LAMBETH, England, July 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — When the United Nations declared basic access to the internet as a human right in a 2016 resolution, Share Internet Data Ltd saw this as a gateway to leverage and create an app that will advance the democratization of internet access. Following a successful launch, the SID platform Read More…
This expansion is part of LeafFilterTM‘s continued commitment to helping homeowners across North America keep their homes safe by solving gutter cleaning needs once and for all – no clogs, guaranteed. For West Coast customers, LeafFilterTM‘s industry-leading, in-house R&D and product development teams created a new filter design to safeguard fascia style gutters and homes, Read More…
The head of an Outaouais municipality wants a change in leadership at the local health-care agency, arguing current leadership leaves her fearful for health and safety. Chantal Lamarche, reeve of the MRC de la Vallée-de-la-Gatineau, sent a letter Thursday to Quebec’s health minister asking for the president and CEO of the Centres intégrés de santé Read More…
HONOLULU (AP) – A soldier based in Hawaii is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang pleaded guilty in August to four counts of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He said he provided classified military documents, a drone and Read More…
A California vice-mayor’s declaration that July should be “straight pride” month has resulted in calls for his resignation or recall and threats of a demonstration at the next city council meeting. Ted Hickman, the vice mayor of Dixon, California, noted in his “That’s Life” column in Dixon’s Independent Voice at the end of June that Read More…
The Trump administration has expanded the government’s deportation powers, issuing guidelines urging officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services — the legal immigration agency — to begin the removal process for people who use fraudulent documents or who illegally took government benefits. USCIS officers have always had powers to begin deportation proceedings, but in the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Close your eyes and imagine you’re astride a Harley-Davidson. There’s an American flag emblazoned on the gas tank between your hips, an engine eager to thunder under you, and that man astride a Harley hog at your side looks like he could be Donald Trump. No easy riders here. But so much for a Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: There’s something about Helsinki, dark and cold in winter but bright and sunny in summer, that lends itself to meetings of global importance. The usually sleepy Finnish capital hard by the Russian border made its debut on the world stage in 1975, when it was host to a 35-nation meeting that changed the course Read More…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is pushing for a deal in negotiations on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the White House said on Wednesday, but Canadian and Mexican officials were not due in Washington for talks before a Thursday deadline. FILE PHOTO: U.S. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders holds Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” as the philosopher Yogi Berra once reminded us. Another philosopher without Yogi’s gift for turning a clever phrase once observed that “hope springs eternal.” Philosophy is most of what’s sustaining the hopes of the Republican candidate in that congressional race in southwestern Pennsylvania that the Democrat appears to Read More…
President Trump’s company revealed Friday how much foreign profit it had donated to the U.S. Treasury. (Evan Vucci/AP) This post has been updated President Trump’s hotels made $151,470 in profit from doing business with foreign governments in 2017, the Trump Organization announced Friday. The company donated that amount to the U.S. Treasury in late February, in Read More…
A former adult film star in the past claimed that President TrumpDonald John TrumpDems flip Wisconsin state Senate seat Sessions: ‘We should be like Canada’ in how we take in immigrants GOP rep: ‘Sheet metal and garbage’ everywhere in Haiti MORE had sex with her in 2006, when he was married to first lady Melania TrumpMelania Read More…
Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) visited Moshav Shekaf on Wednesday and met personally with the farmers who were hit by a huge theft this past week. Following the visit, Ariel said that “in order to eradicate the phenomenon of agricultural thefts, I turned to the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Public Security and the Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Retaliation isn’t always out of bounds. With their pre-game kneeling ritual, National Football League players have put a big hurt on their teams — and the fans — who pay their enormous salaries. Fans from coast to coast have responded with a forearm to the league’s all-important TV ratings, leaving the muscled men flat Read More…
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The street in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman died protesting white supremacists last month may soon bear her name. The Charlottesville City Council is weighing a resolution designating a section of 4th Street in memory of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal who was killed while demonstrating against the “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12. Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Free speech can be so inconvenient. A growing number of Democrats like the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to free speech and assembly, but only for themselves and for those who agree with them. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the First Amendment, which does not guarantee pleasing, nice, or even responsible speech, Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Peter Jones is a kind, scholarly man with a charming British accent and delightful sense of humor. Even a brief conversation with him reveals that he is a loving human being who is at peace with himself and his Creator. In addition to his warm, grandfatherly demeanor, Mr. Jones is a fierce warrior for Read More…
They lost in California, but that hasn’t stopped activists from waging a referendum war in Ohio against the big pharmaceutical companies. If approved by voters in November, Ohio agencies and state-assisted programs would be required to buy prescription drugs at prices no higher than what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays for them — Read More…
The Buffalo Zoo’s silverback Gorilla Koga. WGRZ Photo/Scott May (Photo: WGRZ Photo/Scott May) BUFFALO, N.Y. — Monday was a special day for a 400-pound gorilla at the Buffalo Zoo. Koga, the zoo’s silverback, turned 30 and so the Buffalo Zoo threw him a party — complete with decorations, presents, a cake, some special treats, and Read More…
CLEVELAND (AP) – Ohio consumers will once again get a back-to-school sales tax break on clothing and school supplies with the state’s third annual sales tax holiday. This year’s “tax-free weekend” will be held this Friday through Sunday. It provides an exemption from sales tax on pieces of clothing priced at $75 or less and Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Only a quarter of a century after the Iron Curtain rang down on the repression and official atheism of the evil empire — “godless communism” some called it — there’s a resurgence of religious faith and identification in what was once the Soviet Union and its satraps in eastern Europe. A new poll by Read More…
Federal prosecutors charged a truck driver Monday with smuggling illegal immigrants after 10 of them died in his trailer over the weekend, renewing a fierce argument over border security and the risks migrants take to try to sneak into the U.S. As many as 200 migrants had been packed in the truck, according to what Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: President Trump has taken the “Made in America” stamp on American consumer goods and put it to wider use as a slogan to inspire an economic and manufacturing renaissance. He’s not the first. Bob Hope was the face of a similar campaign four decades ago, with limited success. For consumers weary of goods with Read More…
The man behind the world-famous Ark Encounter has decided to reclaim “God’s rainbow” – announcing the massive ark exhibit will be permanently bathed in rainbow lights. Click here for a free subscription to Todd’s newsletter – a must-read for patriots! “We now have new permanent rainbow lights at the Ark Encounter so all can see that it Read More…
STOCKHOLM, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SECOND QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS Reported sales decreased by -8% YoY. Sales, adjusted for comparable units and currency, decreased by -13% YoY. The RAN equipment market for 2017 is estimated to show a high single-digit percentage decline compared with previous estimate of -2% to -6%. Gross margin was 27.9% (32.3%). Gross Read More…
President Trump said Democrats and the media are overplaying their hand on allegations of his campaign’s collusion with Russia, and it’s creating a backlash with voters. “I think what’s happening is, as usual, the Democrats have played their card too hard on the Russia thing, because people aren’t believing it,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Read More…
Homeland Security said Tuesday that at least 130 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have enough natural barriers that there’s no need to build a wall there — leaving most of the 1,954-mile divide as potential ground for a fence. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency charged with building President Trump’s wall, said it hopes Read More…
Amazon.com Inc. spent two decades hastening the demise of the traditional brick-and-mortar retail industry. So why would the tech giant spend $13.7 billion to acquire an organic-grocery chain with more than 460 stores? The deal for Whole Foods Market Inc., which people familiar with the matter said came together quickly, presents Amazon with several potential Read More…
Based on the beautiful pictures and effusive praise he has posted to Twitter this week from one of the nation’s newest national monuments, you might never guess that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke could set into motion the process to erase it from the map. Mr. Zinke, tapped by President Trump to conduct a thorough review Read More…
SALT LAKE CITY – More than 500 protesters urging the protection of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument demonstrate outside a Salt Lake City building where Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is meeting with tribal leaders. Protesters carried signs Sunday and shouted “Save our monuments, stand with Bears Ears!” as Zinke started a four-day Utah trip. He’s Read More…
US Air Force fighter jets intercepted four Russian warplanes that infiltrated Alaska’s Air Defense Zone on Thursday. A formation of two Su-35 “Flanker” fighter jets escorting a couple of Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bombers was met by two F-22 stealth fighter jets that were patrolling about 50 miles southwest of Chariot, Alaska, officials told Fox News. Read More…
MERRILLVILLE, Ind., May 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI) today announced, on a GAAP basis, net income for the three months ended March 31, 2017 of $211.3 million, or $0.65 per share, compared to $186.6 million, or $0.58 per share, for the same period of 2016. Operating income was $416.5 million for the three months ended Read More…
ANALYSIS/OPINION: Chuck Schumer is a New Yorker, so he knows about chutzpah. He schmears it liberally on his breakfast bagel. Chutzpah is the useful Yiddish for “shameless audacity,” once defined by the young man who murdered his parents and begged the judge and jury to show “mercy for a poor orphan boy.” The new and Read More…
Republicans and Democrats see eye to eye on at least one thing — both parties are experiencing sharp internal division. Three-quarters of Republicans and Republican-leaners say the Republican Party is split, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey Poll, while a majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaners say the same about their party. Just a quarter of Read More…
Two men have been charged over the alleged torture and assault of a man left tied to a tree in bushland in Queensland’s southeast. Police say the 24-year-old managed to free himself and flag a passing motorist on Beenleigh-Beaudesert Road, Tamborine on Wednesday morning and was later taken to hospital with a gunshot wound to Read More…
Jack Swagger has officially requested his release from the WWE. The pro wrestler said on the podcast “Beyond the Fight” that he’s done with the wrestling company. “It’s still kind of an ongoing process right now,” Swagger told host Chael Sonnen Wednesday. “Basically, it came down to contract negotiations, and we were way off. They Read More…
Traditionally, conservatives have supported the Senate filibuster because, supposedly, it puts the brakes on government expansion. I’ve long thought conservatives should reconsider. With some Democrats planning to filibuster President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, now is a good time to reconsider. The Senate’s filibuster system lets a minority of senators Read More…
BOSTON (AP) – The trade that brought Kawhi Leonard to San Antonio was already a success for the Spurs, even before throw-in Davis Bertans began contributing. The Latvian rookie set a career high in scoring for the second straight game, pitching in 15 of the Spurs’ 56 bench points on