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This follows the news that embassies and consulates in Arab nations will be closed and on high alert this coming Sunday. Via Yahoo News:WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States issued a global travel alert Friday, citing an al-Qaida threat that also caused the State Department to close its...

The funeral home was eventually forced to call the police when picketers allegedly disrupted a child’s funeral with laughter. The officer asked the Teamsters to leave, but protesters returned when he drove away. Also from Jammie Wearing Fools: Government workers in the city of Seattle have been...

no mention of hate crimes here.... Nope never. When Christian churches are desecrated it's never a hate crime, only "vandalism" A shrine that stood in Whitney Pier, N.S. for fewer than five days has been burned to the ground. The shrine was built as part of the 100th anniversary...

Doug Holyday is projected to win the riding of Etobicoke Lakeshore for the Progressive Conservatives, a riding previously held by the Liberals. Ontario byelections: Live coverage - thestar.com That seems to be the shape of things. Looks like my predictions regarding Ontario's fate are...

DETROIT - Tim Kirby, 46, was very well-known in his community. He was a local pastor, a father of four and a community activist known for doing good work in the neighborhood. However, on Monday night, trouble arrived at Kirby's apartment. "It was devastating. I cried for...

via zip Connecticut Newspaper: KKK’s “Basic Message” Has Been “Embraced” By Fox News, Conservative Media… I could have sworn the KKK was tied to the Democratic party. Via New Haven Register:Gov. Dannel Malloy and an array of public officials and community leaders stood together recently...

Yeah, you might not have known this. According to the wonderful book The Religious Art of Andy Warhol, by Jane Daggett Dillenberger, the man remained celibate, a fact revealed by his own declaration of virginity and at his eulogy, where it was recalled that “as a youth he was withdrawn and...

via sda: I Miss The Canadian Wheat Board. No I don't. And neither does anyone else...

CIA is polygraphing operatives regularly, in an "unprecedented" attempt to keep Benghazi secrets, sources tell CNN, @DrewGriffinCNN reports CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack. Four...

MELFORT, Sask. — Saskatchewan farmer Jim Taylor says he knew his marriage was in trouble, but he didn’t at first believe Mounties when they told him that his wife was planning to kill him. He was even more stunned when officers alleged that a man she was having an affair with was in on the...

A Saratoga County resident is recovering from a rare but emerging illness carried by deer ticks that transmit Lyme disease, according to a county health official. While extremely rare, Powassan virus is deadlier than other tick-borne illnesses — killing 30% of those infected statewide since...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A suspect remained on the loose late Tuesday evening, after stabbing a teenage girl nearly a dozen times just steps from her front door in the Woodhaven section of Queens. As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reported, Natasha Martinez, 17, remained at Jamaica Hospital after...

U.S. President Barack Obama has hit out at society’s infatuation with celebrity culture and suggested it might be killing the American dream. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr. Obama also criticized a change in society he said had led to the wealthier elements feeling the need to engage in...

The Liberal wing of Elections Canada via sda: You know, in the military, if you don't pay your debts, they garnish your wages until the debt is gone. I count three debtors who are still employed by the public, Stephane 'Can we do this interview again' Dion, Ken 'Give...

accidentally dishing up gammon to Muslim girl Alison Waldock, 51, apologised for mistake as soon as error was spotted She said it was difficult to keep track of more than 40 students with different dietary requirements with the lists she was given But despite 11 years working as a dinner...

Should extraterrestrials be looking down at Earth from space, they would know a few things about us humans. They would know our routines are dictated by the sun. They would see that we tend to congregate and build near water. But perhaps most of all, they would know that we move. Today’s...

via zip: Great Democratic solution- shift problems to someone else. Via Fox News: Lawmakers in the Aloha State want to wave goodbye to their growing homeless population — by buying them a one-way ticket off the island. Hawaii’s controversial three-year “Return to Home” pilot program...

A dozen of California's largest corporations are holding nearly $262 billion in foreign earnings in offshore subsidiaries to shield the money from American taxation, according to a new study by a consumer advocacy group. The 12 are on a list of 105 publicly traded American corporations...

Russian Lawmaker Suggests In Russia it is now illegal to even speak about homosexuality around minors, much less openly display gay pride. Technically the ban is against "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" around minors, but the implication for openly gay individuals is...

Computers manufactured by the world's biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo, have been banned from the "secret" and ''top secret" *networks of the intelligence and defence services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, because of concerns they are vulnerable to being...