[Variety] Catherine Herridge, a Fox News Channel veteran who has been with that network since it was founded in 1996, is moving to rival CBS News.
She will work as a senior investigative correspondent out of Washington, CBS News said, and will start in November.
Herridge is the second long-serving Fox News journalist to leave the Fox Corporation-owned cable-news outlet in recent weeks. Shepard Smith, another long-serving Fox News journalist who was seen as the network’s main breaking-news anchor, surprised viewers earlier this month by announcing his departure on a Friday-afternoon broadcast. Smith had tangled on air with opinion host Tucker Carlson.
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Her departure may give a new boost to recent speculation that the network’s news-side employees have grown frustrated during a period when its opinion hosts have largely used their programs to lend support to President Donald Trump and his administration, sometimes criticizing news reports.
Variety seizes the opportunity to mention their beloved Shep and blame Trump for career changes.
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Always liked her. Were I less leary of wishful thinking, I might almost suspect her of cannily timing the turn of the tide, investigative journalism-wise. Almost.
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She made an interesting comment that CBS is interested in facts. We know that is pretty much crap but I believe it was not praise of CBS but a dig at what Fox news has become after the kids took over. Always liked her appearances on Tucker. We'll see how she reports going forward. Can't blame her for soaking CBS for mucho dinero.
[Climate Depot] Meteorologist Paul Dorian: "Perhaps the most amazing temperature recorded in this unusual cold spell for the western US took place earlier today in the remote observing station of Peter Sinks, Utah...the unofficial overnight low temperature there of -43.6 ºF is pretty amazing for this time of year and perhaps the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Lower 48 during the month of October. Nearby Salt Lake City, Utah provided some supporting evidence of the extreme cold as it set a low temperature record of 14 ºF for the date and records there go all the way back to 1874.
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No, this is EXACTLY what climate change extremists predicted! /sarcasm
Or, they'll say that events like this are just weather but a summer where the heat wave is one degree hotter than normal is PROOF of global warming.
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...actually, within the statistical margin of error. That's what the pull for the 'warmest year on record' crap.
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and not just Salt Lake. 14F here in Boise the last couple of mornings also. Old timers here say that they see bears foraging more than usual. Local weather guys predicting an early winter.
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A few weeks ago, I read (here, of course) how the solar cycle indicated 2020-2050 might be the coldest in 400 years. All part of climate change.
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east San Diego was 87 degrees Wed., and 38 overnight. We call that...weather
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The micro climate at the temperature recording device at Peter Sinks lends itself to this sort of thing.
The site is at a low point in a high elevation (about 8000') valley. The hills around the site had fresh snow and the night was exceptionally dry with almost no wind. Perfect for cooling via radiation augmented by cold air drainage.
The radiosonde balloon released near Salt L City had the temperature about -5F at 8000' about that time.
back in Feb 1985, the temp at this station dropped to -69F on a similar night
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Look at all of our mad society's equivalents of earlier generations' foolishness - the contemporary versions of phrenology, bloodletting, the theory of physiological "humours," or treating schizophrenics with lobotomies:
Immunizations cause autism
"Gender Dysphoria," not simple depression, explains a young letson's desire to mutilate his/her body
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Maybe is earth tilt thing and non perfect orbit around sun has merit. You tell me its going to be hotter in summer and colder in winter? ya don't say.
[Dhaka Tribune] Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has acknowledged that some Bangladeshi female workers are tortured in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , but appeared to have downplayed the magnitude of the suffering of the women ‐ who have long been subjected to serious crimes including rape at the hands of their employers there.
He also ruled out any moratorium on sending women workers to the oil rich kingdom, the largest remittance sending country for Bangladesh.
"There are 250,000-300,000 female workers [in Saudi Arabia]. How many of them became victims of such crimes? Some people are being tortured and we have made arrangements for them," the minister told news hounds at his office yesterday.
"We are providing those who are tortured with housing and we are also bringing them back. In some cases these are happening," he replied to a barrage of questions highlighting the plight of Bangladeshi female workers in Saudi Arabia with statistics.
Momen mentioned a day’s development where he handed over cheques to the family of deceased and two injured in the crane accident in Makkah in 2015.
"Bangladesh’s relationship with Saudia Arabia is very good. That is why they paid Tk2.26 crore for the dear departed and Tk1.13 crore for the injured. Think about it," he said.
"Many are returning because the number of jobs has gone down [in Saudi Arabia]," he added.
When suggested that Bangladesh does not "challenge" the Saudi Arabian government about the torture of the female workers, the foreign minister said: "How do you know we don’t challenge? Whenever there is any accident, we instantly inform the Saudi authorities.
"How do you know that we did not challenge? Do we have to tell the public that we have challenged?"
Momen said: "There are 12.2 million expatriates across the world. People die when they are abroad. Only 1% of those amount to 11,000. Think about it. Many people would die normally. Isn’t it?"
If any of our workers face ill treatment, the government immediately draws Saudi Arabia’s attention and they take measures in line with their laws, he said.
On many occasions, information also remains unavailable to deal with the allegations, he added.
The foreign minister refuted a notion that many domestic workers are not able to lodge complaints due to the environment they live in.
"No, no. There is a mechanism in place through which they can complain. We have established shelters for them. Indeed, some victimisations are taking place and we are informing the Saudi government," he said.
"The Saudi authorities are also realising that some incidents are happening. These are happening in individual levels. The [Saudi] government is not victimising them," he stressed.
When asked if Bangladesh will stop sending female workers to Saudi Arabia, the minister said: "We, Bangladesh, do not want to discriminate. We do not want to leave women left behind.
"I don’t want to stop those women who want to go, because in our country man and woman are equal. We do not want to keep women as second class citizens."
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They're slaves. Not workers, slaves. They have no choice but to go, they're sold by their husbands and fathers, you sons of bitches.
[DAILYSABAH] Bolivian authorities say at least two people have been killed and several others injured in festivities between supporters and opponents of incumbent President Evo Morales over the disputed presidential election.
The government in a statement said two people, identified as Mario Salvatierra, 55, and Marcelo Terrazas, 41, died in Montero, a municipality in the department of Santa Cruz, an agricultural and industrial center in eastern Bolivia and an opposition stronghold.
Six men were also injured in the Montero protests. The Morales administration blamed the opposition for the violence.
"You are responsible for all these attacks. You, Mr. Mesa, are responsible," Government Minister Carlos Romero said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Thursday.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia’s 102nd military base stationed in the town of Gyumri in Armenia will almost double its combat potential after it is rearmed with new and upgraded weapon systems, Base Commander Colonel Nikolai Martynyuk reported to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday.
Russia’s defense chief inspected the 102nd military base in Armenia on Tuesday.
Also, Chief of Staff of Russia’s Southern Military District Lieutenant-General Sergei Kuzovlev reported to the defense minister that the 102nd military base in Armenia "is provided with materiel, military hardware and armament in full."
The general also said that the military base’s training range infrastructure allows conducting a full cycle of combat training measures, including drills.
[ALMASDARNEWS] China’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the DF-41, made its debut at the National Day parade in Beijing on Tuesday, which Chinese military experts said is a message to the world that China has sufficient and reliable strategic nuclear power to respond to any "nuclear blackmail" from any country.
16 transporter erector launchers of the DF-41 missile were inspected during the parade in Tiananmen Square on Tuesday.
A DF-41 missile has an operational range of more than 14, 000 kilometers and can carry about 10 independently targetable nuclear warheads, capable of hitting anywhere on Earth, according to the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, and this would make DF-41 the world’s longest range missile, surpassing the range of the US LGM-30 Minuteman which has a reported range of 13,000 kilometers.
Yang Chengjun, a Chinese expert on missile technology and nuclear strategy and chief scientist of quantum defense, told the Global Times that the DF-41 is Chinese fourth-generation strategic nuclear weapon and has the longest operational range among all Chinese ICBMs.
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[DAILYSABAH] South Korea's military said North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... on Thursday fired two projectiles toward its eastern sea, extending a streak of weapons tests apparently aimed at ramping up pressure on Washington over a stalemate in nuclear negotiations.
Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons were fired from a region near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. The Joint Chiefs of Staff didn't immediately confirm whether the weapons were ballistic missiles or rocket artillery, or how far they flew.
The North's latest launch follows statements of displeasure over the slow pace of nuclear negotiations with the United States and demands that the Trump administration ease sanctions and pressure on Pyongyang.
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[Infosecurity Magazine] Researchers have discovered another unsecured Elasticsearch database, this time exposing data on thousands of travelers including US military and government employees.
The research team at vpnMentor discovered the online database hosted on AWS infrastructure, on September 13. It belonged to Autoclerk, a reservations management system now owned by hotel chain Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group.
The database contained over 179GB of data, often sourced from third party travel and hospitality platforms including OpenTravel, HAPI Cloud, and Synxis. Among these were hundreds of thousands of bookings and reservations, exposing personal details such as: full name, date of birth, home address, phone number, dates & costs of travel, and masked credit card details.
For ordinary travelers caught in leaks like this, there is the risk of follow-on phishing attacks and identify fraud attempts, as well as a chance that attackers could target their home while they are away.
However, there are even more concerning national security implications for the government personnel data exposed in the incident.
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Hosted by AWS? Like Amazon? WaPo's Bezos?
Wotta coincidence! Did Karl Rove arrange this?
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[NYT] He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in "The Apprentice," bankrupted his businesses six times, and drew cheering crowds and angry protesters to Fifth Avenue after his election. Through it all, President Trump ‐ rich, bombastic and to many Americans the epitome of a New Yorker ‐ was intertwined with the city he called his lifelong home.
No longer.
In late September, Mr. Trump changed his primary residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Fla., according to documents filed with the Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Melania Trump, the first lady, also changed her residence to Palm Beach in an identical document.
Each of the Trumps filed a "declaration of domicile" saying that the Mar-a-Lago Club, Mr. Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, will be their permanent residence.
The president confirmed the decision on Twitter after The New York Times reported on the move, saying that he would "be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence."
A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know.
"I cherish New York, and the people of New York," he added, "and always will."
But he didn’t have much nice to say about the public officials of New York.
"I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse," he said, describing his decision as the "best for all concerned."
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Make fun of us here in Florida. Every year when I file my taxes and pay no state income tax, I smile. Of course the lefty Gillum lovers want to change that, but we are going to keep voting against that.
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You are not alone Murcek. I can remember going to the top of the Tower in Claremont and seeing nothing but miles and miles of orange groves.
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When is Steyer going to buy every person in CA a whale oil lamp?
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Save the whales, man. Steyer thinks we should have solar powered flashlights. He'll import them from China. Dunno how we're supposed to cook though. Dunno about New York but California's state income tax is an insult that just keeps coming.
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"The peasants are revolting , They certainly are. "
The peasant are revolting and they have acquired arms from out of state.
[DAWN] The corpse count from a fire in three bogies of a Tezgam train near Liaquatpur city jumped to 73 around 1pm, while many remain under critical condition, Rahim Yar Khan district government said on Thursday.
About 40 people, including women and kiddies, were maimed, Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid told AFP earlier.
The dead and injured are being shifted to DHQ Hospital in Liaquatpur. Some of the injured have also been shifted to Bahawal Victoria Hospital in Bahawalpur due to their critical condition.
[DAWN] A prayer leader from Sukkur's Pano Aqil tehsil was arrested on Thursday for allegedly having raped a ten-year-old girl.
A case was registered by Sukkur Police against the suspect who leads prayers at a mosque in Dildar Samejo village.
"We arrested the prayer leader of the mosque after he was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl and started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him," said Sukkur SSP Irfan Samoon.
According to the SSP, a letter was issued by the police so a medical exam of the girl could be carried out. The girl used to take Holy Koran lessons from the prayer leader, he said.
The minor girl, narrating the incident, said that when she reached the mosque premises for her lesson, she was told by someone that the teacher was calling her. "When I went to see him, he shut the door and window, grabbed me, covered my mouth and pinned my arms down."
The girl's father told DawnNewsTV that the suspect had "subjected the girl to rape multiple times". "She informed us only after falling ill yesterday," he said.
For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of an upward trend between 1990 and 2015. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years, according to a new report.
"Students in the U.S. made significant progress in math and reading achievement on NAEP from 1990 until 2015, when the first major dip in achievement scores occurred," reported U.S. News and World Report. Perhaps not coincidentally, 2015 is the year states were required by the Obama administration to have fully phased in Common Core.
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Actually there's method to the Soelling Bee madness, and it makes more sense than all the stupid educational fads that American "educationists" have imposed on public schoolchildren for generations, with ruinous results.
It's called repetition. You cannot master any sort of abstract reasoning, be it a syntax or grammar, arithmetic or higher math, historical knowledge or understanding of anatomy and physiology -- no abstract subject can be mastered without repetition, recitation, and memorization.
Russian: Повторение - мать учения. (Povtoreniye - mat' ucheniya.)
"Repetition is the Mother of Learning"
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True, repetition is the mother of learning. Rote learning of simpler concepts in early years is essential to grasp advanced lessons later that a teacher can build on.
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Was your free-range chicken happy before it was killed?
Was the bridge you're driving on designed by an Empathetic Engineer?
As of Dec. 2018, the Obama-appointed National Science Foundation (NSF) Director had spent over $62m in his four year tenure so far on studies of "intersectionality and STEM."
A particularly choice study: "Forming the Empathetic Engineer."
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LOL - my old bridge construction administration crew included my heir apparent (male/hispanic), 2 other supervisors (2 white), 3 assistants (2 Filipino/White males) and a female (hispanic). We were considered the crew people were afraid to apply to: 1) work/expectations too hard, 2) work/expectations too hard.
Nothing about "Frank's a racist/sexist/patriarchal asshole"...although I can be an asshole when it suits my purpose
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So, it's working as designed. Expect more of the same.
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#17 - all of the above (except two of the Assistants - who have their Engineer-In-Training Cert) are CA Registered Professional Engineers. Common Core ain't gonna cut it
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Students will be asked to “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and “explain how math dictates economic oppression.”
Was the bridge you're driving on designed by an Empathetic Engineer?
A rather pathetic article I saw recently was about how horrible "RTFM" -- "Read The Fine Manual" -- is, and how we should stop saying it in favor of mentoring and sharing knowledge.
*sigh*
RTFM is mentoring and sharing knowledge.
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NOVATO, Calif. (AP) ‐ One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. Others got disoriented, even in their own apartments, and cried out for help.
At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires.
Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.
"We were surprised by how dark it was," said Pamela Zuzak, 70, who uses a walker to get around. "There was nothing, nothing lit. It was like going into a darkroom closet, pitch black, you couldn’t see in front of you."
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. shut off power to more than 2 million people over the weekend to prevent its equipment from sparking fires amid hot, dry gusts. It was just one of four pre-emptive rounds of shut-offs imposed by the utility this month.
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I'm sure when the 'vote farmers' show up they'll have a flashlight and some forms for you to sign. Ack, Cali doesn't even have a decent organization of ward heelers to take care of this? Doesn't anybody know how to play this game?
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If you live in CA and haven't yet bought a generator of decent size, now would be the time.
Mrs. Warthog and I gave CA the one finger salute in the rear view mirror when we made our escape to Idaho.
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Seems caregivers in California are always they first too pack up and ditch the elderly,they choose to look after. Wonder if there is and ordnance to prevent this from happening?
[PJ] Republican State Representative Ginny Ehrhart from Georgia wants to make it a felony for doctors to perform gender transition procedures on minors, including mastectomy, vasectomy, castration and other forms of genital mutilation, and ban the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormone therapy.
State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, said the legislation aims to protect children from having irreversible procedures done when they are young. Current law requires a parent to consent to surgery or for a minor to be prescribed medication.
While the bill is still being drafted, Ehrhart said Georgia medical providers who perform surgeries or administer or prescribe medications that assist minors with gender transition could be charged with a felony. The legislation would not affect doctors working with adults who seek to undergo gender transition.
"We’re talking about children that can’t get a tattoo or smoke a cigar or a cigarette in the state of Georgia but can be castrated and get sterilized," she said.
While this seems like common sense to most people, Jeff Graham, the executive director of Georgia Equality, an LGBT rights group in the state, blasted the proposed legislation. "This legislation would criminalize decisions that are made carefully within families in consultation with medical professionals and mental health professionals. Supporting children in recognizing their gender identity is not only humane, it saves lives and strengthens families."
Ehrhart was motivated to draft this bill because of the James Younger case in Texas, and says the final bill may include language that makes parents liable as well as doctors. "There may be some implication for the responsibility of the parent to subject the child to this sort of dangerous medical intervention," Ehrhart said.
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This legislation would criminalize decisions that are made carefully within families in consultation with medical professionals and mental health professionals
So are child rape, ince$t and abortion, or even FGM in some cultures. In all cases the child is deceptively miseducated about his/her body rights, then coaxed to undergo abuse in a way so as to assume willful participation in it. To the child it seems it was his/her decision.
It's planned and malicious abuse and sexual mutilation, plain and simple.
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I doubt it will pass. If it does, some black robed tyrant will overturn it. I hate to say it, but the requirement to legislate (make criminal) such activities says something about our society.
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But they can't buy alcohol or smokes because it might ruin their health. I'm old enough to remember the movement to ban circumcision because it was 'barbaric' or cruel and unusual.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Climate Depot] Meteorologist Paul Dorian: "Perhaps the most amazing temperature recorded in this unusual cold spell for the western US took place earlier today in the remote observing station of Peter Sinks, Utah...the unofficial overnight low temperature there of -43.6 ºF is pretty amazing for this time of year and perhaps the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Lower 48 during the month of October. Nearby Salt Lake City, Utah provided some supporting evidence of the extreme cold as it set a low temperature record of 14 ºF for the date and records there go all the way back to 1874.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia’s 102nd military base stationed in the town of Gyumri in Armenia will almost double its combat potential after it is rearmed with new and upgraded weapon systems, Base Commander Colonel Nikolai Martynyuk reported to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday.
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[NYT] He came of age in Queens, built Trump Tower, starred in "The Apprentice," bankrupted his businesses six times, and drew cheering crowds and angry protesters to Fifth Avenue after his election. Through it all, President Trump ‐ rich, bombastic and to many Americans the epitome of a New Yorker ‐ was intertwined with the city he called his lifelong home.
[DAWN] A prayer leader from Sukkur's Pano Aqil tehsil was arrested on Thursday for allegedly having raped a ten-year-old girl.
[PJ] Republican State Representative Ginny Ehrhart from Georgia wants to make it a felony for doctors to perform gender transition procedures on minors, including mastectomy, vasectomy, castration and other forms of genital mutilation, and ban the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormone therapy.
