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Kyle Rittenhouse is facing a lawsuit from the estate of one of the men he shot in self-defense. The lawsuit was timely filed on the third anniversary of the death of 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum Friday. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges surrounding the incident a year later Rosenbaum's estate is also targeting the City of Kenosha, its officials, the City of West Allis, six local Sheriff’s departments, and two police departments for “compensatory and punitive damages” over what it refers to as Rosenbaum's “wrongful death.” During Rittenhouse's trial, witnesses confirmed that Rosenbaum reached for Rittenhouse's gun during the Black...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Columbia Sportswear has spent years designing ski jackets and hiking boots to withstand the elements: wind, rain, snow and, increasingly, tariffs. Located on a sprawling campus adorned with hanging canoes, the 80-year-old retailer has long protected its outdoor gear from the whims of Washington by engaging in what the company calls “tariff engineering” — adjusting its products to lessen import taxes on materials from outside the United States like rubber soles, zippers and waterproof nylon. But now Columbia worries that its approach is under threat from a president whose trade strategy leaves little room for American companies...

A personal injury law firm is now suing the producer of bump stocks — devices that can be fitted to a semi-automatic weapon to simulate fully-automatic fire — over its reported role in the Las Vegas shooting. The lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf of concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival and does not purport to represent the 58 who were killed or the hundreds of others who were injured, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Police said that at least two of the weapons in Stephen Paddock’s hotel suite were fitted with bump stocks. The firm, the...

Far-Leftists making money hand over fist while “smearing any group which disagrees with them as a ‘hate group.’” By lumping legitimate groups together with the KKK and neo-Nazis, the Southern Poverty Law Center hopes to destroy all those who dissent from the hard-Leftist agenda. The Washington Free Beacon exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-appointed hate group monitor infamous for lumping mainstream conservative nonprofits alongside legitimate hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, keeps millions of dollars in multiple offshore accounts. Charles Ortel, a former Wall Street analyst and financial adviser known for uncovering a 2009 financial scandal at General...

RUSH: I mentioned yesterday that, if you didn't know, you should know that they're in panic. In the deep, dark crevices of power, the Democrat Party, they're in abject panic. This is not where they were supposed to be. Trump was not supposed to be a factor. The election was supposed to be over months ago. But certainly this week it was not supposed to be in question. Hillary should have been... They're already planning inaugural balls and all the other trappings that go with victory. This is not where they wanted to be, and with the possibility Trump could...

The movie that catapulted Prince to stardom is rolling back into U.S. theaters this weekend. “Purple Rain,” starring the late pop star, was first released in 1984 and earned Prince an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score. The accompanying album also produced two no. 1 singles –“When Doves Cry” and “Let’s Go Crazy–and went platinum 13 times over. AMC, the nation’s largest theater chain, is teaming with Warner Bros. to screen “Purple Rain” in 87 AMC locations this Saturday, April 22, through Thursday, April 27. Carmike Theaters will also screen the cult favorite in 80 theaters

Of course, our old friend Van Jones, teamed up with Reverend Jackson, has cooked up a graft befitting the 21st century: “Van Jones, founder of #YesWeCode, an ambitious project to teach 100,000 low-income youth to code, said the talent is out there: It just needs someone to provide opportunity.”

One of President Barack Obama's leading economic advisers says the White House is opposed to taxing health insurance. But Christina Romer is not ruling it out. She heads the Council of Economic Advisers and says the administration would not rule out taxing health benefits. The New York Times reported Sunday that the administration is considering such a move.

IUKA, Miss. -- In April, 150 members of Iuka Baptist Church voted to kick Charles Jones off the deacons' board. The punishment followed weeks of complaints by Mr. Jones and his friends that the pastor was following the teachings of the Rev. Rick Warren, the best-selling author and church-growth guru. After the vote, about 40 other members quit the church to support Mr. Jones.

April 6, 2004 - Two Washington, D.C. religious and social activists today called on actor-director Mel Gibson to donate the profits of his film, the "The Passion of the Christ," to causes they say truly represent and symbolize Jesus Christ's life, principles, and teachings. Coming right before the Passover "seder" night for Jews and one week before the Easter celebration for Christians, the call asks Gibson to create a "Passion Fund" that will be financed by the film's $300-million profits and will support efforts to combat religious intolerance and hatred and promote interfaith community building, peace, justice, non-violence, reconciliation, social...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some of the people who took Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man to court will meet this weekend to discuss doing the same to the likes of Ronald McDonald and other well-known faces of the food industry. Law professor Richard Daynard of Boston's Northeastern University and Washington lawyer John Banzhaf are among the anti-tobacco crusaders due to attend a conference in Boston that will examine legal approaches to fight obesity. Their argument? Just like cigarette makers hooked smokers with nicotine and went after teens with hip advertising, food companies have addicted millions of Americans on cheap, high-calorie...

Once again, someone has managed to blame a few pounds of metal for the demonstrated ineptitude of a few pounds of gray matter. Last week, jurors in a California civil court ruled that gun manufacturer Bryco/Jennings must pay over $50 million to a 16-year-old who became a quadriplegic after his moronic babysitter shot him in the jaw nine years ago. Virtually no one--even the normally "pro-gun" right--seems to be complaining about the verdict. While the right remains silent, the left is hailing the decision as an example of a "legitimate" case of compensation for a "dangerous design flaw" in the...

Imagine: “In our lead story: The leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today announced that the organization is being dissolved. CEO Kweisi Mfume and Board Chairman Julian Bond, in a joint announcement, noted that the major goal of the organization had been accomplished, and both looked forward to moving on to other challenges. Mfume said that widespread racial discrimination as a common and practical deterrent to the social and economic progress of black people in America has been effectively conquered. ‘Though there will probably always be some residual prejudices among peoples of different skin color...