DES MOINES, IOWA (September 6, 2019) — Hildreth Show Pigs of Jewell received Champion Boar honors at the Yorkshire Swine show judged at the 2019 Iowa State Fair.

Joe Bair of Elkhart received the Reserve Champion Boar title.

Double WW Swine of Swaledale exhibited the Champion Gilt, while Delaney Runner of Gilman exhibited the Reserve Champion Gilt.

Animals are divided according to farrowing date based on the other animals entered in the competition.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (September 5, 2019) — Pushing back against the expansion of secret government-surveillance programs at the expense of individual privacy, The Rutherford Institute is asking the State of Illinois to disclose information about its participation in the federal government’s scheme to establish a massive facial-recognition data

If at first you don't succeed, spread some money around. The Financial Times reports that the US State Department is offering cash bribes to captains of Iranian ships if they sail those ships into ports where the US government can seize them.

More than a year out from the 2020 presidential election, we're already starting to see "spoiler" fear-mongering from supporters of America's two largest political parties and their candidates. Will formerly Republican congressman Justin Amash of Michigan run for president as a Libertarian or independent in 2020? How about formerly Republican, formerly Democrat, formerly independent, former Rhode Island governor and US Senator, now Wyoming Libertarian Lincoln Chafee?