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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Pete Buttigieg, who hopes to become the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party, said at an LGBTQ event Saturday that activists must band together to deny President Donald Trump a second term. "We've got a lot to worry about, a lot to fight for, but we have the means to do it," he said. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, stressed the need for people to vote and to become involved in politics. Speaking before an audience gathered for Des Moines LGBTQ pride festivities in front of the Iowa statehouse,...

FULL TITLE: Restaurant owner is accused of KIDNAPPING a black 13-year-old boy at gunpoint and forcing him back to his eatery where the teen had reportedly been causing trouble and threw a bottle A Kentucky restaurant owner has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped a black teen from a local grocery store and threatened him with a BB gun. Fabao Chen, 58, was detained on Tuesday at the Double Dragon restaurant on West Broadway after he took the 13-year-old from a nearby Kroger at 27th and Broadway in Louisville. An arrest report states that at approximately 4.30pm, Chen forcibly snatched...

Full header: Medicare For All Rally Organizers Blame American Medical Association As ‘Major Reason’ People Aren’t Covered Doctors, nurses and others who support Medicare for all protested the American Medical Association’s stance against a single-payer health care system at the association’s annual meeting in Chicago Saturday. “The AMA is a major reason why 28 million Americans still don’t have health insurance. … By deploying powerful lobbying and misleading media campaigns, the AMA has opposed or hijacked nearly every health reform proposal of the last century, from Social Security to Medicare to the Affordable Care Act,” rally organizers wrote in an...

NAPA, Calif. (KCRA) — PG&E shut off power early Saturday to 1,600 customers in the North Bay amid hot, windy conditions to reduce the risk of wildfires. Affected areas are: Napa County: Portions of unincorporated Napa County and Lake Berryessa Solano County: Portions of Suisun City, and unincorporated areas near Vacaville and Winters Yolo County: Unincorporated areas near Davis and Winters The shutoff is part of the Public Safety Power Shutoff program to reduce the risk of wildfires. The National Weather Service issued Red Flag Warnings on Friday for the parts of the Central Valley and North Bay Area, leading...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Saturday hit parts of President Trump’s deal with Mexico on stopping migrant flows after he threatened to slap tariffs on the country -- saying that Trump was engaged in “threats and temper tantrums.” “President Trump undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbor to the south,” she said in a statement. “Threats and temper tantrums are no way to negotiate foreign policy,” she said Trump announced Friday that the U.S. and Mexico had reached a deal, after he had previously threatened to...

A Christian school in California is facing a huge battle with the state. Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is representing River View Christian Academy in northern California. The school was raided earlier in the year, SWAT style, by the state. According to PJI, the raid was carried out by 16 armed law enforcement from California Highway Patrol, two canine units and 17 social workers. Students and staff were horrified by the sudden and unexpected attack. The state was misled into thinking that the school was harboring illegal drugs, amassing ammunition, and preparing for doomsday. RVCA works under the ministry Teen Rescue,...

Predominantly Sunni jihadi groups carried out 187 terrorist attacks across nearly 30 countries on Ramadan this year, driving the number of fatalities up to 911 and injuries to 1,006 when compared to the casualties during the holiest month for Muslims in 2018, a Breitbart News database analysis shows. The number of deaths went up by about ten percent, from 841 last year to 911 in 2019. The overall number of casualties, including injuries, slightly increased by less than five percent from 1,855 (841 killed; 1,014 injured) to 1,917 (911 killed; 1,006 injured) in 2019.

When Truman took office after Roosevelt's death in April 1945, he knew relatively nothing about the grand strategy of World War II. No one had told him anything about the ongoing atomic bomb project...But for the next seven-plus years, Truman shocked the country. Over the objections of many in his Cabinet, he ordered the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan. Over the objections of most of the State Department, he recognized the new state of Israel. Over the objections of the Roosevelt holdovers, he broke with wartime ally the Soviet Union and crafted the foundations of Cold War communist...

Exlusive: Families More Important Than Economic Growth, Says Hungarian Govt on Launch of New Pro-Child Policy

Earlier this month, I had the privilege of serving as a judge for a competition in which young students were tested on their knowledge of the Constitution and America’s founding principles. I was awed by the knowledge of these students. They quoted John Locke and the Federalist Papers with ease. But my awe turned to disappointment when I asked every student one follow-up question: “How do you think America’s founders balanced the concepts of individual rights and the common good?” I had hoped to at least stir a little debate among the students. But almost universally, the students answered simply that the...

she was elected to public office in November 2016, Ilhan Omar has rarely avoided the opportunity to talk for public consumption. We happened upon an exception to the rule back in 2016 in the course of Omar’s campaign for the Minnesota legislature when we learned of Omar’s then current marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. At the time she held out Ahmed Hirsi as her husband on her campaign site and elsewhere. We found that Omar had legally married Elmi in 2009 and wondered if he was her brother. Omar remained married to him from 2009 to 2017. Although Omar...

SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio police have arrested a woman who they say used her car to strike two women in the parking lot of a Northwest Side bar. A viral video posted online in May by an anonymous viewer and seen by almost 3 million people allegedly showed Miranda Guerrero, 23, driving in the parking lot outside The Well Bar and hitting two people. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the two victims had been arguing with Guerrero inside the bar when the fight spewed into the parking lot. That's when, police said, Guerrero and a friend got into...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Pell awaits verdict after prosecutor stumbles in appeal hearing June 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The two-day hearing in Cardinal George Pell’s appeal before the Victorian Court of Appeal against his conviction for alleged child sex abuse in Melbourne, Australia, in the 1990s ended Thursday with a positive impression for the defense. According to press reports, prosecutor Christopher Boyce “bumbled and stumbled” through his presentation on Thursday afternoon while Chief Justice Anne Ferguson, court president Justice Chris Maxwell and Justice Mark Weinberg made several remarks that appeared favorable to the Cardinal’s version. The judges reserved their decision and Cardinal...

On D-Day’s 75th anniversary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer came quickly to mind. He went on national radio the evening of June 6, 1944, asking all Americans to join him in a prayer. The commander-in-chief began with an eloquent summary of the D-Day mission, his familiar voice saying in part: “Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true, give strength to their arms.” He continued: “Some will never return. Embrace...

Youtube have decided that they take marching orders from Vox, and so noose shall be tightened and warned nobody in advance. YouTube deleted a bunch of channels and demonitised a dozen more. ...

Throughout our history, free speech has been cherished in the United States of America. Thankfully, we have the First Amendment which mandates that “Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech.” It not only protects this right, but also the free press and other precious liberties such as the right to exercise religious beliefs, assemble, and “petition the Government for the redress of grievances.”Unfortunately, in recent years, there has been an assault on free speech. On many college campuses, conservative speakers are not welcome. Often, when a conservative is invited, progressive groups attempt to persuade the administration to cancel...

Let's do a simple mental exercise before we get to the point. Visualize a sphere of solid matter, and then subtract fourteen hundredths of one percent. Is the reduced sphere at all different in appearance? Of course not; shaving off the 14 hundredths evenly will be unnoticeable to the naked eye. On to the point. The sphere we just visualized is a replica of our entire solar system compacted into a solid mass. Ninety-nine point eight six percent of the total mass of the solar system is the sun itself. What remains is the total mass material that orbits the...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) - Doctors at WakeMed in Raleigh say North Carolina leads the country in the number of people bitten by snakes, and they're warning everyone to watch out for snakes when they're outside. Of all 100 counties in the state, they said Wake County has the highest number reported of snake bites. WNCN reporter Zak Dahlheimer's father, Mike Dahlheimer, said a snake bite never crossed his mind, until moving to Raleigh from Florida a few weeks ago. "If a spaceship landed in front of me, and little green men would've came out, I wouldn't have been more surprised,"...

CNN’s ratings dropped again in April after the network experienced its worst month in three years. Prime-time viewership at CNN was 761,000 with 553,000 viewers during the daytime, according to Nielsen Media Research. CNN’s ratings drop resulted in the lowest number of demographic viewers since August 2015. CNN’s "Cuomo Primetime" with host Chris Cuomo saw its worst demographic viewership numbers since its debut in June 2018. Fox News dominated the cable news viewership numbers with 2,388,000 viewers, followed by MSNBC with 1,654,000 and CNN. Fox also held the top two cable news programs, with "Tucker Carlson Tonight" garnering 2.8 million...

Earlier this week I traveled to central Illinois to speak at a memorial service at Eureka College, my dad's alma mater, on the 15th anniversary of his death. As I flew halfway across the country and talked to many of the good people in the heart of America, it struck me how testy or peeved off everyone is about politics. It seems like everyone's got a chip on their shoulder. You can't just sit down at a table or a bar and have a simple conversation with a friend or a stranger because you're afraid of what might happen if...