Новости за 18.01.2019

Confounding conventional wisdom, a new poll shows President Trump’s approval rating among Latinos has skyrocketed by 20 points since the government shutdown over the border wall Republicans want to fund. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll in early December showed Trump at 31 percent among Latino adults. But the latest Marist poll, released Thursday, shows the president’s […]

Reminders of progress made in advancing public health are always important to acknowledge, if only as a reminder of how much more we can accomplish. A new report from the American Cancer Society provides such news. According to the report, the death rate of cancer, the second-leading cause of death among Americans, has drastically declined […]

Christian leader Franklin Graham is calling on members of Congress to meet with President Trump and Vice President Pence in a prayer meeting to try to “soften hearts” to end the partial government shutdown. In a social media statement very late Thursday, he said, “President Trump postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the Middle […]

(KHOU) A Pearland woman is accused of trying to sexually assault her caregiver after faking autism, Pearland police say. Rachel Childs, 29, is charged with intent to commit assault, indecent exposure and burglary. Police say Childs lied to the caregiver and told her she would be caring for Childs’ twin sister, who has autism. The […]

(Morning Star News) Hard-line Hindus on Jan. 9 tore down a church building in southern India because it was built on the west side of a village, which they said violated Hindu principles of placement and positioning, sources said. The Vastu Shastra architectural and planning principles, a Hindu version of Feng Shui, were said to […]

(NBC News) A jury has awarded a Miami hotel dishwasher $21.5 million, finding that her employer violated her religious rights by repeatedly scheduling her to work on Sundays — and ultimately firing her. But a cap on punitive damages prevents her from receiving anywhere close to that amount. Marie Jean Pierre, who worked as a […]

Considered one of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, Daniel Webster’s statue stands in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, placed there by the state of New Hampshire. His career spanned almost four decades, serving as Secretary of State for Presidents William Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. Daniel Webster was born Jan. 18, 1782, […]

Calling family “family” has sparked a meltdown among workers at Google, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, including one who lashed out at company officials for their “disrespectful way to speak.” The Daily Caller cited insider documents provided by a source who insisted on remaining anonymous. The revolt began when a company official was talking […]

The cover of the new issue of @TheAtlantic pic.twitter.com/TayiwAdHSi — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 17, 2019 Special counsel Robert Mueller has yet to issue a report on his probe of alleged Trump-Russia collusion, but the new issue of The Atlantic features the word “IMPEACH” in large, red letters. The cover story by Atlantic senior editor […]

Democrats in Washington simply cannot accept the reality that Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. They have spent much of the time since then trying to delegitimize him and anyone who voted for him, talk-radio host Limbaugh said Thursday. The Democrats’ flat-out refusal to fund the border wall after previously supporting it is the latest […]

A psychiatrist employed by the Iowa Department of Human Services who was fired for signing his emails with “In Christ” lost his First Amendment lawsuit against the state. Michael Mial alleged that, in a performance review, his superiors told him the patients he treated at the Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders appreciated his Christian […]

Major U.S. Islamic groups that condemned Saudi Arabia for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been silent about Turkey’s threat to NBA star Enes Kanter. A native of Turkey, Kanter did not travel with his New York Knicks teammates to London, where they play the Washington Wizards on Thursday, fearing he could be assassinated […]

Why haven’t politicians fixed our immigration problems in 50 years? I’m old enough to remember the concerns people were expressing half a century ago – in the 1960s. Washington didn’t pay attention then or since. It took Donald Trump to empower the people whose lives are impacted by uncontrolled, illegal immigration in 2016 by pushing […]

Speaking recently to Fox News’ Arthel Neville, Andrew Napolitano, also of Fox News, repeated old feminist canards about sexual assault against women being an under-reported, ever-present crime in American society. The violence-against-women industry in North America – you know, the one-in-four-women-are-assaulted rot – is propped up by the sub-science or pseudoscience of violence-against-women statistics. In […]

How do you describe a woman like Shirley Lee Foley Boone, with all her accomplishments and talents and considerable impact on so many lives? Especially when King Solomon already described her to a T in Proverbs 31? It’s the last part of the book of Proverbs, believed to have been written as his “sign off” […]

In this era when there has been more information available to more people than at any time in the past, it is also true that there has been more misinformation from more different sources than ever. We are not talking about differences of opinion or inadequate verification, but about statements and catchwords in utter defiance […]

Alex from the Bronx should probably know what “run train” means and why this is hilariously terrible https://t.co/4Tm6kyCzpM — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 16, 2019 Progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is so adept at drawing attention that a comment to the Washington Post on how much attention she is getting from the right has become […]

(The Blaze) Trevor Noah, the late-night host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” took aim at Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, and the Christian school where she will begin teaching this week. Reports Wednesday revealed that the vice president’s wife would be returning to teaching art twice a week at a private school […]

(Sacramento Bee) The Placer County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday identified the gunman in Tuesday’s shooting spree that killed a 93-year-old-woman and left another person and a police K-9 injured. Stanley Stepanski III, 48, of Florence, Mont., was shot and killed by police after killing Mary Toste, wounding a police dog named Eros and a motorist, […]

(CNBC) Stocks rose on Thursday on the back of a report that said the U.S. could ease tariffs on Chinese goods during their trade negotiations with China. That idea was floated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, according to a Wall Street Journal report, which cited people close to the matter. The report, however, added that […]