Новости за 16.01.2019

(TAIWAN NEWS) — After visiting China, a Taiwanese woman was caught on Friday (Jan. 11) trying to smuggle 24 gerbils under her skirt at customs checkpoint on Taiwan’s outer island of Kinmen, reported UDN. While carrying out routine inspections at Shuitou Port in Kinmen, Coast Guard officials, a woman surnamed Wu was spotted walking rather […]

(NEWS.COM.AU) — A Chinese man is now bedridden for life after he sold his right kidney as a teenager to the black market to buy the latest Apple products. Wang Shangkun was 17 years old when he made the fatal decision. Shortly after the illegal surgery he began suffering from a decreased level of kidney […]

(STAMFORD ADVOCATE) — STAMFORD, Connecticut — Shippan resident and “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen has been accused of bouncing checks and failing to pay for $13,000 worth of marketing materials he received from a local vendor. Hansen, 59, was charged Monday with issuing a bad check and released after signing a written promise […]

(COLLEGE FIX) — Gillette’s new commercial for its razors has polarized the right side of the pundit spectrum, with some arguing it doesn’t attack masculinity and others arguing it treats masculinity itself as “abusive.” Political progressives, you might guess, are having an entirely different conversation. “[T]he truth is, men can get a lot better,” wrote […]

An organizer of the latest migrant caravan was arrested on rape charges in Honduras. Juan Carlos Molina, the subject of an arrest warrant since August 2015, was on his way to the United States to seek asylum after raping his minor cousin, Diario La Tribuna reported, according to the Gateway Pundit. The paper said Molina, […]

Prayer rugs typically used in Islamic worship have been found by ranchers and farmers near the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, suggesting Middle Easterners are penetrating the southern frontier. The Washington Examiner, reporting from a New Mexico border town, spoke to a rancher who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by cartels. “There’s […]

(VATICAN NEWS) — Pope Francis has reminded the faithful that “Ecumenism is not something optional”. Speaking during the weekly General Audience, the Pope looked ahead to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity that takes place from 18 to 25 January. He noted that the annual “Week of Prayer”, on the theme “Justice, and only […]

(ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION) — Publicly, Republican lawmakers from Georgia are holding the line on the partial federal government shutdown, which is now in its 26th day. But cracks are beginning to appear, pressure beginning to build. On Tuesday, Delta CEO Ed Bastian reported that the shutdown will cost his airline $25 million this month in lost […]

A Methodist church is causing controversy this week with a message targeting President Trump, suggesting his push for a border wall is racist against people who are not white. The sign in front of the Allendale United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Florida, states: “White supremacy is the real crisis.” “We really wanted to respond […]

Republican Rep. Steve King’s remarks on race in a New York Times story were “too close for comfort,” but the paper’s charge that previous statements by the Iowa congressman were “racist” is “completely bogus,” said Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume Tuesday night. Hume asserted media have “weaponized” the term “racist.” “We need to […]

  Likely mindful of the optics of President Trump criticizing Democrats for refusing to fund border security, while said Democrats are sitting before him in a staged Stage of the Union event, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Wednesday “took the extraordinary step” of urging him to delay his speech until a later date. Or just print […]

(DAILYWIRE) — Fox hit “Family Guy” will phase out gay jokes, executive producers Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin revealed during a Sunday interview. “If you look at a show from 2005 or 2006 and put it side by side with a show from 2018 or 2019, they’re going to have a few differences,” Sulkin told […]

(BREITBART) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said Tuesday evening that she is launching a presidential exploratory committee, throwing her hat into a crowded field of potential 2020 White House candidates. Gillibrand, who was appointed to the Senate in 2009 after President-elect Barack Obama nominated second-term Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, made the announcement […]

(CNBC) — Sears Holdings reached a roughly $5 billion deal with its chairman, Eddie Lampert, early Wednesday to keep the company, and about 400 stores, in operations, according to people familiar with the situation. The deal came after days of negotiations at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Lampert has been trying to buy […]

Editor’s note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today’s offering: “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless […]

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17

(Washington Examiner) Former FBI general counsel James Baker is under criminal investigation for unauthorized leaks to the media. The development was made public in a letter sent Tuesday to the office of U.S. Attorney John Durham for the District of Connecticut by Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina. In […]

(Newsbusters) At the midpoint of Donald Trump’s first term, the establishment media’s obvious hostility shows no signs of relenting, but polls show this negative coverage has had no discernible impact on the public’s attitudes toward the President. Since January 20, 2017, the Media Research Center has analyzed every moment of coverage of President Trump on […]

(France24) A blast struck near a U.S.-led coalition patrol in Syria’s northern city of Manbij on Wednesday, and a war monitor said 14 people were killed including two Americans. An Islamic State-affiliated web site, Amaq, said an attacker with an explosive vest had struck a foreign military patrol in a suicide attack. Reuters could not […]

(Washington Examiner) LORDSBURG, N.M. — Ranchers and farmers near the U.S.-Mexico border have been finding prayer rugs on their properties in recent months, according to one rancher who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by human smugglers. The mats are pieces of carpet that those of the Muslim faith kneel on as they […]

(FREE BEACON) — MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle implied without evidence Tuesday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) has something to hide and the president is blackmailing him over it. Graham has become one of the President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in the Senate, although he has criticized him for some key decisions, such as the […]

(AP) — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won’t be paid during the shutdown. With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan. […]

(AP) — TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday conducted one of at least two satellite launches it plans despite criticism from the United States, but the satellite failed to reach orbit, an official said. The rocket carrying the Payam satellite failed to reach the “necessary speed” in the third stage of its launch, Telecommunications Minister […]

One of the world’s most successful brands committed ideological hara-kiri this week. Recognized around the world as a symbol of manly civility for more than a century, Gillette will now be remembered as the company that did itself in by sacrificing a massive consumer base at the altar of progressivism. To which I say: R.I.P.-C. […]

The headline kinda says it all, doesn’t it? We know the police kill. Question is whether we will ever stop funding this deadly paramilitary force and start funding things that actually keep the people of Portland safe. https://t.co/XbjMtq9qW6 — M. Sn❄️wflake Iannarone (@sarahforpdx) January 9, 2019 Nationally syndicated talk-radio host Lars Larson – whose policy […]