Lianne Hikind
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Lianne Hikind | July 31, 2017
The Washington Post bureau chief for Beirut thought it'd be a good idea to travel through Lebanon alongside a member of the infamous terrorist group Hezbollah. Liz Sly, a reporter who covers Middle Eastern news for the Washington Post, decided to pen what can only be described as a propaganda piece for the well-known terrorist group, in which she voices the notion that it is Hezbollah, and not…
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Lianne Hikind | July 28, 2017
(Image source: Twitter) A knife-wielding assailant killed one person and injured four others in a supermarket in Hamburg, Germany on Friday. The attack took place in a grocery store called Edeka, Germany's largest supermarket chain. The BBC is reporting that police are assuming the murder weapon was a simple kitchen knife, although they added it may have resembled a machete. Hamburg police…
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Lianne Hikind | July 26, 2017
In a few short weeks, "Charlie Gard" has become a household name. Now, after months of legal battles over the 11-month-old's life, he will die. And the only questions remaining are where, and when. Several weeks ago, Charlie was handed a virtual death sentence by a European court when a judge denied his parents' request to bring him to the United States to undergo an experimental treatment for…
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Lianne Hikind | July 26, 2017
As if we needed another reason to love Wonder Woman, apparently the film is driving economic growth in the United Kingdom. According to Yahoo! Finance, Wonder Woman, along with a few other films, have contributed to an increased growth rate in the U.K.'s services sector. Yahoo! Finance spokesperson Fergal O'Brien explained: "U.K. box-office receipts for the Warner Bros. film, and others such…
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Lianne Hikind | July 25, 2017
A video of an altercation between a San Diego resident and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at a checkpoint in New Mexico has gone viral after the woman, Shane Parmely, put it up on her Facebook page. In the video, filmed by Parmely's family during the interaction, the Border Patrol agent asks Parmely, a middle school teacher, if she is an American citizen. CBS News 8 - San Diego, CA News…
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Lianne Hikind | July 25, 2017
An imam in California decided to use his pulpit to call for the genocide of Jews. Imam Ammar Shahin's call for genocide appears to be in response to Israeli security officials placing metal detectors in front of the Temple Mount upon which the Al-Aqsa mosque sits. This action was taken after two Israeli police offers were killed on the Temple Mount by Palestinians.  The Temple Mount is the…
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Lianne Hikind | July 21, 2017
Regulations in the United Kingdom have stooped to making little girls with a lemonade stands cry. The BBC reports that a five-year-old girl in the U.K. who had set up a lemonade stand for nearby concert-goers in a London borough was reduced to tears after being shut down and fined by local law enforcement for not having a permit. According to Andre Spicer, the father of this tiny entrepreneur…
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Lianne Hikind | July 19, 2017
Once Chris Christie completes his final term as governor of New Jersey, he should perhaps consider launching a reality show entitled, “Chris Christie Ruins Everything.”  Seemingly unable to do anything right these days, Christie managed on Tuesday to ruin a baseball game for everybody in attendance just by existing, and then having the audacity to catch a foul ball. The AP reports "In the…
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Lianne Hikind | July 17, 2017
Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), has declared she's a victim of "sexism" after a man launched an investigation into the allegedly fraudulent loan she acquired during her tenure as president of Burlington College. According to Jane Sanders, the only reason that there is even an investigation against her is because Brady Toensing, a former official for Donald Trump's…
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Lianne Hikind | July 17, 2017
Two feminist professors have called for an end to citing straight, white, able-bodied male academics because doing so allegedly oppresses women and people of color. University of Waterloo professor Daniel Cockayne and Rutgers University professor Carrie Mott have both claimed that citing only white scholars leads to “white hetero-masculinity.” As previously reported in the Washington Post,…