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Pittsburgh police are investigating a "medical situation" that left three people dead and four others hospitalized Sunday morning. All seven people were wearing orange paper wrist bands, which may offer clues, Pittsburgh Director of Public Safety Wendell Hissrich said. He said all are believed to be middle-aged men. Authorities responded to a report of an unconscious man around 2 a.m. Sunday on the city's south side. They found a man dead at the scene, Hissrich said. Shortly later, paramedics responded to another man who was "somewhat conscious" and had symptoms similar to that of the first man. He was taken...

I’m still laughing….though I doubt Mayor De Blasio or the New York City businesspeople he shook down because they need permits and approvals his loyal followers found it as amusing as I did.

On Tuesday, the East St. Louis’ firefighter pension fund demanded that Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza intercept more than $2.2 million of East St. Louis city revenues so they could be diverted to the pension fund. The fund trustees said the city shorted firefighter pensions by $880,000 in 2017 and another $1.3 million in 2018. Under a 2011 pension law, the state comptroller gained the powers to intercept city revenues on behalf of police and fire pension funds shorted by their municipalities.

Dr. Kawas and her team of doctors and professors analyzed data from a long term study conducted at the UC Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders. They dubbed this study the “90+ Study” which has been following people over the age of 90 since 2003. The research covered everything from daily exercise to sleep schedule to diet. As a result, the researches concluded that people who drank two glasses of wine or beer per day saw an 18% drop in their risk of early death. On the other hand, those who exercised 15-45 minutes per day only saw...

Teenagers have been bursting into the conversation surrounding climate change — passionately advocating for the planet and their future living on it. But this college student is making her activism even more personal by pledging not to have children until leaders take action. Canadian teen Emma Lim told CBS News she made the decision a few months ago not to have children in the future due to the climate crisis. "Because even though I want to have children more than almost anything, what kind of a mother would I be if I brought a baby into a world where I...

Ivanka Trump was all sparkle and smiles on Saturday night in a photo she posted to social media of herself and husband Jared Kushner heading out for night two the Mikey Hess and Misha Nonoo wedding festivities. That sparkle came courtesy of her Bob Mackie dress, which fit perfectly with he night's theme - Dazzling. What's more, Ivanka did not have to shell out the five-to-six-figure price tag that would normally come with a Mackie piece, and instead got the dress for free - from her mother's closet. Ivana Trump wore the very same dress back in 1991, and her...

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove. The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -2. (see trends).

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has fallen and is engaging in “mob behavior.” Brooks said, “[T]he fall of Giuliani is one of the great stories of our age. I covered him a lot when he was mayor, extremely brilliant, extremely sharp, not the man I see today. The one continuity is that he would sit around with his staff and watch the ‘Godfather’ movies over and over again. And the mob behavior — this really is mob behavior. It’s like, let’s dig up dirt on this guy.”

“The majority of our youth—63 percent—are believers,” commented the head of the Дepartment for External Church Relations, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, citing a VTSIOM survey, according to which only 37% of young Russians aged 18-24 consider themselves unbelievers, reports Foma. “It’s another question how they believe? There are young people who are churched. There are young people who are seeking, who consider themselves believers but haven’t yet decided which religious community they should join,” Metropolitan Hilarion said. According to the survey, only 16% of 24 to 34-year-old respondents consider themselves unbelievers. “The percentage of believers increases with age—this...

He announced on Twitter that he’s finished. “Will not be playing in the (NFL) anymore these owners can cancel deals do whatever they want at anytime we will see if the (NFLPA) hold them accountable sad they can just void guarantees anytime going on 40m 2 months will see if they pay up !” the tweet read. Brown was recently released by the Patriots.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Roger Thornhill. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest is an iconic movie, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, back in an age when movies were brilliantly produced and written, while roles were played by actors with both intelligence and emotion. This quote was one of the many quips played by Grant's character, Roger Thornhill. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental...

Ethiopian Christians took to the streets after morning mass on Sunday to protest multiple attacks on Ethiopian Orthodox churches in the country.The protests were mainly centered in the Amhara region and parts of Addis Ababa, and follow a year-long spate of attacks on both Orthodox and Protestant churches in the country. Protestors are demanding an end to what they view as “a planned and orchestrated attack on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church”, according to a report on Borkena.com. * Thousands protested despite church organisations announcing on Friday that the action was postponed in favour of dialogue. * Diaspora communities are...

State appeals court says transsexual man can sue Mercy San Juan Medical Center for refusing to perform hysterectomyThe 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco ruled that a Sacramento-area transgender man can sue Mercy San Juan Medical Center over the last-minute cancellation of his hysterectomy, overturning a lower-court ruling that dismissed the case. Dignity Health, which operates Mercy San Juan, arranged for Evan Minton to have the procedure at Methodist Hospital in south Sacramento within 72 hours of the denial, court records state. The procedure was canceled, the lawsuit stated, after Minton mentioned to a nurse that he is...

Chairman of finance council: 'Claims come forward every time you turn around'CHICAGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - A prominent sex abuse attorney announced at a press conference on Sept. 17 that he recently settled cases for long-ago sexual misdeeds for more than $80 million for 160 victims over the last two decades. The more than $80 million the Chicago archdiocese has paid since 2001, attorney Jeff Anderson of Jeff Anderson & Associates said, represents a large chunk of the estimated $220 million that the archdiocese had spent in total to settle such claims. The financial toll of priest sex abuse on the Chicago...

Posted on September 21, 2019September 20, 2019 by Msgr. Charles Pope On Being Faithful in a Few Things before Being Ruler over Many Things - A Homily for the 24th Sunday of the Year In this Sunday’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to us would-be saints. Let’s look at the Gospel in two stages:I. ANALYSIS OF THE SINNER – In the opening lines of the Gospel, Jesus describes a sinful steward.DELUSION (of the sinner) – Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) Daniel 11 11 1 And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I took my stand to support and protect him.) The King Who Exalts Himself 36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one desired by women, nor will he...

“His Son Knows Nothing, He’s a Stiff” – President Trump Doubles Down – Blasts Joe Biden on Son’s Billion Dollar Pay-for-Play with China (VIDEO) Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft September 22, 2019 ShareTweetEmail In his 2018 book, Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends Peter Schweizer revealed how the Biden family secured a billion-dollar China deal just days after former Vice President Joe Biden visited China in 2013. The Clintons aren’t the only ones securing huge contracts with foreign governments off their political status!

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of North by Northwest. Here's what Mark had to say about this classic film a few years ago: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest contains what I think of as the all-time great strangers-on-a-train scene, and one I always recall if I'm in the dining car of an at least potentially exotic choo-choo - the Eurostar, say - and a glamorous femme comes sashaying down the aisle, even if she does park herself at some other guy's table. In a lifetime's travel, everyone should have a North by Northwest moment: on a...

Thomas Cook, a British travel company that’s been around for more than 100 years, met with shareholders on Sunday in the company’s fight to avoid bankruptcy. Thomas Cook confirmed Friday that it is seeking £200 million in new capital. The company’s largest shareholder is Chinese investment company Fosun. […] A collapse could leave around 150,000 travelers from Britain stranded, along with tens of thousands of travelers from other countries. The British government may have to lease planes to get its citizens home. …

Spin the magic wheel: click, click, click, click, click—click—click: Ukraine! We’re all going to Ukraine!Another week, another pseudo-scandal fomented by anonymous anti-Trump actors in the “intelligence community” and fanned into attention-grabbing headlines by an impatient, irresponsible press.Can anyone keep them all straight? They rise like noxious bubbles from the cauldron of deep-state anti-Trump sentiment, only to pass away almost immediately, carried off by their own insubstantiality and the contrasting bright-light series of real achievements on the part of the Trump Administration. Just this last week, we saw the New York chapter of the left-over Left make a last-ditch effort to...