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U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand that Beijing commit to big purchases of American farm products has become a major sticking point in talks to end the Sino-U.S. trade war, according to several people briefed on the negotiations. Trump has said publicly that China could buy as much as $50 billion of U.S. farm products, more than double the annual amount it did the year before the trade war started. (Please see link for full article)

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... When the House of Lords approves the election bill today then we will be on course for a 12 December winter election. It is set to be one of the most unpredictable and epic elections of modern times. Unpredictable, because Brexit totally overshadows it, but also because Brexit has totally reshaped our politics, too. The main parties can no longer rely on the traditional class party residual loyalty. Instead, we have an emerging sort of identity culture politics which has changed the game entirely. And epic in the sense that the sort of promises the two main parties are...

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Sporting a Confederate flag shirt near a field clouded by cannon smoke, where blue- and gray-clad soldiers reenacted a Civil War battle from 155 years ago, Larry Caldwell Piercy, Jr. said he sees a new war looming in the United States - and a role for himself in any fighting. “It would be all guerrilla warfare, not this open field-style kind of thing,” he said, gesturing at the reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek in Middletown, Virginia, earlier this month. “I would probably be an officer in that effort.” Piercy, 62, is one of the motorcycle riders known...

For the past week I’ve been thinking that there’s too much media attention surrounding the House GOP, and not enough attention on the Senate. President Trump’s impeachment in the House seems inevitable at this point. The question is what the Senate will decide to do. I’m clearly far from the only one thinking this way. Fox’s Laura Ingraham led her Tuesday night show by saying “this is McConnell’s moment.” Ingraham was pressuring the Senate Majority Leader to defend Trump — and she said she hoped he was listening. He needs to stand up to “the Democrats’ political reign of terror,”...

In Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence US, the eldest son of the US president blasts a high-pitched rant against American liberals who he accuses of turning the country into a socialist monument to political correctness. The US government has been infected with antisemitism, Donald Trump Jr writes in the 294-page book that will be published next week. “Angry mobs” are now in charge of major media outlets, political correctness has taken hold and “we have completely ceded control of what we can and cannot say in public to the left”. The author dedicates Triggered...

The Church Committee was a U.S. Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID), the committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the "Year of Intelligence", including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. The committee's efforts led to the establishment of the permanent U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. By the early years of the 1970s, a series of troubling...

16-Year-Old Skylar Neese Was Stabbed To Death By Her Two Best Friends Because They Didn’t Like Her Anymore By William DeLong Published January 28, 2019 Updated July 31, 2019 The day before the murder of Skylar Neese, the teen tweeted of her friends, "you doing s* like that is why I can NEVER completely trust you." Skylar Neese was a 16-year-old honor student with a bright future. She loved to read, had an active social life and, like most teens, was all about posting her thoughts on social media. She also never missed a day of work at her part-time...

I examine Surah XL: The Believer, in which Muhammad uses the threat of Hell to terrify his followers into blind allegiance, and distorts the story of Moses and the Exodus.

Carl Tanzler Fell In Love With His Patient, Then Lived With Her Corpse By All That's Interesting Published April 15, 2017 Updated October 5, 2019 Some people have a hard time letting go — and Carl Tanzler may have had the hardest. In 1931, Dr. Carl Tanzler fell in love with a patient he was treating for tuberculosis. This love made him determined to keep his patient alive, which he attempted to do quite literally by removing her corpse from the mausoleum it was housed in and holding it together with coat hangers, wax, and silk. Carl Tanzler was born...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — A Smyrna-based company that builds fire trucks says they plan to bring 300 jobs to a closed factory in Milledgeville. Fouts Brothers CEO Scott Edens told 13WMAZ's Kayla Solomon that they expect being operating sometime next year at the old Rheem plant on Roberson Mill Road. He said they've already gotten more than 200 job applications and are interviewing potential workers now. He said their first phase of hiring will start in January. County records say the 677,000-square-foot plant was built in 1978 and sits on 93 acres. The plant closed in 2009. In 2016, Gov. Nathan...

This 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Woman Named Lady Dai Is One Of The Most Well-Preserved Mummies In The World By All That's Interesting Published May 17, 2017 Updated December 5, 2018 Xin Zhui died in 163 BC. When they found her in 1971, her hair was intact, her skin was soft to the touch, and her veins still housed type-A blood. Now more than 2,000 years old, Xin Zhui, also known as Lady Dai, is a mummified woman of China’s Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) who still has her own hair, is soft to the touch, and has ligaments that still bend,...

4,000-Year-Old Brain Tissue Was Preserved After Boiling In Its Own Fluids By Katie Serena Published September 12, 2017 The brain was boiled, dried, and preserved under sediment for almost 4,000 years. Bronze Age Brain UC San Diego Health Scientists in Turkey discovered a Bronze Age human brain that has been preserved for 4,000 years. The brain was discovered in Seyitomer Hoyuk, Turkey, and is one of the oldest ever discovered. It is also one of the most intact. Brain tissue is rich in enzymes and cells deteriorate quickly after death which is why scientists rarely, if ever, find intact specimens....

After more than four years of innovating in the Pay TV industry, we regret to inform you that Sony Interactive Entertainment is discontinuing the PlayStation Vue service on January 30, 2020. We appreciate your support of our pioneering live TV service over this time. PlayStation Vue will continue to deliver live, On Demand and DVR programs until the service discontinuation date of January 30, 2020. Subscribers will receive their final charge for PlayStation Vue in the month of December. Active paid subscribers will not be charged for the service after December 31, 2019.

Placerville, Calif. -Federal officials have charged a fourth man in connection with last week’s marijuana field shootout that killed El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy Brian Ishmael, saying the new defendant was part of a conspiracy run out of Mexico that oversaw two marijuana grows in rural areas of Somerset and Georgetown.

October 30 2019 Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Rom 8:26-30 Brothers and sisters:The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness;for we do not know how to pray as we ought,but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.And the one who searches heartsknows what is the intention of the Spirit,because he intercedes for the holy ones according to God's will. We know that all things work for good for those who love God,who are called according to his purpose.For those he foreknew he also predestinedto be conformed to the image of his Son,so that...

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz called the ethics investigation into Rep. Katie Hill “absurd” amid claims she had multiple affairs with members of her staff. Last week, allegations that Hill had two separate affairs with staff members surfaced. The first allegation claimed Hill has a romantic relationship with Graham Kelly, her current legislative director.

Dustin Schoenhofer, metalcore band Walls of Jericho's drummer, has been arrested in Oregon...632.5 pounds of marijuana and 36.8 pounds of suspected butane honey oil extract...Schoenhofer was arrested and booked...on six charges, including exporting marijuana, exporting extract...destined for Ohio...

Arizona Democrat Party Chairman Felecia Rotellini falsely claimed Saturday that President Donald Trump “has aligned himself with ISIS.” Rotellini’s remarks were made during a discussion at the Citizens Clean Elections Commission’s “We the Voters” conference, which was held at the Phoenix Convention Center, an hour before the White House announced the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.