Новости за 16.07.2019

(CNBC) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped on Tuesday from a record high set earlier in the day after President Donald Trump cast doubt on the trade progress between China and the U.S. The 30-stock index pulled back to trade 21 points lower after Trump said the two countries have a “long way to […]

(THE COLLEGE FIX) — “Math equity” doesn’t mean 1 + 1 = 2. The term refers to the growing insistence among educators that teaching math in the classroom comes with some inherently biased methodology that must be addressed. Proponents of “math equity” also stress the importance of social justice issues such as race, diversity and […]

A South Carolina homeowner said he was forced to shoot a man to defend his family when the intruder forced his way into his home. Antwain Moton, 35, of Williamston said he was playing his X-Box on Monday when a man began pounding on his door, reported Fox Carolina. The intruder, who died from a […]

A judge ordered Republican operative Roger Stone, a longtime associate of Donald Trump, to stop using social media because he violated a court’s gag order. But he doesn’t have to go to jail. Politico reported Tuesday that U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed the penalty after determining that some of Stone’s Instagram posts […]

As President Trump engages in a fierce war of words with four Democratic women in Congress, one of whom is U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Hollywood celebrity is going public with a fierce condemnation of Omar, calling her a racist anti-Semite who is an “Islamist at heart and soul.” The comments are from […]

He’s a mainstay of WND’s Opinion page for a reason: Order A.F. Branco’s second book of brilliant political cartoons: “Make America Laugh Again”

Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who once vanished without word to his office or family for nearly a week, is considering a primary challenge to President Trump. His explanation for his 2009 vanishing act was that he was hiking the Appalachian trail. But it turned out he had secretly flown to Brazil […]

(STUDYFINDS) — NEW YORK — It’s human nature to compare ourselves to others, but a new survey of U.S. homeowners has revealed that a significant portion of Americans really, really want to impress their friends and neighbors. A survey of 2,000 homeowners finds that one in five Americans have started a home improvement project solely […]

(STUDYFINDS) — It doesn’t take a scientific study to know that spending some time with a cuddly cat or friendly dog will probably put you in a better mood. That being said, researchers from Washington State University have found objective, physiological evidence that just 10 minutes spent petting a cat or dog will lower stress […]

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: Today, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that, if global warming […]

We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:8

(Washington Examiner) President Trump’s attack on left-wing congresswomen, including a jab that they should “go back” to their homelands, created a furor. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says it may be an example of Trump’s strategic genius. “It is useful to remember Trump doesn’t play tic-tac-toe. He plays chess, and he’s very often setting […]

(Washington Examiner) A watchdog group is asking the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which leans conservative, filed the complaint on Monday against the […]

(Washington Examiner) An internal Democratic poll that is circulating among party leaders shows Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota might be a liability to their party in the 2020 election. The poll, whose details were published by Axios on Sunday, surveyed over 1,000 white voters with two or less years […]

(Washington Examiner) The Trump administration announced Monday that family planning clinics are prohibited from referring women to abortion providers if they receive Title X family planning grants. The Trump administration’s “Protect Life Rule,” which many abortion rights advocates call a “gag rule,” will prohibit recipients of the grant from directly referring for abortions. The rule […]

(CNBC) President Trump on Tuesday morning said his administration will “take a look” into Google following statements made earlier this week by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. Shares of Alphabet were slightly lower in pre-market trading. “Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason,” Trump said in a tweet. “He accuses […]

(Free Beacon) Former Vice President Joe Biden repeated one of his old boss’s most infamous pledges on Monday, saying under his proposal, “if you like your health care plan … you can keep it.” The 2020 Democratic frontrunner released a health care plan Monday that would seek to build upon the Affordable Care Act, also […]

(NYPOST) — An upstate man allegedly slit the throat of a teenage social media influencer he was dating — then posted a grisly photo of her lifeless body to Instagram along with a message that said “sorry,” according to police and reports Monday. Brandon Andrew Clark, 21, of Cicero allegedly posted the gut-wrenching image of […]

WASHINGTON — When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor. That seemed terribly long at the time. Seven months later, the U.S. still has no confirmed defense chief even with the nation facing potential armed conflict with Iran. That’s the longest such stretch […]

(SUMMIT) — New Jersey Democrat George Norcross is amazed that his party is running on a platform of legalizing and giving free health care to up to 22 million illegal immigrants, asking, “Why is the Democratic Party supporting criminals that are here illegally?” The recently resurfaced comments were made at a Camden County Chamber of […]

The growing threat to free speech on college campuses and society at large is probed in “No Safe Spaces,” a film starring Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager to be released in theaters in September. The clip above was provided exclusively to WND by the film’s producers. Carolla is host of the world’s No. 1 podcast, […]

New York City public school students can now change their names and gender at school without proper legal documentation if they obtain permission from their parents. Families simply must self-report their child’s “personal identifiers” upon enrollment instead of going through the lengthy process of legally changing names or gender identity, reported NBC New York. Traditionally […]

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ilhan Omar D-Minn., certainly are among the most well-known members of the House, but they are very unpopular among Democrats in swing states and could cost the party the presidency and the House in 2020, according to an internal party poll. Only 22 percent of voters had a favorable view […]

Quoting Sen. Robert Byrd, the late Democratic Ku Klux Klansman from West Virginia is one thing, but I could never have imagined I would both quote him and applaud him for having keen insight. However, I cannot deny the truth. Growing up I remember my late mother explaining to me that a “nigger” was a […]

President Trump ran for president on a platform of combating illegal immigration, and he is keeping true to his word. He launched a series of roundups of illegal immigrants over the weekend, something that was in the works a few weeks ago but had been postponed due to all the publicity. He says millions will […]