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U.S.—Oops! A social media scheduling error apparently caused Hillary Clinton to post her condolences for Tulsi Gabbard's suicide one day early. This morning, Clinton posted that she felt "great sadness" at hearing that Gabbard had killed herself. In subsequent tweets, she detailed how "tragic" it was that Gabbard had broken her own kneecaps, stuck her feet in concrete, then tossed herself off the docks near a seedy warehouse. "It's just terrible what happened, and though we disagreed, I hope we can all take a few minutes to send thoughts and prayers to the family," Clinton concluded. The post was deleted...

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FULL TITLE: Oklahoma judge halts law requiring doctors to inform patients that medication abortions can be counteracted An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a new law requiring doctors who administer medication abortions to inform women that the process may be reversed. The Oklahoma County District Court had been asked to block the law by the Center for Reproductive Rights just before it was to take effect on Nov. 1. Oklahoma County District Judge Don Andrews issued a temporary injunction, which will remain in place while the case is fully litigated before the judge. The state’s Republican-led Legislature approved the...

Doing business in Russia became easier over the past year as Russia advanced to 28th out of 190 countries in the World Bank's 2020 business rankings, from 31st in the 2019 report, the World Bank said on Thursday. Russia is now one notch below Austria, ranked 27th, but above Japan which is in 29th place. New Zealand remained the best place for Doing Business in the world, according to the World Bank, while Somalia was the worst. Over the past year, Russia made getting access to electricity faster, strengthened minority investor protections by requiring greater corporate transparency, and made paying...

The Darwin Awards are out ... Yes, it's that magical time of year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here is the glorious winner: 1. When his .38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. And now, the honorable mentions: 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The exodus of Venezuelans is on track to reach 5 million people, as pressure grows on neighboring countries to provide them with long-term support, United Nations and European Union officials said on Wednesday. Some 4.5 million refugees and migrants have fled Venezuela since 2015, according to official figures, but more are using illegal crossing points because they lack identity papers, said Eduardo Stein, joint special representative of the U.N. refugee and migration agencies. The crisis has worsened since the United States imposed sanctions, including on the pivotal oil industry, in an effort to oust leftist President Nicolas...

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza can’t recall ‘a consistent drumbeat of accusations about racism, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, considering the charges of racism and hate-mongering lodged against GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, asks: “Did Democrats cry wolf so many times before Trump that no one hears or heeds them now?” He quotes Democratic communications maven Howard Wolfson, who worked on the campaigns of John F. Kerry and Hillary Clinton, as concluding there is some truth to the charge. There has been pushback against this heresy in the world of Acela journalism, mostly on Twitter, but most notably from...

There are about 5,000 members of the U.S. military, mostly airmen, stationed at the huge, strategically located air base in Incirlik, Turkey, northwest of the Syrian border. The American forces at Incirlik are also the custodians of about 50 B61 nuclear bombs. Data on these weapons is classified, but at their maximum yield each is 10 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to Stars and Stripes. It's a "Dr. Strangelove" scenario: No one quite knows how the American contingent could manage to secretly remove the deadly nukes from their concrete vaults, bring them out to the...

I think I know what the deal is with all the gushing adoration Tulsi Gabbard has somehow managed to wrangle from ordinarily sensible conservatives. Think of a regular guy walking down the hall in high school, and the head cheerleader passes by and says, “Hi.” The dude’s going to think she’s awesome. Of course, just because she is polite doesn’t mean Regular Joe is ever going to take her to the prom. Tulsi gets Strange New Conservative Respect for several reasons, but the primary one is that she doesn’t seem to hate our guts. She is what an opponent should...

Sino-Russian relations are a topic that the American media has been following for a long time. A few days ago, the American international public radio company Voice of America published an article that contains a study of the Russian pollster Levada Center in September, according to which, following the worsening economic situation in Russia, xenophobia intensified, in particular, anti-Chinese sentiments. Is this really so? I found the original report of the Russian Levada Center, which mainly refers to the fact that the “Crimea effect” caused a decrease in the attention of the Russian public to immigration issues after the Ukrainian...

Slovakia is the last EU Member State without a single mosque, TRT World reports. Previous attempts to build have been halted by politicians.The country does not recognise Islam as a religion and only have a few thousand Muslim residents. Islam must not be taught in schools and the 5,000 Muslims, mostly European ones, who reside in the country are not officially recognised. They account for only 0.1% of the population. In 2007, politicians changed the country’s laws so that 20,000 signatures from members were required to be recognised by the state. In 2017 they more than doubled the number of...

Over the past few years, the strategic partnership in the field of aviation technology between China and Ukraine have been developing at a rapid pace. We are observing not only a continuous flow of a huge number of Ukrainian specialists in relevant fields moving to China for work, but also a constant exchange of key technological developments between Ukrainian aerospace companies and Chinese aviation enterprises. As we know, earlier the Ukrainian company “Motor Sich” ceded to China the production technology and tooling for the D-18T high-power turbofan engine, and subsequently another well-known Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer - KB “Progress” named after...

Is it any wonder why there’s such a disconnect between Americans and the media giants that claim to represent them? For the second time in less than a month, a magazine has declared that only liberal women make a difference. Glamour announced the 2019 Women of the Year and — surprise — no conservatives are included. Some of the winners include far-left environmental activist Greta Thunberg, anti-Trump soccer star Megan Rapinoe and apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood. How about female leaders like former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley or Senator/United States Air Force combat veteran Martha McSally? Of course,...

Kudos to the Huffpost for trying to find some common ground between the LGBTQ community and Christians. And by finding common ground, we mean adopting a scorched earth/take-no-prisoners tactic in its war against those with different points of view. Huffpo’s little educational piece, titled “Christians, Here’s How To Affirm Your Queer Friends,” is an uncompromising list of demands for traditional Christians who, wthether they’ve intended it or not, have caused great harm to fragile LGBTQ psyches throughout history. They’ve come for their revenge, and it’s not just about treating your gay neighbor civilly. You will accommodate his/her/their every wish or...

A convicted killer and reputed gangbanger was released without bail following a gun bust in The Bronx — by a judge who critics claim owes her job to political connections, The Post has learned. Shakeil Chandler, 32, served an eight-year prison term for manslaughter in a 2006 shooting in Queens before being paroled in 2014, records show. On Oct. 4, the reputed Crips gang member was busted when cops responded to an electronic “ShotSpotter” report of gunfire and found a group of people — including a wounded victim — outside 1331 Beach Ave. in Soundview at about 1:50 a.m., law-enforcement...

The “Donald Trump/Mike Pence Prayer Vigil” and “Pray for our American Heroes" Prayer Thread have Combined to Form the AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL Prayer Thread! Join with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for our PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind. Psalm 59:16,17 I will Sing of Your Strength, In the Morning I will Sing...

Rep. Katie Hill admits to 'inappropriate' relationship with campaign staffer, vows to cooperate with ethics panel Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., admitted Wednesday she had an "inappropriate" relationship with a campaign staffer, but denied a report of an affair with her legislative director, all while vowing to cooperate with the House Ethics Committee in its newly launched investigation. In a letter to constituents obtained by Fox News, Hill acknowledged that in the final years of what she called an "abusive marriage," she began a relationship with the unnamed campaign staffer. "I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is...

Ambassador Philip Reeker is expected to appear in closed session before three Democrat-led House committees conducting an impeachment investigation into President Trump on Saturday, a congressional source told Fox News. Reeker’s testimony was originally scheduled for Thursday but members did not want to question the witness during a ceremony where the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., will lie in state at the Capitol. Cummings’ funeral will be in Baltimore on Friday.

House Freedom Caucus Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, defended Republican lawmakers who stormed the sensitive compartmented information facility room where Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was about to hold a Trump impeachment inquiry hearing. Jordan claimed Wednesday on "The Ingraham Angle" that Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has not been transparent as he leads the impeachment inquiry. "Here's the fundamental question -- There's one person who started this whole thing -- the whistleblower -- in the whistleblower's complaint, bullet point number one, he says over the past four months more than half a dozen U.S. officials gave me the...

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