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On the stump, the Florida senator craves liquid refreshment — just don't serve it in a stemmed glass.

The leaked document outlines how the terror group is trying to build a state complete with guidelines for education, natural resources, industry, diplomacy, propaganda and the military

Here's a surprising result: Republican Janice Frey Van Ness won a special election runoff Dec. 1 in Georgia's 43rd state Senate district. The surprise is that this is a district whose population is 61 percent black and voted 72 percent for Barack Obama in 2012. It covers suburban territory southeast of Atlanta, including most of Rockdale County, a small part of DeKalb County and part of Newton County. This is an area of rapid population growth, with a growing population of middle-income black homeowners. Does this mean that middle-income blacks are trending Republican? Maybe, maybe not. Van Ness undoubtedly benefited from local ties: a small business owner and found of a private school, she was elected to the Rockdale County Board of Commissioners in 2006 and 2010. Turnout was low and she probably benefited from personal ties. But it does suggest that in the post-Obama years more black voters than in the past may be willing to give serious consideration to Republican candidates.

Monsanto is being placed on trial by a consortium of international companies, including the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto and dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups. Monsanto, known for the toxic chemicals it has produced and used on the world including PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), one of the 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) that affect human and animal fertility, 2,4,5 T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), a dioxin-containing component of the defoliant, Agent Orange, which was used by the US Army during the Vietnam War, and Lasso, an herbicide that is now banned in Europe, will be put on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment in October of 2016. The most recent and biggest global health scandal involves Monsanto's Roundup, which has been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization.  The toxic herbicide has been linked to devastating health conditions throughout the world and traces of it are found throughout the food chain. Based on the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, a document created by the UN in 2011, the group of international lawyers will determine the level of criminal liability placed on Monsanto for damages inflicted on human health and the environment. “Monsanto is able to ignore the human and environmental damage caused by its products, and maintain its devastating activities through a strategy of systemic concealment: by lobbying regulatory agencies and governments, by resorting to lying and corruption, by financing fraudulent scientific studies, by pressuring independent scientists, and by manipulating the press and media,

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Presidential candidates Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are demanding a halt to immigration from Muslim nations with jihadist movements.

Pastor Darrell Scott, who leads a large black evangelical congregation in Cleveland, is hoping black voters will give Donald Trump a chance.

By Theodore Shoebat An American Muslim man of Jordanian descent tried to hijack a German plan and crash it down, screaming “I want to meet Allah,” but luckily a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian men from Serbia took him down and beat him up. He first knocked on the door and tried to get inside, …

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivered an unexpected message on Sunday to the several hundred people gathered at a Baptist church in Georgia for his Bible lesson - his latest brain scan showed no sign of cancer.

White House officials expressed alarm about anti-Islamic rhetoric on the campaign trail.

Since the draft’s inception, women have not been required to register. All of that changed overnight with the Pentagon’s decision, which of course created an immediate, new legal problem: now women have access to all the same positions that men do, but under current Selective Service laws, they do not [...]

Jerry Brown claimed pro-Second Amendment laws in other states were a "terrorist back door" to events like the San Bernardino terror attack.

Under a feeble sun trying to clear a morning rain, Heidi Cruz hopped out of her rental car — coincidentally a Chevrolet Cruze — and headed for the Virginia elections office. To round out the sharp edges of her husband’s image as a hard-nosed, no-compromise, scowling tea party conservative that many mainstream Republicans — notably former boss George W. Bush — find downright unlikable. Despite her own hard-charging career as an investment banker, Ted Cruz’s petite, 43-year-old wife has become one of the most visible spouses in the race. Rounding out the picture of a happy family often is the job of a supportive political spouse extending the reach of the candidate. [...] the Cruz charm offensive is more nuanced, given her husband’s role as a party rebel. Heidi Cruz — a Bush administration veteran, Harvard MBA, with a graduate degree from the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium — is more modern career woman than traditional housewife. With her blond hair brushed straight back, Cruz was all business in a prim white cardigan over form-fitting black slacks and 2-inch heels. “Heidi is a perfect example a woman can do what she has been gifted to do by the Lord,” said Callie Chaplain, a Virginia campaign volunteer who brought her four home-schooled children — one of them carrying a toy hand grenade — to see the candidate’s wife. The Christian sense of calling has been central to Cruz since her childhood in Africa with her missionary parents, Seventh-Day Adventists who bequeathed to her the vegetarian diet of their faith. “She feels called to do what she’s doing in support of her husband,” said Georgia GOP activist Kay Godwin, who has done several campaign events with Heidi Cruz. In the intimate setting of the Confederate general’s parlor, Cruz talked up the ideological underpinnings of the campaign and the strength of a conservative grass-roots army that could make victory possible. How they dated only six months before they decided to marry; how he struggled to ask her father for her hand in marriage; how he always has been surrounded by strong women, from his Cuban Aunt Sonia, to his mathematician mother, to his career-driven wife. The picture also goes contrary to his critics’ view of him as a self-centered politician of overweening ambition and ego. The presentation in the Stewart-Lee House was met with collective “awwws” and laughter — precisely the desired effect for a meticulously planned campaign where Heidi Cruz is an increasingly important asset. Heidi Cruz parlayed her campaign experience into a prestigious job as an assistant to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, right-hand man to Bush family consigliere James Baker. [...] when then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offered Ted Cruz the post of state solicitor general, he decided to take it, putting the newlyweds in a long-distance, Washington-to-Austin relationship. Haley, one of her lifelong mentors, described Heidi Cruz as ambitious, but singularly clear-eyed, grounded, and practical. The officer, finding that she wasn’t drunk or on medication, decided she nevertheless was a “danger to herself” and gave her a lift from the highway. “I wouldn’t describe it as stress so much as it was just a transitional period for me where I had to figure out how God would use me in this next chapter,” she said.

In interviews, speeches and in stealthier ways, Mr. Rubio has abruptly changed the course of his campaign to zero in on Mr. Cruz and reverse his gains among conservative voters.

Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were working late at night in their garage and receiving numerous packages to their home in Redlands, California, neighbors said.

HOUSTON, Texas — Presidential candidate Ted Cruz issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s remarks from the Oval Office tonight: “On December 7, 1941, in response to Pearl Harbor, FDR did not give a partisan speech, rather he called on Americans to unite and ‘win through to absolute victory’. “If I am elected President, I will direct the …

Senator Ted Cruz is the best candidate to change Washington's reluctance to fight Islamic Supremacism.

The anti-immigration party received at least 29.4 per cent of the votes and won six out of 13 areas in the regional election's first round less than three weeks after the Paris terror attacks.

Ted Cruz Vows to 'Destroy ISIS' and 'Shut Down Broken Immigration System' Letting in Jihadists

Linda Stasi

In Fisher v. University of Texas, a Supreme Court majority appears ready to strike down affirmative action.

There are no less than 13 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination who would like to see a big hole poked in the balloon of front-runner

The BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from Kisweh in Syria about what daily life is like there, on the day the UN is expected to request a record sum to help Syrians as part of its annual appeal

Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a c

"If you want a cause—want to get on a bandwagon—then get these guns outlawed, and do something about the Second Amendment."