Новости за 23.08.2019

The news that Barack and Michelle Obama are in the process of buying a nearly $15 million, waterfront estate on Martha’s Vineyard has talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh wondering what the are thinking. “The Obamas have just sunk $15 million into something that may not be there in 10 years because of climate change and rising […]

(Financial Review) Donald Trump has taken the extraordinary step of “ordering” US companies to pull out of China after Beijing announced a fresh wave of retaliatory tariffs on US goods. In a blistering tweet storm, the President came close to declaring a complete “decoupling” from the world’s second-biggest economy – an epoch-defining concept that many […]

(Business Insider) China on Friday announced plans to retaliate against the Trump administration with new tariffs on roughly $75 billion worth of US products and reinstated duties on American cars. The Chinese finance ministry said in a statement that tariffs of 5% to 10% on more than 5,000 products would take effect in two batches, […]

(Anadolu News Agency) China has been using forced labor camps and prison labor to profit off of the cotton industry in its Xinjiang region, a non-profit organization said Thursday. Xinjiang is home to 84% of the country’s cotton and exports material to many of China’s clothing manufacturers, according to a report by Citizen Power Initiatives […]

(CNBC) Stocks plunged on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered in a series of tweets that U.S. manufacturers find alternatives to their operations in China. Apple led the way lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 600 points lower, or 2.3%. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite slid 2.5% and 2.9%, respectively. The losses brought […]

(Washington Examiner) Conservative billionaire David Koch has died at the age of 79. Last year, Koch stepped down from Koch Industries and his influential political network Americans for Prosperity Foundation, citing his declining health. Koch’s 83-year-old brother Charles confirmed the death in a statement Friday. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the […]

Investigative journalist Laura Loomer is filing a federal lawsuit against socialist Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who recently was refused entry by the nation of Israel for her allegiance to the BDS, boycott, divest and sanction, program that is intended to destroy America’s prime Middle East ally. Loomer’s complaint, for assault and battery, was filed […]

(Breaking Israel News) Evangelical UN Special Envoy to the World Council of Independent Christian Churches representing 44 million congregants and award-winning Christian TV Show Host Laurie Cardoza-Moore has called upon Christians to protest Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib’s attempts to deny Jesus’ identity and ignore the persecution of Christians in Bethlehem. A recent tweet from […]

(Fox)A college professor in Iowa openly declared his support for the violent far-left Antifa movement after coming under fire for inflammatory social media posts that included the desire to bash President Trump with a baseball bat. Jeff Klinzman, an adjunct English professor of nearly 10 years at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, made the […]

LOS ANGELES, Aug 22 (Reuters) – An armed woman opened fire in the Skid Row section of downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, wounding four people and triggering a hunt for the suspect, police said. The shooting occurred shortly after noon, but Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman officer Rosario Cervantes said circumstances surrounding the gun violence […]

(Technology Review) YouTube has been taking down videos of robots fighting, mistaking them for videos that show “deliberate infliction of animal suffering.” The removals were first noticed by YouTuber Maker’s Muse, and affected a number of channels run by contenders on the TV show BattleBots, a robot-fighting series. Sarah Pohorecky, who had multiple videos removed, […]

(Mercury News) A Democratic National Committee meeting erupted into a bitter battle Thursday morning over the question of holding a climate-specific presidential debate, with party officials stamping down a resolution calling for a such an event in the face of raucous opposition from activists. In a 17-to-8 vote, the DNC’s Resolutions Committee defeated a resolution […]

(Mercury News) A prison consultant hired usually by well-heeled defendants to help them navigate the criminal justice system and prepare for life behind bars said he received an unusual phone call July 24. The caller was a woman who said she wanted some advice on charges related to the college admissions bribery scandal. Larry Levine, […]

(Law & Crime) While Republican lawmakers had to pay up for help from powerful firms in lawsuits against the Obama Administration, so-called “aroused” lawyers from such firms are working for free to help House Democrats take down President Donald Trump. This revelation was the subject of a Law.com story on Thursday afternoon. House general counsel […]

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: Mary was married to a something of a chauvinist. They both worked full time, […]

Among the U.S. Navy and Marine heroes confronting Tripoli’s Muslim Barbary pirates was Captain James Lawrence. In 1804, Captain Lawrence was second-in-command, under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, of an expedition to destroy the captured 36-gun frigate USS Philadelphia held in Tripoli’s harbor. It had run aground on an uncharted sandbar. Muslim pirates captured it and were […]

Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, will hold a Southern California Harvest evangelistic outreach at Anaheim’s Angel Stadium this weekend, Aug. 23-25. It’s the 30th consecutive year for the event at the site. “I have to admit, it’s pretty surprising,” he said in a recent interview with the Christian […]

Critics of President Trump have been expressing hope that the nation’s economy will move into a recession. Now that trend has been noticed by a Democrat. Democratic presidential candidate John Delaney the Washington Free Beacon reported, is wondering about why “some Democrats are cheering on a recession.” “It feels like some Democrats are cheering on […]

Investigative reporter Sara Carter expects “criminal referrals” to follow the soon-expected report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the origins of the Obama administration’s Trump-Russia collusion investigation. “There will be criminal referrals,” she told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I absolutely believe that based on the sources I’ve spoken with and the […]

Socialist Muslim Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., boycotted a recent congressional delegate trip to Israel to set up their own, a trip that was to be sponsored by a group called Miftah. Israel rejected their entry plans to “Palestine” because of their support for BDS, boycott, divest and sanction, an economic attack […]