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The Supreme Court said Friday that the Trump Administration can proceed to reallocate some $2.5 billion that Congress had earmarked for the Pentagon to build a border wall... the good news is that the High Court is finally sending a message about the proliferation of national injunctions by lower court judges.

(WSET) -- Ever wondered if a delivery driver took a bite of your food while on delivery? A new study says your fears might be real. A new study done by US Food shows the habits of both customers and delivery drivers. The study shows 28 percent of delivery drivers have taken food from a customer's order. 54 percent of delivery drivers polled also said they are often tempted by the smell of the food they deliver to customers. The US Food study also shows that 17 percent of customers complained their food was not warm or fresh, and 16...

A Russian-led project to bring a new gas pipeline to Europe has taken the European Union to court to challenge new rules it says are meant to stall the project. Nord Stream 2 — a new undersea gas pipeline being built by Russia’s energy firm Gazprom and backed by five European energy companies — said on Friday it had asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to annul an EU gas directive, which dictates the pipes cannot be directly owned by a gas supplier.The owner of the pipeline is Russia's energy firm Gazprom, who will also be its...

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The UK's highest-ever temperature has been officially recorded in Cambridge, the Met Office has confirmed. Cambridge University Botanic Garden measured 38.7C (101.7F) on Thursday beating the previous UK record of 38.5C (101.3F), set in Kent in 2003. Daily temperatures have been measured by the weather station at the site in the south of the city since 1904.

The move will see the European Commission blocking Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada and Singapore from accessing parts of the European Union's financial market, according to the Financial Times. The five countries are deemed as no longer regulating credit rating agencies as rigorously as the bloc — thereby removing them from a position which made it possible for European banks to rely on those ratings, reported the Financial Times, The European Commission will be blocking five countries from accessing parts of the European Union's financial markets — in a move that could hit the United Kingdom after it leaves the bloc,...

It has been one of the most aggravating sounds on earth for more than 100 million years — the humming buzz of a mosquito. She gently lands on your ankle and inserts two serrated mandible cutting blades and saws into your skin, while two other retractors open a passage for the proboscis. With this straw she sucks your blood, while a sixth needle pumps in saliva that contains an anticoagulant that prevents that blood from clotting. This shortens her feeding time, lessening the likelihood that you splat her across your ankle. The female mosquito needs your blood to grow her...

At least four people are now reportedly killed and 15 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said. Among the dead is a little six-year old boy.A suspect, a white male, carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police.To reach the festival, the suspect appeared to have crossed a bordering creek and cut a perimeter fence, the police chief said. The event was a weapons-free zone. What just happened in Gilroy is why I dont attend Gun Free Zone events.— Mark Young (@MarkYoungTruth) July 29, 2019 If the event...

Actor Dave Bautista attacked President Donald Trump over the weekend, declaring him a “disgrace” to everything America stands for. Bautista made the comments in response to a story detailing how CNN anchor Victor Blackwell teared up as he denounced Trump’s attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who he described as “brutal bully” who has let his district in Baltimore become a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” Of course an elitist POS would say that,” Dave Bautista said about Trump’s comments. “He’s never wanted for anything. He’s never had to fight or go hungry! He doesn’t know what the American Dream is. He’s...

President Trump said Monday that Democrats blasting him for decrying conditions in Baltimore should also label Sen. Bernie Sanders “a racist” for calling Baltimore a “Third World country” and a "disgrace" in 2015 if they want to be consistent. “Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!” Trump tweeted. “The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not...

This is not about President Trump. It is about us. About our behavior as followers of Jesus. About our words. About our attitudes. About our priorities. It seems that many of us have lost sight of what it means to be Christian, as if anything now goes in the name of Jesus. It seems that many of us now justify almost any kind of ugly rhetoric, as long as it is in the name of country and of God, seemingly in that order. What has become of godly speech? Of civility? Of graciousness? Of respect? When did God send out...

In our current state of divisive modern politics, we are often caught in a trap of specificity. Driven either by a politically-inclined media, or our understandably-emotional nature, we often find ourselves obsessing over individual cases or unique and rare instances, allowing them to become wholly representative of a wider subject of debate.The most recent example would be Jessica Yaniv, the biological male who became the temporary face of the debate surrounding transgender rights after claiming that female-only salons were breaching his human rights when they refused to provide him with Brazilian waxing services.This type of hyper-focus occurs time and time...

Michelle Obama was a vision in white while walking around New York City's trendy Tribeca neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. The 55-year-old former first lady beat the heat in a V-neck midi dress with cuffed sleeves and an empire waist. She paired her ethereal summer frock with brown leather wedges with cork heels that showed off her light blue toenail polish. Michelle was surrounded by an entourage as she made her way into Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel for a luncheon attended by Sarah Jessica Parker, Lily Aldridge, Georgia May Jagger, and Olivia Munn. The mother-of-two embraced her natural curls and...

Germany's biggest lender is rapidly slashing jobs, it's losing a ton of money and the stock is trading near all-time lows. Many of Deutsche Bank's problems are self-inflicted. It's been badly mismanaged. Deutsche Bank (DB) never fully cleaned up its crisis-era balance sheet. Restructuring efforts fell short. And its countless legal black eyes haven't helped matters. But Deutsche Bank's struggles have also been amplified by something the 149-year-old lender never imagined, mostly because it had never happened before in modern history: negative interest rates. In 2014, the European Central Bank wanted to boost the sluggish economy but interest rates were...

Between 1803 and 2018, the United States Supreme Court ruled 172 federal laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), in their effort to demonize President Trump, may inadvertently add a law written in 1924 to this list of doomed legislation. Absent a smoking gun from the Mueller report, the Trump resistance sees the next opportunity to demonize Trump via his tax returns. It is entirely plausible that IRC 26 U.S.C. § 6103(f), originally passed in response to the Teapot Dome Scandal, (a bribery scandal involving oil...

In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four It’s no secret that leftist educators have utterly ruined the fields of the humanities with their Marxist wokeness, postmodern deconstructionism, and openly anti-Western bias. Now The College Fix reports that educators are increasingly imposing a social...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social media-savvy brand of eco-activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to skip classes and protest for faster action against climate change, said Monday that she plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat. The 16-year-old tweeted that she'll sail across the Atlantic aboard a high-tech racing yacht, leaving Britain next month to attend U.N. climate summits in New York in September and Santiago, Chile, in December. Thunberg told The Associated Press ahead of her announcement that she spent months trying to figure out...

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**SNIP** In an exclusive interview with "Meet the Press," Schiff said “there is great weight” to the argument that impeaching Trump is an imperative in order to take a stand that the allegations he’s accused of — mainly, obstruction of justice — cannot be tolerated by Congress. But he said a failed impeachment fight could end up sending the wrong message. “I worry equally about the message of taking an impeachment case to trial, losing that case, having the president acquitted, and then having an adjudication that this conduct is not impeachable,” he said. "The jury I'm most worried about,...

Posted on July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope Towering Pride: What the Story of the Tower of Babel Can Teach Us The story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is a memorable one. In Genesis 10, we read the genealogy of Noah’s sons and their dispersion across many different lands with many different languages. The beginning of Chapter 11 describes the scattering of Noah’s descendants and the multiplication of languages in story form:Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the...