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One of the oldest and most successful human endeavors is the fermentation of cereal-based mush to create an ethanol-rich liquid. In other words, beer-making. At the heart of this process is yeast, a single-celled fungus that does all the heavy lifting for brewers. It is so important that beer makers have learned to collect the yeast from the fermented liquid and reuse it in the next round. This trick, called “serial repitching,” saves both time and money. However, after several generations, the quality of the yeast begins to drop. This impairs fermentation and introduces off flavors that ruin the beer....

President Donald Trump said he was not involved in the Justice Department’s decision to expand their review of the surveillance of the Trump campaign into a criminal investigation. News of the department’s decision to open a criminal probe into the origins of the Obama administration’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign was first reported by the New York Times and the Associated Press on Thursday. U.S. Attorney John Durham had been reviewing the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation since May this year. Trump, who has been an outspoken critic of the intelligence community’s decision to investigate his campaign for ties with Russia...

Kansas State took advantage of 2 Oklahoma turnovers converting them to 14 points. One was a Oklahoma trick play that blew up in their face. Kansas State goes up 18 points and survives a furious OU comeback attempt. It appeared the Sooners recovered an onside kick attempt but replay showed an OU player touched the ball before it went 10 yards.

Isn’t all foreign aid supposed to be quid pro quo? We give you this aid — on the expectation that you will not steal any of it for personal use, that you will spend it as we instruct, and on the understanding that if you don’t spend the money as we command, you won’t get any more next year. Democrats want people to be alarmed by a Latin phrase, but, really, making foreign aid contingent on behavior is actually the defining reason that countries supposedly give aid — to influence the behavior of the receiving country.

President Trump plans to hit the gas on his already aggressive immigration agenda next year, according to senior aides. Topping his list will be the construction of one mile a day of new border wall, aggressive challenges to judicial hurdles, and a new merit-based green card for foreign workers. “The next year is all about execution. We have a path to complete success on the southern border, the key now is rigorous implementation,” said Trump’s policy chief Stephen Miller. “We are going to dial that up to the maximum,” he added of the administration’s pressure stop illegal immigration and boost...

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg. Your company made big headlines when it announced it would be launching a cryptocurrency called the Libra in 2020. Not surprisingly, given the nature of the times, the project has been greeted with intense criticism and skepticism. Don’t lose heart. In one sense, the idea of a company creating its own kind of money is an old one. The airlines’ frequent-flier miles are really a form of money that customers can earn and use to buy trips and various other things. Credit card companies, hotels and numerous retailers have all sorts of loyalty programs in which people...

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REAL HEADLINE - (Trump mentioned in article with various links): When and where will the Miss Universe pageant be this year? We have a few details It’s late October and one of the world’s biggest televised annual events has been silent regarding time and location for the 2019 event. There is now some hope for the millions of Miss Universe fans across the world. This weekend, three candidates for Miss Universe 2019 from Denmark, Dominican Republic, Panama, and the Miss Venezuela Organization announced on social media that the United States will host the world’s biggest beauty pageant on Dec. 8...

Thanks to chronic abuse and misuse by local police departments, the days may be numbered for South Carolina's forfeiture system that allows cops to seize and keep cash and property of the people they arrest in order to fund their own departments. Circuit Judge Steven H. John has ruled that the South Carolina's civil asset forfeiture regulations violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the citizens. Civil asset forfeiture has been in the crosshairs across the country for years now because it allows police and prosecutors to declare that any money or property owned by a suspect is...

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President Trump criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a series of tweets Saturday morning, ripping the Democratic lawmaker’s San Francisco district as “very bad and dangerous.” “I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary & environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions of dollars,” Trump claimed. “And all she works on is Impeachment…..” […] It’s also not the first time that Trump has attacked San Francisco, a progressive-leaning city. In mid-September, he accused the city of allowing a tremendous amount...

It is no secret that America is polarized. This is a fact that is manifested in so many different ways. Traveling down the highway to Chicago, for example, I came upon two successive billboards that I thought were striking examples of our divided culture. The first billboard caught me by surprise: it consisted of an electrocardiogram of a heart that suddenly stops beating. The caption read: When you die, you will meet God. As we were passing through the snowy night, I was unable to catch more details of this billboard. I do not know who put it out or...

A year ago, Secret Service Special Agent Rod Wellman never thought he’d be tapering for a 100K race. The distance was never something he thought would cross his path. He thought the same thing about lung cancer. Yet, on October 4, 2018, Wellman found himself at an urgent care center for a cough that hadn’t gone away after several weeks. Some scans and X-rays revealed the cause. “I’ve never been that sick before,” Wellman told Runner’s World. “I thought it was just a chest cold. Then, they told me I had stage 4 cancer in my lungs.” By the time...

Bannon will appear as 'a witness for the government' during Stone’s trial, a person familiar with the matter told the National Law Journal....Bannon has not been subpoenaed for his testimony, the person said. Stone, whose trial begins Nov. 5, is accused of witness tampering, lying to Congress, and obstructing justice. The charges relate to his attempts to reach WikiLeaks during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The host said he thinks that speculation of a Hillary Clinton presidential run is damaging the ability of Democrats to successfully beat President Trump in 2020. “It seems like every few months, Hillary Clinton bubbles up again, and people are, like, ‘Oh, she’s thinking about running,’ or she says something crazy,” Maher said. “The Clintons — they’ve gotta go away. I’m saying this now a year out … They can’t be at the convention,” he continued. “Maybe waving or something"...“And Bill is damaged goods,” Maher said of the former president. Maher also repeated comments from conservative former Republican Rep. Justin...

Michael Horowitz, the U.S Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general (IG), said Thursday that he is almost done finalizing the report into possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz made the revelation in an October 24 letter addressed to House and Senate leaders. The IG anticipated that the report would be released to the public with “a few redactions,” adding: Given that our draft report is lengthy, and concerns sensitive national security and law enforcement matters, we understood that it would take the Department and the FBI some time to work...

Legendary singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen says Americans are living in "a frightening time" because of the country's leadership. In an interview with "CBS This Morning" co-host Gayle King, Springsteen responded to President Trump's comments at a Minneapolis rally earlier this month on how he "didn't need little Bruce Springsteen" and other celebrities like Beyoncé and Jay Z, who supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. King asked, "So he's going back to 2016. And this is now 2019. You surprised that he's trash-talking you after all this time?" Springsteen laughed. "Not really. Anything's possible," he said. "I know. I...

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FULL TITLE: Kamala Harris flip-flops on attending criminal justice forum, after announcing boycott over Trump award In a bizarre back-and-forth on her attendance, Kamala Harris said Saturday she would, in fact, go to a criminal justice forum in South Carolina, despite very publicly announcing she would boycott the event due to a sponsoring group’s decision to give an award to President Trump. The 2020 presidential hopeful on Friday announced that she would skip the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, after the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center awarded the president for his efforts to...

The Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) Alan Gottlieb indiciates President Donald Trump has pivoted from any consideration of gun control and is focused on mental health reforms. Gottlieb, SAF’s founder and executive vice president, told Breitbart News the White House contacted him and informed him that Trump “will only support mental health legislation, no gun control.” This comes after Trump initially voiced support for expanded background check legislation following mass shootings, only to scale back that support and eventually note that the U.S. already has background checks that are “strong.” On August 5–two days after the El Paso, Texas, shooting and...