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As party elites gang up on the Texas senator chasing Trump, he's winning the money race. Ted Cruz turned his bad day in Iowa into a cash cow. The Texas senator's campaign announced it had raked more than $700,000 just on Tuesday, after he was singled out by Iowa's Republican Gov. Terry Branstad as a bad choice for the GOP and passed over by Sarah Palin, who instead announced her endorsement of real estate mogul Donald Trump. The eye-popping haul "put us over the $50 million mark for this campaign," Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler said on CNN Wednesday night. "We...

This morning, I stood in front of hundreds of Brighton College pupils in assembly and spoke about the experience of being a trans woman. In the past few days, they've found their school suddenly the focus of press interest, after headteacher Richard Cairns scrapped traditional male and female uniforms to accommodate the needs of transgender children. He made the decision to offer all pupils the option of trousers or a skirt, so that children with gender dysphoria can dress as the gender they feel they really are, rather than the one they were born into. Mr Cairns explained to me...

George W. Bush, controversial among conservatives and hated by liberals, now outpolls the Democratic Party's heir apparent for its 2016 nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton. A January poll taken by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found the former president slightly more acceptable than the future "Madame President" by 3 percentage points. The poll asked respondents to say if they have "positive feelings" or "negative feelings" about various political figures. Forty percent said they had positive feelings for Hillary, while 49 percent said their feelings about her were negative, giving Mrs. Clinton a net approval of minus-9 percent. A mere 37...

Carly Fiorina will be the only presidential candidate invited to speak at the 2016 March for Life rally because, according to the event’s president, she embodies the theme of this year’s march: “Pro-Life and Pro-Woman Go Hand-In-Hand.” “Mrs. Fiorina was asked to speak because she embodies the theme particularly well; she will speak only to the theme, not her candidacy,” Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, said in a statement to Breitbart News, during an election year in which the pro-life base of the GOP can tout many strong candidates who believe in the...

How Physics Lost Its Fizz Physics, which decades ago seemed capable of answering the deepest mysteries of existence, is now just recycling once-exciting ideas By John Horgan on January 18, 2016 For a lapsed Catholic like me, physics represented a kind of scientific theology, an empirical, rational way of probing the mysteries of existence. Physicists were discerning resonances between the smallest and largest scales of reality and spinning out astonishing conjectures about our universe and even other universes. ...snip... Physicists' fantasies about parallel and virtual realms are not just stale. Increasingly, they strike me as escapist and even irresponsible, because...

This one is not included in the HP canned answers website. Have an HP 2620, PC running XP. After PC has been booted, printer works ok for a short while. Then stops. Will not print. Will not scan. Just get a "cannot connect to printer" error message. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall. Stops, gives error message, "cannot uninstall." I have tried to reload software. Will not recognize printer, says "connect later." I try that, no go. If I reboot, runs for a little while, then stops. If I open the printer window and hit "reload" for printing, command...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump late Wednesday pinned blame for his scriptural gaffe -saying "2 Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" - on evangelical activist Tony Perkins. "Tony Perkins wrote that out for me. He actually wrote out the 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians," Trump said on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon." "I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well, Tony has to know better than anybody.'" The slip-up drew laughs from the crowd at evangelical Liberty University and led to attacks on the billionaire businessman's faith. But Trump said he has since heard from "a...

A recent special edition of TIME Magazine headlined ‘The Supreme Court Decisions That Changed America’ makes a surprising admission for the world’s most-read newsweekly: “Like abolition in the 1850s or the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, Roe v. Wade divided the U.S. into two bitterly opposed camps.” This weekend’s March for Life reflects that reality, as hundreds of thousands demonstrate on behalf of pre-born lives despite winter storm conditions in Washington, DC (a storm already dubbed #SnowVWade on social media). Roe v. Wade is the Supreme Court decision, along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, that legalized ending...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser apologized Thursday morning for the city's handling of a mild snowfall the previous night that snarled traffic. "We should have been out earlier with more resources," Bowser told reporters during a press conference, stressing that officials have been preparing for the weekend storm. In a tweet, Bowser expressed sorrow, saying "the District failed to deploy the necessary resources in response to the snow" on Thursday evening and "for that I am sorry." "We are sorry for an inadequate response," Bowser told reporters at the news conference. Residents reported major delays in their commute home as...

Experts warn that we should be prepared for more dengue in the US and around the world. ‘Hawaii is a piece of a much bigger phenomenon that’s happening globally,’ says Dr. Peter Hotez at Baylor College of Medicine. It’s peak tourism season in Hawaii, and the state’s Department of Health has issued a warning for visitors and residents: dengue fever is spreading on the Big Island. More than 150 people on Hawaii Island have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus.

One of the more bizarre things I hear about Trump, from people who support Trump, is that he attacks liberals with more gusto than anyone else in the field. It’s bizarre because every time I turn around, I hear Trump attacking a conservative Republican. On the infrequent occasions that he attacks liberals, he does so offhandedly and with little conviction. “I would love to run against Hillary because her policies are so bad” is basically all he ever says about Hillary, when he does mention her.I decided, however, that maybe I was just being fed his attacks on Republicans by...

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... Washington (CNN)Republican Party leaders and prominent senators are sharpening their knives against Ted Cruz, expressing growing alarm over his candidacy as he continues to mount a serious threat in Iowa. In interviews with CNN, a growing number of Republicans are beginning to echo remarks made by the likes of former Sen. Bob Dole and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, warning that the party would suffer deep losses down the ticket and risk electing a Democratic president if the Texas senator wins the nomination. "I think we'll lose if he's our nominee," said Orrin Hatch, the most senior Republican in the...

Russian Air Strikes in Syria Are Gradually Weakening ISIS and Rebels, Report Says Rishi Iyengar @Iyengarish Jan. 20, 2016 President Bashar Assad is gradually regaining his grip on the country Russia’s protracted aerial bombing campaign in Syria has resulted in significant setbacks for rebel insurgents as well as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria extremist group, according to a new report by Reuters. The air strikes over the past four months have resulted in Syria’s authoritarian President, and Russian ally, Bashar Assad gradually regaining his grip on the country, with government forces recapturing the northwestern town of Salma...

In a report published to the site Freedom to Tinker and presented at the recent PrivacyCon conference, researchers at Princeton University detail how they detected that Nest's popular thermostat, among other web-connected devices, was transmitting data unencrypted, so in theory, online hackers could have intercepted that private information if they were looking in the right place. However, the issue stemmed from a weather update containing location information of the home and local weather stations, Nest told Mashable. Sensitive information such as home addresses was already encrypted, but the data collected from local weather stations was not. ... When setting up...

Every January, I usually see the same faces coming to the local and national Marches for Life happening across our country. I long to see more people I don’t know participate, even people to whom I live next door. There may be a myriad of reasons why not everyone comes. You may think you don’t want to attend because that isn’t your thing—you are involved in other ministries and the pro-life stand is great, but not your battle. Or you may not come because you don’t think anything is wrong with abortion. You may not come because you aren’t a...

<p>Editor David G. Hartwell, 74, died January 20, 2016. He suffered head trauma in a fall, was hospitalized, and did not recover from a massive brain bleed. Hartwell was one of the genre’s most accomplished editors, and was equally known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the field and his memorable personal style.</p>

Jennifer Lawrence is headed to Cuba - on the big screen, that is. The 25-year-old Oscar winner has signed on to star as Fidel Castro's onetime lover in Sony Pictures' "Marita," Entertainment Weekly reports. Now 76, Marita Lorenz had an affair with Castro during the Cuban revolution in the 1950s. Lorenz became pregnant at only 19, but had an abortion before leaving Cuba. She was then recruited by the CIA to assassinate then-Prime Minister Castro. In addition, the German-born Lorenz testified about the John F. Kennedy assassination and later penned two autobiographies – "Marita: One Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Love"...

Schedule 11:45 a.m. Musical Opening Mr. Shawn Welcome; Performance Poet Ms. Caitlin Jane; Christian Music Artist 12:00 p.m. Rally 1:00 p.m. March 3:00 p.m. (approx) Listen to Silent No More testimonies outside U.S. Supreme Court 3:30 p.m. Visit your Representative or Senator to advocate for life Speakers Carly Fiorina, Pro-Life Businesswoman Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) State Senator Katrina Jackson (D-LA) Matt Birk; former Baltimore Ravens player and Super Bowl Champion Sue Ellen Browder; Author, Subverted Jim Daly; President, Focus on the Family Marjorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony List Dr. Marguerite Duane, MD; Cofounder and Executive...