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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week sounded the alarm that recent measles outbreaks have put the 2000 declaration of the disease having been eliminated at risk, according to a CNN report. The ongoing outbreaks have created a “reasonable chance” the nation will lose measles elimination status in October, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the network. "It certainly is incredibly frustrating and upsetting to the public health community that we may lose measles elimination status, because we do have a safe and effective vaccine," she told CNN....

Israel Defense Forces Strike Hamas Targets in Gaza 22:03 28.08.2019(updated 22:07 28.08.2019) The Israel Defense Forces announced through its Twitter account late Wednesday that the service's aircrafts had attacked Hamas positions in northern Gaza as a response to a previous projectile launched toward Israeli territory.

New York’s elite private-school community is “furious” over a state proposal to give the city Department of Education oversight of their kids’ curricula — and they’re fighting back, insiders told The Post. The blanket Albany proposal is primarily intended to ensure that ­yeshiva students get quality secular instruction, but private-school parents are growing worried as September nears that the shift could open a back door for the government to meddle with their kids’ educations.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would not be seeking the presidency if it weren’t for the white supremacist violence that occurred in Charlottesville in August 2017 and President Donald Trump’s response to it. At a fundraiser in Richmond, about an hour east of Charlottesville, Biden said he had been prepared to re-enter private life after forgoing a run against Hillary Clinton in 2016. “I had not planned on running for the presidency,” Biden said. “And I mean that sincerely.” Biden said his calculation changed “when those folks came out of the fields carrying those torches, chanting...

Democrats eye action on threat of white nationalism BY MIKE LILLIS - 08/28/19 06:00 AM EDT Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressing hard to adopt tougher gun laws following a pair of mass shootings this month that horrified the country and rekindled the on-again, off-again push to install higher barriers to owning firearms. But as Congress prepares to return to Washington next month from the long summer recess, Democrats also want to go a step further to tackle another scourge they consider to be related: the threat of violent white nationalism that, according to federal law enforcers, is on the...

UK: Muslim doctor who blamed sex attack on “Pakistani culture” allowed to return to work AUG 28, 2019 2:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS The safety of female employees at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, England is secondary to the perceived need to kowtow to Muslim migrants. In this case, a medical doctor who sexually assaulted a student nurse is back at the hospital and in a position to threaten the safety of other nurses and also of female patients in the hospital: A Pakistani doctor who blamed his sexual assault on a student nurse on the different “cultural norms”...

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP! Incoming Palestinian infiltrator headed for Harvard University, has visa revoked at airport and is deported AUGUST 28, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM Ismail B. Ajjawi, who lives in Tyre, Lebanon, arrived in the country Friday evening intent on starting fall classes at the prestigious Ivy League school, but never made it out of Boston Logan International airport because his visa was revoked. The student, who was immediately deported, said that he was confronted about anti-American social media posts from online friends. BizPacReview According to Ajjawi, who had planned to pursue a degree in Chemical and Physical Biology (good...

SAN FRANCISCO — President Donald Trump will hit one of his favorite political targets — California — with a mid-September fundraising visit to the liberal bastion of the San Francisco Bay area, in addition to Beverly Hills and San Diego. A “save the date” invite shows that the president will visit the Bay Area region on Sept. 17 for an event at an undisclosed location hosted by RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, co-chair Tommy Hicks Jr., RNC Finance Chairman Todd Ricketts and Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. Trump will also head to Southern California in his fourth trip as president to...

Monday presented a question. Did that new Monmouth poll with a suspiciously small sample capture the start of an avalanche in Grandpa Joe’s support, with Biden dropping 13 points(!) in two months, or was it an outlier?Wednesday brings the answer. Outlier, per new surveys from Morning Consult, Suffolk, and Quinnipiac, each of which finds him winning about a third of Dem primary voters and maintaining a healthy lead over Warren and Sanders.In fact, it’s such an outlier that Monmouth itself issued a press release today saying yep, it’s an outlier.I make this solemn pledge to you, though: I will...

A memo issued to staff at the Washington Post confirms the newsroom in their Washington, D.C., headquarters was infested with cockroaches. "We have a growing pest problem,” said director of newsroom operations Jillian S. Jarrett in an office memo. "We’ve gotten several reports of cockroaches in the newsroom." The report of the insect infestation at the Washington Post closely mirrors a bedbug infestation at the New York Times. An internal memo sent to New York Times newsroom staff on Monday confirmed the presence of bedbugs. "During an extermination sweep of the newsroom over the weekend, we discovered evidence of bedbugs...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) When the top line of a new poll is not the real story.– I laughed out loud when I saw the topline numbers of the new Emerson College poll that was released this morning. My laughter was totally at the expense of Irish Bob O’Rourke, who has now dropped below the likes of Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang in the pecking order of this particular poll. Mere words cannot express the amount of pleasure it gives this 7th-generation Texan to see this fraudulent circus clown falling down into...

When it comes to reaching a trade deal with China, President Trump<Donald John TrumpSenate Democrats warn Trump: Don't invite Putin to G-7 Trump blames Fed for manufacturing slowdown Pence responds to Haley tweet: I'm looking forward to running with Trump in 2020 MORE may be his own worst enemy. Instead of accepting that he already has achieved the bulk of U.S. negotiating objectives — and effectively won the trade war — the president has been sidetracked by procedural issues and negotiating gambits that distract from the overall success of the administration’s policy. Just last Friday, the president created a...

In a free enterprise system, some businesses prosper while some do not. Success and failure are simply a byproduct of the free market that should be expected. And when businesses fail due to market conditions, it should not be the responsibility of the federal government to bail them out or give them special treatment. So why then is conjecture building once again that key members of the Trump administration still want to revive plans to bail out failing power plants? Last year, the Department of Energy was trying to use its power to revitalize a handful of well-connected but economically...

The president's personal attorney tells NBCU brass that legal proceedings could be pursued if there's no retraction or apology for stating that "Russian oligarchs" co-signed loans to Trump. Donald Trump is ratcheting up his war with the media, as if such thing was conceivable. On Wednesday, his personal attorney Charles Harder threatened NBCUniversal with a defamation suit over what was broadcast the previous night on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. A missive sent to NBCU headquarters, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, also addresses a related tweet. According to Harder's demand letter, "The Program and Tweet make the false...

Washington (AFP) - The head of a US government advisory board on Tuesday voiced concern over India's drive to register citizens in the northeastern state of Assam, amid fears it could disenfranchise millions, most of them Muslims.

Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte went on a boat trip in the south of France ahead of welcoming world leaders to Biarritz for the G7 summit. The 41-year-old French president showed off his summer body while jet skiing near Fort de Bregançon just a day before meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Putin met with Macron for talks last Monday at the fortress on France's Mediterranean coast a week before the start of the G7 conference. The Russian president took the opportunity to take a swipe at Macron following the meeting by suggesting anti-government protests such as the Yellow...

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Known at the moment for its full-throated acceptance of socialism, it’s worth noting that the Democratic Party once represented the most conservative elements of American politics. The memory of those long-gone Democrats can serve conservatives very well at a moment when it seems like everything is up in the air. From 1861 to 1913, only one Democrat, Grover Cleveland, took office as president of the United States. Best known for his non-consecutive terms (1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897), Cleveland was a staunch conservative and an honest man who punctuated all those years of radical Republican rule. During a...

“Where’s all the support? People generally are feeling Trump is beating us on all fronts right now,” one DNC official said. Several Democratic National Committee members have a message to their organization’s top leadership: President Trump is crushing us. After pledging to compete everywhere ahead of the next election, multiple DNC members told The Daily Beast they have privately sounded alarms about the organization’s strategy heading into 2020, emphasizing what they view as Chairman Tom Perez’s inability to reach swing voters in Midwestern battleground states who voted for the president. A handful of Midwestern targets were critical to Trump’s general...

Voters who cast ballots in Mississippi's Republican gubernatorial primary runoff have claimed the touch-screen voting machine switched their selected votes, according to reports.Officials in two counties confirmed the alleged vote flipping malfunction.One of the candidate's campaign says they've heard of instances happening in several counties, were the machines automatically changed individuals' intended selections.