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Austria’s government has said that it is closing seven mosques and plans to expel imams in a crackdown on “political Islam” and foreign financing of religious groups. The actions by the government are based on a 2015 law that, among other things, prevents religious communities from getting funding from abroad. Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the residence permits of around … Read More

The U.S. death rate rose last year, and 2017 likely will mark the third straight year of decline in American life expectancy, according to preliminary data. Death rates rose from diseases like diabetes, flu and pneumonia according to numbers posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And full-year data is not yet available for drug overdoses, suicides or … Read More

What a difference 50 years makes. The majority of Americans say in a survey that things are worse off now than 50 years ago. What happened? The Pew Research Center, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., asked nearly 43,000 people in 38 countries around the globe the question, if life was better or worse today than it was 50 years ago. … Read More

The Boy Scouts will reportedly provide condoms at their upcoming World Scout Jamboree. It was revealed just weeks ago that the Boy Scouts of America would be changing its name to reflect that girls and those in the LGBTQI community can now join its ranks. The Boy Scouts will now be known as Scouts BSA. The World Organization of Scouting Movement … Read More

There is outrage over a horrendous Active Shooter video game that lets kids play the role of a gunman on a murder spree at a school. The upcoming game, Active Shooter, lets players choose between taking on the role of a SWAT team member trying to stop an ongoing school shooting — or the role of the shooter themselves. Those … Read More

For the first time ever, the State of Arizona has engaged in a mass migration and care scenario in preparation for a mass exodus of Californians in the event of a catastrophic earthquake. The state started a full-scale, three-and-a-half-day-long exercise to prepare for the event of a catastrophic earthquake causing a massive exodus of people from California. More than 1,000 … Read More

It’s been previously reported that more Americans have died from gunshots in the last 50 years than in all of the wars in American history. Since 1968, more than 1.5 million Americans have died in gun-related incidents, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By comparison, approximately 1.2 million service members have been killed in every war in … Read More

So far this year, it has been deadlier for American students in school than for the American military on the battlefields. More students have been killed in America’s schools so far this year than have been killed while serving in the U.S. military, according to the awful statistics. With the latest school shooting at Santa Fe, Texas, its reported that 31 have … Read More

An Iranian student group has said it will pay $100,000 to anyone who is able to destroy the newly opened U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The hard-line Iranian organization—the Iranian Justice Seekers Student Movement—has distributed posters calling for attacks on the embassy. In English, Arabic and Farsi, the fliers say the group “will support anybody who destroys the illegal American embassy … Read More

Congo’s new Ebola outbreak has spread to a crossroads city of more than 1 million people in a troubling turn that marks the first time the vast, impoverished country has encountered the lethal virus in an urban area. “This is a major, major game-changer in the outbreak,” Dr. Peter Salama, the World Health Organization’s deputy director-general of emergency preparedness and … Read More