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It is hard to put a price on saving the planet - but Google now has an eye-watering tab to show for its attempt. The tech giant spent an estimated $20million on an extravagant climate change bash for a host of A-list celebrities this week, flying hundreds of guests across the world and treating them to three days of luxury at a Sicilian seaside resort.

Surveillance footage released by prosecutors shows several customers tackle and disarm a gunman.

Full title: Tomi Lahren apologizes for asking Kamala Harris, ‘Did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?’ Fox News’ Tomi Lahren has apologized after she asked during last night’s debate, “Kamala did you fight for ideals or did you sleep your way to the top with Willie Brown?”: She was called out last night by a number of people, including Fox News’ Kat Timpf: And according to Brian Stelter’s newsletter, multiple Fox employees were unhappy with her tweet: I did hear from several Fox employees who reached out to me on their own accord. “It makes me...

Sen. Kamala Harris referred to herself as a “top-tier candidate” and belittled Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s poll numbers during an interview after Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate. “[T]his is going to sound immodest, but I’m obviously a top-tier candidate, and so I did expect that I would be on the stage and take hits tonight, because there are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate,” Harris said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper shortly after the debate. “Especially when some people are at zero or 1%, or whatever she might be at. So...

Kelly Knight Craft, the woman who will replace Nikki Haley, has been confirmed as the next ambassador to the United Nations. The full Senate voted 56-34 Wednesday night after Craft was voted out of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee 15-7 earlier in July. Congratulations to Kelly Knight Craft of #Kentucky on her confirmation as United Nations Ambassador. After having served so admirably as Ambassador to Canada, & having done an outstanding job no matter how difficult the task, Kelly will be fantastic at the United Nations. Winner!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2019 Republican Senator Marco Rubio is also...

A day of commemorations started in Poland on Thursday to mark 75 years since the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising, a bloody WWII insurgency against the city's German occupiers. Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki paid tribute to the insurgents early in the day, saying “there wouldn’t be a free Poland” if not for their heroic struggle.

Crews are searching for the pilot of a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed in Death Valley National Park, injuring seven people who were at a scenic overlook where aviation enthusiasts routinely watch military aircraft speeding low through a chasm dubbed Star Wars Canyon, officials said. A search was underway for the pilot of the single-seat F/A-18 Super Hornet that was on a routine training mission... The lookout point about 160 miles (257 kilometers) north of Los Angeles is popular with photographers and aviation buffs who gawk at jets flying in the steep, narrow canyon. Officials closed the area after...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has lots of big ideas to redesign the United States. She dreams of Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, forgiving student loans, waging war on corporate America and more. On the debate stage in Detroit, Warren pushed back when others raised doubts about her ambitious agenda: "I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for." At one level, Warren's perspective makes a certain kind of sense. After all, unless you believe you can change...

Former Vice President Joe Biden added to his long list of gaffes at Wednesday evening’s Democrat presidential primary debate in Detroit, botching everything from the price tag of his opponents’ health care plans to his own closing statement. Here are seven moments where Biden — now 76-years-old — misspoke, lost his train of thought, or blurted out actual nonsense during the late-night debate. 1.) Biden tells Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) ahead of the debate: “Go easy on me, kid.” While it may have been his intended word choice, the disrespect to a sitting senator started his debate performance on the...

Posted on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope Was St. Paul a Poor Preacher? For many years, the image I had of St. Paul was that of a bold evangelist who went from town to town teaching and preaching powerfully about Christ. I envisioned his audience mesmerized as he preached and took on his opponents.I ultimately altered my view a bit based on scriptural descriptions, some of which we are currently reading in the Office of Readings. I have no doubt that he was a brilliant theologian. Paul was reputed to have been one of the...

F.B.I. agents raided the offices of the Housing Authority of South Bend, Ind., on Wednesday, the second potential distraction back home for the presidential campaign of the city’s mayor, Pete Buttigieg.

Today’s Cryptogram GJM ANSD LJ DIWDRL LATEZO JX GJMUODKX FDXJUD GJM RNE VJ LADP. –PTRANDK HJUVNEL Today's Cryptogram is from The Arkansas Gazette You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you...

“There’s no strategy. I have no strategy. There’s zero strategy.” That’s what President Trump said Tuesday after slamming the city of Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” But that’s not true — not by a long shot. Trump’s tweets over the weekend — which kicked off the whole debacle and drew, predictably, charges of racism — was no accident. Between rounds of golf at his posh golf resort outside of Washington, Trump ignited a firestorm with just a few tweets.

Thousands of US millennials are priced-out of the dating market, a new study has shown. Researchers found that a third of Generation Y are reluctantly single because they can't afford to pursue love. According to the data, financial instability is hampering their ability to find 'the one' because it's forcing them to budget, instead. Meanwhile, a quarter of respondents even said they would happily have sex with a human-like robot - but this would still be classed as cheating my half of partners.

“There is no essential moral difference between class-warfare and race-warfare, between destroying a class and destroying a race.” That’s from Paul Johnson, maybe the preeminent historian of the 20th Century and as non-political as you can get, from his history book, “Modern Times: The World From The Twenties To The Nineties.” After another two-night marathon of Democratic debates, it has come back to me as I am reading Johnson’s excellent, if dense, history tome. A large part of the country has just accepted that we hammer each other on race and income. It’s just politics. No, it’s not. It’s both...

[Catholic Caucus] Guest Op-Ed - Resisting the Temptation to Change the Our Father: "A heretical spirit enters the Church when man makes himself the measure of God’s Word" A heretical spirit enters the Church when man makes himself the measure of God’s word, rather than God’s word being the measure of man’s thoughts. This hubristic reversal is the definition of modernism. Pope St Pius X identified what is at the heart of this modernist mentality towards sacred Scripture, ‘a philosophy borrowed from the negation of God, and a criterion which consists of themselves’. (Pascendi dominici gregis, 34.) One of...

Prosecutors aren’t pursuing a criminal case against the dad who said he forgot he left his 1-year-old twins in a scorching car, where he found them dead after returning from work, according to a report. Juan Rodriguez appeared in a Bronx courthouse, but the district attorney elected not to put the case before a grand jury at this time, according to WABC. His next court date is Aug, 27. Rodriguez was charged Saturday with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of criminally negligent homicide for the Friday deaths of tots Phoenix and Luna.

Warner Bros. Television will “part ways” with “Extra” host A.J. Calloway following the studio’s investigation into sexual assault allegations leveled against the him. “The company has investigated the claims made into Mr. Calloway’s conduct and he and the company have mutually agreed to part ways,” a Warners rep says in a statement. The studio didn’t clarify in the statement when the decision was made. Warner Bros. had previously suspended Calloway last February. At the time of the suspension, Calloway’s attorney Lisa E. Davis said in a statement, “Mr. Calloway maintains that these unsubstantiated allegations are patently false. He vehemently denies...

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Vice President Joe Biden leads in nearly every national poll. The former vice president's critics, though, question what his actual accomplishments are. Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips traveled to Detroit to ask Democrat debate attendees what they saw as Biden's biggest accomplishment. With the 2020 presidential primary in full swing, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a commanding lead in nearly every national poll. Benefitting from near-universal name recognition, Biden has cruised to this point in the race, with substantial leads in early primary states like Iowa and South Carolina. Opponents of Biden say though he’s made a career in politics,...