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COLUMBIA, SC A man who police believe is responsible for setting fires at two houses owned by Gov. Henry McMaster Tuesday morning attempted to set a third one, according to Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook. The third fire, however, did not take, Holbrook said. It was unclear if the third house was owned by McMaster. Police detained the man, who has not been identified, in connection with the fires near the University of South Carolina campus Tuesday morning. All three homes were on or near Greene Street between Five Points and the campus. Columbia police and SLED investigators were still...

Archbishop of Colombo Reportedly Accuses US, Daesh of Creating Conflicts The archbishop’s criticism of the US and Daesh comes almost three weeks after several cities of Sri Lanka – Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa — were rocked by serial bomb blasts on Easter Sunday (21 April). About 253 people were killed in the explosions that severely damaged three prominent churches and an equal number of up-market hotels. New Delhi (Sputnik): Countries like the US and terror groups like Daesh* are both creating disharmony and conflicts to achieve their respective selfish objectives to gain control of territory, Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has said, according to a report...

The deepest layers of carbon-14 dated ice found in the Col du Dôme of the Mont Blanc glacier in the French Alps provide a record of atmospheric conditions in the ancient Roman era. Published in Geophysical Research Letters, the study, led by an international team and coordinated by a CNRS scientist at the Institute for Geosciences and Environmental Research (IGE)(CNRS/IRD/UGA/Grenoble INP)*, reveals significant atmospheric pollution from heavy metals: the presence of lead and antimony (detected in ancient alpine ice for the first time here) is linked to mining activity and lead and silver production by the ancient Romans, well before...

Wu Shichun is one of countless Chinese entrepreneurs who over the past four decades have prospered from access to American customers and money. Today, as the American government threatens to take that away, the serial entrepreneur and venture capital investor is fundamentally rethinking how he does business. One of his portfolio companies designs and makes fashion products in China, then sells to American consumers on Amazon.com. Another, a vape device maker, sells most of its products in the United States. The third, which makes metal materials for electronic manufacturers, exports 40 percent of its production there. All three would be...

Sen. Mitt Romney is pushing legislation to raise the federal legal age to buy tobacco to 21, an effort backed by the tobacco industry and that health advocates hope will curtail younger Americans from smoking. Romney, a Utah Republican, said the bill was the first step in addressing an avoidable health crisis of young Americans taking up e-cigarettes as well as traditional tobacco products. The legislation would raise the age to buy any tobacco product to 21 as well as allow the Health and Human Services Department to conduct undercover compliance checks, retail inspections and enforce the law with fines.

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) voted against one of President Trump’s judicial picks Tuesday over past controversial comments the judge made about former President Barack Obama. Romney, who faced off against Obama in the 2012 presidential race, cast the lone GOP “no” vote against Judge Michael Truncale, who was ultimately confirmed to the Eastern District of Texas by a 49-46 margin. Truncale raised eyebrows in 2011 when he called Obama an “un-American imposter.” He later told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was “merely expressing frustration by what I perceived as a lack of overt patriotism on behalf of President Obama,”...

Abrupt climate change some 8,000 years ago led to a dramatic decline in early South American populations, suggests new UCL research. The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to demonstrate how widespread the decline was and the scale at which population decline took place 8,000 to 6,000 years ago. "Archaeologists working in South America have broadly known that some 8,200 years ago, inhabited sites in various places across the continent were suddenly abandoned. In our study we wanted to connect the dots between disparate records that span the Northern Andes, through the Amazon, to the southern tip of...

The father of the alleged juvenile transgender STEM School shooter is reportedly an illegal alien and serial felon, jailed for domestic violence and deported twice back to Mexico. According to the Daily Mail, Jose Evis Quintana, 33, father of Maya McKinney, 16, was jailed for 15 months for domestic violence against Maya’s mother, Morgan Lynn McKinney, and for “menacing with a weapon.” Maya, who uses the name “Alec,” is “transitioning” from female to male. She allegedly conducted the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Denver, Colorado, with Devon Erickson, 18. The shooting left one student dead and eight others...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. and the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee reached a deal on Tuesday for the president’s eldest son to sit for a private interview with senators in the coming weeks that will be limited in time, an accord that should cool a heated intraparty standoff.

The Arkansas Math and Science School held a school board meeting Monday, May 13 at 5 p.m. Several issues involving leftist administrators bullying students over political beliefs were talked about. Later on, a student admitted to a sexual assault . The ARMSA is administered by the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, an organization know for leftist practices. [sexual assault at arkansas math and science school] https://youtu.be/hl0s2dtIe7k [Lynn Ross reads a statement from daughter on political slandering, No naming rule] [Amy Freeman reads letter from "Bubba" Driver, stupid name rule ended Ashante mentioned ]

A 70-year-old Oklahoma man has been arrested after he allegedly drove across three states with his dead wife's corpse sitting in the passenger seat....Rodney and Linda had been married since 2011 and were in the middle of a divorce.

RUSH: Seattle and this is Pete. Great to have you, Pete. How are you? CALLER: I am fine, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you. RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. CALLER: The sin that those four fellows committed was not being swamp dwellers. They were probably — RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hang on. He's talking about the four people that were innocent that were kept in jail by Mueller so as to protect Whitey Bulger's informant status. Okay. These four, they were not swamp dwellers, you're saying. CALLER: So in that case, Mueller's crime was...

A series of tracks created roughly 14,000 years ago has revealed stunning new insight into the ways ancient humans explored dark, potentially treacherous cave systems during the Stone Age. Researchers say at least 180 hand and footprints line the clay-rich floor of Italy’s cave of Bàsura in the famous Toirano caves, indicating ancient humans crawled barelegged through low tunnels as they searched for food and even explored for fun. The group that left behind these tracks thousands of years ago included a total of five individuals, from adults to children as young as 3 years old, who navigated the dark...

JBLT1ZO65 Published on Aug 6, 2011 He starts the car at the 2:15 markhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4RWHGAttE

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s comments Monday that Donald Trump Jr., should “plead the Fifth” during a testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee have sparked a social media campaign calling for the South Carolina Republican’s resignation. The hashtag “LindseyGrahamResign” trended on Twitter Tuesday after Graham told reporters Trump Jr.’s lawyer would “have to be an idiot” to permit the president’s eldest son to testify, adding that Trump Jr. should “just show up and plead the Fifth and it’s over with.” “This whole thing is nuts,” said Graham, who serves as the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman. “To me, it’s over.” On Sunday, Graham...

The "bulldog" prosecutor assigned by Attorney General William Barr to examine the origins of the Russia probe, has already been investigating the case "for weeks," according to new reports.As Neon Nettle previously reported, AG Barr picked top US Attorney John Durham to determine if the government’s practices while collecting intelligence concerning the 2016 Trump campaign were “lawful and appropriate.”Since it was revealed that Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, would conduct the inquiry into alleged misconduct and whether Democrats were the ones who improperly colluded with foreign actors, a source told Fox News that the relentless prosecutor started the investigation...

U.S. Attorney General William Barr is working with top intelligence officials and a senior federal prosecutor on at least the third inquiry to date into the origins of the Mueller probe of President Donald Trump and Russian election meddling, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.Barr has named U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham to examine whether the FBI erred in seeking a special federal court warrant to conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, said the person. In addition, Barr is personally working with FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of...

Grace Elisabeth Ziesmer of Fullerton was charged with two counts of graffiti and one count of vandalism under $400, all misdemeanors, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. The posters included swastikas and SS mottos. However, Ziesmer was not charged with a hate crime because it was unclear if she had directed her posters at a particular person or persons for being Jewish, prosecutors said. Ziesmer put up the posters around Fullerton College on March 4 and then around Newport Harbor High on March 11, the DA’s office says. At the time, the principal of Newport Harbor reported that...

As his limo carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: "Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs." The story began: "National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump's repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill." A free trade evangelical, Kudlow had conceded on Fox News that consumers pay the tariffs on products made abroad that they purchase here in the U.S. Yet that is by no means the...