Virginia law enforcement and alleged being abused by him, police reports obtained under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act show. Officers found one of the women bloodied and she told them she “just wanted [...]
(Tampa Bay Times) While students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg awaited a lashing from Hurricane Irma, the school’s leader fled the state for Atlanta and insinuated in an email to her boss that she remained on campus — going so far as to say things were quiet and that she heard birds [...]
(Investigative Project) Time may be running out for one of Hamas’s main weapons against Israel: Its cross-border terror tunnels. By 2019, according to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assessments, Israel will complete an underground wall that stretches along the 60-kilometer (37 mile) border with Gaza. The wall is the product of several years of research and [...]