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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Justin Bieber marked his first Thanksgiving as a married man, saying that "love isn't always easy" but adding he was trying, like Jesus Christ, to be more patient and selfless. The Canadian pop singer, 24, who married model Hailey Baldwin in a hush-hush civil ceremony in September, told his 102 million Instagram followers that Thursday's U.S. Thanksgiving holiday was the first he had hosted. "First thanksgiving as a married man, first time hos ting thanksgiving," Bieber wrote in a posting on Friday. "Relationships are hard and love isn't always easy but thank you Jesus for showing...

Hours after Republican Bob Stefanowski conceded the governor's’ race to Ned Lamont on Wednesday, talk at Bill and Sam’s Diner in Wolcott turned to sunny Florida. Again and again during the campaign, Stefanowski warned that without a Republican governor people would continue to flee to states like Florida, with low taxes and balanced budgets. Now, over plates of pancakes and bacon at this landmark diner, retirees and workers alike rued Stefanowski’s loss and mulled plans to get out.

This is pure gold! https://youtu.be/EKBFGCAC8p4

Climate change is a danger to us all and President Trump must be stopped — that’s the chorus we always hear when new climate reports are released and destructive fires ravage California. But is it true? On Oct. 31, six days before the midterm elections, the journal Nature published an article suggesting that the world’s oceans were absorbing much more heat from climate change than previously calculated. The research, by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, and New Jersey’s Princeton University, was obligingly picked up by the national media with alarming headlines such as: Study: Oceans...

Scientists have discovered a thriving ecosystem of ‘infectious organisms’ aboard the International Space Station. A Nasa team found five different varieties of Enterobacter, which are similar to bugs found in hospitals down here on Earth. The toilet of the orbiting space base was one of the main sites of infection along with the exercise area. Researchers calculated that there is a ‘79% probability that they may potentially cause disease’, although analysis has only been carried out on dead samples at this stage so this risk could prove to be higher or lower following further research. Dr Nitin Singh, who has...

Dan Bongino delivers speech about “Spygate” during David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend 2018. His presentation outlines how the big threads all connect to weave a very specific conspiracy. Great presentation: One of the key points Bongino highlights is how none of the paper-trail; nothing about the substance of the conspiracy; can possibly surface until *after* Robert Mueller is no longer in the picture. Until Robert Mueller is removed, none of this information can/will surface. That’s why every political and media entity are desperate to protect Mueller; and also why Mueller’s investigation will never end.

Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming? Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere. The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposes using a technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection, which they say could cut the rate of global warming in half.

Beijing announced an “action plan” this week for monitoring residents’ behavior, adding that the city expects to have its social credit system fully implemented by the end of 2020. Beijing plans to reward and punish its residents based on data that will be collected from various departments monitoring citizens’ social behavior, according to a detailed “action plan” posted on Monday to the city’s municipal website. By the beginning of 2020, the announcement declares, China’s capital city will have all residents officially locked into the permanent surveillance program, part of a broader effort to have every Chinese citizen rated on a...

DUQUESNE, Penn. (WFLA) - A Pennsylvania woman recently learned the hard way you can't always trust your GPS. Late Wednesday night, police received a call about a car on railroad tracks in Duquesne, a city in the Pittsburgh area. When responding officers spoke to the driver, she told them "her GPS advised her to go this way." In a Facebook post, police said the woman was completely sober and did not have any medical conditions that would impact her decision-making. In the comments, they clarified that there was no turn involved. "This vehicle was going straight on the highway and...

The Houston Texans announced on Friday evening that the team's owner, founder, and chairman Robert C. (Bob) McNair has passed away. He was 81 years old. Houston Texans ✔ @HoustonTexans It is with deep sadness that we announce Houston Texans Founder, Senior Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and philanthropist, Robert C. McNair passed away peacefully in Houston today with his loving wife, Janice, and his family by his side. McNair is survived by his wife, Janice, and their four children. The Texans released statements on McNair's passing from team president Jamey Rootes, general manager Brian Gaine, and coach Bill O'Brien.

It’s that time of year again. There’s a chill in the air, pretty much everybody’s diet is out the window, and the spirit of consumerism is in the air. Black Friday is always special, but this year, it somehow felt even better. Maybe it’s because everybody has a cell phone and is able to capture the most bloody, brutal, savage and unbelievable brawls of the year. Here’s a wrap up of the best videos from Black Friday 2018:

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There were men blowing kisses at reporters outside of their makeshift migrant shelter in Tijuana. There were men shouting at U.S. Border Patrol through the steel bars of the U.S.-Mexico border fence: "We're not criminals! Let us in!" There were men getting drunk in the Playas de Tijuana neighborhood. As thousands of Central Americans flood the streets of Tijuana, waiting for a chance to ask for asylum in the U.S., many mothers fear certain unruly men in their midst could hurt everyone's chances by giving the exodus a bad reputation. Marco Antonio Rivera, a 31-year-old Honduran man, painted the words...

Search URL should return the campaign contributions given to Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 primary campaign for the period 02/01/2009 to 12/31/2010 while she served as Sec of State. I filtered to show contributions of $1000 or more. The total contributions were over $7,000,000 She also raised over a million dollars from 2011 to 2012. Those receipts (for $1000 or more) are shown here: FEC.Gov link

MADRID (Reuters) - Migrants from Central America are turning to former colonial master Spain as they face rejection from the United States in their attempts to escape rampant violence and poverty at home, but the streets of Madrid offer little relief. After selling all they have to pay for flights to Europe, the migrants often end up sleeping on the streets or in doorways, without warm clothes, food or cash....

The downward spiral in oil prices is accelerating as a surge in crude production from a turbocharged U.S. petroleum industry runs into weaker global economic growth. A big reason why: the emergence of the U.S. oil industry as one of the world’s most important players. Ballooning shale production—American output has nearly doubled since the start of 2012—has made the U.S. a key supplier and exacerbated worries about a global glut of crude. The U.S. now exports more energy than it imports, by one measure. ...defying skeptics who previously warned OPEC’s grip on world markets had slipped thanks to U.S. shale.

-->Can your Spanish ability help us to understand this video..? YouTube Video: A family of Illegals attempting to cross north into the USA show up at a fenced river. After some vocal protests from the apprehensive kids, the family circumnavigates a chainlink fence and scramble up a riverbank: They cross a short bridge and confront a high chain-link fence with a large, sliding gated panel. The panel can apparently be slid open and closed via remote control. As they collect at the sliding panel, we see on the American side of the fence a single white Border Patrol truck appears....

“Stay Awake!” (Mark 13:24-37) “Stay awake!” No, this is not just the plea of a preacher for his parishioners to keep their eyes open for the next fifteen minutes, while they’re still recovering from their tryptophan food coma from turkey on Thursday. Well, actually, I do want you to stay awake and listen to this sermon, not because it’s Henrickson speaking, but because it’s Christ’s servant delivering God’s word to you, as he is charged to do. Therefore you ought to listen and take God’s word to heart. “Stay awake!” And not just for the next fifteen minutes, but really...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mayor of Mexico’s quaint colonial city of Guanajuato has taken a drubbing after he criticized low-spending tourists, saying, “We want the type of visitor who spends more.” Mayor Alejandro Navarro said this week that tourists from nearby Mexican cities often arrive in cheap bus tour packages, bringing their own food. He blamed them for creating trash and traffic problems. Social media users quickly mocked Navarro, posting fake road signs reading “Welcome to Guanajuato, no food or beverage allowed.” By Wednesday, Navarro was forced to post a taped apology on his Twitter account, saying, “Everyone is...

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