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(NPR) — North is on the move, and that’s a problem for your smartphone’s maps. Earth’s geographic north pole is fixed. But the planet’s magnetic north pole — the north that your compass points toward — wanders in the direction of Siberia at a rate of more than 34 miles per year. That movement may […]

Pope Francis on Tuesday disclosed that nuns have been sexually abused by priests and bishops, and even now are being held as sex slaves. “The abuse was so severe in one case that an entire congregation of nuns was dissolved by former Pope Benedict,” CBS News reported. The pope was speaking to reporters who were traveling with him […]

Students at the University of New Orleans should think twice about sending out any Valentine’s Day cards if they don’t want to risk being expelled for sexual harassment, according to a free-speech advocacy group. A four-year-old harassment policy defines sexual harassment so broadly that it could effectively ban Valentine’s Day cards, according to the Foundation for […]

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Ginsburg has promised to retire when she can no long work at “full steam.” For the past six weeks or so, following surgery, she’s been working from home, according to the court. On Monday, however, she reportedly attended a concert put on by her daughter-in-law at the National Museum of Women […]

Officials in the Mexican state of Coahuila are helping transport more than 1,700 migrants from Honduras to an unsecured part of the Texas border. Breitbart News reported 49 private buses and dozens of police vehicles were deployed after hundreds of migrants began arriving over the weekend in the southern part of the state, which borders […]

(FREE BEACON) — The National Institutes of Health is spending over $200,000 to figure out why obese lesbians binge eat. The Old Dominion University study awarded last week hypothesizes that intersectionality is the culprit for why black lesbians purportedly eat too much. Researchers note the implications of “being a black lesbian woman on binge eating” […]

(CNBC) — Paying with cash is falling out of fashion: Nearly one-third of Americans, or 29 percent, say they never make purchases with cash, up from 24 percent in 2015. That’s according to PEW Research Center, which also found that the percentage of Americans who make all of their purchases with cash fell from 24 […]

(NEW YORK POST) — A 24-year-old man was killed in Texas last week when his vape pen exploded — slicing open his carotid artery and leaving his grandmother’s car covered in blood. William Brown died after his left internal carotid artery was severed due to trauma from the exploding vape pen he just bought from […]

(AP) — Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Francis noted that Pope Benedict XVI had taken action against a France-based order after some of its religious sisters […]

(STUDY FINDS) — NEW YORK — As the classic Todd Rundgren song goes, “I don’t want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.” Yet for many of us, doing anything other than work is simply not an option. A new survey finds that about half of employed Americans (48 percent) consider […]

(FOX) — A major Canadian cryptocurrency exchange is in the spotlight following the sudden death of its founder, which has left customers unable to access $190 million in funds. Gerald Cotten, the 30-year-old founder of QuadrigaCX, died in India on Dec. 9, 2018 due to complications from Crohn’s disease, according to a sworn affidavit by […]

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“Duck Commander” Phil Robertson is blasting U.S. policies that promote the killing of children, and says there’s a surefire way for America to be great again: becoming a “godly” nation. “Trump wants to make American great again and I’m all for it and I’m behind him,” the “Duck Dynasty” star told Alex Marlow of Breitbart […]

(YORK DISPATCH) — A Southern York County School District principal was disciplined after she wore blackface during a staff team-building exercise last summer. Friendship Elementary School Principal Lisa Boyer reportedly wore the makeup to portray black “Family Feud” host Steve Harvey for a staff version of the popular television game show. A district statement notes […]

(SUN-SENTINEL) — Confronted with the possibility of opening a meeting to the public, Broward County schools found another way Monday to keep a wrap on details about February’s mass killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The school district decided it was better to keep School Board members out of a meeting with Parkland parents […]

(FOX) — A distinguished Harvard University professor is not backing down from his claims that a piece of extraterrestrial spacecraft technology may be flying past the orbit of Jupiter at this moment. Avi Loeb, one of the top astronomy professors in the world, boasting of decades of Ivy League professorships and hundreds of publicized works […]

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: A woman was driving down the center of the road at 100 mph. […]

(Washington Examiner) Rep. Matt Gaetz this week introduced a resolution that calls out Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Eric Holder, and other opponents of President Trump for avoiding any punishment even though they lied to Congress. Gaetz, R-Fla., noted that Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign operative, was arrested on five counts of lying to Congress, […]

(Daily Mail) A Colorado jogger fought off a mountain lion in the foothills of Horsetooth Mountain on Monday, suffering severe bites before he killed the wild animal in self-defense, authorities said. The man, who was not identified, was jogging on a trail on the West Ridge of the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space, a mountain park […]

ELIZABETH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — New Jersey is one of the highest taxed states in the country. Now, residents and businesses could be taxed extra … when it rains. Save it for a rainy day. Some of your hard-earned dollars may be taken away as the weather turns ugly and rain drops fall on the Garden […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making her first public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery in December. The 85-year-old Ginsburg is attending a concert at a museum a few blocks from the White House that is being given by her daughter-in-law and other musicians. Patrice Michaels is married to Ginsburg’s […]

(Los Angeles Times) A series of loud booms that rocked downtown Los Angeles on Monday night startled some people who complained on social media. But Los Angeles police said there’s no reason to be alarmed. The noises were part of a U.S. Army training exercise involving aircraft and weapon simulations in urban settings. The training […]

From a material perspective, life in America gets better and better. From a moral perspective, the same claim cannot be made. One manifestation of our moral decline is how the country, thanks to the Democratic Party and the left, is getting meaner. The case of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and a 35-year-old racist photo from […]

A survey by Pew Research ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night shows voters want the federal government to focus on the economy and health costs. But they also put the border-security issue on which Trump campaigned in the top 10. Education, terrorism, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid also are in the […]

President Trump said last week there’s a “good chance” he will declare a national emergency to obtain border-wall funding, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has advised against it, and now Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano predicts courts would block the move anyway. The problem, Napolitano said Monday on the program “America’s Newsroom,” is […]