AG Sessions: Chicago ‘Proudly’ Violates ‘Rule of Law’ and Protects ‘Criminal Aliens’

Christian News Service (CBS)

In response to Chicago’s lawsuit against the Justice Department regarding federal funds for sanctuary cities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Chicago follows a policy that protects “criminal aliens who prey” on residents and that the Trump administration will not “give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens.”

Sessions added that Chicago’s policies were “astounding” given the city’s “unprecedented violent crime surge.” In 2016, there were 788 homicides in Chicago and 4,368 shooting victims.

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Is Hillary Clinton Pursuing a Career in Ministry?

Christian Headlines

Former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is reportedly considering going into the ministry and becoming a pastor.

This may come as a surprise to many since, as RelevantMagazine.com notes, Clinton is widely perceived as not being religious.

Nevertheless, she has a long history of being involved in the Methodist Church. She has reportedly been considering a career in the ministry for more than 20 years.

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Seriously? How many of you believe that? How many of you would support her decision? Why or why not? The Ponder wants to know. Leave your comments below in the comment section.

President Trump: North Korea 'Will be Met With Fire & Fury the World Has Never Seen'

Christian Broadcasting Network

President Donald Trump delivered a strong message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday after reports surfaced that the rogue nation can put nuclear warheads in ballistic missiles.

"If North Korea makes any more threats, they will be meet with fire and fury the world has never seen," the president said, sitting at a table with his advisors.

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Farmers recycle millions of pounds of plastic

Cedar Rapids:Gazette

Minnesota and Wisconsin farms generate 60 million to 80 million pounds of plastic each year but until now had no real options to recycle it. They had to make a choice of paying for it to go to a landfill, burying it on their own land or illegally burning it — none of them, they knew, good for the environment.

An Arkansas company has come up with a solution: In the past two years, it has given more than 4,400 dumpsters to farmers in the two states and then picked up the waste to turn into trash bags that are being used in parks locally.

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American College of Pediatrics reaches decision: Transgenderism of children is child abuse

BizPac Review

The American College of Pediatricians issued a statement this week condemning gender reclassification in children by stating that transgenderism in children amounts to child abuse.

“The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.”

The policy statement, authored by Johns Hopkins Medical School Psychology Professor Paul McHugh, listed eight arguments on why gender reclassification is harmful.

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Illinois: Gov. Rauner signs law allowing 16-year-old organ donors

Crystal Lake:Northwest Herald

If you're old enough to drive in Illinois, you're now old enough to be an organ and tissue donor.

Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a law Tuesday authorizing 16- and 17-year-olds to join the statewide registry .

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Report: US assesses NKorea can fit nuke inside a missile

Carmi:Times>

North Korea may have successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, passing a key threshold in becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, according to a Japanese defense paper and a U.S. media report.

The U.N. Security Council this weekend slapped its toughest sanctions yet on North Korea over its latest test of a ballistic missile that could be used to deliver a nuclear weapon. Despite the rapid tempo of these tests, uncertainty has lingered over the isolated nation’s ability to couple such a missile with a nuclear device.

Those uncertainties appear to be receding.

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Omaha officers involved in mentally ill man's death ‘will no longer be employed by the city’

Conyers:Rockdale Citizen

Two Omaha police officers who were involved in the June death of an unarmed, mentally ill man will stop working for the city today.

The police labor contract bars the city from releasing disciplinary information in most cases, so Assistant City Attorney Bernard in den Bosch didn’t say whether the officers had been fired.

But he said Thursday: “As of tomorrow morning two officers will no longer be employed by the City of Omaha.”

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Free access to tampons gains national political traction

Colorado Springs Gazette

A topic that for so long was rarely discussed above a whisper has recently been taken up by growing numbers of lawmakers.

Spurred by grass-roots activism aimed at lifting the stigma surrounding menstruation, the lawmakers are proposing measures to provide broad access to menstrual products for women. Their efforts include exempting tampons and pads from state and local taxes, compelling prisons to stop charging inmates for the supplies and making them available for free at public schools and workplaces.

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LaMalfa defends health care reform, president’s policies at ‘spirited’ town hall

Chico Enterprise-Record

Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, was met by a crowd often noisy with opposition at a town hall Monday morning, though he didn’t walk off the stage this time.

It was nearly a full house, with a representative for the Chico Elks Lodge estimating about 400 were in attendance. Some of the most intense moments of the morning included one man’s comment that he hoped the congressman would die — drawing mostly boos from the audience — and one woman being escorted out for continuous yelling.

However, the congressman said by the end the audience was “spirited” but “pretty good,” not as raucous as at Oroville’s town hall in April. The meeting went a little past the allotted time, from 8-9 a.m.

Some of the top questions residents wanted their representative to answer included why he supported cuts to health care coverage, backed tax breaks for the wealthy, and refuses to acknowledge impacts of climate change?

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