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A local council has been ordered to pay damages after taking a week-old baby into care because the father expressed “unorthodox” views about the need to sterilise feeding bottles. A family court judge awarded the couple and their son, who is now 15 months old, a total of £11,250 after ruling that Kirklees Council had breached their human rights and misled a judge in a bid to remove the child from their care. The case, which has cost the taxpayer around £120,000, centered on a couple in their mid-twenties, who cannot be identified. They both suffer from mild learning difficulties...

If We, the People, had wanted Merrick Garland as the next Supreme Court Justice, Hillary would have been elected.

Did anybody attempt to watch the Saggys? My husband and I made it about 10 minutes before the anti-Trump vitriol got to us!

Sorry for the vanity. I have been on Medicare for a few months. I am paying extra for Part B and Part D, and on top of that, my husband is still working, so we are penalized for the 'one person working' situation.

In his victory speech on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s first thought was to thank his father for his astonishing elevation to the job of world's most powerful man. Well he might. Trump had beaten down the door to the White House largely by winning over blue-collar voters, hard up and fed up in modern America. It is a deep irony. Trump's own background could not have been further from those of his constituents. Rather than being the man of the people he claims to be, Trump's was a privileged upbringing. Born in New York in 1946, Trump was still in nappies...

I was so upset by the 2012 results that I ended up in the Emergency Room with high blood pressure.

Dear Mr Trump, please do your best to ignore their insults tomorrow night. Address them, respond to them and then get onto your issues! I have been chastised on FR for asking you to concentrate on the policies you will implement and have been told to watch your rallies on FoxNews. I acknowledge your rallies are inspirational, but most of your rallies are not being seen by the majority of Americans. The Hillary/Pravda Media in this country never put your rallies on their stations. Only those who seek out your rallies see the excitement and enthusiasm. I'm saying your followers...

I just turned off The Five. Dana Perino and her 'apparently Trump said this and apparently Trump said that' just pushed me over the edge.

The dirt that the Clinton campaign manufactures is nothing but a distraction. Deal with it once at your rallies and then get onto the issues! That is your strong suit!

Surprise, surprise, surprise! ABC 15 in Phoenix teased a leak from Ann Kirkpatrick from the document dump. Might you think it would reflect badly on the Dem running to unseat McCain? WRONG! It was an email from 2014, from Kirkpatrick to Podesta, asking for help in her Congressional race against Andy Tobin.

All the Republicans who are coming out against Trump obviously want Clinton to win. We need to send them a message that it is the REPUBLICANS who will be blamed for the continuing destruction of this country. And the Republican elites SHOULD be blamed if there is a Clinton win.

Is anybody watching the new show Designated Survivor? I thought the first show, where nearly everyone in the Fed Government was blown up at the State of the Union address, was pretty much even-handed. Now I am having second thoughts.

Just wondering what the total time speaking/per candidate was. Sure seemed like Holt let Hillary drone on without any time checks.

Will Congress stop Obama? Will we still have a free and open Internet in January, 2017?

The manslaughter prosecution of an optometrist who failed to spot a schoolboy’s fatal condition will spark a culture of fear which will drive up NHS waiting times, a court was told. Honey Rose, 35, failed to notice that eight-year-old Vincent Barker had swollen optic discs - a symptom of fluid on the brain - when she examined him at a branch in Boots in Ipswich. He died five months later. Yesterday Rose was sentenced to a two year suspended prison term and ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service. But her barrister Ian Stern QC warned that the...

PHOENIX (AP) -- The investigation and possible prosecution of metropolitan Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be handled by the U.S. Justice Department after federal prosecutors in Arizona asked to be removed because of unspecified conflicts of interest, according to a court filing made public. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Arizona said in its brief filing Friday in U.S. District Court in Phoenix that the case has been assigned to the Justice Department's criminal division, public integrity section. The filing cited "existing conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflicts of interest pertaining to the matter" for Arizona's federal prosecutors, but...

Controversial South Africa runner gives her gold medal to her adoring wife to look after as she is mobbed on return from Rio Controversial runner Caster Semenya arrived home to South Africa today after her predictably dominant victory in the women’s 800-metre race at Rio 2016. The athlete handed her gold medal to her wife Violet Raseboya after arriving at Johannesburg Airport following the row over her involvement in the Olympics. Semenya, 25, who once had to undergo humiliating gender testing to prove she was female, took gold and set a new national record of one minute 55 seconds. Johannesburg...

I know we haven't much discussed the Olympic races. But I wanted to say that someone diving over the finish line in a track race doesn't seem like it should be a winning play. Shouldn't it be the required that you end the race, standing??

I believe it was Dem Senator Murphy, from Connecticut, that just told Bret Baier to ignore the content of the emails and look into the Russian hack.

<p>CLEVELAND (AP) — They don't like to be called white supremacists.</p> <p>The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland's Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump's speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term "Europeanists," ''alt-right," or even "white nationalists." They are also die-hard Trump supporters.</p>