U.S. officials have confirmed that a soldier lost his life fighting Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. This is the second casualty that the U.S. army has suffered in a week. Last week a Navy Seal was killed when ISIs attacked Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. It seems that the latest casualty was also a result of that attack. Fars News reports: “The soldier died as a result of an injury,” a brief statement issued by the US-led coalition forces said, without revealing further information on the incident, Alaraby news website reported.

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In a stunning attack on freedom of association, Harvard University announced today that members of independent, single-sex, off-campus organizations will be blacklisted from Rhodes and Marshall scholarships and banned from leadership of on-campus organizations or athletic teams.

In a first of its kind, a South Jersey billboard is warning passersby about the dangers of chemtrails. The billboard which is located in Woodstown, Salem County, says”LOOK UP Your Weather is Engineered” and directs people to find out more at the website byebyebluesky.com Part of their mission statement reads: “BBBS is a dedicated global public environmental movement who seeks to be a voice for all living creatures and ecosystems, to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment, air, water, land and which our sustenance depends.

In a recent interview with CNBC's Rick Santelli, Richard Fisher, former President of the Dallas Fed, explained “The Fed has the market on Ritalin—trying to keep the mood very smooth, keep volatility down as much as possible. As soon as they hint that they might remove that, then they create the problems they're afraid of. So, they've boxed themselves into a corner, and the real art will be to see how they manoeuvre to get out of that”….“When [the Fed] move—and I hope they move sometime in June—there'll be a settling in of the marketplace. There will be a correction. Suck it up.

London’s new Mayor Sadiq Khan has accused Prime Minister David Cameron and defeated Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith of maintaining a nasty, negative and divisive campaign during the recent mayoral elections. Khan says the conservatives set out to divide London’s ethnic communities by adopting Donald Trump style campaign tactics during an election that broke records, with a 45.6% turnout on Thursday. The Tories have defended their tactics. Chancellor Osborne called them a robust bit of “rough and tumble,” common in today’s politics and necessary for democracy.