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Several environmental groups are suing the Trump administration over recent changes to the Endangered Species Act that they say threaten wildlife. Earthjustice filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California The Department of the Interior announced rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act on Aug. 12. The changes remove a blanket rule that gave newly-listed threatened species the same protections as endangered species. As part of the rule changes, agencies must now consider economic impact when listing a species or designating critical habitat. Wednesday’s lawsuit alleges the Interior Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador said his administration has reached a deal ending a $3 billion controversy over contracts for seven natural gas pipelines that were built by four companies south of the border... Either idle or incomplete, the pipelines are not delivering gas, but the clauses allowed the companies to collect payments due to delays and circumstances beyond their control... Mexico is consuming more than 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, but only produces 2.6 billion cubic feet per day — meaning that the rest needs to be imported. Under the agreement between the Mexican government...

CNN did not have a good month of August. 11 minute video

US Backs Israel’s Right to Self Defense as IDF Braces in North; Lebanese President Says Drone Attack was “Declaration of War” By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz August 27, 2019 , 12:34 pm “When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots—forces larger than yours—have no fear of them, for Hashem your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.” deuteronomy 20:1 (The Israel Bible™) FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsAppPrintShare383 The IDF has been on high alert since the weekend following threats from Hezbollah, Iran, and Lebanon. Israel attacked an Iranian military base and a terrorist cell in...

Donald J. Trump: The Long Road to the White House (1980 - 2017) 43 min excellent President Donald J. Trump: The Road to His Second Term #Trump2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1AG2jbAL0 "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

The United States' surging oil and gas production will soon allow the country to surpass Saudi Arabia in liquid petroleum exports. While Saudi Arabia will remain the top crude oil exporter, the U.S. is destined to usurp the kingdom as soon as late 2019 when it comes to overall liquid petroleum exports, including fuels and some natural gas liquids, according to a new report from the Norwegian research firm Rystad Energy. "Increasingly profitable shale production and a robust global appetite for light oil and gasoline is poised to bring the U.S. to a position of oil dominance in the next...

The New York Times sent out an alert Monday warning that bedbugs were spotted in its newsroom — triggering hilarity on social media. According to an internal memo obtained by The Post, the NY Times said it “discovered evidence of bedbugs in a wellness room on the second floor, a couch on the third floor and a booth on the fourth floor.” “In an abundance of caution, the second floor room has been temporarily closed, the booth has been blocked off and the couch has been removed to be treated and professionally cleaned,” the memo said. Exterminators also swept the...

Full disclosure: the only thing I know about Greenland is that you have to fly over it to get from Los Angeles to London. It may very well be great in its own Greenland-y kind of way, but it could reach even greater heights if it had a nice, new coat of United Freakin' States of America all over it. This is an idea I've loved since President Trump first suggested it. Sure, a lot of people thought he was joking, but when does Trump ever joke about buying real estate? We live in a world and a time where...

VIDEO After just a few moments of very slight pressure from MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Joe Walsh signalled that he could be bribed into supporting Elizabeth Warren for president. Since cash in brown paper bags is the old fashioned way of bribery, the updated way to bribe is in the form of being offered a network gig whether in the form of a paid commentator or, even better, with his own show as Wallace scored by being a "Republican" who opposed Trump.

Posted on August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope St. Monica and Prayers for Priests On the Feast of St. Monica, who prayed at length for her son, I’d like to say that my mother prayed for me too! I really needed (and still need) her prayers.In this time of pain in the Church, when God’s people are rightly disturbed by the sins of the clergy, many of you have assured me and I’m sure other clergy of your prayers for us. St. Monica, especially in this difficult time, is an image of prayers not only for...

Not content with the degradation of the city stemming from a lawless homeless population shooting up with drugs and defecating in the streets, the City's Board of Supervisors has undertaken a scheme to define crime out of existence. "Terms such as 'offender,' 'delinquent,' 'convicted felon,' and 'thief,' will be replaced by less pejorative terminology," said Supervisor Matt Haney. "In place of these hurtful words we will heretofore use terms like 'behavioral nonconformist,' 'naughty young person,' 'justice-involved individual,' and 'unlicensed income re-distributor,'" Haney promised. "Our aim is to avoid ruining lives by stigmatizing individuals in ways that would damage their reputations....

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived back in Washington on the night of Aug. 26. Trump, on Twitter, wrote that he was subject to “fake news” attacks that claimed he wanted to use nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes.“Just returned to Washington from France and the very successful G-7, only to find that the Fake News is still trying to perpetuate the phony story that I wanted to use Nuclear weapons to blow up hurricanes before they reach shore. This is so ridiculous, never happened!” Trump tweeted on Monday night.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WFLA) – The Cape Coral Police Department released information about a “suspicious incident” involving children and a “dinosaur” over the weekend. Police say the dinosaur was seen chasing children but was quickly apprehended by officials. Cape Coral police did note that handcuffing the T-Rex’s tiny arms proved problematic. However, no children were injured.

A gay couple in Russia was forced to flee the country after being accused of breaking the country's controversial "gay propaganda law" for telling their two children they are married. Under the law, which was passed in 2013, teaching minors about LGBTQ issues is considered illegal.

San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live. The latest, but surely not the last demonstration of insanity, is San Francisco's Board of Supervisors' adoption of new "person first" language guidelines meant to "change the public's perception of criminals." The words "convicted felon," "offender," "convict," "addict" and "juvenile delinquent" are now out. These individuals will henceforth be referred to as a "justice-involved person." Someone previously called a "criminal" will now be referred...

China’s efforts to lure its scientists back from overseas institutions have been paying off militarily, with more than a little help from the United States. Military projects they have been involved in include China’s development of hypersonic weapons capable of penetrating missile-defence systems and the design of new submarines able to patrol quietly along the US west coast, researchers familiar with the programmes told the South China Morning Post. For more than a decade, China has been ramping up efforts to lure back talented scientists working at laboratories in the US linked to America’s nuclear weapons programme and other military...

ALL of the stories on Breitbart this morning are stripped of their comments. Is Breitbart following the trend of other sites and eliminating comments? Then it would be a boring site indeed.

Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, has rocketed from conservative backbencher to a leading Minnesota critic of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, his former colleague in the Legislature. TEXT SIZE 178 EMAIL PRINT MORE State Rep. Steve Drazkowski tells a story about getting soaked in a rainstorm on his way to a TV studio in Minneapolis for an appearance on Fox News. People don’t use umbrellas where he comes from in rural Minnesota, he says. In Drazkowski’s telling, he’s just a guy from the sticks, raised on a farm. “If we did well,” he said, “we got supper.” But the end of his...

SHANGHAI — More than a decade ago, Chinese physicist Pan Jian-Wei returned home from Europe to help oversee research into some of the most important technology of the 21st century. At a conference in Shanghai this summer, Pan and his team offered a rare peek at the work he described as a “revolution.” They spoke of the hacking-resistant communications networks they are building across China, the sensors they are designing to see through smog and around corners, and the prototype computers that may someday smash the computational power of any existing machine. All the gear is based on quantum technology...

A recent thread on bedbugs abruptly disappeared because it wasn't news. Still, the care and feeding of tenants is a topic of some interest, and at least one person in that thread complained about tenants who muck up your property with bedbug infestations and then demand that you fix the problem at your expense.I've had to deal with this problem myself, and it might be worth sharing the results of my extensive research into ways to avoid the costly expedient of either whole-residence heat treatment or sulfuryl fluoride fumigation. This is only a list of a few products that appear...