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Ancient weapons discovered on a building site will go on display at the Museum of London Docklands. The group of 453 artefacts found in Havering, east London, is the third largest ever discovered in the UK... The find, which dates from between 800BC and 900BC, was officially declared treasure by a coroner earlier this year. The discovery, dubbed the Havering Hoard, was uncovered last September, and will form the centrepiece of a major exhibition from April. Archaeologists believed the manner in which the weapons had been so carefully buried in groups close together suggested the site could have been a...

The House’s resolution should have been the easiest for Republicans to go along with. None of them did. So this is how the impeachment of President Donald Trump is going to go. The House this morning cast its first vote in a process that could lead to just the third Senate impeachment trial of a president in U.S. history. When Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for the vote earlier this week, there was at least some promise of drama: Which House Democrats would defect? How many Republicans might defy Trump to back a formal impeachment inquiry that a few of...

Last week found Republicans in Congress complaining loud and long that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, along with the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees, all bipartisan and under the leadership of Rep. Adam Schiff, were violating the rules of the House of Representatives by interviewing witnesses about impeachment behind closed doors. They derided Schiff's hearings as a "secret impeachment." President Trump called the hearings a hoax. When some pointed out that the initial round of government interviews of witnesses is always conducted behind closed doors to facilitate candor, Senate Republicans supported the president and condemned the House...

Professional provocateur (and former Trump-whisperer turned critic) Ann Coulter just tried, and failed miserably, to correct Twitter user “Catturd2,” in a manner that pretty much defines the phrase “dunks on self” that is so popular with the kids these days. It seems Catturd2 took the position that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard just voted in favor of the Congressional impeachment rules that just passed in the House of Representatives. Catturd 2 wrote “For all you foolish Tulsi Gabbard fans… She just voted for the illegal impeachment coup.” Catturd2’s comments reveal much about his or her position on the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, but...

As the battle continues against a wind-driven wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that sent tens of thousands fleeing their homes, arson inspectors in California have visited a homeless encampment near the area where the blaze started. The Ventura County Fire Department said the Easy Fire was reported around 6 a.m. in the 200-block of West Los Angeles Avenue located near the 118 Freeway and Madera Road in Simi Valley. People living at a homeless encampment who had to evacuate themselves said they had to run for their lives. Brown, who told the newspaper she didn't see anyone cooking or smoking...

Watch live coverage as Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., delivers her last floor speech before resigning from Congress amid an ethics investigation.

In Iraq, demonstrators are being shot dead in the streets. In Lebanon, protesters have paralysed the country and seem set to bring down the government of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. In recent weeks the Egyptian security forces crushed attempts to protest against the police state of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi... A rough approximation is that 60% of the region's population is under the age of 30. A young population can be a great asset to a country. But only if the economy, the educational system and the institutions of the state are functioning well enough to accommodate their needs, and...

Republican senators are warning President Donald Trump that he cannot legally appoint immigration hard-liner Ken Cuccinelli to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The White House and DHS lawyers, however, are continuing to work on a controversial end run around a federal law that prohibits Cuccinelli from serving as an acting secretary. It would likely face an immediate court challenge as well as the ire of members of his own party. “The White House would be well advised to consult with the Senate and senators before they take any decisive action that might be embarrassing to Mr. Cuccinelli or to...

Woodland’s Z Specialty Food seeks to double the footprint of its honey warehouse and create a community gathering spot The Zeldner family legacy is rooted in yellow star thistle. The noxious weed, an invasive species native to the Mediterranean region of southern Europe and northern Africa, covers an estimated 14 million acres in California. It grows densely and depletes soil moisture. It can cause a fatal nervous disorder in horses who graze on it. The spines that extend from the flower head, giving the plant its name, are the bane of hikers and grazing animals alike. For honeybees, however, the...

Humans are taking on grizzly bears in a new Discovery Channel show. The network has greenlit Man vs. Bear, a new competition series in which "humans will be entering the bear's territory and take them on in a competition like never attempted." Each week three grizzlies — Bart, Honey Bump and Tank — will take on three new human competitors (male and female) at their Utah sanctuary to test the limits of strength, speed and stamina. All of the challenges — from a game of "tug of war" to using brute force to roll giant logs — will be based...

James Corden has revealed his drunken encounter with Ivanka Trump at a wedding last month where he and Orlando Bloom pleaded for her to 'do something' about the state of the U.S. and 'make it better'. 'I was a little drunk and I was with Orlando Bloom who I think was equally, if not slightly less drunk than I was. And we were stood at the bar and Ivanka was also at the bar, and I can't, I can't 100 percent remember it,' Corden confessed to Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday's episode of the Late, Late Show. 'I remember that we...

ISIS on Thursday confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi as its new leader, according to the BBC. The terror group also confirmed spokesman Abu al-Hasan al-Muhajir, who had been considered a potential heir to al-Baghdadi, had been killed in a separate joint operation between U.S. and Kurdish forces on Oct. 27. President Trump announced al-Baghdadi’s death Sunday morning, saying the ISIS leader was killed in a raid on his compound in Idlib province in northern Syria after fleeing into a tunnel and detonating a suicide vest. U.S. forces have said al-Baghdadi killed two...

Lucifer - the god of this world - uses his power of DEATH and FEAR to utterly manipulate this world and to cause tremendous fear to dominate Adam's fallen race as he seeks to impose his despotic self-willed agenda on all (Isa. 14:12-15, Rom. 5:12-21, Eph. 2:2-3, Heb. 2:14-15). He is a TERROR to all; in the angelic world and in this physical human world (Ezek. 28:19, Heb. 2:14-15, Rev. 12). He is a violent raging DRAGON, a roaring and powerful LION, a wise and crafty destroying and deceiving SERPENT, an ADVERSARY (i.e., Satan) and a slanderous character assassin (i.e.,...

Stop & Shop is looking to hire 50 to 75 people for full-time roles at the store’s Freetown warehouse. According to South Coast Today, the store will be hiring selectors for the 2nd and 3rd shift. Selectors choose the products to ship to the Stop & Shop stores in the region. The union job is available to those ages 18 and over and comes with “100% company-paid medical, dental and vision,” according to South Coast Today. Those interested in applying can speak with a Stop & Shop representative at a job fair every Tuesday this month at the MassHire Career...

Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee is expected to try again on Thursday to pass his S.386 bill, which helps India’s graduates grab hundreds of thousands of college level jobs from American graduates. All GOP Senators are expected to stay silent while Lee pushes his bill that rewards roughly 300,000 of India’s contract workers in the United States with a fast track to citizenship. Silicon Valley investors back his bill, which also allows companies to annually pay 60,000 of India’s contract workers — plus 60,000 family members — with government-provided green cards after they take jobs from American graduates. Existing “country...

Nancy Pelosi, hereafter known and regarded as “Trump's best fundraiser for 2020” thanks to a mix of horrible, dystopian, boo chit rhetoric and completely lawless actions which are essentially a “Three Card Monte Scam, which can no real effect except to keep her fundraising machine alive, driven many Americans to fear their government, and by all accounts Trump 2020 campaign will likely eclipse previous record fundraising by millions.Thanks to Nancy Pelosi's efforts to usurp and overturn the 2016 election results Trump can count on American Patriots who insist on not only free and fair elections but, will not tolerate sore...

Children in Austin as young as 8 years old will now be taught to promote high-risk sexual behavior, thanks to a unanimous decision by the Austin Independent School District. Just after midnight Tuesday, the AISD board approved a controversial sex education curriculum amid a crowd of concerned parents and citizens. The district’s new curriculum includes role-playing scenarios for children that involve anal and oral sex and features a situation where an underage girl has a sexual relationship with a 17-year old that she hides from her parents. The curriculum also teaches about numerous sexual orientations; children are told that their...

Great Orme copper found in Bronze Age artefacts "stretching from Brittany to the Baltic"North Wales was Britain's main source of copper for about 200 years during the Bronze Age, new research has found. Scientists analysed metal from the Great Orme, Conwy, and found it was made into tools and weapons, and traded across what is today's Europe. Historians once thought the Orme's copper mine - now a museum - had been a small-scale operation. Experts now believe there was a bonanza from 1600-1400 BC, with artefacts found in Sweden, France and Germany. The research, by scientists from the University...

Saddle Creek Logistics Services plans to open a distribution center in Duncan to support the expansion of a “major retail client,” according to a news release. Scheduled to open in January, the facility will create more than 150 new warehouse jobs in the area. In November Saddle Creek will hire the management team, the release said. In December, the company will begin hiring to fill hourly positions in Duncan, including forklift operators, inventory control associates, yard drivers and customer service representatives, as well as several salaried manager and supervisor positions. The new Duncan facility, which includes more than 1.3 million...

House Democrats will press forward on Thursday with a House vote to officially greenlight impeachment proceedings into President Donald Trump's handling of aid to Ukraine while he was seeking an investigation of his political rival, Joe Biden. What might follow could be a double impeachment scenario that would make heads spin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the president of the United States. After Pence, she's next in the line of succession.