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STOCKHOLM, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of colonisation to understand why global inequality persists today, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. "Reducing the vast differences in income between countries is one of our time's greatest challenges," said Jakob Svensson, Chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences. "They have identified the historical roots of the weak institutional environments that characterize many low-income countries today," he told a press conference. The award came a day after a World Bank report showed...

During an interview with 7 News Detroit on Monday, 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to a question on if a Harris-Walz administration will be different on the Middle East than the Biden-Harris administration by saying that “I think the leadership style that she will bring to this is one that gives us that opportunity.” 7 News Detroit reporter Sarah Michals asked, “Here in Michigan, many of our community members have family and loved ones in the Middle East. What would you do differently than the current Biden administration to put an end to the...

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Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s message in the closing days of the election should be former President Donald Trump is mimicking Nazis and that in a second term, he will use the military to arrest political enemies. Carville said, “She needs to start asking Trump about his rally at Madison Square Garden. She needs to start asking Trump who said that he would use the military to round up this political, his domestic political enemies. I think what Trump is saying now is unprecedented. I’m afraid that people just don’t...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: Fort Detrick, MarylandFort Detrick is a United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Historically, Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program. As of the early 2010s, Fort Detrick's 1,200-acre campus supports a multi-governmental community that conducts biomedical research and development, medical materiel management, global medical communications and the study of foreign plant pathogens. The lab is known to research pathogens such as Ebola and...

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. Ledbetter's discovery that she was earning less than her male counterparts for doing the same job at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Alabama led to her lawsuit, which ultimately failed when the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that she had filed her complaint too late. The court ruled that workers must file lawsuits within six months of first receiving a discriminatory paycheck — in Ledbetter's...

The University of Nevada said Monday it will move forward with its scheduled home match against San Jose State this month despite a team vote against playing. Citing state laws and the Nevada Constitution, the university said in a statement to Nevada Sports Net it is preparing to play but will not punish team members who do not participate. Earlier Monday, OutKick reported Nevada volleyball players were upset they were not consulted before the university said Oct. 3 it would play the match despite San Jose State reportedly having a transgender woman on its roster. The Spartans' roster is in...

“Columbus noster est!” “Christopher Columbus is ours!” These words of Leo XIII, in his encyclical Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, issued July 16, 1892, on the IV Centenary of the discovery of America, are like a distant echo to us, at a time when iconoclastic fury in the United States of America is destroying the figure of the Italian navigator. Leo XIII states in this encyclical that Christopher Columbus’s venture: «is in itself the highest and grandest which any age has ever seen accomplished by man; and he who achieved it, for the greatness of his mind and heart, can be compared...

Earlier today, I wrote about how Kamala Harris took the pulpit at a North Carolina Church to preach about “doing justice” and “mercy.” Unfortunately, instead of a faithful exegesis of Scripture, what the congregation received was a political sermon from the Vice President. Harris quoted from Micah 6:8, claiming that her “faith” is about “doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.” On the surface, it sounds like the kind of thing any professing Christian might say. But the glaring hypocrisy of her words cannot be ignored when we consider what she actually stands for—namely, one of the most...

Former President Bill Clinton blamed the Harris-Biden administration for letting the migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley into the US– after being tapped to shore up Democratic votes for the vice president in the swing state. “You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you — they made an ad about it — a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said Sunday during a fish fry in Fort Valley, referring to the February murder of Riley, 22. “Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,”...

As the nearly 65,000 residents of hard-hit Rutherford County, North Carolina, struggle to clear endless mud and debris left behind by Hurricane Helene, help hit a roadblock. Federal Emergency Management Agency crews were forced to relocate due to a reported armed threat against workers, first reported by The Washington Post. An email sent by the U.S. Forest Service to federal responders in Rutherford County alerted them of an apparent standdown after National Guard troops reportedly encountered armed militia saying they were "hunting FEMA." One person has been arrested in connection to the threat, CBS News confirmed on Monday. Out of...

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While many of us were in church this past Sunday, listening to our pastor open the Scriptures and rightly apply them to our lives, some unfortunate souls were sitting in Koinonia Christian Center in Greenville, North Carolina, being subjected to Kamala Harris delivering what could only be described as blasphemous drivel wrapped up in a thin veneer of faux piety. Harris—who, despite sitting under the bright leadership of Amos C. Brown, clearly isn’t known for her theological insight—decided to preach this Sunday where she quoted Galatians 6:9, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time...

The owner of Time magazine called out Vice President Kamala Harris for turning down multiple interview requests with the prominent publication as the campaign for the White House enters the homestretch. Marc Benioff, who has owned Time since 2018, criticized the Democratic nominee on Sunday while pointing out that ex-President Donald Trump and President Biden — before he dropped out — both sat down for interviews during their campaigns. “Despite multiple requests, TIME has not been granted an interview with Kamala Harris — unlike every other Presidential candidate,” tweeted Benioff, who is best known as the founder of Salesforce.com. “We...

How are these ballots generated? A voter ID# within the internet-connected voter-roll database is temporarily inflated to generate a fake ballot which is sent out. Same process can be done on an industrial scale behind closed doors by the hundreds of thousands guided by corrupt NGOs. Rolls are then purged in microseconds to cover bad actors’ tracks. Who is behind this? The Department of Homeland Security via their unregulated and unaccountable shadow agencies, the Center for Internet Security and the Atlantic Council. You aren’t up against democrats. You are up against your own government. .... Until People Understand you have...

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The Israeli military uncovered an underground Hezbollah bunker near its border with Lebanon that was stocked with weapons and motorcycles for a planned invasion of Israel, officials said Monday. Israel Defense Force spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a video tour of the tunnel that Israeli forces located the subterranean terrorist command center in southern Lebanon, with the base stretching across nearly half a mile of land — and set to be used for “a larger scale of a massacre than Oct. 7.” Inside, the IDF soldiers found helicopter missiles, mortar shells, files, ammunition, motorcycles and enough food and...

At least 206 Jewish anti-Israel protesters were arrested Monday after hundreds rushed the New York Stock Exchange and staged a sit-in outside the Manhattan landmark, police said. Scores of pro-Palestinian protesters wearing red shirts stormed toward the building on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan — then chained themselves to the doors just before the stock market’s opening bell at 9:30 a.m., footage shows. A handful of demonstrators, who hail from the Jewish Voices for Peace group, could be seen removing their jackets as they set up shop outside the building — jackets they wore in a possible bid to conceal...

[Catholic Caucus] Top Jesuit supports ‘LGBTQ Catholics’ event held at order’s headquarters in RomeFather Johan Verschueren, the general counsellor and delegate for the Interprovincial Houses and Works of the Society of Jesus in Rome, expressed his support for the “LGBTQ Catholics” event held recently at the general house of the Society of Jesus in the Eternal City.Within the context of the Synod on Synodality, the Jesuits hosted an event Oct. 8 in which a group of LGBTQ-identifying people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queer) shared their testimonies and requested greater participation in the ecclesial community.Verschueren expressed to ACI Prensa, CNA’s...

Products are displayed at a Bath & Body Works store on June 12, 2024 in Hayward, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Retailer Bath & Body Works is apologizing and rushing to pull a holiday-themed candle from its shelves after online users highlighted its label being reminiscent of the white hoods synonymous with the Ku Klux Klan. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, known for its personal care and home fragrance products, is apologizing to those it offended after the product label on its "Snowed In" candle mistakenly drew comparisons to the White supremacist group, which formed after the Civil War. Team...