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| "sentence": "NFL will not discipline Rams for pregame gestureThe NFL will not discipline the St. Louis Rams players who held up their hands as a gesture of solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, prior to Sunday's win over the Oakland Raiders. \"We respect and understand the concerns of all individuals who have expressed views on this tragic situation,\" NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement on Monday. Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Kenny Britt emerged from the tunnel during pregame introductions Sunday using the \"Hands Up, Don't Shoot\" pose adopted by protesters following the August shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. The St. Louis County prosecutor's office announced last week that it will not indict Wilson for the fatal confrontation, a decision that led to unrest in Ferguson and protests across the nation. The St. Louis Police Officers Association released a statement that it was \"profoundly disappointed\" by the display while \"calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology.\" After Sunday's 52-0 win over the Raiders, Cook explained the thought process behind the pregame gesture. \"We kind of came collectively together and decided we wanted to do something,\" Cook said via ESPN.com. \"We haven't been able to go down to Ferguson to do anything because we have been busy. Secondly, it's kind of dangerous down there and none of us want to get caught up in anything. \"So we wanted to come out and show our respect to the protests and the people who have been doing a heck of a job around the world.\" UPDATE: The Rams issued a statement on the matter Monday evening: \"We had positive discussions today with St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Sam Dotson, St. Louis County Chief of Police Chief Jon Belmar and representatives from the St. Louis Police Officers' Association and St. Louis County Police Association during which we expressed our respect for their concerns surrounding yesterday's game. \"What has transpired over the past four months is a tragedy that has impacted our entire community. Together we are beginning a healing process that will require time, energy and honest dialogue. The Rams will continue to build on what have always been strong and valued relationships with local law enforcement and the greater St. Louis community as we come together to help heal our region.\"", | |
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| "sentence": "Donald Trump Named Presumptive GOP Nominee As Ted Cruz Drops Out of Presidential Racebrightcove.createExperiences(); Donald Trump is one step closer to securing the Republican nomination for president. Following Tuesday night\u2019s primary in Indiana, the GOP front-runner was named the presumptive nominee after Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced that he was suspending his campaign. \u201cDonald Trump will be presumptive GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton,\u201d Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus tweeted. Although, Trump and Cruz were far from cordial opponents throughout the race, the billionaire businessman said what Cruz did was a \u201cbrave thing to do because we want to bring unity.\u201d While Cruz revealed he was leaving the race as there no longer seemed to be a \u201cviable\u201d path to the White House, Ohio Governor John Kasich has not announced the end of his campaign. However, even with Kasich still in the race, Trump sits in a comfortable position to officially take the nomination if he secures the required 1,237 delegates needed to win his party. \u201cTonight\u2019s results are not going to alter Gov. Kasich\u2019s campaign plans,\u201d Kasich\u2019s chief strategist John Weaver said, according to CNN. \u201cOur strategy has been and continues to be one that involves winning the nomination at an open convention.\u201d While Kasich\u2019s camp continues to be optimistic, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton\u2018s campaign \u2013 which also took a blow to her campaign when Senator Bernie Sanders won Indiana \u2013 released a statement, condemning the announcement that Trump is the Republican party\u2019s presumptive nominee. \u201cFundamentally, our next president will need to do two things: keep our nation safe in a dangerous world and help working families get ahead here at home,\u201d the statement, obtained by PEOPLE, read. \u201cDonald Trump is not prepared to do either. Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump has demonstrated that he\u2019s too divisive and lacks the temperament to lead our nation and the free world. \u201cWith so much as stake, Donald Trump is simply too big of a risk. Hillary Clinton has proven that she has the strength to keep us safe in an uncertain world and a lifelong record of fighting to break down the barriers \u2013 economic and social \u2013 that hold working families back. While Donald Trump seeks to bully and divide Americans, Hillary Clinton will unite us to create an economy that works for everyone.\u201d While Trump ignored any criticism, saying during his victory speech at Trump tower, \u201cWe\u2019re going to win in November\u201d, he faced backlash from another opponent in the form anti-Trump adds that the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has released in an accelerated campaign against Trump. According to a press release from the PCCC, the ads will highlight Trump\u2019s \u201chate-mongering, his disrespect for women, and his belief that American wages are \u2018too high\u2019.\u201d \u201cWe have already begun running ads across the nation hitting Donald Trump \u2013 defining him early and moving the debate to our turf. This is key to winning.\u201d WATCH: Voters React to Ted Cruz Dropping Out of the Presidential Race Other opponents of the real estate mogul quickly vocalized their opinions, including former adviser to Jeb Bush Tim Miller who currently serves as the spokesman for an anti-Trump super-PAC, Our Principles PAC. \u201cNever ever, ever Trump. Simple as that,\u201d Miller tweeted Despite lots of criticism, the presidential hopeful did find support in Sarah Palin, who has endorsed the former reality star before, but also took to Facebook sharing a video in which she calls for unity \u201con the road to making America great again.\u201d Trump also spoke about unity on Tuesday night, adding in his speech that his focus is on bringing the Republican Party together after \u201cand amazing evening.\u201d", | |
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| "sentence": "Shoutout To This Father-Son Duo Who Avenged Their Daughter/Sister\u2019s Death By Kidnapping And Kicking The Shit Out Of Her Heroin Hookup Until He Named NamesShoutout To This Father-Son Duo Who Avenged Their Daughter/Sister\u2019s Death By Kidnapping And Kicking The Shit Out Of Her Heroin Hookup Until He Named Names Want to advertise with Turtleboy? Email us at Turtleboysports@gmail.com for more information. Trashlive: Hours after a 32-year-old woman from Western Massachusetts fatally overdosed in Rhode Island on Monday, her father and brother were arrested in what police are calling a kidnapping and attack on her suspected heroin hookup. Police arrived on Baldwin Hill Road in the small Berkshire County town of Egremont around 4:15 p.m. to find the late woman\u2019s father allegedly choking and striking a struggling man while his son helped hold down his arms. Both father and son were \u201cscreaming different versions of \u2018you killed my [expletive] daughter\u2019 and \u2018you killed my [expletive] sister,'\u201d according to a report by Egremont Police Officer Hans Carlson, obtained Friday by MassLive. The man was able to escape the slow-moving van on Baldwin Hill Road, whereupon both Lombardis allegedly followed him out and continued the attack, which residents of the street observed and reported to police, who intervened in a quick response. I don\u2019t normally condone vigilantism, but at the same time, we\u2019re living in a state filled to the brim with Deval Patrick judges that let scumbags out onto the street time and time again. Some times you just gotta do what you gotta do. Nah mean? Big shoutout to this father and son duo who realized that this was the only way they were going to receive any sort of satisfaction. There\u2019s no way the idiot they kidnapped ever saw it coming either. There\u2019s a reason it was just the son that was supposed to show up. The Dad looks like he done killed 4-5 people before. Plus his name is Ralph. I don\u2019t fuck with guys named Ralph who wear shirts like that. That\u2019s just common sense. Meanwhile the son appears to be your average Berkshire hippie jock who is no stranger to craft beer festivals: Never in a million years did the \u201cvictim\u201d think that guy right there was gonna kidnap him in a van and waterboard him to kingdom come until he named names. I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again \u2013 there is no one more gutless than a heroin dealer. Pot dealers are great, and coke dealers I don\u2019t have strong opinions on. Know why? Because they do their own product. Heroin dealers don\u2019t. Because they\u2019d be dead pretty quickly. If you can\u2019t stand by your product then you\u2019re a piece of shit. People who sell heroin are choad monkeys because they KNOW they\u2019re profiting off of the self-destruction of another person. There has never, ever, ever been a positive affect of heroin. Ever. You are selling poison to stupid and vulnerable people who don\u2019t know any better. You are the lowest of the low. Granted the guy they kicked the shit out of wasn\u2019t the actual dealer. But he knew who the dealer was and it was time to name names. This is the only way to get that information. Big props for doing it mafia style too by using a van, and telling the idiot they picked up that they were gonna magically fix his debt problems. The only surprising part about this story is that they got caught in Egremont. Egremont is easily top 5 places to dump a body in Massachusetts. Ever been there before? It\u2019s a real trip. Nestled next to Alford, Mount Washington (there\u2019s a town called Mount Washington), New York state, and the metropolis of Great Barrington, there\u2019s no reason for anyone to ever go to Egremont. Ever. The fact that this nudnik jumped out of the van and people were actually there to see it is nothing less than a statistical miracle. I don\u2019t wanna say that father and son are heroes, but they kind of just revolutionized the opiate epidemic. If you sell heroin, you no longer get a free pass from some SJW judge. You get old school punishment from the family. At least that might present a detriment for potential dealers down the road. We urge you to support the following local businesses. They provide terrific services for the community! ", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump Condoms, Anyone? The Outrageous Swag of the Republican ConventionSouvenirs from this week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland took no prisoners. From Trump bumper stickers that call Clinton the B-word (wow) to a poster depicting Clinton in dominatrix gear (double wow) to Trump- and Clinton-themed condoms (triple wow), the swag was as surreal and distasteful as this historic election has been \u2014 and that's saying something. Photos by Steve Truesdell.", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump says NFL owners should fire players who kneel for national anthemPresident Donald Trump criticized some in the National Football League Friday night at a rally for Alabama Republican Senate candidate Luther Strange, saying team owners should fire players for taking a knee during the national anthem. Trump added that if fans would \"leave the stadium\" when players kneel in protest during the national anthem, \"I guarantee, things will stop.\" Trump said NFL owners should respond to the players by saying, \"Get that son of a b**** off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!\" Unable to play video. HTML5 is not supported! \"For a week, (that owner would) be the most popular person in this country. Because that's a total disrespect of our heritage. That's a total disrespect for everything we stand for,\" Trump said. Last year, Colin Kaepernick -- formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, but currently without a team -- drew national attention for refusing to stand during \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" prior to kickoff. \"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,\" Kaepernick told NFL Media in August 2016. His protest spurred both support and backlash. Following the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate soldier statue, Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett told CNN he would follow suit. \"I can't stand for the national anthem,\" Bennett said. \"I can't stand right now. I'm not going to be standing until I see the equality and freedom.\" Trump also took aim at NFL efforts to prevent concussions. \"They're ruining the game, right?\" he said. \"They're ruining the game.\"", | |
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| "sentence": "Megadeth\u2019s Dave Mustaine condemns Charlottesville violence\nDave Mustaine Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has spoken about the recent violence in Charlottesville. Last weekend saw violent clashes between white supremacists and those opposing them in the city, which resulted in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer. She was killed when a car ploughed through a crowd of counter-protestors who had gathered to oppose a \u2018Unite The Right\u2019 rally in the city. Another 19 people were injured at the scene. Reacting to the news at last weekend\u2019s Bloodstock festival, Mustaine tells Metal Hammer\u2019s online editor Luke Morton: \u201cI don\u2019t know much about what happened \u2013 all I know is what they showed on TV and I didn\u2019t get a chance to really see it. \u201cI do know that the same way there were bad guys that went to the liberal protests and started fights, there was a guy in the liberal side hit a guy on the right side in the head with a bicycle lock. He wasn\u2019t part of the people that were protesting, he just went there to be an agent provocateur. \u201cIf the guys on the right can go and mess with the guys on the left, the guys on the left can go and mess with the guys on the right. You don\u2019t really know why people do this and why they have so much hate in their heart. He adds: \u201cThe thought of me getting behind the wheel of a car and running somebody down is just incomprehensible. I don\u2019t have any capacity to think with that much hate.\u201d Later, when Mustaine saw the full news report, he reached out to Luke on Twitter, saying: \u201cI saw the story you asked about in Virginia. It was awful and breaks my heart to see how some people have devolved back into animals.\u201d Earlier this week, Anti-Flag released a lyric video for their track Racist in direct response to the events in Charlottesville, while Papa Roach delivered a message saying no to war and hate in their new video for American Dreams.", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump blasts FBI leadership but says he's loyal to police\nPresident Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, for a trip to Quantico, Va., to attend the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) QUANTICO, Va. \u2014 President Donald Trump laced into FBI leadership Friday, while proclaiming his loyalty and support for law enforcement in an address at the agency's training academy. \"It's a shame what's happened\" with the FBI, the president said as he left the White House for a speech at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia. He called the agency's handling of Hillary Clinton's email investigation \"really disgraceful\" and told reporters \"we're going to rebuild the FBI.\" Shortly afterward, Trump lavished praise on graduates of a weeks-long FBI National Academy program and their families, touting their accomplishments and pledging his unwavering support. Trump told law enforcement leaders he is \"more loyal than anyone else could be\" to police. \"Anti-police sentiment is wrong and it's dangerous,\" he added. \"Anyone who kills a police officer should get the death penalty.\" Trump used the speech to promote his administration's tough-on-crime policies, delivering a stern warning to members of the international gang MS-13 that his administration will root them out and arrest them. He also celebrated his decision to make it easier for local police forces to purchase surplus military equipment, and questioned rising violence in Chicago. \"What the hell is going on in Chicago? What the hell is happening there,\" he asked. Hours before, White House Deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News Channel that edits to former FBI Director James Comey's statement on Clinton's private email server and anti-Trump texts from a top agent are \"deeply troubling.\" \"There is extreme bias against this president with high-up members of the team there at the FBI who were investigating Hillary Clinton at the time,\" Gidley charged, as special counsel Robert Mueller pushes on with a probe of possible Trump campaign ties to Russia. Gidley says Trump maintains confidence in the FBI's rank-and-file. Edits to the Comey draft appeared to soften the gravity of the bureau's finding in its 2016 investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state. \"It is very sad when you look at those documents, how they've done that is really, really disgraceful, and you have a lot of really angry people who are seeing it,\" Trump said of the document. Gidley said the disclosure of politically charged text messages sent by one of the agents on the Clinton case, Peter Strzok, were \"eye-opening.\" Strzok, who was in the room as Clinton was interviewed, was later assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller's team to investigate potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. He was re-assigned after the messages were uncovered this summer. About 200 leaders in law enforcement from around the country attended the weeks-long FBI National Academy program aimed at raising law enforcement standards and cooperation. Coursework included intelligence theory, terrorism and terrorist mindsets, law, behavioral science, law enforcement communication, and forensic science.", | |
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| "sentence": "Biden: Clinton didn\u2019t recognize \u201cgravity\u201d of setting up private email serverVice President Biden defended Hillary Clinton\u2019s decision to use a private email server as secretary of state in an interview Thursday with \u201cFace the Nation\u201d moderator John Dickerson. Dickerson asked Biden about a lesson from his Grandfather Finnegan: \u201cPublic servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they\u2019ll like what he, the public servant, has to say.\u201d He asked the vice president, \u201cDo you think that applies to Hillary Clinton\u2019s dealing with this private server that she set up?\u201d \u201cWell, I think it\u2019s a combination of a couple of things,\u201d Biden replied. \u201cOne, I don\u2019t think she understood the gravity of setting it up. She thought it was, \u2018This is okay to do.\u2019\u201d Clinton has said she set up her private server for the sake of convenience, but she has since acknowledged that it was a mistake and that she would use the government system if she had to do it over again. Biden further suggested that Clinton may be a bit battle-scarred from her long time in the public eye, and he said that may have contributed to her initial clumsy response to the email controversy. \u201cThis woman has been so battered over 30 years,\u201d Biden explained. \u201cI think then when faced with, \u2018This is a problem,\u2019 I think instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there\u2019s always an inclination to overthink it.\u201d The vice president also weighed in on his own future after his time in the Obama administration. \u201cI\u2019m not going away,\u201d he began. \u201cEverything from this issue of violence against women, to income inequality, to the cancer \u2018moonshot,\u2019 I\u2019m gonna devote the rest of my life to this.\u201d \u201cI have been so proud of being involved in public service that I\u2019m not sure exactly how I\u2019m gonna do it,\u201d he added, \u201cother than the structure of [the] American political system.\u201d When Dickerson asked Biden what he\u2019ll do on his final day in office, the vice president replied, \u201cWhat I\u2019m going to do is go home and begin to figure out what I do for the rest of my life.\u201d More of Dickerson\u2019s interview with the vice president will air Sunday. Check your local listings for airtimes.", | |
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| "sentence": "Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees\nOnly 9% of America Chose Trumpand Clinton as the Nominees By ALICIA PARLAPIANO and ADAM PEARCE While Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton will represent the entire country, the Americans who selected them are a small part of it. The United States is home to 324 million people. Each square here represents 1 million people. 103 million of them are children, noncitizens or ineligible felons, and they do not have the right to vote. Estimates for ineligible felons are from 2010. 88 million eligible adults do not vote at all, even in general elections. Based on the share of eligible adults who voted in the 2012 general election. An additional 73 million did not vote in the primaries this year, but will most likely vote in the general election. Does not include people who voted in caucuses, which have less reliable turnout numbers. A small percentage of people vote in primaries but not in general elections, and they are also not included. The remaining 60 million people voted in the primaries: about 30 million each for Republicans and Democrats. But half of the primary voters chose other candidates. Just 14 percent of eligible adults \u2014 9 percent of the whole nation \u2014 voted for either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton. The overall shares were about the same in 2008, the last cycle without an incumbent president running. Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton will be working to win the votes of these three groups. Polls suggest they will be separated by just a handful of squares.", | |
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| "sentence": "Paris attacksSalah Abdeslam wasn't in Belgian court as verdict announced over police shootout that came four months after Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam refuses to rise for judge at trial in hometown of Brussels, where he briefly evaded capture in deadly shootout with police String of lawsuits filed wants Twitter, Facebook to pay damages for failing to stop violent extremists from using their platforms \"The conviction \u2026 sends a clear message to those who fund terrorism [that they] will be prosecuted and potentially face lengthy prison sentences,\u201d official says A year ago Sunday, 130 people were killed in terror attacks across Paris. The Bataclan theatre, which reopened over the weekend, saw the worst of the attacks. Charlie D'Agata has more. CBS Boston confirms Trump wasn't lying about getting a letter from Bill Belichick, but was he right about getting Tom Brady's vote? Islamist extremists like those who carried out two waves of attacks in Paris last year will look to increase their capacity to kill, Patrick Calvar testified Parliamentary probe of 2015 Islamic extremist attacks in France looked at whether they could have been avoided, and what can be learned Lawsuit claims social media companies \"knowingly permitted\" ISIS to recruit members, raise money and spread \"extremist propaganda\" One of the late Bataclan concert hall attackers was part of the group from Strasbourg, who claim they had no part in the organized assault Belgian authorities made five terror related arrests Friday, including Mohamed Abrini, a wanted suspect for his links to the Paris terror attacks. He could also possibly be the \"man in the hat\" in the Brussels airport bombing. Charlie D'Agata reports. PlayVideo PlayVideo PlayVideo PlayVideo PlayVideo PlayVideo PlayVideo 43Photos PlayVideo PlayVideo", | |
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| "sentence": "Could Hurricane Matthew loop around and hit Florida for a SECOND time?\nAmericans are putting up defences and clearing shelves at supermarkets before the hurricane Americans now know that the eye of the powerful hurricane will either just miss Florida\u2019s coast or perhaps hit the shore this week. But there are also fears that the hurricane could go out to sean and loop round return to the battered state early next week as well. The National Hurricane Center\u2019s latest forecast shows that the hurricane is likely to hit or brush Florida then to go back out to sea. It is not yet known when the hurricane will leave the coast at Florida or further north in Georgia or the Carolinas. Some models are now showing that Hurricane could go out to sea and then do a u-turn and head back to Florida for second time. This would be a devastating double blow for the state where thousands of Americans have been told to evacuate the coast before it is \u201ctoo late\u201d. This is the latest map from the National Hurricane Centre The Met Office storm tracker yesterday showed the hurricane was going to make a clear loop back in the direction of Florida But the latest map has been updated and shows the hurricane heading further out into the ocean towards Bermuda. The Met Office said: \u201cThere is high uncertainty in the movement of Matthew early next week. \u201cIt may stay out at sea and slowly weaken, but there is a possibility that it will make a clockwise loop and head towards Florida or the Bahamas again.\u201d This is the map from the Met Office storm tracker on Wednesday October 5 This is the updated map from the Met Office storm tracker on Thursday October 6 Met Office tropical prediction scientist Julian Heming said there is a \u201chuge amount of uncertainty\u201d about what Matthew does next. He said that some of the models yesterday showed that the Matthew could drift off out to sea and then \u201clift off\u201d the northeast. Other models showed that the hurricane could go off the coast but then loop round to the south, possibly back to the Bahamas and Florida. But Mr Heming said its was \u201cfar from clear\u201d what was going to happen that far in advance because hurricanes often change course. Large swathes of this section of the East Coast are being evacuated and under states of emergency as the hurricane approaches. Tue, October 4, 2016 At least 108 people have been killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti and the Dominican Republic as the United States braces itself for the worst storm in a decade. Tropical Storm Matthew, which has since gained hurricane strength, is seen in an image captured by NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite. A Hurricane Warning is in effect for North of Golden Beach to Fernandina Beach and Lake Okeechobee. In addition, a Hurricane Watch alert warns that hurricane conditions are possible in north of Fernandina Beach along the coast in Georgia to Edisto Beach in South Carolina. There is also a Tropical Storm Warning in effect for Florida Bay, Chokoloskee to Golden Beach and Florida Keys from Seven Mile Bridge eastward. The NHC said hurricane conditions are due to hit Florida by late today and will spread northward Thursday night and Friday. It said that hurricane conditions are also possible in Georgia and South Carolina by late Friday.", | |
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| "sentence": "WATCH: Mike Huckabee \u2018Can\u2019t Recall\u2019 If Donald Trump Has Admitted To Sexually Assaulting WomenThe level of doublethink involved in being a contemporary member of the GOP is astounding. Former Presidential candidate and current Donald Trump sycophant Mike Huckabee can barely even remember basic facts, like whether or not Trump has ever admitted to committing sexual assault. The things Republicans have to tell themselves and the public in order to continue pushing their agenda take some serious mental gymnastics. We have Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway coining the term \u201calternative facts.\u201d Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer became a laughing stock for his outrageous defenses of President Donald Trump\u2019s statements and behavior. And the person who took Spicer\u2019s Job, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has continued that trend. For example, she suggested that ESPN analyst Jemele Hill be fired for bullying President Trump on Twitter, despite the fact that the President regularly uses his own Twitter account to shout down opponents and turn his followers against others. However, Sarah\u2019s father Mike Huckabee may take the cake with his comments on Fox & Friends this morning. Conservatives have loved speaking about disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his donations to Democratic causes and candidates, and Trump\u2019s favorite morning team and Huckabee decided to tie it back to Hillary Clinton yet again. Host Abby Huntsman started things off by addressing Huckabee: \u201cThere was also an uncomfortable moment when she talked about President Trump, how he admitted to being sexual assaulter. She was asked about the Weinstein situation and she mentioned how her husband \u2013 Bill Clinton \u2013 what he did was in the past. Anyone watching that, I think, was a little squirmy in their seat. She even looks squirmy, talking about it. Has President Trump ever admitted to being a sexual assaulter?\u201d Anyone with a halfway functioning brain would of course recall the infamous Access Hollywood tape where Trump bragged about grabbing women \u201cby the pussy\u201d because he was famous. Huckabee, apparently, lacks that halfway functioning brain, responding: \u201cI don\u2019t recall that that has ever happened.\u201d He then proceeds to turn the discussion back to Bill Clinton, who, if you recall, was President twenty years ago. Fairly selective memory there, Mike. So keep playing in your big boy trucks, Donald, and know that your sycophants are doing everything in their power to rewrite history. Watch the ridiculous exchange below: Featured image via Flickr user Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0.", | |
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| "sentence": "Jennifer Lawrence pens inspiring letter on Donald Trump victory: 'Let it enrage you'\nJennifer Lawrence has told fans to have hope after Donal Trump Presidential victory The Hollywood actress previously said Trump becoming president would be \"the end of the world\". Now she has vented her anger over the result of the US Election in a column for Broadly. \"Is this the stark reality?,\" asked Lawrence. \"It doesn't matter how hard you work or how qualified you are, at the end of the day, if you're not a man? Is that what we just learned? Clearly furious with the result, the Hunger Games star added: \"The country was founded on immigration and today the only people that feel safe, that their rights are recognised and respected are white men.\" The Hunger Games star urged caution against rioting in the streets She urged caution against \"rioting the streets\" but those angry by the result should think about the next steps \"because we cannot change the past\". \"Do not let this defeat you - let this enrage you! Let this be the fire you didn\u2019t have before,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIf you are an immigrant, if you are a person of colour, if you are LGBTQ+, if you are a woman \u2013 don\u2019t be afraid, be loud!\" But the 26-year-old came unstuck when giving advice to women. \u201cIf you\u2019re a woman and you\u2019re worried that no matter how hard you work or how much you learn, there will always be a glass ceiling, then I don\u2019t really know what to say,\" she said. Jennifer Lawrence is a big Hollywood star has urged her fans to not be afraid Wed, November 9, 2016 Following Trumps shock victory we look at celebrity Twitter reactions Celebrities take to Twitter on election night Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States \"I don\u2019t know what I would tell my daughter if I were you. Except to have hope. To work for the future.\" Lawrence insisted the result should not make anyone feel defeated but to continue having hope. \u201cWe\u2019re all allowed to be sad that the present isn\u2019t what we thought it was. But we mustn\u2019t be defeated. We will keep educating ourselves and working twice as hard as the man next to us because we know now that it is not fair.\u201d Other stars such as Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have also showed their outrage at Trump being elected the 45th President of the United States.", | |
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| "sentence": "Jason Aldean, Jake Owen, more celebs react to the 'beyond horrific' shooting in Las VegasFollowing a deadly shooting in Las Vegas that has left more than 50 people dead and over 200 injured, celebrities are taking to social media to express their grief. Authorities shut down part of the Las Vegas Strip and Interstate 15 after receiving reports of an active shooter at the Route 91 Harvest festival, near the Mandalay Bay Casino at about 10:10 p.m. local time. Sheriff Joe Lombardo of Las Vegas Police confirmed at a news conference that the shooter had fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay. He said officers responded and the suspect was dead. Jason Aldean was performing as the shooting began. On Instagram, he said he his crew members were safe and that he was \"heartbroken.\" \"Tonight has been beyond horrific,\" he captioned a picture of the city. A post shared by Jason Aldean (@jasonaldean) on Jake Owen, who was slated to perform ahead of Aldean Sunday called the event \"unimaginable.\" \"Please pray,\" he tweeted. Praying for everyone here in Vegas. I witnessed the most unimaginable event tonight. We are okay. Others arent. Please pray.\u2014 Jake Owen (@jakeowen) October 2, 2017 Chris Young tweeted that he clung to \"the floor of a trailer behind the stage\" and later added that he felt \"lucky to be alive.\" Spent I don't know how long on the floor of a trailer behind the stage... know multiple people are dead. Listening to that gunfire...\u2014 ChrisYoungMusic (@ChrisYoungMusic) October 2, 2017 I'm not gonna say anything else other than I'm lucky to be alive. As are many others... and so many people are gone... this is heartbreaking\u2014 ChrisYoungMusic (@ChrisYoungMusic) October 2, 2017 Little Big Town performed at the same festival a year ago, and tweeted out their prayers. One year ago we played Route 91 on Sunday night. Our prayers are with all the first responders, artists, crew and mostly the country fans. pic.twitter.com/CTGg7Qm6MJ\u2014 Little Big Town (@littlebigtown) October 2, 2017 Brad Paisley dedicated his prayers to those at the festival and tweeted, \"There are no words right now that suffice.\" Praying for everyone at #HarvestFestival. There are no words right now that suffice.\u2014 Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) October 2, 2017 Miranda Lambert said her heart had been broken. Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum tweeted that he was, \"Praying 4 everyone in the country community & everyone at the scene. My heart is sick over the news in Las Vegas. Praying 4 everyone in the country community & everyone at the scene.\u2014 Charles Kelley (@charleskelleyla) October 2, 2017 Kelsea Ballerini thought of \"the fans who came to sing and dance and be free and happy.\" Just sad. And so sorry for the fans who came to sing and dance and be free and happy. thinking of everyone there & my friend @Jason_Aldean.\u2014 Kelsea Ballerini (@KelseaBallerini) October 2, 2017 Those outside of the country community were also in mourning. Celine Dion, who has a residency at Caesars Palace, said that she was \"Praying for all the innocent victims and their families.\" Praying for all the innocent victims and their families in Las Vegas - C\u00e9line xx... #LasVegas\u2014 Celine Dion (@celinedion) October 2, 2017 Mariah Carey offered her thoughts to those affected. \"Praying for everyone's safety,\" she tweeted. Horrified to hear about the shooting in #LasVegas. My thoughts are with the victims and their families. Praying for everyone's safety \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\udc94\u2014 Mariah Carey (@MariahCarey) October 2, 2017 Trey Songz, who tweeted he was in Vegas at the time of this incident, offered his prayers and shared that he and his team were safe. Don't even know what to say. To be in Vegas while this is happening, brings a pain to my heart. My team and I are safe Thank God! Prayers up\u2014 Trey Songz (@TreySongz) October 2, 2017 Ne-Yo, who is from Las Vegas, called the news \"crazy\" and hoped people could \"stay safe.\" Hearing crazy news coming out of my hometown... Las Vegas, please, stay safe.\u2014 NE-YO (@NeYoCompound) October 2, 2017 Kendra Wilkinson, a co-host of a show at Paris Las Vegas, said she was \"absolutely sick to my stomach.\" No words, just absolutely sick to my stomach.... Vegas be safe. Prayers to victims. \ud83d\ude14\u2014 Kendra Wilkinson (@KendraWilkinson) October 2, 2017 A befuddled Paris Hilton asked, \"What is our world coming to?!\" I can't believe what just happened in Las Vegas! What is our world coming to?! \ud83d\ude2d My prayers go out to the victims & their families. \ud83d\ude4f\u2014 Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) October 2, 2017 Ruby Rose expressed her deepest condolences. \"I'm so sorry for what is happening right now,\" she tweeted. \"It is horrific just to see the videos.. I can't imagine what you are feeling.\" Vegas keep safe. I'm so sorry for what is happening right now. It is horrific just to see the videos.. I can't imagine what you are feeling.\u2014 Ruby Rose (@RubyRose) October 2, 2017 Sam Smith described the scene as \"horrifying,\" adding his \"heart and soul is with all the victims & their families and friends.\" Horrifying scenes in Las Vegas. My heart and soul is with all the victims & their families and friends. Everybody please stay safe.\u2014 Sam Smith (@samsmithworld) October 2, 2017 With tears in his eyes, DJ Steve Aoki told viewers in a video with a Henderson, Nev. geotag to \"check on each other\" and \"stay indoors.\" Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian exlaimed, \"Things have got to change!\" This is heartbreaking to learn about! Things have got to change! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd\u2014 Khlo\u00e9 (@khloekardashian) October 2, 2017 Mandy Moore called the news \"devastating.\" Las Vegas. No words.\ud83d\udc94 Victims and their families are in our thoughts and prayers. This is absolutely horrific and devastating.\u2014 Mandy Moore (@TheMandyMoore) October 2, 2017 Actress Holly Marie Combs took a stand against automatic weapons, writing, \"My only thought is that amount of rounds in automatic rifle should not be available or made or allowed.\" I am at a loss watching Las Vegas. My only thought is that amount of rounds in automatic rifle should not be available or made or allowed.\u2014 Holly Marie Combs (@H_Combs) October 2, 2017 Assault rifles were on Sheryl Crow's mind. \"Can we discuss the loss of rights of people going to a concert because of the lack of assault rifle regulations?\" she tweeted. Can we discuss the loss of rights of people going to a concert because of the lack of assault rifle regulations?\u2014 Sheryl Crow (@SherylCrow) October 2, 2017 Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz called the Las Vegas police members who responded \"true (heroes).\" A post shared by Chloe Grace Moretz (@chloegmoretz) on", | |
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| "sentence": "Obama: Men need to get over their sexism and elect Clinton\nPresident Obama Male voters must break their sexist inclinations so the country can \u201cget over the hump\u201d and elect its first female president, President Obama said Tuesday. In a message directed \u201cto the guys out there\u201d at a campaign rally at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, Obama said, \u201c[T]here\u2019s a reason why we haven\u2019t had a woman president before\u2026\u201d \u201cAnd we have to ask ourselves, as men \u2014 because I hope my daughters are going to be able to achieve anything they want to achieve \u2014 and I know that my wife is not just my equal but my superior,\u201d he continued. \u201cI want every man out there who\u2019s voting to kind of look inside yourself and ask yourself, if you\u2019re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we\u2019re just not used to it. So that, like, when a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well, that\u2019s okay; but when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you\u2019re all like, well, why is she doing that?\u201d he added. Obama\u2019s closing argument for his possible successor comes as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has a slight edge over Hillary Clinton in the Buckeye State. The RealClearPolitics average of Ohio pollsshows the mogul with a 2.5-percentage-point lead, with Trump getting 46.8 percent of the vote and Clinton 44.3 percent.", | |
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| "sentence": "GOP congressional candidate uses Twitter to coordinate attacks on 'Jewish media,' vowing to 'decimate them all'GOP congressional candidate Paul Nehlen has drawn on anti-Semitic sympathy to rally support for his fledgling campaign, BuzzFeed News reported Friday. Nehlen \u2014 who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in a Republican primary this summer \u2014 ran a Twitter group chat where he rallied white nationalists to attack his opponents, BuzzFeed News reported. One of Nehlen's stated adversaries was the \"Jewish media,\" who he believed had \"coordinated\" to smear him after he lost the support of Breitbart News for sending tweets about white pride. Nehlen's list of targets included conservative personality John Cardillo, author Kurt Schlichter, and former Boston Red Sox pitcher turned Breitbart radio host Curt Schilling. All three men, BuzzFeed News notes, are conservatives who distanced themselves from Nehlen. The candidate turned to his Twitter group to ask for some backup, writing, \"Cardillo and others like him are working for Jewish media. Then, there are the fake conservatives who happen to be Jewish.\" Per screenshots published by BuzzFeed News, Nehlen then added: \"I'm going to decimate them all. And y'all are gonna help me.\" Sources who spoke to BuzzFeed News said that \"such requests were common\" from Nehlen. One of the group chat's most notable participants is Richard Spencer ally Eli Mosley, who heads a white nationalist group of his own called Identify Evropa, BuzzFeed News points out. Mosley is a polarizing figure even among white nationalists, as many reportedly think he sparked the violence at last year's \"Unite the Right\" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was killed by a white nationalist. Read more about Nehlen's group chat at BuzzFeed News. Kelly O'Meara Morales", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump and Moore: Birther buddies reunite to promote more lies\nRoy Moore and Donald Trump (CNN/screen grab) The current political alliance between President Trump and Roy Moore isn\u2019t new \u2013 their collusion goes back at least to 2011. It was then that the two teamed up to promote the \u201cBirther Lie\u201d that President Obama was not born in the USA. They served as active and vocal leaders of this racist cause over the five-year period from 2011 to 2016. President Obama\u2019s short form and long form birth certificates were released by the Dept. of Health of the State of Hawaii, in June 2008 and April 2011 respectively. The birth records show that Barack Hussein Obama II was born at 7:24 pm on August 4, 1961, in the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, to Stanley Ann Dunham Obama and Barack Hussein Obama. In the face of this documentary evidence, many early \u201cBirthers\u201d gave up the cause. But not Trump and Moore. They relentlessly promoted the lie, claiming in public speeches and interviews that they were privy to inside information that these birth certificates were forgeries. Moore, who began his involvement in the cause in 2008, declared to World Net Daily in 2010 that there was \u201csubstantial evidence that Obama was not born in our country.\u201d Trump, who didn\u2019t publicly join the cause until 2011, tweeted on August 6, 2012 that \u201can \u2018extremely credible source\u2019 has called my office and told me that Barack Obama\u2019s birth certificate is a fraud.\u201d Moore\u2019s \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d and Trump\u2019s \u201cextremely credible source\u201d never, of course, materialized. Moore combined his birther claims with the Islamophobic lie that Obama was secretly a Muslim, while Trump cleverly used the lie in his Presidential campaigns of 2012 and 2016 to solidify the nationalist, racist, anti-Obama core of his base. The political effectiveness of the Birther Lie can be seen in the results of the NBC poll of September 2016. In the responses by registered Republicans only 28% agreed with the statement that \u201cBarack Obama was born in the United States.\u201d Another 41% disagreed, and 31% stated that they didn\u2019t know one way or the other. The Birther Lie appears to have sowed doubt about the President being born in the U.S., and thus the legitimacy of his Presidency, among nearly three-quarters of registered Republicans. Trump officially gave up the \u201cBirther Lie\u201d on Sept. 16, 2016, with Moore doing so 3 months later. When Trump gave up the lie, however, he replaced it with another one \u2013 naming his opponent Hillary Clinton as the originator of the whole birther idea, again of course without any evidence. And now, in late 2017, Trump has apparently decided to revive the lie, letting people around him know that he still believes it. The \u201cBirther Lie\u201d shows us that Trump and Moore are inveterate liars. So why should we believe them when they completely deny the credible testimonies of the more than 21 women who accuse one or the other of these men of sexual molesting them? Once again, these \u201cbirther buddies\u201d would like us to ignore credible evidence and believe more of their big fat lies. Guest author Tony Nugent is a symbologist, an expert in ancient symbols. He taught at Seattle University for fifteen years in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and is an ordained Presbyterian minister.", | |
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| "sentence": "She claimed to support same-sex marriageIn an interview with Fancast in 2010, Elisabeth said (via The Huffington Post), \"I am not ultra-ultra-conservative on every issue. I actually support gay marriage.\" She reiterated that stance on The View in July 2011, calling demonstrations against same-sex marriage \"uncalled for and tasteless,\" adding, \"If you think anything is killing heterosexual marriage, the only thing that's killing heterosexual marriage is heterosexual marriage.\"", | |
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| "sentence": "Latest leaked emails: Former top aide to Bill Clinton disparages Chelsea Clinton\nChelsea Clinton strikes a pose during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Photos: Chelsea Clinton through The Years Photos: Presidential Daughters Photos: White House Weddings WASHINGTON Newly leaked emails show consternation among those closest to Hillary Clinton about how Bill Clinton\u2019s business dealings might damage his reputation and potentially affect her presidential hopes. The emails, posted Monday by the WikiLeaks organization, also give insight into tension and turmoil within the Clinton Foundation while Clinton was serving as secretary of state. The chief operating officer of the family charity was reported to be threatening to commit suicide over the stress. WikiLeaks began releasing on Friday what it says are years of messages from the accounts of Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta. Podesta has acknowledged his emails were hacked, but warned the messages may have been altered or edited to do political damage to Clinton. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear who hacked Podesta\u2019s emails, though U.S. intelligence officials last week blamed the Russian government for a series of breaches and leaks intended to influence the presidential election. The emails that circulated among Podesta, Chelsea Clinton and former Bill Clinton aide Doug Band detail internal tensions that simmered inside the Clinton Foundation and appear to have played a role in Band\u2019s departure from the family charity. Internal concerns among Clinton family intimates about Band and the private corporate advisory firm he co-founded, Teneo Holdings, have been previously detailed in several media accounts. But the new emails provide raw glimpses of an apparent power struggle between the Clintons\u2019 daughter and Band, who worked closely for Bill Clinton for more than a decade after the end of the Clinton administration. In an email exchange from December 2011, Chelsea Clinton tells Podesta and others - including Clinton adviser and current Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe - that she\u2019s increasingly concerned about Teneo. The email includes a forwarded news article that alleges that Bill Clinton had collected $50,000 a month through Teneo from MF Global, the commodities brokerage formerly run by former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, while MF Global was preparing to file for bankruptcy. Chelsea Clinton told Podesta and others that two people separately came up to her at a London event for the Clinton Foundation to raise concerns that someone representing Teneo clients had been calling members of the British Parliament \u201con behalf of President Clinton\u201d without her father\u2019s knowledge. Chelsea Clinton said the calls had people in London \u201cmaking comparisons\u201d between the \u201cprofit motivations\u201d of the former president and former Prime Minister Tony Blair. \u201cWhich would horrify my father,\u201d Chelsea Clinton wrote. Band wrote in an email that Chelsea Clinton seemed more concerned about critical news coverage about MF Global, a derivatives broker, and Band\u2019s advisory firm, Teneo, than published reports about Bill Clinton\u2019s infidelity. \u201cI realize it is difficult to confront and reason with her but this could go (too) far and then we all will have a real serious set of other problems,\u201d Band vented in an exchange sent to Podesta. \u201cI don\u2019t deserve this from her and deserve a tad more respect. ... She is acting like a spoiled brat kid who has nothing else to do but create issues to justify what she\u2019s doing because she, as she has said, hasn\u2019t found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.\u201d The emails reflect the ascendance of Chelsea Clinton - as early as 2011 - inside the family charity. The younger Clinton was recently was anointed as the Clinton Foundation\u2019s future leader if her mother wins the presidency next month. Bill Clinton announced in August that he planned to step down from the charity\u2019s board if his wife becomes president. Chelsea Clinton will remain on the organization\u2019s board. Bill Clinton explained in a letter to supporters in August that he would resign and stop raising funds for the charity to eliminate \u201clegitimate concerns about potential conflicts of interest.\u201d Calls seeking comment from the Clinton Foundation and from Teneo, where Band works, received no response Monday. Also in December 2011, Clinton Foundation chief operating officer Laura Graham contacted Band to complain that stress she blamed on the former president and Chelsea Clinton was causing her to consider suicide. Band wrote that when Graham called him, she was in her car parked near the water with her foot on the gas pedal. He said he dissuaded her from hurting herself. \u201cShe called me to tell me the stress of all of this office crap with wjc and cvc as well as that of her family had driven her to the edge and she couldn\u2019t take it anymore,\u201d Band wrote in an email to Podesta and Cheryl Mills, then Hillary Clinton\u2019s chief of staff. Graham later departed the Clinton Foundation, taking a new job with the Empire State Development Corporation. Phone messages left for Graham on Monday received no response. \u00a9 2016 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.", | |
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| "sentence": "Victory for Trump would create a SAFER, MORE PROSPEROUS world, writes James Delingpole\nDonald Trump could win the US election next November 8 This question is entirely rhetorical because the BBC and its crew of analysts and right-on comedians have told us already: America will be engulfed by a tidal wave of sexism, racism and xenophobia; the dollar will collapse and with it the global economy; by the end of his first week Trump will be so drunk with power that he\u2019ll make a clumsy pass at some White House intern, miss and accidentally press the red button which triggers a nuclear war\u2026 Call me an optimistic fool but I don\u2019t believe any of this nonsense. Not only do I think that a Donald Trump presidency would be far less disastrous than a Hillary Clinton one but I\u2019d even suggest \u2013 albeit cautiously \u2013 that the world might become a better, safer, more prosperous place. The world could be safer if Donald Trump wins against Hillary Cliton Let me stress that Donald Trump is by no means my dream candidate for the post of the next leader of the free world. I perfectly well accept that he is a vulgar, rude, bullying, ignorant, sexist chancer who entered the presidential race on a whim and may end up getting the job only by default. But Donald Trump has at least two massive qualities in his favour. The first is that he is not Hillary, a corrupt, ailing serial fibber with a dubious track record (from the Whitewater financial scandal to Benghazi, where her negligence may have resulted in the murder of the US ambassador) and a snooty contempt for the law demonstrated most by the FBI investigation into her hidden emails. And the second is that he is not a paid up member of the Washington DC establishment. Trump, not unlike Nigel Farage, is the voice of the ordinary bloke or woman who has had just about enough of the remote, spoilt, anti-democratic political elite. Yes, America is a very different place from Britain but there are definitely echoes in the US presidential campaign of the tensions which led so many of us to vote for Brexit. While America\u2019s rich have got richer, living standards for its working folk have remained stagnant for decades. This is at least in part because of a cosy stitch-up between the governing elite \u2013 lawyers, corporations, politicians and the overmighty US central bank the Federal Reserve \u2013 which has entrenched its own power by making it almost impossible for those lower down to climb the ladder. Adding to these financial pressures are the frustrations caused by mass illegal immigration and also by the liberal elite\u2019s obsession with political correctness, which has led to a woefully bad state education system, an increase in Islamist terrorism and a burning sense of injustice, especially among blue-collar Americans that they can\u2019t speak their minds and that their country is no longer their own. Mrs Clinton is a corrupt, ailing serial fibber with a dubious track record Trump\u2019s proposed solutions \u2013 build a wall on the Mexican border to stop immigration, ban Muslims(!), protect American jobs with tariff barriers on imports, hammer the Federal Reserve, stop wasting gazillions of dollars pretending to \u201ccombat\u201d climate change \u2013 may be impetuous and in some cases extreme. But the point is here at last is a politician bold enough to address the real and pressing problems that most of his contemporaries have preferred to brush under the carpet. While Obama has fiddled during his eight years as president the world has burned: the Middle East crisis has worsened; terrorism has proliferated; Russia and China have flexed their muscles; the eurozone has stagnated; the refugee problem has got out of control; and almost nothing has been done to address the underlying economic problems that led to the 2008 crash. If Hillary gets in, it will be more of the same. Trump on the other hand is a radical who might actually press the reset button. Tue, November 8, 2016 The top photos following the campaign journey of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the US Elections 2016 US Elections 2016 in pictures Take Russia: for the Washington establishment it\u2019s the world\u2019s biggest geopolitical threat with Putin being painted as the new Stalin. But Trump just isn\u2019t interested in prolonging the Cold War, let alone provoking a Third World War. He sees Putin as a flawed man with whom he can nonetheless do business. This will appal those who just want to focus on Putin\u2019s human rights record but may come as a relief to those who would prefer to have Russia as an awkward ally rather than as a belligerent, chippy basket case on Europe\u2019s doorstep. Donald Trump giving the thumbs up Trump is the voice of the everyday folk in America Let\u2019s hope this strategy works because one of the bigger worries about Trump is his view on Nato: he has even suggested \u2013 against Nato policy \u2013 that if one of its member states were attacked, America wouldn\u2019t necessarily go to its defence. This is one of those areas where you have to hope that the wiser counsels of his advisers will prevail. That said, it would be no bad thing if Trump\u2019s remarks about Nato members failing to pull their weight were to concentrate the minds of European governments, ours included, on the woeful neglect of our defence budgets. No one is pretending that Trump is the dream presidential candidate but then we\u2019ve just had eight years of the \u201cdream\u201d one \u2013 or so the slavish liberal media kept telling us \u2013 and he was useless. Maybe the time has come for someone who really does want to make America great again. And if we\u2019re lucky perhaps a little bit of that optimism will rub off on the rest of us too.", | |
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| "sentence": "On The Morning After A Huge Result, The Daily Record Manufactures An Anti-Celtic Story.\nDate: 3rd August 2017 at 11:23am Written by: James Forrest On the morning following an excellent Champions League game, what do you know? The Daily Record has yet another story linking Celtic fans to extremism, and this one is as bent looking as it\u2019s possible to be. Today they are featuring a \u201cCeltic fan\u201d who sent a \u201cbomb threat\u201d to Ibrox with an ISIS twist. On Twitter. And it doesn\u2019t take much to knock this story on its ass. This \u201cperson\u201d joined Twitter in July this year. He or she has a grand total of 59 followers and follows a grand total of 125. This is the textbook definition of a complete non-story; if this person exists at all The Record has elevated them beyond utter irrelevance and used them to beat the rest of our support. I would suggest this story has been manufactured. I had a look at this Twitter twat\u2019s timeline; he is a clown. He rants about various subjects in the kind of pre-school language Twitter is full of. The Record knows full well this is an idiot with a few fried brain cells, but I said the other day that an agenda is being pursued here and this is another demonstration of it. To have blown a tweet by a complete nobody off Twitter into a story that smears the Celtic support as a whole is an act of malevolence against our club, and as per usual with that arse-rag the story is so weak that no-one wants to stand their own name beside it. It carries the standard appellation for a story which is Utter Mince; \u201cDaily Record Online Reporter\u201d \u2013 or Daily Record Shit-Stirring Troll, a far more accurate description. Basically, a clown whose job is to scour Twitter and Facebook for any anti-Celtic angle they can find. I know nobody in our support still reads this gutter-rag \u2026 I still do not understand why anyone from our club is willing to talk to its \u201cjournalists\u201d or entertain their presence at our ground. This publication does not wish us well, I cannot put it more bluntly than that. The paper claims to have reported this \u201cincident\u201d to Police Scotland. Talk about wasting police time. Hiding a blatant smear job behind civic virtue \u2026 a new low even for them.", | |
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| "sentence": "Venezuela's constitutional assembly ousted its chief prosecutorThe newly-installed constitutional assembly led by President Nicolas Maduro has ousted Venezuela's chief prosecutor on Saturday, a move that signals that the embattled government is making swift moves to consolidate power. Hails of \"traitor\" and \"justice has arrived\" erupted from the 545 pro-government delegates during the unanimous vote to remove the top law enforcement official, Luisa Ortega, from her post. The assembly replaced her with a staunch government supporter. The delegates said they were acting in response to a ruling by the government-attacked Supreme Court, which was separately considering a request to sanction Ortega. Speaking to journalists after her removal, Ortega said dozens of national guardsmen in riot gear barred her from entering her office, alleging that authorities wanted to get their hands on sensitive information implicating high-level officials in dirty dealings. \"Do you know what they want to achieve with this? They want to hide the corruption and violation of human rights taking place in Venezuela that I will continue to denounce,\" Ortega said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro plans to seat a new controversial constituent assembly in an effort to rewrite the country's constitution despite continued opposition protests. The new legislative body's constitution would nullify the other branches of government, leading opposition leaders to call on citizens to protest in the streets in objection. Maduro is expected to seat the 545-member body at the legislative palace in the capital of Caracas on Friday, just yards from the opposition-led National Assembly. He plans to attend the assembly's opening session and promised to use the assembly itself to attack his political opponents. \"The only way they'll get us out of here is by killing us,\" National Assembly first vice president Freddy Guevara told the Associated Press. \"They will never have a seat that the people of Venezuela gave us.\" Maduro's assembly was elected on Sunday, despite opposition claims that the election itself was rigged in favor of Maduro supporters, resulting in a boycott. The U.S. State Department condemned the assembly on Thursday, claiming the rigged election only served to empower \"the Maduro dictatorship.\" Several U.S. lawmakers joined in the condemnation, including Sen. Marco Rubio who issued a message of support to the Venezuelan people in Spanish. \"At a time of deep divisions in our own politics, both the left and the right here in the United States support the people of Venezuela and condemn the Maduro government,\" said Rubio. \"Even those who sympathized and defended the late Hugo Chavez, condemn the direction Nicolas Maduro has taken your country.\" The senator added that Venezuelans are \"only a free and fair election away from a better future.\" Sen. Bob Menendez, senior member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, claimed a \"sham election\" was used to elect the pro-Maduro assembly. \"Nicolas Maduro's decision to move forward with a sham election to create a constituent assembly and shred his country's constitution offers yet another disturbing example of how dangerously unfit this man is to lead country,\" said Menendez in a statement released on Monday. Venezuela's legislative palace has been the scene of violent protests in recent weeks. Three months of bloody protests and a beleaguered economy have taken a serious toll on Venezuelans. Conditions are expected to worsen should Maduro and his supporters be successful in rewriting the constitution. The Associated Press contributed to this report.", | |
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| "sentence": "VIDEO- AG SESSIONS: Comey Went Rogue In Hillary Email Case; Usurped Entire Justice DepartmentEx-FBI Director James Comey went rogue, according to testimony Wednesday from Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions said in a Senate hearing that by clearing Hillary Clinton from prosecution for leaking and transmitting classified and top secret emails, Comey acted as investigator, judge and jury. And that is why he was fired. Sessions was addressing questions from Sen. Diane Feinstein about why Comey was fired as FBI chief. AG Sessions \u201cI don\u2019t think the significance of the ERROR that Comey made on the Clinton matter is fully understood\u201d! pic.twitter.com/5LrYvbBYNO \u2014 \u2018GITMO\u2019 BAMA \u25aa\ufe0f (@President1Trump) October 18, 2017 ", | |
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| "sentence": "This video of waves crashing directly into a house shows the danger and power of Hurricane Matthew's floodingOne of the biggest problems officials face in preparing for a hurricane is that many people simply ignore evacuation orders. As Hurricane Matthew bore down on Florida this week before tearing up the coastline Friday, Rick Scott begged Floridians in evacuation zones to flee. \u201cThis storm will kill you,\u201d he said. But, inevitably, some people don\u2019t. One family on Merritt Island called 911 after the roof of their home \u201c just flew off.\u201d Many more regret having stayed behind, according to WESH 2, a local NBC affiliate. The most severe danger in any storm is floodwaters. They\u2019re powerful, immensely destructive, and can drown even strong swimmers. Most of the 1,836 deaths from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 happened as a result of flooding. Footage out of Palm Coast Florida shows how scary and fast-moving a storm surge can be: INCREDIBLE VIDEO: Watch as these waves crash into this Palm Coast house! https://t.co/R4Ty2ytBEg #HurricaneMatthew pic.twitter.com/hJ0xUC2MzP \u2014 WESH 2 News (@WESH) October 7, 2016 In just a few moments, that wave of water crashes into and overtops a protective wall of sandbags, then crashes into the house. That\u2019s not enough time for a person to get out of the way or reach higher ground. It\u2019s not clear exactly how WESH 2 News, a local NBC affiliate that tweeted the footage, got their hands on it. But it appears to come from a Canary home video security system, which can be viewed remotely. There\u2019s no reason to believe anyone was in the house when the wave hit. NOW WATCH: Briefing videos Follow Business Insider Australia on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.", | |
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| "sentence": "Top 10 Best Hillary Clinton Quotes of All Time\nHillary Clinton Campaigns In Des Moines As Early Voting Begins In Iowa The final full day of campaigning is over, and on Tuesday, Americans will determine which candidate will be the next president of the United States. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton appeared in Michigan on Monday, while Republican candidate Donald Trump made his way to Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Although Trump has provided America with some colorful statements on the subjects of race, wealth, women, and politics, Clinton has also made some contentious remarks that have divided the public. Read on for a list of Clinton's top 10 best quotes of all time. (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D Hillary Clinton Addresses Nat'l Education Association Representative Assembly \"I call it 'Trumped Up, Trickle Down' because that's exactly what it would be.\" - First presidential debate (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Hillary Clinton And President Obama Speak At The Congressional Black Caucus' Annual Phoenix Awards \"Don\u2019t let anybody tell you that it\u2019s corporations and businesses that create jobs.\u201d - Rally for Martha Coakley in Boston (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D Hillary Clinton Campaigns On Labor Day In Ohio And Iowa \u201cI remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.\u201d - Speech at George Washington University, March 17, 2008 (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Final Presidential Debate Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Held In Las Vegas Hillary Clinton Hillary served as the 67th Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and was a junior Senator for New York between 2001 and 2009. As the wife of former President Bill Clinton, Hillary served as First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947, and her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, managed a small textile business. Clinton's mother, Dorothy Emma Howell, was a homemaker. The former first lady has two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony. (Getty) Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Philadelphia \u201cI hope the fact checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard.\u201d - First presidential debate (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Face Off In First Presidential Debate At Hofstra University \"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.\" - March 26, 1992, Interview with Ted Koppel (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Hillary Clinton Holds Primary Night Event In Brooklyn, New York \"The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.\" - NBC's Today Show (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Hillary Clinton Holds Early Voting Rallies In Iowa \"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.\" \u2013 1995 (Getty) Join over 240,000 people who get the most important news stories and the best shopping deals from Heavy \u2013 Delivered right to your inbox. 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Campaigns In Charlotte, North Carolina \"We need a new politics of meaning ... we are part of something bigger than ourselves.\" - 1993, speaking at University of Texas (Getty) 3 Comments ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D ELECTION IN AMERICA 2016 = = = H D", | |
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| "sentence": "COMMENTARY: Donald Trump, candidate of changeOn the left, and among Donald Trump's conservative critics, a new debate has emerged: is the media to blame for the businessman's rise, or are Republican primary voters simply \"idiots,\" as New York Magazine's Jon Chait argued recently, and unable to recognize a con-artist when they see one? This is a false choice. There are plenty of factors that went into Trump becoming the presumptive GOP nominee, and the incessant media coverage of his every utterance and movement probably contributed to his sky-high negatives. But it's unserious, not to mention smug, to assume that Trump has been playing all of his Republican supporters for dupes. You don't need to worship Trump to vote for him. You don't even have to like him, or think he's always honest, because these are not the factors at the heart of Trump's appeal. Consider this from Michael Cooper, a writer, attorney, and liberal Democrat who lives in rural North Carolina. \"My Republican friends are for Trump. My state representative is for Trump,\" he wrote in U.S. News in March. \"People who haven't voted in years are for Trump. He'll win the primary here on March 15 and he will carry this county in the general. His supporters realize he's a joke. They do not care. They know he's authoritarian, nationalist, almost un-American, and they love him anyway, because he disrupts a broken political process and beats establishment candidates who've long ignored their interests.\" This, I think, nicely sums up the core of Trump's support. Yes, there is a cult of personality around the candidate, and some of his backers do seem to think of him as a man who can do no wrong. But the breadth of Trump's support alone indicates that we're dealing with more than just full-fledged #TrumpTrain devotees. We're also dealing with the people Cooper writes about, the ones who aren't so enthralled with the man himself but recognize him as a change agent. And the truth is that a President Trump would, of course, be a change agent. A Hillary win would likely take us to something like the pre-Trump status quo ante, which is one reason why so many D.C. and Wall Street Republicans will wind up supporting her -- they'll still know how to play the game in a second Clinton presidency. The notable Republicans who aren't supporting Donald Trump A Trump victory, meanwhile, will undoubtedly lead to profound upheaval in our political system. The policies he'll pursue in office are still something of a mystery, but due to his lack of a real, grounding political philosophy, we can assume that he'll embrace positions to both the right- and left-of-center. In effect this would be something like a third party in American politics, and one in control of the White House no less -- a Party of Trump, which will find itself at odds with both stalwart conservatives like Ben Sasse and progressives like Elizabeth Warren. Occasionally he'll find common cause with one side, and sometimes with the other. You could even see him putting together odd bedfellows like Sherrod Brown and Jeff Sessions to pass new restrictions on trade. Any way you look at it, he would scramble everything we know about American politics. You can argue that the changes that Trump would bring to this country would be disastrous, or that he's morally and intellectually unfit for the office. But the one safe bet we have about a Trump presidency is that it would provoke a realignment in our politics and bring about an end to the elite governing consensus of the last several decades. America's many establishments -- Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative - would all suddenly find themselves on the outs. The Democrats have signaled that they'll run on the idea that a Trump presidency is just too \"risky\" and \"dangerous.\" But that shows a real misunderstanding of his appeal as a candidate. The subtext of every Trump rally is basically take this risk, take this gamble -- it may all end in tears, but it's worth a shot. America isn't working anymore, his argument goes. It's not working for Americans, Americans know that, and all those smug elites are to blame. How do we fix that? Hard to say: Trump, remember, has a habit of contradicting himself within the same sentence when answering questions about his policy specifics. But step one is blowing up the system, and that's exactly what Trump is promising to do. Is it childish to want the political system to be completely upended even if the consequences might be disastrous? Maybe. But in a country where a plurality of Americans think that \"people like them\" were better off 50 years ago, at least according to a recent Pew survey, it should also be expected. We can dismiss Trump's voters as low-class, knuckle-dragging racists who deserve, in some sense, to suffer. But that wouldn't be wise from a governing standpoint or, for Trump's opponents, a tactical one. If you think that Trump's voters don't get what's best for them, then it's up to you to sell them on why they're wrong -- to make the case that free trade leads to cheaper, better goods for everyone, that immigration greatly benefits the economy, that a \"Muslim ban\" is immoral and would only help groups like ISIS. That the system, for all its faults, can still be reformed, and that allowing Trump to raise hell in Washington will only make his supporters' lot worse. But to just dismiss them as \"idiots\" is, well, stupid. It plays into his hands; it justifies the anti-elite impulse he's exploited. The consensus among all the poll-watchers and data-heads who have consistently underestimated Trump from the onset is that Hillary is all but certain to win in November. And they might be right. But if Trump pulls off the upset, the smugness and lack of empathy that defines too many of his detractors will be in large part to blame.", | |
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| "sentence": "UK urged to follow Donald Trump's vow to DEPORT illegal immigrantsPresident-elect Mr Trump outlined his tough stance to root out the millions who are in the country illegally, particularly criminals. Mr Trump said that once the border was \u201csecure\u201d, immigration officials would take a decision over what action to take with remaining migrants. But he also said deportations would take place \u201cimmediately\u201d after he entered the White House. He said: \u201cWhat we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate. \u201cBut we\u2019re getting them out of our country, they\u2019re here illegally.\u201d He said a \u201cdetermination\u201d would be made about remaining illegal immigrants. He said: \u201cAfter the border is secure and after everything gets normalised, we\u2019re going to make a determination on the people that they\u2019re talking about who are terrific people, they\u2019re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that. \u201cBut before we make that determination\u2026 it\u2019s very important, we are going to secure our border.\u201d 'I fully support and agree with Trump\u2019s stance', says Paul Nuttall Ukip MEP Last night, Ukip MEP Gerard Batten called on Britain to take tougher action on illegal immigrants and said it would be easier to do so after having left the European Union. He said: \u201cDonald Trump is absolutely right. By their very nature, illegal immigrants are in the country illegally. \u201cWhy wouldn\u2019t you deport them? We should do the same. \u201cPeople who come here illegally should be sent back home and those who have committed crimes expressly so. \u201cDonald Trump isn\u2019t constrained by the Human Rights Act and the European Court of Human Rights so he can get rid of them. When we leave the EU we can do that too. We have something like a million illegal immigrants here.\u201d Paul Nuttall, also a Ukip MEP, said: \u201cI fully support and agree with Trump\u2019s stance\u2026 and I wish Britain was better at deporting foreign criminals. \u201cNot only are they in the country illegally, they have broken their obligation to live by the rules of the host country. \u201cWhy should we spend our hard-earned money, that could otherwise be spent on the NHS or education, on keeping people that shouldn\u2019t even be in the country in our prisons? They should be sent back.\u201d Tue, December 13, 2016 Donald John Trump is an American businessman and politician who is President-elect of the United States as well as chairman and president of The Trump Organization Theresa May suggested she might further streamline visa application processes for Indians Conservative MP Peter Bone said: \u201cWhat Donald Trump is tapping into is the deep frustration that people here have, that people come here illegally, commit crime and then can\u2019t be deported because of their human rights. \u201cWe also need to be robust in returning illegal immigrants. \u201cOne of the frustrating things is that when someone comes here and they break the law we seem to be powerless to deport them. \u201cWe should not be worried about their human rights. Britons are fed up with people abusing the system.\u201d In June, the Commons\u2019 Home Affairs Committee called for urgent action to \u201csignificantly\u201d reduce the number of foreign offenders, estimated to number 13,000. Last week, during an official visit to India, Prime Minister Theresa May suggested she might further streamline visa application processes for Indians if Delhi made it easier for Britain to deport Indian citizens who had over-stayed. At the weekend, during his first recorded TV interview after being elected on Tuesday, Mr Trump was asked whether a wall with Mexico would be built and said: \u201cYes,\u201d but he appeared to backtrack suggesting it would be partly \u201csome fencing\u201d. Mr Trump said: \u201cFor certain areas\u2026 a wall is more appropriate\u2026 I\u2019m very good at this, it\u2019s called construction.\u201d Crowds march in New York in protest of new Republican president-elect Donald Trump Following Mr Trump\u2019s win, Mexico has reiterated that it would not fund any wall. A wave of protests continued yesterday afternoon in New York and Oakland in California as demonstrators took to the streets for the fifth consecutive day. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets since the results from Tuesday showed Mr Trump had secured enough votes in the 538-person electoral college to clinch the presidency. In the main. the protests have been peaceful and have decried Mr Trump for his campaign promises to clamp down on immigration and register Muslims along with claims the former reality TV star had sexually abused women. So far, arrests have been in the dozens and a number of police have been injured. Slogans including \u201cnot my President\u201d and \u201clove trumps hate\u201d were chanted by campaigners on the march in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere. Protesters say Mr Trump threatens their civil and human rights. A protestor in New York holds a sign which reads, 'Trump is not my President' The protests come as it emerged that Hillary Clinton could receive two million more votes than Mr Trump when the final tally is made. The latest findings show Democrat Mrs Clinton has received 400,000 more votes than the President-elect \u2013 60.4 million compared with 60 million. Millions of votes are yet to be counted in the pro-Democrat state of California and experts believe Mrs Clinton\u2019s win of the popular vote could be extended to two million. Campaigners are fighting for reform as they suggest the US electoral college system is outdated. The result is similar to the situation which arose in the 2000 election when Al Gore lost having defeated George W Bush in the popular vote.", | |
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| "sentence": "Kellyanne Conway says White House \u201cdoesn\u2019t care\u201d about Clinton, but Trump certainly doesOnly hours after President Donald Trump's aide, Kellyanne Conway, had a fiery exchange with CNN's Chris Cuomo over whether or not the White House was obsessed about Hillary Clinton, the president completely undercut her argument. On Thursday morning, the president, spending his \" Executive Time\" watching \"Fox & Friends,\" angrily tweeted about his Democratic opponent in 2016, while slamming the infamous dossier in an attempt to distract from the ongoing probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin. Disproven and paid for by Democrats \u201cDossier used to spy on Trump Campaign. Did FBI use Intel tool to influence the Election?\u201d @foxandfriends Did Dems or Clinton also pay Russians? Where are hidden and smashed DNC servers? Where are Crooked Hillary Emails? What a mess! \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2018 But just the night before, Conway vociferously defended Trump and insisted no one in the White House cared about Clinton. \"We don't care about her. Nobody here talks about her,\" Conway said. \"Nobody here talks about Hillary Clinton, I promise you.\" \"We don't care about her. Nobody here talks about her.\" Kellyanne Conway claimed that while many cannot get over the 2016 presidential election, the White House does not talk about Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/VvVVbeeLyK pic.twitter.com/W73q9nZnF5 \u2014 CNN (@CNN) January 11, 2018 Conway also asserted that the public still had not gotten over the election and that most haven't moved on. Trump, however, was handing out electoral maps last year touting his victory. \"So many people can\u2019t get over the election results,\" Conway said. Cuomo fired back, \"Says my friend who can\u2019t keep Hillary Clinton\u2019s name out of her mouth.\" \"I'll make you a deal,\" Conway said. \"I'll never talk about her [Clinton] again, but then you can't talk about the 2016 election.\" \"I'm not, I haven't mentioned the election once,\" Cuomo replied. In recent months, Conway has tweeted about Clinton on numerous occasions herself. It took Hillary abt 5 minutes to blame NRA for madman's rampage, but 5 days to sorta-kinda blame Harvey Weinstein 4 his sexually assaults. \u2014 Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 10, 2017 So, Hillary blames Bernie 4 Trump's \"Crooked Hillary\", blames Obama 4 \"lay off Bernie\", blames Bernie Bros 4 sexism. https://t.co/6MjMmc3q8m \u2014 Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) September 5, 2017 The two continued to talk over each other, and Cuomo brought up the alleged Russian election meddling, as well as the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which top Trump campaign officials met with a Russian lawyer with potential ties to the Kremlin in order to receive dirt on Clinton. \"The idea that we would have to look any further than Hillary Clinton to beat Hillary Clinton is a fantasy,\" Conway said. The CNN host added, \"Is we inconclusive of Don Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who went to a meeting with a Russian lawyer who was promising dirt on Hillary Clinton?\" \"And what came of that meeting? Absolutely nothing,\" Conway responded. \"That's not the point,\" Cuomo emphasized. \"The point is why you went.\" In essence, Conway's behavior was a larger metaphor of the Trump presidency. Either Conway \u2014 who delivered to America the phrase \"alternative facts\" \u2014 was deliberately lying about Trump's personal obsession with deflecting and pointing the finger at Clinton, or she has proven yet again that the right hand still has truly no idea what the left is doing. The exchange didn't end on television, though, continuing on Twitter Thursday morning. So fun to see the predictable heads exploding, but I should've finished that sentence #CuomoPrimeTime @CNN. \"Nobody in the White House talks about Hillary Clinton\" when noting whose presidential leadership = historic tax cuts & economic boom, reg reform, put ISIS in retreat. \u2014 Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 11, 2018 hey kellyanne - good thing no one talks about hrc in the white house. is \"nobody\" new potus code name? https://t.co/3r9q0VWKOK \u2014 Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) January 11, 2018 Hey @ChrisCuomo - when we are forced to think/talk about hrc it's because you and your colleagues can't let go of an election she/you lost. Sad!Proven further by after a 30-minute interview about policy and accomplishments, HRC is all you and others can say... https://t.co/SuL5EspkRE \u2014 Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 11, 2018 And the coda of this story comes from Kellyanne Conway, who went on \"Fox & Friends,\" where she talked about Hillary Clinton. \"We only have to talk about her because people won't let go of an election she lost miserably.\" -- @KellyannePolls on Hillary to @foxandfriends this morning.Yes, really. \u2014 Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 11, 2018 ", | |
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| "sentence": "Hanson: Progressive attacks on Trump are backfiringJul 1, 2017 at 3:15 PM The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing. The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn\u2019t succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over election results, alter the Electoral College vote, boycott the inauguration, delay the confirmation of appointments, demand recusals, promise Trump\u2019s impeachment or removal through the 25th Amendment, and file suit under the Emoluments Clause. A third strategy of portraying Trump as a veritable monster likewise so far has failed in four special elections for House seats. Apparently progressives have accepted the idea that Barack Obama\u2019s formula of twice winning the Electoral College is not yet transferable to other progressive candidates such as Hillary Clinton. And they probably have concluded that Obama\u2019s progressive political agenda proved unpopular with voters by 2010 and had to be implemented by ad hoc executive orders \u2014 presidential prerogatives now utilized by Donald Trump to overturn the ones Obama issued. A fourth potential pathway to power would be a return to Bill Clinton\u2019s pragmatic agendas of the 1990s. But apparently progressives find that centrist remedy worse than the malady of losing elections \u2014 given that during the Obama tenure, more than 1,000 state and local offices were lost to Republicans, in addition to majorities in the House and Senate, and a majority of governorships and legislatures. What next? Trump acts as if he is a Nietzschean figure, assuming that anything that does not destroy him only makes him stronger. And now, slowly, his accusers are becoming the accused. One nagging problem with the progressive case against Trump for purported Russian collusion and obstruction of justice was that members of the Obama administration had more exposure to those allegations than did the political newcomer Trump. Last year, then-FBI Director James Comey testified that not only did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch improperly meet in secret with Bill Clinton during an investigation of Hillary Clinton, but that Lynch had asked Comey to downplay the investigation into Hillary\u2019s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Comey confessed that he had reluctantly agreed to Lynch\u2019s request. Last month, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey admitted that he asked a friend to leak notes about Comey\u2019s earlier conversation with Trump in hopes of forcing the nomination of a special investigator to lead the Russia investigation \u2014 perhaps a successful gambit, given that Comey\u2019s friend, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, was soon appointed to that role. Comey also wrongly dismissed Hillary Clinton\u2019s email problems because of a perceived lack of criminal intent \u2014 a supposedly mitigating circumstance that legally should have had no bearing on things. As far as alleged Russian collusion, there had long been conservative accusations that Bill and Hillary Clinton used Hillary\u2019s status as secretary of state to leverage honoraria for Bill and donations to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for concessions to Russian interests. Moreover, Russian tampering efforts had been going on for months before the 2016 election, but without any retaliatory measures from the Obama administration, which knew about Russia\u2019s meddling. In an inadvertent hot-mic request in 2012, Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201cto give me space\u201d during Obama\u2019s re-election campaign, so that after his assumed success, Obama could reciprocate with \u201cmore flexibility\u201d on Russian issues. In the present highly charged climate, would that be seen as a form of Russian collusion? Meanwhile, the House Intelligence Committee is still investigating whether top Obama administration officials wrongfully used the power of foreign-intelligence collection to conduct surveillance of Americans \u2014 particularly members of the Trump campaign. The point is not whether the Clintons, James Comey, Barack Obama or members of the Obama administration can be proven to have engaged in illegal or unscrupulous behavior. Rather, the lesson is that progressives should have offered alternative political visions that might have won back the American people rather than attempting to terminate the Trump presidency on charges to which the progressive side was far more vulnerable. Now that Trump is emerging from successful House special elections and has fended off six months of media attacks, celebrity invective and progressive efforts to abort his tenure, he seems to be going back on the offensive. Currently, House and Senate investigations are doing to Democrats what has been done Trump. So far these probes seem to have better chances to prove alleged wrongdoing. What does all this political back-and-forth mean? Democrats struck preemptively to take out Trump before he unwound the Obama legacy. That effort has probably been stalled. The return volley is being launched at a time when an energized Trump is gaining momentum on health care and tax reform, and an improving economy. In sum, to thwart a new president\u2019s policies, it is probably wiser to offer alternative agendas instead of trying to destroy him before he has even entered office. Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.", | |
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| "sentence": "Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton\u2019s Odds of Winning Florida Nov. 7th\nHillary Clinton speaks during a rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Getty) Hillary Clinton is beginning to increase her odds of winning Florida in many election forecasts, while other models say that Donald Trump is now likely to capture the state. On November 6th, FiveThirtyEight was forecasting a Donald Trump victory in Florida, giving him a 52.5 percent chance of winning. The state has flipped from red to blue in the past 24 hours; as of November 7th, the FiveThirtyEight model now gives Donald Trump a 48.5 percent chance of winning Florida, with Hillary Clinton having the better odds of 51.6 percent. On their forecast, we can see a clear dip that occurs in the immediate aftermath of the news that the FBI would be looking into new emails relevant to the Hillary Clinton investigation, but now her lead is beginning to rise again. FiveThirtyEight is also forecasting that Hillary Clinton will win 48.2 percent of the popular vote in Florida, while Donald Trump will receive 48.0 percent of it. But in The New York Times\u2019 The Upshot, Florida is actually beginning to move in Donald Trump\u2019s direction. On November 6th, the Times\u2019 model gave Hillary Clinton a 70 percent chance of winning the state, but now, this number has gone down to 66 percent. And two weeks ago, before the FBI news was released, Hillary Clinton had an 80 percent chance of winning Florida on The Upshot. The model currently gives Clinton an 84 percent chance of becoming the next president. Clearly, Clinton does not absolutely need Florida to win, while Donald Trump almost certainly can\u2019t reach 270 Electoral College votes without it. On PredictWise, Hillary Clinton now has better odds of winning Florida than she did yesterday. On November 6th, Clinton was given a 73 percent chance of winning Florida by PredictWise, but now that has gone up two points to 75 percent. Surprisingly, PredictWise is actually giving Clinton better odds of winning Florida today than she had prior to the FBI announcement on October 28th. Hours before that news dropped, Clinton\u2019s odds of winning Florida were at 72 percent. In the aftermath of that bombshell, her odds fell all the way down to 58 percent, but she has now more than recovered from it. Nationally, PredictWise gives Clinton an 89 percent chance of winning the election, up two points since yesterday. Meanwhile, a dramatic shift has taken place on The Huffington Post\u2019s forecast. On Sunday, this model gave Clinton a 93 percent chance of winning Florida, and the state was placed in the \u201cprobable Clinton\u201d column. Twenty-four hours later, Florida has been moved into the \u201cbattleground\u201d column, and her odds of winning the state have dropped down to 89 percent. The Huffington Post has also moved North Carolina from \u201cprobable Clinton\u201d into \u201cbattleground.\u201d One day ago, Clinton\u2019s projected minimum number of Electoral College votes was 317, but now that has dropped down to 273. Clinton has seen a very slight bump in DailyKos\u2018 election forecast, though. On November 6th, they gave her a 74 percent chance of winning Florida, but that has now gone up one point to 75 percent. This bump also came as DailyKos released its final election prediction. They expect Hillary Clinton to win 323 Electoral College votes \u2013 including that of North Carolina and Florida \u2013 and Donald Trump to win 215 votes. It\u2019s easy to see why all these shifts have taken place, as several key Florida polls were released on Monday that show the race to be much tighter than it was just one day ago. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton was ahead in Real Clear Politics\u2019 Florida polling average by 0.9 percentage points, but today, Trump leads by 0.3 percent. No polls have yet been released that reflect the FBI\u2019s recent announcement that they would still not be recommending charges against Hillary Clinton after reviewing the new set of e-mails, so it remains to be seen if Clinton will be able to recover even more of her lead in the aftermath of that news. 6 Comments", | |
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| "sentence": "Election Tucker Carlson said that Hillary Clinton spun a yarn of conspiracy theories about her election loss during a speech on Wednesday. Mike Huckabee joined \"Fox & Friends\" to discuss Hillary Clinton's return to the public eye with a speech over the weekend in the Poconos. A retired NYPD detective and private investigator running against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio posted a video to Facebook challenging the Democrat to a push-up contest. A professor at a southern California college went on a diatribe against President-elect Donald Trump, and the unnamed student who recorded her may be facing punishment.", | |
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| "sentence": "Correction - 25 November 2015\nOn 15 October 2015 we published an article with the headline \u201cChildren forced to cook and clean for migrants\u201d. Correction The article was inaccurate in that it claimed that the German children in question had been forced to carry out work for migrants. The Kiel Ministry of Education confirmed that the school had come up with the idea because some migrant children sat in the class. It said that the students themselves thought of the project.", | |
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| "sentence": "Eminem lashes out at President Trump in furious rapEminem ignited a social media firestorm at the BET awards Tuesday with the release of a blistering rap on President Donald Trump. The recorded video shows the rapper in a parking garage freestyling on political controversies like the NFL's national anthem protests, Trump's proposed border wall and his international diplomacy. Warning: Explicit language in video below In one verse he rapped: \"This is his form of distraction/Plus, he gets an enormous reaction/When he attacks the NFL, so we focus on that/Instead of talking about Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada/All of these horrible tragedies and he's bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers.\" In another: \"But we better give Obama props/Because what we got in the office now's a kamikaze that'll probably cause a nuclear holocaust.\" Soon after \"The Storm\" was released, the video became a top trending topic on Twitter, racked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and sparked reactions from multiple celebrities. LeBron James quoted his lyrics in a tweet: \"Racism is the only thing he's Fantastic 4(fantastic for), cause that's how he gets his rock off, he's orange. Sheesh @Eminem.\" Racism is the only thing he's Fantastic 4(fantastic for), cause that's how he gets his rock off, he's orange. Sheesh @Eminem!! \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25 #United pic.twitter.com/wcL28BCWpy\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) October 11, 2017 In the video, Eminem also raised a fist in support of NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose decision to kneel during the anthem sparked the current controversy. In response, Kaepernick tweeted: \"I appreciate you @Eminem.\" Ellen DeGeneres also tweeted her praise: \"I (heart) @Eminem.\" There was no immediate reaction Tuesday from Trump or the White House press office.", | |
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| "sentence": "Racial slur reportedly found scrawled in KCK school bathroomA racial slur was found on a boys bathroom stall at a Kansas City, Kan., school, according to reports. \u201cKill all n------,\u201d someone wrote on a stall at Piper High School, Fox4 reported. The message was discovered Wednesday, and a special assembly was held Thursday to address the issue, according to KSHB. In response to the incident, Fox4 reported some students planned to protest for the first 20 minutes of class on Friday. Today's top news by email The local news you need to start your day Recaptcha requires verification. protected by reCAPTCHA Privacy - Terms Privacy - Terms Piper High administrators could not immediately be reached Friday morning. \u201cWe should all just be getting along. It doesn\u2019t matter what color our skin is,\u201d Delaney Degroot, a freshman, told KSHB. Piper High Principal John Nguyen sent an email home to parents addressing the incident, Fox4 reported. \u201cPHS maintains a zero-tolerance stance regarding racist, discriminatory, and threatening comments,\u201d he wrote. \u201cSchool administration is working diligently with our School Resource Officer in conducting an aggressive investigation to determine the origin of the comment. At this time, the investigation has revealed no credible safety threat whatsoever to PHS students or staff.\u201d About a year ago, a similar incident upset students, according to Fox4. Then a student wrote, \u201cKill all Blacks.\u201d The student was later disciplined. Max Londberg: 816-234-4378, @MaxLondberg", | |
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| "sentence": "CNN Attacks Roy Moore Just Because He Shared My BarbWire Piece\nRoy Moore for Senate In a report titled \u2018Roy Moore\u2019s Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia\u2019s anti-gay laws,\u2019 CNN (Cable News Network), one of most rabid left-wing, anti-conservative channels in the United States, sternly criticized the conservative contents of the Facebook page belonging to Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for US Senate in Alabama. Among Moore\u2019s Facebook posts hated by CNN the most highlighted was the BarbWire article \u201c Conservative Russians Give Moral Lesson to Facebook\u2019s Homosexual Propaganda,\u201d written by me. CNN said, Moore\u2019s Facebook page also shared an article from the religious conservative website BarbWire.com in July 2015 with the headline, \u201cConservative Russians Give Moral Lesson to Facebook\u2019s Homosexual Propaganda.\u201d The article highlighted efforts by some Russians to counter a feature on Facebook that allowed users to overlay a rainbow over their profile picture. Trending: English Professor Assigns Trump-Bashing Books \u201cThe strongest reaction came from conservative Russians who overlaid an image of the colors of their country\u2019s flag \u2014 white, blue and red \u2014 over their profile picture,\u201d the article read, adding that users also \u201ccountered the homosexual #LoveWins hashtag with #pridetobestraight and #pridetoberussian.\u201d The article also described Russia\u2019s efforts to crack down on the LGBT community, including the country\u2019s so-called \u201cgay propaganda law,\u201d as a \u201cstrong stance in defense of traditional family values.\u201d CNN added, Moore shared an article in July 2015 that praised Russia\u2019s anti-gay laws and Russians who opposed Facebook\u2019s feature that allowed users to change their profile pictures to celebrate same-sex marriage: I considered it a privilege to have a my conservative BarbWire article shared by Judge Roy Moore. I considered it an even greater privilege to have my name connected with fine conservative leaders such as James Dobson and Chuck Norris, in the official list of endorsements of Moore. As a conservative evangelical Christian, I am not surprised that CNN attacked Moore just because he shared one of my BarbWire articles. After all, what expect from the Communist News Network? Portuguese version of this article: CNN ataca Roy Moore s\u00f3 porque ele compartilhou meu artigo no portal conservador BarbWire The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Barb Wire. The Secret Plan To Destroy Trump's Administration", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump: Clinton has \"no idea\" if Russia behind email hack -- So who's right?For the third debate in a row, Donald Trump expressed doubt that Russia was behind recent hacks of Democratic groups, putting him at odds not just with Hillary Clinton, but with the entire U.S. intelligence community. \u201cShe has no idea whether it\u2019s Russia, China, or anybody else,\u201d Trump said at the final presidential debate held in Las Vegas Wednesday night. \u201cHillary, you have no idea.\u201d \u201cDo you doubt 17 military and civilian agencies,\u201d Clinton fired back. \u201cAnd our country has no idea,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYeah, I doubt it, I doubt it.\u201d In this case, Clinton had it right. Two weeks ago, the U.S. intelligence community announced it is \u201cconfident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails.\u201d The candidates also challenged on a number of other issues throughout the debate. On the issue of immigration, Trump said Clinton agreed with his signature proposal. \u201cHillary Clinton wanted the wall. Hillary Clinton fought for the wall in 2006,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI voted for border security, and there are...\u201d Clinton began speaking, before Trump interrupted, \u201cAnd the wall.\u201d We rate Trump\u2019s claim as partially true. As a senator, Clinton did vote for a bill to build 700 miles of fencing along parts of the 2,000-mile Southern border, but not a massive wall as Trump has proposed. Trump accused Clinton Wednesday night of hiring people to disrupt his allies. \u201cShe\u2019s the one, and Obama, that caused the violence,\u201d Trump said. The truth on that score is unclear. Democratic contractors were caught on video, appearing to plan to provoke Trump supporters. But there\u2019s no indication Clinton\u2019s campaign paid for it or even knew about it. As in previous debates, Trump denied making some controversial comments that are immortalized on video. \u201cHe said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for them to be assaulted,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cI did not say that. I did not say that,\u201d Trump said. But in Greensboro, North Carolina, Trump told a crowd, \u201cBelieve me. She would not be my first choice. That I can tell you.\u201d \u201cHe also went after a disabled reporter, mocked and mimicked him on national television,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cWrong,\u201d Trump denied. But he did that too, at a campaign rally at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. \u201cI don\u2019t remember!\u2019 He\u2019s going like, \u2018I don\u2019t remember!\u2019\u201d Trump said, imitating his physical handicap. On the budget, Clinton claimed that her proposals on infrastructure and education would not add a penny to the debt because she has ways to pay for all of them. Independent analysts said that\u2019s false -- her plan add $200 billion to the debt over the next decade. Trump\u2019s plans, they said, would add $5.3 trillion.", | |
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| "sentence": "Tom Arnold: Clinton begged me to release tape of Trump\u2019s racist rantModal Trigger Tom Arnold Comedian Tom Arnold is claiming Hillary Clinton begged him to release footage of President Trump using racial slurs just days before the November election. The 57-year-old alleged last year he had video of Trump repeatedly saying \u201cn\u2014\u2013\u201d and \u201cevery bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever,\u201d but is now saying Clinton called him just two days before Americans went to the polls to plead for its release, the Telegraph reported. \u201cI had all the outtakes from Trump saying the N-word on \u2018The Apprentice,\u2019\u201d said Arnold, who was just voted off Australia\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m A Celebrity \u2026 Get Me Out Of Here!\u201d \u201c[Clinton] called me two days before the election and said, \u2018Please release that,'\u201d Arnold claimed, alleging that the Democratic nominee said, \u201cThe weight of the free world is on your shoulders.\u201d \u201cI\u2019d love to be a hero, but I can\u2019t hurt these families,\u201d he claimed to have responded. Arnold says he might still release the reel with \u201ctheir permission,\u201d thought it remains unclear if he was referring to the targets of Trump\u2019s vitriol or \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d producers. In an interview before going on the British sitcom, Arnold told a radio host he didn\u2019t want to release the hate speech out of respect for those involved. \u201cWell, now, these people \u2014 two editors and an associate producer \u2014 are scared to death. They\u2019re scared of his people, they\u2019re scared they\u2019ll never work again,\u201d he said on Dori Monson\u2019s radio show. The American actor and comic, who starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1994 film classic \u201cTrue Lies,\u201d also said he didn\u2019t think releasing the racist rant \u201cwould work.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think people would care,\u201d he said. Trump still managed to cinch the electoral vote despite national outrage surrounding the October release of the notorious \u201cgrab them by the p\u2014-\u201d video.", | |
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| "sentence": "ICE arrests 97 suspected illegal immigrants at Tennessee meat processing plantU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 97 people after raiding a Tennessee meat processing plant, in what civil rights activists say was the largest crackdown at a single place in almost a decade. ICE spokeswoman Tammy Spicer announced the raid in a statement on Friday and said that of the 97 people taken into custody from Southeastern Provision meat processing plant in eastern Tennessee, 11 people were arrested on criminal charges, 54 were placed in detention and 32 were released. She said they were all arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally. The National Immigration Law Center said it believes this was the largest single-workplace raid since George W. Bush was president, the Washington Post reported. Federal immigration officials did not confirm if it was the largest. This was the latest crackdown on illegal immigrants by the Trump administration after he announced last year that ICE agents would be targeting employers that choose to hire immigrants knowing they are illegal. A total of 21 people were arrested after immigration agents raided 7-11 stores nationwide in January. The Associated Press contributed to this report.", | |
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| "sentence": "Stephen Paddock: What We Know About The Las Vegas ShooterLas Vegas police confirmed the man they believe to be responsible for killing more than 58 people is Stephen Paddock. Here's what we know about him. - Stephen Paddock is a 64-year-old white male. - Paddock was not known to the federal authorities, but was known to local law enforcement. This is the first unconfirmed picture of Stephen Paddock. - He lived in Mesquite, Nevada with Marilou Danley on Babbling Brook Ct. Police are searching his house. NBC reporting #LasVegas shooter as Stephen C Paddock who looks to be living at this address with Marilou Danley who Police are searching for pic.twitter.com/Ib1FQMhDBC\u2014 Vincent McAviney (@Vinny_LBC) October 2, 2017 - Police said that Ms Danley was seen sitting with the suspected shooter in a car before the incident and they are searching for her. She is described as an Asian female who is 4'11\". - He was found on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino. Police said he had numerous weapons with him. - Police believe he killed himself in a hotel room before they found him. Marilou Danley who #LasVegas police are searching for in connection to the #mandalaybay shooting has previously been to events at hotel: pic.twitter.com/djBDEmHKU0\u2014 Vincent McAviney (@Vinny_LBC) October 2, 2017 - Police believe this was a \"lone wolf\" attack and he was the only shooter. Over 58 people died and more than 500 were injured after a gunman opened fire at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival which was taking place across the road from Mandalay Bay on the famous Las Vegas Strip. This makes it the biggest mass shooting in US history.", | |
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| "sentence": "Donald Trump's campaign rejects endorsement of Ku Klux KlanThere are not many newspapers that have published positive views on Donald Trump, but the GOP nominee rejected the praise of this one outright. The Crusader, the official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan, leapt to defend Trump in its quarterly issue with a front-page banner headline, \u201cMake America Great Again. Pastor Thomas Robb, the Klan\u2019s national director, wrote,\u201cCan America really be great again? This is what we will soon find out.\u201d In an interview with the Washington Post, Robb embraced Trump\u2019s campaign, but he denied that his opinion piece amounted to a formal endorsement \u201cOverall, we do like his nationalist views and his words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It\u2019s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there\u2019s things you disagree with,\u201d Robb said. \u201cBut he kind of reflects what\u2019s happening throughout the world. There seems to be a surge of nationalism worldwide as nationals reclaim their borders.\u201d The paper quotes Trump\u2019s slogan and features a large photo of Trump wearing the hat, but it does read more like an essay on the nationalist strain of the GOP nominee\u2019s campaign slogan than a traditional endorsement. \u201cWhile Trump wants to make America great again, we have to ask ourselves, \u2018What made America great in the first place?\u2019\u201d the article continues. \u201cThe short answer to that is simple. America was great not because of what our forefathers did \u2014 but because of who our forefathers were. America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.\u201d The Trump campaign was quick to denounce the publication, issuing this statement Tuesday night: \u201cMr. Trump and the campaign denounces hate in any form. This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind our campaign.\u201d White nationalist and former Klansman David Duke announced his support for Trump in February, and initially, Trump was slow to reject it when asked about it by CNN, saying he \u201cdidn\u2019t know anything about him.\u201d", | |
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| "sentence": "Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Cancelling Saturday Night Live?President Trump has issued an order banning the 'Saturday Night Live' television show. In April 2017, the St. George Gazette web site published an article positing that President Trump had signed an executive order forcing NBC\u2019s popular and long-running Saturday Night Live sketch comedy TV program off the air: Today President Donald Trump made what could very well prove to be the most controversial move of his presidency by signing Executive Order 14838, which cancels the television show Saturday Night Live, or SNL. Under the new order, it is now illegal for any private or federally funded agency to air or show footage of the popular television show in any format. Any company or individual who violates this order can now face fines of up to $250,000 and five years in federal prison. During the press conference today, Trump explained that his decision was based on a personal belief that the show is \u201cdivisive\u201d and \u201ccontrary to America\u2019s deepest held values.\u201d \u201cSaturday Night Live is the definition of fake news and that is why it is now gone forever,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cIt mocks the very beliefs that keep this great country running smoothly. I\u2019ve never found the show to be humorous and I don\u2019t know how it stayed on the air as long as it did, but I made sure to put an end to that today. I know some actions that I take are questioned by those who don\u2019t want or understand freedom; these are people who hate America, but I know my true supporters are with me on this decision to cancel SNL, just like all my other brilliant ideas.\u201d Trump\u2019s signing of Executive Order 14838 comes after more than two seasons of Saturday Night Live attacking the current President. There was no truth to this story (the premise of which would clearly constitute a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech). This item originated with the St. George Gazette, one of many fake news web sites which masquerade as the online arms of (non-existent) newspapers. Snopes.com has long been engaged in the battle against misinformation, an effort we could not sustain without the support of our readers. If you'd like to learn more about how you can support us, click here.", | |
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| "sentence": "CNN: Everyone that Voted for Trump is a \u201cWhite Supremacist by Default\u201dInternet censorship is hurting conservative websites like DC Clothesline. If you enjoy our articles please consider making a small donation today. Thank YOU! ******************************************************************************** Earlier this week, CNN published a story titled \u201c White supremacists by default\u2019: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible,\u201d which basically said that every single person that voted for Donald Trump to be president was a White Supremacist by Default. John Blake, CNN Enterprise writer/producer, is the article\u2019s author. Blake blamed Trump voters for helping to advance white supremacy. How, you may ask? Because even the ordinary, non-racist Trump supporter was giving space for white supremacists to operate and are ultimately the reason for what took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to focus on the angry white men in paramilitary gear who looked like they were mobilizing for a race war in the Virginia college town,\u201d Blake wrote. \u201cBut it\u2019s the ordinary people \u2014 the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative\u2019s anti-Semitism \u2014 who give these type of men room to operate.\u201d Now, Blake is a Black man. Given the fact he is writing at CNN, would it be safe to assume he supported Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Soebarkah? If so, would it also, given the fact of his warped logic here, be fair to use his logic against him and say that he is responsible for the violence of the knockout game, Black Lives Matter and the advancement of Black Power movements like the New Black Panthers and Louis Farrakhan\u2019s Nation of Islam? Bathroom Issues? Do This Once A Day Yeah, it makes a point, but it wouldn\u2019t be fair to say, would it? Blake was not alone in putting this piece together. He cited Mark Naison, a political activist and history professor at Fordham University in New York City, who compared Trump supporters to the \u201cnice people\u201d in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. \u201cThat was the twisted formula that made the Holocaust and Rwanda possible and allowed Jim Crow segregation to survive: Nice people looked the other way while those with an appetite for violence did the dirty work,\u201d Naison said. \u201cYou have to have millions of people who are willing to be bystanders, who push aside evidence of racism, Islamophobia or sexism. You can\u2019t have one without the other.\u201d Blake then went on to say that there are four groups of people who play a part in racial divisions in the country, based on Ms. Naison and others. \u201cMany of the white racists who marched in Charlottesville were condemned because they openly said they don\u2019t believe in integration or racial equality,\u201d Blake wrote about Trump supporters. \u201cBut millions of ordinary white Americans have been sending that message to black and brown people for at least a half a century. They send it with their actions: They don\u2019t want to live next to or send their children to school with black or brown people, historians say.\u201d Then there are those who thought Trump\u2019s comments about both sides having issues when it comes to racial hatred. \u201cTrump\u2019s \u2018many sides\u2019 response, though, wasn\u2019t that abnormal in the context of US history,\u201d wrote Blake. \u201cIt used to be the norm for white political leaders to draw a moral equivalence between racists and those who suffered from their acts of brutality, historians say. It\u2019s the \u201cyes, but\u201d rhetorical maneuver \u2014 condemn racism but add a qualifier to diminish the sincerity of what you just said.\u201d Trump\u2019s comments were spot on for anyone paying attention. Obama had stirred up racial tensions in America to the point that even Black people were saying he was doing it. Then Blake decided to list a third group. This group is those who \u201cchoose chaos.\u201d \u201cMany voters knew Trump would bring something else to the Oval Office \u2014 chaos,\u201d Blake wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s why they chose him. He\u2019s their first reality TV president, one writer says.\u201d \u201cMany voted for Trump because they liked the persona he cultivated as the star of \u2018The Apprentice,'\u201d he continued. \u201cReality TV rewards characters who say rude and reprehensible things, characters are often cast as racial stereotypes, and those who provoke the most chaos get the most attention, says Joy Lanzendorfer, author of the Vice article, \u2018How Reality TV Made Donald Trump President.'\u201d Again, he never mentions the chaos we saw across the country that was sparked by the Black Lives Matter crowds. To do that would demonstrate the hypocrisy of his article. Finally, there are those that Blake says \u201clook the other way.\u201d \u201cIf you want to know why those white racists now feel so emboldened, it may help to look at all the ordinary people around you, your neighbors, your family members, your leaders,\u201d Blake wrote. \u201cBut first, start by looking at yourself.\u201d Well, turn about is fair play. Perhaps, Mr. Blake should look in the mirror and then take a look at the lying, manipulative and deceitful propaganda outlet he is working for, then maybe, he might get a clue at just how badly he has been indoctrinated before he points the finger at people who have light skin and labels them all racist because of some delusional logic that he possesses. Mr. Blake might also wonder how he is emboldening the racism of those in his own community. Courtesy of Freedom Outpost Tim Brown is an author and Editor at FreedomOutpost.com, SonsOfLibertyMedia.com, GunsInTheNews.com and TheWashingtonStandard.com. He is husband to his \u201cmore precious than rubies\u201d wife, father of 10 \u201cmighty arrows\u201d, jack of all trades, Christian and lover of liberty. He resides in the U.S. occupied Great State of South Carolina. Tim is also an affiliate for the Joshua Mark 5 AR/AK hybrid semi-automatic rifle. Follow Tim on Twitter.", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump Announces Ban on Transgender People Serving in the MilitaryEarlier this morning, President Trump took to Twitter to announce his decision to ban transgender individuals from serving in the U.S. military. After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow\u2026\u2026 \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017 \u2026.Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming\u2026.. \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017 \u2026.victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017 \u201cAfter consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,\u201d Trump announced via Twitter. \u201cOur military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.\u201d The announcement drew swift responses on the social media platform. \u201cNo American, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity, should be prohibited from honor + privilege of serving our nation #LGBT,\u201d tweeted Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). \u201cPleased to hear that @realDonaldTrump shares my readiness and cost concerns, & will be changing this costly and damaging policy #readiness,\u201d tweeted Rep. Vicky Jo Hartzler (R-MO). Just spoke to a Trump administration official about the transgender military decision. Here's what they said\u2026 pic.twitter.com/eOWdvlxTfd \u2014 Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) July 26, 2017 Trump\u2019s decision will roll back military policy after the Obama administration lifted the ban last year, allowing transgender soldiers to openly serve in the United States Military. The Department of Defense policy drew sharp criticism, as it supported service members looking to change their gender, making them eligible to receive coverage for \u201cmedically necessary care and treatment.\u201d \u201cThis is the right thing to do for our people and for the force,\u201d former Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in announcing the policy. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about talented Americans who are serving with distinction or who want the opportunity to serve. We can\u2019t allow barriers unrelated to a person\u2019s qualifications prevent us from recruiting and retaining those who can best accomplish the mission.\u201d It is not yet clear what effect this decision will have on the roughly 250 transgender individuals currently serving openly in the armed forces. SOUND OFF: Do you support Trump\u2019s decision to ban transgender citizens from serving in our armed forces?", | |
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| "sentence": "\"Boobs Are Back\" Article\nAbout \"Boobs Are Back\" Article refers to a controversial article re-published by The New York Post newspaper about female celebrities embracing their chest cleavage as a fashion statement. The article became the subject of mockery on the internet. On July 31st, 2017, The Sun [1] newspaper published an article \"Curve Your Enthusiasm,\" which posits a celebrity trend of female stars embracing their chest cleavage, pointing to several prominent celebrities, like Rihanna, as examples. The following day, The New York Post [2] newspaper republished the article under the headline \"Boobs Are Back in a Big Way.\" When they shared the article on Twitter that day, the post (shown below) received more than 700 retweets and 3,700 likes. Boobs are back in a big way, Spread That day, the article became the subject of controversy. Shortly after the article posted, many started reacting to the article with sarcasm, disgust and confusion (examples below). The central theme of the complaints centered around the question \"were boobs ever out?\" Several media outlets covered the article and the reaction, including Allure, [3] Someecards, [4] Cosmopolitan [5] and more. Twitter [6] published a Moments page to archive the article and the reaction. Various Examples Search Interest External References", | |
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| "sentence": "Gun control would make Americans slavesIn Arizona, there is a special election to replace Rep. Trent Franks, who resigned earlier this year. Making special appearances to help the Democrat in that race are the kids from Parkland, Florida. These are the kids the left-wing media has promoted because of their demands for gun control, since the mass shooting in Parkland that killed 17. The left\u2019s obsession with gun control is nothing new. The left embraced the creation of the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence after its creation in the 1980s. Other left-wing attempts to repeal and block the Second Amendment rights of Americans go further back. As a policy idea, gun control has been a disaster. Ignoring the fact that it is one of the preferred tools of tyrants, gun control simply does not work. Britain essentially banned firearms after the 1996 Dunblane massacre. While Britain, for more than 20 years, has had the kind of gun control American liberals can only dream of, the results have not been good. Crime in London is out of control. In gun-free London, a number of people have been shot to death in the last three months. Only a year ago, the BBC reported that gun crime had risen by 42 percent. How could that be? The left promises us that if we only ban guns, crime will go away. In the absence of guns, many criminals in the U.K. have turned to knives. And guess what? The politicians in Britain are now pushing knife control. The issue for Americans is not simply the removal of the right to bear arms. It is a fundamental intrusion on one of the most basic liberties someone may have. Freedom. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the draft of the Virginia Constitution, \u201cNo free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.\u201d The keywords in Jefferson\u2019s draft were \u201cfree man.\u201d One of the fundamental rights that any free man or woman has is the right to self-defense. Free people can defend themselves. Slaves cannot. The left ignores the fact that when guns are used in this nation, they are overwhelmingly used for self-defense. But it is this fundamental right of self-defense that the left challenges and would see destroyed in America. In the last 20 years in America, an alarming change has taken place in schools. Before this time, if two children became involved in a fight at school, the school would try to determine who started the fight and punish that child. No longer. Now, both children (or more) are punished. It does not matter if one child was trying to defend himself against a bully. It doesn\u2019t matter if someone else started the fight, the mere act of self-defense becomes a punishable offense. The left has this obsession with people and the nation being defenseless. They want to strip away the rights of citizens to use weapons to defend themselves. They do not like the idea of something like missile defense to protect this nation against an attack. The left loves to preach to us. They tell real Americans that it is necessary to strip away our rights to make us safe. In 1783, William Pitt spoke in the House of Commons and said, \u201cNecessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.\u201d That perfectly sums up the left. Their goal is tyranny and their objective is to reduce every American to the status of a slave. \u2022 Judson Phillips is founder of the Tea Party Nation. \u00a9 Copyright (c) 2018 News World Communications, Inc. \u2014- This content is published through a licensing agreement with Acquire Media using its NewsEdge technology.", | |
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| "sentence": "Funny Watters Finds Out What Kids Think About Trump, Clinton & the 2016 RaceFormer Dems Now Backing Trump: 'Our Country's Going in the Wrong Direction' If you've ever seen \"Watters' World,\" you know that some American adults are pretty clueless. But what about the youth of the nation? Jesse Watters hit the streets of New York City to see what kids think about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the major issues facing the country. What have you heard about Hillary Clinton? \"She hasn't been that great either. [She's] been sneaking herself around.\" What do you think about Donald Trump? \"He's very confident when he speaks. He's blunt, and I think that's very different than anything we've ever had.\" \"Equal rights, feminism, that's very important nowadays.\" \"Are you just saying that to get girls?\" Watch the \"Watters' World\" clip above, and let us know what you think in the comments. Clinton Aide in New WikiLeaks Email: 'We Need to Clean This Up. He Has Emails from Her'", | |
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| "sentence": "The Absurdities Mount\nThe Destruction of History (Image by YouTube, Channel: Lauren Southern) Permission Details DMCA As I predicted, the erasing of American history will not be limited to Confederate monuments. Last week a member of the board of trustees of the Dallas, Texas, school district recommended changing the name of James Madison High School. James Madison was the father of the US Constitution, considered by Identity Politics, the political ideology of the Democratic Party and the American liberal/progressive/left, to be a \"racist document.\" From a British reader comes the news that the various segments of Western society divided into victim groups by Identity Politics have divided very finely and have turned on one another. On September 13, the Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) and their bitter enemies, Trans Activists, clashed in a fist fight in London's Hyde Park. 60-year-old Maria MacLachlan, who describes herself as a \"gender critical feminist,\" was knocked to the ground. The presstitutes at the New York Times even use the crossword puzzle to spread their lies and disinformation. This morning one of the clues was \"like the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.\" The NYT is referring to Crimea, for 300 years a Russian province with a Russian population that voted by a 97% majority to rejoin Russia when the US overthrew the Ukrainian government in a coup. The NYT presstitutes treat this exercise in democracy as \"Russian aggression.\" As the \"newspaper of record,\" clearly the record is falsified. My northern acquaintances believe that the South, by definition, is racist even though the cities that were the heart of the Confederacy are ruled by black mayors. The mayor of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, Levar Stoney, is black. The mayor of Atlanta, Kasim Reed, is black. The Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, Stephen Benjamin, is black. Because of Identity Politics, these black mayors cannot prevent southern history from being cast down the Memory Hole. Any black mayor who stood up for historical truth would be branded an \"Uncle Tom.\" There is no greater absurdity than moving history off its factual basis and substituting a fictional basis as dictated by Identity Politics. In the United States -- indeed, in the entirely of the Western world -- history has become a construction that serves not the truth but special interests. This is the reason that the Western World is doomed. Peoples whose history is destroyed are defenceless. They have no idea who they are. How To Easily Kill 98% Of Mold In Your Home", | |
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| "sentence": "Let America Be America Again - Poem by Langston HughesLet America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this \"homeland of the free.\") Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed! I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean-- Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That's made America the land it has become. O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my home-- For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a \"homeland of the free.\" The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay? For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay-- Except the dream that's almost dead today. O, let America be America again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every man is free. The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME-- Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again. Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America! O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath-- America will be! Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!", | |
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| "sentence": "ESPN accepted 'SportsCenter' anchor Jemele Hill's apology for her anti-Trump tweetsOn Monday ESPN suspended Jemele Hillfor 2 weeks in response to her tweets encouraging NFL fans to boycott anyone who sponsors Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. Hill's tweet was in response to Jones comments that any player who disrespected the flag would be cut from his team. In a statement ESPN said, \"Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for a second violation of our social media guidelines. She previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down with an impulsive tweet. In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision.\" ESPN says that it has accepted the apology of Jemele Hill for tweeting that President Trump and his followers are \"white supremacists.\" Earlier this week, the co-host of ESPN's \u201cSC6 with Michael and Jemele\" fired off a series of tweets calling the President a \"bigot\" and \"white supremacist.\" Hill apologized for her tweets on Wednesday. \"My comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs.\" She wrote on Twitter. \"My regret is that my comments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light.\" The network issued a followup statement after her apology and said that Hill has a right to her personal beliefs, but said that they are not reflective of the company's opinions or beliefs. \"She has acknowledged that her tweets crossed that line and has apologized for doing so. We accept her apology,\" they wrote. ESPN has been under intense scrutiny after they pulled their broadcaster Robert Lee off air \u201cas the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding\" in August. The Associated Press contributed to this report. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is calling for the termination of an ESPN anchor after she called President Donald Trump a white supremacist on Twitter. \u201cThat is one of the more outrageous comments that anybody could make and certainly is something that is a fireable offense by ESPN,\u201d Sanders said on Wednesday. This comes after Jemele Hill, who co-hosts a ESPN show called \u201cSC6 with Michael and Jemele,\" fired off a series of Tweets denouncing Trump and calling his supporters white supremacists. EPSN soon issued a statement in response to Smith's remarks. \u201cThe comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the president do not represent the position of ESPN,\u201d the network said. \u201cWe have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate.\u201d ESPN on Tuesday distanced itself from anchor Jemele Hill\u2019s tweets calling President Trump \u201ca bigot\u201d and \u201ca white supremacist.\u201d \u201cThe comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the president do not represent the position of ESPN,\u201d the network tweeted from its public relation\u2019s department\u2019s account. \u201cWe have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate,\u201d ESPN added of Hill, a co-host on the 6 p.m. broadcast of the network\u2019s \u201cSportsCenter\u201d program. Hill on Monday had a series of Twitter exchanges with other users that involved her harshly criticizing Trump. \u201cDonald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/other white supremacists,\u201d she said in one tweet. \u201cTrump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime,\u201d Hill added in another post. \u201cHis rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.\u201d Hill added in a third tweet that \u201cDonald Trump is a bigot\u201d before going on to deride the president\u2019s supporters. \u201cThe height of white privilege is being able to ignore his white supremacy, because it\u2019s of no threat to you,\u201d she said. \u201cWell, it\u2019s a threat to me.\u201d Some Twitter users on Wednesday praised Hill for singling out Trump, while others lambasted her decision instead. ESPN is owned by Disney, and neither company elaborated on a possible punishment for Hill, who was on Tuesday night\u2019s broadcast of \u201cSportsCenter\u201d like normal. Former National Football League (NFL) quarterback Colin Kaepernick, meanwhile, on Tuesday voiced support for Hill on Twitter. Kaepernick remains unsigned after playing with the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2016 in a situation that remains controversial in the football world. The professional athlete began kneeling during the National Anthem last year to protest police brutality and racial injustice. Supporters say Kaepernick is making a legitimate stand for social justice, while critics charge he is acting unpatriotic instead. These celebrities ended up deleting their Twitter accounts. Let's get started!", | |
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| "sentence": "Enter For A Chance To Win 6 Months of Dollar Shave ClubNo purchase necessary to enter. Void Where Prohibited By Law. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Google, Amazon or Dollar Shave Club. All participant information is being provided to dealmaxx.net. By entering this sweepstakes you will be added to the dealmaxx Deal Hunter news. You are not obligated to remain on this email list in order to win this prize. Check this item out on Dollar Shave Club Drawing Will Be February 28th at 3PM EST 1 Cup of This (Tonight) Will Burn Your Belly Fat Like Crazy", | |
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| "sentence": "The Conservative Warriors of Generation Z\n\u201cIt is painfully obvious that the communism lovers in our institutions of higher education have had the run of the asylum and wreaked havoc.\u201d Many liberal talking heads have made a big deal out of the supposed demographic wave facing Republicans and conservatives as the nation morphs into a more diverse population. Growth rates amongst minorities have begun to exceed those of whites. The narrative goes like this \u2014 as the white, European-based population diminishes, America will become less conservative and more socialist, demanding more and more free stuff. The rich will just have to pay for it \u2014 in other words, the takers will get more from the makers. While the demographic trend may be true, the pre-conceived outcome is anything but. I\u2019m not one to forecast a \u2018conservative century\u2019, but I will say the notion that the up-and-coming generation largely believes in socialism is a falsehood. First of all, many minority groups have historically held conservative values. Although this trend has diminished to some extent, due to the brainwashing and self-imposed victimization of minority youth, it has not gone away entirely. Hispanics go to church; they believe in hard work. I\u2019ve know many Hispanic businessmen and families who are angry at the open border crowd pushing for illegal immigration and benefits for millions of undocumented immigrants. They did not go through the process legally as many immigrants have and this annoys successful minority entrepreneurs. There is also the fact that \u2018Obamanomics\u2019 and social welfare policies did nothing to help the minority groups he promised to assist. Aside from increasing dependency on government, every other statistic for prosperity for minorities went down. No compatible source was found for this video. Many minorities are starting to see this. I recently overheard one minority veteran tell someone at the VA that the government aid was helpful but what he really needed was a job. Trump is right \u2014 the dignity of work is a beautiful thing to behold. The election of President Donald J. Trump has been a game changer when considering the political support for one side of the spectrum. The identity politics of the Left has done nothing but cause election losses. That is a fact. The white, working-class, middle-American will be missing for a long time in the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton made it perfectly clear that the Left did not care about flyover country during the election. The overt racism of Black Lives Matter and other minority hate groups has further cemented this condition. What does the Left offer the hard-working American? It doesn\u2019t offer a job. It doesn\u2019t offer dignity. It just offers derision of other Americans and government dependency. This is not what American wants \u2014 hence the election of Donald Trump. Trump sure has delivered, on his promises that is. Jobs are being created; economic optimism is soaring; plants are opening; coal mines are being dug; and business investment is growing again. I read today that Trump will push for America to be the energy capital of the world. The optimism is only going to grow. The business climate is only going to get better. Americans have seen the results of a decade of socialist, liberal, culturally Marxist policies, and they don\u2019t like it. But most of all, the policies don\u2019t work. All Obama and his minions brought to the table was failure, massive failure. Failure in government, failure in the economy, failure in foreign policy and national security, and failure in the ability of a citizen to realize the American dream. Americans have had enough. Of course, there will always be those who choose to be dependent on government and live off the largess of others. But my gut tells me as Trump makes America great again, many of those people will see the light and actually get a job. The younger generation, who is now moving to college age and called Generation Z, have seen all of this happen. They have seen their parents struggle. They have seen their parents lose their dignity. They have seen their parents becoming dependent on the local commissar for a handout. They will also see the opposite \u2014 they will see the fruits of capitalism. They will see factories open. They will feel the optimism. There will be no where else to attribute this change in circumstances except to Trump and conservative policies. America is becoming one big learning lab for its younger citizens. In addition to the national policies changing the face of America, there will be changes in our university and educational systems. We are at the zenith of cultural Marxism right now in this country. It is painfully obvious that the communism lovers in our institutions of higher education have had the run of the asylum and wreaked havoc. There will be changes here. I don\u2019t know what form it will take or how it will happen, but the groundswell of public outrage and alumni queasiness about the lack of freedom of speech on campus is coming to a head. There will be consequences. It is not okay for speech to be restricted anywhere in our educational process. It is not okay for due process to be withheld from male victims of rape accusations. It is not okay for tenured professors to spew racist and communist propaganda at our young people. This will change, I am confident of it. The pendulum is slowly starting to swing the other way. Generation Z will face a smaller sea of Neo-Bolsheviks as they enter college. This is a good thing. There was a study released recently which delved into the political beliefs and tendencies of Generation Z as they move to take the place of the Millennial generation. There could not be a more striking divide between the \u2018live in your parent\u2019s basement\u2019 generation and the new group coming of age. The study concluded that Generation Z is the most conservative since the end of World War II. This is a stunning revelation and I believe it is due to the factors I have outlined above. They have been able to observe the two different views of the world, the two ways of living your life as a taker and a maker. They want to be the latter. Perhaps it is deeper and more simple than that. Perhaps they have seen that the Democratic Party \u2014 the Left, the \u2018progressives,\u2019 the cultural Marxists, the racists, whatever you want to call this rag-tag opposition to President Trump and Make America Great Again \u2014 have nothing to offer that will make their lives more successful or fulfilling. Perhaps Generation Z has seen with their own eyes that the Democratic Party is nothing more than a huge, stinking mountain of organized crime, that desires to steal from other\u2019s hard work and vision. Maybe that is why even the term \u2018hard work\u2019 is now deemed a \u2018micro aggression\u2019 by these idiots. Yes, I believe that America is about to experience a generation of success and prosperity, driven by a reawakening of conservative principles. Before the election, I did a book signing in a hotel near an airport. The young manager of the place was an Indian man. He came over and started asking me questions from time-to-time when the crowd thinned down. The conversation quickly turned to politics and he guardedly asked me my opinions on Trump and Hillary \u2014 I gave them to him. As I was packing my things to leave an hour or so later, he came over and quietly informed me that he was voting for Trump. \u201cMy family did things legally,\u201d he declared, \u201cI can\u2019t stand the Democrats.\u201d", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump on Twitter (April 1): DACA, NAFTAThe following statements were posted to the verified Twitter accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. The opinions expressed are his own. Reuters has not edited the statements or confirmed their accuracy. @realDonaldTrump : - HAPPY EASTER! [0827 EDT] - Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at the Border because of ridiculous liberal (Democrat) laws like Catch & Release. Getting more dangerous. \"Caravans\" coming. Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL! [0956 EDT] - Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. They must stop the big drug and people flows, or I will stop their cash cow, NAFTA. NEED WALL! [1025 EDT] - These big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA. They want in on the act! [1028 EDT] -- Source link: (http://bit.ly/2jBh4LU) (http://bit.ly/2jpEXYR) (Compiled by Bengaluru bureau)", | |
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| "sentence": "Trump Thinks Bernie Sanders Will Run Against Him \u2018In A Wheelchair\u2019 In 2020President Donald Trump forecasted that Bernie Sanders would run against him in 2020 \u201ceven if he\u2019s in a wheelchair,\u201d and mocked the Vermont senator by imitating a scrunched-up body. Trump expressed that opinion over the summer when he invited four Democratic lawmakers to the White House, and also asked, \u201cWho is going to run against me in 2020? Crooked Hillary? Pocahontas?\u201d the New York Times reported on Saturday. At 70 years old, Trump was the oldest president to be inaugurated in the U.S. Trump, now 71, is nearly five years younger than Sanders, who would turn 79 in 2020. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a rally against President Donald Trump's travel ban outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, U.S. January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein Reuters But Sanders\u2019s wife Jane in June said that the senator was actively advocating for policies benefiting the working class and that his age wasn\u2019t a factor. \u201cAgeism is the last \u2018ism\u2019 that seems to be acceptable to people, and I never felt that it was whether somebody was too young or too old,\u201d she told the New York Times. \u201cYou win some. You lose some. And you keep on going and maybe you can win the next one.\u201d Bernie Sanders, who lost the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton last year, has started addressing some of his political shortcomings including his lack of foreign policy connections, a sign he may be gearing up for a 2020 bid, POLITICO reported late last month. Other Democrats that Trump called out over the summer have not indicated they will make a bid for the presidency. After Trump in October tweeted he hopes Clinton will run against him, Clinton told BBC Radio 4, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not going to run again,\u201d but that she would continue to speak out against Trump. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who Trump refers to as \u201cPocahontas\u201d because she claims to have a Native American background, is considered a top Democratic contender. In August, she brushed off the idea, saying, \u201cI'm doing my job every single day. I am not running for president, I'm doing my work.\" Meanwhile, some Republicans recently have cast doubt over whether Trump will seek reelection\u2014even though he is raising millions of dollars for a campaign. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in October told the Today show that if Trump runs again, \u201cI would support him, yes, but I'm not so sure what will happen.\" Shortly after, Senator Rand Paul said Republicans \"need to know (if) President Trump (is) running for re-election,\u201d and, \u201cI think you won't know that until you get into sort of second, third year of his presidency.\" Trump\u2019s approval rating has remained very low as a probe into whether he and his campaign colluded with Russians in the 2016 election widens. More from Newsweek", | |
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| "sentence": "Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Donald Trump offWASHINGTON \u2014 Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can\u2019t use it. Wilson launched the fundraiser last week, tweeting: \u201cIf @Twitter executives won\u2019t shut down Trump\u2019s violence and hate, then it\u2019s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump.\u201d The GoFundMe page for the fundraiser says Trump\u2019s tweets \u201cdamage the country and put people in harm\u2019s way.\u201d As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of the billion-dollar goal. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls the fundraiser a \u201cridiculous attempt\u201d to shut down the president\u2019s First Amendment rights. Wilson\u2019s identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in former President George W. Bush\u2019s administration in 2003. She left the agency in 2005. If @Twitter executives won\u2019t shut down Trump\u2019s violence and hate, then it\u2019s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump https://t.co/HhbaHSluTx\u2014 Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) August 18, 2017 ", | |
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| "sentence": "Nelly Arrested On Rape Charges: Report\nFrederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET The rapper was taken into custody Saturday morning. Nelly has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman, TMZ reports. According to Law enforcement sources, a woman has accused the rapper of raping her on his tour bus in Washington. The alleged rape is reported to have occurred at approximately 3:45 AM Saturday, with Nelly being arrested on second degree rape charges around 7:00 AM. Nelly is currently on tour with country act Florida Georgia Line. He was set to take the stage in Ridgefield, Washington Saturday night. Friday night's show took place at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, WA. Q13 FOX correspondent and anchor Brandi Kruse reports that Nelly met the alleged victim in Seattle after the show. There has been no official word from Nelly's representatives at this time. Further coverage to come as information arrives. UPDATE: Nelly's attorney has released a statement to Page Six, among other publications. Read it below. Nelly is the victim of a completely fabricated allegation. Our initial investigation, clearly establishes, this allegation is devoid of credibility and is motivated by greed and vindictiveness. I am confident, once this scurrilous accusation is thoroughly investigated, there will be no charges. Nelly is prepared to address and pursue all legal avenues to redress any damage caused by this clearly false allegation. Nelly's last tweet was at 3:23 AM EST or 12:23 AM PDT (local Washington time) Saturday. It reads, \"Anytime you feel like the whole world is against you you need to scratch that shit its really you against the whole world because the whole world don't know you exist.\" TMZ has posted a video of the rapper that was reportedly filmed earlier in the night. Watch it below.", | |
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| "sentence": "This Election is Too Important to Dare Not Vote for Hillary ClintonDon't like Hillary? Desperate to change the system? That's fine. But those impulses must wait.", | |
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| "sentence": "The Next Appeasement?It will be only a matter of days before the Democratic Party press in America starts taking up the suggestion of Chancellor Merkel of Germany that we seek with North Korea a pact of appeasement like the one the Obama administration engineered with the ayatollahs at Iran. \u201cI could imagine such a format being used to end the North Korea conflict,\u201d Frau Merkel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Were Germany asked to participate, the chancellor warned, she would say yes \u201cimmediately.\u201d This is a devilish demarche, coming, as it does, at a time when the American administration is seeking to demonstrate its resolve against North Korea\u2019s atomic bomb program. Frau Merkel\u2019s interview is calculated to short-circuit any refusal on President Trump\u2019s part to certify Tehran\u2019s compliance with the Obama-Khomeini pact. It is dog-whistling to the New York Times, which is no doubt scrambling to get aboard the Merkel appeasement. Let\u2019s see if it can bring aboard Mr. Trump\u2019s newest pal, Senator Schumer. New York\u2019s senior senator, now the minority leader, played a double role in the drama on the Iran appeasement. Ostensibly he opposed the pact. Yet he refused to take a leading role in the fight against it, even when opponents sought to have have the pact itself put to a proper vote. In other words, he took a powder. That was all the more disappointing because it was clear that if the pact had been put to the Senate it would have been rejected. This point is acknowledged even by the Times, which concedes that the Iran pact was opposed in the Congress \u201coverwhelmingly.\u201d The Gray Lady suggests that \u201cmany critics now see its value,\u201d though its editorial fails to name any such critics. Germany, of course, never gave a fig about what the Congress thought of the pact. And why should it have? The Obama administration took the unratified deal straight to the United Nations, where Ambassador Power voted against the Congress of her own country. \u201cIt\u2019s presumptuous of some people to suspect that France, Russia, China, Germany, Britain ought to do what the Congress tells them to do,\u201d Secretary of State Kerry snickered. President Putin must have loved that line. Frau Merkel, in any event, isn\u2019t waiting for any formal nod in respect of what President Trump wants to do about the Iran deal \u2014 or about North Korea. She\u2019s prepared to leap right into a negotiated settlement with Pyongyang that would, if Iran is any guide, leave its communist camarilla not only entrenched but richer to boot. This is a moment for President Trump to remember the 30 American states that lofted him to office. The platform on which he stood described the Iran deal as a \u201cpersonal agreement\u201d between President Obama and his negotiating partners. It described it as \u201cnon-binding on the next president.\u201d Mr. Trump himself promised to \u201crip up\u201d the agreement. That he has grounds to do so was underscored last week at Washington by his envoy at the United Nations, Governor Haley. She is a better tribune of American interests than Chancellor Merkel. receive the latest by email: subscribe to the new york sun's free mailing list", | |
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| "sentence": "Islam and the Mistreatment of Women\nMany Muslims are peaceful and tolerant, and it has become fashionable in the West to portray Islam as a peaceful and tolerant religion, even in the wake of terrorist attacks like the recent one in New York. But it's hard to buy into this charade when it comes to Muslim treatment of women under Sharia law. Plainly put, Sharia subjugates women in virtually every area of their lives. Hank Hanegraaff is president of the Christian Research Institute, and host of the national radio broadcast The Bible Answer Man. Allah's decrees enshrine inequality. Although Allah allows a husband to beat his wife, there is no provision in the Qur'an for a wife to beat her husband. Nor can she initiate a divorce. Only men can do so, and with relative ease. In \"Heretic,\" Ayaan Hirsi Ali explains the shackles of sharia for women, including \"the right of men to have unfettered sexual access to their wives, the right of men to practice polygamy, and the restriction of women's legal rights in divorce cases, in estate law, in cases of rape, in court testimony, and in consent to marriage.\" According to Sharia, women (and little girls) who are captives of war can be raped by their Muslim captors. But girls who have sex outside of marriage are flogged, and women who commit adultery are stoned. Two incidents almost 14 centuries apart show just how deeply the exploitation of women is ingrained In Sharia. In August 2014, after Muslim fighters captured Yazidi villages in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, they executed the men and adolescent boys by spraying them with automatic-weapons fire. What happened to women and children might truly have been worse. As chronicled in the Islamic State on-line magazine \"Dabiq,\" \"After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shar\u012b'ah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State's authority to be divided.\" Captives were sent \"to Syria or to other locations inside Iraq, where they were bought and sold for sex.\" According to a report in The New York Times, one of the captives, a 12-year-old Yazidi child, was raped by a devout Muslim fighter who \"took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her - it condoned and encouraged it.\" Sadly, the victim was just one of countless thousands in the history of Islam. In 627, Muhammad and his fighters invaded the villages of the prosperous Banu Mustaliq Jewish tribe on the shores of the Red Sea. As with the Yazidis, the Jewish men and boys murdered by Muhammad and his Muslim hordes were spared the unthinkable atrocities their loved ones were about to suffer. In accordance with the law of Allah, many were raped, others sold as chattel. Muhammad, revered by Muslims the world over as the founder of their religion, took a Jewish woman as booty after having her husband and hundreds more men beheaded. Then he forced her on his bed and added her to his stable of wives and concubines. Though the Yazidi and Mustaliq atrocities bookend nearly 1,400 years of Islamic history, their treatment of female captives was virtually identical. Why? Because, as chronicled in \"Dabiq,\" what the Islamic State does in the 21st century is an authentic application of the teachings and practices of Muhammad. Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells the horrifying story of a 13-year-old girl in Somalia who was found guilty of adultery after reporting that she had been raped by three men. Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow - named after Muhammad's 9-year-old wife - was dragged, screaming and flailing, into a sports stadium in Kismayo to be stoned. \"It took four men to bury her up to her neck in the hole,\" Hirsi Ali wrote. \"Then fifty men spent ten minutes pelting her with rocks and stones. Then she was dug out of the ground and two nurses examined her to see if she was still alive. Someone found a pulse and breathing. Aisha was returned to the hole and the stoning continued.\" After she died, \"a local sheik told a radio station that Aisha had provided evidence, confirmed her guilt, and 'was happy with the punishment under Islamic law.'\" When will equality-minded Americans stand up for women's rights around the globe? Hank Hanegraaff is the author of \"MUSLIM: What You Need to Know about the World's Fastest-Growing Religion\" and the host of the \"Bible Answer Man\" radio broadcast and the \"Hank Unplugged\" podcast.", | |
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| "sentence": "\u201cNation\u201d Writer Claims Pence Is \u201cFar Worse\u201d Than TrumpThere has been no shortage of talk recently about taking action to remove President Donald Trump from office, with Trump\u2019s Charlottesville response proving to be a breaking point for many Republicans who had previously supported him. However, journalist Joan Walsh cautioned Americans to take a long, hard look at Trump\u2019s would-be successor Mike Pence before we get excited about Pence being behind the Resolute desk in place of Trump. Wrote Walsh in an article bluntly titled \u201cWhy Mike Pence is Worse than Donald Trump\u201d in The Nation, \u201cYou probably have these debates with your friends, too: Do we want Donald Trump to resign, or be impeached, which would leave us with Vice President Mike Pence in charge?\u2026Would the low-charisma Pence, who looks like a B-movie producer\u2019s idea of a president, be easier to defeat, especially given the GOP fratricide that would commence with Trump\u2019s departure, however it came about?\u201d She continued, \u201cI try never to care about the political implications of whether Trump should stay or go. He should go, because he\u2019s a racist authoritarian who got help from a foreign adversary to become president. He should go, because he\u2019s more likely to stumble into war than Pence is. But I never let that obscure the truth, either: Pence is a far worse person, because of his creepy Handmaid\u2019s Tale patriarchal approach to women\u2019s equality. But also because he usually knows he\u2019s lying about Trump, and their administration\u2019s agenda, and he lies anyway.\u201d Walsh then brought up disturbing comments the vice president made this past week during an appearance on the Today show. Said Pence, protesting the removal of Confederate monuments, \u201cWhen I walked, back in 2010, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with John Lewis, arm in arm, and we remembered Bloody Sunday, and the extraordinary progress of the civil rights movement, I can\u2019t help but think that rather than pulling down monuments, as some are wont to do, rather than tearing down monuments that have graced our cities all across this country for years, we ought to be building more monuments.\u201dCommented Joan about Pence, \u201cI don\u2019t think he gives a damn about the folks who protest these shameful statues. What was most galling about Pence\u2019s comment, though, was that he used his bond with Lewis to clean up Trump\u2019s despicable equation of Nazis and white supremacists with their opponents, who are the modern-day incarnation of John Lewis.\u201d Do you think she is correct about Pence?", | |
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| "sentence": "The State Department said there's less urgency to release Clinton's emails due to low interestThe State Department argued at a federal hearing Thursday that its ability to process the 100,000 Hillary Clinton emails ordered released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been hindered by a lack of manpower due to a \"hiring freeze\" and that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release. But Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that sued the State Department in May 2015 for the thousands of emails and documents, isn't buying it. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is accusing the State Department of slow-rolling the emails being sent from the FBI to the State Department, a large number of which Clinton \"failed to disclose\" to the government when she served as secretary of state, he said. On July 15, the FBI allegedly turned over to the State Department a new disk of emails belonging to former Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were apparently discovered on a laptop owned by Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. Weiner pleaded guilty in May to sending a number of text messages and sexually explicit pictures last year to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. There apparently are 7,000 emails from Abedin on Weiner's laptop, said Fitton, who added that State Department and Justice Department lawyers are \"claiming they have to appraise them, whether they are personal or government, and then sift through what can be shared publicly.\" State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala told Circa \"\u200ethe Department takes its records management responsibilities seriously and is working diligently to process FOIA requests and to balance the demands of the many requests we have received.\" \"We are devoting significant resources to meeting our litigation obligations,\" she added. The State Department was ordered in November to process documents at the rate of 500 pages per month, but \"at that rate it would take until 2020 for the bulk to made public,\" Fitton said. So far, the State Department has produced 17 batches of documents, Fitton said. \"President Trump needs to direct his agencies to follow the the law but right now they are making a mockery of it by saying they won't finish releasing it until 2020,\" said Fitton, whose group will be heading back to court three months from now to assess the progress. \"I can understand the president's frustration because he wanted these made public. However, his Justice and State departments are making excuses of why they have to slow-roll it this way.\" Trump has made numerous assertions about Clinton and her email server. In June, he tweeted that Clinton destroyed her phones and \"bleached\" her emails. But the president's own Justice Department civil attorneys argued Thursday that there was \"diminished public interest\" in the emails. A U.S. official familiar with the case and the agencies told Circa on the condition that they not be named that \"there are still holdovers within the departments that don't want to see these emails released, so slow-rolling these requests makes perfect sense. If the president wants these emails released then he will have to demand that the agencies abide.\" Last week, Judicial Watch released 448 pages of documents the State Department did turn over from Abedin, describing what it said was preferential treatment \"to major donors to the Clinton Foundation and political campaigns,\" according to the group. \"The documents included six Clinton email exchanges not previously turned over to the State Department, bringing the known total to date to at least 439 emails that were not part of the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton turned over to the State Department, and further contradicting a statement by Clinton that, ' as far as she knew,' all of her government emails had been turned over to the State Department,\" the watchdog group stated in a July 14 press release.", | |
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| "sentence": "Eagles Destroy Corporate Drones, Cost Mining Company More Than $100,000Mining is one of the most destructive forces currently on the face of the planet. Mines, since the Industrial Era, have poisoned the environment and its workers alike. Gold mining is particularly destructive as its waste carries mercury and cyanide, which are typically used to extract gold from rock. These potent neurotoxins persist in the environment, poisoning the soil, and contaminate water supplies permanently. Gold mining also releases hundreds of tons of elemental mercury into the air annually. In addition, this type of mining is considered particularly destructive because of its wastefulness \u2013 over 20 tons of rock and soil must be \u201ctreated\u201d and then dislodged to produce enough gold for a single ring. Recently, in the US, the toxic consequences of gold mining were on full display when the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s incompetence in cleaning out an abandoned gold mine turned the Animas river orange after heavy metal-laden mining waste drained into the river. Before this tragic accident, the EPA had reported that 40% of Western US watersheds had been permanently contaminated by mining. The camouflaged drones Credit \u2013 Rick Stevens Now that gold mining is not as common as it once was in the US, many other countries have been exploited by gold mining firms in its absence. One of these countries is Australia. Mining in Australia is a major industry with gold mining in Western Australia alone generating over $10 billion every year. However, some of the gold mines there have been experiencing a costly and unexpected problem as nature has apparently decided to fight back against its incursions. Drones that are used to survey the territory around gold mines are being destroyed by native wedge-tailed eagles. Rick Steven, a mine surveyor in the region, said that he had lost nine of his Trimble UX5 drones to eagles, which he labeled \u201cthe natural enemy\u201d of drones. After the attacks began, Steven camouflaged his drones as baby eagles. However, the ruse only worked temporarily as 50 flights later the eagles realized the disguised drones were not what they seemed. Each of these drones costs an impressive $20,000, meaning that gold mining companies are losing money fast thanks to the eagles\u2019 intervention. One of these companies, Gold Fields, has already lost over $100,000. This isn\u2019t the first case of animals fighting back against the degradation of the environment in recent months. Less than a month ago, a herd of wild buffalo appeared out of nowhere in a seeming show of support to the Native Americans and their allies protesting the Dakota Access pipeline. The buffalo, who are considered sacred by the Sioux tribe, appeared by the thousands in a stampede that interrupted a confrontation between protestors and police. After the event, many speculated that the buffalo had appeared to show their solidarity with the protestors and indicated that nature was fighting back against exploitative corporate practices. Hopefully, these acts of defiance from the natural world will inspire people to follow their lead in taking a stand against the corporations destroying the planet. What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news! This article ( Eagles Destroy Corporate Drones, Cost Mining Company More Than $100,000) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author and TrueActivist.com", | |
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| "sentence": "The Daily Stormer switched to Google after GoDaddy gave it '24 hours to move the domain'Web hosting company GoDaddy on Monday tweeted that it has given the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website, 24 hours to find another internet service provider. A GoDaddy spokesman told the New York Daily News that the Daily Stormer violated its terms of service by posting a blog deriding a woman killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. Heather Heyer, 32, died when a man drove his car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally there Saturday. Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin on Sunday posted an article characterizing Heyer as \u201cfat\u201d and \u201cchildless.\u201d \u201cGiven this latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent attack, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service,\u201d GoDaddy spokesman Dan Race said in an email to the Daily News. Some Twitter users on Monday praised GoDaddy for taking a stand against the Daily Stormer following Anglin\u2019s controversial blog. Other people on the social media platform criticized GoDaddy for hosting the Daily Stormer for as long as it did before Monday\u2019s announcement. GoDaddy\u2019s decision will reportedly force the Daily Stormer\u2019s operators to transfer dailystormer.com to another internet provider. The hacking collective Anonymous also took credit Monday for targeting the Daily Stormer following Anglin\u2019s blog. \u201cThis site is now under the control of Anonymous,\u201d a post on the Daily Stormer\u2019s front page said. \u201cFor too long the Daily Stormer and Andrew Anglin have spewed their putrid hate on this site,\u201d it added. \u201cThat will not be happening anymore.\u201d The post did not mention GoDaddy\u2019s message to the Daily Stormer, and the article about Heyer was not taken down. The so-called \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville last Saturday turned violent when white nationalists and anti-fascist demonstrators broke into violence. James Alex Fields Jr., 20, ultimately drove a car into counter-protesters there, killing Heyer and injuring more than a dozen others. Two Virginia State Police officers additionally died Saturday following a helicopter crash authorities linked to the Charlottesville rally.", | |
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| "sentence": "Facebook sets up crisis response page after Las Vegas shootingFacebook has set up a crisis response page so people who are in Las Vegas can let people know they are safe. More than 50 people died in the shooting and at least 400 people have been injured in the shooting, according to Las Vegas police. The shooting started around 10:08 p.m. local time. Those numbers would make this the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. The suspect has been identified as local man Stephen Paddock, 64. Paddock was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. Lombardo said the shooter is dead. Police believe Paddock killed himself before law enforcement entered the room, Lombardo said. People can check in to let Facebook friends now they are in Las Vegas and that they are safe. Police also advise people to call 1-866-535-5654 to check in on loved ones.", | |
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| "sentence": "Did 'Antifa' Stab a Vermont Man for Not Condemning a Nazi?A group of anti-fascists attacked and stabbed a man outside his home in Vermont for not condemning a local white nationalist. On 16 August 2017, the right-wing web site BigLeaguePolitics.com reported that a Vermont man was attacked by an \u201cantifa mob\u201d \u2014 a description the alleged victim said did not come from him. Sam Wormer, the subject of the story, told us that he was met by five men outside his home a night earlier. Two of the five men, he said, attacked him directly while the other three \u201cjust kinda hung back,\u201d but he disputed the story\u2019s premise blaming anti-fascist groups: I honestly dont think antifa had anything to do with this. I personally believe this was a false flag attack perpetrated by the far right to further their own agenda. Big League Politics interviewed Wormer after he posted a picture of himself on his Facebook page with a visible cut to his stomach, which he told us came from a box cutter blade. The caption read: This is social justice apparently. This is what i get for sticking up for someone. Cowards. Wormer\u2019s attackers have not been identified. He said that even though he was called a \u201cNazi\u201d and a \u201cfascist\u201d, he did not describe them as being anti-fascists, either. He said there is a loosely organized antifa group in the area, which contacted him after the incident \u201ctrying to figure out what happened [and] who\u2019s responsible, and have been very very supportive\u201d. Wormer, who has not sought medical attention but filed a police report after the attack, first attracted media attention when he was interviewed in a Burlington Free Press story about Ryan Roy, a local man who was fired from his job after being identified as one of the participants in a white supremacist march held in Charlottesville, Virginia on 11 August 2017. Roy described himself as a white nationalist and supporter of President Donald Trump to the Free Press. He also said: Obviously I would advocate for racial separation and racial nationalism or repatriation or even a return to \u2014 our country was a white country up until the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act. That legislation, which was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson on 3 October 1965 and went into effect in June 1968, did away with quotas for immigrants to the U.S. based on their country of origin and instead gave priority to immigrants whose relatives already lived in the country, as well as those with \u201cspecialized skills.\u201d. According to Wormer, he was \u201ccompletely shocked\u201d to see Roy in a Vice News report about the rally and did not agree with his beliefs, but still opposed subsequent demands online for him to be fired or lose custody of his child. Taking away somebody\u2019s job and livelihood \u2014 I mean, that\u2019s just adding fuel to the fire. I don\u2019t think any good is going to come of this on anybody\u2019s side. He said that he was attacked shortly after he made a separate comment about Roy on Facebook, which read: I believe he\u2019s doing what he truly believes is right, and despite all the anger and hate pointed his way right now he stands by his choices. There\u2019s a lot to be said for that. I respect him for that, and I won\u2019t stand with those people who are trying to have Ryan\u2019s child taken away or have him fired. I can\u2019t, he and his family have done too much for me. Sorry but my allegiance is with Ryan no matter his choice, even if I can\u2019t agree with him. You can hate me for it, but I stand with my decision and if any violence comes his way I will stand with him. I don\u2019t agree with his actions but he has stuck up for me and other marginalized people when nobody else would. That is what family does. Wormer said besides the attack on him, his roommate and his roommate\u2019s mother also received death threats, including \u201ca threatening call\u201d. Wormer also told us that Roy contacted him after the attack: He and his mother both reached out to me and made sure I was okay and safe, and thanked me for standing up for him. Police in Essex Junction, where Wormer lives, told us they have \u201cnothing currently to report\u201d on the matter. But Wormer said he would press charges if the people responsible were caught. \u201cI don\u2019t want anyone else to get hurt,\u201d he said. Snopes.com has long been engaged in the battle against misinformation, an effort we could not sustain without the support of our readers. If you'd like to learn more about how you can support us, click here.", | |
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| "sentence": "New body cam video shows Las Vegas police encounter with Michael BennettSEATTLE - The Las Vegas Metro Police Department (NVMPD) released new body camera video on Friday from its investigation into the encounter with officers and Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett. Bennett in early September accused Las Vegas police of racially motivated excessive force, saying he was threatened at gunpoint and handcuffed following a report of gunshots at an after-hours club at a casino hotel. Michael Bennett calls police confrontation a 'traumatic experience' Michael Bennett promises to donate $25K to Harvey victims Bennett, who has recently remained seated during the national anthem prior to football games, posted a statement to Twitter detailing his side of the story. >> See photos here frame-by-frame from when Michael Bennett was put in the back of a police car The NVMPD first gave a news conference in early September about the accusations, saying there was no evidence Bennett was detained because of his race. On Friday, the sheriff reported no evidence of excessive force, and he showed the controversial interaction between Bennett and officers. According to the department, officers were investigating an active shooter call \u2014 which turned out to be false \u2014 and Bennett running quickly prompted a chase. The chase ended with the controversial encounter. Scroll down below to read expanded sections on what happened. Related coverage The events leading up to the encounter The Las Vegas Police Department has shared body camera video during a news conference of the scene that unfolded outside and inside the casino-hotel, The Cromwell and Drai Nightclub, leading up to the incident with Bennett on August 27. The video shows officers responding to an active shooter call, which turned out to be false. According to police, a stanchion was knocked over during a fight, which prompted reports of a shooting. As officers investigated, patrons panicked as they tried to leave the building. Video shows people screaming and scrambling to get out of the casino and others trying to hide. See video of when chaos unfolded, and scroll down to keep reading. In the body camera video, officers can be heard telling people to leave casino. Thousands of people were in the area at the time of the active shooter call, according to police. Bennett was crouched down as officers approached, and then he quickly ran, and jumped over a ledge onto busy Flamingo Boulevard. This led officers to chase him and order him to the ground, police said. Watch the video of his interaction with officers while in the back of a police car below. Scroll down to read Bennett's letter. After digging into 861 tapes, police released new body camera video on Friday that showed officers putting Bennett in the back of the police car. Bennett is panicked, asking what he did wrong, and pleading to be let go. Sheriff Joe Lombardo said the video shows some claims that Bennett made were not true, such as a gun being held to his head. Lombardo said that while officers had a gun in hand while putting Bennett in cuffs, it was not directed at his head. As for the claims officers said they would, \"blow his ******* head off,\" Lombardo reports his department found no evidence of that. What Bennett says in his letter Bennett wrote in his letter that he was visiting Las Vegas to watch the Mayweather-McGregor fight, and he was on the way to his hotel when he was detained. According to Bennett's statement, police ordered him to the ground at gunpoint, jammed a knee into his back and handcuffed him so tight that his fingers went numb. According to Bennett, one officer placed a gun near his head and warned him if he moved his would \"blow his ******* head off.\" In his letter, Bennett called it an excessive use of force, simply because he was a \"black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.\" Read his full letter below, and scroll down to watch video of part of the encounter. A brief video obtained by TMZ Sports surfaced just hours after the letter. It showed part of the encounter between police and Bennett, where he lay on the ground as an officer puts him in handcuffs. \u201cI wasn\u2019t doing nothing, man,\u201d Bennett is heard saying in the video. \u201cThey told us to get out and everybody ran.\u201d Bennett's attorney on the encounter Bennett's attorney, John Burris in Oakland, California, said he believed the TMZ 30-second video clip showed some of how his client was treated. \"We think there was an unlawful detention and the use of excessive force, with a gun put to his head,\" Burris told The Associated Press. \"He was just in the crowd. He doesn't drink or do drugs. He wasn't in a fight. He wasn't resisting. He did nothing more or less than anyone in the crowd.\" Burris said Bennett waited to make public his account of the incident until after Burris contacted Las Vegas police last week by letter and email, seeking police records of Bennett's detention. What NVMPD say about 'bias-based policing' In addition to explaining the events leading up to the encounter, police commented on social media commentary that the detention was motivated by race. \u201cMany of the folks ... have called this an incident of biased-based policing \u2026 police officers focused solely on the race of an individual \u2026 I can tell you as I stand here today I see no evidence of that,\u201d said NVMPD Undersheriff Kevin McMahill. \"In fact as you may have noticed, while officers were searching the casino they were able to evacuate many patrons of all races. It\u2019s also important for me to note to you both of the officers involved in this incident in question are of Hispanic origin,\" McMahill said. McMahill invited Bennett and his legal team to make a formal statement to the officers. According to McHill, after his detention, Bennett told officers that he understood the events that led to the incident. He did mention to police that he had an issue with the officer who held a gun to his head. In their second news conference, Lombardo commended the officers for following their training, and he called them heroic for running into a possible active shooter situation. One of the officers involved in the incident did not have his body camera activated. About Bennett as an advocate Bennett is one of the 200 NFL players who didn\u2019t participate in the national anthem over the weekend in the wake of President Donald Trump suggesting the NFL bar players from kneeling in protest. The entire Seahawks team also didn\u2019t participate during the anthem and sat out in the lockerroom before their game against the Tennessee Titans. Over the last year, Bennett has been a leader of the national anthem protests started by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Before President Trump\u2019s comments on the NFL, Bennett gave this reason for his protesting: \u201cI have always held the strong conviction that protesting or standing up for justice is just simply the right thing to do. This fact is unequivocally, without question, why before every game, I sit during the national anthem \u2013 because equality doesn\u2019t live in this country, and no matter how much money you make, what job title you have or have much you give, when you are seen as a \u2018n*****,' you will be treated that way.\" Pete Carroll supports his players and Bennett. At a news conference on Monday, Carroll told reporters he understands why people are upset with the protests, but he hopes that they listen. \"It is not about denigration of the flag or our country,\" Carroll said. \"We all can learn what we want to learn out of this, but I hope we learn about empathy.\" \u00a9 2018 Cox Media Group.", | |
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