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full title....................Muslim University of Maryland students demand prayer rooms in every major building and ask that their names be kept from Donald Trump........................Muslim students at the University of Maryland are asking for prayer rooms to be built in every major campus building as part of a lengthy list of demands to staff. They also want bus shuttle services to local mosques to be laid on by the university and are asking for their names to be kept from President-elect Donald Trump if he creates a nationwide Muslim registry. Their requests were among dozens issued by 'marginalized' students to the university's...

<p>Remember all the snarky comments about how JFK made a fool of himself when he told millions of Germans Ich bin ein Berliner back in 1963?</p>

U.S. jobless claims jumped to the highest level since mid-June, the government said Thursday. The Labor Department said jobless claims in the week ending Dec. 17 rose a seasonally adjusted 21,000 to 275,000. Economists polled by MarketWatch expected claims of 258,000. The four-week average of claims, a less volatile indicator, rose by 6,000 to 263,750. ... The ratio of continuing claims to the total number of unemployed was 27% in November, compared to a low of 34% during the previous expansion. That’s an indication of fewer people eligible for unemployment insurance — perhaps, due to the rise of the so-called...

Too many times these days, the mainstream media will jump on a story before knowing any of the facts to gain political advantage points. Famed Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer used and abused the so-called "dishonest media" earlier this month by straight up lying. According to Politico, Switzer was shopping with his family in New York City when he passed by Trump Tower and decided to go in. "All the media people said, 'Coach what are you doing here,'" Switzer said. "I told them I was here to see the president like everyone else."> However, Switzer only went upstairs, bought...

The young mother was discovered unconscious in friend's bathroom Wednesday The ex reality star leaves behind a seven-year-old daughter, Nevaeh The 23-year-old was arrested just a week prior after attempting to flee police Fairman - who fell pregnant at 15 - struggled with substance abuse in the past The Pennsylvania resident first appeared on the MTV series in 2010

On a warm Friday morning in Lafayette, one of San Francisco’s wealthiest suburbs, a man named Olivier strolled down Mount Diablo Boulevard with his mother, nephew and 3-month-old daughter. A car approached the native New Yorker, the son of a Nigerian father and French Canadian mother. The sedan slowed. A window rolled down. “White power!” the driver yelled and then sped off.

A few days after the Chicago City Council approved a $1.3 million legal defense fund to help illegal immigrants facing deportation, officials in Los Angeles unveiled their version with more than seven times the money. It appears to be a growing trend of using public funds to protect those who have violated federal law. The offenders are municipalities that have long offered illegal aliens sanctuary and an array of taxpayer-funded benefits. Last week Chicago officials proudly announced their legal defense fund to help immigrants threatened with deportation. It was created to prepare for President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport...

Officials have confirmed the discovery of Anis Amri's fingerprints inside the truck that killed 12 people in Berlin. Despite earlier reports, however, prosecutors said no arrests were made in connection with the attack. Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office gave a statement on Thursday after the first official forensics report on the Berlin Christmas market attack was released. Spokeswoman Frauke Köhler confirmed that fingerprints belonging to Tunisian national Anis Amri had been found in the truck used to kill 12 people and wound 49 at Berlin's Breitenscheidplatz on Monday evening. "We are relatively certain Anis Amri drove the car, and we have...

For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory in the north Florida town of Marianna. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many boys, though, never came home. They died, some under mysterious circumstances. They were buried in unmarked graves and they were forgotten. Several years ago, a young anthropology professor from the University of South Florida decided she would try to answer the many questions about what happened to these boys and, if she could, return their remains to their families. To get to the...

In light of the deadly truck attack perpetrated by an Islamist terrorist in Germany, Donald Trump is claiming vindication for his "extreme vetting" stance pertaining to refugees seeking to enter America. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the opposite approach during her tenure at the helm in Berlin, turning her country into the top Western haven for refugees from the war-torn Middle East -- and Syria in particular. She's opened the nation's doors to roughly one million asylum-seekers last year. But following a string of sexual assaults, lethal terrorist attacks and plots, and increased worries of radicalization across Europe, Merkel is starting to...

Shanghai (AFP) - A Chinese auto glass tycoon has caused a stir by shifting part of his empire to the United States and setting up a factory in Ohio, citing high taxes and soaring labour costs at home. Cao Dewang's $600-million investment comes after Donald Trump threatened to declare Beijing a currency manipulator and slap 45 percent punitive tariffs on Chinese imports to protect American jobs. The 70-year-old tycoon's decision to open a glass factory in the eastern American state of Ohio in October -- a rare case of jobs being exported from China to the US -- triggered an...

will be penalised if they empty toilet tanks during flight, the green panel ordered on Tuesday. National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the country’s aviation regulator - Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) - to issue instructions to all airlines, whose planes are involved, to pay Rs 50,000 as environmental compensation. The NGT bench chaired by Swatanter Kumar passed a slew of directions to be followed by airlines while hearing a plea of a retired army officer, who claimed the terrace of his house in south Delhi’s Vasant Enclave is being repeatedly spattered with excreta falling from aeroplanes. “DGCA shall also...

According to a new Senate Report, Planned Parenthood affiliates broke the laws against profiting from fetal tissue sales and knowingly turned a blind eye to the problem. The report recommends the Justice Department investigate Planned Parenthood and bring charges.

As late as October 2012, federal prosecutors and FBI agents in New York City were actively exploring filing charges against a suspect for providing material support to the 9/11 hijackers and other crimes. The suspect’s identity and many details of the New York investigation are blanked out of a FBI summary report that discusses “Updates and Initiatives (as of 5 October 2012)” about 9/11. The document was released to Florida Bulldog amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation that seeks access to records of the 9/11 Review Commission. The report was heavily redacted for national security, privacy and other...

Check the video at this link. John McCain earning his pay at the hearings for phasing out the A-10. "The B1 Bomber will now be used for close air support? This is why we can't take you seriously..."

Britain's Prince Charles warned against intolerance towards refugees fleeing religious persecution on Thursday, saying the rising tide of populism was reminiscent of the "dark days" of the 1930s. "The suffering doesn't end when they arrive seeking refuge in a foreign land," the heir to the throne told BBC radio. "We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a minority faith." The 68-year-old, in his third broadcast for the "Thought for the Day" section of popular news programme Today, added: "All of this has deeply disturbing echoes...

Trump confidant Roger Stone talks about what one of his "operatives" uncovered by attending a planning session for ...groups planning to protest Donald Trump's inauguration. "Secret Service take notice," Stone said. "I'm happy to share this with anyone from the service who takes notice."... ROGER STONE: I do want to talk about what is coming in Washington, because it is scary. We had an operative who infiltrated the J-20 Committee planning session.... what these folks have in mind, because this is not a benign civilly disobedient protest. They intend to march from McPherson Square to Columbus. ...during the lunch period...

BEC CREW 22 DEC 2016 It's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point. A 12-km wide cauldron that forms a vast supervolcano on the coast of Italy is showing signs of reawakening after almost 500 years of inactivity. Not only is this site rumoured to be responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthals, it’s got 500,000 people living around it right now, and researchers say it appears to be approaching a critical pressure point that could lead to an eruption. You might imagine a supervolcano as like a regular volcano, only supersized, rising up out of the ground and...

Deep inside Bridgewater Associates LP, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, software engineers are at work on a secret project that founder Ray Dalio has sometimes called “The Book of the Future.” The goal is technology that would automate most of the firm’s management. It would represent a culmination of Mr. Dalio’s life work to build Bridgewater into an altar to radical openness—and a place that can endure without him. At Bridgewater, most meetings are recorded, employees are expected to criticize one another continually, people are subject to frequent probes of their weaknesses, and personal performance is assessed on a host...

After Donald Trump won the presidential election in November Maine propane dealer told Trump supporters he would no longer sell them propane in the winter. They’d just have to freeze. Now this… Turner has not had a license to sell propane since 2012. Central Maine reported: Michael Turner, who said he would not sell fuel to anyone who voted for President-elect Donald Trump, has not been licensed since 2012. A local propane dealer who said in a recent message that he won’t sell to anyone who voted for President-elect Donald Trump has been delivering and dispensing gas without a state...