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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Taliban birthplace Kandahar in Afghanistan has been the scene of bloody militancy and counter-militancy as at least 15 armed insurgents have been killed and 19 others including 11 police wounded in a bomb blast and a fighting. According to an army statement released here Thursday, 15 militants have been killed and four others injured and the Taliban offensive to gain ground in Panjwayi district, Kandahar province has been repulsed. Taliban militants attacked the security checkpoints in Yarokala area of the restive Panjwayi district on Wednesday and the security forces backed by fighting planes struck...

Submitted by RealClearEducation, authored by Samuel Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This article is part of a series of opinion essays on the topic of free speech on campus, coinciding with the launch of the 2020 College Free Speech Rankings...When it comes to making news about protests and action for liberal causes, schools in New England seem to dominate the news. We’ve seen violence and protests surrounding visits from Charles Murray and Ryszard Legutko at Middlebury College. Brown University spent hundreds of millions of dollars in response to...

A huge blast went off in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least seven people, hours after U.S. acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller made an unannounced visit to the Somali capital. Witnesses said a suicide bomber blew himself up at Gelato Devino, a popular ice cream shop along the road to the airport. Amin Ambulance, one of Mogadishu’s ambulance services, said at least seven people had been killed in the attack. Somali police said another 10 people had been wounded. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Al-Shabab frequently carries out...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is threatening to criminally prosecute anyone who questions the legitimacy of the recent election. The AG is particularly irked that "rather than bring their accusations of fraud to me so I can dismiss them, too many people are filing their own lawsuits. Election fraud is a crime. I am the state's top prosecutor. I am the one who decides whether there is sufficient evidence to warrant going forward with a case. If I were to allow these 'end runs' bypassing my authority to go unpunished they will become rampant." State Sen. Julie Matuzak (D) agreed...

The bull market in hot urban retail and commercial real estate markets lasted for pretty much the entire post-crisis recovery period. But COVID has turned things around, and as people flee to the suburbs, it's worth taking a look at how valuations have declined.While urban real-estate markets have taken a hit as people flee to the suburbs and more space, it's worth taking a look at how much space costs in different cities around the world. While foreign cities are of course cheaper than the top American metropolises, the numbers in some cases might surprise you.Why $300K? On the one...

An Iranian diplomat will go on trial in Belgium today accused of plotting to bomb a 2018 Paris conference attended by five British MPs and Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Assadollah Assadi, 48, is accused of smuggling a bomb made from 'Mother of Satan' explosives to Europe from Tehran in a diplomatic bag that was exempt from airport security checks ahead of the event. Prosecutors say he then handed the bag off to accomplices who were supposed to plant it at a summit held by Iranian opposition leaders in the French capital. Speakers at the rally included British MPs Bob Blackman,...

Got a text from AuntB this morning, and am passing this on to FR... Folks at freerepublic were so kind. I can't get WiFi in motel, no computer. Can you post an update on the thread that I was on. Just check Aunt posts. Btw.. GoFundMe shut me and several friends who are fire victims as not a worthy cause... They are trying to kill us...

Friedrich Engels was born on November 28, 1820, into a world on the cusp of change. The industrial revolution was spreading out from England like a wildfire. Armies of workers were rising up. Engels' hometown of Barmen (now incorporated in the city of Wuppertal) was no exception. His father owned textile factories there and in Manchester, in England's industrial north. The industrialist's son, who studied and knew exactly how capitalism worked, would become — next to Karl Marx — its most famous critic. A contradiction? Definitely a surprising turn, which fascinates many to this day. "For me Engels is bipolar,"...

President Trump has granted a pardon to his former national security advisor Michael Flynn in a rare act of clemency. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials and he was fired after just 23 days on the job.However, despite the media uproar over Trump's actions with Flynn, Statista's Niall McCarthy notes that throughout his time in the White House, Trump has used pardons, commutations and other forms of leniency less frequently than other presidents, particularly his direct predecessor.You will find more infographics at StatistaAs one of the final acts of his eight years in...

This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to Lewis Napper, a Jackson, Mississippi computer programmer. He didn't expect his essay -- a tart 10-point list of “Non-rights” that Americans have -- to become an Internet legend. 'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is expected to move $455 billion in unspent coronavirus stimulus money into a fund that the incoming Biden administration cannot deploy without congressional approval, Bloomberg reported

<p>In a Thursday interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais, Dr. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, said that the novel coronavirus may never go away.</p><p>Lipkin said that it is likely future generations will be vaccinated against COVID-19, but noted that additional booster doses may be necessary. The expert described the progress in vaccine development as “staggering,” suggesting that vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer will be able to significantly reduce the spread of the virus.</p>

Finally. A voice of reason. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may be enjoying his Emmy win and a TIME "Person of the Year" nomination, but not everyone is singing his praises. One of his former aides, Alexis Grenell, sounded off on her old boss this week for his behavior this past year. Grenell, who served as Cuomo's deputy director of intergovernmental affairs when he was state attorney general, ripped him in an op-ed for The Nation titled “The Collapse of the Cuomosexual.” She had plenty of material to work with, from Cuomo's press conference tantrums last week when a reporter...

According to CTV News, Nancy Russell, a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, opted for medically assisted death in October. Her friends and family, according to the outlet, congregated in Russell's room on the day of her death, where they'd gathered and sang a song she had chosen to send her on her way. Residents at Russell's retirement home often ate meals alone in their rooms during mandatory lockdowns, were faced with activities cancellations, and were unable to see family for days or weeks on end. "These measures," the outlet reported, "aimed at saving lives, can sometimes be detrimental enough to the...

Tweetstapo’s Ministry Of Propaganda is at it again. This time, its operatives targeted a popular conservative movie detailing the Democratic Party’s effort to use false allegations of collusion to destroy President Donald Trump. The Washington Times reported that “Twitter blacklisted for a day an account for a popular conservative movie that tells the story of how the FBI, news media and Democrats tried to bring down President Trump on false Russia allegations.”On Thursday, Twitter suspended the account for “The Plot Against The President” and refused to give a reason for the suspension. After a fierce backlash, the social media company...

In San Antonio today, 34-year-old Kristopher Sean Matthews (aka Ali Jibreel) admitted to conspiring to provide material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham/Syria (aka ISIS), announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer for the Western District of Texas, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.Appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth S. Chestney, Matthews pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge to provide material support to ISIS. By pleading guilty, Matthews admitted that since May 2019, he conspired with 22-year-old Jaylyn Christopher Molina...

11/27/2020 Pakistan (International Christian Concern) – According to local reports, a Christian teen from Pakistan’s Punjab province has recently returned to her family after being abducted and abused by a group of Muslim men. On September 28, five armed men, identified as Talha Maider, Bilawal Jaffar, Jaffar Shareef, Salman, and Nomi, forcibly entered into the home of Maqsood Masih located in Village 248 of the Faisalabad district. According to Masih, the attackers were there to abduct his 16-year-old daughter named Shiza. Members of the family attempted to protect Shiza but were beaten and abused by the assailants. Shiza was dragged...

A Sussex County, New Jersey, woman, Maria Bell, a/k/a “Maria Sue Bell,” 53, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, was arrested at her home today and charged with one count of knowingly concealing the provision of material support and resources to a Foreign Terrorist Organization Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito for the District of New Jersey announced.She is scheduled to appear by videoconference this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor.According to documents filed in Court, beginning at least as early as March of 2017, Bell used mobile applications to communicate with...

We brought you the news here and here of how State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-York) had organized a committee hearing into election integrity and heard from multiple witnesses with some stunning testimony about alleged election fraud and irregularities. President Donald Trump even called into the hearing and thanked people from coming forward. Then after that, Twitter suspended Mastriano’s personal account. Now, Mastriano is dropping more news. Mastriano was appearing on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast when he announced that he and other senators would introducing a resolution calling to withdraw the Secretary of State’s certification of the election and the...

A dual Venezuelan-Italian citizen who controlled multiple companies via U.S. based bank accounts was charged in an indictment returned Tuesday for his role in laundering the proceeds of inflated contracts that were obtained by making bribe payments to officials at Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge Anthony Salisbury of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami Field Office, and Acting Special Agent in Charge...