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HOUSTON, Texas — This school year, Texas taxpayers will likely be on the hook for approximately $45 million to educate the wave of Central American children who entered the U.S. illegally during recent months. Thousands of unaccompanied minors are expected to attend Texas
By John E. Michel, Brig Gen, USAF – Commanding General, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan; Commander, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are
Britain’s newspapers are today filled with stories about Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who resigned from David Cameron’s cabinet this week in a purported response to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. According to her, Cameron’s Conservative Party will lose next
The Tea Party Express is considering backing Silicon Valley Democratic congressional candidate and former Obama trade official Ro Khanna in his race to unseat incumbent Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA17) in one of the most bizarre political races in California. If
HOUSTON, Texas — The death toll continues to climb in the ranch-lands surrounding the South Texas town of Falfurrias. This week, the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office reported the death of a Mexican woman who was discovered less than three days
The article first appeared in The Independent: A hospital in Ontario, Canada, has isolated a patient with flu-like symptoms after the person was revealed to have recently travelled from Nigeria – one of the Ebola-hit areas. The measure is just
The campaign for Scottish independence suffered another blow today after the first official poll conducted since Tuesday’s debate showed that the ‘no’ side has doubled its lead. The Survation poll for the Scottish Daily Mail found that voters who watched
Scottish banks would flee to the rest of the UK is Scotland became independent, according to a report from the National Institute of Social and Economic Research. The report also warns that the new state’s economy could be thrown into
This report originally appeared in The Independent: Christians from the town of Qaraqosh were fleeing today after it was taken by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) on Wednesday night. The town had previously been
This article originally appeared in The Independent: The health care system in Liberia is collapsing as hospitals shut down and medical workers flee from the Ebola epidemic, Liberia’s foreign minister has said. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said diseases such as malaria
At midnight last night, the Department of Health finished its final six-week consultation on whether to implement plain packaging for cigarettes. In response, Simon Clark of the Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST) personally delivered 53,196
The UK Independence Party has won a local council by-election in the southern English town of Worthing, defeating the incumbent Liberal Democrats. The Worthing Herald reports that the election was called after Lib Dem councillor David Potter was expelled for
Last week, Aderemi Ibirogba, Nigeria’s commissioner for Information and Strategy, warned would-be scammers that selling false “Ebola cures” could land them in jail. The threat apparently did not work, as a separate Nigerian government agency repeated the threats and publicly paraded
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow urged President Barack Obama not to grant temporary amnesty and work permits to millions more illegal immigrants via executive action, asserting Obama’s timing could not be any worse for American workers, especially black Americans.
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government tightened control over popular instant messaging services Thursday after telling South Korea access to some foreign services was blocked because they were used to exchange terrorism-related information. The government announced that only established media companies
British government computers were used to disseminate inaccurate information via Wikipedia following a number of high profile cases, according to an investigation by Channel4 News. Edits were made to the Jean Charles de Menezes, Lee Rigby and Damilola Taylor entries on
Major League Baseball’s owners will reportedly vote on August 14 on a new commissioner. The owners choose from MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred, MLB executive vice president for business Tim Brosnan, and former Padres owner and current Red Sox
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, will be forced to be more open to journalists and members of the public under new rules announced today. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles signed an order making it clear that council meetings can
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Caltrans is under siege because of accusations that the agency displayed a lack of transparency and “gagged and banished” engineers who warned of construction problems on the new Bay Bridge eastern section. Another charge leveled
WASHINGTON (AP) — Independent watchdogs from federal agencies decried on Tuesday what they said were Obama administration efforts to delay or stall their investigations. A letter to Congress from dozens of inspectors general cites specific instances in which watchdogs for
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and former UK Chancellor Alistair Darling squared off tonight in a little-watched debate about the future of the United Kingdom. On September 18th, Scotland will go to the polls to decide whether or not to
In what may well be proved to be the first insular act of an independent country, viewers in the rest of the United Kingdom outside Scotland were unable to watch tonight’s live debate on the hot topic of Scottish Independence.
“There’s a kind of romance with Nigeria and [with] bad news,” a Lagos resident tells the Christian Science Monitor. “Are we making Nigeria… from a Boko Haram country to a[n] Ebola country?” The dual threat is on many of the
The Guardian observes that the Common Core standards have dramatically turned into “political poison.” Nicky Woolf writes that the controversial nationalized standards which “at first seemed so harmless” have become a “hot potato” for politicians. “Harmless,” however, means that the
HOUSTON, Texas — Voters in Denton, Texas will go to the polls in November to vote on a proposed fracking ban. The vote follows Denton’s City Council rejection of the proposal earlier this month. Denton sits on top of a large reserve
