Новости за 05.09.2019

(CNBC) Stocks surged on Thursday after the U.S. and China agreed to meet next month in Washington to discuss trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 372.68 points, or 1.4% to 26,728.15. The S&P 500 climbed 1.3% to close at 2,976, led by a 2.1% gain in the tech sector, and closed around 1.7% from […]

In a case brought by the Hamas-founded Council on American-Islamic Relations, a federal judge ruled the FBI’s “no fly” watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of the people placed on it. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, granted summary judgment Wednesday to nearly two […]

(San Francisco Chronicle) Mountain lions — also called pumas and cougars — are hunted for sport in almost every western state except California, where they are a protected species. Our Californian compassion is not reciprocated, however: The big cats occasionally stalk, slay and eat people. Most recently, on Jan. 8 in Orange County, 35-year-old Mark […]

(Associated Press) Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (BOO’-tuh-juhj) says Republicans will face “a reckoning” over a policy agenda he says is out of sync with Christian values. Speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday, Buttigieg kicked off a day of television appearances in which he highlighted his Christian faith. Republicans, he asserted, are “known for beating […]

(Fox News) After months of speculation surrounding a study into whether the Loch Ness monster was real, the researcher behind it has claimed it could be a giant eel and not a giant plesiosaur from a long-lost era. Speaking at a press conference early Thursday morning, New Zealand researcher Neil Gemmell gave his “plausible” explanation […]

(FOX NEWS) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper warned residents Wednesday to adhere to evacuation orders and finish last-minute storm preparations as the coast of the Carolinas braces for Hurricane Dorian, a Category 3 storm whose center is projected to come within 40 miles off Charleston, S.C. “Today is the day to finish preparing,” Cooper said […]

(BBC) People who eat vegan and vegetarian diets have a lower risk of heart disease and a higher risk of stroke, a major study suggests. They had 10 fewer cases of heart disease and three more strokes per 1,000 people compared with the meat-eaters. The research, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at 48,000 […]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The government’s watchlist of more than 1 million people identified as “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of those placed on it, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga grants summary judgment to nearly two dozen Muslim U.S. citizens who had challenged the […]

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) On a Wednesday night appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden again claimed that recent errors made in a speech about his involvement with a war hero were simply not relevant to the point he was trying to make. “Those details are irrelevant,” the former vice president […]

(FOX NEWS) — Barack and Michelle Obama have been accused of “deplorable behavior” by a Los Angeles entertainment attorney for filing a “meritless petition” amid a trademark dispute over the name of their company, Higher Ground Productions. The legal team representing the Obamas filed a petition to cancel the trademark of an e-book publishing company […]

(BBC NEWS) — An artificial-intelligence app that allows users to insert their faces in place of film and TV characters has caused controversy in China. Zao has sparked privacy fears and suggestions it could be used to defeat systems using facial recognition. It appeared in China on 29 August and has proven wildly popular.

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) — Former Vice President Joe Biden’s left eye appeared to have a blood vessel burst while he was participating in CNN’s town hall on climate change. Biden, 76, has long been plagued by health issues. In 1988, he suffered an aneurysm that burst and required him to undergo emergency surgery. The then-senator was […]

(LONDON TELEGRAPH) — A millionaire farmer, who went missing days before his 70th birthday, was murdered by his wife and her lover when he refused to grant her a divorce after finding out about their affair, a court has heard. William Taylor, who was known as Bill, disappeared from his home at Harkness Hall in […]

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a multimillionaire Democrat, is working quietly to encourage the state Department of Agriculture to explore meatless alternatives. The problem, however, is that beef is the state’s largest export industry. Polis’ opposition to his state’s financial interests were reported the Washington Free Beacon. The first-term Democrat, according to the Gazette, said “he […]

Author and radio talk-show host Dennis Prager is protesting the PG-13 rating given to his upcoming film with comedian-podcaster Adam Carolla about the erosion of First Amendment rights in America. “No Safe Spaces,” a documentary scheduled for release Oct. 25, drew the rating because of a 30-second animated clip of “Firsty,” a walking, talking document […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang claims that implementing his proposal to provide a universal basic income of $1,000 monthly to every American adult would lift people out of poverty and create millions of jobs. But it’s been tried many times on a smaller scale, noted Breitbart News, and the latest experiment, as with many others, […]

Constantinople was the capital of the eastern Roman Christian world since Emperor Constantine in 330 A.D. It was conquered by the Muslim Sultan Mehmet II on May 29, 1453. In the fall of Constantinople, tens of thousands of Christians were raped, killed, enslaved or deported. The largest Christian church in the world for nearly a […]

Water levels on Lake Erie are higher this summer than they have been in the last 30 years. I know this from fool-proof, up-close observation. I have a beachfront home on the lake. If Barack Obama had inquired, I would have sold him my place here on the Rustbelt Riviera for 1/50th of the price […]

If you need more proof Bernie Sanders is either dumber than a rock or bent on leading unsuspecting young people down the road to a Communist utopia from which there is no escape, I can provide it. Consider his recent interview with the Hill TV, in which he told host Krystal Ball, “They (China) have […]