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The Stock Market Crash Of 2016: Stocks Have Already Crashed In 6 Of The World's 8 Largest Economies
Over the past 12 months, stock market investors around the planet have lost trillions of dollars. Since this time last June, stocks have crashed in 6 of the world's 8 largest economies, and stocks in the other two are down as well. The charts that you are about to see are absolutely stunning, and they are clear evidence that a new global financial crisis has already begun. Of course it is true that we are still in the early chapters of this new crisis and that there is much, much more damage to be done, but let us not minimize the carnage that we have already witnessed.
Will Genetic Advances Make Sex Obsolete?
Stanford law professor and bioethicist Hank Greely predicts that in the future most people in developed countries won't have sex to make babies. Instead they'll choose to control their child's genetics by making embryos in a lab.
Russia Bombs US-Backed Rebels in Syria
Russian aircraft have dropped bombs on rebels battling Islamic State in southern Syria, including those supported by the United States, a senior U.S. official said.
Hundreds arrested as looting erupts in Venezuela
Dozens of shops were looted in the eastern city of Cumana, the latest flashpoint in a crisis triggered by severe shortages in food and other basic goods.
Pro-ISIS Twitter accounts filled with 'gay' pride
The hacker group Anonymous has reportedly broken into Twitter accounts used by pro-ISIS individuals, and fillEd them with 'gay'- pride messages and images - heavy on the rainbows - in apparent backlash against the shooting murders of 49 at an Orlando LGBT hot spot committed by a radicalized Muslim with a faith-based outrage toward the West's permissive view of the LGBT lifestyle.
U.N. human rights report: Islamic State guilty of genocide, war crimes against Syrians
A United Nations human rights panel on Thursday released a report that concludes the Islamic State terror group has committed and continues to carry out genocide against an indigenous community in Syria -- which includes brutal abuses of men, women and children.
51 diplomats blast Obama policy, call for military strikes on Syria in internal memo
An unprecedented number of current State Department officials have endorsed an internal memo that harshly judges President Obama's Syria policy and calls on the U.S. to attack directly the regime of Bashar Assad.
EgyptAir Flight 804: Black box of crashed plane found, pulled out of sea
Egypt's investigation committee says the cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea.

Israel-Palestinian Conflict
House approves defense aid to Israel despite veto threat
The United States House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $576 billion defense spending bill which includes $635.7 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense programs, despite a threat by the Obama administration to veto the bill, The Jewish Insider reports.
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Egypt, Jordan call on Israel to accept Saudi Initiative
The 2002 Arab Peace Plan is the best path to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Egyptian and Jordanian ambassadors said on Thursday in two rare public appearances in Israel.
Israel to build underground concrete wall to block Hamas tunnels from Gaza
Israel's senior defense establishment has decided that a concrete wall will be built along the country's border with the Gaza Strip in an attempt to finally solve the problem of Islamist terror group Hamas using tunnels to carry out attacks, Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported Thursday.

Inside the United States
Trade Deficit Reaches Highest Level Seen in Seven Years
The trade deficit soared to the highest level seen since 2008, the height of the Great Recession, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
GOP unveils plan to block Obama's executive overreach
House Republicans on Thursday unveiled a proposal that they believe will put the brakes on executive branch overreach and restore the power of Congress to write laws.
Computer crash wipes out a decade of US Air Force data
A corrupted database in the US Air Force's inspector general and legislative liaison divisions has reportedly put more than 100,000 internal investigation records in jeopardy.
Creepy peepers! Target hit with wave of men snooping on teens
It's an alarming trend that may have America's dads and husbands standing watch outside their daughters' and wives' dressing rooms: Barely months after Target announced its plan to let men enter women's facilities, teenage girls and women across America are catching creepy men secretly filming them while they change clothes.
Ellen DeGeneres: Transgender Stingray in Disney's 'Finding Dory'
Disney/Pixar's upcoming film Finding Dory features a transgender stingray who transitions to become 'Sting-Rhonda,' the film's star Ellen DeGeneres revealed in an interview.
California's new motor voter law could add 2 million registered voters in its first year, study says
A new study from the Public Policy Institute of California estimates that, if executed successfully, the state's new motor voter law could add more than 2 million new voters to the rolls in its first year of implementation.
Guns sales spike among gays, lesbians after Orlando terror
One of Denver's oldest firearms dealers said his sales are skyrocketing in the wake of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Attempt to Ban Syrian Refugees
Texas cannot block the federal government from relocating Syrian refugees to the state, a federal judge ruled.

U.S. Politics
Donald Trump prepared to go it alone if GOP won't get on board
GOP leaders have yet to abandon Donald Trump, but the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said this week he's ready to kick them to the curb and go it alone against Hillary Clinton if they don't man up.

Christian News
Chinese Christians hold service in church ruins after brutal demolition
In the midst of negotiations to relocate a government-sanctioned church in China's coastal Zhejiang, a team of officials destroyed the structure without warning on the evening of May 20 under the excuse of improving that area of the city.
Russell Moore Takes on Critics at SBC for Supporting Religious Freedom for Muslims to Build Mosques
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission received criticism from some members of the Southern Baptist Convention at the denomination's annual meeting on Wednesday for filing an amicus brief on behalf of a Muslim group seeking to build a mosque.
People who attend religious services live longer, new study suggests
A new study suggests that people who consistently attend religious services may live longer than those who don't.