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Oprah Winfrey is expected to visit the kingdom twice in 2017...Jeddah in September, and Riyadh in December. Her tour is part of the General Entertainment Authority schedule for the year. As a member of an all-female talk show, she will be discussing her media experience and the hardships she faced on her journey to becoming one of the world's top media personalities. “We are at the start of an exciting journey in Saudi Arabia, as we build an entertainment industry that gives people happy memories and puts smiles on their faces," said Amr AlMadani, CEO of the General Entertainment Authority....

Let's look at well documented Swedish Government self conflagration of Stockholm.

Anyone watching the CNN d.n.c. debate? On live now. Hilarious.

If you didn’t fall in love with Rihanna during this year’s Grammy Awards, you surely will now. On February 28th, the singer is headed to Harvard University to accept their Humanitarian Award. Allen Counter, the Harvard Foundation’s director told the Harvard Gazette, “Rihanna has charitably built a state-of- the-art center for nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat breast cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados.” That’s not all. She also has a scholarship fund, and she’s worked with the Global Citizen project, among other contributions. It’s a big honor, and she’s in excellent company. Chelsey Sullenberger, Malala Yousafzai...

I didn't find this video on Freep, so thought I'd post it. I've been posting it a lot on Huffington and sending it to every Trump bashing lib I can find because the video is extremely powerful. There IS blood on the hands of Obama and every last Rat and RINO who keep supporting open borders and non-enforcement. They ARE the REAL sc*mbags Ms. Maxine Waters!!!!

A Mexican man who had a few days ago been deported from the U.S. took his life by jumping off a bridge near a border crossing that connects Tijuana and San Diego. Mexican authorities identified the man as Guadalupe Olivas Valencia, 44, and said he had been deported from the U.S. three times.

Some scary moments for a New Albany man. Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards say Shane Treadaway was sent to a Tupelo hospital Tuesday night. Authorities found him hanging upside down from a tree naked with a cable wrapped around him..."I was out walking my dog and just came home and a lady comes running down my brother's drive. I was thinking my brother was in trouble so I go out there to help after about three minutes in the woods I saw this man hanging upside down in the tree butt naked," said Jerry Feathers.

Given the status of the AR15 as the preeminent military rifle still today, it comes as a surprise to many people to learn just how old the gun really is. Civilian production of the SP-1 model by Colt actually began in 1964, which means that early SP-1 rifles started becoming Curio & Relic qualified back in 2014. Right now in 2017, more than 10,000 C&R AR15s exist – and this is one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jowv167KdbM

new species of an extinct giant worm was found to have terrifyingly large snapping jaws. noting that its gigantic size is comparable to the living species of the 'giant eunicid' species, better known as 'Bobbit worms', which are considered to be terrifying and opportunistic ambush predators that use powerful jaws to capture their prey. We know that being giant is related to things like competitive dominance and the modern worms that get this big are fearsome predators.

CHICAGO -- Teen suicide attempts in the U.S. declined after same-sex marriage became legal and the biggest impact was among gay, lesbian and bisexual kids, a study found. The research found declines in states that passed laws allowing gays to marry before the Supreme Court made it legal nationwide. The results don't prove there's a connection, but researchers said policymakers should be aware of the measures' potential benefits for youth mental health.

On a Friday night in New Orleans 20 years ago, Jerry Kramer sat in K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, the renowned Cajun restaurant of chef Paul Prudhomme, and celebrated his 61st birthday. Kramer was in town as a Senior Committee finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Family and friends had flown in from as far as Idaho, Kramer’s home state. He was expected to be voted into the Hall, ending 24 post-Packers years of waiting and wondering. Wondering why the NFL’s widely regarded best guard of the ’60s, an iconic member of Lombardi’s Packers, a five-time All-Pro and a five-time...

Clooney, 55 - who is expecting twins with his wife Amal - referenced Trump's comments about Meryl Streep, after the actress hit out at the politician during her Golden Globes speech last month. The actor said, when quizzed on French TV show Rencontres de Cinema: “When Meryl spoke, everyone on that one side said, ‘well that’s elitist Hollywood speaking’. "Donald Trump has 22 acting credits in television. He collects $120,000 a year in his Screen Actors Guild pension fund. He is a Hollywood elitist." Clooney also added of the president's assistant: “Steve Bannon is a failed film writer and director....

This is The Daily Win / SNOWY / The Daily Battle thread. If you wish to be a Winner too, and if you can proudly proclaim, "Still Not Over Winning Yet," all you need do is let me know on this thread. Don't send me a Freepmail, I might miss it. (Warning: All this winning can become highly addictive. If you feel you are becoming too addicted to winning, we urge you to seek help at the Twelve Step Recovery Program, Winners Anonymous) The Internet Acronym 'SNOWY' stands for Still Not Over Winning Yet. Be SNOWY! This thread will serve...

It was reported earlier this month that former first lady Michelle Obama would appear as a guest judge on the fifth season of MasterChef Junior, but her expertise on everything tasty might come to the small screen sooner than we think. During its current season, guest judges have taken the spot of chef Graham Elliot, who exited the show in its fourth season. Obama will reportedly serve as a guest judge as soon as this or next week, The Root reports. The series, like MasterChef, features Gordon Ramsey on a hunt of the perfect tiny chef. Participants range in age...

In January of 1993, two weeks before Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration, Hillary Clinton asked Robert McNeely to be their official White House photographer. McNeely captured the family’s public and private moments for the next six years. In 100 previously unseen photographs now showcased in the collection The Making of Hillary Clinton: The White House Years, published this month by University of Texas Press, we see the former First Lady host Princess Diana and Anna Wintour, decorate the White House Christmas tree, and pose in a stylish fur headpiece in Moscow. “Despite having been in the public eye for so...

Liz Smith is being hailed by many as a legend, as she managed to troll Donald Trump from beyond the grave. The death of the 87-year-old grandmother from Connecticut was announced in a touching newspaper obituary, which included a subtle dig at the new president. It read: “She enjoyed travelling, especially to Yellowstone Park and heli-hiking in the Canadian Rockies, white water rafting on the New River in West Virginia and the Snake River in Idaho, Orient Express trip from Vienna to Paris, entire tour of Nova Scotia including Cape Breton. “Liz is smiling now, not to be living during...

Harrison Ford's taxiway landing last Monday was caught on video, and it promises to be the centerpiece of the FAA investigation. The video was captured by cameras trained on the runways at John Wayne Airport in Orange County. It shows Ford's approach which came dangerously close to an American Airlines 737, which was on the taxiway when the actor's plane passed overhead. A man in the terminal who took a picture of the landing told us Ford had misjudged the runway and banked sharply before landing on the taxiway, but that is not reflected in this video.

From the second floor of this residence you can see streets flooded between buildings and cars almost completely submerged due to recent floods in San Jose, California.

California & New York 2016 POTUS vote...outliers, by hundreds of thousands of illegally cast votes of all types and all of them cast for Democrat POTUS candidate, Hillary Clinton!!! And, to boot illegal voting is alive and well in the remaining 48 states, thanks to Obama, Clinton and the entire Democrat Party. Democrats & their lap dog media were 100% sure they had this 2016 POTUS race all locked up....Geez....wonder why? Answer the fix was in...across the country. Same scenario in 2008 & 2012....but, Obama needed no help from illegal votes....Weak sisters, McCain & Romney rolled over, and handed the...

A literary treasure buried for more than a century has been unearthed by Zachary Turpin, a grad student at the University of Houston. It's a work of short fiction: a 36,000-word novella published anonymously, in six parts, in a New York newspaper in 1852. The discursive nature of the manuscript's full title — Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography; In Which The Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters — places it squarely in its literary era, as does its subtitle, A Story of New York at the Present Time. The find was announced on Monday as the full...