The Oregonian – by Lizzie Acker

Updated: 2:17 p.m.

A Springfield woman was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with two counts of reckless endangerment after multiple drivers reported a car towing three children — her 2-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son and 8-year-old nephew — in a small, plastic red wagon going around a busy roundabout multiple times during rush hour.

Police were not initially aware of the third child and a third charge is now pending.   Continue reading “Oregon woman arrested for towing kids in a wagon behind her car”

Campus Reform – by Adam Sabes

The University of California, Berkeley will soon add “laser hair removal” and “fertility preservation” to the list of “transgender student services” covered by its student health insurance plan.

According to The Daily Californian, the two new services will be officially added on August 1, complementing existing services for transgender students that are already covered, including “gender confirmation (reassignment) surgery,” “breast augmentation (MTF top surgery),” “female to male top surgery,” “hormone therapy,” and more.   Continue reading “UC-Berkeley adds ‘laser hair removal’ to student health plan”

MEE – by Lubna Masarwa

Three Palestinians were shot dead and four others wounded as thousands of Palestinian worshippers clashed with security forces on a “day of rage” over Israeli control of Islam’s third-holiest site. Israel’s army said a family of three Israeli settlers were stabbed to death and a fourth was wounded in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Neve Tsuf on Friday.

Mohammad Sharaf, 17, was reportedly shot by an Israeli settler in the Ras Alamood area in East Jerusalem. Mohammed Hassan Abu Ghannam, 19, died of wounds in al-Makassed hospital after he was shot by an Israeli settler in East Jerusalem. Footage on social media shows Ghannam’s body being carried over the hospital gate by Palestinian paramedics and protesters.   Continue reading “Al-Aqsa dispute leaves three Palestinians, three Israeli settlers dead”

Reuters

TORONTO, July 21 (Reuters) – The number of asylum seekers walking across the U.S. border into Canada rose in June after dropping in the previous two months, according to government figures released on Friday.

There were 884 refugee claimants who crossed the border between formal crossings and were picked up by Royal Canadian Mounted Police last month, bringing the total for the first half of 2017 to 4,345, the data showed.   Continue reading “Flow of asylum seekers crossing into Canada from U.S. rises in June”

Dallas Morning News – by James Raglan

Less than five miles from Dallas City Hall — in a South Dallas community that’s home to mostly black and Latino residents — rests a three-quarter-acre tract of land where at least 55 Confederate soldiers are buried.

Not many people know it’s there.

Located at the corner of Electra and Reed streets, right off Malcolm X. Boulevard, the cemetery’s been there for more than a century.

This also happens to be one spot Dallas officials are looking at as a potential location for the Robert E. Lee statue now in Oak Lawn’s Lee Park and the Confederate War Memorial in Pioneer Park Cemetery downtown.

Continue reading “Talk of removing Confederate monuments starts a war of words in Dallas”

NPR – by Jeff Brady

NPR reporters are returning to their hometowns this summer to find out how they’ve changed – from job prospects to schools and how people see their community and the country.

Once home to thriving timber and fishing industries, Gold Beach, Oregon now subsists on tourists and retirees looking for a quiet beach, a nice river trip and, in a few cases, marijuana.   Continue reading “As Log Trucks And Fishing Boats Leave, Gold Beach Tries To Remake Its Identity”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: We know where this is going. In case you forgot, “Welcome To 2030. I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, And Life Has Never Been Better“. Globalization is taking over regardless of what politicians may tell you.

A ceremony to break ground on a U.N. global education center, initiated by former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, was held at Handong Global University in the country’s southeastern port city of Pohang on Tuesday, with Ban attending.   Continue reading “UN’s New Global Education Institute Breaks Ground Promising “Peace, Development, Human Rights””

Corbett Report – by James Corbett

They walk among us. On the outside. they’re just like you and me, but on the inside they are unfeeling automatons who care only for themselves. They are the psychopaths, and they are in control of our governments, our corporations, our military and all of the positions of power. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we delve into Political Ponerology, a diagnosis of our politicians and a brief look at the bigger picture.   Continue reading “Our Leaders Are Psychopaths”

Sputnik

Israel’s Health Ministry has moved to shut down all smoking rooms in public buildings, except for certain medical and mental health facilities.

To address the public health effects caused by smoking, the Parliament’s Drug Abuse Prevention and Labor, Social Affairs and Health Committees are also supporting legislation that will allow lawsuits totalling NIS 40 billion against tobacco companies operating in the country.

Continue reading “Israeli Health Officials Move to Ban Smoking in Public Places”

Pivotal Point – by Jon Markman

Next time you get a traffic ticket, there’s a bot for that.

The artificially intelligent software defends drivers against traffic tickets – and wins often. And it’s now available in all 50 states.

However, the larger implications are more exciting. Something big is happening.   Continue reading “A.I. for the defense: Bot beats traffic tickets”

New York Post

CHICAGO – Cancer patients’ gray hair unexpectedly turned youthfully dark while taking novel drugs, and it has doctors scratching their heads.

Chemotherapy is notorious for making hair fall out, but the 14 lung cancer patients involved were all being treated with new immunotherapy drugs that work differently and have different side effects. A Spanish study suggests that may include restoring hair pigment.   Continue reading “How my cancer treatments turned back time”

Patch – by Simone Wilson

EAST VILLAGE, NY — Joseph Rago, 34, a prodigious Wall Street Journal editorial writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his smart takedowns of Obamacare circa 2011, was found dead Thursday night in his East Village apartment at 10 St. Mark’s Place, near Third Avenue, according to the NYPD.

Rago’s editor at the newspaper asked police to check on him after he didn’t come into work Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported.   Continue reading “Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer, Found Dead In Manhattan At Age 34”

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