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Record-breaking, historic, even Biblical — that’s how many are describing the scale of flooding in the Midwest, where thousands of people in Iowa and Nebraska have been forced to flee their homes. In a region that’s no stranger to rising floodwaters, a perfect storm of melting snow, “bomb cyclone” rain and climate change conspired to push these floods over the top. As of Monday, 100 river gauges in the Midwest…

President Trump’s Twitter attacks on the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., over the weekend — including his retweet of one supporter who explained that she “hated” the late senator — invite the question: Why does Trump harbor such a special hatred for the long-deceased McCain? Well, Trump would suggest it’s three factors. First, there’s McCain’s transmission of the so-called Steele dossier to the FBI. Compiled by Christopher Steele, the former…

The details of the Christchurch massacre against hundreds of Muslims in two separate mosques are still unfolding, but as at least one of the terrorists had planned, their motives, immortalized on the Internet, are clear. The alt-right, disparate but dangerous, wants a race war. The shooter left behind a manifesto ridden with a number of red herrings, inserting polarizing diversions to distract from the fundamental motivation of fear: the white…

The 2020 presidential primaries are already shaping up to be a bloodbath. And at this point, only former Vice President Joe Biden and unemployed former Rep. Robert Francis O’Rourke seem to get the long-game — that there’s still more to go after the primaries are over. The JV team of contenders have already let the far-left cajole them into endorsing the Sen. Bernie Sanders-backed Medicare For All Act that would…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Airlines Flight data recovered from the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines jet showed “clear similarities” to another deadly crash of that top-selling Boeing aircraft last October, according to the French accident investigator that downloaded the information. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8, went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. That crash occurred…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Airlines Flight data recovered from the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines jet showed “clear similarities” to another deadly crash of that top-selling Boeing aircraft last October, according to the French accident investigator that downloaded the information. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8, went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. That crash occurred…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Airlines Flight data recovered from the wreckage of an Ethiopian Airlines jet showed “clear similarities” to another deadly crash of that top-selling Boeing aircraft last October, according to the French accident investigator that downloaded the information. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8, went down shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. That crash occurred…

“We think there is just one perpetrator, but we cannot exclude the possibility of there being several perpetrators,” Mr. van Zanen said. A gunman reportedly fled the scene after the attack, and might have escaped in a car. Heavily armed police had assembled outside a building near the site of the attack. The police were looking into the carjacking of a red Renault, which was stolen before the attack and…

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It’d be great if reporters stopped handing President Trump ammunition for his attacks on the press. Reuters’ Joseph Menn, for example, discovered prior to the 2018 midterm races that former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, was a member of the infamous Cult of the Dead Cow hacking group in the 1980s. As a contributor to the group, the former congressman penned a whole lot of deeply weird and poorly aged fiction…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that found that the owner of a Hawaii bed and breakfast violated a state anti-discrimination law by turning away a lesbian couple, citing Christian beliefs. The justices refused to hear an appeal by Phyllis Young, who runs the three-room Aloha Bed & Breakfast in Honolulu, of the ruling that she ran afoul of Hawaii’s…

A safety analysis of a new software program that was installed on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft reportedly had crucial flaws. Boeing is facing scrutiny over the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a software program that was created to help its new planes avoid stalling in mid-air. The 737 MAX was developed to be more fuel efficient and compete with a popular model released by Airbus, but its bigger engines gave…

A safety analysis of a new software program that was installed on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft reportedly had crucial flaws. Boeing is facing scrutiny over the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a software program that was created to help its new planes avoid stalling in mid-air. The 737 MAX was developed to be more fuel efficient and compete with a popular model released by Airbus, but its bigger engines gave…

A safety analysis of a new software program that was installed on Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft reportedly had crucial flaws. Boeing is facing scrutiny over the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), a software program that was created to help its new planes avoid stalling in mid-air. The 737 MAX was developed to be more fuel efficient and compete with a popular model released by Airbus, but its bigger engines gave…

Shibani Mahtani March 18 at 6:58 AM WELLINGTON, New Zealand —  Some rushed to their trusted online dealers and stores to stock up on semiautomatic assault-style rifles. Others unlocked their secure cabinets, picked up their firearms and turned them in to police stations, no questions asked.  The estimated quarter of a million gun owners across this largely quiet, peaceful South Pacific country, many of them dedicated hunters, are bracing for…

Video The violent deaths of multiple Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play The violent deaths of multiple Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play, while police say the deaths have nothing to do with the 2014 protests. The sometimes-violent deaths of a half-dozen men linked to the 2014 protests that rocked Ferguson, Mo., including two found in burning cars and three who…

If former Vice President Joe Biden runs in 2020, his newfound wealth could give his Democratic and GOP opponents an opening to attack him as disingenuous, or at least less than advertised. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images 2020 Elections The former VP on the brink of a likely presidential campaign has done quite well financially since leaving office in 2017. By HOLLY OTTERBEIN and MARC CAPUTO 03/18/2019 05:01 AM EDT “Middle-Class…

Nick Sifuentes was stuck in traffic. “Driving into the most transit dense area in the U.S., that’s a choice people make. I made that choice today and I’m regretting it,” the executive director of the Tri-State Transit Commission (TSTC) told NBC News as he made his way into the New York City last week. But Sifuentes takes his remorse one step further than average commuter. “I should pay for my…

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