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A Dutch court acquitted a doctor on Wednesday of all charges for the euthanasia of an elderly woman who suffered from dementia but may not have wanted to end her life when her life was taken. The landmark case received widespread media attention because prosecutors claim the doctor, who remains unnamed, did not properly consult her patient before injecting her with a lethal dose of drugs. The unnamed 74-year-old patient was given a sedative in her coffee and had to be restrained by her husband and daughter as the doctor injected her with the deadly drugs. "We conclude that all...

HBO host Bill Maher derided 2020 Democrats'apparent shift to the left during the primary season Thursday, suggesting it was a plague on the progressive movement. “It’s not good. It’s kind of a cancer on progressivism," Maher said on "Morning Joe" hours before the third Democratic primary debate. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough had asked the comedian about the 2020 field's criticism of former President Obama: "How maddening is that to you that they're having this race to the far left?" Several media personalities criticized the 2020 field after the second primary debate when most candidates knocked the Obama administration on issues like immigration and health care as a way to attack...

<p>A college student allegedly placed a noose in a residence hall elevator, authorities say. Hate-crime charges followed.</p> <p>Andrew M. Smith, 19, was arrested Monday night and charged with a felony hate crime and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor.</p> <p>Residence hall staff members reported seeing the noose in an elevator in a public part of the building around 1 a.m. Sunday, Illinois Public Media reported. Other students reported finding the noose early Sunday, according to the Chicago Tribune.</p>

While it’s true that Foxconn won’t be creating the eighth wonder of the world, building a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus, or hiring 13,000 employees, it does have big plans, which were announced last week. Ahem. Foxconn will be manufacturing a line of fully automated, robotic brewing machines that that can push out 100 cups of coffee in a single hour — equaling the output of three to four baristas, according to the Briggo company, which sells the machines, which they have dubbed a “coffee haus”. The coffee haus will end all the travails you’ve no doubt suffered trying to order a...

The RCMP has arrested and charged a high-level official with the force in a major national security case. Cameron Ortis faces seven charges dating back to 2015 under both the Criminal Code and the Security of Information Act, and Global News has learned the RCMP believe he stole “large quantities of information, which could compromise an untold number of investigations.” Other sources referred to the case as “serious spy s–t.” ...he was likely the only civilian to ever achieve the position of director general of intelligence. That role gave him control over RCMP counter-intelligence operations. ...charges relate specifically with unauthorized...

Lauren Bruner, one of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, died Tuesday in California. He was 98. -snip Bruner, who was a 21-year-old fire controlman third class in charge of the ship’s .50-caliber guns, was the second to last person to leave the burning ship after the onslaught by the Japanese. In a 2014 interview with Arizona Public Radio, he recalled that on the morning of Dec. 7 he raced up from below the ship’s deck when the attack began. He said he saw a Japanese plane fly by so closely that...

A man has been charged after he was captured on video Thursday berating women with racist and sexist taunts on a Metro Vancouver bus. Scarlett MacPherson, 19, was riding the 95 B-line bus for the first time to Simon Fraser University. At around 2:20 p.m., she said a man boarded the bus and launched into a tirade at the women around him. MacPherson started recording on her cell phone. "There was a man screaming vile, racist and sexist comments at almost all the women on the bus," the psychology student said. "It was really rough, actually." In the video, the...

Mets rookie first baseman Pete Alonso first wanted to get custom made baseball caps to honor 9/11, but Major League Baseball nixed that idea with a mile of red tape. So Pete Alonzo set off on a different plan.The Mets superstar rookie first baseman would buy each of his teammates custom-made cleats with different designs honoring the 9/11 first responders, and to heck with approval from MLB.So, the Mets took the field Wednesday night at Citi Field wearing their 9/11 shoes to honor the victims, families and first responders. On Pete Alonso’s right cleat was an image of first responders...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, 16, attends a protest outside the White House on Friday. She launched the Friday school strikes last year. Since then, her notoriety has steadily grown as she speaks in clear and powerful terms about why people — particularly young people — must pay attention to our climate. Greta Thunberg led a protest at the White House Friday. But she wasn't looking to go inside: "I don't want to meet with people who don't accept the science," she says. The young Swedish activist joined a large crowd of protesters outside the White House Friday morning, calling for...

Lawmakers are hoping President Trump comes to a decision soon on what kind of gun legislation he would sign-off on. One America’s Marty Golingan has more on how the White House and the Senate aim to get gun measures off the ground. [Embedded video]

It seems Beto O’Rourke can threaten ‘I’m coming For Your AR-15,’ But if you respond ‘My AR is ready for you’ that’s a ‘Death Threat’ WOW! Beto O’Rourke who has been spewing his rhetoric about screwing the 2nd Amendment, because if he’s elected President he’ll send the Government to your house and take your AR-15, if you don’t comply with his mandatory buy back. Since Briscoe Cain posted the message, Twitter of course, removed it for violating their “Your Not A Democrat” policies.

DNC chair: Programs called socialism by GOP critics ‘make capitalism work’ Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez says that what Republicans call “socialism” actually makes “capitalism work for everyone.” Mr. Perez sat down with Fox News’ Bret Baier Thursday evening in Houston to discuss the future of the Democratic Party. The two men, having just watched ten presidential hopefuls spar on stage, discussed the divide between democratic socialists like Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders and the more fiscally moderate former Vice President Joe Biden. “You know Brett, socialism is the oldest trick in the book,” Mr. Perez said. “You’re a very...

The View co-host Joy Behar went on a rant on Friday’s show, urging the show’s liberal viewers to unite behind whomever the Democrat nominee will be. Behar painted a bleak dystopian picture of what America is like now under President Trump, warning liberals that to save the country and their children, they must vote Democrat, no matter what, in 2020. The hosts spent most of Friday’s show discussing the Democrat candidates' performances during last night’s debate. Joy Behar got the last word in, as she put on her best Chicken Little performance, trying to instill fear into the hearts of...

Portsmouth Island is an 18 mile stretch of undeveloped barrier island south of Ocracocke. There is a private ferry that carries 4x4 vehicles over to a primitive fish camp. Most people fish and camp along the beach. All 18 miles were driveable. The link shows before and after views of the storm damage. Dozens of new inlets were created. It's a sad day for those of us who loved camping and fishing the entire island. Those days are gone for the foreseeable future. Link to photos

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"View" co-host Joy Behar invoked George Orwell's iconic novel "1984" while discussing the Trump presidency with author Stephen King. While promoting his new novel, "The Institute," on Wednesday, King began by explaining the plot, which involves "defenseless children" with supernatural abilities who are "locked up" by a mysterious organization. He talked about how his story connects to current events. "When I started writing this book, I just wanted to write a story about defenseless children who were locked up and had to kind of band together in order to fight these cruel adults that are performing tests on them," King...

Mark Steyn's live show on now at https://www.steynonline.com/9733/live-around-the-planet-friday-september-13th Enjoy!

VIDEO Watch the debate between the Beto O'Rourke of 2018 running for the Senate from Texas vs the Beto O'Rourke of 2019 running for the Democrat presidential nomination as they present sharply contrasting views on the subject of AR-15 ownership.

Just when you think MSNBC can’t go any lower, boom, they do. “Morning Joe”co-host Mika Brzezinski on Friday seemed to suggest that President Trump isn’t Barron Trump’s biological father, The liberal hosts and guests were discussing the Democratic debate on Thursday night, including former Vice President Joe Biden‘s bumbling performance, when co-host Joe Scarborough brought up a supposed gaffe Trump made as he announced the banning of flavored vaping products.

In 2018, the trucking industry was short roughly 60,800 drivers – up nearly 20% from 2017’s figure of 50,700. If current trends hold, the American Trucking Association (ATA) says the shortage could rise to more than 160,000 by 2028. The driver shortage is a problem for the entire supply chain, as 71.4% of all freight tonnage is moved on the nation’s highways, ATA says in its Truck Driver Shortage Analysis 2019 report. “The increase in the driver shortage should be a warning to carriers, shippers and policymakers, because if conditions don’t change substantively, our industry could be short just over...