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U.S. stocks held session highs thanks to a bounce in crude oil on Monday. Prices moved above $31 on renewed hopes over a production freeze between Russia and key members of OPEC. The S&P 500 and Dow moved out of correction territory. U.S. manufacturing activity in February slowed to its lowest level since October 2012. The data highlights recent weakness in the sector as a higher U.S. dollar dampens overseas demand. Weight Watchers (WTW) shares pulled back from Friday's rally on news a favorable academic study had been funded by the company. The study released on Friday suggested adults with prediabetes benefited from weight-loss programs such as Weight Watchers. Fox'…

Vote is on Thursday June 23, 2016 I personally want to be OUT. The EU is a quagmire.

The United States Department of Justice files a motion to compel Apple Inc. to comply with a FBI phone used by an attacker in the 2015 San Bernardino attack. In a stinging rebuke of Apple, federal prosecutors contended Friday that the company was “not above the law” and could easily help the government unlock a terrorist's smartphone without undermining anyone else's privacy.

WASHINGTON — Russia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States. Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open Skies Treaty, which allows unarmed observation flights over the entire territory of all 34 member nations to foster transparency about military activity and help monitor arms control and other agreements. Senior intelligence and military officials, however, worry that Russia is taking advantage of technological advances to violate the spirit of the t…

Amazing story of a US Air Force pilot who ejected from aircraft and the aircraft maned to recover from dive and land in a corn field.

Scientists have discovered a link between people who own cats and the development of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, and believe a parasite may be to blame. In a study published in the journal 'Schizophrenia Research', experts wrote that cat ownership is “significantly more common” in families where a child is later diagnosed with "schizophrenia or another serious mental illness”, the Huffington Post reported. By analysing a previously unused questionnaire of from 1982 filled in by 2,125 families that belonged to the National Institute of Mental Illness, scientists discovered that 50.6 per cent of people who developed schizophrenia owned a cat in chil…

Tweety Says His Dad "Suspected" FDR ALLOWED Japs To Bomb Pearl Harbor To Suck Us Into War! Ironically my father used to say the same thing. Anyone have any evidence on this?

Kalamazoo County, Michigan authorities say last evening's shooting spree resulted in six deaths with two others seriously wounded. Each victim was shot multiple times. Police acknowledge that an earlier report that a 14-year-old girl died is incorrect; she is alive, but "severely, gravely" injured. The suspect, a 45-year-old man who is a Uber driver without a prior criminal record, was taken into custody without a struggle.

A judge has ordered a religious order, the Clercs de St. Viateur du Canada, and the church-run Montreal Insitute for the Deaf to pay $30 million to a group of former students who were sexually assaulted by priests, making it the largest settlement for sexual assault in Quebec history. At least 60 deaf students were assaulted by members of the religious community and lay people working at the school between 1940 and 1982. The school changed its name to the Institut Raymond-Dewar in 1984. The judgment brings to an end a long and painful process that began with the authorization of a class action suit in 2012. Represented by Robert Kugler, of the firm Kugler K…

I can't do everything but I'll do anything for youI can't do anything except be in love with you. Dire Straits.

hi, how do i post a topic in the general discussion/chat forum. I hit on start new topic and wrote, submitted but it only posted to my profile and not the place I wanted. Ta Alison

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Myrtle Beach | A South Carolinian family made headlines today after giving birth to twins and naming them Donald and Trump. The birth of the twins occurred this morning at Grand Strand Medical Center, only hours before South Carolina’s Republican voters will show up to the polls across the state to cast ballots in the GOP’s third presidential nominating contest. “We weren’t planning on naming them after Donald Trump at first, but it is clearly a divine sign that our next president shows up in our state on the day my little sunshines are born” explained Latifa Huxley, proud mother of the two. “Donald Trump is a bright, wealthy, successful man with strong moral v…

the-watch-tower-1865-edition.pdf The Watch Tower 1865, published by J.F. Shaw & Co., for the proprietors of “The Watch Tower”, 158 Fleet Street, London. Sold at all booksellers and railway book stores during the mid to late 1860′s. This volume of The Watch Tower was first published on March 29, 1865, for the benefit of learned members of the Anglican Church. Some highlights include the poems “On The Watch Tower” (page 167) and “The Light-Bearers” (page 279). This volume was not published or produced by the Watch Tower Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses/Bible Students) or any of their predecessors. The Watch Tower volume of 1865 (417 pages) has been re…

Denny Hamlin wins the 2016 Daytona 500 by 0.011 seconds, the closest margin in the history of the race, and the 13th-closest in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history

Australia issues a security alert, warning that terrorists may be planning attacks in and around the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. It also recommended that Australians avoid travel to the coastal region of eastern Sabah, where the beaches and islands are popular with foreign tourists.

Thousands protest outside the Japanese parliament in Tokyo against the relocation of a U.S. military base on Okinawa Island. Residents cite noise, pollution, and crime as reasons for not wanting a new base built.

According to Indian Police, at least one person is killed and up to 20 people injured during, what became violent, protests by the Jat agricultural community in Rohtak, India, for a 10 percent increase in the number of their caste quota (affirmative action).

A group of rebels exchange fire with Indian Armed Forces forces for the second consecutive day in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, India. At least five soldiers and one civilian have been killed.

Twin bomb blasts hit the Syrian city of Homs with at least 62 people reportedly killed and more than 100 injured. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility.

At least 60 people are killed in a series of bombings in the Damascus suburb Sayyidah Zaynab, Rif Dimashq Governorate. ISIL again claims responsibility.

Your dream tech store has arrived: the Samsung 837. The new addition to the Samsung family includes everything from a VR tunnel to a selfie station. The store opens at 837 Washington Street in Manhattan's Meatpacking District on Feb. 22nd.

Alix Steel reviews Wal-Mart's fourth-quarter earnings report. (Source: Bloomberg)