Новости за 16.09.2020

This week, America's West Coast found itself on fire. Millions of acres have burned across California, Oregon and Washington. The smoke clouds have been so immense that they have blotted out the sun in certain areas; air quality has been so poor that hundreds of thousands of people have been forced indoors. There are several…

On Sept. 9, 18-year-old Justin Gavin was walking to a Walgreens in Waterbury, Connecticut. As he walked along, something terrifying happened. A small SUV on fire drove by as other drivers honked at it. Gavin joined in, yelling at the car to stop. "I'm yelling, 'Stop the car! Your car is on fire! Your car…

The Justice Department has won a battle with the borough of Woodcliff Lake in New Jersey to allow an Orthodox Jewish congregation to build a worship center on its property. If a federal court in New Jersey agrees to the consent decree, a lawsuit by Valley Chabad against the borough will be resolved. Woodcliff Lake…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Policy.] By Tim Phillips Real Clear Policy As part of my job, I’ve been traveling the country — responsibly — for months, talking with Americans. And the thing I’m hearing most is: How do we get things back to normal? Six months into this unprecedented…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Chuck Raasch Real Clear Politics It was the final August morning in a rented cabin on a South Dakota lake, and as half a dozen family members sat talking and overlooking the water’s placid glass surface, a visitor interrupted the serenity. “It’s an…

This is the news the mainstream news outlets don’t want to report. Marking a diplomatic triumph where eight years of Barack Obama had produced only failure, President Donald Trump on Tuesday presided over historic agreements between Israel and two key Muslim countries that could change the outlook of the Middle East for generations -- and…

Joe Biden is being held "hostage" by his campaign, which is forbidding him from speaking freely, contends historian Victor Davis Hanson. "He's holding the country hostage, but in a strange way he's being held hostage," Hanson told Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Monday night. He likened it to the wizard in "The Wizard of Oz."…

  The Department of Homeland Security has "overwhelming intelligence" that the nightly violence in Portland, Oregon, was "organized" by members of Antifa. An email obtained by CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge by Brian Murphy, former acting under secretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS, said in July that the violence had reached a level at…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Stephen Moore Real Clear Politics August jobs numbers showed impressive hiring gains in nearly every sector of the economy. None more so than government. The public sector added 344,000 jobs last month – including 95,000 permanent state and local jobs, 11,000 permanent federal…

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman observed in a column he wrote in 1996 that "no two countries that both have a McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other." Some have looked into how ironclad this rule is. But, in general, the point is pretty powerful. The assumption is that countries that have…