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An Alaska Airlines flight forced to return to Portland International Airport... In Aurora, Colorado former police officer Randy Roedema given a 14-month sentence in the death... "a pathetic fearmongering campaign event" President Donald Trump campaigning in Iowa blasting Joe... The US Supreme Court allowing Idaho's abortion law to be enforced and deciding to hear an appeal... Shipping giant Maersk announcing a pause in traffic through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden... Television executive Nigel Lythgoe stepping aside as a judge... The Pentagon says that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was incapacitated and hospitalized... A huge volume of documents related...

David Coonradt came to the Colorado state Republican convention as part of Ted Cruz's “persuasion team,” a squad of volunteers working to secure more delegates to propel Cruz to the party's presidential nomination. He came ready to tout the Texas senator's gun-rights and antiabortion credentials, the most crucial information he had to impart appeared on the back of his neon orange Tshirt. “The official Ted Cruz slate,” the shirt blared, with the names of 13 prospective delegates below. More than 600 people were vying Saturday for 13 delegate slots for the Republican National Convention in July. The Cruz campaign wanted...

On this blog, over the last few days – and we will be providing more evidence over the weeks and months ahead – we have documented sick levels of genocide against Christians and Shia Muslims in Syria. The even bigger scandal is the deafening silence of the media, the church, the Jewish Organizations, the Obama administration, and leaders from both political parties. Obama: Stay silent on Christian persecution. Why is it that our government and the leaders of both parties are saying and doing nothing about these atrocities? The answer is simple. We as a country are allies of the...

FReepers have helped me out in the past when I asked about the Frugivores (which I had begun to think only I had ever heard of). Now I'm hoping someone can satisfy my curiosity on a topic both fascinating and gross. Perhaps you remember the old half hour PBS Dick Cavett Show. This is the show where he would spend the time chatting with some intellectual cult figure (eg, Norman Mailer, Richard Gilman, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, etc.). Back in the old days of Carson and Letterman (when he was really funny) I used to stay up later than I...

"At White House, a Day of Silence on Role of Rove" (front page, July 12) reveals another example of the despicable conduct of high officials in the Bush White House. First, they fixed the intelligence and facts to further their agenda for war. Then they punished patriotic public servants who disagreed with them, including Gen. Eric K. Shinseki; Paul H. O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary; and Richard A. Clarke, a former counterterrorism official. Then they attacked Iraq without provocation, killing tens of thousands of people who did us no harm and posed us no danger. Finally, in violation of signed...