There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C. and toppled it for good ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
A report in the Belfast Telegraph Monday says dinosaurs were already on the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that is widely believed to have wiped them out, scientists said.Experts have always believed dinosaurs were flourishing on Earth just before the disaster struck when a huge asteroid or comet hit the planet just off the coast of Mexico, the report said....
Surely, his New York minute trip to the Vatican over the weekend to speak about worker’s rights, climate change and the elimination of nuclear weapons and war, including a meeting with PopeFrancis, was a sharp contrast to Hillary’s $353,000 plate dinner in California with millionaire capitalists to raise more funds for the DNC.The common......
Relief efforts continue in southern Japan following back-to-back strong earthquakes that killed at least 42 people last week and left the country in shambles, the Belfast Telegraph reported Monday.The U.S. military will join rescuers as they redouble efforts for 10 missing people on the southern island of Kyushu, where many area were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage ... The U.S....
Rome • Three Syrian families flown to Rome by PopeFrancis are calling their trip from the battle lines of a five-year civil war to safety in the shadow of the Vatican a “miracle” journey ... That was until the pope’s lightning trip to the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday that drew attenti... ....
MUMBAI ... This include Delhi government's move to switch to odd-even number scheme for vehicles, stringent power norms for emissions from thermal plants and draft regulations to advance the implementation of BharatStage V and VI fuel emissions standards by three years versus the original schedule of 2019 and 2022 ... ....
Ubisoft is gearing up to reveal a "ton of new information" about its swordfighting multiplayer game For Honor at summer gaming shows E3 and Gamescom, according to community developer EricPope. Pope shared the detail in the video above, which announces a special "community reporter" ......
Francis decided only a week ago to bring the three refugee families to Italy after a Vatican official suggested it. With Italian lessons and strolls around Rome, the 12 Syrian asylum seekers Pope Francis brought back with him from Lesbos are settling into new lives, their hosts said on Monday ... “Yesterday they had their first Italian lessons ... Bringing 12 refugees to Italy is ‘purely humanitarian,’ not political, says Pope Francis ... ....
This season, six players from Dollar Academy were selected to the Scotland Under-16 girls’ hockey squad ... Eve Pearson (FormIII captain) was also selected for the training squad ... The boys won the series 2-1 ... Harry Warr (Form VI), Euan McLaren (Form V), Grant Hughes (Form V) and Callum Cruickshank (Form V) were all involved against Wales, Ireland and England, representing their country with some eye-catching performances ... “. ....
For the third time in less than a month, giant UnitedHealth Group is pulling out of an Affordable Care Act insurance market because of huge losses. Two weeks ago, the largest health insurer in the country said that it would discontinue its business in Arkansas and Georgia next year after a year of dismal revenues ...Related. UnitedHealth Makes Good on Threat to Pull Out of Obamacare ... Uninsured Rate by Region in the United States ... The Pope....
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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM GREECE (CNS) -- When an aide suggested PopeFrancis offer to fly some Syrian refugees back to Rome with him, the pope said he agreed immediately because it was 'an inspiration of the Holy Spirit.' ... In the end, he said, 12 Syrians -- members of three families, including six children -- had all the necessary papers from the Greek and Italian governments in time to fly with the pope April 16....