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Dog tests positive for meth, heroin TUSTIN, Calif. – A dog picked up during an arrest in Tustin, California has tested positive for methamphetamine and heroin, authorities said. Tustin Police Lt. Robert Wright tells CNN that the dog named Bubba was found in a hotel room after officers served an arrest warrant for Joshua West, 40, on March 22 in Orange County. West was on parole for drug violations, said Wright. Police reported illegal drugs were found in the room along with used needles. The dog was turned over to Orange County Animal Care (OCAC) and transported to its facility....

ABC, Fox News, and Rasmussen now have polls suggesting Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton nationally and for the first time during this campaign RealClearPolitics 'tracker' has Trump with a 0.2pt lead - the unofficial "death cross" of Clinton's campaign as Wayne Allyn Root right remarks "Hillary is sinking faster than the Titanic." Voters are putting their money where their polls are too as bookies odds of a Hillary victory in November are tumbling. Hillary's lead has gone as the blue line "death cross"-es below Trump's rising red line...

One month ago, pro-European voices in Austria, and all of Europe, were suddenly muted when in the first round of the Austrian presidential election, Norbert Hofer head of Austria Freedom Party (FPO), described as a "Euroskeptic, right-wing, anti-immigrant party" crushed his opposition buoyed by a migration crisis that has heightened fears about employment and security across the continent, and gathered a whopping 35% of the vote leaving the other five legacy candidates far behind.

On May 22, 1856, in the United States Congress, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject of the expansion of slavery in the United States. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse"[1] that eventually led to the American Civil War.

High on a green sweep of Swiss Alps, grazing with a herd of goats, Thomas Thwaites is on all fours — dressed as one of them. “Sweat is dripping off the end of my nose,” Thwaites writes in his new book, “Goat Man: How I Took a Holiday From Being Human” (Princeton Architectural Press). “My arms are on fire, and I can’t really feel my knuckles, but I imagine there’s not all that much skin left on them.” After months of preparation, Thwaites had finally achieved his goal: to become a goat. Researching their thought patterns, he learned that goats...

Bernie Sanders' campaign has been complaining over the past week that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been working for Hillary Clinton and against him, and Sanders says in an upcoming CNN interview that he favors her challenger for the the House seat she holds and won't reappoint her to chair the Democratic National Committee if he's elected president. "Clearly, I favor her opponent," the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate told Jake Tapper about the Florida representative's challenger, law professor Tim Canova. "His views are much closer to mine than are Wasserman Schultz's." Also, said Sanders in the interview, to be...

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The program also features the sad story of Tom, 32, a theater technician from Tring, Hertforshire, who split up with his fiancee Rachel because of his yearning to dress up as a Dalmatian. He says: 'You disappear and start chasing puppy toys. You go so deep into the head space, you crave it and want it. It's just magic.' 'I didn't understand it. I didn't want to understand it,' says Rachel, who remains friends with Tom.

<p>NORMAN, Okla. —An Oklahoma judge on Friday put off deciding whether to accept a man's request to plead guilty to first-degree murder in the beheading of a co-worker, as a death sentence would still be possible.</p> <p>Alton Nolen reiterated his desire to plead guilty and die by lethal injection after Cleveland County District Judge Lori Walkley asked a series of questions to assess whether he understood the charges against him stemming from the September 2014 attack at the Vaughn Foods plant in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore.</p>

EgyptAir flight attendant posted picture on Facebook of plane crashing a year before she died in flight MS804What a coincidence. Might Samar Ezz Eldin have been part of a jihad cell that worked to take down the plane? The possibility cannot be dismissed out of hand. “EgyptAir cabin crew posted picture of plane crashing on Facebook year before tragic flight MS804,” by Simon Robb, Metro.co.uk, May 20, 2016: A flight attendant on the tragic EgyptAir flight MS804 had posted a picture of a plane crashing, months after she got a job with the airline. Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, uploaded...

Seattle and King County officials have stopped several migrants with suitcases full of American dollars leaving the United States. All of the suspects carrying the suitcases full of cash were on welfare. KING5 reported: “ Travelers pulling suitcases full of cash started showing up at Sea-Tac Airport last year holding tickets for flights headed out of the United States. The people carrying the cash didn’t hide the fact from Customs. Just the opposite, they reported it. Anyone traveling out of the United States is required to declare any amount over $10,000 and fill out a one-page federal form. These reports...

While you were fighting over who should use what bathrooms at Target, we lost our country. While you were arguing with coworkers over who would leave the country first if Trump/Clinton were elected, the “American Dream” perished. Don’t believe me? Then perhaps ALL is lost. And I can prove it all to you through the eyes of a child. The screens around our house in the past couple of weeks stand in stark contrast to what’s in front of them. The television … the laptops … the iPads … the cell phones … filled with images of the attacks around...

A Florida man is getting probed for posing as U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin to get out of his mortgage payments. Sidney Hines, 67, called a collection agency five times in 2013 and 2014 impersonating “a sitting U.S. Senator from Illinois” with the initials R.D. claiming that his loan for his New Port Richey, Flor. home had been paid in full, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office indictment.

What causes one culture to flourish while another flounders? Why do some civilizations reach great heights only to fall mightily? Historians have dedicated great tomes to these questions. Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West are two prime examples of this line of inquiry. But another can be found not in a work of non-fiction, but that of historical fiction. In Tides of War, author Stephen Pressfield provides a fictionalized account of one of the greatest conflicts in history — the Peloponnesian War — fought between two of the West’s greatest...

Four of the shots that cops fired at a madman waving a knife in Midtown failed to penetrate his jacket — which was not bullet-proof — and the NYPD will now check the weapons for malfunction, law enforcement sources told The Post. “The bullets we have may be defective and that’s very disturbing,” one source said. “When we fire our weapons we want to make damn sure that our bullets hit our target – neutralizing our target.”

While RG3 is taking over the reins in Cleveland, ex-Browns QB Johnny Manziel was raging in Vegas this weekend -- looking skinnier and more tatted than ever. Check out these pics of Manziel at a Wet Republic pool party at the MGM Grand -- where witnesses say he partied and boozed for hours ... but that's not really surprising at this point.

Video. Baio is a big Trump supporter.

I recently downloaded the application for renewal of a New Hampshire License to Carry Pistol/Revolver. I have had carry permits in all New England states for the past 20 years. Much to my surprise, the renewal application adds the requirement that your local chief of police or the colonel of the NH State Police first issue you a letter to be attached to the application stating that you have never been convicted of a drug crime, have never been involved in domestic violence, have not been convicted of any other crime, and have never been "treated for mental illness or...

On Wednesday, presidential hopeful Donald Trump released names of 11 people he'd consider appointing to the U.S. Supreme Court should he take the Oval Office. Among his picks is Texas Justice Don Willett, a prolific tweeter and meme aficionado. However, Trump and his crew maybe should have paid more attention to Willett's tweets, as the justice has used his digital pulpit to skewer Trump throughout the campaign. He's compared Trump's plan of building a wall to keep Mexican's out of America to the construction of the Death Star and compared one of this year's GOP debates to battling corgis.