Associated Press SAN DIEGO – A Southern California fence-building company and two executives pleaded guilty Thursday to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and agreed to pay a combined penalty of $5 million. The executives could also go to prison. The penalty is one of the biggest fines ever imposed in an immigration case, and the case [...]

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Jerusalem Post Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to carry out another genocide aimed at destroying the State of Israel, head of Israel’s Holocaust center said Thursday. The remarks by Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev were the most severe public comments to date on the Iranian nuclear threat by the head of Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and [...]

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Associated Press NEW YORK — Wall Street resumed its fourth-quarter rally Thursday, pushing the Dow Jones industrials to a new record and its first close above 12,400 after a series of strong company earnings and a drop in unemployment claims revived investors’ confidence in the economy. The market, which stalled earlier this week on interest [...]

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Toronto.ctv A Toronto judge has ordered a Christmas tree out of a downtown provincial courthouse lobby, saying it’s not an appropriate symbol to non-Christians. The move by Justice Marion Cohen has upset staff, some of whom call the decision stupid and insulting. Cohen says she understands the small tree has stood in the lobby at [...]

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by Melanie Morgan (WND) When the nuclear-obsessed North Korean government got angry about the pro-American antics of John Bolton, they threw a temper tantrum during which they called Mr. Bolton “human scum.” The derisive remark about Bolton was way off the mark; John Bolton has been one of the world’s greatest champions for freedom and [...]

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Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — A Washington State University assistant professor who used a vulgar racial term during a heated political dispute with Republican students was “immature” and “thoughtless,” but his actions did not constitute discrimination, a new report concludes. John Streamas has also called WSU a “racist university” and contended that some say WSU [...]

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ABC News  Find a penny, pick it up, and all day you’ll have good luck. Find a penny, melt it, and you could get locked up. Effective today, the U.S. Mint has implemented an interim rule that makes it illegal to melt nickels and pennies, or to export them in mass quantities. With the soaring [...]

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Herald News, Illinois JOLIET – The school board for an elementary district has chosen to have a student home schooled instead of expelling him in response to a possession of a gun incident. The board at Troy Elementary School District made that decision Wednesday night after administrators recommended an expulsion. On Nov. 15, the boy [...]

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Christian Newswire The Nov. 25 deadly police shooting of 23-year-old Sean Bell, a black man, who was shot while trying to run over an officer outside a Queens New York strip club, has outraged Rev. Al Sharpton and other black leaders. But, prominent black minister and author Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is questioning the silence [...]

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MichNews Professor Krister Stendahl, New Testament, taught us in our first class that fall that the virgin birth was a myth; therefore, there was no need studying it seriously. Stendahl, ordained Lutheran pastor, eventually became Dean of HDS. He is still alive, living in Cambridge with his wife, I believe. The two became quite famous [...]

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BosNewsLife / Worthy News Two Christian pastors, who had been found guilty in Australia’s Victoria State of “vilifying Muslims”, have had a ruling in their favor Thursday, December 14, from the Court of Appeal. Three judges of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria set aside the orders given by a judge [...]

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By J. Grant Swank, Jr. (MichNews) Most Americans accept Dan Brown’s novel, “The Da Vinci Code,” as a novel and not historically accurate, according to a poll commissioned by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, per Baptist Press’ Mickey Noah. Brown presents Jesus married to Mary of Magdala with the couple [...]

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London Daily Mail She is the ultimate predator – a sleek and stealthy killer. Pouncing on her prey, she silences the baboon with one swipe of a vicious paw. Then, suddenly, something stirs in the dead animal’s fur, and the law of the jungle is rewritten. • GALLERY: Jungle queen becomes mother From the bedraggled [...]

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King James Version “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” New International Version On the last [...]

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