Watchers, Teo Blašković: According to MetService meteorologists, the storm dropped 220 mm (8.6 inches) of rain on Whangarei from 19:00 LT on July 17 to 07:00 LT on July 18. ‘We call this a greater-than-500-year return period,’ the service said….

The Guardian, Julian Borger: The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree. John Yoo told the Guardian he has been talking…

Breaking Israel News, by Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler: A new message, begging Jews who live in the diaspora to get to Israel, has been released from an unusual source.  Daniel, a Jewish man living in Israel, is known by his first…

Fox News, By Ronn Blitzer, Bill Mears, Shannon Bream: The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a ban on taxpayer funding for religious schools, in a narrow but significant win for the school choice movement. In the 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts,…

Natural Blaze, by Elias Marat: It was only to be expected that in an already brutal year, the summer of 2020 was going to be the absolute worst. And now, it appears that a sizzling “heat dome” will be frying most of…

CNS News, by L. Brent Bozell III: Black Lives Matter. That rallying cry is now endorsed by millions of people, not just in the United States, but around the world. “By a 28-point margin, Civiqs finds that a majority of…

Daily Caller, by Kaylee Greenlee: The FBI ran nearly 8 million background checks for gun purchases from March to June, the Wall Street Journal reported. Background checks for firearm purchases in June reached 7.8 million, up 136% from last year….

MSN Bloomberg, by Jill Ward: The Bank of England is reviewing whether it should create a central bank-backed digital currency, according to governor Andrew Bailey. “We are looking at the question of, should we create a Bank of England digital…

CNS News, by Bill Donohue: The smashing of religious statues is all the rage. While the extent of the vandalism is new, the ideological forces that unleashed it started a generation ago. If there is one date that marks the…

Berkley Center, By Hebah Farrag: A circle of flowers forms a sanctuary honoring the space where George Floyd was murdered by police. According to residents I talked to, like Larry Holderfield, the inner sanctum of that circle of flowers is referred to as…

The Epoch Times, By ZACHARY STIEBER, Weeks of nightly violent demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, have caused an estimated $23 million in damage and lost customers to downtown businesses, a police official said. “The level of violence, and criminal activity, and property damage…

Daily Caller, by Marlo Safi: New York Police Department officers are retiring at a staggering rate amid a crime surge in the city and growing tensions with Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Hill reported Thursday. In…