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(CNBC) Stocks fell on Friday as President Donald Trump stoked U.S.-China trade fears with the announcement of more tariffs while investors digested U.S. employment data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 119 points lower. The S&P 500 lost 0.7% while the Nasdaq Composite slid 1.3%. The major indexes also dipped below their 50-day moving averages, […]

(Fox News) A small North Carolina gun shop has drawn criticism from gun control advocates and progressives for a billboard calling four Democratic minority congresswomen “idiots.” The sign advertising Cherokee Guns in Murphy, 240 miles west of Charlotte, features photos of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts […]

(WLEX) An investigation is underway after a gunshot was fired over the weekend at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. The shot was fired, a couple of campers reported, after a man allegedly had a Bigfoot sighting . Brad Ginn tells WLEX that he was camping with his girlfriend Sunday when they were awakened by […]

(Natural News) Facebook is under fire yet again — and this time, it’s for leaving hundreds of millions of user passwords unprotected. Security researcher Brian Krebs reports that a company oversight left up to 600 million exposed because they were stored in plain text. Leaving the passwords in plain text format means that the information […]

(Columbia Journalism Review) In December of 2016, after receiving a firestorm of criticism about online disinformation during the presidential election, Facebook announced its Third Party Fact-Checking project. Independent organizations would debunk false news stories, and Facebook would make the findings obvious to users, down-ranking the relevant post in its News Feed. Now the project includes […]

(CNN) The top US Navy SEAL recently sent a blistering letter to the force, writing in boldface type, “We have a problem,” following several high profile incidents of alleged misbehavior by the US Navy’s elite service members, CNN has learned. Rear Adm. Collin Green has given commanders until August 7 to detail the problems they […]

(Law & Crime) Lawyers for eight Covington Catholic students (John Does 1-8) filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday in Kentucky’s Kenton County Circuit Court against 12 individuals — lawmakers, journalists/media figures and social media personalities included. Attorneys Robert Barnes (disclosure: Barnes has written columns for Law&Crime) and Kevin Murphy began the suit by going back […]

(Deseret News) Experts are questioning the ethics of yet another practice parents are using to advantage their children when it comes to attaining a college degree. This one focuses on obtaining free financial aid and scholarships for students who would not otherwise qualify based on their family’s income. Illinois’ ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal […]

(Vanity Fair) I am in the mosh pit of West Hollywood’s El Rey Theatre, jangly from two cups of Zoe Ministries’ excellent self-branded coffee. Twenty 20-somethings in mom jeans, sneakers, and colorful baggy shirts are singing Disney-radio-inflected anthems about God while we gently shoulder-bump one another. Soon, preacher Chad Veach takes the stage in a […]

Throughout our lives, we are saddled with carrying around this weighty orb – about 10 to 12 pounds’ worth – in a constant balancing act while we swing it this way and that. We can’t carry it low, clutching it to our chest. No, it has to be constantly at the tiptop of our body, […]

(Washington Examiner) Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said one particular memo that former FBI Director James Comey gave to agents one month after being fired should never have made it to his house. FBI documents unveiled this week show special agents arriving at Comey’s home in June 2017 to […]

(Washington Examiner) The United States withdrew from a landmark 1987 nuclear pact with Russia after it found Russia failing to comply with the deal. The pact, known as the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, bans either the U.S. or Russia from stationing short or intermediate-range missiles in Europe. The U.S. had threatened six months prior to […]

(CNSNews.com) – The number of people employed in the United States hit a record 157,288,000 in July, according to the employment report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was up 283,000 from the 157,005,000 employed in June. The unemployment rate held steady in July at 3.7 percent, the same as it was […]

Campaign staffers for 20 Democrats running for president naturally thought their candidate won this week’s Democratic primary debates. The rest of the country? Eh, not so sure. Television personality Pat Sajak summed up the two nights of talk: Nah, I don’t care for this group either. Hoping tomorrow’s will be better. — Pat Sajak (@patsajak) […]

Popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his Daily Caller co-founder, Neil Patel, have joined WND’s commentary lineup with a weekly column posted every Friday. Carlson is host of FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” a weekday program featuring news analysis and spirited debates, with guests from across the political and cultural spectrum. The program was the […]

Any American in Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Keokuk, Iowa, or Fargo, North Dakota, who expresses a desire to “beat the hell” out of President Trump should expect a knock on the door from the Secret Service. Just to ask questions, you understand. But such violent rhetoric is becoming more common in the political arena, […]

Another fired Google engineer is speaking up about the tech giant’s treatment of employees with conservative political views, disclosing he was put on a company “blacklist” before being terminated. Kevin Cernekee told the Wall Street Journal that in 2017 a manager publicly asked on a message board about employees holding views like his: “Can’t we […]

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 first grade teacher handed out a coloring page to her students – […]

“Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?” Job 12:12

Censoring evidence, “fiddling” with data and silencing skeptics were part of life at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a former NOAA scientist who no longer believes carbon dioxide is causing catastrophic climate change. Rex Fleming admitted that while he worked for NOAA, he attributed global warming to carbon dioxide despite “having doubts.” […]

Nearly half of independents believe the Democratic Party has shifted too far to the left politically, according to a new poll by Hill-HarrisX. The Hill reported 48 percent of independent voters believe the Democratic Party is swinging too far to the left, compared to 68 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Democrats. Both parties […]

  “I’ll never forget this, because it was the moment I saw with my own eyes that the America I love was becoming a nation that steals refugee children from their parents and caged them,” lamented Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “To date, no one has been held accountable. We need to save these kids.” Photos of […]

The South Pacific had many major battles during World War II: • Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 • Wake Island, Dec. 7-23, 1941 • Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942 • Coral Sea, May 4-8, 1942 • Midway, June 4-7, 1942 • Guadalcanal campaign, Aug. 7, 1942-Feb. 9, 1943 • Gilbert & Marshall Islands campaign, 1943–44: […]

(CHRISTIAN POST) – An Iranian Christian convert was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and engaging in “propaganda against the system” as crackdowns against Christians continue, the aid group International Christian Response reports. The sentence was handed down to 65-year-old Mahrokh Kanbari on Monday, two days after she […]