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Hyundai announced Tuesday that it is suspending production in its South Korea manufacturing plants due to supply chain problems caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China. The world's fifth-largest automaker said in a statement that the suspension is a result of "disruptions in the supply of parts resulting from the coronavirus outbreak in China," The New York Times reports. Hyundai has plants worldwide, but has been hampered by the fact that it gets many of its parts from China. Several plants in China that make the parts that the automaker needs have shut down because of the continued spread of...

Democrats complain about the cost of everything, from health care to prescription drugs to fuel prices (when a Republican is president) to groceries to college tuition, never understanding, or simply not caring, that it’s their policies that drive up prices. So they of course think there’s nothing wrong with their ideas that will accelerate increases in housing costs. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who still has a chance to be the Democrats’ nominee, said a few weeks back that because scientists are scaring her about the climate, “by 2028, no new buildings, no new houses” would be built “without a zero-carbon...

An academic has hit out at the ‘psychosis of whiteness’ after saying the British Empire did more damage than the Nazis. Birmingham City University’s Dr Kehinde Andrews appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday to discuss the renaming of the MBE and OBE. He appeared alongside Breakin’ Convention founder Jonzi D, a dancer and spoken word artist, who turned down an MBE for its connection to the British Empire and the empire’s history of slavery. Jonzi D said: ‘I didn’t want the label of ‘Member of the British Empire’ on my chest.’ Piers Morgan then challenged the panel on whether...

I review Robert Spencer's latest book, The Palestinian Delusion, and give my thoughts on the latest plan for Middle East "peace."

I have tried to listen to this show in the morning, but the host Alex isn't very good. It sounds similar to NPR. He is usually quoting what liberals are saying about President Trump also. What do you think of this show?

Monday night as candidates waited for results in the Iowa caucus, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he had "a good feeling we’re going to be doing very, very well here." "Today marks the beginning of the end for Donald Trump," he said, calling the president "corrupt" and a "pathological liar."

You couldn’t make it up. If you did nobody would believe you. On Monday, just a week after the BBC ran a story about Kobe Bryant’s death using pictures of LeBron James, they showed a picture of my comrade, Marsha de Cordova, the MP for Battersea, addressing the House of Commons on the Agriculture Bill. The trouble is that underneath they used my name and claimed she was the MP for Brent. The Evening Standard followed up on the story the day after but then managed to use a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the MP for Streatham. There are all...

With a listing, massively failing impeachment ship to navigate back home, and news focused on Iowa, you'd think House impeachment manager Adam Schiff would want to make his grand exit closing speech with some kind of dignity. No such luck. He went out like a nut instead, throwing out crazy talk and reminding voters that the whole thing was a cooked up plot by anti-Trump lunatics. According to Mairead McArdle at National Review, here's Schiff's final pitch to the Senate, seeking to persuade the very tired senators up there past midnight to do what he wants and vote to oust...

Although the Nepalese government resisted pressures to deport back to China the refugees who are already in Nepal, it will deport those of them who will enter Nepal in the future.In October, Bitter Winter reported how President Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal had failed to persuade the authorities of the Himalayan kingdom, under pressure from their own public opinion, to deport back to China under a proposed extradition treaty a good number of the some 20,000 Tibetan refugees living within Nepalese borders. It was an unexpected defeat for the Chinese leader, who reacted very angrily. The CCP, however, never stops...

...the Neanderthals who lived in Chagyrskaya Cave in southern Siberia around 54,000 years ago. Their distinctive stone tools are dead ringers for those found thousands of kilometres away in eastern and central Europe. The intercontinental journey made by these intrepid Neanderthals is equivalent to walking from Sydney to Perth, or from New York to Los Angeles, and is a rare example of long-distance migration by Palaeolithic people... Neanderthals are now believed to have created 176,000 year-old enigmatic structures made from broken stalactites in a cave in France, and cave art in Spain that dates back more than 65,000 years. They...

Feb. 4, 2020 Riverside CountyNEWS RELEASEContact:Jose Arballo, Jr.(951) 712-3705jarballojr@ruhealth.org Minor taken to hospital, another traveler arrives at March Air Reserve BaseA minor, who is part of a group being housed at March Air Reserve Base, has developed a fever and been taken to Riverside University Health System-Medical Center for testing and observation. The minor was transported by ambulance Monday evening out of an abundance of caution and is accompanied by a parent. The two are part of a group of 195 passengers who were flown to March from China last week and placed under a 14-day federal quarantine.Testing samples will...

Just one day before his death, family and friends in Kansas helped grant their loved one’s last wish to see his beloved horse, saying it’s a reunion they will always remember. After a three-year battle with cancer, Kevin Adkins, a 55-year-old cowboy, died Tuesday. For nearly two decades prior, he spent every day with his 27-year-old horse, Vic. Jennifer Wadley’s family ranch, D&J Ranch, sold Vic to Adkins all those years ago. She says the two were inseparable."They’ve been partners for all these years,” Wadley said. “It could be pouring rain, it could be snowing, it could be hotter than...

Democratic Party officials said they plan to release a majority of Iowa's delayed presidential caucus results by late Tuesday, according to details shared with campaigns on a private conference call. The news did little to stem rising confusion and concern hours after voting ended without the release of a single result in the opening contest of the Democrats 2020 primary season. State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release at least 50% of all caucus results at 4pm CST / 5 pm EST, but he declined to answer pointed questions from frustrated campaign representatives about when the...

For whatever reason, Elizabeth Warren, who has lived life as a straight female, has decided that she'll win if she can just capture that elusive transgender vote — which, at its highest estimate, accounts for about 0.6% of the American population. According to the latest Project Veritas video, at least one of her campaign staffers thinks this obsession is harming, not helping, her campaign. Ever since she set her sights on the presidency, Warren has been cultivating the transgender vote.

Leaders of the Church of Planned Parenthood say their regular protests are not intended to disrupt the facility’s services. Councilwoman Lori Kinnear wants to make sure of it. Kinnear introduced a new law Monday that she said aims to respect free speech and the protesters’ right to their opinion, while ensuring their chorus of objection does not intrude on the services inside the health care facility’s walls. “It does not impact free speech. Protests are still allowed, that’s not the issue. It’s about noise,” Kinnear said. The South Hill councilwoman drafted a law that would set specific protections for health...

A Bronx bodega worker has gone viral on TikTok for testing his customers’ math skills. If the customer gets the math problem correct, they have five seconds to grab whatever they want and they can keep it free of charge. In one video, a customer goes for the bodega cat. “Not my cat,” Ahmed Alwan said to the customer. So, the customer goes for a hookah and a whole rack of snacks instead. Alwan told News 12 that he wants to show everyone that education is key. He hopes that when kids see the videos on TikTok that it will...

Clouded by doubts on a chaotic day-after, Democratic Party officials planned to release a majority of Iowa’s delayed presidential caucus results by late Tuesday, according to details shared with campaigns on a private conference call. The news did little to stem rising confusion and concern more than 12 hours after voting ended without the release of a single result in the opening contest of the Democrats 2020 primary season. State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release at least 50% of all caucus results at 5 p.m. EST, but he declined to answer pointed questions from frustrated...

On Tuesday, anchors, correspondents, and pundits on CBS This Morning all agreed that the real winner of the Democratic Iowa caucus was actually President Trump, given all the chaos that plagued the contest. The network broadcast labeled Monday’s inauspicious start to the 2020 Democratic primary season an “embarrassment” that only “helps the President.” “So this morning, the two chief political exports of Iowa are uncertainty and embarrassment,” correspondent Major Garrett proclaimed early in the show. Wrapping up the report, he sounded exasperated: “So the Iowa Democratic Party better get its act together, and soon, if it’s going to claim any...

Fantastic Video — Rand Paul Takes Revenge On Democrat Coup Plot This just unfolded on Senate floor in the past 30 minutes…

Last week Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts played politics and REFUSED TO READ SENATOR RAND PAUL’S QUESTION on the Anti-Trump whistleblower during the Senate impeachment trial! There is NO LAW that prevents this anti-Trump CIA leaker’s name from being revealed in the impeachment investigation! Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was playing politics and siding with Democrats!! Senator Rand Paul announced earlier that this afternoon at 1 PM ET he would insist on his question which reveals the name of the whistleblower.