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Betsy DeVos encourages students to not ‘be nasty’ on Twitter - so one student asks her about Trump
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 8 years ago
““It is easy to be nasty hiding behind screens and Twitter handles,” she said.”
Betsy DeVos encouraged a group of students in Philadelphia to not say “nasty” things on Twitter during a town hall meeting, leading one student to ask her why the Donald Trump does not follow that same advice. “Learning is about thinking, reasoned argument and discovering facts,” she said....
Hezb'Allah terror head Nasrallah breaks into tears in front of thousands
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago
“The speech criticized the custom among Shi’ite believers of cutting the faces of children during mourning services”
Shia or Shite Muslim men beat and lacerate their heads to commemorate the death of the Iman. Nasrallah’s remarks were made in reference to the practice among Shi’ite Muslims to self harm until drawing blood as a way of repentance and showing remorse for their sins. “The whole world sees...
GOP Donor Les Wexner Announces Departure From Republican Party After Obama Visit
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 8 years ago
“Wexner, the CEO of retail conglomerate L Brands, which owns Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, announced at a leadership summit in Columbus...”
Lex Wexner Wexner hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in 2012.[30] Wexner donated $250,000 to Restore Our Future, Romney's Super PAC.[31] In 2015, Wexner donated $500,000 to the Right to Rise USA Super-Pac that supported the 2016 presidential campaign of Jeb Bush.[32] Wexner said he’s been...
BREAKING NEWS: Trump campaign head Manafort agrees to cooperate with Russia probe
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 8 years ago
“U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort will cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election...”
Manafort, 69, also pleaded guilty to two criminal counts, becoming the most prominent former Trump campaign official to plead guilty in Mueller's investigation.
As Trump embraces more tariffs, U.S. business readies public fight
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“"A lot of other interest groups thought they wouldn't go this long or go this deep, but the layering effect (of tariffs) has finally gotten...”
After months of waging a behind-the-scenes war against President Donald Trump's trade tariffs that have escalated far beyond what business groups once imagined, more than 85 U.S. industry groups launched a coalition on Wednesday to take the fight public. The launch of Americans for Free Trade...
North Carolina's Wild Horses Will Ride Out Hurricane Florence In The Wild
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 8 years ago
“They have really good instincts,Puckett said. These horses have lived in this area for 500 years.”
A wild Spanish mustang on an Outer Banks dune in 2011. (John Greim via Getty Images) A spokesperson for the Foundation for Shackleford Horses ― a group dedicated to wild horses on North Carolina’s Shackleford Banks ― told HuffPost those animals will also remain in place. “They are wild,...
Another hurricane is about to batter our coast. Trump is complicit.
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 8 years ago
(Photo: MarketWatch) YET AGAIN, a massive hurricane feeding off unusually warm ocean water has the potential to stall over heavily populated areas, menacing millions of people. Now Hurricane Florence threatens to drench already waterlogged swaths of the East Coast. If the Category 4...
FBI Director Christopher Wray: "Today's terrorism threat is everywhere, coast to coast" (HAPPY 9/11! :-)
Via: Krishna • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago
“FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed for the first time that the bureau has made "about 120" terrorism-related arrests in the last year alone....”
FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed for the first time that the bureau has made "about 120" terrorism-related arrests in the last year alone. "We had about 1,000 investigations into just these homegrown violent extremists. That's out of about 5,000 terrorism investigations." It's been 17...
9/11 Timeline (WARNING: Some may find this content to be upsetting)
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“On a clear, sunny late summer day in September 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide...”
People jump to their death in panic. Picture: GettySource:News Limited On a clear, sunny late summer day in September 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in...
