Iraqi Kurds began voting in a historic independence referendum on Monday. Iraq’s central government, along with regional and world powers, opposed the vote, which is expected to end in an overwhelming “yes” vote for independence for Iraq’s Kurdish region, although the Kurdish Regional Government’s allies and enemies alike have said they would not recognize the results. The U.S., an ally […]

Germans voted Sunday to give Chancellor Angela Merkel her fourth term. Her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister-party the Christian Social Union (CSU) won 32.5 percent of Bundestag seats, down from 41.5 percent in the last election in 2013 but still forming the largest bloc. Merkel’s bloc now heads into what could be months of talks to […]

Send by a friend.  This is a very lucid presentation of what’s happening in Europe. Watch this video, 11:20 long, worth every minute of your time. By the way, sometimes biblically illiterate liberals will invoke Jesus’s words about loving your neighbor and turning the other cheek, imploring governments to follow these commands that are clearly meant for individual social interaction, […]

‘As long as some speak in the language of threats…’ By Jack Davis Iran boasted Saturday that it had tested a new medium-range missile that could reach much of the Middle East, including Israel. The test was a gesture of defiance after President Donald Trump signed a law last month imposing mandatory penalties on anyone involved in or connected to Iran’s ballistic missile program. Trump […]

The International Trade Commission is due Today to announce its initial decision on a petition from two domestic manufacturers for trade penalties on imported solar panels. The commission will announce whether it has determined that the two companies, Suniva and SolarWorld, have been injured by imports. If the answer is yes, the commission will later recommend some penalties to Trump, […]

Officials in Puerto Rico are warning the island could be without electricity for up to half a year following Hurricane Maria. San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz told MSNBC on Thursday that the U.S. territory’s 3.5 million people are “looking at four to six months without electricity” after Maria, a Category 4 storm, swept across the island yesterday. “The San […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani harshly criticized President Trump at the United Nations on Wednesday, calling Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly a day earlier “ignorant, absurd, and hateful.” In his speech, Trump called Iran a “murderous regime” and said the 2015 nuclear deal under which sanctions against Tehran were lifted was an “embarrassment” to the U.S. Rouhani said Iran […]

Spanish police raided Catalan regional government offices on Wednesday, arresting a dozen officials in a bid to block a banned Oct. 1 referendum on independence. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the offices, which are in the heart of Barcelona’s tourist district, and angrily criticized Madrid for the move, chanting “Occupying forces out!” “The Spanish state has by all rights intervened […]

Mexicans on Wednesday rushed to rescue survivors buried under rubble from dozens of buildings that collapsed in Tuesday’s 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which struck near Mexico City. The quake left at least 225 people dead, including 30 children killed when their school fell. Thousands of government and rescue workers dug through the rubble of the school and other buildings, and residents of […]

Edmondo Burr  /  Your News Wire In his debut speech to the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump, president of the most powerful nation on earth, tells the only standing world body responsible for maintaining international peace and order among nations since the end of World War II, that he is going to “totally destroy” North Korea unless “Rocket man” backs off, referring […]

The Constitution v Birthright Citizenship “Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” Thomas Jefferson (1801) There is a raging political debate about immigration in the U.S., or more specifically […]

By Michael W. Chapman  /  CNSNews H/T to Jackie…. Pastor Billy Graham, one of the most respected and influential Christian evangelists of the last 60 years, said that God gave us “moral laws” about sex “that are absolute and unchangeable,” and for those who engage in sexual immorality, God’s “wrath” will fall on them and “upon those who encourage others […]

South China Morning Post A joint pipeline would be expensive – and maybe impossible – to repair if crude flows stopped completely, specialists say An oil pipeline that supplies 90 per cent of North Korea’s crude has been excluded from the latest United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang in part for one very practical reason: once China turns it off, it […]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Wednesday that the proposed purchase of Lattice Semiconductor — the world’s second-largest manufacturer of simple and complex programmable logic devices — by China-backed Canyon Bridge Capital Partners was blocked by President Trump: Today, consistent with the administration’s commitment to take all actions necessary to ensure the protection of U.S. national security, the president issued an order […]

By Joe Newby  /   Liberty Unyielding On Wednesday, news broke across the internet that Facebook, the world’s largest social media site once described by Breitbart as the “world’s most dangerous censor,” announced new ad guidelines allegedly designed to, as U.S. News and World Report said, stop “monitization of hateful, adult and violent content.” Sounds like something most people can support, right? That […]

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a project of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Science and Environment Policy Project (SEPP), and The Heartland Institute, recently released a new Policy Brief titled “Global Warming Surprises: Temperature data in dispute can reverse conclusions about human influence on climate.” The policy brief is written by […]

Call to action comes after one month of no progress in determining cause of sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Havana BY: Susan Crabtree  /  Washington Free Beacon Five prominent GOP senators are calling on the Trump administration to expel Cuban diplomats from Washington immediately and even close the U.S. embassy in Havana if the Cuban government is not more forthcoming […]

North Korea fired another missile on Friday, its 15th test this year, according to South Korea’s military. Like its last test, on Aug. 28, the projectile flew over Japan. The Japanese government issued an alert via TV and cellphones, warning people to take shelter. Japan said the missile landed in the sea 1,200 miles east of the island of Hokkaido. […]

by SAPHORA SMITH, ALEXANDER SMITH, NICK BAILEY, MAX BURMAN and JASON CUMMING  /  NBC News LONDON — A rush-hour fire aboard a subway train in the British capital was being investigated as terrorism Friday, police said. Authorities confirmed 22 people had been injured at Parsons Green Tube station in southwest London. None of their wounds — mostly superficial burns — were considered serious or life-threatening. Investigators […]

Apple on Tuesday unveiled the iPhone X (pronounced “ten”), which CEO Tim Cook called the “biggest leap forward since the original iPhone.” The 5.8-inch smartphone has a massive, edge-to-edge screen. There’s no home button, and the phone will unlock using a facial recognition system. “Every time you glance at your phone, it detects your face — even in the dark,” […]