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The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world. Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the fleeting moment, in which one of the Indonesian island's critically endangered apes stretched out its hand to help a man out of snake-infested water.

“The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons.” – Anonymous While the left is busy demonizing President Trump for his remarks about the MS-13 gangs who enter our country illegally through the porous southern border, Congressional members, working against the safety interests of the American people and cheered by the leftist media and half of the voting population, are doing their best to stall, defund, and vilify any effort by our president to build a border wall and to deport the illegal criminal elements who are already in this country and have committed atrocious crimes. As Diane Feinstein...

SNIPPET: "Literature that is required reading for ICNA members and that is provided at its conferences prominently features a host of radical scholars and an ideology that casts the practice of Islam as incompatible with the West. As members advance into deeper stages, they are required to master more strident texts, ICNA bylaws show. In addition, the group's extremism, which has included glorifying the death of another young Muslim American convert in a Pakistani jihad, and its admitted links to the radical Pakistani organization, Jamaat-e-Islami, continue unabated. Jamaat-e-Islami has pledged itself to conquering all spheres of human life, including economic,...

New York police are searching for the owner of a severed human hand that dropped from the sky on to the deck of a boat. The incident happened near the Lawrence Village Marina, on Long Island, where parties were taking place on a number of craft. Police said the human hand mysteriously dropped out of the sky and hit the deck of one of the boats, says the New York Post. Nassau Detective Sgt. John Azzata, said: "One owner was in the cabin when he heard a noise, goes out to check and finds the hand on the rear deck...