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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)
from Forum for Middle East Understanding
(FFMU) (Shoebat.com) [Information from this site may be unreliable.]The Antichrist Of Turkey Threatens To Exile 100,000 Christian Armenians
The Antichrist of Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey retains the right to deport the roughly 100,000 citizens of the Republic of Armenia who live and work in Turkey. Erdogan was upset that The European Parliament on Wednesday joined Pope Francis in urging Turkey to recognize the 1915 massacre of Armenians as a genocide.
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from The Guardian (UK)
Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report
AVS WinVote machines used in three presidential elections in state ‘would get an F-minus’ in security, said computer scientist who pushed for decertification
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from The Heritage Foundation
Whistling to Armageddon: Obama’s Pact With Iran
The path selected by the Obama administration is more likely to result in the very outcome it seeks to avoid.
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from National Catholic Register
Pope: Without ‘Alliance’ Between Men and Women, Affection and Hope Diminish
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
McCain’s dilemma: trust Ayatollah or trust U.S. officials?
When Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei disagreed with the U.S. interpretation of the recently negotiated nuclear framework last week, the White House was quick to dismiss the posturing. Congressional Republicans weren’t so sure.
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from Salon
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
Jon Stewart mocks media freakout over Hillary’s Chipotle visit: “How many f**king napkins did she take?”
Based on the media's coverage of Clinton's Chipotle visit, Stewart concluded it's going to be a long election.
Jon Stewart mocks media freakout over Hillary’s Chipotle visit: “How many f**king napkins did she take?”
Based on the media's coverage of Clinton's Chipotle visit, Stewart concluded it's going to be a long election.
from The Spokesman-Review
Spokane developer Harlan Douglass arrested on charge of assault at courthouse
Police arrested prominent Spokane developer Harlan Douglass after he allegedly punched a courtroom adversary Wednesday morning in the hallway of the Spokane County Courthouse, according to witnesses and reports.
Idaho OKs tuition hikes, largely will cover raises lawmakers approved
Idaho’s state Board of Education on Wednesday approved the lowest tuition increases for the state’s four-year colleges and universities in the last 15 years, including a 3.5 percent hike in tuition and fees at the University of Idaho.
Demonstrators take to Seattle streets in statewide push for $15 minimum wage
Marchers have taken to Seattle’s streets in support of a $15 minimum wage, an event following a similar, if much smaller, rally in Spokane this morning. The Spokane rally began at 9 a.m., when about 25 people gathered outside of the Fred Meyer in the East Central neighborhood. The rally lasted just a few minutes before demonstrators climbed aboard a Seattle-bound bus, where people from around the state have started to gather for a larger event. The Spokane gathering was part of a “national day of action” that coincided with Tax Day, with rallies in New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Demonstrators also turned out in Olympia, Pasco, Yakima, Moses Lake and Sea-Tac.
July hydroplane races canceled in Coeur d’Alene
There will be no hydroplane races this summer on Lake Coeur d’Alene, says a new group trying to revive the sport here. Coeur d’Alene Silver Cup, Inc. needs more time to raise at least $300,000 from sponsors to pull off the races, said Keith Allen, vice president and race director. The group had planned to hold unlimited hydroplane races July 17-19 in the Silver Beach area east of downtown.
Couple accused of drug smuggling during Valentine’s Day prison visit
Airway Heights correctional officers found a package containing marijuana, tobacco and rolling paper with George J. Schuler, 59, after a Valentine’s Day visit by his fiancee Mary E. Harvey, according to court documents.
Investors buy Coldwater Creek campus
A group of four investors has purchased the bulk of the former Coldwater Creek corporate campus in the city of Kootenai near Sandpoint.
University High bomb threat linked to Moses Lake student
Investigators are seeking the cell phone records of a 16-year-old Columbia Basin Job Corps student who they believe may have made a bomb threat to University High School.
Spokane Gun Club gets tax reprieve
The Spokane Gun Club will not have to pay more than $40,000 in back taxes at the end of the month on property its owned in Spokane Valley since the 1940s, according to a ruling issued this week. The Spokane County Board of Equalization unanimously shot down the club’s removal from a tax relief program by real estate assessors earlier this year.
Small aircraft lands on Capitol lawn
Police arrested a man who landed his small, one-person helicopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, prompting a temporary lockdown of the Capitol Visitor’s Center.
U.S. should start Columbia River Treaty negotiations, NW delegation says
The entire congressional delegation from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana is demanding that the Obama administration begin negotiations with Canada to update a landmark treaty that governs the operation of dams on North America’s fourth-largest river.
New Hanford site tour offered
The story of the Hanford site prior to nuclear development is the focus of a new public tour offered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Richland office.
The Chihuahua huddled in the mangled wreckage of his owner’s van for two days, unheard and unseen. Until Monday. That’s when a Kootenai County sheriff’s deputy found the small dog, named Uno Solo, while re-examining the van at an impound lot.
President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.
Congress OKs bill changing doctors’ Medicare fees
Legislation permanently overhauling how Medicare pays physicians won approval Tuesday from an atypically united Congress as lawmakers banded together to erase an irritant that has dogged them for years. Adding urgency to legislators’ work, the measure headed off a 21 percent cut in doctors’ Medicare fees that would have hit home today, when the government planned to begin processing physicians’ claims reflecting that reduction. The bill also provides billions of extra dollars for health care programs for children and low-income families, including additional money for community health centers.
Legislation permanently overhauling how Medicare pays physicians won approval Tuesday from an atypically united Congress as lawmakers banded together to erase an irritant that has dogged them for years. Adding urgency to legislators’ work, the measure headed off a 21 percent cut in doctors’ Medicare fees that would have hit home today, when the government planned to begin processing physicians’ claims reflecting that reduction. The bill also provides billions of extra dollars for health care programs for children and low-income families, including additional money for community health centers.
SpaceX launched a shipment of groceries to the International Space Station on Tuesday, including the first espresso maker bound for orbit. But the company’s third attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean platform failed.
In brief: Ex-Clippers owner’s wife awarded $2.6 million in suit over gifts
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that the wife of the former Clippers owner is owed $2.6 million by a woman her husband showered with gifts. Judge Richard Fruin Jr. ruled Tuesday in the lawsuit, awarding Shelly Sterling most of the nearly $3 million she had sought. Sterling had claimed that money used to buy V. Stiviano a house, luxury cars and stocks was her community property.
Missouri inmate executed for 1998 killing
A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday night for killing a man in a fit of rage over child support payments 16 years ago. Andre Cole, 52, became the third convicted killer put to death this year in Missouri.
Volunteer deputy turns himself in
A 73-year-old Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who authorities said fatally shot a suspect after confusing his stun gun and handgun was booked into the county jail Tuesday on a manslaughter charge.
Bowing to pressure from Republicans and his own party, President Barack Obama on Tuesday relented to a compromise empowering Congress to reject his emerging nuclear pact with Iran.
Judge sentences ex-educators to jail in test cheating case
All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal “the sickest thing that’s ever happened in this town.”
The Pentagon said Tuesday it would exhume and try to identify the remains of nearly 400 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Oklahoma sank in the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The ship capsized after being hit by nine torpedoes during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. Altogether, 429 sailors and Marines onboard were killed. Only 35 were identified in the years immediately after.
In brief: U.N. Security Council OKs arms embargo in Yemen
The U.N. Security Council stepped up efforts Tuesday to thwart a Houthi rebel takeover of Yemen, imposing an arms embargo on the leaders of the Shiite group, along with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son.
Iraqi leader seeks better weaponry
President Barack Obama announced $200 million in additional humanitarian aid to Iraq on Tuesday but was noncommittal on the request from visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi for more sophisticated weapons to fight Islamic State militants.
Guam official OKs same-sex marriage
Guam’s attorney general today directed officials to immediately begin processing same-sex-marriage applications, putting the island on course to be the first U.S. territory to allow gay marriage.
Yemen al-Qaida branch says top cleric killed in drone attack
Yemen’s al-Qaida branch announced Tuesday that its top cleric, Ibrahim al-Rubaish, a Saudi national who has had a $5 million bounty on his head, has been killed, allegedly in a drone attack late Sunday, along with other, unnamed members of the group.
They have been gone a year now, the hundreds of girls abducted by Islamic militants from their school in northeastern Nigeria.
Frederick Russell, driver who killed three students, released from prison
Frederick Russell, who was convicted in 2007 of killing three Washington State University students and seriously injuring three others in 2001 in a drunken driving crash, was released from prison Tuesday. His conviction came six years after the collision because he fled to Ireland before trial.
Spokane Mayor David Condon gained his first challenger Tuesday in his race to be the first re-elected mayor since the era of Expo ’74. Shar Lichty, an organizer with the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane, said Monday she is running for Spokane mayor, declaring that she is “one of the people” and drawing a contrast with Condon, whom she called the “millionaire mayor.”
Washington Senate OKs marijuana regulation changes
In the latest move to tighten safety regulations on oil trains and pipelines that run through Washington, the state House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to make shippers pay for spills and derailments and publicly disclose what kinds of oil they transport through communities.
In brief: Bill would improve customer service when tolls challenged
Motorists who get a toll bill for a bridge they didn’t cross or a highway they didn’t use would get a letter of apology from the state agency if it doesn’t properly respond to their appeals, under a bill that passed the House on Tuesday.
Reward offered for threats to school
Crime Stoppers of the Inland Northwest is offering a cash reward for anyone providing information leading to the arrest of anyone involved with the recent threats received at University High School, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Tornado lifts Jeep 8 feet into the air
EUGENE – A small tornado that touched down Tuesday afternoon in the parking lot of a community college campus briefly lifted two people in a Jeep Cherokee into the air, then slammed the vehicle back down on its tires, witnesses said.
Data adequate to consider delisting gray wolf in Oregon
State biologists are telling the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission there is enough information to consider taking the gray wolf off the state endangered species list.
Victims in accident were pastors, son
A Washington couple who died when a large concrete slab fell from a highway overpass onto their pickup truck were youth ministers in their 20s and parents to a 6-month-old boy also killed in the freak accident. Josh and Vanessa Ellis and their son, Hudson, died Monday when a chunk of concrete weighing thousands of pounds fell onto the cab of their truck as they drove underneath the span, said James Ludlow, their pastor at EastPointe Foursquare Church.
In brief: Digital music revenue now matches that from physical albums, discs
Revenue from digital music matched that from physical albums and discs for the first time in 2014, a global industry body said Tuesday.
U.S. retail sales rise in March
Americans increased their spending on autos, furniture, clothing and building materials in March, lifting retail sales for the first time in four months.
New rules for brokers proposed
Brokers who manage Americans’ retirement accounts may soon be required to put investors’ interests first under new restrictions proposed by the U.S. government.
Next sardine season called off
Fisheries managers have decided to call off the West Coast sardine fishing season that starts in July because of rapidly dwindling numbers, hoping to save an iconic industry from the kind of collapse that hit in the 1940s and lasted 50 years.
Feds fine for-profit college
The Education Department said it will fine Heald College $30 million, alleging the Corinthian Colleges subsidiary engaged in egregious misconduct and misled students.
Rent is on the rise again this year
Renting has gotten increasingly expensive over the past five years. The average U.S. rent has climbed 14 percent to $1,124 since 2010, according to commercial property tracker Reis Inc. That’s 4 percentage points faster than inflation, and more than double the rise in U.S. home prices over the same period.
IMF predicts sluggish world economy
Global economic growth is likely to remain modest and highly uneven, and the longer-term prospects are even more sobering, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Small fraction of Jeeps fixed two years after recall
Nearly two years after agreeing to recall 1.56 million older Jeeps that could catch fire in rear-end crashes, the maker of the vehicles has repaired only a fraction of the Jeeps covered by the recall, according to documents filed with federal safety regulators.
Google faces antitrust charges in Europe, reports say
European regulators are poised to file charges alleging Google abused its dominance in Internet search to thwart competition and innovation, according to reports published Tuesday.
Pot business owners call for tax write-offs
While most business owners rush to meet the federal tax deadline and cash in on a plethora of deductions, pot store owners and growers complain that they can’t write off a single expense, even if they have state licenses. They want the law changed, saying it’s discriminatory and outdated as more states move to legalize marijuana.
Shawn Vestal: Trolley-bashing Washington Policy Center has funny way of showing neutrality
Editorial: Legislative committee’s action threatens Idaho child support system
Trudy Rubin: Iraq visit a test of whether U.S. has Mideast policy
‘Forks’ gathers recipes from around globe
Jordan: Mansaf – Herbed Lamb Simmered in Yogurt Sauce with Almonds
Zambia: Ifisashi with Nshima, or Greens with Peanut Sauce and East African Corn Meal
Asian inspiration
Temaki Party
Green Papaya Salad with Vietnamese Beef
Curry Laksa (Malaysian Coconut Soup)
Laksa Paste
Soulful singer Percy Sledge dies
Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died Tuesday in Louisiana. He was 74.
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from ThatsNonsense.com
from Time
Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square that the difference between men and women was "not for opposition or subordination, but for communion and creation"
from Universal Free Press
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from The Washington Post (DC)
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On This Day in History: Hillary Clinton Discovers Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage
Hillary Clinton opposed same-sex marriage until 2013, but as late as 2014 she suggested that marriage laws still ought to be determined by the states. Talking Points Memo's Sahil Kapur reports today that Clinton, who graduated from law school 42 years ago, has somehow discovered in 2015 that the U.S. Constitution establishes a right to same-sex marriage.
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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)
ISIS Training Camp Uncovered Near Texas Border
Judicial Watch reported on Tuesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is operating a training camp just south of the US/Mexican border, near El Paso, Texas. Sources, idenfitied as a Mexican Army field grade officer and Mexican federal police inspector, told Judicial Watch that the camp is about 8 miles south of the border, just west of Ciudad Juarez in an area called “Anapra.”
One Of Bill’s Many Accusers Just Sounded The Alarm Against A Hillary Presidency
For better or worse, Kathleen Willey will forever be linked to the Clintons. As a White House aide, she asserted she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton, making her one in a string of accusers that helped shape public opinion of the 42nd president. Willey is now focused on another Clinton, explaining in a recent interview why she believes electing Hillary in 2016 would be a big mistake for America.
(Western Journalism)
ISIS Training Camp Uncovered Near Texas Border
Judicial Watch reported on Tuesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is operating a training camp just south of the US/Mexican border, near El Paso, Texas. Sources, idenfitied as a Mexican Army field grade officer and Mexican federal police inspector, told Judicial Watch that the camp is about 8 miles south of the border, just west of Ciudad Juarez in an area called “Anapra.”
One Of Bill’s Many Accusers Just Sounded The Alarm Against A Hillary Presidency
For better or worse, Kathleen Willey will forever be linked to the Clintons. As a White House aide, she asserted she was sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton, making her one in a string of accusers that helped shape public opinion of the 42nd president. Willey is now focused on another Clinton, explaining in a recent interview why she believes electing Hillary in 2016 would be a big mistake for America.
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from WND (World Net Daily)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
BLACK MAN HELPS WHITE WOMAN, BLACK MOB 'RETALIATES'
Good Samaritan pummeled outside Tennessee gas station
BLACK MAN HELPS WHITE WOMAN, BLACK MOB 'RETALIATES'
Good Samaritan pummeled outside Tennessee gas station
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