Daily Mail

At least 207 people have died after suspected suicide bombers blew up churches and five-star hotels in an Easter Sunday terror attack in Sri Lanka.

The eight blasts today ripped through landmarks around Colombo and on Sri Lanka’s east coast, targeting Christians, hotel guests and foreign tourists and leaving at least 450 people wounded.  Continue reading “Hundreds hurt as blasts hit Sri Lanka churches, hotels”

Daily Mail

Local California authorities were left bewildered on Thursday by a large illegal cannabis farm that took them an entire day to seize and contained some 40,000 pot plants, valued at a staggering $20million.

The illicit farm – located on the 2500 block of McCallister Street in Riverside – reportedly emitted a strong odor that prompted an anonymous source to contact authorities, Riverside Police Department Officer Ryan Railsback explained to KTLA.  Continue reading “California authorities discover a MASSIVE illegal pot farm”

Daily Mail

An Ohio mother demanded action on Friday after her two young daughters were removed from their private Christian school because she ‘committed adultery.’

Summer Grant, 30, told WYKC that her daughters – fourth grader Summara and second grader Summaia – have attended the Chapel Hill Christian Schools for years.  Continue reading “Ohio mom learns daughters were banned from Christian private school because she ‘committed adultry’”

CNN

Colombia and Honduras (CNN)Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the United States is soaring, even as the country collapses. And US and other regional officials say it’s Venezuela’s own military and political elite who are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country on hundreds of tiny, unmarked planes.

A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen from about two flights per week in 2017 to nearly daily in 2018, according to one US official. This year, the same official has seen as many as five nighttime flights in the sky at once.  Continue reading “Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine superhighway to the US”

CNN

New York (CNN Business)America has too many stores.

This year, US retailers have announced that 5,994 stores will close. That number already exceeds last year’s total of 5,864 closure announcements, according to a recent report from Coresight Research.  Continue reading “American retailers already announced 6,000 store closures this year. That’s more than all of last year”

Forbes – by Adam Andrzejewski

By many measures, San Francisco is a world-class city. It’s a tourist mecca that boasts 25 million visitors each year. It’s home to wonders of the modern world – the Golden Gate Bridge and its iconic cable cars – as well as powerful progressive politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom, and U.S. Senator (and presidential hopeful) Kamala Harris.  Continue reading “Mapping San Francisco’s Human Waste Challenge – 132,562 Cases Reported In The Public Way Since 2008”

Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he will create a “Robin Hood” institute to return to the people the ill-gotten wealth seized from corrupt politicians and gangsters.

His administration is drawing up a bill to create an independent “Robin Hood” institute “against the corrupt” that would put confiscated goods such as real estate, jewelry and cars into the public’s hands, the president told reporters.  Continue reading “‘Robin Hood’ Mexican president says to return stolen wealth to the people”

The Hill

An average taxpayer is going to have to fork over more than $2,000 this year just to cover their share of the interest on the national debt. It’s a huge sum going purely to finance the spending and borrowing of the past.

At the rate the national debt is rising, interest payments — the fastest growing part of the federal budget — will be bigger than Medicaid by next year and the military by 2025.  Continue reading “Tax Day trauma: Paying for our massive national debt”