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The glaciers are melting, the coral reefs are dying, Miami Beach is slowly going under. Quick, says a voice in your head, go see them before they disappear! You are evil, says another voice. For you are hastening their destruction. To a lot of people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times. Something that seemed like pure escape and adventure has become double-edged, harmful, the epitome of selfish consumption. Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change. One seat on a flight from New York...

Both Republican and Democratic politicians want government to "do more" to give parents paid time off. "This is not a women's issue. It's a family issue," says Ivanka Trump. "(E)very worker in America should be guaranteed at least 12 weeks," says Sen. Bernie Sanders. "That's a very arbitrary number! Why not 14 weeks? Why not 26 weeks?" asks Independent Women's Forum analyst Patrice Onwuka. She opposes Sanders' plan, saying government one-size-fits-all policies don't meet most parents' needs. When Onwuka had a baby, IWF gave her six weeks off with pay. She wanted more time off, so she supplemented her maternity...

President Trump on Wednesday morning is scheduled to participate in an event marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day. The event, in Portsmouth, U.K., is scheduled to begin at 6:15 a.m. D-Day 75th Anniversary

The more things change, well, the more they . . . So it is with the perpetual German resentments of the U.S. Recently German chancellor Angela Merkel reminded us of that German fixation, when she made some astounding statements to the German media that revealed what many Americans had long ago surmised. Merkel all but announced that Germany, or for that matter Europe itself, is no longer really an ally of the United States: “There is no doubt that Europe needs to reposition itself in a changed world. . . . The old certainties of the post-war order no longer...

This week, celebrities emerged from their Hollywood cocoon to sound off on abortion law ... in Georgia. If this sounds bizarre, that's because it is: The people of Georgia don't spend an awful lot of time trying to control the policies of New York or California. Yet the greatest and most moral among us -- people who read lines for a living and look attractive for magazine covers -- now lecture people thousands of miles away on the necessity of late-term abortion. Netflix led the charge, announcing that it might cease filming in the state of Georgia should the state...

A federal judge has issued a restraining order preventing Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond...... Charges against the sheriff's deputy guarding the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida when the mass murder attack took place on February 14th, 2018...... Four are dead and one injured in shootings at multiple locations in Northern Australia at the port city of Darwin..... The offices of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney raided Wednesday by federal police probing news reports about unlawful killing and misconduct allegations against Australian special forces in Afghanistan..... Australian Federal Police also raided the home of a News...

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As we review the reporting of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s progress in his first 100 days in charge of the Golden State, much of it focuses on his continuation of criticism of the White House, his attention grabbing authoritarian repeal of the death penalty and his headlines of international diplomacy to Central America. Newsom’s theatrics make for great national television morning show content and social media click-bait. I think part of his motivation and political strategy is to divert valuable air away from Democratic presidential primary candidates, so that after the president wins reelection in 2020, Newsom is well-positioned for a...

President Donald Trump’s UK State Visit has prompted a ring of steel has been put in place outside the US Ambassador's residence in Regent's Park in London, with cops implementing strict safety measures. The President will also enjoy the protection of state-of-the-art security equipment and staff. An eight-foot-high temporary steel mesh fence has been placed on the road between Winfield House and London's Central Mosque…

The unannounced visit to Turkey of the chief of the Russian National Guard — an internal security establishment also known as Vladimir Putin’s personal army — will undoubtedly be given hard scrutiny by Western capitals amid increasing criticism of Turkey’s drift away from its NATO allies. Viktor Zolotov, the head of the Russian National Guard, Rosgvardiya, a security unit that oversees anti-riot police and SWAT teams, paid a surprise visit to the capital, Ankara, from May 13-18 with a “heavily loaded” agenda, Turkish security sources told Al-Monitor. Although his Russian delegation's carefully crafted schedule didn't include any direct contact with...

FULL TITLE: Call yourselves eco-warriors? Anti-trump activists leave behind a mountain of litter after listening to ranting Corbyn blast Trump and lecture him about the environment Anti-Trump protesters have left behind swathes of litter after listening to Jeremy Corbyn slam the President for his stance on the environment. Pictures from around Trafalgar Square and Parliament show discarded plaques and banners which have been left dumped on the floor. It came after only around a few tens of thousands turned up to march against Trump and hear Jeremy Corbyn deliver a tirade against the President. Organisers admitted that the total turnout...

Over the next two days, the 75th anniversary of D-Day will be marked with solemn salutes for the undaunted courage of individual soldiers and sailors and the inspired leadership that assembled the armada that liberated Europe. President Trump will take part in ceremonies in England and then in Normandy, France, where the German bunkers, bomb craters and the vast American cemetery stand in silent testament to the great alliance that came ashore and defeated Hitler. Indeed it was great, perhaps the greatest wartime alliance in history, but could it be done again? If, God forbid, another Hitler were carving up...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is one of the oldest candidates ever to run for president, but in 1972, he repeatedly attacked his opponent's age in order to be elected as the Delaware senator, a report found Monday. Long before the 76-year-old launched his third bid for the presidency, a 29-year-old Biden was running for Senate against the two-term incumbent, 62-year-old Sen. Cale Boggs, R-Md. And, his campaign made his youthfulness prominent in print ads. "Cale Boggs' generation dreamed of conquering polio. Joe Biden's generation dreams of conquering heroin... [Biden] understands what's happening today," one ad read as reported by...

DOJ reveals Dems acknowledged Barr subpoena was 'overbroad'; Nadler fires back, offers to meet 'without conditions' Hours after the Department of Justice (DOJ) slammed House Democrats for planning a contempt vote against Attorney General Bill Barr -- and charged that Democrats had privately admitted their subpoena requests were "overbroad" -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced late Tuesday that he is open to negotiating with the DOJ "without conditions." The remarkable turn of events reopened the possibility that Barr's contempt vote may be postponed or canceled, if both sides return to the negotiating table. Nadler, however, pointedly refused to...

President Trump sat down with Piers Morgan for ITV's "Good Morning Britain" and clarified controversial comments last week about Meghan Markle. Trump said he wasn't calling Markle nasty, but rather was just surprised to hear her comments about him, including her assertion that if he became president it would force Americans to relocate to Canada. "I wasn’t referring to 'she’s nasty.' I said she was nasty about me. And essentially I didn’t know she was nasty about me," Trump told Morgan in the interview, set to air on Wednesday.

The Trump administration is planning a large-scale deportation operation that would include migrant families who did not show up in court to learn their asylum claims had been denied and they had been ordered deported. Mark Morgan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Tuesday told reporters the agency is moving forward on a strategy it hopes will "disincentive" those who are not in fear for their lives and might claim asylum after illegally crossing in order to get into the U.S. and avoid immediate deportation. "We have no choice as I see this," said Morgan. "We need to...

San Francisco officials decided Tuesday to force some people with serious mental illness and drug addiction into treatment, even if it goes against the spirit of a city known for its fierce protection of civil rights. Several members of the Board of Supervisors voiced deep concerns Tuesday about the possibility of taking away a person’s civil liberties, but the proposal for a pilot program passed 10-1. Mayor London Breed and other supporters say the move — known as conservatorship — is necessary to help people who are often homeless, addicted to drugs and have a mental illness, making them a...

If a billionaire’s approach to philanthropy is a reflection of himself, Charles Koch’s latest initiative tackling poverty embodies both the wealthy industrialist’s business acumen and his distaste for big government. The 3-year-old Stand Together Foundation has lately taken center stage in the Koch empire, which has been recalibrating some of its wide-ranging operation that is both villainized and revered by the American public. The shifting strategy comes as the GOP icon’s sprawling network of rich donors, powerful political groups and various tax-exempted advocacy organizations continues to downplay its more well-known but controversial political agenda, which has pumped hundreds of millions...

Video at link. Several interesting points from the video: Trump's threat of tariffs got the Mexican government to the negotiating table on immigration Trump applied pressure while in England Steele will now cooperate with Barr in the investigation Mueller is terrified about having to testify The Mueller report is full of lies and based on fraud The FBI never investigated to find out if the DNC servers had actually been hacked They based their allegations on hearsay from other sources The DNC servers were not "hacked" by the Russians It was an "inside job"

Last Saturday’s election result was a bolt from the blue, astounding commentators, pollsters and I suspect Scott Morrison. As with Brexit and Donald Trump’s election, there was an unexpected and unobserved shift in sentiment that was somehow missed by the opinion polls. But what was it? How come, in a variety of electorates across the developed Western world, we are seeing such “black swan” events, happenings that defy all expectations and can be rationalised only in hindsight? There is a growing body of research and theorising about this. One of the most important is the work of British scholars Roger...