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Facebook has experienced worldwide outages

Winchester, VA - Just breaking in the last hour is news that Facebook has experienced worldwide outages this morning. The Daily Caller reports that the social media giant was registering 2,000 outage reports every twenty minutes, according to Facebook's outage reporter. Some of the areas experiencing the outages were the United States, Canada, Turkey, India, Russia, Australia and multiple countries in Europe. A Facebook representative could not identify the source of […]

today10/12/2017 13

ROCKER TOM PETTY IS DEAD AT 66

Winchester, VA - They say celebrities go in threes...Last week we saw the passings of Hugh Hefner and Monty Hall. CNN reports that famed rocker Tom Petty passed away in Los Angeles at 8:40pm last night at the age of 66. He had been rushed to the hospital after having been found unconscious in full cardiac arrest in his home in Malibu. With the Heartbreakers, Petty had just finished a summer […]

today10/03/2017 13

NEW HOME SALES HAVE PLUNGED

Winchester, VA - Fox Business reported yesterday that new U.S. single-family home sales plunged 9.4% in July. Sales are now at their lowest point in the last seven months. This spells potential trouble when combined with a market where there is a lack of homes for sale, and in which housing prices are rising, it is difficult for new home buyers to break into the market. Brandywine Global Sr. Research Analyst […]

today08/24/2017 8

YESTERDAY’S SOLAR ECLIPSE WAS CELEBRATED WITH JUBILATION ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Winchester, VA - Yesterday, for the first time in 99 years, darkness swept across the United States as a solar eclipse made its way from the west coast to the east coast. The first viewers of the spectacle were in Oregon, who saw it at just after 9am Pacific time. The Daily Mail reported that it took about 90 minutes for the next 14 states in the eclipse's direct path to […]

today08/22/2017 17

COMEDIC LEGEND JERRY LEWIS HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 91

Winchester, VA - Famed comedic actor Jerry Lewis has died at the age of 91. Born Joseph Levich in 1926 to Russian Jewish immigrants. He was a performer from his youth and at the tender age of 5 and would perform on stage alongside his parents.  Later on he would team up with singer Dean Martin, who was the more serious counterbalance to Lewis' eccentric, exaggerated comedic persona. When their comedic […]

today08/21/2017 8

ARE OUR BRAINS WIRED TO EQUATE HIGHER COST WITH BETTER FLAVOR?

Winchester, VA - The Daily Mail is reporting on a study that was done by the INSEAD Business School and the University of Bonn which explored what happens in the brain when people taste what they believe is cheap wine, and what happens when they taste what they believe is expensive wine. 30 participants lay in an MRI scanner and were given two separate tastes of the same average to good […]

today08/17/2017 20

A STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED IN NEW ORLEANS

Winchester, VA - The Associated Press reports that Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency in New Orleans yesterday. A week ago flash flooding from excessive rains overwhelmed the city's pumping system and left neighborhoods flooded out. City residents are still upset about how the city handled last week's flooding.  CRUSADE Channel News is a service of the Veritas Radio Network and is supported by listeners and readers just […]

today08/11/2017 21

WASTE FROM POT FARMS IS SO TOXIC THAT IT CAN LAND YOU IN THE HOSPITAL

Winchester, VA - Reuters reports that the runoff waste from illegal marijuana farms in California forests is so toxic, law enforcement officials who have come into contact with it have been hospitalized. Not only are the marijuana farmers using restricted and banned pesticides and fertilizers, but they are using them in quantities that far outstrip the 2014 estimates by the U.S. Forest Service, when they first raised the red flags over […]

today08/08/2017 18

THE CITY OF TORONTO KNOCKS DOWN A CITIZEN’S $550 STAIRCASE TO BUILD ONE FOR AT LEAST $65,000

Winchester, VA - CTV News is reporting on a Toronto man who got fed up with the city's inability to correct a simple issue and took matters into his own hands. Adi Astl was concerned about a muddy, rocky slope at the Tom Riley Park, on which several of his neighbors had injured themselves, so he asked the city to build stairs. The city told Mr. Astl that it would cost […]

today07/21/2017 10

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