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  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The long-awaited state grand jury report into sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses, including Pittsburgh and Greensburg, has finally been released. The 884-page document, two years in the making, shines a light into the dark corners of these dioceses going back seven decades, exposing the predators and the efforts of their … Read more

Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com It may be beer-time somewhere, but you won’t see one Boston-area mayor sipping on a Massachusetts staple anytime soon. The mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, Joseph Curtatone, is boycotting Sam Adams after co-founder Jim Koch praised President Trump’s tax cut plan at a dinner in New Jersey last week, saying … Read more

Trump’s foreign policy is actually boosting America’s standing. A story is supposed to have  two sides, but there is only  one when it comes to President Trump’s foreign policy. Most American media treat his every effort as a savage assault on a harmonious world order. Whether it’s the trade dispute with China, his pushing North … Read more

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Identifying the Real Haters on Campus. While radical feminism in the 1960s called for challenging existing gender roles and abolishing what the feminists saw as the pervasive patriarchy that permeated social institutions, churches, politics, and schools, today’s radical feminists call for the elimination of men. In an offshoot of the #MeToo movement, … Read more

ZEBULON, NC (WTVD) — A Wake County man was sentenced to four months in prison for illegally voting in the 2012 and 2016 elections. Roberto Hernandez-Cuarenta, 57, of Zebulon, was convicted on two counts of voting by alien. Although Hernandez-Cuarenta is a legal resident of the United States, the native of Mexico is not a … Read more

via CNSNews: Members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees will return to Washington on August 28 to hear what Bruce Ohr, a high-ranking Justice Department official, has to say about his connection to the Steele dossier, which apparently launched the Trump-Russia investigation. Ohr’s wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Christopher Steele to produce … Read more

via sfgate: California law strictly limits interest rates on loans of less than $2,500, and sets no numerical ceiling on interest for higher loans. But rates on loans for $2,500 or more can nevertheless be so oppressive — or “unconscionable” — that they violate the law, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a class-action suit … Read more

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1029339254030299136 What we have witnessed in Emerging Markets is simply a continuation of what we saw with Equity Vol and very briefly in Italy. It is also the part of the same thing as the Crypto and Chinese equities corrections. The Unwind is underway. Markets are beginning to normalize. — Paranoid Bull (@paranoidbull) August 13, … Read more

via dailywire: On Monday, President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a bill authorizing an increase of over 15,000 troops as well as a long-overdue pay raise for soldiers. The military spending package includes $717 billion for national defense in the next fiscal year, according to the White House. The additional soldiers will be … Read more

by Randy_Newman1502 A popular idea that has taken root in people’s imaginations is that “Glass-Steagall” would have “saved” the United States from the vagaries of the financial crisis. My objective here is to argue that it would have done no such thing. Now, I fully understand that it is extremely difficult to argue a counterfactual (what would have … Read more

by ARIZaL_ McDonald’s bun are made in Ontario, California.. but 14.4 million buns per week using “a handful of workers” so if we say wow man, that must be employing 30 workers at minimum wage, and we double their salary.. that’s an $8,700 increase across 14.4 million buns.. that’s a cost increase of $0.0006 per bun. See, … Read more