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Muslims are being warned this holiday season that it's a "crime against Islam" to celebrate Christmas or New Year's. The threat comes from Sheikh 'Ali bin Rashed al-Makhri al-Muhannadi in a column in the Qatari daily Al-Sharq. It was captured by the Middle East Media Research Institute. Al-Muhannadi, a former senior manager of the Qatar…

(CNBC) -- Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg raised $24.7 million in the final quarter of 2019, according to an email his campaign sent out Wednesday morning. Since entering the race in April, he’s raised $76 million, the email said, with 733,000 individual donors making up that sum. Buttigieg received his largest donor share in the…

Can American evangelism die because evangelicals voted for Donald Trump? This seems to be the thinking that Beth Moore, Christian evangelist and bestselling author, is following nowadays. In a tweet responding to a Christian Post editorial, Moore, the 62-year-old founder of Living Proof Ministries, identified 2016 as the year the movement "passed away." The Christian…

(AP) -- Pope Francis has apologized for hitting the hand of a well-wisher who grabbed him and yanked him toward her. In his new year’s wishes to the public in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, Francis confessed to losing his patience with the woman while he was strolling in the square Tuesday night to admire…

(NBC NEWS) -- The principal of a D.C. elementary school apologized after an in-class assignment ended with a black fifth-grade student being asked to portray a slave and another being asked to pretend they were drinking from a segregated water fountain. The incident happened at Lafayette Elementary School during a social studies lesson on the…

Thousands of young Christians gathered in Atlanta this week to celebrate the new year with the fire of their faith at the Passion 2020 conference. The three-day event began Tuesday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and will continue until Thursday, according to Fox News. The event is focused on young Christians aged 18 to 25, and features…

(AP) -- WILTON, N.Y. – Dottie Pepper paid off all outstanding school lunch debt for a few dozen elementary students in upstate New York, just in time for the new year. More than 50 students at Dorothy Nolan Elementary School in Saratgoa Springs had their lunch debt wiped out by the LPGA legend, the Times…

As much as liberals and the mainstream media will hate it, Baghdad isn’t Benghazi -- and the Trump White House isn’t Obama’s. President Donald Trump issued a forceful reminder of both of those facts on Tuesday with Twitter posts declaring that he regards Iran as the instigator of Tuesday’s attack on the United States Embassy…

In a series of tweets, President Donald Trump praised the armed churchgoers who ended an attempted mass shooting in a matter of seconds on Sunday. Keith Thomas Kinnunen, a 43-year-old who was disguised with a fake beard, wig and a hat, shot and killed two people at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White…

President Donald Trump called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the "most overrated person I know" in a Tuesday tweet, criticizing her delay in transmitting the articles of impeachment against him to the Senate. "Remember when Pelosi was screaming that President Trump is a danger to our nation and we must move quickly," Trump wrote. "They didn’t…

It can be difficult to keep your belongings safe while you travel. If you are taking public transportation, you have to keep an eye on your possessions at all times, and plenty of tourist attractions and destinations are plastered with warnings to hide your belongings in your car if you're driving. When one family from…

As the world awaits developments in Tuesday’s attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad, it’s taken less than a day for the country’s latest crisis to reach back to Barack Obama. While hundreds of Iranian-back militia members swarmed the sprawling embassy grounds, according to The Washington Post, several faces stood out as being particularly…

A clever Utah boy screamed for help and used handfuls of rocks to defend himself from a group of men who allegedly tried to lure the boy into a vehicle. Grayden Dowland and his family live in a neighborhood in Riverton, Utah, just outside of Salt Lake City. Grayden, 10, was walking home from his…

Mayor Bill de Blasio called New York the "safest big city in America" in the midst of a recent increase in anti-Semitic and violent attacks on Jewish people living in and around the city. According to The New York Times, there have been at least eight anti-Semitic incidents in and around New York since Dec.…

Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says "advertising revenues" from the New York Times will do just fine as compensation her for an allegedly defamatory story. Palin two years ago filed a lawsuit against the Times over an editorial by the newspaper that tied her to the January 2011 shooting of an…

A fishing vessel believed to be of North Korean origin washed ashore on Sado Island in Japan last week, carrying a number of human remains. According to state media organization NHK, Japanese Coast Guard servicemen found seven "partially skeletonized" remains aboard the wreck while searching it Saturday. Only three of the remains were found in…

A British woman who claimed she was gang-raped by a group of Israeli teens in Cyprus has been found guilty of fabricating the story in court. The 19-year-old, whose identity is being kept secret for security reasons, claimed that 12 Israelis -- ranging from 13 to 18 years old -- attacked her at the Ayia…

I live to write. I write to live. The close of 2019 marks two full decades since I entered national newspaper syndication. You are reading the 1,571st column I've filed with Creators Syndicate. The years have flown and so have the words: More than 1 million of them carefully marshaled each week for the past…

"Reliable Sources," CNN's media show hosted by Brian Stelter, hit a low in viewership for the year and for a key demographic on Dec. 22. According to Fox News, Stelter had his lowest viewership of the year among people ages 25-54 on that date, averaging only about 85,000 viewers. Comparing "Reliable Sources" with its timeslot…

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced on Tuesday that the United States is sending additional forces to protect the U.S. embassy in Baghdad after protesters broke through the facility's main entrance gate. The Washington Post reported that hundreds of angry supporters of the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia shouting "Death to America" broke into the embassy…

(FOX NEWS) -- It's not your typical college New Year's party — more than 65,000 young Christians gathering in an Atlanta stadium to kick off a new decade with worship, prayer and Bible teaching. While a Pew Research Center survey shows the "nones" or religiously non-affiliated Americans are increasing, with a decline in Christians over…

(CNBC) -- Stocks rose slightly on Tuesday as Wall Street wrapped up a banner year that saw equities surge to record highs, overcoming concerns about the economy and a trade fight with China. The S&P 500 climbed 0.3% to 3,230.78. The Nasdaq Composite also advanced 0.3% and ended the day at 8,972.60. The Dow Jones…

A U.S. Apache attack helicopter could be seen flying over the American embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday evening firing flares as a show of force to protesters below. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced earlier in the day that the U.S. is sending additional forces to protect the embassy after Iranian-backed protesters broke through the…

(PENNLIVE) -- East Pennsboro Area School District officials are firing back at a former teacher who filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was stalked and harassed by a principal. None of Rain M. Emmert’s allegations in the civil rights complaint she lodged in November in U.S. Middle District Court are true, district officials insist. They…