Despite the fallout of Pizzagate (as it’s come to be known) that resulted in an armed man entering Comet Ping Pong in search of alleged child sex slaves, MacWilliams said she has no regrets.“I really have no regrets and it’s honestly really grown our audience,” she said.James Alefantis, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, felt differently. In a statement on the restaurant’s Facebook page on Monday, he wrote, “I hope that those involved in fanning these flames will take a moment to contemplate what happened here (Sunday), and stop promoting these falsehoods right away.”

Even without El Niño, 2015 would have been a record warm year, but climate scientists believe El Niño was responsible for 8 percent to 10 percent of the warming.

No sooner had the fifth graders in Jennifer Ellison’s reading class finished watching a series of videos about empathy than they came to her with an idea. They had noticed that when Ellison directed students to pair off and read with a partner, one student in particular, who is autistic, became anxious in the face of social pressure. "My class realized, we need a plan so that he feels comfortable," Ellison says. "That’s a lot of insight for 10-year-olds." They proposed a sticker-based system whereby reading partners are randomly assigned on a rotating basis. Now, Ellison says, "He doesn’t have that anxiety," because someone is always proactive about asking to read with him. A small change, perhaps, but a rewarding one for teachers like Ellison who entered the profession hoping to instill values like compassion and respect. And it was all precipitated by a short series of five-minute videos created by the education startup ClassDojo.

His complaint: Journalists accurately reported what Trump said. “This is the problem with the media. You guys took everything that Donald Trump said so literally,” Lewandowski said. “The American people didn’t. They understood it. They understood that sometimes — when you have a conversation with people, whether it’s around the dinner table or at a bar — you’re going to say things and sometimes you don’t have all the facts to back it up.”

When my research assistant Daniel Taylor contacted John Fund and asked about the source of the fact that eight of the hijackers were registered in either Florida or Virginia, John Fund indicated that he obtained the fact from an interview with then-Assistant Attorney General Michael Cherthoff. Taylor then contacted the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, the Counterterrorism Section, and Voting Section, and no one knew about the claim. At the suggestion of these offices, Taylor filed a FOIA request. He also repeatedly called the Department of Homeland Security (Cherthoff is now Secretary of Homeland Security), but so far no has responded to Taylor. Taylor also contacted the former Virginia Secretary of the Board of Elections, Cameron Quinn. Quinn indicated that she was unable to confirm or deny that the September 11 hijackers were registered to vote in VA. She was familiar with the claim, and indicated that they looked into it while she was Secretary of the Board of Elections. However, they had a difficult time getting from federal officials the actual names of the hijackers, their Social Security numbers (which is how they usually look up registrations), or their actual voter registration numbers. As a result, she believes that her agency was never able to prove or disprove that any of the 9/11 hijackers registered to vote in Virginia. Taylor’s calls to the Florida Secretary of State have not yet been returned. [This note will be revised as more facts come in].

(Fund told me that the information came from an interview with Michael Chertoff, now Secretary of Homeland Security, while he was a Justice Department official. Fund suggested that Chertoff’s statement may have come from secret information. Two academics–Spencer Overton of George Washington University and Lorraine Minnite of Barnard–have been unable to confirm the “registered hijacker” claim with election officials.)

At least eight of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.

After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote.

Some people are taking the Supreme Court’s decision in the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case very seriously, including this Muslim-owned craft store in Dearborn, Michigan. The arts-and-crafts store has taken the ruling to mean that they can demand their Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves to work. 

According to recent reports, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

, a Muslim-owned arts and crafts store in Dearborn, Michigan has started forcing female Christian employees to wear traditional Islamic headscarves while on the lock.

Some Chinese media outlets have unfortunately fallen in the latter group. Guangzhou-based 21st Century Business Herald has become the second such victim in months to be mercilessly duped by the “mysterious Western art of satire”. The newspaper, one of China’s leading business newspapers, was fooled after it reported on the the Currant's Krugman story, on Sunday, on Chinese social media platform Weibo, with the headline (in Chinese): “Krugman, Nobel laureate, files for personal bankruptcy”.

The Washington Post has erroneously reported that Sarah Palin, the former vice presidential candidate and former Fox News contributor, is joining the Qatari-owned news network Al Jazeera.

What’s more, Barkeley likes to think his site tackles larger issues. He said he came up with the idea to start the site after he read “a hit piece on a hypothetical 12-year old” in The Onion “I read that article and as soon as I read that article, I said, ‘now wait a minute, I think I can do better than this,” he said.

The site has taken on liberals who Barkeley views as extremists, as well as conservatives he views that way. A sampling of recent headlines from The Daily Currant demonstrates he’s an equal opportunity offender:

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Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides. If Jill Stein follows through as she has promised and pursues recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, we will take the same approach in those states as well. We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states — Michigan — well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount. But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.

BREAKING! Hillary Calls For Recount!

As was previously observed from Trump’s meeting with Mexico’s president Enrique Peña Nieto, when you have Trump threatening to challenge the status quo with others on the world stage- you know he means business. Perhaps that is why Abe described Trump as being a leader he can trust, because he has respect for a strong and competent leader like Trump who puts the interest of his country first –  and not the potential relationship with foreign interest (however much it may involve Japan).

Although Trump's advisers had since tried to undo some of the ill-feeling, saying that campaign rhetoric was not to meant be taken literally, some damage had already been done, which Abe was now trying to repair, according to Kingston. "Many people in Asia think the Americans are unreliable allies," he said. "Trump has reinforced that perception. He has also introduced a lot of uncertainty into diplomacy in a region where there is a lot of tensions, so I think Abe is there to show there is solidarity."

“Alliances cannot function without trust. I am now confident that President-elect Trump is a trustworthy leader,” said Abe, describing the talks as “candid” and held in a “warm atmosphere”.

Black Friday violence breaks out across America

In New Jersey and Nevada, determined shoppers turned the annual rush lethal.

At 6:05 p.m., just after Walmart doors opened, two drivers attempted to pull into the same parking space. In the ensuing argument, one driver allegedly pulled a gun on the other, shooting him outside the store. The victim, an unnamed 33-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooter allegedly fled the scene, leaving his victim behind in the Walmart parking lot.

The Clinton campaign has remained mum about any potential recount or election audit; Hillary Clinton herself urged unity after the surprising results of two weeks ago. But since Clinton made her concession speech November 9, her lead in the popular vote has ballooned; she's now ahead of Donald Trump by over 2 million votes. Trump won the election by doing well in the Electoral College, sweeping the South and notching shocking wins in the three states Stein wants recounted.

Perry said several passengers in first class booed, complaining that it was "baloney" and that they paid first-class fares.

made an announcement for passengers to remain seated to let a "special military family" deplane first.

"One example would be Donald Trump speaking badly about a gold star family, who I now am, and it also bothers me that people don't want to talk about the terrorism that killed my kid," he said.

Stewart Perry is a former Marine. His son, Sgt. John Perry, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Most of Perry’s criticism was aimed at the left, though, which leads us to believe he still supports Trump who calls out radical Islamic terror and is highly critical of those sitting during the national anthem. Trump is supported by many other Gold Star families who met with him in August.

Stewart Perry was in the first class section, and when the captain made the announcement, others in the section began “booing and hissing.” “Some people were saying ‘This is just baloney,’ and ‘I paid for first-class for this?’ ”

“People all over the country have been flooding my office with calls, telling my staff of horror stories about being harassed and intimidated by poll workers,” Obama told reporters. “Many have even said that they were flat out denied entry into the voting booths to cast their ballots if they were wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt or other signs showing support for her as President. This was especially bad in areas of Florida and North Carolina where there are high numbers of Latino and African American voters. We must investigate these claims. The margin of victory is too close to call, and the outcome of this election is too important. There is just too many legal challenges in too many states to just call this a victory for Trump.”

concerns of thousands of voters across the country who said that they were prevented from casting a ballot on election day,

Following the results of Tuesday night’s election, President Obama has signed Executive Order 13805, which orders a full recount of all votes cast in the election and calls for a special election to be held on December 19th.

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1964 and 2012, youth voter turnout in presidential elections has fallen below 50 percent

The youth job market appears to require ever more preparation to secure increasingly meager wages.

Astroturfing is is nothing new during campaign season, nor is it something that has never been attached to the Clinton campaign. But aside from unsourced screenshots, no information emerged to substantiate the April 2016 claims of coordinated or paid harassment of Sanders supporters on social media.

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