Новости за 24.05.2019

(CNBC) Stocks notched weekly losses on Friday as investors worried the U.S.-China trade war is hurting economic growth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.7% this week to post its fifth consecutive weekly decline, its longest streak since 2011. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite fell a third straight week of losses, their longest slide […]

(Daily Wire) Over the weekend, award-winning actress Anne Hathaway scolded pro-life “white women” for supporting abortion-restricting legislation sweeping the nation. Hathaway accused such women of being “complicit” in the allegedly inevitable deaths of racial minority women due to such laws. “Yes the anti-abortion movement is primarily about controlling women’s bodies under the premise (for many, […]

(Christian Post) I interviewed Dr. M Zuhdi Jasser in January 2017, July 2017, and September 2018 on a range of topics including Islamism and what he believes is its antidote, the Muslim Reform Movement. This is a follow-up interview. You can read about the differences between Muslim Islamists and Muslim Reformers here. Jasser is president […]

(London Express) A blast in rue Victor Hugo has wounded at least 13 people, including a young girl, Le Figaro newspaper wrote citing well-informed sources. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a “parcel bomb” filled with “nails, screws and bolts” dropped off by a man on a bike, local newspaper Le Progres […]

(Pluralist) Naomi Wolf, a feminist author and former advisor to President Bill Clinton, learned this week she’d misunderstood a legal term that underpinned a major thesis in her latest book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love.” Making matters worse, the embarrassing revelation was broadcast live to countless listeners on BBC’s Radio 3 during […]

(CBS News) As a Chicago police officer, Shannon Spalding worked undercover in some of the toughest parts of the city — only to discover some of the most dangerous criminals were fellow police officers. She risked her life to stop them. Soon after joining the Chicago Police Department in 1996, Spalding drew an assignment in […]

(London Guardian) Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House speaker is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlighting its struggle to deal with disinformation. The viral clip shows Pelosi – who has publicly angered Donald Trump in […]

(Pluralist) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday called out a male reporter for sharing an article about how Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., ran a lucrative side gig as a lawyer while she was teaching. Retweeting Andrew Kazynski, the head of CNN’s investigative KFile, Ocasio-Cortez seemed to suggest he was jealous that a woman was making […]

(New York Times) Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, was taken to a hospital after apparently fainting during a news conference on Friday in Manhattan. Mr. Nadler, 71, was seated at a table in a gymnasium at Public School 199 on the Upper West Side, where Mayor Bill de Blasio was […]

(CNN) An explosion in the city of Lyon on Friday evening has injured at least seven people. The small blast occurred around 5:30 pm local time (11:30 am ET) in a central shopping area, near the intersection of Victor Hugo road and Sala road. Its cause has not been fully determined yet. French President Macron […]

Happy Thursday. In PLAYBOOK this morning: As the U.S. builds up a military presence around Iran, SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN had a private dinner with @JZarif, Iran’s foreign minister, when he was in the United States a few weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/qLWNYjnl9H — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) May 23, 2019 When Politico Playbook reported Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s recent […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday that she will resign — ending her months-long struggle to keep her job despite seething anger from her own Conservative Party over her handling of Brexit. “I believe it was right to persevere even when the odds against success seemed high. But it is now clear to me […]

With Memorial Day upon us, WND is introducing a brand new “God Bless America” section of its Superstore, featuring a wide selection of cherished patriotic items – from various sizes of American flags (plus garden flags for all five military branches), to Constitutions and other key founding documents, to top-flight documentary films about America, to […]

President Trump’s order allowing Attorney General William Barr to declassify documents related to the Russia investigation will show the FBI withheld crucial information from a top-secret court and expose Obama national security director Samantha Power’s unmasking of nearly 300 American citizens, according to investigative reporter Sara Carter. “This is going to change everything. Trump’s order […]

As I noted last week, more Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all other forms of cancer combined. Even though incidence rates continue to climb, skin cancer remains one of the more survivable forms of cancer. Early detection is key. Much of what was covered last week related to nonmelanoma skin cancers […]

(CNS News) In contrast to the largely open border views of Pope Francis and other liberals at the Vatican, U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke said that resisting large-scale Muslim immigration “is the responsible exercise of one’s patriotism,” and added that you do not have to be a “rocket scientist” to know that many Muslims immigrate because […]

(Fox News) President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: “The heads of elements of the intelligence community… and the heads of […]

A leading climatologist is warning that nearly all of the computer simulations at the heart of the predictions of catastrophic, man-made global warming cannot be trusted with respect to a key measure. At a meeting in the Palace of Westminster in London, Professor John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville told MPs and […]

Many young people are not saving for retirement for a simple reason, apparently: They believe it’s a poor use of their money because the world as they know it won’t exist anyway, due to “climate change.” MarketWatch reported some 88 percent of millennials accept that climate change is happening, and 69 percent say it will impact […]

When House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that the United States had been plunged into a “constitutional crisis,” a large swath of the media took to plying this fantasy for them. “Ever wonder what a constitutional crisis looks like? Well, open your eyes,” CNN’s Don Lemon explained to his viewers. “The […]

Christianity in Iraq faces extinction while Britain’s Christian leaders fail to speak out for fear of being accused of Islamophobia, charged the archbishop of Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. In an impassioned address in London, BBC News reported, the Rt. Rev. Bashar Warda directed his condemnation of “political correctness” to Christian leaders in attendance. […]

Primarily through his son Hunter, former vice president and now 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden has been “offshoring” corruption, contends investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer. He explains in the first episode of a new series called “The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer” that bank documents entered in a court case “shed light on just how […]

(London Guardian) An “astonishing and unparalleled” 2,300-year-old shield made of tree bark has been discovered in Leicestershire, the only example of its kind ever found in Europe. Archaeologists say the discovery of the shield, made between 395 and 250BC, has completely overturned assumptions about the weapons used in the iron age, sparking breathless reactions among […]

(CBS News) Two Federal Aviation Administration inspectors – each with a decade of experience with the FAA – say they have an urgent message for U.S. travelers: “people’s lives” could be at stake. They told CBS News “the flying public needs to wake up” and that people need to know flying “is not as safe […]

(Detroit News) The powerful DeVos family of West Michigan is ending its longtime support of U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, the libertarian Republican who has repeatedly clashed with President Donald Trump. The family has not made any political contributions to Amash this cycle, and “they have no plans to do so,” said family spokesman Nick Wasmiller. […]