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Posted at 12:50 pm on July 6, 2017 by streiff Amelia Earhart, perhaps as no other missing person, has captured and held the imagination of the public over a span of decades since her disappearance over the South Pacific in 1937. There are three main theories about her disappearance. There are lots of other theories. One is that she lived out her life as a New Jersey housewife named Irene Craigmile Bolam. In my view, 1 and 2 are the frontrunners.

Posted at 6:30 pm on July 6, 2017 by Susan Wright This is insane. How long before Trump’s vendetta against the media culminates in violence? Even in Europe for the G20 Summit, the president couldn’t resist taking a shot at the media. Last week, Trump’s utter lack of maturity or decency was put on display, when he tweeted out a meme from a Reddit user that showed Trump attacking someone with the CNN logo over their face. The outrage that followed was quickly surpassed by CNN apparently tracking down the creator of the meme and (maybe) threatening to reveal his actual i

Posted at 7:20 pm on July 6, 2017 by Teri Christoph Linda Sarsour is a darling of the American left. She helped organize the Women’s March last January, despite having decidedly un-feminist history that includes praising sharia law, failing to denounce the practice of female genital mutilation, and tweeting that two female anti-Islam activists didn’t “deserve to be women” and should have their vaginas taken away. A real class act, that one. Not to mention Sarsour’s rather questionable alliances with CAIR and her friendships with members of Hamas.

Posted at 8:00 pm on July 6, 2017 by Teri Christoph MedStar Washington Hospital Center issued an update on Steve Scalise’s condition today, and it wasn’t great news. The hospital had downgraded Scalise’s condition from “fair” to “serious” yesterday due to concerns over a possible infection; Scalise was also readmitted to the ICU prior to his surgery.

Posted at 8:30 pm on July 6, 2017 by Brad Slager   I’m not a corporate raider, but maybe devaluing your company by becoming an embarrassment of frequent foibles during a merger is ill-advised? It was a tough Independence Day for CNN, the Nation’s foremost news organization.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda ripped "fake news" reports that his wife snubbed President Trump for a handshake during Trump's visit to Poland on Thursday. In a tweet, Duda confirmed that both he and his wife shook hands with the president, and urged his followers to "fight fake news" together. "Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit," he wrote Thursday evening.

WASHINGTON — The casting call came early — the first of many unwelcome interruptions for Kamala Harris since November — consuming the Los Angeles nightclub where she was supposed to be celebrating an uncomplicated Senate victory. With the polls closed in nearly every other corner of the country, the giant TV above the dance floor left little doubt: Donald J. Trump was almost certainly going to be president.

WASHINGTON — The casting call came early — the first of many unwelcome interruptions for Kamala Harris since November — consuming the Los Angeles nightclub where she was supposed to be celebrating an uncomplicated Senate victory. With the polls closed in nearly every other corner of the country, the giant TV above the dance floor left little doubt: Donald J. Trump was almost certainly going to be president.

More than two million marriages take place each year in the United States and, increasingly, they are uniting people of different races and ethnicities. Today, according to the Pew Research Center, one in six newlyweds in the United States is involved in a mixed marriage. That is a fivefold increase from 1967, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the decision that made interracial marriage legal across the nation.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — On the first day of summer, two days before the release of his new album, “Grateful,” the hip-hop producer DJ Khaled was sitting in a powder room in his mansion here: a turreted affair across the street from the home of Slash, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist.