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Corrupt progressive union officials control the ports and transit hubs of Oregon. ♦ This is the same type of missile recently admitted as being “accidentally” shipped to Cuba. ♦ In a little discussed 2014 article, the Obama administration announced they were sending 5,000 of these missiles to Iraq. ♦ Is it possible these sketchy transfers are lining up to be a similar problem evidenced in Operation Zero Footprint?

Russian police arrested a woman holding a child’s severed head outside a Moscow subway station on Monday, officials said. The woman — later identified as a 39-year-old nurse — had the head in her hands and was threatening to activate a bomb, authorities said. She was screaming, “I am your death!” “I’m a terrorist!” and “Allahu Akbar!” at passersby, but no explosives were found on her, witnesses told police. “I was on my way to the metro station from home. She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar,” said journalist Polina...

A double-header today! They go hand-in-hand, so why not?

President Obama lamented the rancorous, divided state of U.S. politics in a wide-ranging interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson. In the unusual discussion, Obama revealed some of his longstanding frustrations with politics while asking the Iowa author questions about her family, her Christian faith and writings. “How do you reconcile the idea of faith being really important to you and you caring a lot about taking faith seriously with the fact that, at least in our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously sometimes are also those who are suspicious...

With the announcement Wednesday that the Teamsters union will delay endorsing anyone for president, rumors are now circulating the union is looking at Republican Donald Trump.The news of a delay comes as a particularly harsh blow to Hillary Clinton. As the Democratic frontrunner, she is the most likely to pick up support from the labor movement. With her hesitance to take a firm stance against President Barack Obama on trade and her more recent opposition to the Keystone Pipeline, she has found herself at odds with unions. According to Fox News correspondent James Rosen, leadership within the Teamsters wants to...

"Waffle House's official policy bans guns from its restaurants with the exception of law enforcement."

Earlier this Summer, the members of the ‘Duck Dynasty’ clan have said they endorsed their state’s governor, Bobby Jindal, for the GOP nomination, but Friday, Willie Robertson declared his love for a Yankee, Donald Trump. Mr. Robertson joined Donald Trump at his rally at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City Friday evening, where he declared “I do like me some Trump, I gotta admit. http://www.livetradingnews.com/willie-robertson-declares-i-like-donald-trump-119439.htm

A German woman is set to be evicted from the home where she raised her children on order for the local council to turn her block of flats into a refugee shelter. Bettina Halbey received a letter earlier this month, telling her that she has to move out of her home-of-16-years in Nieheim, west Germany. Full title: German nurse faces eviction from council block where she brought up her children to make way for asylum seekers

No story could be more emblematic of the refugee crisis Islamic invasion that is erasing Germany: A woman in Germany is being evicted from her home of 16 years to make way for asylum-seekers, amid growing concerns over how Germany will find accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into the country. Bettina Halbey, a 51-year-old nurse, has lived alone in her flat in the small western German town of Nieheim since her children grew up. On September 1, she received a letter from her landlord, the local municipality, telling her the building was being turned into a...

A man allegedly hit another man at a tasting table at Costco in Burbank on SundayA 24-year-old man has been charged in connection with punching a 78-year-old shopper in the face after the victim protested about how many samples the man had taken at a Nutella waffle tasting station at a Costco in Burbank, police said. Derrick Gharabighi, of Burbank, has been charged with felony elder abuse and personal infliction of great bodily injury against a person over 70 years of age, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The suspect is accused of striking a man...

The last gun shop in San Francisco is closing its doors next month. The owners of High Bridge Arms made the announcement on Facebook, but did not offer an explanation as to why they were closing the store. “For many reasons I cannot get into at this moment, it appears our final days will be through to the end of October of 2015,” the post said. “We will clearance out whatever inventory we have in the shop and offer sale prices for anything you would like us to order. This is not a joke." Attempts to reach High Bridge Arms...

Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Hard Line,” Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) refused to criticize his rival former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson for saying he believes a Muslim would not be qualified to be president and instead turned the focus to President Barack Obama.

None of the companies that have collected royalties on the "Happy Birthday" song for the past 80 years held a valid copyright claim to one of the most popular songs in history, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled on Tuesday. In a stunning reversal of decades of copyright claims, the judge ruled that Warner/Chappell never had the right to charge for the use of the "Happy Birthday To You" song. Warner had been enforcing a copyright since 1988, when it bought Birch Tree Group, the successor to Clayton F. Summy Co., which claimed the original disputed copyright. Judge George...

In a gift to many musicians, movie-makers and other content-creators, a federal judge has found that the song “Happy Birthday To You” is entirely in the public domain. But the move could mean millions lost for the music publishing company that has been collecting on the copyright to one of the most widely sung songs in the world. U.S. District Judge George H. King found Tuesday that the song’s original copyright, obtained by the Clayton F. Summy Co. from the song’s writers and bought for $15 million in 1988 by Warner/Chappell Music Inc., only covered specific piano arrangements of the...

Hillary Clinton faces “mounting health issues” — and she’s secretly worried that she’s too sick to run for president, according to a new book. She has been “frequently plagued” by “blinding headaches” and a series of strokes over the course of the campaign which have left her second-guessing her chances of winning, says the upcoming book “Unlikeable — The Problem with Hillary.” Excerpts were published Tuesday by Radar Online. “For the first time I’ve known her, she’s showing self-doubt about her strength and vitality,” a Clinton friend told author Edward Klein. Hillary has also been battling bouts of insomnia that...

The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s success at salvaging personal e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted raises the possibility that the Democratic presidential candidate’s correspondence eventually could become public. The disclosure of such e-mails would likely fan the controversy over Clinton’s use of a private e-mail system for official business.

Danish teen kills mother after watching videos of Islamic State murders David Charter The Times September 16, 2015 5:01PM A Danish mother was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter and her daughter’s Iraqi boyfriend after the pair repeatedly watched videos of brutal Islamic State murders. Lisa Borch was 15 when she carried out the murder with her 28-year-old boyfriend, Mohammed Bakhtiar Abdullah, because they were angry at her mother’s attempts to end their relationship.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma judge on Friday ordered that a monument to the Ten Commandments be removed from state Capitol grounds within 30 days, citing a state Supreme Court ruling that deemed the statue’s location unconstitutional. Oklahoma County District Judge Thomas Prince handed down the ruling after rejecting an attempt by Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s office to prolong the legal fight. Prince noted that the state’s highest court ordered that the 6-foot-tall granite monument be removed.

Europe struggles to deal with an influx of refugees, the magnitude of which has not been seen since World War II, many are questioning the inaction of Gulf leaders in the crisis and their refusal to accept those fleeing the Syrian civil war, despite their affluence and capability to do so. According to UN estimates, roughly four million Syrians have fled their country as a result of the four year long civil war. The majority are fleeing to neighboring countries in the Middle East, many of which are already overpopulated and poor. Even Iraq, which is dealing with a violent...