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FREEPORT, Maine — After 18 years, the Freeport Flag Ladies will end their weekly flag waving on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Every Tuesday since the 9/11 attacks, Elaine Greene, Carmen Footer and JoAnn Miller have waved the American flag on Main Street in Freeport to honor those killed and military members serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Alaska Department of Corrections has agreed to policy changes to accommodate Muslim inmates who wish to practice their religion, settling a lawsuit brought last year. A federal judge Friday signed the agreement in a case brought on behalf of two Muslim inmates by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which argued that meals provided to the men during the holy month of Ramadan did not meet caloric standards under federal health guidelines. They also said the meals were cold when others received hot meals and sometimes contained pork at odds with their faith.

I review John Zmirak's treatise on dealing with immigration in a 21st century context, and explore why the left has recast legitimate opposition to mass immigration and illegal immigration as racism and xenophobia.

Businesswoman and former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday accused Republicans of demanding the party’s voters “swear fidelity” to President Donald Trump. “In this country, we pledge allegiance to the flag, not the president. We swear fidelity to the Constitution, not the party,” Fiorina wrote in a blistering Twitter thread.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archaeological dig at the Cooper’s Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the area 16,000 years ago, more than a thousand years earlier than scientists previously thought. The artifacts would be considered among the earliest evidence of people in North America. The findings, published today in Science, add weight to the hypothesis that initial human migration to the Americas followed a Pacific coastal route rather than through the opening of an inland ice-free corridor, said Loren Davis, a professor of anthropology at Oregon State University and...

Pressure is mounting on Congress to “do something” in response to recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. A poll released Monday confirms what has been true for years: namely, that Americans support new gun regulations.

Boris Johnson shut down Parliament for five weeks tonight after humiliatingly losing his latest bid to trigger a snap election. The PM accused 'yellow belly' Jeremy Corbyn and Remainers of 'conniving to delay Brexit' - jibing that they 'can't hide forever' from the people's verdict. After the result, he vowed that he will defy the 'device' of the new Remainer law against No Deal and stick to his 'do or die' vow to get the UK out by October 31. Mr Johnson said opposition parties had decided they 'know better' than the public. He insisted he would go to an...

If you live in NC this is a reminder to please get out and vote Greg Murphy and Dan Bishop tomorrow 9/10/19 in the special elections....Listening to Trumps rally in NC now and they BOTH beleive in God......We need to have Trumps back. Praying conservative voters do not sit this one out but are determined to vote..no matter how long a day they face.

Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign is lowering expectations in some early voting states, veteran political reporter Paul Steinhauser told Hill.TV on Monday. “Just a few days ago, the Biden campaign in a conference with me and other national political reporters, they downplayed both what the vice president could do in Iowa and the expectations in New Hampshire as well,” Steinhauser said during an interview on “Rising.” “They were touting how their staff was beefing up in the Super Tuesday states and beyond, but they did lower expectations a little bit in the first four early voting states,” he added....

Conservative network One America News Network (OANN) filed a $10 million lawsuit Monday against MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow for calling the company “literally … paid Russian propaganda.” SNIP The lawsuit accuses Maddow of “[knowing] this statement was false” and making it with the intent of damaging the company’s business due to its vocal support of President Trump. It claims that in response to a retraction request, counsel for NBC Universal said Maddow was using “literally” in a figurative sense. Maddow based the segment in question, which aired July 22, on a Daily Beast article reporting that on-air OANN correspondent...

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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Sarah on the “Absurd” Plan for “Second-Class Priests” In an interview with Gloria TV at Lake Garda back in July, I warned that the seditious Synod on the Amazon is evidently designed to provide an opening to married priests by ordaining elder married men with families to the priesthood for the Amazon region, and that these married priests, lacking any theological formation, would constitute a novel lower-grade priesthood without authority to teach or govern, but only to administer the sacraments. The result would be the ecclesiastical equivalent of utility players on sports teams, assuming it were even...

An seven-year-old millionaire YouTuber may be facing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission amid accusations that he pushed unwitting children into buying toys made by his sponsors. Ryan Kaji is the star of Ryan ToysReview channel, which has 21 million subscribers, and sees him unbox and play with toys which he then reviews. The child is worth $22million and was last year named YouTube's highest earner by Forbes magazine. The account is run by his parents, Shion Guan and his 35-year-old wife Kieu-Loan, who calls herself Loann. Together, they have found themselves at the center of a row after...

RICHMOND, Va. - The stories continue coming in regarding the auto industry’s efforts to recruit technicians. This time, it’s CarMax pulling out all the stops, with the used-car retailer undertaking what it describes as the biggest technician and detailer hiring effort in its history. To help the company increase its production of vehicles for retail to customers to support the company’s continued growth, CarMax announced a nationwide plan to hire more than 850 technicians. CarMax said its highly trained associates will mostly work on reconditioning vehicles and preparing them for sale. At 17 U.S. CarMax stores, the company will team...

With the third Democratic primary debate likely to bring the focus back to health care, nuances, six candidates have paid extra attention to combating the HIV epidemic, putting forward plans that rely heavily on expanding medical access across the country. AIDS United, a non-profit organization working to end the HIV epidemic in the United States, sent a questionnaire to every candidate running for president to increase awareness of the HIV issue, which is of global urgency. In the United States, over one million people are living with HIV. “The presidential candidates in 2020 have a unique opportunity to make history,”...

First lady Melania Trump says she is worried about the 'growing epidemic' of e-cigarette use among US adolescents and teens. In a tweet on Monday afternoon, she called for action to fight 'nicotine addiction', but didn't mention any specific plans. 'I am deeply concerned about the growing epidemic of e-cigarette use in our children,' she tweeted. 'We need to do all we can to protect the public from tobacco-related disease and death, and prevent e-cigarettes from becoming an on-ramp to nicotine addiction for a generation of youth.'

Yujing Zhang stalled jury selection after appearing in court dressed in a brown jumpsuit instead of civilian clothes, claiming she wasn’t given any underwear. Dressing defendants in civilian clothing is common practice during trials to prevent jury prejudice. The 33-year-old Shanghai business consultant was eventually taken to a holding cell, where she changed into a blouse and khaki pants that were found in her hotel room after Secret Service agents arrested her at the Florida club in March. Zhang fired her public defenders in June against the recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman in order to represent herself with...

[Catholic Caucus] In the “Church of Vatican II,” You Never Know Where You’re Going ‘Till You Get There In an address during his trip to Mozambique, Pope Francis reiterated for the umpteenth time his thematic disdain for the past, just because it is the past, in favor of a gauzy future, just because it is the future.  Quoth Francis: “Dear brothers and sisters, whether we like it or not, we are called to face reality as it is. Times change and we need to realize that often we do not know how to find our place in new scenarios: we...

The utility is set to submit Monday its plan for getting out of bankruptcy. The company is expected to outline Monday how it plans to repay billions in liabilities from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires. PG&E said in a statement selling assets to San Francisco wasn’t in the best interest of its customers and stakeholders.

A Haverford College student who used a campus computer to attempt to hack into an IRS database to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns days before the 2016 presidential election pleaded guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanor crimes in federal court. Justin Hiemstra, 22, who finished his studies in May but will not get his degree until he completes a study-abroad program next May, told Judge Cynthia Rufe that he did not know what he would have done with the tax returns if he and classmate Andrew Harris had succeeded in obtaining them on Nov. 2, 2016. “It was a time when...