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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scot, R-S.C., said Friday that the United States needs "biblically sound leadership" as he tries to make his case to Christian conservatives in Iowa why they should back him for the GOP nomination. Scott joined former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a discussion at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of grassroots Christian conservative activists in Des Moines. The prominent gathering organized by The Family Leader takes place six months before the Iowa caucuses, the first occasion where Republican voters can formally show support for their preferred presidential candidate. Carlson, an outspoken critic of...

New research reveals that most child victims of gun violence are innocent bystandersby University of Missouri A University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher examining the circumstances behind pediatric firearm assaults found that most child shooting victims were shot outdoors for unknown reasons and were likely not intentionally targeted. Firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of child deaths in 2020. Assault has become the most common cause of firearm injury among American children and adolescents, surpassing firearm suicide and accidental firearm injuries. However, very little research exists examining the circumstances behind these pediatric assaults. A group...

The CW network has picked up its “Batwoman” pilot for a full season. The upcoming show will center on the DC Comics lesbian superhero and is set to air sometime during the 2019-2020 TV season. The network released a teaser for the series Tuesday. Posted to The CW’s Twitter account, the 20-second clip shows Australian actress Ruby Rose standing on a roof, clad in a black and red leather suit and mask. Kate Kane was reintroduced in 2006 as a social justice-oriented street fighter who works to take down the city’s criminals. At the time, DC Comics executive Dan DiDio...

The Navy is set to name a ship after the gay rights icon and San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, according to a Congressional notification obtained by USNI News.

Donald Trump has made several memorable appearances on The Howard Stern Show, where he is often at his most candid and crude. As has been previously reported, it was on Stern’s program that Trump said Kim Kardashian had a “fat *ss” and where he explained how he made potential partners take STI tests from his personal doctor. But there's more. Much, much more

For the past year, the Obama administration has been running an experiment: Is it possible to make policy more effective by using psychology on citizens? The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information differently. The classic example is requiring people to opt out of being an organ donor, instead of opting in, when they sign up for a driver’s license. Without any change in rules, the small tweak has boosted the number of registered organ donors in many states. Nudging has gained a lot of high-profile advocates, including behavioral-law guru Cass...

A black criminal resists or attacks a white cop or a mostly non-black watchman, and dies as a result, and the whole country spins wildly into paroxysms of hysteria. Orgies of non-stop rioting and looting commence. Police departments and municipal governments enact emergency measures, costing taxpayers millions upon millions of dollars. Lawyers, politicians, and officials hustle to the microphones. Reporters, analysts, and pundits go into hyper-drive. Businesses burn to the ground. Entire city blocks explode in flames and mayhem and murder. The federal government doles out mountains of cash for leftist community agitators to go in and egg on the...

Two years before Caitlyn Jenner showed up this week on the cover of Vanity Fair, Oliver Bishop was in crisis. The Sonora teen’s grades had dropped, and he’d become suicidal as he sensed that puberty was beginning to trap him in a female body that seemed alien to the boy he had always been inside. “You know you’re a guy,” he said, “but everybody doesn’t see it that way.” Now, as the nation sees a growing acceptance of transgender people such as the former Olympian Bruce Jenner, Bay Area therapists and physicians are seeing a surge in the number of...

A new round of looting and tense standoffs with pOlice ended early Saturday with no major clashes as the number of protesters gradually dwindled and pOlice retreated from the streets in a drizzling rain. “This is wonderful. This is what should have happened a long time ago,” Robert Powell, 42, said as he watched looters during the night hop through the shattered glass door of a meat market. He dismissed the looters as "suburban nerds" likely to get busted. But after years of living in a town in which he said African American men are singled out for harsh treatment...

<p>The co-creator of Fox's "Glee" has revealed plans to end the series, Us Weekly reports. Ryan Murphy told reporters Wednesday in L.A. that the musical series will end its run next year after six seasons.</p> <p>The end of the show appears to be linked to the death of Cory Monteith, one of its stars.</p>

On a glorious springtime visit to San Francisco — where the “if it feels good do it” culture is reflected in the bumper sticker “Your body may be a temple, but mine’s an amusement park” — I was struck by the tattooing trend, as if body art is the modern version of big shoulder pads or miniskirts, not a sign of rebellion. Personally, I prefer art on a canvas, not a human chest, though in healthy societies, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Then I encountered a scantily clad, tattoo-festooned woman on whose neck and jaw was emblazoned

GROUND ZERO — A New Jersey teen who lost her father on 9/11 got the rare privilege Thursday of meeting the President — but she really wants to meet Justin Bieber. So a few months ago, Payton Wall, 14, of Rumson, wrote to President Barack Obama, asking the leader of the free world for help in meeting the teenage Canadian pop prince. Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110505/downtown/president-obama-vows-help-911-teen-meet-justin-bieber#ixzz1LWafBeSR

NEW ORLEANS – A Mardi Gras parade erupted into chaos on Fat Tuesday when a series of gunshots struck six people, including an infant. The infant was not seriously injured and two suspects were in custody, police said. The shootings happened near the Garden District about 1:40 p.m. after the last major parade of the celebration, Rex, had ended. Hundreds of truck floats that follow the parade were passing when gunfire broke out.

Democrats to deliver on campaign promise to homosexuals this weekH.R. 1592 dangerously lays groundwork for silencing Christian viewpoint on homosexuality Call Now Enter Your Zip Code Did you know your constitutionally guaranteed “First Freedoms” to free speech and religious expression as an American are under attack as never before? It’s true. Thanks to the new and unabashedly pro-homosexual Democrat leadership in Congress, Bible-believing Christians and Jews face an onslaught of bills that will inevitably create federally protected “class status” for homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, “transgender” and “transsexual” persons. Specifically, I’m talking about the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Protection Act...

"War of the Worlds" conquered the box office as easily as the movie's aliens overpowered Earth, but it did not have enough firepower to overcome Hollywood's prolongued box office slump. Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise's sci-fi tale took in $77.6 million over the long Fourth of July weekend, lifting its total since debuting Wednesday to $113.3 million, according to studio estimates Monday. That fell well short of the all-time high held by "Spider-Man 2," whose $180.1 million haul in its first six days led Hollywood to a record Fourth of July weekend last year. The top 12 movies took in...

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Although "The Sopranos," which has only two episodes remaining, has always been a series with a split personality, mob violence on the one hand, and television's best use of subtlety on the other, it's clear that people who watch "The Sopranos" for the gunplay and physical mayhem are missing all the best parts. With only two hours left, "The Sopranos," which airs at 8 p.m. Sundays on HBO, is wrapping up a brilliant year, its sense of humor as out there as ever and its sense of the small emotional moment as sharp as any previous season. Oh, and yes,...

Famed hip-hop artist Kris “KRS-One” Parker, who has 16 gold platinum records, spoke at Packard Laboratory about the history, influence and importance of the Hip-hop movement. “Rap is something we do,” Parker said. “Hip-hop is something we live.” The difference between the two is massive, Parker said. Hip-hop is a real consciousness that strives to establish health, love, awareness and wealth. Rap is something produced for pure entertainment. The presentation of Hip-hop via television and radio only demonstrates the effects of the movement, Parker explained. “This is not Hip-hop,” Parker said. “The cause and original essence of the movement, the...