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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a major crackdown on the "scourge" after three fatal stabbings were reported in the capital within hours of each other. New measures will see schools given metal detecting "knife wands" and a new community sentence for those convicted of knife possession.

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Pro tip for Netflix users: there is a "movie" called Fireplace and Melodies for the Holidays. It runs 2 hours with Christmas music (instrumental, mostly piano). The crackling fire can also be heard in the sound track. For those of us without a fireplace, it's nice to have on during Christmas festivities.

<p>Throughout the course of the 2016 election, the conventional groupthink was that the renegade Donald Trump had irrevocably torn apart the Republican Party. His base populism supposedly sandbagged more experienced and electable Republican candidates, who were bewildered that a “conservative” would dare to pander to hoi polloi by promising deportations of illegal aliens, renegotiation of trade agreements that “ripped off” working people, and a messy attack on the reigning political correctness.</p>

Full segment of Kellyanne's interview with Jake Tapper. Spend the 15 minutes to admire the skill of Kellyanne Conway. Jake didn't have a chance.

Is this the Wikileaks October surprise we’ve been hearing about for months? Reports are swirling that a BOMBSHELL is set to WALLOP Hillary this Tuesday. The amazing and well-respected reporters from True Pundt put out a tweet alerting everyone to the big news.

The Obama administration is maneuvering to pay health insurers billions of dollars the government owes under the Affordable Care Act, through a move that could circumvent Congress and help shore up the president’s signature legislative achievement before he leaves office. Justice Department officials have privately told several health plans suing over the unpaid money that they are eager to negotiate a broad settlement, which could end up offering payments to about 175 health plans selling coverage on ACA marketplaces, according to insurance executives and lawyers familiar with the talks. The payments most likely would draw from an obscure Treasury Department...

Hillary Clinton is going to be armed with facts, logic and policy chops at tomorrow night’s debate. It’ll be like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Unless Donald Trump has been hitting the briefing books and spending his evenings perusing back issues of National Affairs and The Economist — hey, the man has surprised us before! — it seems unlikely that he will have as many facts and details at his command as Clinton. And it doesn’t matter. Nobody comes out of a debate saying, “Wow, Senator Blutarsky had an impressively detailed answer on how to save 11 percent at...

Police officers have responded to Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud for multiple stabbing victims. The police department says one suspect was taken into custody at Macy's. Investigators responded to the mall around 8:20 p.m. Saturday. The number of possible victims is not known at this time.

Hillary Clinton began a Labor Day rally in Cleveland with a bad cough — which she blamed on her opponent, Donald Trump. “Every time I think about Trump, I get allergic,” Clinton said after some sustained hacking. “Boy, we have 63 days to go,” Clinton croaked, before coughing some more.

Key excerpts: All those who wish to argue that the Saudis donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation out of a magnanimous desire to aid its charitable causes, please raise your hand. Or take the newfound casting of the Clinton Foundation as a champion of LGBTs, and the smearing of its critics as indifferent to AIDS. Are the Saudis also on board with these benevolent missions? And the Qataris and Kuwaitis? ... The reality is that there is ample evidence uncovered by journalists suggesting that regimes donating money to the Clinton Foundation received special access to and even highly...

I apologize for not providing a link - the source will not allow it. But I urge you to search for and read an article by Jeffery Toobin in the New Yorker Magazine called "The Showman", published in May 2016. It is about United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara It is a very interesting profile: He worked for Schumer, is pals with Comey, and has taken down many corrupt officials. But if you take the time to read the whole thing, you'll get a fairly good feeling about the chances of something being made...

The Jennings School District will not hold school Monday and Tuesday in expectation that a grand jury will announce its decision this weekend on whether to indict officer Darren Wilson. Parents in the Jennings district, which includes the eastern edge of Ferguson, will receive automated calls this afternoon notifying them that schools will be closed, Superintendent Tiffany Anderson said. "With the heightened anxiety and activity, we thought it would be better for students and staff to extend the holiday at this point," she said.

As Russian troops and armored columns advance in Eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government begs for aid from the free world it hoped would receive it and protect it as one of its own. The leaders of the free world, meanwhile, are struggling to find the right terminology to free themselves from the moral responsibility to provide that protection. Putin’s bloody invasion of a sovereign European nation is an incursion, much like Crimea — remember Crimea? — was an “uncontested arrival” instead of Anschluss. A civilian airliner was blown out of the sky just six weeks ago –—remember MH17? — and...

State Police activated an Amber Alert for a missing Fitchburg girl on Friday evening. Alize Whipple, 6, was last seen on Wednesday at about 4 p.m. on Normandy Road in Fitchburg, according to police. Whipple is described in a police alert as black with dark hair, about 3-feet-9, and weighing 45 pounds. She was last seen wearing a pink top, pink pants, and pink sparkly shoes, police said. Police believe that Whipple was abducted by her non-custodial mother, Leeanna Wilson, 50, who may cause her harm. Wilson is white with strawberry blonde hair, about 5-feet-5 and weighing 135 pounds, and...

Former UNC President Bill Friday says Andy Griffith died this morning in Dare County. Friday, who is a close friend of the actor, confirmed that to WITN News. Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie confirms to WITN News that an ambulance went to Andy Griffith's home at 7 a.m. this morning. The sheriff says he is checking to get more information on the condition of the person who the ambulance was called for. The 86-year-old Griffith lives on Roanoke Island, not far from the Lost Colony, a play he performed in right after high school. Griffith was born in Mount Airy,...

Rep. Michelle Bachmann is now officially a Swiss miss. Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently became a citizen of Switzerland, making her eligible to run for office in the tiny European nation, according to a Swiss report Tuesday. Marcus Bachmann, the congresswoman’s husband since 1978, reportedly was eligible for Swiss citizenship due to his parents’ nationality — but only registered it with the Swiss government on March 19. Once he did so, Michele automatically became a citizen, too, according to the Honegger.

In a double-barrelled blast at President Obama, Senate Republicans today moved to join a lawsuit challenging the White House’s Christmas “recess appointment” of National Labor Relations Board members even though the Senate was technically in session. To handle their case, they hired Miguel Estrada, who in 2002 became the first-ever judicial nominee to be torpedoed by a Democratic filibuster. “The president’s decision to circumvent the American people by installing his appointees at a powerful federal agency, when the Senate was not in recess, and without obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate, is an unprecedented power grab,” McConnell said....

North Korea said Wednesday that the fuelling of a long-range rocket is under way, ahead of the launch scheduled for later this week despite international protests. "We are injecting fuel as we speak. It has started," Paek Chang-Ho, director of the satellite control centre on the outskirts of the capital Pyongyang, told visiting foreign journalists.

(KUNA)—The White House defended the decision to release USD 1.5 billion in foreign aid to Egypt, on Thursday, following meetings between U.S. officials and lawmakers and representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington.”