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A controversial US preacher has become the first person to be banned from Ireland under a 20-year-old power. Steven Anderson, a pastor from Arizona, runs the Faithful Word Baptist church and openly expresses anti-gay and anti-Semitic views. His website claimed that he was due to preach in Dublin on 26 May. However, an online petition calling for Mr Anderson to be banned from Ireland was created in response, and gained 14,000 signatures. Mr Anderson has previously called for the death of former US President Barack Obama and praised the gunman who killed 49 people in an attack on a gay...

Stocks fell sharply on Monday, giving back the gains from a strong turnaround in the previous session, after China decided to raise tariffs on some U.S. goods as the ongoing trade war between the worldÂ’s largest economies intensifies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded down 490 points, while a 2.8% drop in the tech sector pushed the S&P 500 down by 1.9%. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.6%. China will hike tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, starting on June 1. The goods targeted include a broad range of agricultural products. This comes after President Donald Trump raised tariffs...

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for inviting a “radical imam” to speak before Congress. “On Thursday, the noon prayer was given by an imam from Texas who has a long history of, not just supporting BDS, but comparing Israel to the Nazis, accusing Israel of being a terror regime, calling for a Palestinian intifada in the past and inciting violence, supporting the Muslim brotherhood and the list goes on,” Zeldin said Sunday on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York. “I think it is outrageous that Speaker Pelosi on this day, on Thursday, chose...

The NYPD accident report indicates the boiler truck was making a legal left turn onto Fifth Ave. when the mayor’s SUV crashed into it. The Department’s FOIL unit said it would take a minimum of four months to produce the four-page accident report. The Department then reversed course and provided the report.

A bikini model claimed her good looks are to blame for her single status on This Morning today. Mother-of-two Jenna Thompson, who has a five and one-year-old, split with ex two years ago and since then has told how dating has been a bit of a disaster. 'I think I intimidate nice guys,' she explained to presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield. 'I seem to attract guys who are only after one thing. People who think they’ll have a go and just want hook ups. No one is looking for anyone that serious.'

On May 3, a group of “firsts” — barrier-breakers in the Colorado law community — gathered at the Colorado History Museum to honor the appointment of Neeti Pawar, the first Asian-American woman to sit on an appellate court bench in the state’s history. Among the trailblazers in the room that day was Judge Wiley Y. Daniel, the first African-American judge to be appointed to the federal bench in Colorado, nearly 25 years ago. The room — a mix of Latino, Asian and African-American judges who reached the pinnacle of their professions — was a testament to the diversity in law...

Key Points The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 against Apple in a case involving its signature electronic marketplace, the App Store, allowing iPhone users to move forward with their suit against the company. The iPhone users argued that Apple’s 30% commission on sales through the App Store was passed along to consumers, an unfair use of monopoly power. Apple argued that only app developers, and not users, should be able to bring such a lawsuit. “Apple’s line-drawing does not make a lot of sense, other than as a way to gerrymander Apple out of this and similar lawsuits,” Justice...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Louie Gohmert. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Louie Gohmert is a congressman from East Texas who has stood up for the US Constitution as a member of the Freedom CaucusAll hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares...

The Evidence that Pope Francis is a Modernist Heretic At the Irving Convention Center in Texas on 2013, Pope Francis's closest adviser and collaborator Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga apparently declared himself a Modernist or at the very least at a Neo-Modernist and appeared to claim that Modernism to some extent was Francis's agenda and the "dreams of 'the next Pope": "The Second Vatican Council... meant an end to the hostilities between the Church and Modernism... Modernism was, most of the time, a reaction against injustices and abuses that disparaged the dignity and rights of the person." (Whispers in the...

It’s been a rough six weeks.   In a short span of time, I fired my literary agent, shattered my wrist ice skating at 20 mph (laugh it up, fuzzball, to quote the great Han Solo; I even played hockey and skate very well), finally lost my CAA agent after our producer for our movie deal took a job last fall with Sylvester Stallone, and had my lung damage issue flare up to delay my wrist surgery.  My life was a really bad country song.  Fortunately, my dog still loved me, and the surgery, when I finally had it, was...

Today’s Cryptogram LCICTF OY L YWDVFX YUKOFN ESWF WHWKQ AWLR OY L RAVEWK. ---LAPWKI DLTCY Today’s CG is courtesy of the Arkansas Gazette. You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications, unfortunately they are copyrighted so we can't use them here. So, we're just going to make up our own. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be...

The actress, who has died aged 97, worked with the greats of Hollywood’s golden era and rivalled the crossover success of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley The face of Doris Day, eerily beautiful in all its buttery-blond wholesomeness, beamed over Hollywood in the 50s and early 60s like a gigantic roadside billboard advertising the American way. In that extraordinary period of white America’s postwar prosperity and patriotism, Doris Day was the biggest box office and recording star in the US: easily equalling the music-movie crossover success of alpha males such as Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, although somehow without being...

In December 2018, the New York law firm Paul, Weiss announced its latest class of partners. A scandal erupted: all 12 of the newly promoted lawyers were white, the photo accompanying the announcement revealed. The New York Times published a front-page hit job on the firm headlined: 12 WHITE FACES REFLECT BLIND SPOT IN BIG LAW. ... So why are there not more black partners? The same reasons that there are not more black computer engineers or physicians: the academic skills gap and counterproductive racial preferences. Blacks are hired as summer law interns and first-year associates at rates well above...

Once again, on this morning's New Day, co-host John Berman has offered up a steaming serving of anti-Trump liberalism. The subject was Lindsey Graham's suggestion on Fox News yesterday that Donald Trump Jr. needn't comply with a Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena to provide additional testimony. It's somehow scandalous to suggest there's no collusion, so why is this subpoena necessary? Berman suggested to John Avlon, a CNN analyst and former editor-in-chief of the lefty Daily Beast, that Graham has gone "from wingman to wingnut." Most telling was that Berman prefaced his quip by assuring Avlon, "you'll like this one." Berman was...

“Looking back on my solo travel days (in the early 1990s), I was really lucky and very naive,” she writes. “I gave entirely too much information about myself to complete strangers. … I was way too trusting and not plugged into my surroundings.” Times have changed, she writes. “Back then I didn’t feel I had to be switched on, with my radar scanning at all times, when I was by myself. However, it’s no longer an option NOT to take proactive measures to keep yourself safe.” Producing the 2006 documentary “Terror in American Schools: Are Your Kids Safe?” prompted her...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is denying allegations that he helped thieves steal thousands of dollars in merchandise, including a 400-pound crystal, from a yoga studio in southern California. According to The Associated Press, Ali Shah, the owner of Vibes Hot Yoga in Newport Beach, claims that Rodman and three others came into the studio last week and "worked together to distract an employee" as they stole the massive amethyst crystal and clothing. TMZ shared surveillance footage from the store that appears to show a man attempting to pick up the geode, which fell to the...

Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation. Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to request documents related to a meeting between Steele and Deputy...

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Watching, listening to media this morning, I find it HILARIOUS that the journalists who have ignored, by and large, the post-2016 election skyrocketing stock market and RECORD low unemployment. This morning, "news" is trying to frighten me with the Dow Jones dip. Anyone else notice the same thing?

Now that President Trump has been exonerated of the false accusations of collusion and obstruction, it is time to investigate the investigators. The White House has justly praised the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation for clearing the president of the odious charges that have hung over his presidency since even before his inauguration. The Mueller report overall was favorable to the president, but it also should be remembered as the Mueller special counsel’s final abuse of power. There were nearly 200 pages of irrelevancies about Russia collusion, but it couldn’t disguise the fact that all of those alleged...