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(Worthy News) – Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has announced he plans to examine ways to fast-track a visa program for white South African farmers.

The decision comes in the wake of newly-elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s apparent plan to appropriate white-owned South African farms and redistribute the land to black South Africans. Ramaphosa’s plan would exclude white South Africans from receiving any compensation for their appropriated land.

In addition, Sky News Australia reported that white South Africans are being murdered at a rate of more than one per week, according to News Corp Australia chief Paul Toohey, who travelled to South Africa to investigate. In the wake of such claims, Dutton suggested to the media that a humanitarian visa may be what is needed. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Local government officials in the second most populous county in Kansas are grappling with a challenge by atheists to a decades-old practice of opening meetings with prayer, prompting a Sedgwick County Commissioner to say during a public meeting Tuesday that if they don’t believe in God, he doesn’t care if they “go to hell.”

Sedgwick County commissioners planned to meet with their attorney behind closed doors in the wake of a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group based in Madison, Wisconsin, that advocates for the separation of church and state.

Sedgwick County spokeswoman Kate Flavin said Wednesday that no decision has been made and the group’s request is still under review, adding that the county believes its existing policy strikes the “proper constitutional balance.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – More than 2,500 U.S. troops have taken part in the Juniper Cobra joint exercise with Israeli Defense Forces, which concludes Thursday.

This year’s event served as a dress rehearsal for a joint response to anl Iranian missile attack on Israel.

Contingency plans could be activated at any moment, with U.S. forces arriving in Israel from Europe, officers from both countries explained. [ Source: Army Times (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah survived an apparent assassination attempt when a bomb went off next to his convoy as he visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, wounding several people, officials and Palestinian media reported.

The PA said Hamdallah and PA General Intelligence Chief Majed Faraj, who was accompanying him, were unhurt. However, media reports said several bystanders were injured. Their condition was not immediately clear.

PA civil affairs minister Hussein Al Sheikh said the Hamas group, which rules Gaza, would be held fully responsible for this “murderous” assassination attempt and warned that this was an unprecedented dangerous development that would have grave consequences for Hamas. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports and will target the technology and telecommunications sectors, two people who had discussed the issue with the Trump administration said on Tuesday.

A third source who had direct knowledge of the administration’s thinking said the tariffs, associated with a “Section 301” intellectual property investigation, under the 1974 U.S. Trade Act begun in August last year, could come “in the very near future.”

While the tariffs would be chiefly targeted at information technology, consumer electronics and telecoms, they could be much broader and the list could eventually run to 100 products, this person said. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A Pennsylvania county is continuing its legal battle against an atheist group’s lawsuit that’s seeking to remove a cross from its official seal.

Lehigh County filed an appeal on Monday before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning a lower court’s decision in favor of removing the cross.

The appeal argues, among other things, that the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its clients lack standing to sue the county over the seal. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – A major overhaul of the US financial system’s regulatory structure passed the Senate on Wednesday in a move that could relax some of the most stringent post-financial-crisis regulations for dozens of banks.

Supporters of the legislation — officially known as the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act but more commonly referred to as the Crapo bill after its author, the Senate banking committee chair, Mike Crapo — said it will free up regional banks from burdensome regulations and give consumers easier access to credit.

Opponents, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, said the bill will increase risk in the financial system and possibly set the industry up for another devastating crisis. [ Source: Business Insider (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The House of Representatives passed the Stop School Violence Act with broad support from both parties on Wednesday.

By a vote of 407 to 10 the House passed HR 4909, the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018, as part of Congress’s response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 dead. The bill would provide new grants to train law enforcement and school personnel on the warning signs for school violence and how to intervene to prevent that violence. It would also provide grants for anonymous alert systems as well as funding for advanced door locks, further cooperation between schools and local law enforcement, and funding for crisis intervention teams.

“At a time when people are asking Washington to do something, Congress took action today to not just do something, but to start addressing the problem with a strong bill of the Stop School Violence Act that gives students, teachers, and law enforcement more tools to actively identify a potential shooter before a tragedy happens,” Representative Steve Scalise (R., La.) said at a press conference after the bill was passed. “What we saw in Parkland was an example of so many breakdowns in government at the federal level, with the FBI, at the local level with local law enforcement. when so many students knew this was going to happen. I think the thing that irritates people the most is something wasn’t done to stop it before it did happen. We need to focus on stopping those tragedies before they happen.” [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Britain will expel nearly two dozen Russian diplomats, sever high-level bilateral contacts with Moscow and take both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy, the prime minister said Wednesday, plunging U.K.-Russian relations into their deepest freeze since the Cold War.

Prime Minister Theresa May told lawmakers that 23 Russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers have a week to leave the country.

May spoke after Moscow ignored a midnight deadline to explain how a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union was used against Sergei Skripal, an ex-Russian agent convicted of spying for Britain, and his daughter Yulia. They remain in critical condition in a hospital in Salisbury, southwestern England, after being found unconscious on March 4. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Rep. Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, has broken from his GOP colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee regarding their conclusion that Russia didn’t prefer President Trump over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 White House race.

It was “clear, based on the evidence, Russia had disdain for Secretary Clinton and was motivated in whole or in part by a desire to harm her candidacy or undermine her Presidency had she prevailed,” Mr. Gowdy said in a statement Tuesday, contradicting a conclusion reached the day prior by fellow Republican committee members investigating the 2016 race.

The House panel’s Republican leadership abruptly announced the end of their probe Monday roughly a year after its members first began holding hearings in hopes of uncovering more about the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment that Russia meddled in the election to cause chaos and disrupt Mrs. Clinton’s campaign and effectively boost Mr. Trump’s. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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