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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on China on Friday to address manufacturing overcapacity that she said could cause global economic dislocation and to create a level-playing field for American companies and workers. Starting a five-day visit to China in one of the country’s major industrial and export hubs, she said she would raise industrial overcapacity and what the US considers to be unfair Chinese trade practices during what will likely be tough talks with senior China officials. “There are a broad swath of economic interactions” between the US and China “that should remain uncontroversial,” she said at an event...

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been medically cleared to play football again after experiencing cardiac arrest during a game last season, the NFL team announced. Brandon Beane, the team’s general manager, made the announcement on Tuesday, saying the second-year player met with three specialists during the offseason, and they came to an agreement he cleared the necessary protocols. “They’re all in lockstep of what this was and that he has cleared to resume full activities, just like anyone else who was coming back from an injury or whatever,” Beane said during a press conference. “So he’s … he’s fully...

​Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Chinese government of “cleverly playing” Western nations and encouraged the democratic countries to respond to the threat with a united front. Trudeau said the China-ruling Communist Party is leveraging its wealth to turn nations against each other and place political realities behind economic obligations.

Okay, people on this forum KNOW by now that I tell the truth. Beware the Ides of March, one once said. I just got a phone call from a "truck driver" in North Carolina. The number is 984-302-1xxx. (Freepmail me if you want the whole number). He wanted a handgun I had posted online. This was a black man who said he was a truck driver. His phone number was from out of state, so I assumed (correctly) that his driver's license was out of state. I told him that it was a state felony to sell a weapon to...

Safety mandates taking the fun out of childhood

Rule 9.k.34 - If a tree is between the ball and the hole, and the tree is deemed to be younger than the player, then the ball can be moved without penalty. This is so because this is simply a question of timing; when the player was younger, the tree was not there so the player is being penalized because of his age. Rule 1.a.5 - A ball sliced or hooked into the Rough shall be lifted and placed on the Fairway at a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the Rough with no penalty. The...

Three boys made a historic discovery in Mississippi after they dug up an intact mastodon fossil while playing in their backyard. The Ice Age-era beast went extinct about 11,000 years ago.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pointed out that members of Congress would be enjoying their August vacations by playing golf, but not necessarily with President Obama. Earnest explained that Sunday’s round of golf with a few Democratic members of Congress had “been in the works for quite some time” and wasn’t necessarily a diplomatic effort to build support for his nuclear deal with Iran. When asked if Obama would be playing more golf with members of Congress, Earnest declined to share any details of the president’s golfing schedule. “I’m confident in the next 60 days, many members of Congress...

With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods. Here’s the problem with all of this babying: it creates a society of weenies. There won’t be more more rebels because this generation has been frightened into submission and apathy through a deliberately orchestrated culture of fear. No one will have faced adventure and lived to greatly embroider the story. Kids are brainwashed – yes, brainwashed – into believing that the mere thought of a gun means you’re a psychotic...

WAVY, the NBC affiliate in Hampton Roads, Virginia asks “has zero tolerance gone too far?” as it reports this story: A suspended seventh grade Virginia Beach student will find out soon if he is expelled for the rest of the year for shooting an airsoft gun. Like thousands of others in Hampton Roads, Khalid Caraballo plays with airsoft guns. Caraballo and his friend Aidan were suspended because they shot two other friends who were with them while playing with the guns as they waited for the school bus. The two seventh graders say they never went to the bus stop;...

Today, President Obama visited Ground Zero and met with those affected by 9/11. Somehow, however, his visit seemed to look different to every person who witnessed it. Particularly cable news channels. MSNBC seemed thrilled as they eagerly discussed how the visit would totally show up tonight’s Republican debate. Meanwhile, Fox News was less enchanted. Witness the network’s interview with Debra Burlingame, a 9/11 widow, who was brought on to discuss Obama’s meeting with the victims’ families. That subject was broached for about two minutes

(IsraelNN.com) Travelers on Israeli airline El-Al report that its flights now feature a satire about residents of Hevron which many have termed “anti-Semitic.” The producers of the film may face libel suits. The offending skit was aired earlier in the month on the satirical Eretz Nehederet (A Wonderful Land) show on Channel 2 TV. The popular show has run for six seasons in Israel and is similar to the American program Saturday Night Live. (The Hevron film clip can be viewed here in Hebrew.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2007 – U.S. officials are giving Iran’s present role in Iraq “a hard look,” U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker said during an interview on Fox News Channel last night. “Iran's role is harmful. There are no two ways about it,” said Crocker, who appeared on Brit Hume’s special report “Back from Iraq: A Briefing for America” with Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq. The general and the ambassador had spent the day testifying before congressional committees. “They are supporting radical militias,” Crocker said. “They are supplying the explosively formed projectiles...

'Doctors said my son was playing sick to skip school' By Ahmet Sumbul in Dogubayazit and Andrew Alderson (Filed: 08/01/2006) The parents of three children who have died from bird flu accused their government of a cover-up yesterday as they prayed for the survival of their remaining child. Marifet Kocyigit's grief over her loss is matched only by her anger towards the Turkish authorities. "If only there had been a decent hospital, if only the authorities had cared, my babies would still be alive," she said. The Kocyigit family lost three children in six days Mrs Kocyigit, 37, spoke exclusively...

This photo supplied by 24/7 Media shows Norfolk terrier Eleanor, right, playing with her new kitty friend, Lil' Joey at the Pet Set doggie day care in Long Beach, Calif., on May 16, 2003. The day care, run by Eleanor's owner, offers overnight stays and dog and cat babysitting during the day for owners who work long hours. The photo by Suzanne Mapes is from a new book, 'Cats 24/7,' by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen. The cat photos in the book are selected from thousands submitted last fall from animal lovers and American photojournalists. The book and...

Iraqis Capture Saddam's Half Brother 29 minutes ago By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi security forces captured Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam Hussein's half brother and former adviser who was suspected of financing insurgents from Syria after U.S. troops ousted the former dictator, the government said Sunday. In a statement, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office said the arrest "shows the determination of the Iraqi government to chase and detain all criminals who carried out massacres and whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people, then bring them to justice to face the right punishment."...

Three Other Juveniles Also Charged In Connection With Stolen Gun INDEPENDENCE, Ky. -- Four boys, ages 10 and 13, have been charged in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy in Northern Kentucky Dec. 2. A 10-year-old accused of shooting Timothy Cooper in the chest was charged with wanton endangerment.That boy and two others, 10 and 13, were charged with burglary for stealing the .22-caliber rifle and other items from a house in the 400 block of Hilltop Lane in Latonia. A 13-year-old was charged with receiving stolen property.Cooper was not charged. He is recovering and has been released from the...

Technology Playing Role in GOP Protests By ELLEN SIMON NEW YORK - Gary Boston and Jeff Adler are just two guys with a dream: shutting down New York City for a day. What they want is a general strike, with everyone from Broadway dancers to Madison Avenue street sweepers calling in sick Wednesday to protest the Republican National Convention, which begins on Monday. Both men are in their 30s and have full-time jobs, and neither has any organizing experience. Boston, who had never built a Web site before, put together ShutItDownNYC.com in three days, using Microsoft FrontPage software and the...

Good, despite themselves Article Last Updated: Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 12:54:17 PM MST By DONALD KAUL, Retired Washington columnist, Des Moines Register The Democratic National Convention got off to a rip-roaring start last week with its parade of Golden Oldies - President Jimmy, Uncrowned Prince Al and, of course, Big Bill. Taken together, their speeches constituted the best first day of a political convention in memory. The trio managed to offer a scathing critique of the Bush Administration's preemptive-war strategy, as well as his reverse Robin Hood economic policies, without getting too personal about the president himself (although Jimmy...

HOT TOPICS  LEE RECOMMENDS THIS PHOTO 23 June 2004 - Muslim children play at beheading Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. A video located today on Sheik Abu Hamza's website, , features four children, doing what as children the world over do: pretending. But what is completely unnerving about this video is what they are pretending. One young boy kneels in front of three other children, in the same manner of the condemned man; Three other children stand behind him in the same way that the terrorists stood over the men prior to their beheading....