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Trump and the Republican debate: Which version of ‘The Donald’ will show up?

Which Donald J. Trump will show up at Thursday night’s Republican debate in Cleveland? There’s the Trump who calls the other GOP candidates “clowns” and responds to criticism with schoolyard insults. Then there’s the Trump who last week tweeted about…

There is no nationwide crime wave (and police killings are not up)

Since 1991, murder and violent crime have plummeted in the U. S. But in a widely discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “The New Nationwide Crime Wave,” Heather Mac Donald recently made a startling claim: “Gun violence in…

Fox News Poll: Only 36 percent think Obama’s policies have helped the economy

It’s a three-way split on the Obama administration’s economic policies. ; The latest Fox News poll finds that 36 percent of voters say President Obama’s policies have helped the economy, 32 percent say they’ve hurt and 30 percent think they’ve…

National Cancer Survivors Day: How you can help scientists find a cure

(Photo courtesy Beth Yorn, creator of Elisabeth Bell Jewelry) Sunday, June 7, is National Cancer Survivors Day. Just when you thought all of the days of the year were taken up by obscure organizations, this day has been around for…

Murder capital: Baltimore’s homicide explosion in wake of Freddie Gray case dwarfs rate of similar cities

The double murder Thursday of a young mother and her 7-year-old boy brought Baltimore’s bloody monthly homicide tally to 38, a figure that dwarfs that of similar-sized cities and even exceeds the total for the same period in New York.…

World Food Program badly mismanaged special donor trust funds, auditors say

June 27: An Afghan man carries a sack of wheat from a UN World Food Programme warehouse. Due to budget constraints, on June 27th the UN announced that it would be force to cut food assistance to more than 3…

Leaked pricing info suggests 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350 will start at $49,955

(Ford) The Ford Motor Company will have a new performance bargain on its hands if leaked pricing information for the new Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 proves accurate. When it goes on sale later this year, the latest Mustang variant will…

Syria now at a ‘dangerous tipping point,’ UN warns

The four-and-a-half-year old Syrian civil war has become an “unsustainable” humanitarian disaster that threatens soon to undermine the stability of neighboring countries such as Jordan and Lebanon, United Nations aid officials are warning. While the world’s wealthier countries this week…

2016 Porsche Boxster Spyder offers 375-horsepower, top-down fun

(AP) Porsche’s hottest Boxster at present is the 330-horsepower GTS but by the end of the year the German automaker will have this baby in showrooms: the all-new Boxster Spyder, making its debut this week at the 2015 New York…

UN peacekeeping and rape: getting better—or worse?

United Nations headquarters in New York. (Reuters) Even as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claims victory in the battle against sexual abuse by members of U.N. peacekeeping missions, a leaked U.N. internal report charges that peacekeepers are likely under-reporting…