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Kathy Griffin has completely shaved her head in solidarity with her sister, who is battling cancer. Photos of the comedian's freshly shaved head began circulating on social media on Monday.

Stuart Varney interviews Economist John Lott who says optimism over tax reform is boosting the markets.

The White House is considering offering a communications job to a former top Fox News exec who was forced out after lawsuits accused him of ignoring charges of racial and sexual harassment, a new report said Tuesday. Bill Shine, a one-time co-president with Fox who was close to the late Roger Ailes, the network’s founder, has spoken to Team Trump about signing on, The New York Times reported.

RICHLAND COUNTY, SC A Richland County sheriff’s deputy killed himself using his service weapon in his cruiser while on duty Friday afternoon, Sheriff Leon Lott announced Monday. Senior Deputy Derek Fish, 28, shot himself with his department-issued gun in his patrol car Friday, Lott said. After finishing his shift, the deputy drove his patrol car back to Region 3 headquarters on Bishop Avenue and parked behind the building, where he is believed to have shot himself between 6:30 and 8 p.m. Another deputy found him. “We’re all struggling to try to understand why, and we don’t have an answer,” Lott...

Wheeler's lawsuit claims he was falsely quoted as a source for a story on Seth Rich. All of the claims Wheeler denied making in the lawsuit are on this tape apparently (verify for yourself). Full tape being released later today. Some other claims I hadn't heard in other places.

A word of caution for folks planning a family-friendly vacation to New York City -- we've been overrun by a horde of naked street performers. The New York Post reports topless females and filthy costumed characters have turned Times Square into a haven for seedy shakedown artists. The bare-naked broads are lewd and crude -- harassing unsuspecting tourists -- especially families. "I told you, if you don't have a tip, then f*** off," one woman told a New York Post reporter.

Donald Trump loves a good deal. And the United States Air Force just found one for the president, sitting in a Mojave Desert boneyard: two brand new Boeing 747-8's, the very same planes that the military plans to convert into the next Air Force One aircraft. These two have an interesting origin story, too. The two 747-8’s were originally ordered by Transaero, a Russian airline that went bankrupt and couldn’t pay for them. Aeroflot, the company that acquired Transaero and Russia’s largest airline, absorbed much of the bankrupt company’s fleet but never took ownership of the 747-8’s, which carry a...

Scientists at Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute have found a mechanism by which the brain coordinates feeding with energy expenditure, solving a puzzle that has previously eluded researchers and offering a potential novel target for the treatment of obesity. Obesity - a major risk factor for many diseases including cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease and several cancers - is at epidemic levels in Australia. Researchers from the Metabolic Disease and Obesity Program have shown in laboratory models that feeding controls the 'browning' of fat, that is, the conversion of white fat, which stores energy, into brown fat, which...

AMMAN, Jordan -- The lower house of Jordan's parliament on Tuesday scrapped a provision in the kingdom's penal code that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim. Cheers erupted from the spectators' gallery as legislators narrowly voted for repeal, following an emotional debate. Despite the country's pro-Western political orientation and cosmopolitan urban elites, many areas of Jordan remain socially conservative, with entrenched notions of "family honor." This includes the belief that having a rape victim in the family is shameful, and that such "shame" can be expunged through marriage. Earlier this week, parliament took another step...

Let's see how quickly the brain-trust can extricate the creep.

VideoJudge Napaliono (sp?) has info on AWAN selling info to Foreign powers....

The Seattle Mayor’s office coordinated with a Cal Berkeley economist to manipulate a study on the effects of a $15 minimum wage for maximum political benefit, according to emails obtained by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI). A staffer for Democratic Mayor Ed Murray reached out to the Cal Berkeley economics department asking them to rush the release of a study, released in June, that cast a positive light on Seattle’s increased minimum wage ordinance. The Berkeley study’s findings contradicted those of a then forthcoming University of Washington (UW) study, which found that Seattle’s increased minimum wage had cost low-skill workers $179 per month and hurt employment numbers. Murray’s...

This is Vlad. Vlad is sad. Vlad is mad. Vlad is mad because he's been had. Hillary was supposed to win. Egad. Wait, what? 755 US diplomats have been ordered to leave Russia: Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin said 755 US diplomats must leave Russia and warned ties with Washington could be gridlocked for a long time, in a move Sunday that followed tough new American sanctions.The Russian foreign ministry had earlier demanded Washington cut its diplomatic presence in Russia by September to 455 -- the same number Moscow has in the US."More than a thousand people were working...

<p>A Pennsylvania school district will allow students to use restrooms corresponding to their "consistently and uniformly asserted gender identity" in settling a federal lawsuit brought last year by three transgender students.</p> <p>Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund announced the settlement Tuesday in Pittsburgh.</p>

Congress is advancing an investigation into a growing scandal surrounding IT staffers working for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who are accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from House lawmakers' offices, according to senior congressional sources who told the Washington Free Beacon the Democratic leader's refusal to answer questions could "merit resignation."

In the latest chapter in the ongoing crusade against manmade global warming, alarmists have blamed climate change for the creation of “ghost forests” along the U.S. Atlantic seaboard. “I think ghost forests are the most obvious indicator of climate change anywhere on the Eastern coast of the U.S.,” said Matthew Kirwan, a professor at Virginia Institute of Marine Science who studies ghost forests. “It was dry, usable land 50 years ago; now it’s marshes with dead stumps and dead trees.” Although the process has “occurred naturally for thousands of years,” some say it has accelerated in recent decades due to...

Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) said there will be no litmus tests for candidates as Democrats seek to find a winning roster to regain the House majority in 2018. “There is not a litmus test for Democratic candidates,” said Luján, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman. “As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America.” In taking the position, Luján and Democrats risk alienating liberals, as well as groups dedicated to promoting access to abortion and reproductive health services that represent the...

One America News has obtained new information shedding light on the Seth Rich murder investigation.,and allegedly debunking the Trump administration’s purported ties to Russia. Today OAN spoke with Ed Butowksy who was named in a new lawsuit along with Fox News. The suit was filed by long-time paid Fox news contributor and private investigator Rod Wheeler. Wheeler claims he was misquoted by Fox News, but Butowsky says that’s not true.

The Justice Department began calling illegal immigrants "illegal aliens," breaking from the Obama-era language of "undocumented," "unauthorized," or "migrants." The change came last month in a press release announcing Attorney General Jeff Sessions' meeting with the families of victims of crimes by illegal immigrants. This week an official statement heralding tougher rules for sanctuary cities also used the term. "So-called 'sanctuary' policies make all of us less safe because they intentionally undermine our laws and protect illegal aliens who have committed crimes," the document read. Some were outraged at the language switch, noting that "word choice is important," as Chicago...

When the tweeter-in-chief castigated Senate Republicans as “total quitters” for failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, they showed zombie-like relentlessness in their determination to take health care away from millions of Americans. So where did this zombie horde come from? Who ate Republicans’ brains? When they finally got their chance at repeal, the contrast between what they had promised and their actual proposals produced widespread and justified public revulsion. Given this history, the Republican health care disaster was entirely predictable. You can’t expect good or even coherent policy proposals from a...