It would be one media company to rule them all. Wall Street analysts are frenzied in anticipation of a likely deal between Fox and Disney in which Disney would acquire a major portion of 21st Century Fox Inc. and Rupert Murdoch’s son James would take a senior position at Disney. The possible deal means the Murdoch empire could one [...]
(BLOOMBERG) — Japanese companies are planning to kick-start the lunar economy by backing a local startup’s mission to land on the moon by 2020. Tokyo-based Ispace Inc. said it raised 10.2 billion yen ($90 million) from some of the country’s biggest businesses, including Japan Airlines Co. and television network Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings Inc. The [...]
(CBS NEWS) — Far from the blaring cacophony of cities, towns and suburbs, there are far quieter soundtracks to be found — the murmurs of wind rustling grasses, rushing waves tumbling onto beaches, the creaking of tree branches and trunks. But underneath all that is yet another soundscape, a permanent, low-frequency drone produced by Earth [...]
(BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE) — A Morgan City man is suing the New Orleans Saints for a refund on his season tickets because some players have disrespected the national anthem before games this season. Lee Dragna filed a lawsuit Monday in 24th Judicial District Court in Gretna seeking a refund for the tickets as well as [...]
(CAMPUS REFORM) — A Christian student group has filed a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, claiming that the institution broke the law by asking the group to reform its religious beliefs. According to a lawsuit posted online by a public-interest law firm Becket, the public university de-registered the Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) after [...]
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A new Pew Research Center survey has found a majority of U.S. adults believe the religious parts of Christmas are emphasized less now than in the past – and yet, many people are not bothered by this perceived development. According to the survey, 56 percent of Americans believe American society in general emphasizes the religious [...]
(STUDY FINDS) — WASHINGTON — Artificial sweeteners have an effect on the body’s metabolism and can lead to excessive fat accumulation in people, especially those who are already obese, according to a recent study. Dr. Sabyasachi Sen, an associate professor of medicine and endocrinology at George Washington University, led the study, explaining in a press [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate GOP leaders forged an agreement Wednesday on a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax laws, paving the way for final votes next week to slash taxes for businesses and give many Americans modest tax cuts starting next year. Top GOP aides said lawmakers had reached an agreement in principle [...]
(DAILY MAIL) — Today, scientists led by Stephen Hawking are using high-tech scanners to discover if a huge, cigar-shaped ‘comet’ is in fact, an alien probe. Now, one astronomer claims that the space rock, named Oumuamua, could be an alien spacecraft with broken engines that is tumbling through our solar system. Dr Jason Wright from [...]
A sobering new report warns of growing nuclear threats to U.S. national security posed by the deterioration of the nation’s own nuclear arsenal just as Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are all upgrading their arsenals. The report documents how Russia and China are aggressively implementing nuclear force modernization, “likely made possible with covert and [...]
(THE HILL) — The Drudge Report’s Matt Drudge blasted Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R) after his loss Tuesday, saying Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) would have won the race. “Luther Strange would have won in a landslide… Just too much crazy in nerve racking times,” Drudge said Tuesday night in a rare tweet. “There IS [...]
(THE HILL) — CNN host Anderson Cooper is claiming he was hacked after his Twitter account responded to a tweet from President Trump by calling the president a “pathetic loser.” Trump on Wednesday morning tweeted that GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore worked hard in the Alabama special election, but that the “deck was stacked against [...]
Judge Roy Moore’s loss in the Alabama special election Tuesday gave analysts on the left-leaning MSNBC another occasion to attack President Trump and the movement he represents. “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough touted an exit poll Wednesday showing black-voter turnout at 29 percent, on par with the black turnout in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections in [...]
(FOX NEWS) — A New York appeals court Tuesday tossed out a Republican consultant’s attempt to revive her $4 million defamation case against President Donald Trump, accusing him of hurting her career after he called her a “real dummy” on Twitter. Cheryl Jacobus filed a million-dollar lawsuit against Trump after her appearance on CNN last [...]
Capitol Hill’s national security priorities are screwier than a Six Flags roller coaster. Instead of immediately shutting down one of America’s stupidest visa programs, which helped bring us yet another murder-minded jihadist this week, bipartisan Beltway politicians are pushing to preserve and expand the illegal immigration pipeline. Republicans and Democrats in Congress want a “fix” [...]
Twenty years ago, when Bill and Hillary Clinton were “co-presidents,” Democrats didn’t care much about sexual harassment charges, lying under oath about one of those charges, serial adultery evidence, an affair with a White House intern, sexual assault, even at least one credible rape allegation. It was time to “move on,” said Democrat activists and [...]
(AXIOS) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was the victim of a fake news hit on Tuesday, and has turned over to Capitol Police a document that purports to detail lurid sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer. Why it matters: This was an apparent effort to dupe reporters and smear a [...]
Isaiah 9:10 prophecy: Is U.S. under God’s judgment? Dec. 13, 2011: A messianic rabbi from New Jersey stunned audiences nationwide by revealing striking parallels between the fall of ancient Israel and what he suggests are God’s early judgments of America. Jonathan Cahn of the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in Wayne, N.J., said an otherwise obscure passage in the [...]
Disney is no longer safe for our kids Is this news? Conservatives have long been wary of Disney’s kids’ entertainment. (Miley Cyrus? No thank you.) Said one concerned parent in 2011 about Cyrus’s most famous role that began in 2006, “Hannah Montana’s most popular words are ‘Shut up!’ and ‘You idiot!’ I personally would not [...]
Seeking U.N. sanctions against Iran, Dec. 21, 1979, President Jimmy Carter stated in a speech: “Henry Longfellow wrote a Christmas carol in a time of crisis, the War Between the States, in 1864. Two verses of that carol (‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’) particularly express my thoughts and prayers and, I’m sure, those [...]
Having spent the better part of the last three years welcoming migrants from the Middle East and Africa to their country, the German government is now attempting to stem the tide. The foreign ministry has created a website to dissuade would-be migrants from traveling to Germany. The website, titled “Rumours about Germany: Facts for Migrants,” features [...]
House and Senate negotiators are working to forge a final tax-reform bill that will stimulate job growth and provide significant tax relief, according to the leader of the nation’s largest grassroots taxpayer organization. “The bills are getting better all the time,” National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp told WND and Radio America. Sepp [...]
President Obama praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as “a man of action” and one of the five world leaders with whom he had the strongest bond. President Trump met with him at the White House last spring. And certainly Erdogan has tried to portray himself to Western leaders as a pragmatist with whom they [...]
The Orange County, California, district attorney’s office has announced that two baby-body-parts dealers investigated after a series of undercover videos about the abortion industry’s profits on fetal tissue have been ordered to close down. The companies are DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences. They “must permanently close and cease all operations in the state of California [...]