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Families confirmed identities of some of the missing Marines involved in a helicopter collision over Hawaii on Thursday. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 12 Marines who were reportedly on board two CH-53 helicopters when the aircrafts collided at 3 a.m. Thursday. The families of seven Marines released statements providing identities of the supposed helicopter passengers. One was Captain Kevin Roche, whose family released a statement hoping for his return and offering thanks for the report they received following the news. "Captain Kevin Roche is a passionate Marine who loves his family and his country - and we love...

It's worked on one opponent after another. Here's why he's met his match with Cruz. s every verbal bully can tell you, simply slathering your adversary with insult is never enough to drive him publicly, humiliatingly into the ditch. If you’re going to wound, the insults have to contain some truth—often just a seed of truth, enough to nurture injury bitter fruit. So in calling Jeb Bush low energy again and again and again and again, Donald Trump is not dishing a random taunt at his opponent.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark nuclear deal has satisfied all parties except radical extremists, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that Israel would remain vigilant to ensure that Iran was not violating its commitments. Speaking before the parliament in comments broadcast live on state television, Rouhani said, "In (implementing) the deal, all are happy except Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the U.S. The rest are happy." Rouhani said the deal has "opened new windows for engagement with the world." A strong supporter...

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in...

If The Big Short, Adam McKay’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about the 2008 financial crisis and the subject of last month’s Vulture cover story, got you all worked up over the holidays, you’re probably wondering what Michael Burry, the economic soothsayer portrayed by Christian Bale who’s always just a few steps ahead of everyone else, is up to these days. In an email, which readers of the book will recognize as his preferred method of communication, the real-life head of Scion Asset Management answered some of our panicked questions about the state of the financial system, his ominous-sounding water...

Two cowboys at Texas Tech University hilariously explain to a reporter how they saved their city from a stampede of runaway cows. When a pair of runaway cows got loose in downtown Lubbock, Texas, several cowboy members of the Texas Tech Ranch Horse Team were deployed to coral the bovine trouble makers. What happened next will make you want to move to Texas immediately. The video, which appears to have originally been broadcast in 2011 but went viral earlier this week, is 5 minutes and 39 seconds of pure hilarity. Sherrod Greeson - cowboy, hero, patriot, student - explains in...

Environmental activists got into the "presence" of the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom (CCF) at the wildlife refuge in Oregon yesterday for a confrontation. Several days ago an environmentalist tore down the sign bearing the new name of the refuge, the Harney County Resource Center. The Center for Biological Diversity came to tell the people at the refuge to leave and the people at the refuge had a message for them. When environmentalist Kieran Suckling took to the mic used by the CCF spokesman to address the media to talk about 'tangling with the Bundy's' as quoted by "Oregon Live", he...

Sen. Marco Rubio says people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally but haven't committed any major crimes could be allowed to stay. In an interview airing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," the Florida Republican contender for the presidency said felons shouldn't be allowed to stay, but those who commit lesser crimes could still qualify. He didn't specify if the people allowed to stay would ever be able to become citizens.

The latest Republican debate is now history, and by some miracle, all the candidates are united behind one goal: Defeating Hillary. In the end, however, betting on Hillary being the Democrats' nominee may not be where the smart money goes. It's true that in the past two weeks, a John Stossel piece and a separate, unattributed article The Economist, voices at opposite ends of the political spectrum, noted that the betting markets--being savvier in the aggregate than pundits--now back Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States. To be fair, Stossel's Townhall.com piece and The Economist made their...

This video was taken in Charleston South Carolina on the morning of the GOP debate. Along with RNC head Reince Priebus, Fox's Dana Perino and all of the National Republican Party Leadership were in attendance. Holland Redfield, an RNC committeeman who represents the Virgin Islands is speaking: This was the RNC meeting/convention in South Carolina prior to the debate later in the day. The membership from this entire group apparatus is who comprised the audience. Do the audience responses evident in the debate broadcast make more sense now? Heres an article from Politico: CHARLESTON, S.C. - A Republican National committeeman...

Biblical Basics about Mother Mary -- A Homily for the Second Sunday of the Year Msgr. Charles Pope January 16, 2016 In the gospel today of the wedding feast at Cana, there is a theological portrait of both Mother Mary and of prayer. Let's look at the Gospel along five lines:I. The place that Mary has - The text says, There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.A fascinating thing about these opening verses is that Mary almost seems to dominate the...

These past two weeks a most disingenuous campaign was waged by Donald Trump. Unable to master the mystery of the Iowa Caucus voter, he and his surrogates engaged in flat out dishonesty. (Not a trait becoming for a person applying for the job as public servant one.) Mr. Trump began raising the question of Senator Ted Cruz's legitimacy for office based on the same lame conspiratorial garbage that he attempted to press against Obama. And while Obama produced what no one has been able to verify as an actual birth certificate--arguing he was in fact born in America--Mr. Cruz has...

Soon, when you buy a new PC, it won't support Windows 7 or 8. Microsoft has announced a change to its support policy that lays out its plans for future updates to its older operating systems, and the new rules mean that future PC owners with next-generation Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm processors will need to use Windows 10. It's not usual for old PCs to fall short of the minimum requirements of a brand new operating system, but in this case, the opposite is happening. Microsoft and its partners will not be putting in the significant work necessary to make...

A social scientist with the University of Massachusetts conducted a study last week designed to identify trends among the supporters of the leading political candidates for the 2016 race. With respect to Trump’s supporters in particular, the study found that the main statistical variable that could be used to predict whether someone was a Trump supporter was not race, age, religion, income, or education. It is, rather, an impulse towards authoritarianism. My finding is the result of a national poll I conducted in the last five days of December under the auspices of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, sampling 1,800...

ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen will be off the air as he begins treatments for throat cancer. "More than a week ago, I was diagnosed with a Stage IV throat cancer," Mortensen said in a statement Friday. "My focus shifted significantly to gathering information about the specifics of this cancer. The initial diagnosis was confirmed Friday and there is another test remaining that will determine the best possible treatment plan that will commence in the very immediate future. "Consequently, with the support and encouragement from ESPN president John Skipper and many others at ESPN, I am temporarily stepping away...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign has released a video explaining to supporters how "easy" it is to caucus in Iowa for the candidate. "If you can write T-R-U-M-P, you have just caucused for Donald Trump, the only candidate who can make America great again," says Tana Goertz, the Iowa state co-chair for Trump’s presidential campaign. Goertz, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," reminds caucus-goers to arrive early as the night starts promptly with the Pledge of Allegiance at 7 p.m. She explains how to find your caucus location and how to register as a Republican "to vote for Donald...

The book God or Nothing, a wide-ranging interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, by the French journalist Nicolas Diat is one of the most refreshing things published in recent memory. I cannot praise this book too highly. It breathes forth the wisdom, insight, and deep faith of a truly devoted servant of the Church. It is a prophetic witness to the truth. Sarah gets to the root of what is ailing the world today, and proposes the Church's unchanging remedy: faith in God as revealed by His Son...

Yesterday, I wondered why the Bush Super PAC, Right to Rise, that cash guzzling behemoth that has blown through the GDP of a small nation, was crowdfunding a Super Bowl ad rather than just buying it outright. Was it an attempt to be young and edgy? Or is Right to Rise, as I suspect, nearly broke? A lot of other people are asking similar questions: A prominent donor to Jeb Bush pressed the chief strategist of the "super PAC" supporting Mr. Bush over the group’s negative ads about Senator Marco Rubio during a closed-door meeting in Manhattan on Friday, according...

An appeals court ruled that the owners of a farm in New York State must pay a $13,000 fine for refusing to have a same-sex wedding on their property despite their religious objection to gay marriage. The Third Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division ruled on Thursday that Cynthia and Robert Gifford engaged in unlawful discrimination when they refused to have a gay wedding performed on their property in 2012. In their ruling the New York court concluded that the Gifford's farm, which is known as Liberty Ridge Farm, fit the legal definition of a place...

Criticism Mounts Vs. Fed As Stocks, Economy BuckleOutput, Retail Sales Slide Central bank hiked rates as economy barely grew;  fallout is felt worldwide It's becoming clear that the Federal Reserve ran out of patience and pulled the trigger on the first rate hike... New data out Friday showed that retail sales fizzled...   ... factories slowed further, leading economists to mark down Q4 growth estimates. The Q1 outlook isn't a whole lot better. With oil prices and global stock markets plunging, criticism of the December rate hike is mounting. "Consumers are still keeping their purse strings tight, producers are reducing activity...