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Palestinian hopes for Egypt border opening dashed for now

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

(AFP Photo/SAID KHATIB) Palestinian leaders hoped a recently signed reconciliation agreement would lead to Egypt reopening its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, but those hopes...

Judge declares mistrial in New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial. ... Red Rules apply.

Via: bob-nelson • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 9 years ago

In the first prosecution of a sitting U.S. senator in nearly a decade, a federal judge in Newark, N.J., declared a mistrial Thursday in the case against Robert Menendez, who was accused of...

Five new revelations in the Russian uranium case

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

Evidence gathered by an FBI undercover informant conflicts with several media reports as well as statements by Justice officials concerning the connections between a Russian nuclear bribery case...

Arianna Huffington denies Franken behaved inappropriately in response to new photos

Via: hal-a-lujah • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

Source Arianna Huffington is denying that anything inappropriate occurred after The New York Post's Page Six on Monday published images that appear to show Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) groping...

Justice, AT&T trade accusations over CNN sale

Via: galen-marvin-ross • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and AT&T traded accusations on Wednesday over whether the company would have to sell off CNN, the cable network frequently feuding with President Trump, as a...

Border agent killed, partner injured by illegal immigrants using rocks, report says

Via: hippocrates-of-cos • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 9 years ago

Illegal immigrants reportedly assaulted two U.S. Border Patrol agents with rocks, killing one and seriously injuring another Sunday near the southern border with Mexico. Details around the...

Veteran dies as nurses laugh

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 183 Comments • 9 years ago

If not for a secret camera left by the family we wouldn't know.

Brazil police officer shoots armed robbers to death while holding baby

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

An off-duty military police officer's trip to the pharmacy with his family turned into a deadly shootout in Brazil over the weekend. Sgt. Rafael Souza went to buy medicine with his wife and...

Wikileaks Link Sent To Trump Jr. Now Declares Seth Rich The Leaker

Via: xxjefferson51 • News & Politics • 132 Comments • 9 years ago

In a direct message conversation on Twitter published by Donald Trump Jr. between himself and WikiLeaks — the publisher linked him to a website with a header that now states, “My Name Was Seth...

Lois Lerner wants IRS testimony sealed forever, fearing death threats

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 9 years ago

Former IRS official Lois Lerner and her deputy are asking a federal court to keep their testimonies in the Tea Party targeting case private forever, over fear of death threats and potential...

Argentine navy loses contact with submarine carrying 44

Via: uncle-bruce • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

The ARA San Juan, a German-built diesel-electric vessel, docked in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentina's Navy said it has lost contact with the submarine off the country's southern...

Al Franken and his harmless joke... Go ahead liberals, defend this:

Via: capt-cave-man • News & Politics • 423 Comments • 9 years ago

The tour wrapped and on Christmas Eve we began the 36-hour trip home to L.A. After 2 weeks of grueling travel and performing I was exhausted. When our C-17 cargo plane took off from Afghanistan...

Charles Manson proves he isn't the Devil, he dies.

Via: galen-marvin-ross • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 9 years ago

Charles Manson, the sinister hippie cult leader who declared himself "the devil" and dispatched his followers to commit a series of Hollywood murders in 1969 that shocked the country, died Sunday...

A Tax-Cut Bill to Make Scrooge McDuck Proud

Via: bob-nelson • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 9 years ago

The Republican tax proposals were bad from the get-go. But they have become steadily worse as they have been turned into bills, which seem so cartoonishly evil they could have been dreamed up by...

GOP again tries to kill Obamacare, this time in its tax reform bill

Via: lmm • News & Politics • 58 Comments • 9 years ago

Republican senators will scrap the Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance mandate as part of their proposal, jeopardizing delicate negotiations for the chance at a double legislative win....

What if Ken Starr was right?

Via: ausmth • News & Politics • 41 Comments • 9 years ago

In the longstanding liberal narrative about Bill Clinton and his scandals, the one pushed by Clinton courtiers and ratified in media coverage of his post-presidency, our 42nd president was...

Trump’s Hotels Are Losing Money As Room Rates Plummet

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Trump's Chicago hotel CREDIT: GETTY There is further evidence that Donald Trump’s occupation of the Oval Office has had a negative impact on his business empire, with new...

National Security Adviser Warns that Trump is an Idiot With The Intelligence Of A Kindergartener

Via: skrekk • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Not a big surprise, but even Trump's cabinet members know that he's a complete moron. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster mocked President Trump’s intelligence at a private dinner with a...

Days of Greed and Desperation

Via: bob-nelson • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

These are not good times, politically, for Republicans. The Virginia blowout showed that the Trump backlash is real, and will show up in actual votes, not just polls. A series of local elections...

Glenn Thrush, New York Times Reporter, Accused of Sexual Misconduct

Via: hippocrates-of-cos • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

The New York Times said on Monday that it was suspending Glenn Thrush, one of its most prominent reporters, after he was accused of sexually inappropriate behavior. The move came after the...

Should The FBI Be Abolished?

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 9 years ago

For the last few years, the media has been dominated by a number of sensational stories: that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the presidential election; that the Trump team was...

Is the American Idea Doomed? Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right.

Via: pj • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 9 years ago

Is the American Idea Doomed? Not yet—but it has precious few supporters on either the left or the right. YONI APPELBAUM NOVEMBER 2017 ISSUE POLITICS On may 5, 1857, eight men sat down to dinner...

TRUMP CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR AND 'FAMILY VALUES' REPUBLICAN PLEADS GUILTY TO CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING

Via: lmm • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

Ralph Shortey, former Oklahoma state senator and a county campaign coordinator for President Donald Trumps campaign last year, will plead guilty to a child sex trafficking offense for soliciting...

Hillary Clinton claims that investigating her role in Uranium One would be ‘abuse of power’

Via: xxjefferson51 • News & Politics • 77 Comments • 9 years ago

Once again signaling that she believes she is above the law, Hillary Clinton has argued that a special council investigating her role in the Uranium One deal would be an “abuse of power” and...

Are Red States Tax Takers And Blue States Tax Makers?

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

With every debate on taxing and spending in Washington comes inevitable references to which states send more in taxes to the federal treasury than they receive in benefits for their citizens. The...

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