Новости за 08.03.2019

Contrary to the reported claim of her lawyer that she was safely reunited with her family in Canada after her “blasphemy” conviction was overturned, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi remains in protective custody in the Muslim nation and is said to be “very unwell.” In January, the Pakistan Supreme Court upheld its October decision to overturn […]

(Reuters) Sears is back into court, less than one month after emerging from bankruptcy protection. The retailer was sued on Wednesday by Stanley Black & Decker Inc, which accused it of breach of contract and trademark infringement over its new line of professional-grade mechanics tools under the Craftsman Ultimate Collection brand.

(Houston Chronicle) A Comal County district court judge received a public warning after he told the jury to keep deliberating over a defendant they convicted because God told him she was innocent. Judge Jack Robison reported himself to the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct after the outburst on Jan. 12, 2018, according to the committee’s […]

(Tom’s Guide) That’s the day millions of GPS receivers will literally run out of time, rolling over their time counters back to zero, thanks to limitations in timekeeping for older GPS devices. Many navigation systems may be affected, such as on ships or older aircraft, although your smartphone will be fine. But because GPS satellites […]

Evangelical leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore already has launched an online petition seeking the removal from Congress of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. Cardoza-Moore, the president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, cites Omar’s “shameful” anti-Semitism. Now she’s moved a step further, asking the Justice Department to investigate her. Jewish Press reports Cardoza-Moore cites Omar’s “possible connections to the radical […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently is demanding that illegal aliens be allowed to vote. At a news conference Tuesday, she promoted a proposed voting- rights bill that would prohibit state officials from checking whether voters legally have the right to vote. The California Democrat chastised Republicans who support laws requiring identification to register and vote by evoking Republican President Ronald Reagan. “In the campaign, […]

You may see me as “one of those health nuts.” Rather than getting into that (though I might agree), let’s focus on another variety of nuts – tree nuts. According to a study by nutrition researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, if you consume such nuts regularly, you could […]

(Washington Examiner) A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit by porn star Stormy Daniels against President Trump over a nondisclosure agreement barring her from speaking about an alleged tryst. U.S. District Judge James Otero said the lawsuit “lacks subject matter jurisdiction” and should be sent back to the California Superior Court. Daniels filed the lawsuit […]

(Washington Examiner) Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that Democrats should seriously consider adding two seats to the Supreme Court if they win the White House and a Senate majority. Holder, who announced earlier this week he will not run for president in 2020, told a crowd at Yale Law School that Democrats should […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Social media giant Facebook says it will remove groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations on its site. It’s the latest step Facebook and others are taking to stem the tide of misinformation on social media sites. Facebook said Thursday it will take its cue from global health organizations, such […]

(CTV News) After resigning from her job at a major Canadian bank, Saadia Behilil was shocked to receive a statement from the institution addressed to her estate because her status had been changed to “deceased” and her accounts frozen. The Scarborough, Ont. woman said she left her position at TD Bank last month. “I gave […]

(CNBC) A federal judge on Thursday sentenced President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to serve 47 months in prison, a far shorter length of time than prosecutors in the case had argued for. The decision from federal judge T.S. Ellis in Virginia comes less than a week before Manafort’s second sentencing hearing in […]

(CBS News) A self-proclaimed “nerd” from Georgia read the often-ignored fine print on an insurance contract — and it ended up winning her $10,000. Donelan Andrews recently bought travel insurance from a Florida-based company, Squaremouth. Andrews and six of her closest friends are traveling to London together in September, and the high school teacher wanted […]

(CTV News) Archeologists confirmed a long-time suspicion of historians and say that famed Alcatraz prison was built over a Civil War-era military fortification. Researchers found a series of buildings and tunnels under the prison yard of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, which once held Al Capone, SFGate reported Tuesday. A study published last week in “Near Surface […]

(WRBL) The Lee County coroner has confirmed to News 3 that the Porch Band of Creek Indians has agreed to cover the entire burial cost of the 23 victims of Sunday’s Beauregard tornado. Two days ago, Harris said that two unnamed contributors had agreed to split the cost. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians was […]

(Washington Examiner) Former President Barack Obama said Monday these are “challenging times” but he remains hopeful because of the next generation of leaders that he aims to guide. Touching on his “third act,” the 44th president spoke of programs that have become a central pillar of his Obama Foundation and its $500 million presidential center […]

(London Metro) Self-driving cars could be more likely to hit and kill black people due to flaws in the software used to detect objects, researchers have warned. In a pre-publication scientific paper, researchers from the University of Georgia found that computer vision systems are better at detecting people with lighter skin tones. Using cutting edge […]

(London Daily Mail) Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday that young female migrants traveling north to the United States are raped with such regularity that Immigration and Customs Enforcement gives every girl age 10 and over a pregnancy test after arriving. ‘Very unfortunately, because of the increase in violence, at ICE, when we have […]

“Old Ironsides” is the nickname of the three-masted frigate USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat. Muslim Barbary Pirates of North Africa had captured the American ships Polly, Betsey, Maria, Dauphin, and Philadelphia. The USS Constitution was sent to fight the Muslim pirates in the First Barbary War, 1803; the Battle […]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations – a D.C.-based group founded by Hamas operatives that was named in a terror-funding case – backed Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as the House prepared to vote on a watered-down resolution originally intended to condemn her anti-Semitic remarks. CAIR, in fact, criticized the original resolution and praised the many […]

Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, a Muslim and a newcomer to Congress, already is causing controversy, with a series of anti-Semitic comments, her defense of al-Qaida, her explosions at reporters and her alignment with an extreme left faction in the Democratic Party. She’s already the target of a petition demanding her resignation. Now, the Department of […]

Government watchdog Judicial Watch has obtained hundreds of pages of redacted records from the Department of Justice showing that Bruce Ohr, a former associate deputy attorney general, regularly communicated with former British spy Christopher Steele and carried information from him to the DOJ. Judicial Watch said this was after Steele, a Fusion GPS contractor who worked […]

An Arizona high school student who was suspended for wearing “Make America Great Again” attire was back in class Thursday, but the dispute isn’t over. The non-profit legal group defending Logan Jones, the Alliance Defending Freedom, said Perry High School officials refuse to expunge the 10-day suspension from Jones’ record. “Public schools have a duty […]

America has the First Amendment to protect offensive speech. After all, nobody objects to speech with which they agree. But defamation, obscenity and “true threats” are unprotected. Nevertheless, rappers have gotten away with rhymes promoting rape, shooting and killing. But now the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to review the case of a rapper who recounted being arrested in a […]

Art studies are proving that ours is the most fear-laden, backward and bloody of all eras. Well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s true in at least one aspect: our treatment of children with Down syndrome. Thanks to the fruits of science, we can crack open the “oven” a bit early […]