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• Scouting Ireland board to resign amid rape claim controversy

  The Irish Times | 6/24/2018 | Staff

  

  The entire board of Scouting Ireland is expected to stand down to be replaced in October as part of a major governance overhaul. The organisation is in the middle of a controversy over their...

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• 30 years a priest, 60th birthday – a priest’s first real Solemn Mass! Wherein Fr. Z rants.

  wdtprs.com | 6/24/2018 | View all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →

  This is the season of First Holy Masses. For example, on Saturday 30 June, I will be helping as Assistant Priest with the First Mass of a newly ordained priest to be celebrated in the presence of...

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• Bye bye, boarding pass: US airport launches first-ever security checkpoints that scan your face

  Washington Examiner | 6/24/2018 | by Anna Giaritelli

  

  No wallet. No boarding pass. No phone. No problem. Americans are just a few years away from being able to show up at the airport with nothing but a suitcase in hand.

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• Millions of people flocked to Manhattan for New York's annual LGBT Pride March — here are the best photos

  Business Insider | 6/24/2018 | Matthew Michaels

  

  The 49th annual New York City LGBT Pride March was held in the streets of Manhattan on Sunday. The rainbow-colored spectacle to honor members of the LGBT community and celebrate strides in LGBT...

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• Mad Max is OUT OF CONTROL! She Just Declared ‘Open-Season’ on ALL Trump Officials

  truthfeednews.com | 6/24/2018 | Amy Moreno

  

  Liberals are so out of touch with the American people…Not to mention, they also think we’re all stupid. Democrats and the fake news media are revving up their attacks over the so-called “crisis” at...

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• Bringing the heat out of the city

  phys.org | 6/18/2018 | Staff

  

  Heat waves are increasing worldwide—and that includes Switzerland. Cities in particular suffer as a result: the temperature difference between city and countryside can amount to several degrees.

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• Flashback: Bill Clinton Ordered Early Morning Raid To Seize Immigrant Child at Gunpoint

  Conservative Tribune | 6/23/2018 | Benjamin DeKraker

  

  The American people may be tired of hearing from the Clintons, but it looks like Bill hasn’t gotten the memo. Earlier this week, the 71-year-old former president added his hoarse voice to the...

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• The 30 Best Romantic Comedies You Can Watch on Netflix This Summer

  POPSUGAR Entertainment | 6/23/2018 | Stacey Nguyen

  

  There's nothing better to do on a scorching Summer day than to find an air-conditioned refuge and curl up with a feel-good romantic comedy. With a Netflix account, you'll be able to experience...

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• Throwback: Destroyed Angel Wings

  Church Stage Design Ideas | 6/15/2018 | Staff

  

  They repurposed materials from previous designs for this stage design. They cut the leftover Coroplast into 2″, 3″, and 4″ wide strips of varying lengths and stapled them diagonally to black 2″x4″...

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• As If They Weren't Heroines Already, Meryl Streep and Cher Saved a Woman From an Attack

  POPSUGAR Celebrity | 6/23/2018 | Tori Crowther

  

  If you didn't think you could admire Cher and Meryl Streep anymore than you already do, think again, my friend. Cher visited The Late Late Show With James Corden and shared a story that will turn...

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• Tommy Robinson’s Last Stand

  Sparta Report | 6/23/2018 | Staff

  

  Tommy Robinson’s imprisonment and the events that followed show just how swiftly Britain has become Sharia-compliant. The country has already submitted to its dhimmi status within Islam even though...

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• Filipino bishops hesitant about priests seeking gun permits

  Catholic News Agency | 6/23/2018 | Staff

  

  Manila, Philippines, Jun 23, 2018 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After three priests were murdered during the last six months, Philippine officials say they have received gun carry permit applications...

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• Pink women-only parking spaces appear in Saudi Arabia ahead of the country lifting its female driver ban

  Mail Online | 6/23/2018 | Daily Mail Reporter

  

  Pink women-only parking spaces have been set up across Saudi Arabia as the country prepares to lift its ban on female drivers. Thousands of women will take the wheel tomorrow as the conservative...

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• The Church of Animal Rights

  Washington Free Beacon | 6/23/2018 | Nic Rowan

  

  BY: Nic Rowan NEW YORK — As I exit the church this Sunday, I leave behind the day of rest to enter the new evangelism. Form - Protest - Crawl - Pilgrimage - McDonald It presents itself in the form...

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• ‘Gunsmoke’ Actor, Military Vet James Arness Dies at age 88

  www.usni.org | 6/22/2018 | Staff

  

  James Arness, a World War II veteran beloved by millions for his iconic portrayal of Marshal Matt Dillon on the long-running Western TV series “Gunsmoke,” died June 3 after a long illness.

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• 'I will kill Donald Trump.' Former Kentucky officer indicted over social media posts. | Lexington Herald Leader

  kentucky | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  President Donald Trump had his life threatened by a former Kentucky police officer now facing federal charges, according to an extensive criminal complaint. Former Bowling Green police officer...

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• WOUNDED VETERANS REAP THE BENEFITS AFTER CONGRESSIONAL PICNIC IS CANCELLED

  dailycaller.com | 6/22/2018 | Staff

  

  Food from the cancelled Congressional picnic made its way to the tables of America’s wounded service members on Friday. The perishable foods — including a number of steaks that had been grilled...

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• Tom Arnold’s CNN Interview is a Mind-Boggling Trainwreck: ‘I Am Not F-ing Around’

  www.mediaite.com | 6/22/2018 | Tamar Auber

  

  On Friday, Tom Arnold sat down with CNN’s Poppy Harlow to discuss his claims that he plans to team up with former President Donald Trump personal lawyer to “take down” the president.

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• Throwback: A Ghostly Cross

  Church Stage Design Ideas | 5/31/2018 | Staff

  

  They constructed the windows and mosaic cross for their Easter services. They made the three windows from 4mm acrylic sheeting cut to size and framed with cheap MDF to support them an add a subtle...

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• Rhode Island Legalizes Sports Betting, Gets 51 Percent Of Revenues

  www.oann.com | 10/30/2014 | Staff

  

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo signed a $9.6 billion budget for fiscal 2019 on Friday that legalizes sports betting and gives the state 51 percent of the revenues from the...

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• Dutch company Vormvrij unveils new LUTUM 4 ceramic 3D printer

  3ders.org | 6/22/2018 | Staff

  

  Netherlands-based ceramic 3D printing specialist Vormvrij has unveiled LUTUM 4, its latest clay-extruding 3D printer. The first Prototype of the LUTUM v4 was showcased at Fabcon+RapidTech fair in...

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• Croatian Media Hail ‘Fairytale’ Win Over Argentina

  www.oann.com | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia’s euphoric media ran out of superlatives as they hailed the Balkan nation’s stunning World Cup win over Argentina which propelled them into the competition’s knockout...

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• Indonesia Court Sentences Islamic State-Linked Cleric To Death

  www.oann.com | 6/22/2018 | Staff

  

  JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death an Islamic State-linked cleric for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world’s largest...

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• Floating islands project expands on water quality research to study pollinator plants

  phys.org | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  Islands have returned to Lake LaVerne. The sustainable environments interdisciplinary graduate program's floating islands research project is back on Iowa State University's landmark lake for the...

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• Italy to seize NGO rescue ships as migrant row deepens

  BBC News | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  Italy said it will seize two migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean, amid a deepening row over migrants. Two German NGO ships carrying migrants "will be seized" to determine their legal status.

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• Check Your Privilege: 'Marvel's Cloak & Dagger' Claims 'This Whole Country's Trying to Kill' Black People

  NewsBusters | 6/23/2018 | Staff

  

  Freeform is known for having its overblown, progressive teen dramas, so Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger using the phrase “check your privilege” only mildly annoyed me.

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• Italy to Impound Dutch-Flagged Humanitarian Ship

  gCaptain | 6/21/2018 | Reuters

  

  By Steve Scherer and Angelo Amante ROME, June 21 (Reuters) – Italy appeared to relent on Thursday after at first refusing to accept 226 migrants on board a German charity rescue ship, saying later...

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• A 30,000-Foot View of the Old Testament

  ChurchLeaders | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  If you’ve ever taken an Old Testament survey class in college or seminary you know that after 13 weeks you feel like you’ve tried to take a drink from a fire hose.

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• Canadian utility makes blockchain firms bid for their electricity

  www.theregister.co.uk | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  One of Canada's largest utilities is planning to make blockchain companies bid for access to electricity. Hydro Quebec says it will set aside a 500MW block of power that will be reserved for...

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• First Lady Tours Detention Facility for Illegal Minors in Texas

  CNS News | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  (CNSNews.com) - First lady Melania Trump, along with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, toured a detention facility on Thursday in McAllen,Texas, where illegal immigrant children are...

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• VW whips out its wallet, makes it rain on solid-state battery tech

  Roadshow | 6/21/2018 | Kyle Hyatt

  

  Most of the major players in the electric vehicle game are in a race to develop solid-state battery technology, since it will give the victor a massive advantage in weight and power density.

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• Netanyahu Wife Charged with Fraud in ‘Gourmet Meals’ Affair

  Breitbart | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  The Times of Israel reports: State attorneys filed an indictment against Sara Netanyahu Thursday for alleged misuse of some $100,000 in state funds. Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and State...

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• Summer Arrives – Greenland Continues To Gain Ice

  realclimatescience.com | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  The bad news keeps piling up for Arctic alarmists. Sea surface temperatures around Greenland are record cold. Climate - Alarmists - Greenland - Everything Meanwhile, climate alarmists continue to lie...

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• Stonehenge built using Pythagoras’ theorem 2,000 years BEFORE philosopher's birth

  Express.co.uk | 6/21/2018 | Staff

  

  Many assume that cavemen built the monumental megalith in Wilshire, but new evidence suggests that brainiacs could have been behind the building of Stonehenge. A new book titled Megalith has...

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• Shaping a Prayer Legacy

  ChurchLeaders | 6/20/2018 | Staff

  

  Did you realize that a woman who took part in influencing the history of Christianity in modern western society is someone you’ve likely never heard of? She lived in the rural village of Epworth,...

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• Portland ICE facility to remain closed on Thursday as protest continues

  KGW | 6/19/2018 | Staff

  

  PORTLAND, Ore. -- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Southwest Portland will be closed again on Thursday as a protest outside the building continues.

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• China Says Will Maintain Normal Relations With Iran

  www.oann.com | 2/10/2012 | Staff

  

  BEIJING (Reuters) – China will maintain normal relations with Iran, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng made the comment when asked at a regular news...

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• Oil Prices Dip As Iran Signals Support For Small OPEC Supply Increase

  www.oann.com | 9/15/2015 | Staff

  

  SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Thursday as Iran signaled it could be won over to a small rise in OPEC crude output, likely paving the road for the producer cartel to agree a supply...

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• T. rex, most dinosaurs couldn't stick out their tongues

  CNET | 6/20/2018 | Amanda Kooser

  

  Nope. The designers behind the Jurassic World Legacy Collection Extreme Chompin' Tyrannosaurus Rex action figure might need to go back to the drawing board. The tongue-waggling toy is a little...

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• Liberals Call Marine Veteran’s Tattoo “Nazi Symbol.” His ICE Employer Responds.

  Conservative Firing Line | 6/20/2018 | Staff

  

  Talia Lavin, a Harvard-educated “fact checker” for The New Yorker Magazine, erroneously tweeted that a Marine Veteran’s tattoo was a Nazi symbol. ICE issued a crushing statement to all of the...

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• A La Carte (June 20)

  Tim Challies | 6/20/2018 | Staff

  

  Today’s Kindle deals include a whole collection of excellent Puritan works (and more). What Makes a Translation Accurate? Bill - Mounce - Question - Answer Bill Mounce answers the question.

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• Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred

  Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath | 6/20/2018 | Staff

  

  I still recall when I first spotted a first very early mention of Richard Grigg’s forthcoming book Science Fiction and the Imitation of the Sacred. I shared a link, commenting on how interesting it...

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• Feed raises $17.4 million for its Soylent-like food products

  TechCrunch | 6/20/2018 | Romain Dillet

  French startup Feed is raising a $17.4 million funding round (€15 million) from Alven and Otium Brands. Feed has been selling meal replacement products in Europe and now plans to expand to other...

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• Could your Google Home leak your location to hackers?

  USA TODAY | 6/19/2018 | Edward C. Baig

  

  Google is preparing to plug a potential privacy leak with its Google Home smart speakers and Chromecast television devices that could reveal your location. The vulnerability was discovered by the...

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• General Electric gets booted from the Dow

  CNNMoney | 6/19/2018 | Staff

  

  GE changed our lives. Why is it struggling? For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average. S - P - Dow - Jones - Indices S&P...

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• Little girl, 12, who lost her leg to cancer performs sensational dance routine

  Mail Online | 6/19/2018 | Danielle Zoellner For Dailymail.com

  

  A 12-year-old girl who lost her leg to cancer defied all odds and performed a sensational dance that saw her doing pirouettes and back bends across the stage. In 2014, Valory Newton was diagnosed...

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• Flexible blue vertical micro LEDs

  ScienceDaily | 6/18/2018 | Staff

  

  Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his team have developed a low cost production technology for thin-film blue flexible vertical micro LEDs (f-VLEDs).

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• Derek Hunter Calls Out ‘Diabolical’ Media Trying to ‘Prevent Rational Thought’ on Immigration

  NewsBusters | 6/19/2018 | Staff

  

  As the Media Research Center has documented over the past several days, the liberal media’s coverage of President Trump’s immigration policies have been incendiary, hyperbolic, and out of control.

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• N.Korea Offers to Remove Long-Range Artillery from Frontline

  english.chosun.com | 6/18/2018 | Staff

  

  North Korean delegates at cross-border military talks in the truce village of Panmunjom last Thursday offered to move their long-range artillery pieces from the military demarcation line to rear...

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• Observational Evidence Reveals Regional Arctic Sea Ice Was Thinner In 1955 Than In 2015-’17
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  Climate Depot | 6/18/2018 | Marc Morano

  

  According to a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the observed mean thickness of the sea ice in the region north of (Arctic) Svalbard was substantially thinner (0.

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