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Kim Campbell, Canada’s former prime minister for a coffee break, desperately wants to be relevant. She’s been searching for it since 1993 when her political career went down in flames along with the Progressive Conservative Party she led at the time. When she was finished, two seats in the Commons were all the PCs had left after nine years of majority government under Brian Mulroney. There haven’t been many humiliating defeats like that in Canadian political history, although Donald Trump’s shocking win over Hillary Clinton to become U.S. President in 2016 rivals it. Campbell has kept busy over the years...

I see and hear a lot of talk about how a national gun registration and/or confiscation would be the trigger that would spark a second American Revolution, as patriots rise up to resist the jackbooted thugs who are going door-to-door taking away people’s arms. I have bad news for everyone who’s waiting for national registration or a mass confiscation so they can get their armed rebellion on: a national database of gun owners already exists, and a national confiscation effort will never happen. Ever. Instead, you’ll hand over your firearms peacefully. All of them, even the ones you paid cash...

This is no time to be on the sidelines. Stacey Abrams: Stand up and be counted. "I do not want to serve in the Senate," says the hugely popular former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Steve Bullock: Stand up and be counted. "My talents are best suited" to an executive role, says Montana's well-liked Democratic governor. Beto O'Rourke: Stand up and be counted. "That would not be good enough" to serve in the Senate, says the gifted former Democratic congressman from Texas. Sorry, but what's not "good enough" are those answers. The three could make all the difference in Democrats' uphill...

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that a Los Angeles Police Department officer is entitled to qualified immunity in an action based on his nonfatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy who was in a group of four youths in an alley, one of whom was perceived by the officer to be holding a gun on one of the others. Officer Miguel Gutierrez fired his weapon, grazing the back of Jamar Nicholson Green, who was the boy believed to be holding a weapon (which was actually a toy pistol with an orange cap). Gutierrez participated in the decision...

An armed man who allegedly tried to rob a mobile phone store in Philadelphia on Monday was shot and killed by an employee in a dramatic moment captured on video. The Philadelphia Police Department said the incident happened just after 4 p.m. at a Metro PCS store in the southwest part of the city when an unidentified man who appeared to be in his late 30s entered the business. The man was trying to rob the store when the lone employee inside – who has a permit to carry a firearm – fired at the would-be robber multiple times, striking...

        YOU'RE THE ONE Les tells the story proudly now, with an ending that few would have ever predicted when he was in high school. He remembers the turning point as though it were yesterday. Just a chance encounter and an offhand comment... but it changed his life forever. He had slipped quietly into the back of a classroom to wait for a friend that day. The last thing he wanted was to be noticed, but the teacher asked him to go to the board and work out a problem. Les pointed out that he wasn't...

An active shooter in Saturday's deadly attack in Odessa has been killed, according to Midland police. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said five people were killed and 21 shooting victims in the area of Midland and Odessa. At a news conference Saturday, Gerke also says that at least three law enforcement officers were among those shot. The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-30s. He spoke after a chaotic afternoon during which police reported that a suspect hijacked a U.S. Postal Service vehicle and began firing at random in the area of Odessa and Midland, hitting multiple...

US police fired pepper spray Saturday after counter-demonstrators accused them of protecting "Straight Pride" advocates who support President Donald Trump, and refused to let officers re-open a road. The unrest came after the counter-protesters and "Straight Pride" group -- considered homophobic extremists by their opponents -- staged dueling rallies in Boston. There was no serious violence during the rallies themselves, which involved groups of several hundred.

Perhaps the censors at Twitter don’t like to admit that a socialist/environmentalist who hates capitalism can also be a racist.

A Trump supporter in Oregon was stripped of his firearms under the state’s red flag laws for declaring that his rights wouldn’t be trampled upon by ANTIFA terrorists who have rampaged throughout Portland during the summer. “If ANTIFA gets to the point where they start killing us, I’m going to kill them next,” said Shane Kohfield, a 32-year-old former Marine. “I’d slaughter them and I have a detailed plan on how I would wipe out ANTIFA.” This statement triggered the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task to revoke Kohfield’s 2nd Amendment rights and take his firearms away. In addition, they forced the...

They’re Will and no Grace. Stars from the hit NBC series “Will and Grace” are upset about an Emmy week fundraiser in Beverly Hills for President Trump next month — and vow to name and shame anyone who dares to show up, hoping to blacklist participants from working in Hollywood. “Please print a list of all attendees please. The public has a right to know,” Debra Messing tweeted Friday night in response to a Hollywood Reporter story on the upcoming event. She and co-star Eric McCormack called for the outing of all Trump supporters who attend. “Hey, @THR,” McCormack posted...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect a direct hit on many U.S. consumers from President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports. He had no intention of pulling back on import taxes set to kick in Sunday. “They’re on. They’re on,” the president told reporters Friday before departing for a weekend stay at Camp David.

Local media outlets report multiple shooting victims in an active shooter situation in the Midland-Odessa region of West Texas. UPDATE 6:00 p.m.:  Press Conference with Odessa Police Department.  The situation began when a DPS trooper pulled over a vehicle. The driver reportedly shot the trooper and drove away firing oat multiple people. There were multiple scenes and multiple victims. The suspect then allegedly stole the mail truck and drove to The Cinergy movie theater complex. Police engaged the suspect and shot killed. At least 21 shooting victims and five people dead, the Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said.The suspect is...

Georgia State a bad Sun Belt teams just beat Tennessee. Might be the one of the worst defeats for The Vols. #FirePruitt

According to a recent poll, the politics of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are hurting the Democratic Party. The poll reveals an overwhelming majority of voters disapprove of the controversial House members who some say have been the face of the party since their election late last year. Conservative media outlets suggest the lawmakers' unpopularity could cost the Democratic Party not only its reign in the House of Representatives, but also blow its chance of taking over the White House in the 2020 election. “A new internal Democratic Party survey polling voter sentiment in crucial swing states revealed that...

SAN ANTONIO - A 33-year-old woman arrested in Florida is now being held in connection to the slaying of Mr. Wonderful, a longtime fixture on the karaoke circuit in San Antonio. Shaniqua Wright was taken into custody Aug. 27 in the Orlando suburb of Belle Isle for assaulting a clerk at a bus station. San Antonio police confirmed Thursday that Wright is the person of interest they have been seeking in connection to the death of 72-year-old singer Oliver London. London, aka Mr. Wonderful, was found dead inside his home in the 7600 block of Woller Place back on June...

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was joined by swelling and excited crowds of American teenagers at a protest outside the UN headquarters in New York on Friday, in a further blossoming of the youth environment movement given extra thrust by the Swede’s transatlantic boat crossing. Some US children said they were at their first ever climate demonstration; others said they had been passionate about the environment for a while but had been galvanized to act by Thunberg’s rising profile. On Friday afternoon, Thunberg and two young activists were spontaneously invited inside the UN for a meeting with a senior leader,...

[Catholic Caucus] Viganò Appointment Once Again Proves That for Francis’s Vatican, Personnel is Policy Msgr. Dario Viganò, the disgraced Vatican apparatchik behind the 2108 Pope Benedict “Lettergate” scandal, has been given a new plum position today as vice chancellor of the Pontifical Academies for Sciences and Social Sciences.In recent memory, Catholics hearing the name Viganò are likely to think primarily of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, who one year ago this month released his unprecedented testimony on sexual abuse coverup at the highest reaches of the Catholic Church — with allegations that reach all the way to the present...

Police arrested a North Carolina university student who admitted to planning a mass shooting at his school, authorities said Wednesday. Officers charged Paul Steber, a 19-year-old freshman at High Point University in North Carolina, with two felony counts of having a gun on campus and an additional count for making threats of mass violence on Tuesday after a classmate reported him, police said. Steber allegedly had ammunition and two firearms -- a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and a double-barrel, 12-gauge shotgun -- in his dorm room when he was arrested. Authorities said he dose not appear to have any criminal...

As global population increases, life expectancy rises, and living standards improve, causes of death across the world are changing. In this entry we present a global overview of the causes of death. The data visualisations and explainers in the early part of this entry attempt to provide a comparison between causes and risk factors of death across countries and age groups. The sections which then follow explore the empirical data of specific causes in more detail.