Human Interest

In an incredibly disgusting show of racism, Southwest Airlines removed an Iraqi passenger from its plane earlier this month because he was speaking arabic. The man, a student at one of the best universities in the United States – UC Berkley – was visiting L.A. as part of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, an event that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also attended. According to Think Progress: Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Iraqi refugee, came to the United States in 2002 when his diplomat father was killed.

Residents in the city of Quebec, Canada, have reported an unusual rise in UFO sightings recently.  According to a 2015 survey conducted by Ufology Research, a huge number of Canadians reported weird skyward spheres, blinding lights in the firmament, and bright orbs that rapidly appear and disappear in the sky. According to the Toronto Sun: The Winnipeg group’s annual report calls Canada “a nation rich in storytelling,” but stresses that studying reports of sightings means combining witness accounts with the search for “objective truth.” Is it something man-made?

President Thomas S. Monson of the Mormon Church has some good news to deliver to the Mormon faithful at the church’s next General Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s so good that those in the know expect the congregation to be ‘buzzing.’ The Mormon church is lifting its centuries-old ban on coffee! The President, who church members believe is a prophet who communicates directly with God, says he received a ‘direct revelation’ regarding the contentious hot beverage.

Tax returns show that democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders earned less in 2014 than Hillary Clinton did in just one of her almost 50 speeches that same year.  Sanders earned slightly over $200,000 according to tax returns. The same figure that Clinton earned in a single day. Thehill.com reports: The Weekly Standard on Friday checked that with a CNN analysis from February, finding that Clinton gave multiple speeches in 2014 worth more than Sanders’s entire income that year.

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Source: Reuters