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The Minnesota Vikings will attempt to keep a winning streak alive Thursday night at U.S. Bank Stadium. The Vikings play the Washington Redskins at 7:20 p.m. It's the first matchup between Kirk Cousins and his former team as well as with some former Vikings, including Adrian Peterson and Case Keenum. Unfortunately for the Vikings, they will be without Adam Thielen who was hurt last week making a catch in the end zone. Ahead of the game, there will be a march and rally to protest Washington's team name. Thousands of people are expected to surround the stadium during the "Not...

As with any sclerotic bureaucracy whose mission is lost to circumstances, America’s former Cold War espionage apparatus has grown sloppy. But using Western spies to fabricate political dirt crosses a big line. There was once a time when Washington needed spies with the power to operate clandestinely in a free society. Soviet Communism was an evil ideology that spread its error by revolutionary movements through what was then called “the domino theory.” Sometime in the early 1990s, though, Russia ceased to embody an ideology and became a nation again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn moved back, and Russians stopped caring so much whether...

The First Rule of Holes: When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. – South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is neck-deep in a big ol’ Deep State hole, and he apparently doesn’t have any idea how to get out of it. Faced with rising anger among the supporters of President Donald Trump – who won his state by 14% of the vote in 2016 – over his refusal to follow up all year on promises to issue a raft of subpoenas and hold hearings to dig at the truth behind Spygate and the neverending coup attempts targeting the President,...

SPRINGFIELD — CRRC MA, the Chinese-owned rail car manufacturer with a $95 million factory in East Springfield, is hiring to fulfill an order for double-decker commuter rail cars placed by SEPTA, the Philadelphia-area transit network. CRRC is hosting a job fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday to hire 20 to 30 mechanical assemblers, electrical assemblers and test technicians, said spokeswoman Lydia Rivera. The jobs pay about $18 an hour, Rivera said. The plant, at 655 Page Boulevard, already has 184 employees, with 122 of them union production workers. "This is just the beginning," Rivera said. "We'll continue to...

Item OverviewDescription: A unique, 21st Century bronze figure cast from a 16th Century beeswax model authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. The Original Bee’s Wax Mold by Leonardo’s Own Hand 28 cm x 23.5 cm x 13.35 cm On October 30th, a unique bronze sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci, will be auctioned at New York's prestigious Pierre Hotel. It is titled simply ''Horse and Rider" (Cavallo e Cavaliere). The work is cast from a beeswax model hand-carved by Leonardo himself, circa 1508 according to Dr. Carlo Pedretti. Author of over sixty books on the life and work of...

Tens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death. A recent count found 350 million purple sea urchins on one Oregon reef alone — more than a 10,000% increase since 2014. And in Northern California, 90% of the giant bull kelp forests have been devoured by the urchins, perhaps never to return. Vast “urchin barrens” — stretches of denuded seafloor dotted with nothing but...

DALLAS, Texas, October 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The judge presiding over the case of Jeffrey Younger, the father who is trying to protect his seven-year-old son, James, from chemical castration via a gender “transition,” ruled today that the parents will have joint conservatorship over James, which includes making joint medical decisions for the child. Judge Kim Cooks of the 255th district also put a gag order on the father so that he cannot speak to the press about the case and decided that the father is not required to pay attorney fees. The judge’s decision means that the Save James...

Judge Kim Cooks in the 255th Family District Court ruled today that seven-year-old James Younger and his twin brother would remain under a joint managing conservatorship under their parents, Jeff Younger and Anne Georgulas. Cooks also gave the two parents joint decision making over all medical, dental, and psychiatric care for the twin boys, indicating that both the father and mother need to consent to the use of puberty blockers or other aspects of a “medical transition.” Attorney fees are split. Cooks also issued a gag order on the father.

U.S. women's national soccer team star Alex Morgan and her husband, Servando Carrasco, are expecting their first child next spring. Morgan announced Wednesday on her Instagram account that the couple's daughter is due in April. Morgan and Carrasco, who plays for the MLS' LA Galaxy, met while attending the University of California and married in 2014.

Bunch of "whereas" followed by: Resolved, That the Senate-- (1) calls on the House of Representatives, prior to proceeding any further with its impeachment in- vestigation into President Trump, to vote to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry; (2) calls on the House of Representatives to provide President Trump, like every other American, with due process, to include the ability to confront his accusers, call witnesses on his behalf, and have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment; and (3) calls on the House of Representatives to provide members of the minority with...

Yes, you need to send a thank-you note after a job interview. This might be unwelcome news, especially if you sided against the somewhat old-fashioned practice at the center of the recent, highly contentious online debate surrounding an article by Business Insider executive managing editor Jessica Liebman. In a post for Business Insider, Liebman wrote that when she first started hiring, she came up with "a simple rule: We shouldn't move a candidate to the next stage in the interview process unless they send a thank-you email." Plenty of people disagreed with Liebman, but her stance gets at the very...

ASTEROID expert Dr Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project has revealed how to live stream an enormous asteroid as it hurtles past Earth tomorrow afternoon. Here is how to watch Friday’s asteroid flyby. Asteroid 1998 HL1 will barrel past the planet on Friday, October 25. Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi predicts even amateur asteroid enthusiasts can catch a glimpse of the space rock. US-based space agency NASA has calculated the huge HL1 measures approximately 1,443ft by 3,248ft (440m to 990m) across. An asteroid of this size is theoretically capable of destroying a city in the event of a direct hit...

Jessica Cameron, the victim of an alleged attempted murder by her ex-boyfriend, described the harrowing incident last December on the witness stand on Thursday. Cameron, 25, said on the stand that Jonathan White asked her to come to a dumpster behind the Tim Horton’s restaurant on December 17 to talk about their struggling 7-and-a-half-year relationship that was crumbling. The two had three young children together, ages five, three, and two. “He refused to acknowledge it and accept it,” she said about their relationship. The argument at the dumpster soon turned violent. “Are you going to hurt me?” Cameron said on...

UCF will have some fire football uniforms when they take the field Nov 2. against Houston. The Knights will be rocking space-inspired uniforms, and these things are absolutely incredible. The program also might have dropped the coolest announcement video for uniforms I’ve ever seen. It’s JFK pumping up the moon landing spliced in with some football action. Give it a watch below.

Normally you could dismiss a tease like this one on grounds that the would-be candidate who’s teasing it is just trying to stay relevant. There’s no publicity like “might run for president” publicity, right? Clinton doesn’t need to head-fake about jumping in to get the media to cover her, though. Every time she dings Trump on Twitter or elsewhere it’s amplified endlessly by the press. Tulsi Gabbard is now running as the anti-Hillary in the field thanks to one 20-second comment Clinton made about her recently in an interview. Any “she might run” publicity has a short shelf life,...

Here’s one hypothetical Mayor Bill de Blasio will answer! Hizzoner said Thursday that President Trump would be arrested if he pulled a gun and shot someone on Fifth Avenue, despite the president’s attorneys arguing in Manhattan appellate court Wednesday that Trump would be immune from prosecution. “If anybody shoots someone, they get arrested, I don’t care if you’re president of the United States, if you shoot someone, you should get arrested and we would arrest him,” de Blasio told reporters at an unrelated press conference. “Anyone who says that and calls themselves a lawyer should not be a lawyer, let’s...

What is the role of a parent? Child: May I play in the street? Conservative parent: No, it’s too dangerous to play in the street. Liberal parent: No, it’s too dangerous to play in the street. Child: May I stay up past my bedtime? Conservative parent: No, you need your rest to grow strong and healthy. Liberal parent: No, you need your rest to grow strong and healthy. Child: May I play outside after dark? Conservative parent: No, it’s not safe to play outside after dark. Liberal parent: No, it’s not safe to play outside after dark. Child: May I...

Hollywood celebrities and business leaders have carbon footprints up to 300 times bigger than the rest of us, a study reveals, highlighting the hypocrisy of those who promote climate change activism while refusing to set foot on a commercial flight. Rich and famous “super-emitters” are such constant travelers they could also be encouraging others to follow in their slipstream by boasting of their private jet-setting habits on social media, researchers found.

Lloyd's Taco Truck is issuing an apology for serving meals at the Batavia Federal Detention Center. In a statement, Lloyd's says it received a request a few weeks back to serve there. However, it says it made an honest mistake going there, saying "Lloyd's has deep ties to the immigrant and refugee communities in Buffalo." Lloyd's says there was no excuse in serving there and has begun updating internal procedures to prevent a repeat. The Batavia facility holds detainees in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That decision led to a backlash on social media, with one tweeter posting, "Gotta...

A Richfield man has been charged in connection to an assault that occurred outside the rally that President Donald Trump held at Target Center in Minneapolis on Oct. 10. A criminal complaint states Dwight Pierre Lewis, 31, faces one count of third-degree assault. The complaint says a man went to the Minneapolis Police Department to report that he was punched in the mouth by a man outside of Target Center. The man had to receive multiple stitches for his injuries. Police confirmed the assault was captured by a news outlet and posted online. Police used the footage and other available...