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Canada and the European Union are working toward a wide-ranging relationship that will cover issues from trade to security to raw material exports. The alliance is meant to offset the increasing influence of the United States and China, Bloomberg reports. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU’s top executive, is set to announce plans for the increased partnership in Strasbourg, France on Sept. 16. Prime Minister Mark Carney will attend von der Leyen’s address, then will speak to European lawmakers the next day. Canada looking for new friendsCarney has made a deeper relationship with the EU a top...

US Central Command forces executed strikes on multiple Iranian oil tankers near Iran's oil export hub of Kharg Island on Tuesday amid the ongoing US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and campaign to cripple Iran's economy. Fox's Jennifer Griffin reported that several US defense officials confirmed that US Central Command is "carrying out airstrikes right now against targets near Kharg Island, as well as Jask." The targets include Iranian oil tankers, as part of "an ongoing effort to squeeze Iran economically," she said, noting that officials say this is not a new phase involving the deployment of ground troops....

All four missing family members aboard a small plane that crashed off the Bahamas were found dead on Tuesday. The pilot, Mario Lamar, 80, his wife, Lili Lamar, 79 and their two adult grandchildren, Sofia Sosa and Christian Sosa, were en route to Miami when the plane crashed near Great Harbour Cay. All four bodies were recovered on Tuesday, according to the family. According to The Los Angeles Times, The plane was a twin-engine PA-34 Piper five-seater. The plane crash is currently under investigation. AP reported: All four family members aboard a small plane that went missing off the Bahamas...

The jury foreperson in Lindsay Clancy’s high-stakes triple murder trial detailed just how close the panel was to finding the killer mom not guilty by reason of insanity until one “arrogant” male holdout juror blocked the verdict. “He admitted he had reasonable doubt after we watched the video of the interview,” the female juror told NBC 10 Boston in an interview with two other women jury members. “I started filling out forms, I was so excited,” the woman said. “There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out, I wrote my signature on each...

# CHAPTER ONE ## Welfare Check Deputy Caleb Mercer had spent enough years wearing a badge to understand that Saturdays had their own personality. Friday nights belonged to drunks, domestic arguments, teenagers who had borrowed more courage than judgment, and grown men who somehow reached forty without learning that nothing good followed the sentence, *Watch this*. Sunday mornings were quieter, particularly during deer season and football season, when half the county was either in church, in the woods, or sitting in front of a television. Saturdays fell somewhere in between. People had time to notice things on Saturdays. They noticed...

The Supreme Court today rejected a last-ditch effort by Missouri Republicans to use a newly drawn congressional map, which was designed to maximize their political power, for this year’s midterm elections. In a brief order issued by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court left in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative moves forward that could lead to the redrawn map being tossed out by voters. Kavanaugh handles emergency requests that arise from Missouri. The 2025 Republican redistricting plan, part of a wave prompted by Trump, was...

Too many men have quit the workforce. They simply have decided not to work, not provide for their families, or offer leadership for their sons. The family unit has been collapsing in America for decades now partially because the man in the house decided comfort was more important than duty. They have been spoiled. Soft hands and weak spines. A generation of boys are being raised on screens instead of sweat. They know every video game and almost nothing about a job that leaves dirt under their fingernails. Reality for our nation is coming whether they (we) want it or...

St Paul’s Cathedral has announced a four-year collaboration with Fabric nightclub that will see DJs being brought into the capital’s most lauded pews, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The four-year project has provoked outrage among groups including traditionalist Christians and historic preservation societies. Descendants of Lord Nelson called it “an insult” to his memory, “deeply depressing” and “an act of self-harm,” while Queen Elizabeth II’s former chaplain called it “a betrayal of all the faithful Christian people who said their prayers there.” But wasn’t St Paul’s always for music? Wren’s domed ceiling was designed specifically for its resonant qualities, and...

This video, created by Black Conservative Perspective, discusses the ongoing fundraising and legal situation surrounding Karmelo Anthony, who was convicted of murdering Austin Metaf and sentenced to 35 years in prison (0:44-1:54, 11:50-12:06). Key points discussed include: New Fundraising Request: The family of Karmelo Anthony is seeking an additional $250,000 for attorney fees to fund an appeal, despite having previously raised over $630,000, which has faced scrutiny regarding its allocation (0:44-1:09, 8:01-8:16). Damning Text Messages: The video highlights recently surfaced text messages, allegedly from Karmelo Anthony, that contain hateful remarks directed at Black women and the gay community, as well...

Protestors will be shot, private property is being seized, petrol stations have long lines, and some are in flames. Instead of "protesting," people are on the streets banging on trash cans, drums, anything that will make noise, and others are chanting "Jaavid Shah!" Basij are short handed. And continuing.

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A new law requiring hairdressers in New York to learn how to do all hair types including Black hair is now in effect. Starting Tuesday, anyone studying cosmetology in the state must be trained to work with diverse types of hair textures. The number of hours needed to get a license won't change. Instruction on how to do curly, wavy, coily and kinky hair must be integrated into the curriculum. The goal of the law is to stop anyone from being turned away from a salon. SNIP

Tuesday was episode one of Season 30 for ABC’s The View, and the purported “bona fide news program” came in scorching during their first Hot Topics segment; demanding everyone get out and vote against President Trump in the midterms “because our lives literally depend on this.” While they were claiming everyone would “literally” die without Democratic Party intervention, they also were calling for the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office. Starting with the most incendiary comment, it was moderator Whoopi Goldberg who suggested “literally” everyone was going to die if people didn’t vote for “change”...

A federal agent's contemporaneous notes suggest he may have been documenting the very weapons pipeline his own government was running, Slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry kept a diary showing he was tracking AK-47s at the border weeks before his 2010 murder exposed the Obama administration’s disastrous Fast and Furious gun-running scheme, according to excerpts from the journal obtained by Just the News. Terry's journal shows he stopped a shipment of AK-47s from entering the country just a month before he was murdered, according to his brother, Kent Terry. But his supervisors told him to allow the weapons to cross...

The second and youngest daughter of Ruth (nee Nuneviller) and Leo Steinem died Wednesday, September 2, at her home in New York City. Gloria Marie Steinem was born to the couple on March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, becoming the younger sister of Susan Steinem Patch. She had no brothers. The northwest Ohio city of Toledo stands approximately 200 miles away from my childhood home in southwest Ohio, and in many respects (in the 1930s through ‘50s at least) worlds away from the Big Apple that Ms. Steinem chose to bite, if you will, and eventually make her home. The...

“I will never forget. Two firemen, we thought it was coming down on top of us and two firemen, big strong guys — and I’m not the smallest guy in the world — they grabbed me under the arms and said, ‘Gotta get out of here,’ and they literally lifted me up.” “This is not easy to do. I’m big. They lifted me up, and they started running with me. I said, ‘Fellas, I can run myself.’ But they were amazing, but they thought it was coming down. It didn’t come down.”

American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now. Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August. Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.” The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.” The workforce...

Emergency appeal turns up heat on Supreme Court, which is also considering the administration’s bid to change the rules for mail-in ballotsThe Trump administration filed an emergency appeal Tuesday that seeks the Supreme Court’s blessing to deploy a federal immigration database that it says could be used to root out people improperly registered to vote.The effort stems from an executive order President Trump issued last year that directed the Department of Homeland Security to share information with state officials about voter eligibility and to compare states’ voter rolls with federal data. The administration has built a verification system over the...

A public bus became stuck in fresh cement after the driver chose to drive down a closed road and bus passengers moved the barriers blocking off the wet cement. According to local outlet KYW, a bakery on the street where the incident occurred had been waiting two years for a large pothole outside of the business to be filled. A crew finally showed up and filled the hole with cement, and two minutes later a SEPTA public bus rolled up. Surveillance video provided by the bakery showed two passengers getting off the bus and moving the barriers that were in...