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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 20 during a brief visit to Russia, the Kremlin announced Tuesday. In September, Russia raised a brief alarm in the Middle East after apparently detecting a joint Israel and US missile launch test in the Mediterranean. Israel’s Defense Ministry confirmed that it carried out a successful trial involving a new type of Sparrow target missile, which was meant to test Israel’s missile tracking capabilities. Russia had reported that two ballistic objects had been fired from the central Mediterranean to the eastern coast of the sea...

Dear Friend of CV, 720,000. That's how many people last month gave up. They've stopped looking for jobs. The Labor Department today reported that participation in the labor force is at a 35-year low. Obama's economic policies aren't working. And that means millions of Americans aren't working either. That 720,000 people gave up looking for a job last month is a crushing indictment of President Obama's indifference to the working-class and low-income Americans. Millions of American families are feeling the squeeze from Obama's failed economic policies and have given up trying to find a job. And there's more. Today's devastating...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – President Barack Obama hit the links Saturday with a former NBA star at the private Florida golf club where ''Caddyshack'' was filmed. ~snip~ Obama headlined three Democratic fundraisers in South Florida Friday night. He returns to Washington Saturday afternoon.

The green and black Romeo appears to mimicking its owner as he pesters another bird for a kiss. Perched together on a log, the pesky parrot repeatedly asks his friend: ‘What ‘cha doin’? Gimme a kiss?’ Despite being flat out ignored by his love interest, the bird shows no sign of giving up in his attempts to woo her. The clip has racked up thousands of hits online, with one user commenting: ‘Cutest video ever!!’ Another added: ‘Yet when I do this… It is classed as creepy.’

November 10, 2013 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time    Reading 1 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrestedand tortured with whips and scourges by the king,to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law. One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said:"What do you expect to achieve by questioning us? We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors." At the point of death he said:"You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life,but the King of the world will raise us up to...

Some good news at last. The illegal immigrant crisis has been solved. The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant” from its discourse, deeming the phrase racist, offensive, unfair and derogatory. In an unanimous vote, student senators passed a resolution that stated the word “illegal” is “racially charged,” “dehumanizes” people, and contributes to “punitive and discriminatory actions aimed primarily at immigrants and communities of color.” The resolution passed 18-0; therefore, we no longer have any illegal immigrants in this country, because there is no longer such a thing as an illegal immigrant. Revise your Newspeak dictionaries accordingly.

In an exchange with Eric Cantor, Obama acknowledged a report from the CBO that suggested 8-9 million people would lose their heath insurance because of Obamacare. And this was in February of 2010: Did you notice how even then he minimized the 8-9 million who would lose their health insurance as a small part of the 300 million in this country, just as he and his acolytes are doing now?

My sustainment of my children comes through INTENSE INTIMACY not just lament and prayer for there is a difference between Mary at my feet and those that knew me from a distance . Do you see I AM your lap of Pure Joy and Breakthrough and it is in my presence that you receive your breakthrough. So see that you break through all distractions to me for they are a wall of resistance to all the blessings already laid at my feet for you to discern and receive. Luke 10:38-42 38 Now while they were on their way, it occurred...

Coming Saturday 11/23 a SyFy channel original movie! Will they top Sharknado?

Young love is tough. There's no hiding behind OKCupid profiles in elementary school; there's just a tear-saturated piece of notebook paper with the word "no" circled in pencil. But in this note, posted by Reddit user reasonable-doubt, there's actually a glimmer of hope

A 25-year-old television announcer from Venezuela has been crowned Miss Universe at a glittering ceremony in Moscow. Gabriela Isler was chosen the winner Saturday from 86 contestants at the show, watched by millions of viewers around the world. Isler edged out finalists from Spain, Brazil, Ecuador and the Philippines to take the crown in its 61st edition of the pageant.

Let the blame game begin over ObamaCare’s oversights. The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealthcare, claims the Affordable Care Act is responsible for forcing it to boot doctors from its Medicare Advantage program that serves thousands of elderly patients in the New York metro region. CEO Jack Larsen, under fire for separating seniors from their MDs, took out full-page ads to explain that cuts in Medicare spending forced the ­insurer’s hand.

Here’s a candidate who turned identity politics on its head while managing to break every politically correct rule about politics in the process.KHOU: Dave Wilson chuckles as he talks about his unorthodox political campaign.“I’d always said it was a long shot,” Wilson says. “No, I didn’t expect to win.”Still, he figured he’d have fun running, because he was fed up with what he called “all the shenanigans” at the Houston Community College System. As a conservative white Republican running in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him.Then he came up with an...

There's only one flaw in this otherwise cute video of a button-eyed raccoon dexterously eating grapes like he's people: the audio. The sounds of slurping and chomping in this video — apparently uploaded by a Russian YouTuber

A group of US scientists have created the world’s smallest human liver which can survive for forty days and works like the real thing – using a 3D printer. The mini-livers, made by California-based medical research company Organvo, are just half a millimetre deep and four millimetres wide but can perform most of the functions that a real liver can. The printer builds up 20 layers of hepatocytes cells, which carry out liver functions, along with two major types of liver cell. It also adds cells from the lining of a blood vessel. This allows the liver cells to receive...

Authorities expect a “very high number of fatalities” after one of the strongest typhoons on record devastated central Philippines, cutting communications and severely damaging an airport in one of the hardest-hit regions. A senior regional police official and a city administrator in the typhoon-ravaged Tacloban city in the central Philippines say the death toll there could reach 10,000 people, according to the Associated Press. Regional police chief Elmer Soria said he was briefed by Leyte provincial Gov. Dominic Petilla on Saturday and told there were about 10,000 deaths on the island, mostly by drowning and from collapsed buildings. Tacloban city...

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves. Super typhoon Haiyan destroyed about 70 to 80 percent of the area in its path as it tore through the province on Friday, said chief superintendent Elmer Soria, a regional police director. Haiyan, a category 5 typhoon that churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, packing wind gusts of around 275 kph (170 mph), weakened significantly...

Hillary Clinton has not declared herself a candidate for president in 2016, but her schedule — including another stop in Los Angeles on Saturday — has heightened speculation that she is planning another run for the White House. Clinton smiled broadly as she took the stage at the Town and Gown Ballroom at the University of Southern California Saturday morning. "Thank you very, very much," Clinton said as the crowd continued to clap loudly. "Wow." She was there to accept an award from the Mexican American Leadership Initiative, or MALI, which seeks to encourage cross-border philanthropy and dialogue between Mexicans...

The White House is considering whether to name a civilian to lead the National Security Agency for the first time ever. No decision has been made yet, but officials have drafted a list of possible civilian candidates for the post, a former administration official told The Hill last week. The current head of the NSA, Keith Alexander, a four-star Army general, plans to step down in the spring. The move could help lead to more transparency and oversight in the wake of disclosures by Edward Snowden about the scope of the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. But finding the right civilian...

As Canada Free Press Writer Judi McLeod put it, “Aloha Hawaiians! If you see what you think are soldiers from the Communist Peoples Republic of China Army wandering about in your neck of the woods Tuesday through Thursday next week, your imagination is not playing tricks on you. “For the first time in history, the U.S. Army will host the Communist Peoples Republic of China’s Army on American soil Nov. 12-14, 2013... Visit BeltwayExaminer.com to read entire article.