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Then-Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during a campaign event in Alexandria, Va., October 30, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In King’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” dated April 16, 1963, he wrote, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must
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On Saturday a Pakistani man entered the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas and took several members hostage. The hostage-taker in Texas at a Jewish synagogue claimed he was the brother of a convicted terrorist serving an 86-year sentence. The man says he is the brother of Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady Al-Qaeda.”
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A number of tornadoes were reported across Florida this morning. Newsbreak.com reports: Multiple tornadoes touched down in Southwest Florida on Sunday morning as severe storms moved across the area. Lee County officials are providing an update on storm response and recovery efforts. The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a tornado passed over I-95 in Southern
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migrant caravan; stock photo Another caravan of migrants set off in Honduras this weekend en route to the United States border. Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans left San Pedro Sula on Saturday and a smaller caravan departed the region Sunday morning. Reuters reported: Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans on Saturday left the Honduran city of
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A Pakistani man entered the Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas today and took several members hostage. The hostage-taker in Texas of individuals at a Jewish synagogue claims he is the brother of a convicted terrorist serving an 86-year sentence. The man says he is the brother of Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, also known as “Lady
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SWAT team members deploy near the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, January 15, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images) All of the hostages in a Texas synagogue were rescued on Saturday night, ending the daylong standoff between an Islamic extremist and authorities. Four people were being held inside the synagogue by the man,
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A span of highway on the Skagit River, May 2013. (Cliff DesPeaux / Reuters) I have been warning the green warriors that “nature rights” will someday come back to bite reneweable energy projects. For example, electricity-generating windmills kill millions of birds and bats. If these animals have the “inalienable right to exist, flourish, regenerate, and
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) meeting with the Communist Politburo in East Berlin 1984; Photo: Hubertus Knabe The new German Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz may have been groomed as a Stasi agent, according to explosive new charges from Germany’s former top spy. Renowned Stasi expert Hubertus Knabe documented Scholz’s intimate involvement with the East
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Sirhan Sirhan (at left), convicted of killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, pleads his case during his tenth parole hearing at the Corcoran State Prison in California in 1997. (Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan on Thursday, several months after a California parole board recommended Sirhan’s
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(DGLimages/Getty Images) California’s Department of Social Services shut down the Foothills Christian Church Preschool in El Cajon on December 10 for allegedly violating the state’s Covid mask mandate.  The agency had reportedly visited the preschool several times starting in September 2021 to check that children were wearing masks properly, prompted by a parent complaint. Preschool
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Package debris alongside a train track in Los Angeles, Calif. (via Twitter/@johnschreiber) The CBS affiliate in Los Angeles has a story about thieves stealing goods directly from stopped trains. The pictures are jarring, and the video segment is worth watching in full (it’s less than three minutes long). Here’s a brief video from CBSLA photojournalist
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General Electric Co on Friday suspended its vaccine or test requirement for its 174,000 employees after the Supreme Court blocked Joe Biden’s OSHA mandate. The US Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Joe Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate for businesses with 100+ employees. “Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given
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(eakrin rasadonyindee/Getty Images) The Loudoun County school board doubled down on Friday, insisting it will not publicly release the findings of an independent investigation into how the school district handled sexual assault allegations at two of its schools. A 15-year-old student sexually assaulted a female student at Stone Bridge High School in May. While the
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Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The agency is not — and should not be — in the business of deciding what is good for the environment and society. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen considering the prospect of “green” finance, I’m often tempted to burst into song: Green, green, bo-bean, bo-na-na
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Every four years, conservative Americans have to watch presidential debates moderated by liberal journalists who act more like Democrat activists than moderators. That might finally be coming to an end. The Republican National Committee has sent a message to the Commission on Presidential Debates. They’re not going to play this game anymore. CBS News reports:
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Today the Court handed down decisions on injunctive relief in two cases involving vaccine mandates. In National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, which involved the more sweeping regulation, the Court stayed OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (“ETS”)—which required companies with 100 or more employees to require workers to be vaccinated or wear a
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President Trump on Thursday released a statement after the Supreme Court blocked Joe Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate. The highest court of the land in a 6-3 ruling on Thursday blocked Biden’s vaccine mandate on private businesses with 100+ employees. All three of President Trump’s SCOTUS appointees, Gorsuch, Kavanagh and Barrett joined the other conservatives on
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Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore, Md., May 1, 2015. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) A federal grand jury has indicted Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby, alleging Mosby lied on mortgage applications and on two requests for withdrawals from her retirement savings in connection with the purchase of two Florida properties. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
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A stuffed dummy with a head depicting the Omicron COVID-19 variant along other dummies outside a store as part of the traditional “Burn of the old year” in which the dummies are hung and burn to welcome the new year, in Managua, Nicaragua, December 31, 2021. (Maynor Valenzuela/Reuters) The U.K., which was a couple of
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