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<p>(Reuters) At least 25 people were killed in an arson attack by suspected gang members on a bar in the southeastern Mexican port of Coatzacoalcos late on Tuesday, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, in a fresh blow to his efforts to curb violence. <p>Calling the attack "horrendous," Lopez Obrador told a regular morning news…

<p>(CNBC) China sent a fresh batch of troops into Hong Kong on Thursday, and its military issued a statement saying its Hong Kong Garrison will “resolutely follow” the central government’s instructions. <p>It came as the Asian financial center continues to grapple with weeks of protests, that sometimes turned violent. Hundreds of thousands have poured into…

<p>(Indianapolis Star) A federal appeals court has upheld a preliminary injunction blocking an Indiana law that would have required almost all minors seeking abortions to have parental consent. <p>The 2017 law would have required every female under 18 to have at least one parent's written permission to end a pregnancy. While most girls in Indiana…

<p> (LifeNews) How can a person “bless” the violent destruction of a baby’s life? Though hard to imagine, it does happen, and some religious leaders do it in the name of Christianity and Judaism. <p>Earlier this summer, a group of clergy gathered at the Whole Woman’s Health abortion facility in North Austin, Texas, to “bless”…

<p>(CNBC) Stocks jumped on Thursday after China said it wished to resolve its protracted trade dispute with the world’s largest economy with a “calm ” attitude. <p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 342 points higher, or 1.3%. The S&P 500 gained 1.4% while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.6%. <p>When asked about its ongoing trade war…

<p>(CNBC) If you think it sounds like a mathematical impossibility for a company to lose more than 100% of its workers every year, you’ve never worked in the fast-food industry. At fast-food restaurants, losing 100% of employees — and then losing still more of the employees hired to replace those workers — is a common,…

<p>(CNN) The city of Milwaukee issued a stern warning to residents: Stop vaping immediately. <p>The advisory came after 16 people in Wisconsin were hospitalized with chemical pneumonia, a severe illness that causes lung inflammation, the Milwaukee health department said. <p>All of them reported vaping or "dabbing"--inhaling potent marijuana products--before they were hospitalized, the department said.…

The inspector general for the Justice Department has condemned fired FBI Director James Comey's leaking of sensitive information in violation of the law and FBI policy "in order to achieve a personally desired outcome." The IG report addressed memos Comey created of his meetings with President Trump that he gave to a friend to leak…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) – Two decades after a landmark agreement aimed at easing sectarian and political tensions in Northern Ireland, a report finds churches and other places of worship are subject to frequent attacks. CARE, a United Kingdom-based Christian charity, documented 445 "crimes recorded as criminal damage to religious buildings, churchyards or cemeteries in Northern Ireland"…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) – The Justice Department inspector general has determined all four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page were illegally obtained, attorney Joe diGenova said this week. In an investigation that began last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz examined the Justice Department's and FBI's compliance with legal requirements as…

(FOX NEWS) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has barred Democratic staffers from the House Oversight Committee from visiting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a planned trip this week after committee staff allegedly were “disruptive” and refused to follow instructions during their last trip, Fox News…

(FOX NEWS) – President Trump on Thursday blasted Lawrence O’Donnell and the media at large after the MSNBC host was forced to retract an unverified report he shared on his show this week that tied Trump’s finances to Russia. Calling the report "totally false," the president demanded that the media as a whole apologize for…

(FOX NEWS) -- Jussie Smollett's PR team said Wednesday that "every iota" of the actor's account of being victimized by a racist, anti-gay attack in Chicago this past January is supported by police evidence, despite police repeatedly saying it was all staged. The statement followed a filing by the city Monday defending its lawsuit that…

(FOX NEWS) -- Hurricane Dorian is moving through the Caribbean and is expected to bring heavy rains to the Bahamas, Florida and the southeast U.S. by this coming weekend, the National Weather Service said, urging people in its potential path to start preparing. Dorian is currently sustaining winds at about 80 miles per hour and…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," written by Jared Diamond (1997), documented that throughout human history, hunter-gathers were always subdued by people groups who had transitioned to agriculture. The first plants to be cultivated were: wheat, barley, rye, oats, lentils, peas, chickpeas, beans, almonds, olives and flax, which…

The Beto O'Rourke campaign claimed Wednesday it ejected Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from a speech at the historically black Benedict College to protect black students. Pollak, however, as Breitbart pointed out, is Jewish and married to a black woman who who serves in the U.S. military. O'Rourke's press secretary, Aleigha Cavalier, explained in…

A man at a hall event in South Carolina for 2020 Democratic hopeful Beto O'Rourke was booed for urging America to return to God and prayer in schools in response to an epidemic of mass shootings. "I grew up with goals, I'm the son of immigrants, we prayed in school, the worst problem in school…

The left is reeling from comedian Dave Chappelle's new Netflix stand-up special, aptly titled "Sticks and Stones." On one subject after another, Chappelle lures the generally clueless live audience into thinking he shares its progressive sentiments, then yanks the hook before the fish understand they've been had. Watching from a distance, however, many leftist critics…

One of America's richest enclaves is Montgomery County, Maryland. Just outside of Washington, D.C., its residents have a median annual household income of just under $100,000, while the nationwide figure is about half that. Nearly one-third of its residents over 25 hold a post-graduate degree. It also is a "sanctuary" county where authorities largely vow…

Voters in Kentucky can't seem to help themselves. They can't stand Mitch McConnell, but they keep sending him back to Washington where he puts a wrench in every Republican plan to reduce spending, shrink government, control the border and even defund the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood. It would be nice if GOP senators…

On this Tuesday's installment of the Fox News program "Fox & Friends," my fellow commentator and radio host Larry Elder addressed Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin's recent call to "burn down" the GOP to cleanse it of those who support President Donald Trump. Elder called Rubin's claim that Trump had somehow perpetrated a hostile takeover…

Western culture is now characterized by a remarkably strong nihilism, the moral philosophy that claims that there is no higher meaning to life than selfish pleasures. The true Christian ideal of loving one another and seeking justice for all – the poor, the weak, the fatherless – is dramatically out of fashion, as a drug…

It didn't take long for the jokes to erupt when the Democrats announced a seven-hour debate about global warming for their remaining presidential nominee hopefuls. Twitter user Thermax wrote, "There will be enough hot air there to smelt steel." Then U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chimed in with his own bit of clowning. He jokingly…

(CNBC) -- Stocks rose on Wednesday as the energy sector got a lift from higher oil prices, but sentiment was kept in check with a key part of the U.S. yield curve inverting even further, exacerbating fears of an impending recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 258.20 points higher, or 1% at 26,036.10. The…