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President Donald Trump said Friday he would not give Apple a waiver for Mac Pro computer parts made in China. “Apple will not be given Tariff wavers, (sic) or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China,” he wrote on Twitter. “Make them in the USA, no Tariffs!” Apple had requested the Office of U.S. Trade Representative to exempt their company from a proposed 25 percent tariff on computer parts from China.

Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s longest-serving prime minister on Friday, and he is favored to win the next elections in September. But the outcome is still uncertain. On Sunday, the President tweeted: “Congratulations to Bibi @Netanyahu on becoming the longest serving PM in the history of Israel. Under your leadership, Israel has become a technology powerhouse and a world class economy….” He continued: “….Most importantly you have led Israel with a commitment to the values of democracy, freedom, and equal opportunity that both our nations cherish and share!” Netanyahu quickly thanked Trump for his support, tweeting, “Thank you, President Trump, for your warm words,...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. The war of letters began when 22 countries penned a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning China's treatment of Uighurs and "other Muslim and minorities communities." The letter in defense of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang was signed by France, Germany, Canada, Sweden and 18 other, mostly Western and European, countries. The case of the missing Muslim signatories was solved when the People’s Republic of China fired back with its own letter signed...

The lawyers for a man suing a local abortion clinic are now asking the judge to deny the clinic’s request to drop the lawsuit. Ryan Magers filed a lawsuit in February against the Alabama Women's Center in Huntsville for performing an abortion on his former girlfriend. Two years ago, Magers and his then girlfriend were expecting. He said wanted to have the baby, but his ex-girlfriend chose to have an abortion. This led to Magers filing a lawsuit suing the abortion clinic, its employees, and the pharmaceutical company that supplied the medication. Magers’ lawyers are arguing that because the fetus,...

Joe Scarborough should keep a lookout for a thank-you card from Mitch McConnell. Because the last time someone tried to hang an unflattering moniker on the Senate Majority Leader, it flopped so badly that Mitch actually fundraised off it! Readers will remember Don Blankenship, failed candidate for a Senate seat from West Virginia, bizarrely attempting to brand McConnell "Cocaine Mitch." McConnell had fun with it, selling lots of Cocaine Mitch T-shirts. And when Blankenship got blown out in his primary, McConnell tweeted "thanks for playing" in response, accompanied by a photo of himself that our eagle-eyed Curtis Houck noted was...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KFTA) — Fayetteville’s Planned Parenthood closed its doors today (July 25). Thursday was the last day patients were seen. All medical-abortion services were suspended two weeks ago. The decision to close this clinic coming after challenges, including protests and safety concerns for patients and staff. Court documents say this clinic has been struggling to find a new location in northwest Arkansas. Nearly 2,000 patients are seen at this clinic each year, providing a range of sexual and reproductive health services.

In September of 2017, Equifax announced it experienced a data breach, which impacted the personal information of approximately 147 million people. A federal court is considering a proposed class action settlement submitted on July 22, 2019, that, if approved by the Court, would resolve lawsuits brought by consumers after the data breach. Equifax denies any wrongdoing, and no judgment or finding of wrongdoing has been made.

As we anticipated when Kliff Kingsbury arrived in the NFL, the tidal waves of multiple wide receiver sets arrived with him. And it took only one training camp practice to see where this is going. Count on three wideouts, then four with regularity. Count on defenses stretched and flattened from sideline to sideline. Count on Cardinals running back David Johnson working in space and receiver Larry Fitzgerald being fed and fed and fed some more. Count on run-pass options, pass-pass-pass options (if there were such a thing) and options that are dreaming up other options as you read this. But...

“Then a scribe came and said to Him, ‘Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.’ Jesus said to him, ‘The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head’” (Matthew 8:19–20). There is no record that the eager scribe ever counted the cost of discipleship. When considering various costs such as self-denial, homelessness, and maybe suffering, the man disappears. No doubt Christ’s words struck where he was most vulnerable, and he could not overcome loyalty to himself and his comfort. Jesus never watered down the gospel...

LIVE: Symposium at The Wall from the US-Mexico Border Day 1 RSBN is LIVE from the 'We Build the Wall' Symposium from the border! There will be a series of speakers and panels to help raise money to continue wall construction. Guest speakers include Brian Kolfage, Steve Bannon, Sheriff David Clarke, Congressman Tom Tancredo, Angel parents Mary Ann Mendoza and Steve Ronnebeck, and many more!

Growth decelerated in the second quarter, but not by as much as Wall Street thought, as tariffs and a global slowdown weighed on the U.S. economy, the Commerce Department reported Friday. GDP increased 2.1%, down from 3.1% from the first quarter, and the weakest increase since the first quarter of 2017 when President Donald Trump took office. Dow Jones Q2 estimates were for 2% growth. However, the underlying numbers in the report seemed to take steam out of the recession fears that have been much of the talk among economists and policymakers at the Federal Reserve. “The recession talk was...

A top U.S. Border Patrol official on Thursday testified that Francisco Erwin Galicia, an 18-year-old American citizen who was detained by immigration services for more than 20 days, did not tell officers he was from the U.S. "I can give you some prelim: individual came through the Falfurrias checkpoint, he came through with the other illegal aliens, the individual claimed to be a Mexican national who was born in Reynosa, Mexico," Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement at the U.S. Border Patrol, told the House Judiciary Committee. "Throughout the process, and while he was with Border Patrol, he claimed to...

A persistent fantasy among those of us in aviation—or vintage cars, or motorcycles, or boats—is to find the pristine, never-used object of our passion stored away in a barn somewhere, just awaiting discovery and sale at a cheap price. It does happen from time to time, although the pristine part is a stretch. Tom Reilly may own the mother of all barn finds in the Merlin engine he located for his XP82 Twin Mustang restoration that’s gathering admirers in droves here at AirVenture this week. When I was shooting this video on it, I could hardly believe the story. The...

A couple years ago one of the most famous transgender women in the world, Caitlyn Jenner, shocked many observers when she spoke about voting for Donald Trump and identifying as a Republican. Turns out, that might not have been as far-fetched as it first seemed, even if she has since revoked her support of Trump. A recently published large-scale study on LGBTQ political identities has produced some surprising results, finding transgender men and women tend to be “significantly less liberal” than cisgender men, straight men, and others in the LGBTQ community. A trans man is someone who was born female...

The View has become more toxic than ever and morale among staffers is at an all-time low - and it's all due to Meghan McCain, insiders have exclusively told DailyMail.com. The 34-year-old conservative is at the root of discord behind the scenes at ABC's long-running daytime talk show, earning her the nickname 'Manic McCain!' by producers for her inappropriate outbursts on screen and off. McCain's spats with co-host Joy Behar, including calling her a b***h on live TV and accusing Sunny Hostin of leaking negative stories about her, have reached such a boiling point that group Hot Topics meetings have...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Trey Gowdy. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Trey Gowdy was a former member of Congress, and is known for his prosecutorial style of questioning during Congressional inquisitions. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom...

As they closed in on the summit, defending champion Geraint Thomas thought he detected something. He told his teammate Egan Bernal it was time to shake up this race. So Bernal took stock of his legs, glanced at his rivals and made a break for it. The move worked better than Thomas expected—just not for him. By the end of the stage, Bernal had picked up over half a minute and leapfrogged into second place overall. What makes the difference between a winning attack and a waste of energy is knowing how to read which riders are feeling wobbly—and knowing...

When does a progressive activist become a regressive obstructionist? When they are called to testify before a legislative committee about what was going on — or not going on — in the back room of the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Quincy. That is where boxes of unopened alert notices of outof- state driving violations remained unprocessed for months, maybe years, including the commercial driver’s license for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, the trucker who is accused of allegedly killing seven motorcyclists in a crash in Randolph, New Hampshire last month. Had the RMV acted when it was required to do so, Zhukovskyy...

The key political partnership of the Millennial left was born over noodles. Saikat Chakrabarti met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Potjanee, a Thai restaurant near his apartment in the West Village, in March 2017. She was looking to get into politics; he was helping fund people getting into politics through the Justice Democrats, the progressive political action committee he’d co-founded that year.

The number of women seeking post-abortion counselling at the largest dedicated sexual health clinic in Cork more than doubled last year compared with 2017, according to its annual report. The Sexual Health Centre, which has operated in the city for more than 30 years, provided 157 sessions of post-termination counselling last year, compared with 77 in the previous year. Some of those coming for counselling had abortions up to 20 years ago, said director of services Catherine Kennedy. “For us there were a number of things happening last year where people really opened up a lot more about crisis pregnancies,...