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PORT CLINTON, Ohio — One local school district is doing away with an old tradition: Port Clinton High School is no longer awarding a class Valedictorian. Principal Gary Steyer said they have seen this trend begin to spread in other school districts, as the old way seemed to undermine the education process by creating a competition among top tier students. "Three or four or five, maybe a year are really vying for one spot. And it became kind of this competition between them almost, and it just wasn't healthy for them," Steyer said. Nick Perry, who transferred to Port Clinton...

According to USA Today, the new gun control regulations include: • Regular firearms training. • Special permits to own semi-automatic firearms. • Serial number tracking system for key parts of guns. • Register all firearms within three years. • Keep a log of every firearm in their collection Compared to the rest of Europe, Switzerland is a lot more gun friendly. After serving in the military, veterans are allowed to keep their firearms and a large number of Swiss take part in the shooting sports.

Rep. Matt Gaetz said on Monday "compelling evidence" of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse is coming out in a matter of days or weeks. The Florida Republican was referring to the alleged existence of unreleased transcripts of recorded conversations between FBI informants and former Trump campaign associate George Papadopoulos. "I believe we are days, if not weeks, away for the most in compelling evidence in the biggest political scandal in American history," Gaetz said on Fox News. Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said on Sunday FBI withheld "game changer" transcript material about Papadopoulos from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when...

Before last month’s crash of a flight that began in Ethiopia, Boeing Co. said in a legal document that large, upgraded 737s “cannot be used at what are referred to as ‘high/hot’ airports." At an elevation of 7,657 feet -- or more than a mile high -- Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport falls into that category. High elevations require longer runways and faster speeds for takeoff. The Ethiopian airport’s altitude hasn’t been cited as a factor in the downing of Flight 302 and likely didn’t cause the crash. But it could have exacerbated the situation because an airplane’s performance degrades...

I have always cared about the vulnerable. When I was a teenager, it was animals. I would drive my mother crazy because I was always bringing home a stray dog or a cat. When I got to college, I volunteered in a state-funded daycare, where many of the children were in foster care I saw first-hand the effects of poverty, a lack of access to job education and career skills, and the growing drug epidemic. My heart was torn open. I became a court-appointed special advocate, known simply as CASA in many states, and began to advocate for children and...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said Tuesday that her experience as someone with “Midwest values” helped her bond with Jewish Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. “There are a lot of opportunities to focus on the things that unite us if you’re willing to see those opportunities,” Omar said in an interview on The Nation’s podcast “Next Left.” “I am someone who is always trying to find where the common ground with people and connect with people.” “In the case of Jan and I, just mothers who you know, are from the Midwest who represent districts from the Midwest with Midwest values. Who...

Former President Barack Obama knew his FBI director was going to "blackmail" incoming President Trump in January 2017, attorney Joe diGenova said. Last week former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted the bureau was worried that former FBI Director James Comey would appear to be “blackmailing” the president-elect at the end of a Jan. 6, 2017 briefing at Trump Tower when he divulged some of the most salacious claims in an unverified dossier about Trump's ties to Russia. Appearing on Fox News late Sunday, diGenova noted this briefing happened one day after Obama met with top officials in the Oval...

A New York City Firefighter sustained a concussion and several broken teeth Saturday after police say he was assaulted while trying to stop a group of teens from harassing an elderly couple. The 38-year-old off-duty firefighter was traveling on East 86th St. in Manhattan at around 9:25 a.m. Saturday when he noticed six teens “harassing” an elderly couple, a spokesperson with the New York City Police Department told Fox News. The man reportedly tried to intervene -- and police say that’s when one unidentified member of the group punched the firefighter “with a closed fist,” knocking him to the ground.

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, unveiled the "Back to Nature" garden she helped design at the RHS [Royal Hospital] Chelsea Flower show this weekend. The duchess' garden was created with a particular purpose -- to encourage children to play outside -- tying into the focus of her work on how important the early years of life are in childhood development and in setting the stage for a child's future. "I believe that spending time outdoors when we are young can play a role in laying the foundations for children to become happy, healthy adults,” she said, speaking ahead of the...

Vatican leaders outraged as anti-immigration politician commends Italy to Mary May 20, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic Italian politician with whom Pope Francis reportedly refuses to meet because of his immigration stance held and kissed a rosary during a political rally over the weekend and invoked the Blessed Mother, drawing criticism from some quarters and support from others. Deputy premier and interior minister Matteo Salvini also commended his country, its citizens, and himself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, something unheard of from a Catholic political leader. During a Saturday political rally attended by tens of thousands in the Piazza del...

On midnight, MAY 14, 1948, the State of Israel came into being and was immediately recognized by the United States and the Soviet Union. A homeland for the thousands of Jews who were persecuted and displaced during World War II, Israel was attacked the next day by the Transjordanian Army, the Arab Legion, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Against all odds, Israel survived. The Armistice between Israel and her enemies was negotiated by Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1947, Ralph Bunche set up a meeting between two members of UNSCOP and Menachem...

Millennials have felt more financial strain than any other generation since the Great Depression. Despite a decade of economic growth and decreasing unemployment, Americans born between 1981 and 1996 have less wealth and property, lower marriage rates, and fewer children, according to new data. “Their economic fundamentals are fundamentally different,” Christopher Kurz, an economist at the Federal Reserve, told the Wall Street Journal. Kurz and his colleagues found millennial households have an average net worth of $92,000, about 40% less than Generation X households — those born between 1965 and 1980 — in 2001 when adjusted for inflation. The millennial...

----Satire---- Full Title: Elizabeth Warren Surprises Grads By Announcing She Will Sharply Increase Their Taxes To Pay For Their Student Loans AMHERST, MA—Speaking to the graduating class of 2019 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Senator Elizabeth Warren proudly announced she would be sharply increase their taxes in order to pay for their own student loans, which were inflated by government subsidies in the first place. After an inspiring speech in which she encouraged students to let the government do everything for them instead of doing things themselves and to exploit any minority status they have, or even ones they...

On May 20th, Zelenskiy was sworn in as [Ukraine's] head of state. His political background and campaign were highly unorthodox...On the day Moscow was rocked by yet another censorship scandal, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s inspiring inaugural speech gave Russians plenty of food for thought. It must have been an affront for Putin to hear the president of the neighboring country quote a former president of our main geopolitical enemy: “The government does not solve our problems, the government is our problem!” What's more, it must be quite strange to hear Zelenskiy announce that “the president is not an icon or an idol,”...

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President Donald Trump began his Monday morning by posting a tweet thanking his favorite TV show, Fox & Friends, for a “great show this morning.” Four minutes later, the president posted another tweet congratulating a lesser-known right-wing news network — One America News Network. “Also, congratulations to @OANN on the great job you are doing and the big ratings jump (“thank you President Trump”)!” he wrote. (It’s unclear what evidence, if any, Trump has that OANN has experienced a “big ratings jump.”) OANN’s platform is nowhere near as large as Fox News — the network is available via DirecTV and...

As the flow of residents leaving the state has negatively impacted the taxes that can be extracted from these mostly well-off individuals, the government of New York is weighing options to rectify the situation. An idea gaining traction is the imposition of a “certificate of need” to determine whether each resident desiring to emigrate can demonstrate a sufficient urgency justifying the request to leave. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) averred that “we need to reconsider the notion that a resident can decide whether to leave the state without justifiable cause. We understand that the desire to avoid the high taxes we...

The European Parliament's advisory committee will look at whether Mr Farage broke rules by accepting funding from Leave campaigner Arron Banks. Nigel Farage said he did not declare the £450,000 sum to the European Parliament because he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US. The committee will examine the case before advising the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani.

THERESA May today caved in to Labour's Brexit demands as she made a last-ditch bid to save her Brexit deal and protect her legacy. The desperate PM even offered MPs the right to vote on holding a second EU referendum in a desperate gambit to avoid a fourth humiliating defeat next month.

In the aftermath of Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., calling for President Trump to be impeached over the findings in Robert Mueller’s report from the special counsel’s investigation, he is now going to be facing a primary challenger. State Rep. Jim Lower announced his candidacy on Sunday. Speaking with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday, Lower further explained why he is running against the five-term congressman. […] “You know at this point, Justin Amash has more in common with Rashida Tlaib than he does the average Republican primary voter in the district. So, we are going beat him on this issue,...