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"Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday. They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to.. "....an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations. What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? They didn’t, they.... "....only made it worse! If they cannot agree to a ceasefire...

This is the third installment of this rather dense book. In part I, Zehan reviewed the shale revolution, the end of the Bretton Woods structure in which the US provided worldwide protection for free trade, and the demographic collapse that in particular will drive Russia, China, and Japan into conflict in the next 20-30 years. In Part III, Zeihan notes that the American retrenchment will remove the props that allow the international structure to exist; that after 20-30 years the US may again intervene in world affairs; but that when it does, the restructured, sharpened, trained US military will have...

AMBER Rudd quit the Cabinet and the Tory party last night in protest over the expulsion of Remainer rebels. The Work and Pensions Secretary said she could no longer stand by as “good, loyal, moderate Conservatives” are kicked out of the party. It is a fresh blow to Boris Johnson, just 48 hours after his brother Jo quit as Universities Minister. The Prime Minister’s minority government is shrinking by the day as he faces twin battles with the EU and his own Parliament in his struggle to deliver Brexit. In her resignation letter, Ms Rudd — a staunch Remainer —...

There were more red warning flags flapping around the Oval Office last week than on the Atlantic beaches of Florida. Hurricane Dorian may have given the Sunshine State a miss, but Typhoon Trump is still huffing and puffing to blow his electoral chances out to sea. Back during the Bubba era, there was something known as “Clinton Fatigue,” occasioned by an endless parade of tawdry scandals, so many it was hard to keep track of them: sex, money, foreign influence and even the occasional mysterious demise or two — not to mention impeachment. Clinton Fatigue, however, took eight years to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Donald Trump’s statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama. They say NOAA’s action risks the credibility of the nation’s weather and science agency and may even risk lives.

Bette Midler's lavish Fifth Avenue penthouse apartment has gone on sale for an astonishing $50 million after the much-loved singer and entertainer revealed she wanted to downsize now that her daughter has flown the nest. The Wind Beneath My Wings songstress, 73, who is married to performance artist Martin von Haselberg, has lived in the Upper East Side triplex which boasts stunning views of the Central Park reservoir, since 1996. With a more than generous 7,000 square feet of space and an additional 3,000 square feet of outdoor space, the property is among the best of its kind anywhere in...

Prince Andrew flew into such a furious rage at a senior Palace aide that Prince Charles had to ask him to apologise, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. A source close to the Duke of York – who is under intense scrutiny over his links to paedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein – last night confirmed the outburst, admitting that Andrew had ‘got very cross’. However, the friend rejected a suggestion from a well-placed royal insider that the Duke had physically assaulted the highly-respected aide, adding: ‘There were heated words on both sides but the altercation was in no way physical.

So it must have been quite a shock to his viewers – many of whom, perhaps, have supported his ministry for years by sending him money – to hear him say earlier this week: Hinn: "… I'm sorry to say that prosperity has gone a little crazy – and I'm correcting my own theology …. And I will tell you now something that is going to shock you: I think it's an offense to the Lord, it's an offense to say give a thousand dollars. I think it's an offense to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the...

No trip to the Big Apple is complete without a few quintessentially New York experiences: grabbing a gigantic slice of NYC-style pizza; strolling across Brooklyn Bridge on a clear morning; and, of course, coming face-to-toe with a cat-sized rat on the subway. But that last time-honored tradition has vexed city planners for centuries, with rodents blighting New York City's tunnels, streets and businesses for as long as the city has existed. Now, at last, a radical solution may be at hand: the city plans to entice the creatures with bait before drowning them in a bucket of alcohol.

A man accused of murdering his girlfriend in southeast China was caught after facial recognition software suggested he had tried to scan a dead person’s face to apply for a loan. Officers in Fujian province said the 29-year-old named Zhang was caught while trying to burn the body on a remote farm, but they had been tipped off by an online lending company after its software could find no signs of movement in the victim’s eyes, Xiamen Evening News reported on Sunday. Zhang is suspected of strangling his girlfriend with a rope in Xiamen on April 11 after they argued...

Rolling power outages began Saturday in Glendale and were set to cycle through two different areas in the city. The outages - employed to ease strain on the electricity distribution system amid high temperatures -- began as early as 12:45 p.m., Glendale Water & Power reported. They are formulated on an as-needed basis, and anyone experiencing an outage will have power restored an hour after service was disrupted, according to the utility. The Pacific Community Center at 501 S. Pacific Ave., is available as a cooling center until 9 p.m. Saturday, and the Adult Recreation Center at 201 E Colorado...

Oscar-winner Helen Mirren will lead miniseries Catherine the Great as the tumultuous monarch and politician who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the 18th century. The four-part historical drama will follow the end of Catherine’s reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics. Catherine the Great premieres October 21 at 10PM on HBO. Catherine the Great (2019): Official Trailer | HBO

Loses the US Open Final to Canada's 19 year old Bianca Andreescu... 6/2, 7/5 Poor Meghan Markle. She flew to NYC just to watch Williams lose in straight sets.

As President Donald Trump has mulled acting on gun control legislation in the wake of a string of mass shootings, data gathered by the president's campaign showed that supporting any gun control measures would pose a problem for him politically going into the 2020 election season, according to sources familiar with the results. The data is comprised of campaign polling conducted before recent back-to-back mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that left 31 dead -- as well as more recent outreach to his base and independent voters, according to the sources. ABC News has not independently reviewed...

The [P]resident is considering tougher penalties for straw buyers, the death penalty for mass shooters and bringing more records to the background check database. President Donald Trump is finalizing his proposals designed to curb gun violence. But it's unclear whether anyone really wants what he’ll be offering. Most Democrats consider them too weak. Most Republicans, long resistant to triggering their base or the gun lobby, fear Trump won’t push them forcefully enough — leaving them hanging. The two sides will begin jockeying over firearms legislation when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next week, a fight expected to continue through the...

[Catholic Caucus] The significance of Cardinal Brandmüller's latest condemnation of the Amazon Synod: "A situation never before seen in the Church's history" By now (6th September 2019), many media outlets (among them Catholic Herald and Catholic News Agency) have reported on the latest broadside against the upcoming Amazon Synod (and its Instrumentum Laboris) by Cardinals Raymond Burke and Walter Brandmüller.  This is not the first time that either Cardinal has denounced this horrid document. What is new is Brandmüller's declaration that the current crisis surpasses even the Arian Crisis in severity:  "'We must face serious challenges to the integrity of...

A man was arrested for defacing the iconic “Charging Bull” statue in Manhattan’s Financial District early Saturday, police said. Witnesses spotted Tevon Varlack, 42, of Texas, repeatedly whacking the bull’s right horn with a large unknown metal object while yelling at about 12:30 a.m., authorities said. It’s unclear what Varlack was muttering during his rampage on the popular bronze sculpture, but his attack left visible gashes on the bull’s right horn.

Eric Trump touched off a heated Twitter conversation about the US media on Friday, after he outed a Washington Post reporter who’d apparently been email-blasting Trump Organization employees, looking for whistleblowers. The kerfuffle began when the president’s son somehow got a copy of an email reporter David Fahrenthold sent to a Trump employee, indicating how to reach him on encrypted apps and leak internal documents safely. “If you ever want to get in touch with me, I’d be glad to talks ‘on background’, meaning I’d never use your name in any story, or tell anyone else that we spoke,” Fahrenthold wrote...

[Catholic Caucus] Buffalo Bishops Silenced Priest Abused by Another Priest Bps. Malone, Grosz resort to 'blackmail' to mute Fr. Ryszard Biernat BUFFALO, N.Y. (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Buffalo chancery insider is exposing efforts by Bp. Richard Malone and Auxiliary Bp. Edward M. Grosz to cover up his sexual assault at the hands of a diocesan priest. In an interview with WKBW investigative reporter Charlie Specht this week, Fr. Ryszard Biernat revealed that the bishops, using threats, forced him into silence after an alleged assault by Fr. Art Smith. In 2003, Biernat left his native Poland to attend Buffalo's Christ the King Seminary. Once enrolled, he was assigned...