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THE INTERVIEW: Milo Yiannopoulos and Alan Jones

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The New York Times bestseller has had his show cancelled by the owners of the Australian Technology Park over his controversial views on banning Muslim immigration and putting an end to feminism. Yiannopoulos joined 4BC’s Alan Jones in studio explaining why the Left fear him so much. “What frightens people the most is ideas that come from unexpected places. “With me it doesn’t work, I’m a gay jew with a black husband. There’s really nothing they can get me on. Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is the self-proclaimed bastion of western civilization and he’s been banned from speaking in Sydney tonight. “They have to come armed with their best arguments, their ideas, reasoned fact and logic. “They’re struggling to do so, they’re struggling to beat me, they’re struggling to win which is why I now have such enormous audiences but why I do suffer from underhanded tactics like cancelling venues.” Yiannopoulos has been embraced by some with his old high scho

Bali volcano: Jetstar and Qantas cancel flights as Mt Agung erupts again

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Trend News To Day in Google - International airlines including Jetstar and Qantas have cancelled flights to and from Bali after the second eruption of Mt Agung in a week, even though Indonesia's disaster management authorities say it's safe to fly to the island. The latest eruption is significantly stronger than last Tuesday's eruption, with a cloud of steam and pulverised rock driven at least 1,500 metres above the volcano's 3,000-metre peak. There have been no new evacuations in Bali and a 6 kilometre exclusion zone around the volcano has not been extended. PHOTO: Mount Agung has erupted for the second time this week. (Reuters: Johannes P Christo) Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar remained open on Saturday night but within two hours of the eruption, Jetstar cancelled or diverted four flights heading to Bali as well as five flights due to depart from the island. Qantas, Virgin and Dutch airline KLM soon followed Jetstar's lead in cancelling fli

Holocaust survivor: I'm giving $1 million to help wounded American veterans, to express my thanks

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Trend News To Day in Google - At 83 years old, I am one of the few remaining Holocaust survivors – thanks to the American troops who rescued me in what seems like a lifetime ago. Since World War II, I’ve felt a deep connection to American troops for saving my life – a feeling that resurfaces every year on Veterans Day and throughout the holiday giving season. And so this year I’m saying “thank you” to the American soldiers of the 1940s by donating $1 million to organizations serving wounded American veterans today. My donation to the Wounded Warrior Project and the Services for Armed Forces program of the American Red Cross is my way of giving back, thanking previous generations of warriors for helping me. I hope this inspires others to give back as well. Even though more than 70 years have passed since my rescue, it’s not too late to give back. That’s a lesson I hope the next generation recognizes, because it’s all too easy to let procrastination give way to in

Diplomats Sound the Alarm as They Are Pushed Out in Droves

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Trend News To Day in Google - WASHINGTON — Of all the State Department employees who might have been vulnerable in the staff reductions that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has initiated as he reshapes the department, the one person who seemed least likely to be a target was the chief of security, Bill A. Miller. Republicans pilloried Hillary Clinton for what they claimed was her inadequate attention to security as secretary of state in the months before the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Congress even passed legislation mandating that the department’s top security official have unrestricted access to the secretary of state. But in his first nine months in office, Mr. Tillerson turned down repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the department’s security staff to brief him, according to several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Finally, Mr. Miller, the acting assistant secretary for diplomatic security, was forced to cite the law’s re

Conservative dilemma in Bennelong

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Trend News To Day in Google - IN socially conservative Bennelong, where the No vote in the same-sex marriage survey was 25 percent higher than the Australian average, it is a Generation Y unknown who could determine the fate of the Turnbull government. With Labor’s Kristina Keneally and former sitting Liberal John Alexander both enthusiastic Yes voters, that left an opening for Senator Cory Bernardi to test his fledgling Australian Conservatives party, whose branch meetings in Putney have been stuffed with disaffected Liberals. Joram Richa, a charming 25-year-old Maronite Catholic from Hunters Hill, who just finished his final law exams last Saturday, will be Bernardi’s first candidate to face the public, in the Bennelong by-election on December 19. An athlete and academic whiz kid, Joram is part of a new breed of motivated young conservatives who have been galvanised by the bullying and intimidation they experienced during the same sex marriage campaign. “It was a ch

No, Cards Against Humanity can't delay Trump's border wall

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Trend News To Day in Google - By now you've played a rousing game of Cards Against Humanity after Thanksgiving dinner or at least heard that the game makers want to buy land to block the construction of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. More: USA Today's investigation into "The Wall" The raunchy game, where people fill in the blank or complete sentences with terrible — but funny — things, pulls a holiday marketing stunt every year. Last year, Cards Against Humanity raised money to dig a hole. Before that, they mailed people boxes filled with actual bullshit. This year, they asked for $15 from customers to buy a large plot of land along the U.S./Mexico border for their "Cards Against Humanity Saves America" campaign. The promotion already sold out. “Cards Against Humanity” just became a thorn in the side of President Donald Trump with its latest Christmas promotion. (Photo: Deseret News) A m

Museum Store Sunday fills shopping gap no one knew they had

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The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has options for everyone on your gift list. (Photo: Penn Museum) Trend News To Day in Google - As shoppers dash through this holiday season and the rush of "days" — Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday — another day has cropped up to tap consumers' wallets. Museums and other cultural institutions are stepping up to offer shoppers unique options this week with Museum Store Sunday. The day was created in conjunction with the Museum Store Association to educate the public about the role museum stores play in funding these cultural institutions and to offer a new option for gift giving. The day’s motto is “Be a Patron,” which urges museum-goers to shop in support of museums and their missions.  So far, more than 600 museums from three continents, 10 countries, and all 50 states and D.C. are slated to be part of Museum Store Sunday. They will offer special events, promotions and other experie

YMCA thanks Burton Albion Football Club as £31,000 is raised by sleep-out to help homeless

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Trend News To Day in Google - YMCA bosses in Burton are celebrating as the fund-raising total from its sleep-out event hit an impressive £31,000 - and that figure could still rise further. This time was a record-breaking year for the YMCA event, with a total of 188 people sleeping rough at the Pirelli Stadium in Burton or at the graveyard at St Modwen's Church, in the town's Market Place. The event aims to raise awareness and money to help the homeless. The sleep-out saw 173 people braving a night outside sleeping in the cold, either in the stone tunnels of at the home of the Brewers at the Pirelli or 11 people who slept in the graveyard. The event took place on Saturday, November 11, with the graveyard being the 'extreme' option as it was truly open to all the elements. This is the sixth year that the sleep-out has taken place at the Pirelli Stadium, with Brewers bosses allowing the venue to be used by the charity free of charge each year, to ensure that as

Battle of the Sexes review: Game, set and match

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Trend News To Day in Google  -  When the urge to see his eyes glaze over overwhelms me, I bore my 20-year-old son with a lecture about mainstream attitudes towards women and gay people in the 1970s that beggar his generation’s belief. The next time that urge strikes I will tie him to the sofa and make him watch Battle of the Sexes for a more entertaining tutorial than this dullard could possibly provide. Its subject is one of the most curious, farcical and significant events in sporting history. In September 1973 a loudly, proudly sexist middle-aged braggart took on the world’s best female tennis player in Houston, Texas. On the line, along with the colossal winner-takes-all purse of $100,000, was the assumed superiority of the male sex. Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), who had won the US Open three decades earlier, was a gambling-addicted, emasculated husband of a rich wife. Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), who had won the US Open the previous year, led the women in more than the r

Nine-man Club America holds Cruz Azul, Monterrey downs Atlas

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Trend News To Day in Google  - Cruz Azul could only manage a 0-0 draw in Estadio Azul against Mexico City rival Club America on Thursday in the 2017 Apertura quarterfinal, despite Las Aguilas finishing the game with nine players. Club America's Mateus Uribe was shown a straight red after half an hour, with Edson Alvarez given his second yellow in the 90th minute, while Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jesus Corona saved a penalty from Mexico teammate Oribe Peralta in the 36th. Cruz Azul started the brighter side and was pushing for an opener in an end-to-end game, before Uribe was sent off for a high tackle on Julio Dominguez. America's Mateus Uribe receives a red card for his challenge on Cruz Azul defender Julio Dominguez. The red card actually seemed to improve America, who went close close in the 36th minute through a Pablo Aguilar effort from close range. Aguilar won a penalty seconds later when Dominguez was adjudged to have dragged him down, but goalkeeper Cor

Atiku resigns from APC [Full letter]

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Trend News To Day in Google  -  Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has resigned from the All Progressives Congress. Abubakar confirmed this in a statement he personally signed on Friday. He also gave reasons for quitting the party. However, he did not state which party he intends to join, but said he is pondering on his political future. The statement, titled: “Statement of resignation of His Excellency Atiku Abubakar (Waziri Adamawa) Vice President of Nigeria, 1999-2007 from the All Progressives Congress,” reads in full… Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar “On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013. “The fractionalization of the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation where I

Tiger Mania: The media hype, fans' hope in the run-up to Tiger Woods' latest comeback

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Trend News To Day in Google  -  Tiger Mania apparently has more legs than Woods’ 2-iron stingers at Hoylake, rolling on and on, as it does, unimpeded, notwithstanding an occasional hiatus. So here we are, 21 years after a Sports Illustrated headline dubbed Woods “The Chosen One,” his return to competitive golf in the Hero World Challenge next week in the Bahamas seems to be heralded as a potential second coming. Again. The media, social and traditional, is complicit in this, of course. Understandably. As P.T. Barnum said, “Without promotion, something terrible happens …nothing.” Christian Petersen, Tiger Woods at the Hero World Challenge in 2016. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Hence, Golf Channel’s Tiger Tracker, who Tweets every hole of every round that Woods plays, used his entire expanded allotment of 280 characters to herald Tiger’s return with this: P.T. Barnum, incidentally, was not invoked as a metaphor for the circus surrounding Woods’ la

Paul Reiser puts his Johnny Carson history into a Hulu sitcom

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Trend News To Day in Google  - You can find him on the Amazon comedy “Red Oaks,” whose third and final season was recently released with Reiser as the power-packing president of a New Jersey country club in the 1980s. You can also find him on the just-posted second season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” as a government scientist who may not be quite what he seems. And though you won’t see him on Hulu’s “There’s … Johnny!,”Reiser is very much part of this comedic peek behind the scenes of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” circa 1972. All seven episodes, with Reiser as co-creator and -writer, are now available for viewing. Paul Reiser produced, co-created and wrote a 7-episode Hulu series, "“There’'s ...… Johnny!,” a comedic peek behind the scenes of “"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"” circa 1972. | Andy Kropa/Invision/AP “The fact that I suddenly have three different shows on three different streaming platforms suggests that I’m cleve

States prepare to shut down children’s health programs if Congress doesn’t act

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Trend News To Day in Google  - Officials in nearly a dozen states are preparing to notify families that a crucial health insurance program for low-income children is running out of money for the first time since its creation two decades ago, putting coverage for many at risk by the end of the year. Congress missed a Sept. 30 deadline to extend funding for CHIP, as the Children’s Health Insurance Program is known. Nearly 9 million youngsters and 370,000 pregnant women nationwide receive care because of it. Many states have enough money to keep their individual programs afloat for at least a few months, but five could run out in late December if lawmakers do not act. Others will start to exhaust resources the following month. Marbell Castillo holds her granddaughter Maia Powell during the toddler’s recent checkup at Burke Pediatrics in Fairfax County, Va. Maia is covered through the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) The looming