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Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions said Monday the number of people implicated in radical Islamic terrorist plots in the U.S. has jumped to 113, and they said it’s yet another reason to impose tighter immigration controls.The senators have been trying to pry loose from the administration the immigration histories of those individuals, saying the public has a right to know how each of them entered the U.S. and what level of scrutiny they got.The two also added 41 new names to their list Monday, including the two Iraqi refugees who were arrested last week on terrorism-related charges.“We have now...

About six months after toddler Lonzie Barton went missing, family now says his body has been found.

'AN ORGANIST has paid a moving tribute to David Bowie by playing one of the singer’s greatest hits on the organ at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Gordon Wilson posted a two-and-a-half minute clip on his Facebook page of the musician performing a beautiful rendition of Life on Mars at the Glasgow museum. Facebook users praised the touching tribute to Bowie, who passed away this morning after his 18-month battle with cancer.'

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- One of the most powerful computers in the world dedicated to climate change, weather and other earth science research will be replaced in 2017 by an even faster machine, officials announced Monday. The Yellowstone supercomputer in Wyoming currently ranks among the 60 fastest in the world. The new supercomputer, to be named Cheyenne, will be at least 2 1/2 times more powerful, the National Center for Atmospheric Research said. Capable of 5.3 quadrillion calculations, or petaflops, per second, Cheyenne will be some 100,000 times faster than a typical home computer. The speed provides unprecedented detail in climate-change...

In the segment, host Jake Tapper played an audio clip from a robocall making the rounds in Iowa from a white nationalist group that supports Trump but has no official connection to him. Tapper asked for comments, and Jones responded: “It will be denounced. It should be denounced. But this is troubling. If I were Trump, is it time to look in the mirror? Who am I inspiring? Who am I attracting? Why will horrible racist groups say the I’m the only candidate that speaks for them? My deep concern is that Donald Trump is beginning to legitimate some of...

It is far from clear why senior Obama administration officials told The Wall Street Journal that under President Barack Obama, the National Security Agency has been aggressively spying not only on Israeli officials but on US citizens and lawmakers who communicate with Israeli officials. Perhaps they were trying to make Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look like a fool. After all, the article concludes that the NSA intercepts of these communications "revealed one surprise." "Mr. Netanyahu and some of his allies voiced confidence they could win enough votes" in Congress to scuttle Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. Ha ha. What dummies!...

White fought for her life and for the life of her unborn baby, she said. "She tried to make it," Dixon said. "She lost too much blood." In the wake of the deadly robbery, she said many in the community are lashing out at Raven's friend and father of her baby. "I wish they would just leave him alone," she said, adding that he did all that he could to save her. Dixon said the 18-year-old was no longer Raven's boyfriend, but they had a relationship for the sake of their baby. He and Raven would meet to talk when...

They could not have pulled it off so behind-the-scenes easily were it not for Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State at the time it went down as noiselessly as the Titanic Hillary Clinton’s country of birth is not under the microscope of the ‘birthers’, and most tragically, nor is Canada, the country of the birth of her Clinton Foundation mega millions. 2016 Democrat hopeful Clinton was not, like the currently beleaguered Senator Ted Cruz, born in Canada, but it is documented fact that the Clinton Foundation was both born and nurtured to maturity in the Land of the Maple Leaf....

George Jonas and David Bowie died yesterday. They both wrote lyrics, Jonas somewhat less profitably than Bowie. Other than that, they didn't have much in common. I will miss George very much. He was Canada's greatest public intellectual, and I was honored to share the pages of The National Post with him. I'll have more to say later, but there's a modest tribute from me as part of Joseph Brean's story in today's Post:His columns were memorable in many cases for a single aphorism. Politicians who seek high office, for example, should be disqualified for being stupid enough to think...

Muslim activists who oppose Israel and Zionism oppose Donald Trump because they know that Trump will actively work against their agenda. Trump is the strongest Republican candidate for Israel. Trump is the candidate Islamofascists and Muslim radical activists fear the most. "Rose Hamid, an Islamic protester who made headlines when she was removed from a Donald Trump rally in South Carolina Friday night and attempted to position herself as a victim of 'Islamophobia' thereafter, has a history rife with extremist advocacy." ... "It must be said, that Hamid was asked as she entered the rally if she was there to...

i am using a borrowed laptop, an hp pavilion g7-1310us Notebook PC, running Windows 7. Last night the screen went black. i have no idea why. powering off and rebooting did nothing. i am thinking there must be some button or command that will turn the screen on. thanks in advance for help. p.s., HELPFUL comments welcome.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: TRUMP’S LEAD GROWS Cruz, Kasich, Rubio in second tier as Carson fades West Long Branch, NJ – Donald Trump has increased his already sizable lead in the New Hampshire Republican primary while three candidates battle for second place according to the latest Monmouth University Poll. Only 1-in-3 voters have completely locked in their vote choice, while 1-in-4 are still very much up for grabs. Another 4-in-10 voters have a strong candidate preference but are willing to keep their options open. About 1-in-3 (32%) likely GOP primary voters in New Hampshire currently back Donald Trump for the presidential nomination,...

U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Richardson, is throwing his support behind Ted Cruz for president, giving the U.S. senator from Texas the seventh congressional endorsement from his home state. "It is time. We need a real conservative in the White House who is a man of principle that can help get this country back on track," Johnson said in a statement provided Monday afternoon by the Cruz campaign. "America needs leadership, and Ted Cruz has consistently stood up and led the fight for conservative principles like defunding Obamacare, stopping President Obama’s lawless executive action, and defending life and marriage," Johnson added. "During this time...

our years ago, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her advisers to clandestinely foment unrest among Arabs in Judea and Samaria, in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table. The revelation arises from emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server..... Another Clinton confidant, Anne Marie Slaughter, sent an email to Clinton staffers recommending that they undertake a “Pledge for Palestine” campaign to convince US millionaires and billionaires to donate significant portions of their wealth to the Palestinian cause.

In an Internet of Things future, everything from your toothbrush to your car could be collecting data on you -- about your personal habits as well as the way your business works. But with 50 billion objects set to come online by 2020, who will really own that goldmine of information? Data gathered by IoT sensors and systems can pass through any number of hands -- those of the end-user that creates it, or of the company whose hardware collects it, even the software business the processes it, and the app maker that shares it, and all of them may...

Four years ago, then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her advisers to clandestinely foment unrest among Arabs in Judea and Samaria, in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table. The revelation arises from emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server. The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday that in a December 18, 2011, email, former US ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider restarting peace negotiations by stirring up Palestinian demonstrations against Israel. Pickering described the idea as a potential “game changer...

So you’ve obviously heard about solvent traps and you want to make sure they are legal. Well here’s the good news, they are 100% legal…with conditions. A solvent trap is just that, a device that allows one to attach a canister, fuel filter, oil filter, etc, to the end of a weapon to catch the solvent that comes out the end of the barrel when cleaning. These devices also catch patches that are run through the barrel as well as the nasty “sneeze” of solvent that flicks off the copper bore brush when coming out the end of the barrel....

About 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they would buck the party and vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a general election, according to a new poll. The willingness of some Democrats to change sides could be a major problem for Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton this fall. The new figures were released by Mercury Analytics, a research company with clients that include MSNBC and Fox News, as the result of an online poll and dial-test of Trump's first campaign ad. A smaller number of Republicans say they’d vote for Clinton - about 14 percent. Ron Howard, the...

On January 6, Arizona's governor Doug Ducey announced that he was appointing Clint Bolick to a vacancy on the state's supreme court. I think this is a splendid development, but it also has statists in a tizzy. Bolick, you see, is not your typical Republican judicial appointment. Bolick graduated from law school (UC-Davis) in 1982 and soon took a job with Mountain States Legal Foundation. But he did not stay long because he found it to be more interested in protecting business interests than advancing economic liberty for all. In 1991, he co-founded the Institute for Justice with William Mellor...