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<p>WASHINGTON Newly leaked emails show consternation among those closest to Hillary Clinton about how Bill Clinton’s business dealings might damage his reputation and potentially affect her presidential hopes.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a type="internal">WikiLeaks began releasing on Friday</a> 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.</p> <p>It wasn’t immediately clear who hacked Podesta’s emails, though U.S. intelligence officials last week <a type="internal">blamed the Russian government</a> for a series of breaches and leaks intended to influence the presidential election.</p> <p>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’s departure from the family charity.</p> <p>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’ daughter and Band, who worked closely for Bill Clinton for more than a decade after the end of the Clinton administration.</p> <p>In an email exchange from December 2011, Chelsea Clinton tells Podesta and others - including Clinton adviser and current Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe - that she’s increasingly concerned about Teneo.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 “on behalf of President Clinton” without her father’s knowledge. Chelsea Clinton said the calls had people in London “making comparisons” between the “profit motivations” of the former president and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.</p> <p>“Which would horrify my father,” Chelsea Clinton wrote.</p> <p>Band wrote in an email that Chelsea Clinton seemed more concerned about critical news coverage about MF Global, a derivatives broker, and Band’s advisory firm, Teneo, than published reports about Bill Clinton’s infidelity.</p> <p>“I 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,” Band vented in an exchange sent to Podesta. “I don’t 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’s doing because she, as she has said, hasn’t found her way and has a lack of focus in her life.”</p> <p>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’s future leader if her mother wins the presidency next month. Bill Clinton announced in August that he planned to step down from the charity’s board if his wife becomes president. Chelsea Clinton will remain on the organization’s board.</p> <p>Bill Clinton explained in a letter to supporters in August that he would resign and stop raising funds for the charity to eliminate “legitimate concerns about potential conflicts of interest.”</p> <p>Calls seeking comment from the Clinton Foundation and from Teneo, where Band works, received no response Monday.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>“She 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’t take it anymore,” Band wrote in an email to Podesta and Cheryl Mills, then Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>© 2016 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p>	Latest leaked emails: Former top aide to Bill Clinton disparages Chelsea Clinton	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/latest-leaked-emails-former-top-aide-to-bill-clinton-disparages-chelsea-clinton/	2016-10-10
<p>Emails leaked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s private email account Friday by WikiLeaks addressed using executive privilege to keep the emails between Hillary Clinton and President Obama from being released, a 2008 survey testing reaction to then-Sen. Obama’s Muslim father and use of cocaine, and a suggestion from former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on how to take Clinton out of the “bubble.”</p> <p>March 2015: Podesta wrote to Cheryl Mills about withholding emails between Clinton and Obama</p> <p>Six days before Hillary Clinton spoke to reporters at the United Nations about her private email server, Podesta wrote to Cheryl Mills, “Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I seems like they will.”</p> <p>In September, Politico reported that the State Department would not release emails exchanged between Clinton and Obama to the public, citing the “presidential communications privilege,” which is another name for the executive privilege. Claiming the privilege enables the president to withhold certain information that has been requested by other branches of government or by the public. This means that the emails the two wrote to each other won’t be released until 5 to 12 years after the end of the Obama administration, as dictated by the Presidential Records Act.</p> <p>January 2008: Clinton pollster proposed message testing lines on Obama--including reference to his Muslim father, past cocaine use</p> <p>An email referring to “McCain Survey-3” from Greenberg research listed a number of survey questions with “negative facts” about Clinton’s primary opponent, then-Sen. Obama. Kristi Fuksa, of Greenberg Research, sent the email to Democratic operatives including Podesta, Paul Begala, Tara McGuinness and Susan McCue</p> <p>The statements floated included subjects like his upbringing among Muslims, his father’s Muslim faith, his referring to past cocaine use as “a little blow” -- here’s the survey:</p> <p>* 1 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) was the only candidate at a recent event not to cover his heart during the national anthem and he has stopped wearing an American flag pin.</p> <p>* 2 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) benefited from a land deal from a contributor who has been indicted for corruption.</p> <p>* 3 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) would personally negotiate with the leaders of terrorist nations like Iran and North Korea without preconditions.</p> <p>* 4 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) voted against allowing people to use handguns to defend themselves against intruders.</p> <p>* 5 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) plans to raise taxes by 180 (one hundred and eighty) billion dollars a year to pay for his government-run health care plan</p> <p>* 6 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) voted repeatedly against emergency funding bills for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p> <p>* 7 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh)‘s father was a Muslim and Obama grew up among Muslims in the world’s most populous Islamic country.</p> <p>* 8 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) is ranked as one of the ten most liberal members of the Senate because of his support of issues like gay adoption.</p> <p>* 9 (Other)</p> <p>* 10 (All)</p> <p>* 11 (None)</p> <p>* 12 (Don’t know/refused)</p> <p>* 13 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive the procedure.</p> <p>* 14 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) supports giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants</p> <p>* 15 Obama (owe-BAHM-uh) described his former use of cocaine as using “a little blow.”</p> <p>Begala told the Washington Post that the survey was named for John McCain because “it was designed to test attacks that might come in the general election.” He also pointed out that “every campaign and every PAC tests potential negatives against the candidate they support...that’s all it was.”</p> <p>July 2015: Jennifer Granholm’s suggestion on how to get Clinton out of the “bubble”</p> <p>The former Michigan governor suggested Clinton could dispense with the idea that she’s “out of touch” by doing “work days,” in which she’d pick “8 occupations that she is willing to spend one day working at. She humbles herself, but gives dignity to the workers whose salaries she wants to raise.” Some of Granholm’s suggestions included working as a janitor in a school cafeteria, at a daycare center, making beds in a hotel, bussing tables at Denny’s or working “behind the counter at McDonalds or Chipotle’s!”</p> <p>CBS News’ Steve Chaggaris and Donald Judd contributed to this report</p> <p>© 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>	Leaked Podesta emails address Obama polling in 2008, executive privilege	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/leaked-podesta-emails-address-obama-polling-in-2008-executive-privilege/	2016-10-14
<p>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday called allegations of Russian election meddling a “hoax,” and insisted the media was the “greatest influence” on the 2016 campaign.</p> <p>Trump’s tweets early Friday appeared to respond to Facebook’s announcement that the social media giant will provide to congressional investigators the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency.</p> <p>“The Russia hoax continues, now it’s ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favour of Crooked Hillary?”</p> <p>He later added: “The greatest influence over our election was the Fake News Media ‘screaming’ for Crooked Hillary Clinton. Next, she was a bad candidate!”</p> <q> <p>The Russia hoax continues, now it’s ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary?</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911179462745710593" type="external">September 22, 2017</a> </q> <q> <p>The greatest influence over our election was the Fake News Media "screaming" for Crooked Hillary Clinton. Next, she was a bad candidate!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911189860769255424" type="external">September 22, 2017</a> </q> <p>Facebook has faced growing pressure from members of Congress to release the content of the ads. The company has already handed over the ads to the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.</p> <p>Facebook also says it will now require political ads to disclose both who is paying for them and all ad campaigns those individuals or groups are running on Facebook.</p>	Donald Trump: Russia probe a 'hoax,' media was 'greatest influence'	false	http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2017/09/22/donald-trump-russia-probe-a-hoax-media-was-greatest-influence	2017-09-22
<p>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.</p> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Two incidents almost 14 centuries apart show just how deeply the exploitation of women is ingrained In Sharia.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>As chronicled in the Islamic State on-line magazine "Dabiq," "After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Sharī'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."</p> <p>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."</p> <p>Sadly, the victim was just one of countless thousands in the history of Islam.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>"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."</p> <p>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.'"</p> <p>When will equality-minded Americans stand up for women's rights around the globe?</p> <p>Hank Hanegraaff is the author of <a href="http://www.thomasnelson.com/muslim" type="external">"MUSLIM: What You Need to Know about the World's Fastest-Growing Religion"</a> and the host of the "Bible Answer Man" radio broadcast and the "Hank Unplugged" podcast.</p>	Islam and the Mistreatment of Women	false	http://www.crossmap.com/news/islam-and-the-mistreatment-of-women-31755
<p>Anonymous have denied claims that they hacked the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, after a post appeared claiming that the hacktivist group was “now in control” of the site.</p> <p>A post titled ‘END OF HATE: ANONYMOUS NOW IN CONTROL OF DAILY STORMER’ appeared on the far-right site earlier this morning, suggesting that Anonymous were going to bring an end to The Daily Stormer following the events of the Charlottesville “Unite The Right” rally, which saw white nationalists converge to protest plans to remove a Confederate statue. The rally led to multiple conflicts between the nationalists and counter-protesters, ultimately leading to the death of civil rights activist Heather Heyer, who was one of many hit by a vehicle driven by white supremacist James Alex Fields.</p> <p>Many outlets reported that Anonymous had infiltrated The Daily Stormer website in response to the events of Charlottesville, with the post on the site reading: “WE HAVE TAKEN THIS SITE IN THE NAME OF HEATHER HEYER A VICTIM OF WHITE SUPREMACIST TERRORISM. FOR TOO LONG THE DAILY STORMER AND ANDREW ANGLIN HAVE SPEWED THEIR PUTRID HATE ON THIS SITE. THAT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING ANYMORE”. However, Anonymous have stated that they believe the post was made by The Daily Stormer in a “stunt” designed to “woo their clueless base.”</p> <p>The clarifications were made by <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews" type="external">@YourAnonNews</a>, the largest Anonymous Twitter account, who believe that The Daily Stormer had made the post themselves in order to explain away technical issues the site was experiencing, after web hosting company GoDaddy had banned them from using the service.</p> <q> <p>We have no confirmation that "Anonymous" is involved yet. Looks more like a DS stunt. Wonder if they are having issues finding a new host. <a href="https://t.co/ikXXRBfC5p" type="external">https://t.co/ikXXRBfC5p</a></p> <p>— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/896987338781237248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">August 14, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>This is likely to be the derps from dailystormer engaging in a silly troll to woo their clueless base. If we're proven wrong, so be it. <a href="https://t.co/dkiXGCDEwY" type="external">https://t.co/dkiXGCDEwY</a></p> <p>— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/896991235147128832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">August 14, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>And all the old content is left up by a "UNITED FORCE OF ELITE HACKERS" on a shit post site "UNDER THE CONTROL OF ANONYMOUS." Doubtful. <a href="https://t.co/FNYRCYWEDx" type="external">https://t.co/FNYRCYWEDx</a></p> <p>— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/896992745612468225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">August 14, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>If goal of Daily Stormer was to get us to celebrate a BS claim, it backfired. Seriously, suck less.</p> <p>— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/896993443364208640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">August 14, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>The neo-Nazi site has been given 24 hours to find a new host, otherwise it will be taken offline by GoDaddy. The post suggesting Anonymous were now in control of the site also stated that The Daily Stormer would be taken offline within 24 hours, suggesting that its creators are looking for a conspiratorial explanation as to why the site has disappeared if GoDaddy removes it from the internet.</p>	Anonymous Denies Claim They Hacked Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer	false	http://www.craveonline.co.uk/design/1310487-anonymous-denies-claim-hacked-neo-nazi-website-daily-stormer	2017-08-14
<p>Chris Brown, 27, was stopped from a potential physical altercation by police at a charity basketball game on the anniversary of 9/11 (video below).</p> <p>The singer got into such a heated argument with someone in the stands that the cops were called in to intervene before the situation escalated any further.</p> <p>The incident occurred at the Power 106 Celebrity Basketball Game at USC, reports TMZ.</p> <p>Video footage shows Brown becoming visibly upset as he leans over the bench seats to argue with a spectator.</p> <p>The music was too loud to make out exactly what words were exchanged, but USC cops can be heard saying, “ I don’t care who’s here, get it straight.”</p> <p>Brown walked away twice but came back moments later each time to continue the quarrel, according to the Daily Mail.</p> <p>At one point, the R&amp;B singer was encircled by cops as he tried to explain the situation.</p> <p>Brown has become the latest high-profile star to join Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest against police brutality and racial inequality in America.</p> <p>Before the basketball game, Brown did not observe the anthem. Instead, Brown laughed with friends as he sat during the song’s performance.</p> <p>The anthem was sung by R&amp;B singer Tank, who asked the audience to stand “in the wake of 9/11” and in respect for those who lost their lives in the September 2011 terrorist attacks.</p> <p>However, Brown applauded Tank at the end for his effort.</p> <p>Brown was arrested just last week after a standoff with police officers at his Tarzana home over allegations he threatened a woman with a gun.</p> <p>During the event, Brown posted videos on social media in which he denounced the police and said he was being unfairly demonized.</p>	Chris Brown Laughs During National Anthem & Refuses To Stand, Has Unexpected Encounter After (Video)	false	http://www.cookingpanda.com/story/trending/2017/09/12/chris-brown-laughs-during-national-anthem-refuses-stand-has-unexpected	2017-09-12
<a href="https://images.complex.com/complex/images/c_limit,w_640/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/ckzdtpad35wl9gb1wzdc/donald-trump-heritage-foundation-meeting" type="external" /> Image via Getty <p>UPDATED 10/18/17, 2:45 p.m. ET:</p> <p>NFL Commissioner <a type="internal">Roger Goodell</a> held a press conference on Wednesday and spoke about how the NFL wants players to stand during the national anthem. However, he also reemphasized that the league will not try to force players to stand at this point.</p> <p>"We just had two days of conversation of which this was a fair amount of dialogue and I think we all see this the same way," Goodell said. "We want our players to stand. Our focus is on the opportunity we have to make our communities better through these efforts with our players. We’ll deal with these issues as they come up."</p> <p>Goodell steered clear of directly addressing the tweet Donald Trump sent out on Wednesday about the NFL's decision not to force players to stand.</p> <q> <p>Goodell: "were focusing on what we should be doing as the NFL," in response to more questions about Trump's Tweets</p> — Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora/status/920713703095504898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 18, 2017</a> </q> <p>Additionally, Goodell said he wants the league to "stay out of politics" and talked about how he hopes that there will eventually be "zero" players kneeling during the anthem.</p> <p>See original story below.</p> <p>As per usual, Donald Trump's using his personal Twitter account to spew garbage takes about shit he doesn't truly understand. Just a week after <a type="internal">saying</a> a one-game suspension would have scared Colin Kaepernick from kneeling in protest of the national anthem ever again (ROFL), he's back on Twitter clapping at the NFL for not bringing the hammer down on players who are still protesting.</p> <q> <p>The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country!</p> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/920606910109356032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 18, 2017</a> </q> <p>"The NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem," Trump tweeted. "Total disrespect for our great country!"</p> <p>This is no doubt in response to the NFL <a type="internal">saying</a> they would not prohibit players from protesting the anthem late last week.</p> <p>If Trump was so concerned about players protesting the national anthem—which, again is <a href="https://www.loc.gov/law/help/peaceful-assembly/us.php" type="external">a part of the First Amendment</a>—why doesn't he stop the police from murdering black people? You know, <a type="internal">what these fucking protests are actually about</a>.</p> <p>If Trump's so concerned about people openly resisting the tradition of bigging up America before playing a game, why doesn't he go to the root of the problem? Oh right, because while he spews a hatred for "fake news," he has no problem feeding the fuckery. I forgot.</p>	Trump Calls Out NFL for Not Forcing Players to Stand During Anthem	true	http://www.complex.com/sports/2017/10/trump-calls-out-nfl-not-forcing-players-stand-during-anthem	2017-10-18
<p>Disgraced Hollywood producer and mogul <a type="internal">Harvey Weinstein</a> has been under the spotlight as multiple disturbing allegations of him sexually <a type="internal">abusing</a> women have come to the public's attention following an article published by the New York Times. The abuse has allegedly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/gwyneth-paltrow-angelina-jolie-harvey-weinstein.html" type="external">been</a> occurring for over three decades, with the earliest case cited being from 1984.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/11/harvey-weinstein-suicide-threat-police/" type="external">TMZ</a> writes that on Wednesday morning Weinstein's daughter Remy called 911 to notify police that her father was "suicidal and depressed." The 22-year-old and her father were reportedly arguing. The morning's event took place in the Los Angeles area. The Daily Mail <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4971670/Suicidal-Harvey-Weinstein-begs-stranger-ride-LA.html" type="external">reports</a>that Weinstein attempted to flag down a ride from a random driver following the argument.</p> <p>When the police arrived, Remy reportedly made no mention that her father was suicidal, and said it was a family dispute.</p> <p>Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Mira Sorvino, Rosanna Arquette, <a href="http://variety.com/2017/film/columns/heather-graham-harvey-weinstein-sex-for-movie-role-1202586113/" type="external">Heather Graham</a>, Ashley Judd, Asia Argento, and others have come forth with their personal stories of Weinstein's sickening and sexually abusive behavior.</p> <p>Weinstein's wife Georgina Chapman left the famed Hollywood producer on Tuesday. In a statement made to People, Chapman wrote, "My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time."</p>	Police Called After Harvey Weinstein Reportedly Got Into Argument With Daughter	false	http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-reportedly-suicidal	2017-10-11
<a href="https://images.complex.com/complex/images/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/drl3egnysiivpxmarxn2/us-supreme-court-justices-2017" type="external" /> Image via SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images <p><a type="internal">Trump</a> has told sources that he expects to appoint three more Supreme Court Justices before the end of his first term, Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/trumps-four-justices-2497007846.html" type="external">reports</a>.</p> <p>Trump has already nominated conservative judge Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed and then sworn into office in April of 2017. Gorsuch replaced the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Trump believes that Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is 81 years old, will soon be out. Kennedy is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/justice-kennedy-retire-bio-facts-supreme-court-2017-6" type="external">rumored</a> to be considering retirement.</p> <p>You can read the exchange with Trump, obtained by Axios, below.</p> <q> <p>"Ok," one source told Trump, "so that's two. Who are the others?"</p> <p>"Ginsburg," Trump replied. "What does she weigh? 60 pounds?"</p> <p>"Who's the fourth?" the source asked.</p> <p>"Sotomayor," Trump said, referring to the relatively recently-appointed Obama justice, whose name is rarely, if ever, mentioned in speculation about the next justice to be replaced. "Her health," Trump explained. "No good. Diabetes."</p> </q> <p>Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 84 years old, while Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor is just 63 years old. Sotomayor, who was appointed by President Obama, is the first Latina to serve on the Supreme Court. She was diagnosed with diabetes as a child.</p> <p>Ironically, Trump is the oldest person to be elected president in U.S. history. The reality television star is 71 years old.</p> <p>One source is quoted as saying, "it's all about the numbers for him," which is not surprising because we are talking about a man who <a href="http://deadline.com/2017/08/donald-trump-hurricane-harvey-response-press-conference-1202157792/" type="external">constantly</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBZ6_OKJyU" type="external">brags</a>about numbers, whether it be rating numbers, the size of the crowd at his inauguration or crowds for his rallies in general.</p>	Trump Reportedly Is Predicting He Will Appoint Four Supreme Court Justices	false	http://www.complex.com/life/2017/10/trump-reportedly-predicts-he-will-appoint-four-supreme-court-justices	2017-10-16
<p>On Friday, a day after former Mesa, Arizona police officer Philip Brailsford was <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2017/12/07/philip-brailsford-verdict-daniel-shaver-killing/927052001/" type="external">acquitted of second-degree murder</a> charges, state officials released a graphic video of the shooting, showing the victim begging for his life.</p> <p>In the video, another officer, now-retired Sgt. Charles Langley, orders seemingly-terrified Daniel Shaver to cross his legs, crawl and keep his hands raised straight up in the air prior to the fatal shooting. The officers were responding to a call alleging a man was pointing a gun out of a window, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/08/graphic-video-shows-daniel-shaver-sobbing-and-begging-officer-for-his-life-before-2016-shooting/?utm_term=.d5ea76fe04d8" type="external">The Washington Post</a> reports:</p> <q> <p>"After the officer involved was acquitted of second-degree murder charges, officials in Arizona released graphic video showing Daniel Shaver crawling on his hands and knees and begging for his life in the moments before he was shot and killed by police in January 2016."</p> <p>….</p> <p>"The shooting, by Philip “Mitch” Brailsford, then an officer with the Mesa Police Department, occurred after officers responded to a call about a man allegedly pointing a rifle out of a fifth-floor window at a La Quinta Inn. Inside the room, Shaver, 26, had been doing rum shots with a woman he had met earlier that day and showing off a pellet gun he used in his job in pest control."</p> </q> <p>Wrongful-death lawsuits against the city of Mesa have been filed by Shaver's family members.</p> <q> <p>WARNING: Video contains graphic, disturbing content.</p> </q> <p>test</p> <p>test</p> <p>Please support CNSNews today! (a 501c3 non-profit production of the Media Research Center)</p> <p><a type="internal">DONATE</a></p>	Graphic Video of Fatal Shooting Released After Fmr. Officer Acquitted of Murder	false	http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/graphic-video-fatal-shooting-released-after-fmr-officer-acquitted-murder	2017-12-08
<p>Sen. Richard Durbin discusses President Trump's immigration comments following the City of Chicago's 32nd Annual Interfaith Breakfast commemorating the life of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 12, 2018. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)</p> <p>What did you say when President <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> referred to Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations as “shithole countries”?</p> <p>What did you say when the president of the United States followed that comment by suggesting he’d rather see more immigrants from countries like Norway?</p> <p>No compatible source was found for this media.</p> <p>Whether now or in the future, you will be asked this question: What did you say?</p> <p>Did you call out the obvious racism behind those statements? Did you acknowledge that the leader of the free world — by title, anyway — had shown himself to be a white supremacist, casually expressing his dislike of brown-skinned immigrants and preference for white European immigrants?</p> <p>Were you outraged that such comments from a sitting president were antithetical to the ideals that have always made America a beacon of hope and opportunity?</p> <p>What did you say?</p> <p>Did you speak out?</p> <p>Did you denounce the comments, as Rep. <a type="internal">Mia Love</a>, a Utah Republican whose parents came to America from Haiti, did, saying in a statement: “This behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation. … The President must apologize to both the American people and the nations he so wantonly maligned.”</p> <p>Or did you keep quiet?</p> <p>Take note, because you will be asked. Trump’s has been a presidency filled with jaw-dropping moments of offensive behavior, but this one will stand out over time, both for its profane nature and its naked racism.</p> <p>So what did you say?</p> <p>Did you look for excuses? Did you toss out a “Well, what about …” scenario you thought might take the heat off?</p> <p>Did you scream something about “identity politics” and try to pretend that this is the fault of others, not the fault of the transparently racist old man in the White House?</p> <p>Did you say he has a point? Did you say, “Well, those countries are shitholes, aren’t they?”</p> <p>Did you forget how people once described immigrants from Italy and Ireland? Did you forget the words on a plaque at the Statue of Liberty?</p> <p>“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”</p> <p>Did you forget those words, or just ignore them? Did you smile about a tax break and say nothing?</p> <p>Did you not put the pieces together and consider all the other times Trump has shown us exactly who he is?</p> <p>Did you tamp down memories of his calls for the execution of the Central Park Five, even after the young men, four black and one Latino, were found innocent?</p> <p>Did you explain away what Trump was implying in this tweet from 2013: “According to Bill O'Reilly, 80% of all the shootings in New York City are blacks-if you add Hispanics, that figure goes to 98%. 1% white.”</p> <p>Did you disregard his years-long birther crusade against the nation’s first black president? His description of Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals? His regular criticism that immigrants coming from predominately nonwhite nations are examples of those countries’ “worst people”?</p> <p>Did you not let yourself see the pattern? Did you twist logic into knots and blame it on the media? On political correctness?</p> <p>What did you say when our president called other countries “shitholes” and you had to shield your children’s ears from profanity on the nightly news?</p> <p>What did you tell your children about this moment? How did you explain the president’s words?</p> <p>Tell me, what did you say? Mark it down, let it be known. Because you will be asked this again someday.</p> <p>And if you stayed silent, if you made excuses, if you tried to fool yourself into believing this is appropriate presidential behavior, if you let it slide because this presidency might somehow line your pocketbook, then you will be remembered as complicit, as one who stood by and let America’s decency get dragged through the mud.</p> <p>And if you laughed, or if you smiled, or if you nodded your head in agreement, you will be remembered just as Trump will: as a racist, a fool and an absolute embarrassment.</p> <p>rhuppke@chicagotribune.com</p> <p>RELATED</p> <p><a type="internal">President Trump owes the country an apology »</a></p> <p><a type="internal">What happened when I followed Trump's example and started lying all the time »</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Trump attacks protections for immigrants from 'shithole' countries in Oval Office meeting »</a></p>	Your response to Trump’s racist ‘shithole’ comment will be remembered	true	http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-trump-shitholes-huppke-20180111-story.html	2018-01-11
<p>In March 2016, Trump tweeted: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used an image of Melania from a GQ shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”</p> <p>Trump followed up his initial comment by retweeting an unflattering photo comparing Heidi Cruz with his wife, Melania, stating, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”</p> <p>It was reported in the same story that a friend of Diana, Selina Scott, said the princess felt stalked after her divorce from Prince Charles; Trump “bombarded Diana at Kensington Palace with massive bouquets of flowers.”</p> <p>In a tweet that Trump later deleted, he wrote on April 16, 2016: “If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?”</p> <p>In December 2015, Trump said Clinton “got schlonged” by President Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential primaries. In doing so, he turned the Yiddish word for penis into a verb. According to CNN, Yiddish scholars were shocked by the word’s use in a “filthy” context.</p> <p><a type="internal">Trump condemned Clinton for “shouting”</a> during her appeal to female voters. In an MSNBC interview, he acknowledged that he was using gendered terms when referencing Clinton’s decibel level.</p> <p>Trump has also criticized her credentials for president by saying, “Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get 5 percent of the vote. <a type="internal">The only thing she’s got going is the women’s card.”</a>The Republican candidate followed that remark up by calling Clinton an “enabler” of her husband’s infidelity.</p> <p><a href="https://www.fetcharate.com/pa/?tg_ref=t1febpron&pag_ref=tabhar&csg_ref=c_4140&camp_id=state_colon_say_goodbye_to_your_mortgage_if_you_have_no_missed_payments&keyword=takethestand&sub2=cbsinteractive-cbsnews&city=${city:capitalized}$" type="external">California: Say Goodbye To Your Mortgage If You Have No Missed Payments</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.american-giant.com/the-pant.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral" type="external">Forget Skinny Jeans. These Are What You Should Be Wearing This Summer.</a></p> <p><a href="http://solarpanels.sunrun.com/xfinity/tab001/read-this-if-youre-thinking-about-going-solar/?campid=4D3727780500F781&s2=cbsinteractive-cbsnews&utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=online+display&utm_campaign=4D3727780500F781" type="external">Thinking About Solar For Your Home? Read This First</a></p> <p><a type="internal">"Gesture of love": Photo of police officer breastfeeding malnourished baby goes viral</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Members of Amazon tribe never seen by outsiders filmed by drone</a></p> <p><a type="internal">Natasha Aponte, woman who tricked thousands of men on Tinder, explains purpose behind dating competition</a></p> Ivana Trump <p>Ivana Trump worked for the Trump Organization after they were married. She was president of Trump’s Castle casino resort and the Plaza Hotel. According to the New York Times, she was only paid an annual salary of $1. He wrote in his book “The Art of the Comeback” that he regretted taking Ivana out of the role of being his wife and making her a businesswoman, because business then dominated their personal lives as well.</p> <p>Ivana has praised her ex-husband, telling the New York Post that his trust in her business skills was proof of his respect for women. She said, “He loves women. But not a feminist.”</p> <p>When she filed for divorce from Trump, instigated by his affair with Marla Maples, she stated in a deposition that her husband had raped her. However, she later said that “it was all the lawyers,” adding, “I was never abused.”</p> <p>It was Donald Trump’s affair with Marla Maples that led to his divorce from Ivana Trump. The couple married in 1993 and divorced six years later in 1999.</p> <p>It was Trump’s relationship with Maples that also provided fodder for recently resurfaced allegations that Trump posed as his own public relations rep in interviews with various publications. <a type="internal">In a 1991 phone interview</a>with People magazine reporter Sue Carswell, a recording of which was released in May 2016, a rep who identified himself as “John Miller” explained why Trump had left Maples for Italian singer-model Carla Bruni.</p> <p>In the interview, “Miller” bragged that Trump was constantly pursued by famous women and that “he’s living with Marla and he’s got three other girlfriends.”</p> <p>According to Carswell, Trump later apologized for the ruse, saying it was a “joke gone awry,” though he currently denies he ever posed as his own rep.</p> <p>In the <a type="internal">recording of the phone conversation</a>, “Miller” -- whose tone, cadence and style of speaking are all remarkably Trump-like -- gave intimate details of Trump’s encounters with celebrities like Italian singer and model Carla Bruni and pop star Madonna.</p> <p>Of stories that Trump dated Bruni, the woman now married to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy told London’s Daily Mail, “Trump is obviously a lunatic.” She stated Trump dreamed up the match for publicity sake. “It’s so untrue and I’m deeply embarrassed by it all.”</p>	Donald Trump and women	true	http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/donald-trump-women/31/	2016-10-21
<a type="internal"><p>Salah Abdeslam wasn't in Belgian court as verdict announced over police shootout that came four months after Paris attacks</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Salah Abdeslam refuses to rise for judge at trial in hometown of Brussels, where he briefly evaded capture in deadly shootout with police</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>String of lawsuits filed wants Twitter, Facebook to pay damages for failing to stop violent extremists from using their platforms</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>"The conviction … sends a clear message to those who fund terrorism [that they] will be prosecuted and potentially face lengthy prison sentences,” official says</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>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.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>CBS Boston confirms Trump wasn't lying about getting a letter from Bill Belichick, but was he right about getting Tom Brady's vote?</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>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</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Parliamentary probe of 2015 Islamic extremist attacks in France looked at whether they could have been avoided, and what can be learned</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Lawsuit claims social media companies "knowingly permitted" ISIS to recruit members, raise money and spread "extremist propaganda"</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>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</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>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.</p></a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">43Photos</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a>	Paris attacks	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/paris-attacks/	2018-04-23
<p>At Price Hill Chili Restaurant in Hamilton County, Ohio, Tuesday morning, they served up hot coffee, scrambled eggs and a side of politics.</p> <p>CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller asked voters there whether the FBI’s <a type="internal">decision to re-open</a> Hillary Clinton’s email investigation is changing any minds.</p> <p>“I am standing by Hillary,” one said.</p> <p>“I am really rooting for Trump this year,” said another.</p> <p>Watch the video above for more reaction from swing state voters.</p>	Will Clinton's new FBI controversy change voters' minds?	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-new-fbi-controversy-change-voters-minds/	2016-11-01
<p>Donald Trump lit a fresh controversy this week with his suggestion that <a type="internal">"Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton from naming her judicial picks</a>, if she becomes president - a remark many interpreted as a suggestion that gun rights activists could violently target Clinton or her judicial nominees.</p> <p>""If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks," Trump said at a rally on Tuesday. "Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know. But I'll tell you what, that will be a horrible day."</p> <p><a type="internal">Trump and his defenders say critics misread the remark</a>. They insist the GOP nominee was merely talking about Second Amendment supporters peacefully exercising their political power to prevent Clinton from appointing jurists to the federal bench. And some have pointed to a similar gaffe Clinton made in 2008 to argue that Trump deserves the benefit of the doubt.</p> <p>As the Democratic nomination was slipping from her grasp in May 2008, Clinton faced calls to drop out and endorse then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who'd at that point built a virtually insurmountable lead in the primary.</p> <p>When she was asked by a South Dakota newspaper at the end of that month why she was still running, <a type="internal">Clinton replied</a>, "You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? ...We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."</p> <p>To some, Clinton's response suggested she was staying in the race because there was a possibility Obama could be killed, as Bobby Kennedy had been during the 1968 Democratic primary.</p> <p>After an indignant eruption from Obama's team, Clinton quickly backtracked: "I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever."</p> <p>It wasn't quite a pristine mea culpa - she apologized "if" her remark was "in any way offensive," not for the remark itself. But it's worth noting that she was considerably more contrite than Trump has been in response to his own misstep.</p> <a type="internal">66 Photos Best photos of campaign 2016</a> <p>"Give me a break," Trump scoffed to Fox News when asked about the criticism. His campaign released a statement blaming the "dishonest media" for manufacturing the controversy.</p> <p>On May 25, 2008, days after Clinton's remark on RFK, her spokesman, Howard Wolfson, <a type="internal">appeared on "Face the Nation"</a> to offer the campaign's version of events.</p> <p>"What she clearly said, and what she meant, was that, in previous election cycles--and she referenced first her husband's in 1992, and then 1968--we've had campaigns that have gone on into June and actually beyond," he said. "And so her reference to Senator Kennedy was a historical reference. The people in the room in South Dakota where she said this at the newspaper found nothing peculiar about it. She has said this before; there was no commentary or discussion about it when she'd said it before. And I think, unfortunately, her remarks have been blown out of proportion. She very quickly made clear what she meant. If she caused anyone any discomfort or pain--because it is obviously a very sensitive topic--she apologized. But she was talking about it in a historical context."</p> <p>Still, Wolfson later added, he didn't believe Clinton owed Obama a personal apology.</p> <p>"Her remarks were not about Senator Obama," Wolfson explained. "They had nothing to do with Senator Obama. And so, you know, there would be no reason for her to apologize to Senator Obama."</p>	Why Hillary Clinton might feel Donald Trump's pain after "2nd Amendment" gaffe	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-hillary-clinton-might-feel-donald-trumps-pain-after-2nd-amendment-gaffe/	2016-08-11
<p>The rapidly-evolving story concerning the FBI’s renewed interest in Hillary Clinton’s email sever has a number of players. Some are famous, others are not. Here are some people involved in the latest political drama.</p> ANTHONY WEINER <p>Once a rising star in the Democratic Party, Weiner was an outspoken and telegenic congressman from the outer boroughs of New York City. He married senior Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin in 2010 in a ceremony officiated by Bill Clinton, and was mentored by Sen. Chuck Schumer. Then, in 2011, he accidentally tweeted an explicit photo from himself, which eventually led to his resignation from Congress.</p> FILE - In this July 24, 2013 file photo, New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner leaves his apartment building in New York. <p>He launched a comeback bid for Mayor of New York City in 2013, and was briefly the frontrunner until it was revealed that he was still sending explicit photos to people other than his wife, sometimes under the pseudonym Carlos Danger.</p> <p>Over this past summer, authorities opened an investigation into Weiner’s alleged sexting with an underage girl, which at one point included a picture of his young son. Abedin <a type="internal">announced that she was separating from Weiner in August</a>, but the investigation eventually led to the discovery of a laptop containing thousands of emails potentially relating to the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.</p> JAMES COMEY <p>Appointed FBI director in September 2013 by President Obama, Comey has a long and distinguished record in law enforcement, including a stint as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2002 to 2003. He then became a deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush until 2005 before leaving to accept a series of lucrative private sector jobs.</p> FBI Director James Comey makes a statement at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, July 5, 2016. <p>A Republican for most of his life, Comey contributed to the presidential campaigns of both Sen. John McCain and Gov. Mitt Romney, but said in 2016 he was no longer registered with the GOP. In July, he attracted criticism from Republicans for <a type="internal">declining to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton over the use of her private email server</a>, a decision he announced in a press conference.</p> <p>Last week, he sent a letter to Congress notifying the chairs of relevant committees that the investigation had resumed due to information obtained during a separate investigation. It was later revealed that FBI investigators looking into Anthony Weiner had found a laptop used by him and his wife, Huma Abedin, containing thousands of emails potentially going to-and-from Clinton’s private server.</p> ANDREW MCCABE <p>McCabe joined the FBI in 1996, serving out of the New York field office and focusing on organized crime. According to his official FBI biography, he has held senior positions in the counterterrorism and national security divisions, eventually becoming deputy director, the bureau’s second-in-command position, in February.</p> <p>His wife, Jill McCabe, was an unsuccessful Democratic Virginia state senate candidate in 2015, and received nearly $500,000 in campaign funds from Gov. Terry McAuliffe political action committee. McAuliffe is a close Clinton ally, but Andrew McCabe still reportedly oversaw the wide-ranging investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. McCabe did, however, recuse himself from a separate investigation into McAuliffe due to his wife’s ties to the governor.</p> <p>In early October, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett, agents investigating Anthony Weiner notified McCabe that a laptop had been discovered that could contain emails pertinent to the separate investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server. FBI investigators originally looked through the laptop looking for child pornography, and required another court order to look for emails relating to the server to-and-from Weiner’s wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin.</p> JASON CHAFFETZ <p>The GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee has been closely tracking the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers as secretary of state.</p> <p>On Friday, Chaffetz tweeted that FBI Director James Comey had learned about new emails pertinent to its investigation into Clinton. Comey had sent him and other Republican committee chairmen on Capitol Hill a vague letter about the discovery. Chaffetz said that the case had been reopened.</p> The chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform committee, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), questions Planned Parenthood Federation president Cecile Richards (not pictured) on Capitol Hill in Washington September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron - RTS29RH <p>Before the development, Chaffetz told The Washington Post last week that he planned to spend “years” investigating Clinton.</p> JILL MCCABE <p>Despite never running for office before, McCabe launched a campaign last year to run for a state Senate seat in Virginia. She is the wife of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe who, has been overseeing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers when she led the State Department.</p> <p>Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a former top aide to the Clintons, reportedly recruited McCabe for the seat in an effort to tip the balance of the state Senate. While she was recruited around the time that The New York Times broke the Clinton emails story, the FBI didn’t launch its investigation into it until July 2015 and Andrew McCabe wasn’t promoted to his current role until earlier this year.</p> <p>McAuliffe’s <a type="internal">political action committee donated nearly $500,000</a> to Jill McCabe’s campaign, which was unsuccessful. Chaffetz asked Andrew McCabe last week to provide documents about his wife’s Senate campaign amid questions about a possible conflict of interest.</p> Huma Abedin <p>The emails being reviewed by the FBI were found on laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner in the course of a separate investigation into Huma Abedin’s now-estranged husband, Anthony Weiner. He was allegedly sexting with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.</p> <p>Abedin <a type="internal">was said to be “surprised”</a> by the emails on the computer, and during her interview with the FBI, she said she had given up all relevant electronic devices used for emails relating to her work for Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. After an earlier sexting scandal over the summer, <a type="internal">Abedin announced she was separating from Weiner</a>.</p> <p>Abedin was deputy chief of staff for Clinton but served in the capacity of a consultant, rather than as State Department staff. During this time, she also consulted for Teneo, a strategic consulting firm founded by a former Bill Clinton aide, Doug Band, and for the Clinton Foundation. <a type="internal">Her overlapping jobs</a> have been at the center of questions about whether Clinton’s State Department was too close to the Clinton Foundation and to Teneo.</p> <p>Abedin has been called the Clintons’ “second daughter” -- Bill Clinton even officiated at her 2010 wedding to Weiner. She was born in Michigan to Saudi intellectuals and was subsequently raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She returned to the U.S. for college and became an intern for Clinton in 1996, who was first lady at the time. She has served as traveling chief of staff and senior adviser to Clinton, as well.</p> TERRY MCAULIFFE <p>A close Clinton ally and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, McAulifee was elected Virginia governor in 2013.</p> <p>McAuliffe’s PAC donated nearly $500,000 to the Virginia state senate election campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, the wife of FBI official Andrew McCabe. According to The Wall Street Journal, McCabe oversaw the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. At the same time, the Virginia Democratic Party contributed another $207,778 in the form of mailers to McCabe.</p> <p>The Virginia governor responded to insinuations by Republicans that his PAC’s donation to McCabe was an attempt to influence the FBI. “I think we’re in silly season,” he told WTVR last week. The only time he met her husband, Andrew McCabe, was on Mar. 7, he said: “It was about Jill, highly qualified, she’s a medical doctor, and she’s a community leader. That’s why we were supporting her.” McCabe ultimately lost the election to incumbent GOP State Sen. Dick Black.</p> FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2016 file photo, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gestures as he delivers his State of the Commonwealth Address before a joint session of the 2016 Virginia Assembly at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. <p>The FBI is also investigating the propriety of some <a type="internal">donations to McAuliffe’s own 2013 gubernatorial campaign</a>, including one by Chinese businessman, Wang Wenliang, CNN reported. Wang was born in China but is a permanent U.S. resident, which could make him eligible to make campaign contributions.</p> <p>McAuliffe’s friendship with both Clintons goes back to Bill Clinton’s presidency -- he was one of Clinton’s top fundraisers and later went on to chair the DNC. When the Clintons were short of money after they left the White House burdened by legal debt, it was McAuliffe who secured the loan with $1.35 million of his own money, the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney reported at the time (they paid him back soon after). And the Clintons were big supporters of both his gubernatorial bids.</p>	Who's who in the FBI email investigation?	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whos-who-in-the-fbi-email-investigation/	2016-10-31
<p>Hillary Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, will be campaigning in Wisconsin Friday. In a wide-ranging interview, he spoke to "CBS This Morning's" Norah O'Donnell Thursday at his home state of Virginia.</p> <p>He addressed the controversy surrounding the <a type="internal">U.S. cash payment of $400 million to Iran</a>, which Donald Trump claims is <a type="internal">ransom for U.S. hostages</a> released around the same time in January. The Obama administration has strongly denied paying ransom.</p> <p>"If you were vice president, would you allow a plane full of money to land in Iran on the same day that four U.S. hostages are freed?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"Here's the thing. And Congress was briefed on this months ago. Again, I'm on these committees and we're aware of it. Iran had a sizeable legal claim against the United States that has been pending in international law for a very long time. There was a settlement of that claim. A settlement where the U.S. agreed to pay a fraction of the claim. And yes, the U.S. then paid that claim," Kaine said.</p> <p>"I understand that, but let's talk about the perception of on the very same day a plane with $400 million in foreign currency landing and being delivered. ... Is that ransom?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"Perception is one thing. Reality matters more. We got hostages home and we took a legal claim that was a legit claim and bargained it down to a fraction and we paid that claim out," Kaine said. "That's the reality."</p> <p>"So as vice president, you would do that same deal? If you were vice president you would let it happen?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"I would negotiate any legal claim that we had and I'd try to get the best deal we could. And I'd also try to get American hostages home," Kaine said.</p> <p>The Virginia senator, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, also addressed Trump's claims that he saw a video of the cash transfer between U.S. and Iran showing "money pouring off a plane." Trump claimed the Iranian government released the footage to embarrass the U.S.</p> <p>"I have no idea what he's talking about," Kaine said.</p> <p>"That video doesn't exist?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"It doesn't exist. I-- he might be thinking about Iran Contra from, like, 35 years ago or something like this. He recently criticized me saying I was a bad governor of New Jersey," Kaine said.</p> <p>O'Donnell pointed out Trump may have confused Kaine with Tom Kean.</p> <p>"Tom [Kean] was the governor of Jersey 26 years ago. I mean, so it hurt my feelings till I realized, 'Wait a minute. I was never governor of New Jersey. I didn't even live in New Jersey.' He was confusing it with a situation from two or three decades ago. Maybe that's what he's doing with this video claim," Kaine said.</p> <p>"You think Donald Trump is confused?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"I absolutely think he's confused," Kaine responded.</p> <p>Campaigning in Kaine's state of Virginia, Trump said he would take care of veterans better than anybody.</p> <p>"I don't think anybody believes that," Kaine said. "I mean here's what he's done in my home state just in the last two weeks. ... He trashed a Virginia family, the Khan family from Charlottesville, whose son is a UVA grad, who was a <a type="internal">hero who was killed</a>. Trashed this Gold Star family. He came to a rally in northern Virginia a couple of days ago and <a type="internal">kicked a crying baby out of a rally</a>. And then he had the nerve to say to the crowd, 'Hey, things are going lousy for you here.' This is Loudoun County. Loudoun County has the highest family income in the United States. ... But he told them how bad things were. This is not the way to win friends and influence people, to come into a state, trash military families, trash institutions that people care about and perpetrate sort of a falsehood about the state -- the state of the state's economy."</p> <p>Kaine also said Trump has "spent his whole life bragging about how he uses every dodge he can to pay as few taxes as he can."</p> <p>"How do veterans services get supported? They get supported by people like you and me paying taxes because we want to honor their service and sacrifice. A guy who tries to dodge paying taxes is no friend of vets," Kaine said.</p> <p>"At the Democratic convention, the former mayor of New York City, <a type="internal">Michael Bloomberg</a>, spoke and he said that Americans need a sane and competent president. Do you think Donald Trump is sane and competent?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"Oh, I don't know Donald Trump, so I'm not gonna make any comment about mental capacity, et cetera. Why would I do that? I don't know him," Kaine said. "But again, when you say things, they reveal who you are. And when somebody shows you who they are, you oughta trust that."</p> <p>While the Clinton campaign has embraced President Obama's popularity, Kaine denied that a Clinton-Kaine administration would be a third Obama term.</p> <p>"And it's not a third Bill Clinton term. It is the first Hillary Clinton term. And it's very, very important that that be the case," Kaine said.</p> <p>"I think what you're gonna see in Hillary Clinton's choice of people around her when she gets in, is a very clear signal that we're taking advantage of new talent, new ideas, innovative people. Because this is the first Hillary Clinton term and I think she's gonna make that plain from the very first day," he added.</p> <p>"But how are they different? It's no secret that President Obama has not had the warmest of relations with Republicans in Congress. And as a result, there's been a lot of gridlock on a lot of really important issues facing this country," O'Donnell said. "What would [Clinton] do differently than President Obama?"</p> <p>"I wouldn't lay the gridlock just at President Obama's feet," Kaine said. "Remember, before he even made his first visit to Congress there was a meeting of Congressional Republican leadership and they said, 'Our top goal is to make him a one term president.' So I think you have the put a good bit of that on Congress' shoulders."</p> <p>Kaine said he gets along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.</p> <p>"But let me tell you what's more important. The number of Republicans who tell me, 'You know, Hillary was actually a really good senator.' They tell me that all the time," Kaine said.</p> <p>"So you think Hillary Clinton has better relationships with Republicans than Barack Obama?" O'Donnell asked.</p> <p>"She was in the Senate for eight years and then four years as secretary of state, so she has got 12 years of working together with the Senate," Kaine said. "When the president was elected -- and I'm a big supporter of President Obama and a friend -- he had been in the Senate four years. Two years he was running. So just in terms of the time into the relationships. Yes, on her first day she will have a deeper well of relationships in Congress than President Obama had on his first day."</p>	Tim Kaine talks Iran cash transfer, Clinton's relationship with GOP	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vp-candidate-tim-kaine-on-iran-cash-transfer-trump-video-claims-hillary-clinton-congress/	2016-08-05
<p>“Saturday Night Live” takes swings at all political candidates, regardless of party. And with Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon portraying Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, they keep hitting the mark.</p> <p>The show has a long history of making fun of everyone with their impersonations. Both Baldwin and McKinnon have been praised for their spot-on impressions of celebrities, musicians and politicians. Trump has even joined in on the fun in the past while <a type="internal">acting as a host</a>.</p> <p>On Saturday’s broadcast of the show, the actors took on the second debate between Trump and Clinton, and the GOP nominee was the focus of some pointed satire from Baldwin.</p> <p>“Tonight, I’m going to do three things. I’m going to huff. I’m going to puff. I’m going to blow this whole thing,” Baldwin, as Trump, said in the sketch.</p> <p>After the show, Trump took to Twitter to let people know that once it gets personal, he’s no longer laughing.</p> <p>While Trump and his supporters seem convinced that “Saturday Night Live” is trying to bring down his campaign, a lot of people took to Twitter to remind everyone that the show is all in the name of satire.</p> <p>Regardless of where you stand, one thing is for sure -- whether Trump likes it or not, these sketches will continue at least through November 8th.</p>	SNL takes a jab at Donald Trump, who doesn't like it	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snl-takes-jab-at-donald-trump/	2016-10-16
<p>At the Smithsonian’s <a type="internal">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a>, thousands of great Americans are represented by priceless family heirlooms, donated to help them museum to share their experiences.</p> <p>Among them is the freedom paper donated by 83-year-old Elaine Thompson. It belonged to her great, great, great grandfather, Joseph Trammell of Loudon County, Virginia, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.</p> <p>“You can pick up this and touch it and know that it was in his hands. Now doesn’t that send a chill down your back?” Thompson asked, holding up the folder.</p> <p>Trammell protected his freedom using a tin box, knowing the paper held his only proof that he was no longer someone’s property.</p> <p>“As long as he had this, they could not enslave him,” Thompson said. “Not easily, anyway.”</p> <p>His freedom paper, Thompson said, offers an image of who Joseph Trammel was during a time when photos were rare. He was five-feet-seven-inches tall in height, with several marks on his body.</p> <p>“The one thing I was curious about is about the scars that they mention. Probably he was beaten at some point,” Thompson said.</p> <p>The tin box is the only one like it at the National African American Museum of History and Culture. During our interview, founding director Lonnie Bunch came by to personally show his appreciation.</p> <p>“It means a lot to me, it really does,” Bunch told Thompson.</p> <p>Nearly 40,000 items were donated – more than any other Smithsonian museum – including pictures, clothing furniture, jewelry and more.</p> <p>“They fill vast silences in the record,” said Paul Gardullo, a curator at the museum.</p> <p>To Gardullo, each of the personal heirlooms are treasures.</p> <p>“These are things that are irreplaceable and priceless,” Gardullo said.</p> <p>But many of these cherished keepsakes have a way of churning up old wounds. Rosemary Crockett donated her father’s jacket.</p> <p>“My dad flew 149 missions during World War II. Fifty missions were the norm,” Crockett said. “Now, white guys were going home after 50 missions.”</p> <p>Her father, the late Lt. Col. Woodrow Wilson Crockett, was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of black military personnel to fight in World War II.</p> <p>“When they came back from overseas, they came off the Liberty ship. And there was a sign saying ‘White this way, colored that way,’” Rosemary recalled. “And they get back to the same… situation, that they left.”</p> <p>And sharing that important history to future generations keeps people like Rosemary Crockett and Elaine Thomspon giving what’s left of a story that should never be forgotten.</p> <p>“For people who look at some of these artifacts or even these very painful times and say, ‘slavery is over, we should move forward, why do we have to keep talking about it,’ what do you say to that?” Duncan asked.</p> <p>“The past is never over because it influences what people do later on,” Thompson said.</p> <p>People continue to donate personal items. Curators here said they’re already making plans for this museum to evolve, just like history.</p> <p>The <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/" type="external">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a> will open to the public on Saturday, Sept. 24.</p>	Family heirlooms "fill vast silences" at new African American museum	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/smithsonian-national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-family-heirlooms/	2016-09-12
<p>House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, thinks “much too much” has been made of Hillary Clinton’s <a type="internal">statement to the FBI that she did did not know that the “(C)“ markings on her emails meant</a> and speculated that they referred to “paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.”</p> <p>Pelosi was asked by CBS News’ Josh Elliott whether Americans should be concerned that Clinton said she didn’t know what the markings meant.</p> <p>“I think they shouldn’t be that concerned,” she said on “CBS This Morning.” “I think that the secretary of state deals with a large number of issues -- 30,000 emails -- we’re talking about a few that may have been marked ‘confidential.’ ‘Classified...’ and ‘secret’ and ‘highly sensitive’ is where it becomes more problematic.”</p> <p>“The fact is that whatever it was that Hillary Clinton dealt with in that manner had no threat to our security,” Pelosi continued, “and I think that too much has been made of this.” The attention being paid to the issue, she called “a distraction” from Congress’ unfinished business.</p> <p><a type="internal">Congress returns</a> this week for a brief session before the November elections. There are two things it must get done -- prevent the government from shutting down on Oct. 1 by passing a short-term spending bill and provide funding for the fight against the Zika virus. The House minority leader complained that the president had asked for the resources to fight Zika in February, but “not one cent has been appropriated by Congress.”</p> <p>Zika funding has been held up because Democrats and Republicans have been fighting over how much to allocate to stop the virus, whether the money should be taken from anti-Ebola efforts, and they’re also arguing about funding for contraceptive measures. Pelosi said Republicans were rejecting anything that has to do with reproduction in the bill. Zika, which has been linked to birth defects, is transmitted by mosquitoes, and by sexual contact.</p>	Nancy Pelosi: Too much is being made of Clinton emails	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-too-much-is-being-made-of-hillary-clinton-emails/	2016-09-05
<p>"Day One" is a multi-part series in which CBS News' Margaret Brennan speaks with former U.S. government officials on the major foreign policy issues the next president will inherit on the first day of their presidency.</p> <p>The next president will face countless challenges on day one. Among the biggest is the <a type="internal">ongoing civil war in Syria.</a> Margaret Brennan spoke with Leon Panetta -- a former CIA director, defense secretary, and White House chief of staff -- about the road ahead for U.S. involvement in the war-torn nation.</p> <p>LEON PANETTA: Inaction is not an option in Syria because if you stand back, the situation is gonna get worse. Look, the best-case scenario would be to have <a type="internal">Assad</a> step down, to have a transitional government be able to establish itself representing each of the factions that are there -- the Sunnis, the Kurds, the Shias. And then, frankly, have the Russians and whatever is left of the Syrian forces join with the United States in going after ISIS to truly defeat them. That would be the best-case scenario.</p> <p>MARGARET BRENNAN: What are the odds of that?</p> <p>PANETTA: Not very good. Not very good.</p> <p>BRENNAN: What's the worst-case scenario?</p> <p>PANETTA: The worst-case scenario is that Assad continues to remain in power, continues to kill Syrians. That refugees continue to flow out of Syria, that the Russians continue to have a presence there and continue to attack our moderate forces that we're trying to train in Syria. And that ISIS then uses that and creates an even bigger base from which to conduct attacks against this country. That's the worst-case scenario.</p> <p>BRENNAN: Sounds like you're describing what's happening now.</p> <p>PANETTA: It is what's happening now. And it's what can continue to happen in the future if we don't deal with it.</p> <p>BRENNAN: There are around 300 special operators in Syria right now. Will the next president have to commit more American boots on the ground?</p> <p>PANETTA: I think the likelihood is that the next president is gonna have to consider adding additional special forces on the ground to try to assist those moderate forces that are taking on ISIS, and that are taking on Assad's forces. And we have to increase our air strikes. We've got to do all of those things in order to put increasing pressure on ISIS but also on Assad. We can't surrender one objective for the other. We've gotta continue to press on both fronts.</p> <p>BRENNAN: Is it possible to defeat ISIS without challenging Assad?</p> <p>PANETTA: I think it's very difficult as we've seen to conduct effective operations against ISIS when we're dealing with Assad's forces pressing us in different places. And when we're dealing with the Russians who go in and literally bomb the very forces that we're training to go after Assad and to go after ISIS. We cannot have that situation continue in the future. Protect our forces there.</p> <p>BRENNAN: So the U.S. has to confront Russia?</p> <p>PANETTA: We are hoping upon hope that the Russians will do the right thing. They're not gonna do the right thing without pressure. They're not gonna do the right thing without giving our diplomats greater leverage than what they have now to deal with the Russians. To do that we have got to make very clear that we have objectives to achieve, that we intend to press to achieve those objectives, and that we will not allow them to divert us from the goals of defending ourselves.</p> <p>Here's where the candidates stand:</p> Hillary Clinton wants to increase airstrikes against ISIS. She said she would arm the moderate rebels, and pressure Russia to get out of Syria. We should add that <a type="internal">Panetta is advising the Clinton campaign</a>. Donald Trump has announced he'd declare war on ISIS, and he wouldn't rule out more U.S. troops on the ground -- although he offered few details.	Former CIA director on "worst-case scenario" in Syrian civil war	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/leon-panetta-former-cia-director-on-worst-case-scenario-in-syrian-civil-war/	2016-07-17
<p><a type="internal">John Fox</a>'s decision to play for overtime in the Denver <a type="internal">Broncos</a>' <a type="internal">double-overtime loss</a> to the <a type="internal">Baltimore Ravens</a> on Saturday was <a type="internal">hard to make sense of</a> when it happened. The decision isn't looking any better as time passes.</p> <p>Following <a type="internal">Jacoby Jones</a>' stunning <a type="internal">70-yard touchdown reception</a> that tied the score late in regulation, Fox called for <a type="internal">Peyton Manning</a> to kneel on the football with 31 seconds to play.</p> <p>As the <a type="internal">Atlanta Falcons</a> proved <a type="internal">one day later</a>, getting into field-goal range isn't always so much about time as it is execution. In theory, the <a type="internal">Broncos</a> hired Manning for just such a moment, and the quarterback had the weapons to quickly move downfield.</p> <p>Instead, Fox chose to put his legendary quarterback on ice. Fox explained his thought process Monday.</p> <p>"(The Jones touchdown) was pretty devastating," Fox explained, <a href="https://twitter.com/GrayCaldwell/status/290896583543902210" type="external">via the Broncos' official Twitter</a>. "It just didn't seem the right time ... to go for the jugular."</p> <p>Fox added in his news comference that he would call for a kneel-down 10 times out of 10 in the same situation, <a href="https://twitter.com/bylindsayhjones" type="external">via Lindsay Jones</a> of USA TODAY Sports. <a type="internal">Broncos</a> CEO John Elway backed his coach, saying he thought it was a "good move" to regroup and move to overtime. Jones reported that Elway avoided the question if he would have wanted to take a shot if he was the quarterback.</p> <p>The "jugular" reference sticks with us the most. If there is ever a time to get aggressive, to go for the jugular, isn't it in the playoffs with everything on the line? Fox coached scared and might have ended up on the wrong side of an instant classic because of it.</p>	John Fox preferred Denver Broncos going for overtime	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000126452/article/john-fox-preferred-denver-broncos-going-for-overtime	2013-01-14
<p>And now a twitpic featuring a photo of the two most powerful men in Washington, D.C.</p> <q> <p>Good conversation with @BarackObama Wise words, &amp; much appreciated http://say.ly/pco5ulp</p> </q> <p>So what were the "wise words" in said "good conversation?" According to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/redskins-watch/2013/mar/30/rg3-obama-talked-me-about-protecting-myself/" type="external">The Washington Times</a>, Griffin said President Obama spoke to him about "protecting myself."</p> <p>Griffin and Obama both were in the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. for the NCAA Tournament matchup between Syracuse and Marquette. Obama's concerns are in lock-step with <a type="internal">Washington Redskins</a> coach <a type="internal">Mike Shanahan</a>, who spoke of the need for Griffin to <a type="internal">protect himself better</a> following a spectacular rookie season that ended with a wrecked knee.</p> <a href="http://www.nflevolution.com/" type="external">The evolution of the NFL:</a> Take a look at how the NFL has evolved from its humble roots, and the efforts being made to ensure it continues to grow. <p>As for Obama, this isn't the first time he's given safety advice to a prominent NFC East quarterback. At a fundraiser in Oakland last year, Obama <a type="internal">had a message</a> for <a type="internal">Michael Vick</a> during a conversation with former <a type="internal">Eagles</a> cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha.</p> <p>"Tell Vick to slide," the president said.</p> <p>This is the same Obama who said in December that if he had a son, <a type="internal">he's not sure</a> he'd let him play football. It's safe to say any football being played on White House grounds is of the two-hand touch variety.</p> <p>Follow Dan Hanzus on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/danhanzus" type="external">@DanHanzus</a>.</p>	President Obama to RG3: Protect yourself on field	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000156300/article/president-obama-to-rg3-protect-yourself-on-field	2013-03-31
<p>The NFL plans to allow the FBI and IRS investigations into the businesses run by new <a type="internal">Cleveland Browns</a> owner Jimmy Haslam to sort itself out before it decides whether it will take any action.</p> <p>NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said a report that Haslam might be asked to step down as the investigation into Pilot Flying J continues is inaccurate.</p> <a href="http://top100.nfl.com/?Icampaign=top100_article" type="external" /> <p>"There are no such plans," Aiello said.</p> <p>Haslam <a href="https://twitter.com/twithersAP/status/325389184435093504" type="external">told the Associated Press</a> on Friday that he will continue to run the <a type="internal">Browns</a>.</p> <p>"No change," Haslam said. "I look forward to the draft next week."</p> <p>Haslam said earlier Friday he won't resign from his position as CEO of Pilot Flying J.</p> <p>"Why would I step down? I haven't done anything wrong," Haslam said Friday while speaking at his company's headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. "It still appears to us that this investigation is focused on a very narrow band of a very large company -- questions about how rebates were handled to a very small percentage of our trucking company customers."</p> <p>An FBI agent's affidavit, which was unsealed Thursday alleges that Pilot Flying J -- the truck stop operator owned by the Haslam family -- engaged in a fraud scheme designed to keep money owed to its customers.</p> <p>According to the documents, multiple current and former employees of the company told authorities that Haslam, who purchased the <a type="internal">Browns</a> for $1.05 billion last October, knew of the fraud and was present at meetings where it was discussed. The NFL declined to comment on the matter.</p> <p>Haslam released the following statement Thursday:</p> <p>"I've read the affidavits. I now understand more clearly the questions the federal investigators are exploring. I maintain that the foundation of this company is built on its integrity and that any willful wrongdoing by any employee of this company at any time is intolerable. We will continue to cooperate with the federal investigation and continue our own investigation in these allegations. I value the relationships we have with our customers, our vendors and our team members across this country and regret that they have to go through this with us, but I trust and believe their faith in this company and its principles has never been misplaced."</p> <p>According to The Associated Press, Haslam arrived in Cleveland on Thursday, three days after FBI and IRS agents executed four search warrants at Pilot Flying J company headquarters.</p> <p>The AP reported that at a Tuesday news conference in Knoxville, Haslam revealed the government is investigating rebates offered by the truck stop chain, but said, "We believe we did nothing wrong." His family -- including his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam -- owns 59 percent of the business.</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>	NFL isn't planning to ask Browns' Jimmy Haslam to step down	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000161802/article/nfl-isnt-planning-to-ask-browns-jimmy-haslam-to-step-down	2013-04-19
<p>The NFL Players Association is making an attempt to open up the lines of communication between the camps of Richie Incognito and <a type="internal">Jonathan Martin</a>.</p> <p>NFL Media's Albert Breer reported that the NFLPA contacted the agents of Incognito and Martin on Wednesday morning to <a href="https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/398178946853769216" type="external">request a meeting</a>, according to a source apprised of the plan.</p> <p>The proposal calls for the meeting to occur in Florida with union chief DeMaurice Smith present.</p> <p>Incognito was <a type="internal">suspended indefinitely</a> by the <a type="internal">Miami Dolphins</a> after the team was presented with evidence that Incognito sent <a type="internal">abusive and racially insensitive messages</a> to Martin via text message and voice mail.</p> <p>The suspension was handed down six days after Martin abruptly left the team after an incident at the <a type="internal">Dolphins</a>' dining facility. NFL Media's Jeff Darlington reported last week that Martin <a type="internal">sought treatment at a South Florida hospital</a> immediately after leaving the team. He left the hospital a short time later and now is at home in California with his parents.</p> <p>A local news affiliate tracked down Incognito on Tuesday as he left a doctor's appointment in Fort Lauderdale.</p> <p>"You know what, I'm just trying to weather the storm right now," <a type="internal">Incognito told WSVN-TV</a>. "This will pass."</p>	Richie Incognito, Jonathan Martin reps to meet?	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000277582/article/richie-incognito-jonathan-martin-reps-to-meet	2013-11-06
<p>(GMG) - The question is going to be asked many times, by many people: Did global warming cause or have any impact on Hurricane Irma? What about Harvey?</p> <p>While there is tremendous agreement among scientists about the basic science of climate change, politics and social media have created an atmosphere where a lot of incorrect information is being bantered about.</p> <p>Here's the truth about the relationship between global warming and hurricanes Irma and Harvey.</p> <p>Scientists are uncertain about whether global warming will cause more hurricanes.</p> <p>In fact, some scientists say that a warmer planet will actually result in fewer hurricanes. However, that is not the entire story.</p> <p>A warming world means that ocean temperatures increase, too. And we all know that warm ocean water is the fuel that power hurricanes. So, even if the coming decades show a decrease in overall hurricanes, those hurricanes that do develop in otherwise favorable conditions will likely be stronger.</p> <p>The bottom line is that our future may be one of fewer but stronger hurricanes. Is that good or bad news? Fewer hurricanes mean a lower chance that one hits Florida. But a hurricane that does form and heads our way will likely be stronger, with a more severe storm surge and higher winds.</p> <p>Something else to consider is that, as the world warms, more ocean water evaporates into the atmosphere (which has been documented...it's happening). This water vapor is what hurricanes turn into rainfall.</p> <p>Our warmer world with higher atmospheric humidity means that tropical weather systems have more moisture to tap into, which means greater potential for increased rainfall. Statistics show that extreme precipitation events nationwide are increasing, and this also applies to tropical systems. What most people don't realize is that, as summer wanes and we transition into fall, hurricanes are the atmosphere's natural mechanism to return the summertime water vapor back into the ocean.</p> <p>So, hurricanes are necessary to balance the planet's water budget. The only problem is that people get in the way, and hurricanes of the future likely will have higher rainfall and increased potential for catastrophic flooding events -- also due to higher storm surges, resulting from higher sea levels from the warming climate.</p> <p>Now, let's apply all of this information to hurricanes Irma and Harvey:</p> <p>---------</p> <p>Did global warming cause Irma or Harvey?</p> <p>No. Both hurricanes could have developed, regardless of the warming climate.</p> <p>Could global warming have affected Irma’s record strength, or Harvey's rapid intensification, just before landfall?</p> <p>Harvey strengthened rapidly from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in just over a day, undoubtedly due to very warm Gulf of Mexico waters it traveled over in otherwise favorable conditions. It was the first Category 4 storm to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961. Irma became the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane when its winds increased to 185 mph, also due to very warm ocean temperatures and otherwise favorable conditions. There is no question that the warmer ocean temperatures we’re experiencing now have been impacted by the warming climate. So, global warming may have been part of the reason that Harvey rapidly intensified just before landfall, and Irma became a record-breaking hurricane.</p> <p>Did global warming cause the incredible rain amounts that Harvey produced?</p> <p>As we discussed above, increased atmospheric humidity due to global warming is making storms such as Harvey more predisposed to heavier rainfall. However, this is not the only reason Texas saw such extraordinary rain totals.</p> <p>Remember that most hurricanes (such as Irma) come and go: they make landfall and keep on moving.</p> <p>Hurricane Harvey became a tourist. It hung around for a while and meandered due to weak steering currents. While most people focus on wind, the true destructive power of that storm was water. Bands of torrential rain plagued southeast Texas for more than five straight days.</p> <p>Think about that for a moment: Hurricane and tropical storm-induced heavy rain bands, day after day. The bottom line is that, while global warming may have provided Harvey with extra water vapor to generate increased rainfall, the bigger reason for the catastrophic rain amounts was the storm's unusually slow movement. And by the way, there is no way to know, based upon our current knowledge, whether global warming had any impact on Harvey's slow movement.</p> <p>Hopefully, future research will answer that question.</p> <p>By Meteorologist Paul Gross</p> <p>Graham Media Group 2017</p>	Did climate change effect hurricanes Irma and Harvey?	false	https://www.wsls.com/weather/hurricane-irma/did-climate-change-effect-hurricanes-irma-and-harvey	2017-09-08
<p>Thursday's New York Times features accounts by two women who say Donald Trump made unwanted sexual advances. The Trump campaign called the article "fiction," and his lawyer demanded the paper retract its story and issue an apology. Michael Barbaro, New York Times' national political reporter and host of the Run-Up podcast, and reporter Megan Twohey join "CBS This Morning" to discuss their article.</p>	Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/feature/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations/2/	2017-10-13
<p>How many disasters must Puerto Rico suffer? After Hurricane Maria tore through the Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump was extremely slow to acknowledge that the U.S. territory was in dire need of aid. When Trump finally decided it was time to visit these Americans in need, his trip was a disaster in itself.</p> <p>Here are some of the shockingly insensitive, incompetent and tone-deaf things Trump said during his trip to Puerto Rico:</p> 1. Endless Self-Promotion <p>Despite criticism from Puerto Rican leaders and the fact that only 32 percent of Americans approve of how he’s handled the disaster, Trump has spent much of his time on the island insisting that everything has been going terrifically!</p> <p>“I think it’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/03/president-trump-just-set-a-new-standard-in-his-search-for-flattery-this-time-in-hurricane-ravaged-puerto-rico.html" type="external">he said</a>. “In Texas and in Florida, we get an A+, and I’ll tell you what: I think we’ve done just as good in Puerto Rico.”</p> <p>“We only heard thank yous from the people of Puerto Rico,” <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-visit-hurricane-ravaged-puerto-rico-was-really-lovely-and-he-only-677122" type="external">he told another reporter</a>.</p> <p>Here’s an idea: rather than telling people what a great job he’s done, Trump should actually just do a great job, and then the people of Puerto Rico will do the complimenting for him.</p> 2. Depicting Puerto Ricans As Lazy <p>Trump played upon an old, terrible stereotype of Latino laziness when he alleged that Puerto Ricans “ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-puerto-rico-everything-done-for-them-mar-a-lago_us_59d031c0e4b05f005d34a6dd" type="external">want everything to be done for them</a>.” According to Trump in the same tweet, the leadership of Puerto Rico was ineffective and they couldn’t manage to get their own people to participate in the relief work.</p> <p>This comment is as dog whistle-y as racist dog whistles get, which is why it’s entirely fair that internet commenters started sharing this photo en masse to remind Trump who exactly likes to have everything to be done for him:</p> <a href="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/causes/uploads/2017/10/DK_L1dAUMAA7EcH1.jpg" type="external" /> 3. Trump Is “In the Dark” About What’s Happening <p>While handing out flashlights to hurricane survivors, Trump couldn’t help but comment on the supposed pointlessness of the exercise. “Flashlights?” <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1703847 " type="external">he said aloud</a>. “You don’t need ‘em anymore. You don’t need ‘em.”</p> <p>Why Trump felt the need to say that is unclear, especially since at that point 95 percent of Puerto Rico was still without electricity. Maybe Trump was being taken to places with power, but the vast majority of Puerto Ricans could really use those flashlights to, you know, see at night.</p> 4. “Playfully” Tossing Supplies <p>At least he wasn’t physically throwing the flashlights at the people of Puerto Rico. During another moment, Trump began <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/san-juan-mayor-slams-trump-throwing-paper-towels-terrible-abominable-677369" type="external">tossing paper towel rolls</a> one at a time to the crowd.</p> <a href="http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/causes/uploads/2017/10/giphy.gif" type="external" /> <p>It’s not only an inefficient manner of distributing supplies to people in need of resources, it’s a pretty degrading one. As much as Trump may fancy himself some sort of rock star, these aren’t fans attending a concert looking for free merchandise.</p> <p>Technically, Trump didn’t say anything in this instance, but the disrespect spoke volumes in his actions alone.</p> 5. Making Puerto Rico Feel Like an Imposition <p>The nerve of Puerto Rico to have a hurricane – don’t they know how expensive recovery efforts are? Trump made sure they were well aware at a press briefing on the island. “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you threw our budget a little out of whack,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/03/trump-puerto-rico-budget.html" type="external">he said</a>.</p> <p>Hahaha, what a funny joke, right? The president didn’t make residents of Texas or Florida feel like they were a waste of money, so it seems extra suspect for the president to say something like this after already treating Puerto Ricans as lesser American citizens.</p> 6. Minimizing the Scale of the Disaster <p>In the face of his initial inaction, Trump has repeatedly tried to downplay the scale of Hurricane Maria. While speaking to Puerto Rican officials <a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16411488/trump-remarks-puerto-rico" type="external">he said</a>, “If you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died…” Trump said. Sorry, there’s no need to finish that sentence, did Trump just really suggest a place experiencing massive devastation was not a “real catastrophe”?</p> <p>It’s true that the death count in Puerto Rico is significantly lower than that of Hurricane Katrina, but if that’s enough to make Trump “proud” (his own words) of how he’s handled this crisis, he’s completely off base.</p> 7. Wiping Out Debt – But Not Really <p>In an interview on Tuesday, Trump told Fox News that to help Puerto Rico, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/04/puerto-rico-debt-trump-mick-mulvaney-response-243440" type="external">he was going to</a> “wipe out” their existing debt. “You can wave goodbye to that,” he said.</p> <p>Honestly, it was one of the most productive ideas to come out of the Trump administration throughout the disaster… too bad it seems that Trump was babbling without having consulted with his staff who are not on board with this idea.</p> <p>Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney backtracked on the president’s comments saying, “I wouldn’t take it word for word with that,” insisting that the White House would instead focus on providing disaster relief. Way to get Puerto Rico’s hopes up!</p>	7 Tone-Deaf Things Trump Said While Visiting Puerto Rico	true	http://www.care2.com/causes/7-tone-deaf-things-trump-said-while-visiting-puerto-rico.html	2017-10-05
<p>Dozens of protesters gathered Saturday at Lawyers Mall in Annapolis to talk about President <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a>.</p> <p>This time, they were in support of him.</p> <p>About 50 people of diverse background who turned out for the Making America Great Again, Already! rally wore Trump T-shirts and hats, posed for pictures with Trump signs and waved Trump flags to show their support for the president’s agenda. It is the same site where numerous rallies have been held with speakers who have been critical of the president.</p> <p>Trump “has people against him … from within the party, from the media. We are here to support and endorse what he has been doing for the military and the economy,” said Sajid Tarar, a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan and founder of Muslim Americans for Trump.</p> <p>The rally comes at a time of intense controversy for the president. An ABC News/Washington Post poll from this month showed 66 percent of Americans said Trump has done more to divide the country than unite it.</p> <p>He recently criticized NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality against African-Americans.</p> <p>And the rally was held the same day as marches with speakers expected to be critical of the president were staged across the country in support of racial justice. Another is planned Sunday at Lawyers Mall.</p> <p>But Saturday, the crowd outside the State House had a different message.</p> <p>The rally, co-sponsored by Muslim Americans for Trump and Sikh Americans for Trump, was intended to bring together minority communities not typically associated with Trump’s largely white base and demonstrate support for Trump’s ideas.</p> <p>Tarar has been a vocal Trump supporter from early on; he prayed onstage at the Republican National Convention and spoke favor of the then-candidate.</p> <p>Trump’s statements about Muslims and Islam are not directed at the faith as a whole, Tarar said, nor at every Muslim American. It would be impossible, Tarar said, to cast blame on every person belonging to the world’s second-largest religion.</p> <p>“As a Muslim, I saw him as a relief. I saw him as the person who can fight the terrorism,” Tarar said.</p> <p>He said Trump’s travel ban, which originally blocked immigrants from Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan, isn’t a ban at all but a pause, to ensure thorough vetting of the people from these countries. The original restriction on travel from these six countries has expired and been replaced with an order that bans varying degrees of immigration from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.</p> <p>Tarar and Sikh Americans for Trump founder Jesse Singh both immigrated to the U.S. — “legally,” Singh told the crowd. Like Tarar, he attended the president’s inauguration.</p> <p>Singh said when he first arrived in <a type="internal">Dulles International Airport</a> in Virginia, he saw a futuristic marvel in the sleek terminals and busses that whisked passengers to and fro. But the bus that dropped him off in 1986 is the bus that he is still taking today, adding that the more impressive airports are now the ones in his home country of India.</p> <p>“Last year I went to India, and that airport I left is now looking futuristic,” Singh said. “When I came to Dulles Airport, the same 30-year-old bus with loose doors and torn carpet came to receive me. So, when Donald Trump says our infrastructure has gone down, he’s totally right.”</p> <p>Other speakers, including Republican strategist and commentator Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo, praised the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration and promise to build a border wall.</p> <p>At one point, a “Build that wall!” chant briefly broke out among the rallygoers.</p> <p>Garcia-Hidalgo spoke of a booming economy, a low unemployment rate and a strong stock market, and defended Trump’s response to the devastation to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.</p> <p>Michael Cohen, who serves as Trump’s personal lawyer, also spoke at the rally via phone and thanked those gathered for their support.</p> <p>Congress has not yet approved funding for the border wall, but the Trump administration has announced companies that are building prototypes. Additionally, Congress has not passed any economic legislation, but the administration introduced a tax reform plan Wednesday.</p> <p>Maryland is a predominantly blue state. More than 60 percent of state voters cast ballots for Hillary Clinton in the last presidential election, and she edged Trump by 6,016 votes in Anne Arundel County. But Marcus Anthony, a Fairfax County, Virginia, resident, said he attended the rally to “preserve the other side.”</p> <p>“We live in a highly liberal area,” Marcus said. “As it is today, a lot of our side is continuously oppressed … It’s our responsibility to retain our perspectives.”</p> <p>All minorities are not against the president, Singh said.</p> <p>“Minorities have the same agenda as any other Americans,” he said. “We want America to be great again.”</p>	Muslim, Sikh supporters for President Donald Trump rally in Annapolis	false	http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/annapolis/ac-cn-trump-rally-for-unity-20171001-story.html	2017-10-02
<a href="https://static.businessinsider.com/image/581206d8362ca427008b529b/image.jpg" type="external" /> <a type="internal">Daily Show Joe Biden Donald Trump Comedy Central</a> <p>Honestly, at this point in the 2016 presidential election, nothing should surprise you anymore.</p> <p>That includes when a sitting vice president says at a rally that he’s ready for fisticuffs with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.</p> <p>But it’s just another nugget for the late-night shows to feed off of, and that’s what “The Daily Show” did Wednesday night.</p> <p>Host Trevor Noah broke down the situation: Vice President Joe Biden said on the campaign trail for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton that he doesn’t want to debate Trump, and instead he wishes they were in high school so Biden could take Trump “behind the gym.”</p> <p>Trump responded by saying at one of his rallies, “Joe Biden wants to take me to the back of the barn… I’d love that.”</p> <p>Noah, now confused about where the fight is actually going to take place, points out, “This is why you don’t let old guys into Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is remember where Fight Club is.”</p> <p>Watch the complete clip below:</p> NOW WATCH: Briefing videos <p>Follow Business Insider Australia on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderAustralia" type="external">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BIAUS" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-insider-au" type="external">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/businessinsiderau/" type="external">Instagram</a>.</p>	The Daily Show' imagines what a Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden fight would look like	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-daily-show-donald-trump-joe-biden-fight-2016-10	2016-10-28
<p>Warning: Image below is NSFW.</p> <p>Lena Dunham has always used sexuality to drive a conversation about real-world issues, and that was evident with her Halloween costume.</p> <p>On Monday night, the “Girls” creator and star posted on Instagram this photo of what she was dressing as for Halloween:</p> <p>That’s right, she went out as a “Grabbed P—y,” as she called it. She’s of course referring to the now-infamous remark Donald Trump made while shooting a segment for <a type="internal">Access Hollywood back in 2005</a>, which leaked in October.</p> <p>“I know that hearing those words was painful for everybody,” she <a href="http://people.com/celebrity/lena-dunham-donald-trump-halloween-outfit/" type="external">told People</a> of the inspiration behind the costume. “I think women, and people of colour, and Muslims who have been searched at the airport, and transpeople who have been denied their rights, all know what it feels like to have their body taken from them. Those comments aren’t just about women — they were about everyone whose body is treated like the property of other people.”</p> NOW WATCH: Briefing videos <p>Follow Business Insider Australia on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderAustralia" type="external">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BIAUS" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-insider-au" type="external">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/businessinsiderau/" type="external">Instagram</a>.</p>	Lena Dunham wore a NSFW anti-Donald Trump costume for Halloween	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/lena-dunham-donald-trump-halloween-costume-2016-11	2016-11-02
<p>MSNBC host Joe Scarborough expressed wariness on Thursday morning about the timing and source of the <a type="internal">recent slew of sexual assault allegations</a> against Donald Trump.</p> <p>The “Morning Joe” host speculated that allegations by multiple women in publications such as People magazine, The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and the Palm Beach Post may have been coordinated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign.</p> <p>He argued that sexual assault victims would have had months to come forward with allegations, and cited Trump’s inflammatory comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly as a potential “triggering event.”</p> <q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC" type="external">@JoeNBC</a> on new accusations against Trump: I’m sceptical about the timing… Talk about an October surprise. <a href="https://t.co/lQ2gP5QD99" type="external">https://t.co/lQ2gP5QD99</a> — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/786526180564316160" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q> <p>“I’m talking about the timing of all of this dropping, talk about an October surprise,” Scarborough said. “There have been 1,000 triggering events that would have made sense. If I had been sexually harassed by this man, the Megyn Kelly story would have given me and opportunity.”</p> <p>He added: “There have been 1,000 reports of this already. I’m just asking why all the sudden this stuff is dropping in October. Perhaps it’s all innocent. Perhaps there’s no oppo drop. Perhaps it’s not coordinated.”</p> <p>The allegations come after <a type="internal">a 2005 video was released on Friday</a> showing the Republican presidential nominee boasting about kissing and forcing himself on women without their permission.</p> <p>During the second presidential debate, Trump denied that he ever sexually assaulted women.</p> <p>The Trump campaign is already pushing back against the allegations.</p> <p>Trump’s attorneys sent a letter to the New York Times early Thursday morning denying the allegations and <a type="internal">threatening to sue the paper for defamation</a> if the paper didn’t issue a retraction.</p> <p>The real-estate magnate also took to Twitter to defend himself.</p> <q> <p>The phoney story in the failing <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes" type="external">@nytimes</a> is a TOTAL FABRICATION. Written by same people as last discredited story on woman. WATCH! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/786551712228208640" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q> <q> <p>Why didn’t the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the “incident” in her story. Because it did not happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/786554517680693248" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q> NOW WATCH: Briefing videos <p>Follow Business Insider Australia on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderAustralia" type="external">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BIAUS" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-insider-au" type="external">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/businessinsiderau/" type="external">Instagram</a>.</p>	I'm talking about the timing': Joe Scarborough suggests assault allegations against Trump were coordinated	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/joe-scarborough-donald-trump-sexual-assault-allegations-2016-10	2016-10-14
<p>One of the biggest problems officials face in preparing for a hurricane is that many people simply ignore evacuation orders.</p> <p>As Hurricane Matthew bore down on Florida this week before tearing up the coastline Friday, Rick Scott begged Floridians in evacuation zones to flee.</p> <p>“This storm will kill you,” he said.</p> <p>But, inevitably, some people don’t. One family on Merritt Island called 911 after the roof of their home “ <a type="internal">just flew off</a>.” Many more regret having stayed behind, according to <a href="http://www.wesh.com/news/we-wish-we-hadnt-stayed-stranded-people-say/42003802" type="external">WESH 2</a>, a local NBC affiliate.</p> <p>The most severe danger in any storm is floodwaters. They’re 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.</p> <p>Footage out of Palm Coast Florida shows how scary and fast-moving a storm surge can be:</p> <q> <p>INCREDIBLE VIDEO: Watch as these waves crash into this Palm Coast house! <a href="https://t.co/R4Ty2ytBEg" type="external">https://t.co/R4Ty2ytBEg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneMatthew?src=hash" type="external">#HurricaneMatthew</a> <a href="https://t.co/hJ0xUC2MzP" type="external">pic.twitter.com/hJ0xUC2MzP</a> — WESH 2 News (@WESH) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/784424240875507712" type="external">October 7, 2016</a></p> </q> <p>In just a few moments, that wave of water crashes into and overtops a protective wall of sandbags, then crashes into the house. That’s not enough time for a person to get out of the way or reach higher ground.</p> <p>It’s 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’s no reason to believe anyone was in the house when the wave hit.</p> NOW WATCH: Briefing videos <p>Follow Business Insider Australia on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderAustralia" type="external">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BIAUS" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-insider-au" type="external">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/businessinsiderau/" type="external">Instagram</a>.</p>	This video of waves crashing directly into a house shows the danger and power of Hurricane Matthew's flooding	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/hurricane-matthew-video-storm-surge-2016-10	2016-10-08
<p>Brynn Anderson/AP Photo</p> <p>In his Alabama appearance for Roy Moore, Steve Bannon turned in an intellectually and morally putrid performance even by his standards.</p> <p>There is a partisan case for voting for Moore, which is simply that Republicans can’t afford to lose a Senate seat over the next three years and Moore’s failings must be ignored or rationalized away for the larger good of the party.</p> <p>This is not an elevated line of reasoning and is not obviously correct on its own terms. With Democrats throwing John Conyers and Al Franken overboard, Senate Republicans would be welcoming into their ranks a potent symbol of sexual malfeasance to be used against them in the 2018 midterms.</p> <p>It’s a better argument, though, than the tawdry justifications offered up by Bannon, who parachuted into an already disreputable campaign and dragged it through the gutter.</p> <p>Bannon seems to misunderstand the nature of the deplorables he seeks to lead. “Deplorable” is supposed to be an unfair, disparaging term for people who believe reasonable but politically incorrect things (immigration should be restricted, NFL players should stand during the national anthem, all lives matter, etc.). It shouldn’t be a license for doing truly deplorable things.</p> <p>Democrats, at least some of them, now want to jettison Bill Clinton and are saying that they were wrong to defend him during his scandals. For his part, Bannon wants to pick up the ethics of the party of Clinton and transfer them into the GOP.</p> <p>In Alabama, Bannon used that phrase redolent of the 1990s, “the politics of personal destruction.” Who is doing the destroying? Why the globalists, of course. There is nothing they aren’t capable of.</p> <p>It’s not clear why the globalists would be so fixated on defeating Moore that they’d work behind the scenes to get a bunch of women — and corroborating witnesses — who don’t know each other to lie about Moore having a romantic interest in them when they were teenagers. It seems a lot of effort to defeat a man who is arguing he should be elected to provide another vote for corporate tax cuts.</p> <p>Bannon referred to a conspiracy against Donald Trump in the way the “Access Hollywood” tape was brought to light, somewhat jocularly. But his mind-set is deeply conspiratorial. Because there are so many forces arrayed against you — the globalists, the establishment, the media — you are freed of any moral responsibility or standards.</p> <p>In fact, the mere mention of the words “honor” or “integrity” is a terrible provocation. Bannon launched his scurrilous attack on Mitt Romney because the former Republican presidential nominee used those terms in opposing Moore. Bannon shot back, in a truly perverse riff, that Moore has more honor in his “pinkie” than the entire Romney clan; per Bannon, Moore served in Vietnam and Romney didn’t, and none of Romney’s sons joined the military.</p> <p>Obviously, if going to Vietnam and having kids who served in the military is the sole measure of honor, Trump fails the test, and John McCain passes it. This doesn’t stop Bannon from considering Trump the great savior of the republic and McCain a disgrace. But it’s not worth trying too hard to unpack Bannon’s spiel.</p> <p>There is a huge element of play-acting here. Bannon waited to see which way the wind was blowing in Alabama. If Moore were still running consistently behind Democrat Doug Jones, Bannon wouldn’t be holding a campaign rally for him and challenging Romney to come down to Alabama to prove his manhood. He’d be looking to minimize the damage and shift the blame (the advantage of the specter of an all-powerful establishment is that it can be blamed for anything).</p> <p>Privately, Bannon can’t be thrilled that he’s stuck with Moore, and he must know that Moore is a kook, even if he can’t admit it in public. Bannon likes to attack everyone else in the party for lacking courage, but in Alabama, he’s afraid to admit he backed a bum candidate and afraid to acknowledge the truth about Moore.</p> <p>The urgency to get the party to back Moore-type candidates isn’t immediately apparent. If the point is just to hold Republican Senate seats, safer, more conventional Republicans are better suited to the task. If the point is just to support the Trump agenda, safer, more conventional candidates are as reliable, and perhaps more reliable than the likes of Moore, who opposed the Graham-Cassidy health care bill (“Rand Paul praises Roy Moore for opposing Obamacare repeal effort” is how one headline put it at the time).</p> <p>Part of the point has to be to elect candidates who have no standards for the sake of it. Bannon may be thinking ahead to a time when the Trump sex allegations become a live issue again or when a true scandal emerges from the Robert Mueller investigation. In this scenario, will there be anyone more naturally inclined to be dismissive of the accusers or other evidence than former Judge Roy Moore?</p> <p>Bannon may also believe that a GOP with a highly attuned ethical sense can’t truly be the party of the working class. In which case, who is the one who has contempt for the “rubes”?</p>	The Garbage Case for Roy Moore	true	http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/06/lowry-roy-moore-garbage-216051	2017-12-06
<p>President Donald Trump said Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey “lied and leaked” information and ultimately protected Hillary Clinton, while also questioning the credibility of the FBI’s probe into her email.</p> <p>Trump’s early morning tweets come in the wake of news that the bureau’s former director had drafted a statement exonerating Clinton before the investigation was over.</p> <p>“Wow, FBI confirms report that James Comey drafted letter exonerating Crooked Hillary Clinton long before investigation was complete. Many people not interviewed, including Clinton herself,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Comey stated under oath that he didn’t do this-obviously a fix? Where is Justice Dept?”</p> <p>“As it has turned out, James Comey lied and leaked and totally protected Hillary Clinton. He was the best thing that ever happened to her!” the president added later.</p> <p><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-fbi-clinton-emails-drafted-statement-686140" type="external">Newsweek</a> reported Monday on documents released by the FBI that included an email sent on May 2, 2016, by Comey to other FBI officials that included a file titled “Drafts of Director Comeys July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server Investigation Part 01 of 01.”</p> <p>Despite Comey having already drafted a statement on the investigation into Clinton’s email practices while at the State Department, the probe would continue on for months. Clinton herself was not interviewed until July 2, 2016, three days before Comey held a press conference to announce that the FBI would not recommend filing charges against the former secretary of state.</p> <p>That Comey had drafted a statement exonerating Clinton with months to go before the completion of the investigation has raised concern among Republicans on Capitol Hill, including Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who wrote a <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-08-30%20CEG%20+%20LG%20to%20FBI%20(Comey%20Statement).pdf" type="external">letter</a> to current FBI Director Christopher Wray noting that “the outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts.”</p> <p>While the president has complained that Comey was too easy on Clinton, the former secretary of state has made no secret that she believes it was Comey’s late October 2016, announcement that the bureau was examining potentially fresh evidence related to the email investigation that cost her the election. The evidence examined by the bureau came up fruitless, but Clinton has complained that the resurfacing of the scandal so close to Election Day reintroduced doubt into voters’ minds.</p> <p>Trump, who reveled in the bureau’s investigation into Clinton throughout the campaign, fired Comey last May, a move the White House initially said was based on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s assessment of Comey’s handling of the Clinton investigation.</p> <p>Trump later conceded that he had already made his mind up to fire Comey before receiving Rosenstein’s recommendation and that he had made the decision with the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election weighing on his mind.</p>	Trump: Comey ‘lied and leaked’ and protected Clinton	false	http://www.politico.eu/article/trump-comey-lied-and-leaked-and-protected-clinton/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication	2018-08-28
<p>Deception can destroy confidence. <a href="http://liespotting.com/" type="external">Pamela Myer</a>, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312611730/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312611730&linkCode=as2&tag=bivideo-20&linkId=d42bcb5b1abaf1d9867202a7a0d668d7" type="external">“Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception”</a> has made a career developing interview techniques and identifying verbal and non-verbal ques a person trying to lie to you might exhibit.</p> <p>Follow TI: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/techinsider" type="external">On Facebook</a></p> <p>Follow Business Insider Australia on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BusinessInsiderAustralia" type="external">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BIAUS" type="external">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-insider-au" type="external">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/businessinsiderau/" type="external">Instagram</a>.</p>	Certified fraud expert reveals the subtle hints that someone is lying to you	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/fraud-expert-reveals-how-to-spot-a-liar-2016-9	2016-09-13
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comforts tearful Meghan McCain after losing his son to the same cancer her father has</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-think-they-can-take-down-ted-cruz-following-roy-moore-defeat-2017-12" type="external" /> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-think-they-can-take-down-ted-cruz-following-roy-moore-defeat-2017-12" type="external">Democrats have their sights set on a major Republican after Doug Jones' upset win in Alabama — Ted Cruz</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roy-moore-alabama-concede-recount-doug-jones-results-2017-12" type="external" /> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/roy-moore-alabama-concede-recount-doug-jones-results-2017-12" type="external">'IT'S NOT OVER': Roy Moore refuses to concede and insists there could be recount</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-blame-steve-bannon-for-roy-moores-loss-2017-12" type="external" /> <a 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href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-trump-sexual-harassment-2017-12" type="external">Reporters repeatedly confront White House press secretary about sexual harassment allegations against Trump</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/?r=AU&IR=T&page=2" type="external">Next</a>	Maxwell Tani	false	http://www.businessinsider.com.au/author/maxwell-tani	2017-12-28
<a href="" type="external" /> <p>New York Police Officer Miosotis Familia was brutally gunned down in cold blood by Alexander Bonds early Monday morning in an unprovoked attack. Officer Miosotis Familia was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. According to <a href="https://www.infowars.com/anti-cop-hillary-supporter-assassinates-mother-of-three-in-unprovoked-attack/" type="external">Infowars</a> Bonds encouraged people to vote for Hillary Clinton. Would you look at that we have another cop killer, and the cop killer is a Hillary Clinton supporter. Wednesday’s identified assassin of a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer was a Hillary Clinton supporter, according to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005282657509" type="external">the killer’s Facebook page</a>. So there you have it America this cop killer was another radicalized American done in by Obama's war a cops which Hillary Clinton supported as well. This once again shows the danger that Obama's and Hillary's rhetoric have given cops nationwide, as the last Presidency of Obama in the last two years of his administration made the environment for LEO's a very dangerous one as both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stated over and over again that police officers target blacks. Go figure though we have a cop killer again who is not only a Hillary advocate but an all out Democrat.</p>	NY cop killer is a known Hillary supporter	true	http://www.puppetstringnews.com/1/post/2017/07/ny-cop-killer-is-a-known-hillary-supporter.html	2017-07-05
<p>Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have enlisted Chance the Rapper for their first-ever Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.</p> <p>Taking place Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, the inaugural event is set to bring “hundreds of leaders from around the world” together to “exchange ideas, explore creative solutions to common problems and experience civic art, technology and music from around the world,” according to <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/politics/7998620/chance-the-rapper-obama-foundation-summit-concert" type="external">Billboard</a>.</p> <p>In addition to performing, Chano will serve as curator alongside some all-star musical guests, including Gloria Estefan and the National, who will headline.</p> <q> <p>I’m curating a concert on Nov. 1 for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ObamaSummit?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#ObamaSummit</a>. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/ObamaFoundation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">@ObamaFoundation</a> so you don’t miss it. That’d be a terrible thing.</p> <p>— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) <a href="https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/918915637799456769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 13, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>Chance has a rich history with the Obamas. His father once worked for President Obama, while Michelle has publicly praised his <a href="https://rap-up.com/2017/03/07/michelle-obama-praises-chance-the-rapper-for-1-million-cps-donation/" type="external">$1 million donation</a> to Chicago Public Schools.</p> <p>“Chance, I am grateful for everything you’ve done on behalf of our young people back home,” said the former POTUS during a recent <a href="https://rap-up.com/2017/08/14/president-obama-praises-chance-the-rapper-at-chicago-concert/" type="external">concert</a>. “I’m hopeful that everyone who is at the concert today, everybody who is getting involved, everybody who’s been part of the parade, all of you are of the mindset that you can do anything that you want to do, as long as you put your mind to it.”</p> <p>Last year, Chance <a href="https://rap-up.com/2016/08/24/chance-the-rapper-talks-frank-ocean-kanye-west-president-obama/" type="external">beamed</a> while discussing his famous supporters, who still resided in the White House at the time. “If you go up there, you’ll probably hear Coloring Book,” he said. “This is not a joke at all…Malia [Obama] listens to Coloring Book. And I send them stuff sometimes…Barack was talking about it. Or, uh, President Obama was talking about it.”</p>	Chance the Rapper to Perform at Obama Foundation Summit	false	http://www.rap-up.com/2017/10/14/chance-the-rapper-to-perform-at-obama-foundation-summit/	2017-10-14
<p>Drug Free Manatee was disappointed in a recent Bradenton Herald editorial endorsing the legalization of “medical” marijuana.</p> <p>The coalition would like to point out that the medical establishments listed in the BH article have NOT endorsed marijuana for medical use, as they favor research-backed solutions, not state and/or ballot run initiatives.</p> <p>The amendment has been opposed by the American Cancer Society, American Glaucoma Society, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Epilepsy Society, American Medical Association, Florida Baptist Convention, Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jewish Federation of Manatee/Sarasota, Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Farm Bureau, Florida Medical Association, National Multiple Sclerosis Society and five former Supreme Court justices.</p> <p>Drug Free Manatee sees the following issues with the amendment:</p> Latest news by email <p>The afternoon's latest local news</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p>• Florida already has multiple laws providing legal marijuana to children and adults in medical crisis including the Right to Try Act and the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act.</p> <p>• Amendment 2 is promoted by four billionaires who have pushed similar measures in other states.</p> <p>• “Medical” marijuana has no quality controls, medical standardization, or dosage requirements.</p> <p>• Anyone with a “debilitating illness” can obtain a cannabis certification, which could translate to a migraine or trouble sleeping.</p> <p>• The amendment puts children at risk by allowing the sale of high concentrate edibles (up to 80-90 percent THC) and NOT requiring child-proof packaging or any marketing/advertising restrictions to prevent accidental ingestion.</p> <p>• “Medical” marijuana states have increased drugged driving mortalities, increased ER visits for people ingesting cannabis and increased teen marijuana usage.</p> <p>• 2,000 dispensaries are expected to open in Florida and the amendment provides no zoning limitations on dispensary location within a community.</p> <p>The problems that plagued the medical marijuana amendment in 2014 have not been addressed, leaving too many existing loopholes for voters to even consider voting yes on Amendment 2.</p> <p>Sharon Kramer, Executive Director of Drug Free Manatee</p> <p>Bradenton</p>	drug free manatee citres reasons to reject medical marijuana amendment on Florida's ballot \| Bradenton Herald	false	http://www.bradenton.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article106631872.html	2016-10-08
<p>The 1st Amendment is the most well known to Americans of all the amendments in the Bill of Rights. It contains some of the most familiar phrases in political discussion, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The 1st Amendment reads like this:</p> <q> <p>"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."</p> </q> <p>The 1st Amendment protects your right to believe and practice whatever religious principles you choose and your right to say what you believe, even if it is unpopular or against the will of elected officials.</p> <p>It also protects your right to publish any information you want, join together with whomever you want and ask the government to correct its own errors.</p> <p>What exactly does the 1st Amendment mean and how does it apply to people today? Does it have relevance to you today? It sure does. In fact, it affects just about everything you do.</p> <p>The 1st Amendment has seven clauses. This page has a brief description of each clause with links to more detailed information about the history and purpose of each section.</p> Seven Sections of the 1st Amendment Opening Phrase <p>The Opening Phrase of the 1st Amendment says "Congress shall make no law." This opening phrase immediately tells exactly who this amendment is aimed at... and that entity is Congress. So the 1st Amendment specifically prohibits Congress from making laws interfering with the rights mentioned in the amendment.</p> <p>It does not however, prohibit the states from making such laws, nor does it prohibit individuals from restricting these rights to those who may be under their authority, such as a parent and child or an employer and an employee.</p> <p>For one hundred years the 1st Amendment was understood to only apply to the federal government, but after the Civil War and the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution, courts began to forbid the states to interfere with these rights as well due to an idea called "due process of law."</p> <p>Learn more about the <a type="internal">Opening Phrase of the 1st Amendment</a> here.</p> Establishment Clause <p>The Establishment Clause is the part of the 1st Amendment that says Congress shall make no law "respecting an establishment of religion." This is a very crucial part of the American <a type="internal">Constitution</a>. It prohibits the government from establishing a state religion or denomination and from directing people in what they must believe.</p> <p>Without the Establishment Clause, the government could choose a state religion and force everyone to participate in it. It could also punish anyone who didn't adhere to its chosen faith.</p> Prayer at a football game <p>This clause has been the focus of much debate in the last half century. Some Americans believe that whenever the government is involved, absolutely all religious expression must be forbidden in order to comply with the Establishment Clause.</p> <p>For example, they might say a public school football team should not pray at a football game because the school is a government funded school.</p> <p>Other Americans believe the government must make certain allowances for religious expressions in public events and buildings because Americans are a very religious people. They belive a high school football team prayer or a government employee displaying a cross at work does not violate the Establishment Clause because it is simply a personal expression and not an expression endorsed by the state.</p> <p>Indeed, in the minds of some, banning expressions of religious faith like this is a violation of another clause of the 1st Amendment - the Free Exercise Clause, because it seeks to control the religious expressions of citizens.</p> <p>Learn more about the history and purpose of the <a type="internal">Establishment Clause</a> here.</p> Free Exercise Clause <p>The Free Exercise Clause is the part of the 1st Amendment that says Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or "the free exercise thereof." This phrase deals with the restriction on Congress to regulate anyone's religious practices.</p> US Supreme Court <p>In general, Congress cannot tell people how they can or cannot express their religious beliefs. Such things as telling people when or how to pray, when they should go to church or to whom they should pray, are off limits to lawmakers.</p> <p>In general, this is the case, but sometimes, minority religious groups may want to practice something that is not generally accepted or that the state has a very strong interest in regulating. For example, polygamy, ritual sacrifice and drug usage have been banned at times, because there is a compelling public interest in eliminating these behaviors.</p> <p>In such cases, the Supreme Court has often ruled that the Free Exercise Clause does not apply. In other words, the Free Exercise Clause does not give free license to any behavior that someone says is their religious belief.</p> <p>You can learn all about the <a type="internal">Free Exercise Clause</a> here.</p> The Freedom of Speech Clause <p>The Freedom of Speech Clause is the part of the 1st Amendment that says, "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech."</p> <p>British history contained a long string of suppression by those in authority of those with whom they disagreed. Many British subjects had been thrown in prison for voicing their religious and political beliefs. The Americans intended to prevent this from ever happening in their newly formed republic.</p> Picket line <p>This is one of the protections in the Constitution that Americans hold most dear. They value it because it allows them to speak out against government policies they don't like. It also allows them to express the religious beliefs of their choosing.</p> <p>Negatively speaking, many people abuse this right by slandering people they disagree with, or using ugly and offensive language, racial epithets or hateful language about people who are different than they are.</p> <p>Generally, freedom of speech is considered to be not only the words people speak, but any type of expression that is used to convey an idea. Such things as picketing, wearing symbols or burning the flag are considered protected forms of speech because they are expressing the ideas of the people participating in them.</p> <p>You can learn more about the <a type="internal">Freedom of Speech Clause</a> by clicking here.</p> Freedom of the Press Clause <p>The Freedom of the Press Clause states that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom... of the press."</p> Freedom of the Press Clause <p>This was a very important principle to the <a type="internal">Founding Fathers</a> of America because of the importance the press played during the Revolutionary War.</p> <p>Without the press, the Founding Fathers would have found it very difficult to distribute their views to people in other parts of the country. The press turned out to be a very important instigation in getting Americans to consolidate their views against England and in spreading the concepts that would justify a break with England.</p> <p>English history contained no freedoms for the press whatsoever. All publications were subject to governmental review before publication. Criticisms of the government were strictly prosecuted as sedition. All Americans wanted the right to criticize their government freely as well as to discuss other topics whenever they chose.</p> <p>If you would like to learn more about the <a type="internal">Freedom of the Press Clause</a>, please click here.</p> Freedom of Assembly Clause Civil Rights Protest <p>The Freedom of Assembly Clause is the part of the First Amendment that reads like this: "Congress shall make no law... abridging... the right of the people peaceably to assemble..." This clause is also sometimes referred to as the Freedom of Association Clause. This clause protects the right to assemble in peace to all Americans.</p> <p>The Freedom of Assembly was very important to early Americans because without the right to assemble, they could not coordinate their opposition to the British government. The Freedom of Assembly was recognized to be of utmost importance if the Americans were to be successful in establishing a government of the people.</p> <p>The Freedom of Assembly Clause has been relied upon by many groups in American history, such as civil rights groups, women's suffrage groups and labor unions. Government officials in each case tried to restrict the speech of these groups and prevent them from meeting, organizing and getting their message out. The Freedom of Assembly proved to be an important factor that allowed these groups to prosper and see their visions fulfilled.</p> <p>You can learn more about the history and importance of the <a type="internal">Freedom of Assembly Clause</a> here.</p> Freedom of Petition Clause <a type="internal" /> Save <p>The Freedom of Petition Clause of the 1st Amendment reads like this:</p> <q> <p>"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom... of the people... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."</p> </q> <p>The freedom to petition the government was very important to early Americans because of their experience with trying to get King George III and Parliament to respond to their grievances. The colonists were so angry about the Monarchy's refusal to acknowledge their grievances that they mentioned this fact in the <a type="internal">Declaration of Independence</a>.</p> <p>The freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances has come to include the right to do such things as picketing, protesting, conducting peaceful sitins or boycotts and addressing government officials through any media available.</p> <p>You can read more about the history and meaning of the <a type="internal">Freedom of Petition Clause</a> here.</p> Amendments: <p><a type="internal">Preamble to the Bill of Rights</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 1st Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 2nd Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 3rd Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 4th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 5th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 6th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 7th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 8th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 9th Amendment here.</a> <a type="internal">Learn about the 10th Amendment here.</a></p> <p>Learn more about the Bill of Rights with the following articles:</p> <p>Last updated 8/7/12</p>	1st Amendment	false	http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/1st-amendment.html
<p>Donald Trump is a pathological liar. All those who support him are being lied to daily.</p> <p>Once again, Trump has told his gullible supporters that we are letting people in by the thousands who are not vetted and that we don’t know who they are.</p> <p>Refugees must first apply to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which collects documents and performs interviews. Less than 1 percent of refugees get approved for relocation.</p> <p>If they are approved, they are referred to the State Department to begin the vetting process. More information is collected and they are put through security screenings from the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.</p> Breaking News <p>Be the first to know when big news breaks</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p>If the refugee is Syrian, they must go through another layer of security, which includes further checks by a special part of Homeland Security, the USCIS fraud detection and National Security directors. There, interviews with USCIS officers would take place and fingerprints run through biometric databases of the FBI, Homeland Security and Department of Defense.</p> <p>If all these are passed, health screenings take place. Then refugees are enrolled in cultural orientation classes while information continues to be checked.</p> <p>This process typically takes 18 to 24 months after applying to the UN. This is the most vigorous vetting anyone has ever faced to enter the U.S.</p> <p>Donald Trump is trying to instill fear in the gullible supporters that he has.</p> <p>He has lied about his health records, his tax returns, President Obama’s birth certificate, election fraud (31 cases of voter impersonation in over 1 billion votes) and hundreds of other things, and those who choose to believe him either don’t care about his lies or aren’t smart enough to find out the truth for themselves.</p> <p>Danny Duncan</p> <p>Palmetto</p>	Trump: The pathological liar	true	http://www.bradenton.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article112613098.html	2016-11-04
<p>You cannot vote for Donald Trump and pretend that this is just another election, and he is just another candidate.</p> <p>Evan Vucci/AP</p> <p>It’s easy to make fun of the hats.</p> <p>It’s not so easy to contemplate what makes so many people think America’s greatness is in desperate need of reformation, or what would make them turn to someone like <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> to make it a reality.</p> <p>America has flaws as deep as its founding, when the men who laid down basic principles of human rights – principles that have endured 240 years – were fed and clothed by human beings they owned. That paradox still defines the fault lines of our nation, and it’s along those lines we are drawing the ugliest election in modern history.</p> <p>It isn’t just economic anxiety or trade deals or the opioid epidemic driving the mostly white, mostly male movement behind Trump’s campaign. It is the existential fear of displacement from a world that has slowly – too slowly, for too long – been chipping away at white male supremacy.</p> <p>The “grab ’em by the pussy” moment was disastrous for Trump’s campaign; it reinforced the defining narrative of his sexism. But it drew his strongest supporters even closer to him, because it reminded them of the world they’re losing. They want to live in an America where they can grab women by the pussy and brag about it to their friends. They want to casually use the n-word – just for the bad ones; they’re not racist! – without being set upon by the PC police. They want what’s coming to them, what’s owed them.</p> <p>And they are willing to burn down the world to get it.</p> <p>Donald Trump is the worst major-party candidate for president in American history. This is not a close call. By virtually any measure, he is unfit to lead a Cub Scout troop, let alone the nation with the world’s most powerful military.</p> <p>It’s worth going back and reading the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/" type="external">transcripts</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/09/everything-that-was-said-at-the-second-donald-trump-vs-hillary-clinton-debate-highlighted/" type="external">of his debates</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/19/the-final-trump-clinton-debate-transcript-annotated/" type="external">with Hillary Clinton</a> just to remember how he speaks when he’s answering questions off the cuff. It’s breathtaking how incapable he is of forming a single coherent thought. The expectations for him were so low that there was little to no coverage of his failure over four-and-a-half hours to say anything intelligent about any issue important to the American people. He meanders, he interrupts, and he whines. He is uninformed and unprepared.</p> <p>Trump’s values are, in a word, deplorable. He launched his campaign calling Mexican immigrants rapists, issued a call for a ban on immigration by Muslims, and said women should be punished for getting an abortion. He lies, constantly, about everything. He stokes anger and fear and even violence among his supporters. He nurtures their very worst instincts.</p> <p>He brags he has the best temperament, but that’s nonsense. He’s lashed out and punched down, attacking the parents of a dead soldier, a former beauty pageant winner who gained weight, countless reporters and anyone he perceives as insulting him.</p> <p>It is impossible to predict exactly how deep a disaster Donald Trump’s presidency would be, but there’s no limit to the potential for horror. Think how much we still don’t know about Trump – how he hasn’t released his taxes, how many women there likely are who haven’t come forward – and you can imagine the scandals and corruption that lie in wait. Consider how thin his policy knowledge is and how impulsively he reacts to insults, and imagine his twitchy little fingers on the nuclear button.</p> <p>Donald Trump cannot be president of the United States.</p> <p>And while Trump has a considerable movement of supporters who see him as a great conquering hero, who believe every word of his lies, no matter how outlandish and easily disproven, there are many people, even at this late hour, who are torn about whether they can support him. Maybe they’re deeply conservative Republicans who despise what they believe Clinton would do to the country. Maybe they’re independents who see constant stories about her emails and have genuine fears about her judgment.</p> <p>But now is the moment for every last American to decide what it truly means to be a citizen. You can be reluctant about <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton</a>. You don’t even have to vote for her (though I did, without doubt or hesitation).</p> <p>What you cannot do is vote for Donald Trump and pretend that this is just another election, and he is just another candidate. It is your minimum duty as a citizen not to support a racist, sexist, unqualified, dishonest, corrupt manchild who celebrates everything that’s ugly about America and not a single thing that’s great about it.</p> <p>No matter how left out or left behind you feel, voting for Trump is nothing short of a moral failure. It’s a vicious act against the human beings, mostly women and people of color, who would suffer miserably under his presidency.</p> <p>It’s an act of violence against America itself, whose greatness has always been about progressing from more oppression to less – slowly, sometimes haltingly, but forward.</p> <a type="internal" /> <p>The promise on those red hats is to turn back in the other direction. The greatness they sell is a lie.</p> <p>Watch Donald Trump’s acceptance speech after becoming the new President-elect of the United States.</p>	Donald Trump Cannot Be President of the United States	true	http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/donald-trump-cannot-be-president-of-the-united-states-w448907	2016-11-07
<a type="internal"><p>Justice Department began investigation of police department's patterns, practices after 2015 death of Freddie Gray</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>The U.S. Justice Department unloaded on Baltimore's police department Wednesday, accusing officers of routinely targeting African Americans. Federal and local officials are now demanding change. Jeff Pegues reports.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>The Justice Department has released a scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department, highlighting routine violations of civil rights and discrimination towards African-Americans. CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid joins CBSN with details.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Criminal charges have been dropped for the remaining Baltimore officers in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray's neck was mysteriously broken in a police van. After four trials and no convictions, the prosecutor conceded it would be impossible to convict any of the cops. Jeff Pegues reports from Baltimore.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>After failing four times in a row to get a conviction, prosecutors decide not to pursue charges against the last of six cops arrested for a black man's death in custody</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, was found not guilty Monday. It's the fourth trial to end without a conviction after the death of the Baltimore man in police custody. Kris Van Cleave has more.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>CBS News' Paula Reid breaks down the acquittal of Lt. Brian Rice, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2015 death of Freddie Gray.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson was acquitted Thursday of second-degree murder and all other charges in the death of Freddie Gray</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>One of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray was found not guilty Monday. Gray sustained fatal injuries in police custody last year, spurring violence across Baltimore. Chip Reid has more</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Prosecutors had said Officer Edward Nero arrested Gray without probable cause and was negligent when he didn't buckle his seat belt</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>In the wake of the Baltimore riots after Freddie Gray's death, police commissioner Anthony Batts was fired. He told CBS News' Jeff Pegues he thought the city was just starting to make improvements to be built upon.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>It's been a year since the death of Freddie Gray in police custody sent Baltimore into riots. The man who was in charge, former police commissioner Anthony Batts, was fired in the fallout. Since that moment Batts has maintained his silence -- until he spoke with Jeff Pegues.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>When the 25-year-old died April 19, 2015, and riots erupted, Baltimore and its residents were forced to confront old, painful issues</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>It's been one year since the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died while in police custody. Gray's death led to violent clashes and a national debate over the relationship between police and the black community. Deray McKesson is an activist and Baltimore mayoral candidate, and joins CBSN to discuss what has changed in the city since last year.</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Court rules that Officer William Porter must testify against co-defendants charged in case of 25-year-old who died in police custody</p></a> <a type="internal"><p>Baltimore judge ruled that Officer William Porter, whose trial ended in a hung jury, does not have to testify against three fellow officers</p></a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal" /> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a> <a type="internal">PlayVideo</a>	Freddie Gray fallout in Baltimore	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/freddie-gray-baltimore/	2018-01-11
<p>Shocking footage shows a naked man screaming at people in a Chicago neighborhood as he is covered in blood after cutting off his own penis.</p> <p>The unidentified man appears to be high on acid or synthetic drugs in the video clip filmed on Monday evening near the intersection of Grace Street and Drake Avenue in the Irving Park community.</p> <p>The footage begins by showing the man, who is bleeding heavily from his crotch, shouting nonsense and swearing at residents who are behind a large metal gate.</p> <p>...</p> Shocking footage shows a naked man screaming at people in a Chicago neighborhood as he is covered in blood after cutting off his own penis <p>Shocking footage shows a naked man screaming at people in a Chicago neighborhood as he is covered in blood after cutting off his own penis</p> The footage begins by showing the man, who is bleeding heavily from his crotch, shouting nonsense and swearing at residents who are behind a large metal gate <p>The footage begins by showing the man, who is bleeding heavily from his crotch, shouting nonsense and swearing at residents who are behind a large metal gate</p> The unidentified man appears to be high on acid or synthetic drugs in the video clip filmed on Monday evening <p>The unidentified man appears to be high on acid or synthetic drugs in the video clip filmed on Monday evening</p> <p>Witnesses can be heard screaming 'calm down' before he charges toward a female Chicago Police Department officer who is standing in the middle of the intersection.</p> <p>The man is screaming 'get outta here b**' at the female officer, who quickly draws her taser as she shouts at him to 'get on the ground' before firing it at him.</p> <p>The man, who appears to be in his 20s, falls to the ground.</p> <p>The person filming the harrowng video can be heard shouting, 'Oh my God, bro. Shoot his a. Shoot that mother f****r. This is a time when you shoot people!'.</p> Witnesses can be heard screaming 'calm down' before he charges toward a female Chicago Police Department officer who is standing in the middle of the intersection. She used her Taser to try and subdue the man <p>Witnesses can be heard screaming 'calm down' before he charges toward a female Chicago Police Department officer who is standing in the middle of the intersection. She used her Taser to try and subdue the man</p> Another police vehicle arrives to the scene and an officer gets out of the van. The man tries to stand up again and appears to charge the second officer, who tasered him again <p>Another police vehicle arrives to the scene and an officer gets out of the van. The man tries to stand up again and appears to charge the second officer, who tasered him again</p> <p>Another police vehicle arrives to the scene and an officer gets out of the van. The man tries to stand up again and appears to charge the second officer, who tasered him again.</p> <p>The video clip ends with the man lying on the ground as he is surrounded by officers.</p> <p>It's unclear if the man was arrested; his condition is unknown at this time.</p> <p>DailyMail.com has requested comment from the Chicago Police Department.</p> The video clip ends with the man lying on the ground as he is surrounded by officers <p>The video clip ends with the man lying on the ground as he is surrounded by officers</p>	Shocking moment naked man 'high on drugs' goes on rampage in Chicago neighborhood after cutting off his own penis	false	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4728978/Naked-man-goes-rampage-cutting-penis.html	2017-08-28
<p>For the <a type="internal">third debate</a> 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.</p> <p>“She has no idea whether it’s Russia, China, or anybody else,” Trump said at the final presidential debate held in Las Vegas Wednesday night. “Hillary, you have no idea.”</p> <p>“Do you doubt 17 military and civilian agencies,” Clinton fired back.</p> <p>“And our country has no idea,” Trump said. “Yeah, I doubt it, I doubt it.”</p> <p>In this case, Clinton had it right. Two weeks ago, the U.S. intelligence community <a type="internal">announced</a> it is “confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of <a type="internal">e-mails</a>.”</p> <p>The candidates also challenged on a number of other issues throughout the debate. On the issue of <a type="internal">immigration</a>, Trump said Clinton agreed with his signature proposal.</p> <p>“Hillary Clinton wanted the wall. Hillary Clinton fought for the wall in 2006,” Trump said.</p> <p>“I voted for border security, and there are...” Clinton began speaking, before Trump interrupted, “And the wall.”</p> <p>We rate Trump’s 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.</p> <p>Trump accused Clinton Wednesday night of hiring people to disrupt his allies.</p> <p>“She’s the one, and Obama, that caused the violence,” Trump said.</p> <p>The truth on that score is unclear. Democratic contractors were caught on video, appearing to plan to <a type="internal">provoke Trump supporters</a>. But there’s no indication Clinton’s campaign paid for it or even knew about it.</p> <p>As in previous debates, Trump denied making some controversial comments that are immortalized on video.</p> <p>“He said that he could not possibly have done those things to those women because they were not attractive enough for them to be assaulted,” Clinton said.</p> <p>“I did not say that. I did not say that,” Trump said.</p> <p>But in Greensboro, North Carolina, Trump <a type="internal">told a crowd</a>, “Believe me. She would not be my first choice. That I can tell you.”</p> <p>“He also went after a disabled reporter, <a type="internal">mocked</a> and mimicked him on national television,” Clinton said.</p> <p>“Wrong,” Trump denied. But he did that too, at a campaign rally at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.</p> <p>“I don’t remember!’ He’s going like, ‘I don’t remember!’” Trump said, imitating his physical handicap.</p> <p>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’s false -- her plan add $200 billion to the debt over the next decade. Trump’s plans, they said, would add $5.3 trillion.</p>	Trump: Clinton has "no idea" if Russia behind email hack -- So who's right?	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2016-race-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-third-presidential-debate-russia-email-hack/	2016-10-20
<p>A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit families of Pulse victims filed against several social media companies alleging they didn’t do enough to stop <a type="internal">ISIS</a> propaganda that radicalized gunman Omar Mateen.</p> <p>The order to dismiss the lawsuit was filed Friday, the same day <a type="internal">a jury of 12 acquitted Mateen’s widow Noor Salman</a>, who was charged with aiding and abetting a foreign terror organization and obstruction of justice.</p> <p>Family members of nine victims and four survivors of the nightclub shooting sued <a type="internal">Twitter</a>, Facebook and Google on December 19, 2016, claiming that the online platforms “aided and abetted” and “conspired” with the Islamic State, an international terrorist organization, to commit the June 12, 2016 attack.</p> <p>The lawsuit alleged that the companies knew “that ISIS members and its official news outlets use numerous accounts” on the social media platforms to “publish the organization’s messages and to recruit and ‘radicalize’ persons such as Mateen.”</p> <p>They argued that because Mateen was able to access videos of beheadings and other “jihadist material” through their platforms, they contributed to his “self-radicalization.”</p> <p>But the Michigan court ruled that the Orlando shooting was not directly committed by ISIS, nor did the companies do anything to support Mateen.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson wrote in his dismissal that there is no definitive evidence suggesting that the material Mateen saw online directly led to the attack, “other than that the principles espoused in them motivated Mateen to carry out the dreadful act.”</p> <p>“The only conduct involved with the attacks that is described with any particularity is Mateen’s,” Lawson wrote, which suggests that he planned and conducted the shooting “in isolation, when he ‘self-radicalized’ by perusing Internet postings, and then acted on his self-informed radical sentiments.”</p> <p>During the Salman trial in Orlando, prosecutors released Mateen’s web activity in the weeks leading up to the attack, including Google and Twitter searches related to ISIS, terrorism, and FBI surveillance.</p> <p>bpadro@orlandosentinel.com or 407-232-0202 or follow me on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/BiancaJoanie" type="external">@BiancaJoanie</a></p>	Pulse families' lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google dismissed	false	http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-pulse-families-social-media-lawsuit-dismissed-20180331-story.html	2018-03-31
<p>The NFL will not discipline the <a type="internal">St. Louis Rams</a> players who held up their hands as a gesture of solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, prior to <a type="internal">Sunday's win over the Oakland Raiders</a>.</p> <p>"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.</p> <p><a type="internal">Stedman Bailey</a>, <a type="internal">Tavon Austin</a>, <a type="internal">Jared Cook</a>, <a type="internal">Chris Givens</a> and <a type="internal">Kenny Britt</a> 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.</p> <p>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 <a type="internal">Rams</a> and the NFL to deliver a very public apology."</p> <p>After Sunday's 52-0 win over the <a type="internal">Raiders</a>, Cook explained the thought process behind the pregame gesture.</p> <p>"We kind of came collectively together and decided we wanted to do something," <a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11963218/the-five-st-louis-rams-players-saluted-slain-teenager-michael-brown-sunday-game-not-fined" type="external">Cook said via ESPN.com</a>. "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.</p> <p>"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."</p> <p>UPDATE: The <a type="internal">Rams</a> issued a statement on the matter Monday evening:</p> <p>"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.</p> <p>"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 <a type="internal">Rams</a> 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."</p>	NFL will not discipline Rams for pregame gesture	false	http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000437461/article/nfl-will-not-discipline-rams-for-pregame-gesture	2014-12-01
<p>In an interview with Fancast in 2010, Elisabeth said (via <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/24/elisabeth-hasselbeck-i-ac_n_692206.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=082410&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry" type="external">The Huffington Post</a>), "I am not ultra-ultra-conservative on every issue. I actually support gay marriage." She reiterated that stance on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsO4s-CBOaM" type="external">The View</a> 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."</p>	She claimed to support same-sex marriage	false	http://www.nickiswift.com/39266/double-life-elisabeth-hasselbeck/s/she-claimed-to-support-same-sex-marriage/
<p>There 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, “Make America Great Again.</p> <p>Pastor Thomas Robb, the Klan’s national director, wrote,“Can America really be great again? This is what we will soon find out.”</p> <p>In an interview with the Washington Post, Robb embraced Trump’s campaign, but he denied that his opinion piece amounted to a formal endorsement “Overall, we do like his nationalist views and his words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It’s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there’s things you disagree with,” Robb said. “But he kind of reflects what’s happening throughout the world. There seems to be a surge of nationalism worldwide as nationals reclaim their borders.”</p> <p>The paper quotes Trump’s 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’s campaign slogan than a traditional endorsement.</p> <p>“While Trump wants to make America great again, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What made America great in the first place?’” the article continues. “The short answer to that is simple. America was great not because of what our forefathers did — but because of who our forefathers were. America was founded as a White Christian Republic. And as a White Christian Republic it became great.”</p> <p>The Trump campaign was quick to denounce the publication, issuing this statement Tuesday night: “Mr. 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.”</p> <p>White nationalist and former Klansman <a type="internal">David Duke announced his support for Trump in February</a>, and initially, Trump was slow to reject it when asked about it by CNN, saying he “didn’t know anything about him.”</p>	Donald Trump's campaign rejects endorsement of Ku Klux Klan	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rejects-endorsement-of-ku-klux-klan/	2016-11-02
<p>Following the latest FBI developments in Hillary Clinton’s email probe, Donald Trump ripped the Justice Department and top Clinton aide Huma Abedin on Saturday, firing off a tirade during his triumphant swing through western states.</p> <p>“It’s reported today, this morning that the Department of Justice was fighting the FBI,” Trump said in Golden, Colorado. “And that’s because the Department of Justice is trying so hard to protect Hillary.”</p> <p>Trump was referencing <a type="internal">reports that Attorney General Loretta Lynch recommended</a> that FBI Director James Comey not publicly disclose the new emails -- what the Justice Department viewed as a violation of its long-standing practice not to comment on ongoing investigations.</p> <p>“There are those, and I happen to be one of them, who think Hillary offered Loretta Lynch a reappointment as attorney general. I happen to be one of them,” Trump said.</p> <p>Offering no proof, the Republican nominee posited that Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, had bribed Lynch with the position when the two had an impromptu meeting earlier this summer on a plane in Arizona. The two met just days before the FBI completed its probe into the private email server.</p> <p>“Perhaps, just perhaps, of course he said he only talked about golf and the grandchildren, but he was on the plane for 39 minutes, he went to Arizona, an unbelievable place, but there are those who think when he went onto the plane that’s what he discussed just prior to a decision being made,” Trump said.</p> <p>The New York real estate mogul then trained his biting attacks on Abedin and her husband, former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner. The emails tied to the Clinton probe were <a type="internal">found on the separated couple’s electronic devices</a> from a separate FBI investigation into Weiner’s sexting scandal.</p> <p>“Did I call him correctly, did anybody see?” Trump asked, pointing to his prior criticisms of Weiner. “It’s called good judgement, it’s called good instincts. If you check out the tweets, or if you check out whatever it is I wrote about him, it is so perfect, I said. And that was done a long time ago, but they found, by looking at Anthony Weiner, a major, major, major sleaze, they found what may be some of the 33,000 missing and deleted emails.”</p> <p>Trump has, in the past, wondered whether Abedin was a national security concern because of her relationship to Weiner.</p> <p>“[Abedin’s] receiving very, very important information and giving it to Hillary. Who else is she giving it to?” Trump said <a type="internal">back in August</a>. “Her husband has serious problems and on top of that, he now works for a public relations firm...So how can she be married to this guy who’s got these major problems? She’s getting her most important information, it could be, in the world. Who knows what he’s going to do with it? Forget about her.”</p> <p>Trump’s speculation on what the newly surfaced emails contained, however, remains unfounded. The FBI has yet to release any further details about the information found in the emails.</p> <p>Clinton’s campaign, in the meantime, has defended Abedin, with campaign chair John Podesta telling reporters on a conference call that the staff stands behind her.</p> <p>“There’s no evidence of wrongdoing, no charge of wrongdoing, no indication that this was even about Hillary,” Podesta said Saturday. He added that Comey’s letter to top Republicans in the House and Senate was “long on innuendo and short on facts.”</p> <p>Podesta added that Comey knew “full well what Republicans in Congress would do with it” and blasted House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, in particular for taking “the opportunity to distort the facts.”</p> <p>CBS News’ Hannah Fraser-Chanpong contributed to this report.</p>	Donald Trump hits Justice Department, Huma Abedin after FBI email developments	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-hits-justice-department-huma-abedin-fbi-email-developments/	2016-10-29
<p>On 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?</p> <p>This is a false choice. There are plenty of factors that went into Trump becoming the <a type="internal">presumptive GOP nominee</a>, 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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."</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <a type="internal" /> The notable Republicans who aren't supporting Donald Trump <p>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.</p> <p>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 <a type="internal">progressives like Elizabeth Warren</a>. 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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, <a type="internal">has a habit of contradicting himself</a> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <a type="internal">all but certain to win in November</a>. 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.</p>	COMMENTARY: Donald Trump, candidate of change	true	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-donald-trump-candidate-of-change/	2016-05-16
<p>After months of criticism that GoDaddy was providing a platform for hate speech, the Web hosting company announced late Sunday that it will no longer house the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that promotes white supremacist and white nationalist ideas.</p> <p>GoDaddy said in a tweet that Daily Stormer had been told it had 24 hours to move its website domain to another provider because it had “violated” the Web host’s “terms of service.”</p> <p>“We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service.</p> <p>GoDaddy’s announcement was in response to an appeal from a Twitter user who called attention late Sunday to an online post by Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin. The post disparaged Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman killed Saturday in Charlottesville, police say, after a man plowed into a crowd with his vehicle.</p> <p>GoDaddy Drops White Supremacist Site 'Daily Stormer'</p> <p>Google and GoDaddy give a neo-Nazi website the boot GoDaddy responded to The Daily Stormer's vulgar article about Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer by banning the white supremacist site from its service. The Daily Stormer then tried to transfer its domain registration to Google. Google terminated The Daily Stormer's registration soon after, saying: - Google statement to Business Insider</p> <p>TheStreet.com</p> Trump continues to threaten the removal of senior official security clearances "Goat-Pocalypse’ Strikes Boise Neighborhood Aaron Judge To Miss Three Weeks After Chip Fracture GoDaddy Drops White Supremacist Site 'Daily Stormer' The moment a gunman opened fire at Florida gaming event Vietnam War Hero Turned US Senator John McCain Has Died At Age 81 What You Need to Know About Hurricane Lane President Donald Trump says if he's impeached, we'll all be 'very poor' China to keep hitting back at U.S. over trade Speeding sports car crashes into school bus Republican Sen. 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Sanders It's time for Roger Goodell, NFL to solve anthem protest dilemma Fox With Plastic Jar Stuck On Head Rescued Near Georgetown Eligible Bachelors Tricked By Tinder Scam Trump attacks Russia probe again at Virginia rally Two Dead Fighting California Wildfire Trump touts "amazing" U.S. economic growth Multiple deaths in Canada shooting: police Trump dares Brennan to sue after revoking his clearance Trump wants federal suit against opioid manufacturers Dozens dead in motorway bridge collapse near Genoa Jury Convicts Paul Manafort On 8 Counts Of Fraud Pence says "time has come" for U.S. Space Force More Flooding Risk This Week in the East with More Anticipated Rain Sister Mary Jo throws out first pitch Trump continues to threaten the removal of senior official security clearances "Goat-Pocalypse’ Strikes Boise Neighborhood Aaron Judge To Miss Three Weeks After Chip Fracture GoDaddy Drops White Supremacist Site 'Daily Stormer' The moment a gunman opened fire at Florida gaming event Vietnam War Hero Turned US Senator John McCain Has Died At Age 81 <p>http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=90108&amp;siteSection=gatehouse&amp;videoId=32829648</p> <p>BACK</p> <p>Embed &lt;iframe width="590" height="332" src="http://launch.newsinc.com/?type=VideoPlayer/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=gatehouse&amp;videoId=32829648" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" noresize marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</p> <p><a href="http://inform.com/privacy" type="external">Privacy Policy</a> \| <a href="http://inform.com/player-terms" type="external">Terms of Use</a></p> <p>Heyer was among the hundreds who had turned out to protest against the controversial rally being held by white supremacist groups, including neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. The suspect, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and another count related to the hit-and-run, police said.</p> <p>In the Daily Stormer post, Anglin characterized Heyer as dying in a “road age incident.” He said she was a “drain on society” and disparaged her appearance. “Most people are glad she is dead,” he wrote.</p> <p>″ <a href="http://www.twitter.com/GoDaddy" type="external">@GoDaddy</a> you host The Daily Stormer - they posted this on their site,” Twitter user Amy Siskind said in an appeal to the Web hosting company. “Please retweet if you think this hate should be taken down &amp; banned.”</p> <p>Siskind’s post was shared more than 5,000 times.</p> <p>GoDaddy spokesman Dan Race confirmed the company’s decision to boot the Daily Stormer in an email to The Washington Post. He said the article about Heyer violated GoDaddy’s terms of service, Race said.</p> <p>“Given The Daily Stormer’s latest article comes on the immediate heels of a violent act, we believe this type of article could incite additional violence, which violates our terms of service,” Race wrote in the email.</p> <p>Early Monday, just hours after GoDaddy made its announcement, a note appeared on the Daily’s Stormer’s website claiming it had been taken over by the hacking activist group Anonymous “in the name of Heather Heyer a victim of white supremacist terrorism.” But a Twitter account claiming to be linked to Anonymous said it could not confirm that the Daily Storm was hacked. “Remain cautious,” it advised.</p> <p>The Daily Stormer and other websites characterized as espousing racist or anti-Semitic views have registered domain names with GoDaddy and use a privacy service called Domains by Proxy that is affiliated with GoDaddy, the Daily Beast reported last month.</p> <p>Critics have pushed GoDaddy to ban these sites from its service, arguing that providing them a platform enables hate speech.</p> <p>GoDaddy has previously said that the content, however “tasteless” and “ignorant,” is protected by the First Amendment. The company told the Daily Beast in July that a Daily Stormer article threatening to “track down” the family members of CNN staffers did not violate Domains by Proxy’s terms of service.</p> <p>“We do not see a reason to take any action under our terms of service as does not promote or encourage violence against people,” Ben Butler, GoDaddy’s director of network abuse, told The Daily Beast. “While we detest the sentiment of this site and the article in question, we support First Amendment rights and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content.”</p> <p>The Daily Stormer has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as the “top hate site in America,” and publishes content disparaging Jewish people, people of color Muslims and women.</p>	GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer for ‘violating’ terms of service	false	http://www.norwichbulletin.com/zz/shareable/20170814/godaddy-bans-neo-nazi-site-daily-stormer-for-violating-terms-of-service	2017-08-14
<p>CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The reporter of a botched Rolling Stone article about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia willfully ignored facts and statements that disproved her preconceived storyline about the school’s callousness toward sexual-assault victims, an attorney for the former associate dean of students said in his closing arguments Tuesday.</p> <p>University administrator Nicole Eramo is seeking $7.5 million from the magazine over its portrayal of her in the 2014 story by Sabrina Rubin Erdely about the alleged sexual assault of a woman identified only as “Jackie.” Eramo claims she was unfairly portrayed in the article as trying to sweep Jackie’s sexual assault under the rug in order to protect the university.</p> <p>Attorney Tom Clare argued Tuesday that Erdely set out from the beginning to tell a story of “institutional indifference,” brushed off statements from her sources that didn’t fit that narrative and pushed her own views about the administration onto the vulnerable women she was interviewing.</p> <p>“Once they decided what the article was going to be about, it didn’t matter what the facts were,” Clare said.</p> <p>The story about Jackie’s rape set off a firestorm at the University of Virginia and in schools nationwide and prompted police to launch an investigation into the alleged assault. Eramo received hundreds of angry letters and emails and faced protesters outside her office. The story crumbled after other news outlets began asking questions and police found no evidence to back up Jackie’s claims. The article was officially retracted in April 2015.</p> <p>Eramo must prove that Rolling Stone statements about her made her appear “odious, infamous or ridiculous” and that the magazine acted with “actual malice,” meaning it knew that what it was writing about her was false or should have known it was false.</p> <p>A lawyer for Rolling Stone, Scott Sexton, said in closing statements there is no evidence the magazine knew a botched story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia was false before publishing it.</p> <p>While the women Erdely interviewed - including Jackie - told her that Eramo was their fiercest advocate, Clare argued that Erdely was so invested in her preconceived storyline that she was “blind to the facts.” He argued that Erdely purposely set out to make Eramo the “villain” because she knew she was an “easy target” and couldn’t speak publicly about Jackie’s case due to federal privacy laws.</p> <p>“It’s reckless, it’s cavalier and it’s intentional,” Clare said.</p> <p>Over the course of the more than two-week trial, the 10 jurors have watched 11 hours of video testimony, heard from a dozen live witnesses and have examined nearly 300 exhibits. Seven jurors will deliberate and three will be named as alternates.</p> <p>© 2016 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</p>	Closing arguments heard in Rolling Stone defamation trial	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/closing-arguments-heard-in-rolling-stone-defamation-trial/	2016-11-01
<p>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. “I could imagine such a format being used to end the North Korea conflict,” Frau Merkel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine. Were Germany asked to participate, the chancellor warned, she would say yes “immediately.”</p> <p>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’s atomic bomb program. Frau Merkel’s interview is calculated to short-circuit any refusal on President Trump’s part to certify Tehran’s 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’s see if it can bring aboard Mr. Trump’s newest pal, Senator Schumer.</p> <p>New York’s 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.</p> <p>This point is acknowledged even by the Times, which concedes that the Iran pact was opposed in the Congress “overwhelmingly.” The Gray Lady suggests that “many critics now see its value,” 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.</p> <p>“It’s presumptuous of some people to suspect that France, Russia, China, Germany, Britain ought to do what the Congress tells them to do,” Secretary of State Kerry snickered. President Putin must have loved that line. Frau Merkel, in any event, isn’t waiting for any formal nod in respect of what President Trump wants to do about the Iran deal — or about North Korea. She’s 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.</p> <p>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 “personal agreement” between President Obama and his negotiating partners. It described it as “non-binding on the next president.” Mr. Trump himself promised to “rip up” 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.</p> <p>receive the latest by email: subscribe to the new york sun's free <a type="internal">mailing list</a></p>	The Next Appeasement?	true	http://www.nysun.com/editorials/new-york-times-is-scrambling-to-back-iran-type/90066/	2017-09-10
<p>That black adolescents receive harsher disciplinary punishments at school than their white peers for the same offenses is troubling enough. But <a href="http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/2013-14-first-look.pdf" type="external">federal data</a> showing that even at the preschool level black students are nearly four times as likely to be suspended as their white peers is especially shocking. What it suggests is that racial biases are creeping into classrooms filled with 4-year-olds and that schools are effectively criminalizing black children, particularly boys, when they are barely out of diapers.</p> <p>Two years ago, federal civil rights officials issued guidance calling on school districts to train their teachers to overcome this problem and showing districts how to recognize and avoid discriminatory practices. But researchers are just beginning to understand the psychological mechanisms that lead teachers who see themselves as loving, supportive figures to discriminate against minorities.</p> <p>Chief among these mechanisms, <a href="http://ziglercenter.yale.edu/publications/briefs.aspx" type="external">according to a new report</a>from Yale University’s Child Study Center, are racial preconceptions that shape the way the teachers view black boys in particular. These preconceptions were found to exist in black as well as white preschool teachers.</p> <p>In the study, the Yale researchers showed teachers a dozen brief video clips of four well-behaved preschool-aged children, two boys, one black and one white, and two girls, one black and one white, working and playing together in a classroom. Though the children were behaving calmly, the teachers were asked to look for signs of behavior that might become problematic.</p> <p>A computer program that tracked the eyes of the teachers as they watched the video showed that both black and white teachers watched the black children, especially the boys, longer when looking for signs of trouble. And when the researchers asked teachers which child had commanded the most attention, 42 percent of them chose the black boy, 34 percent the white boy, 13 percent the white girl and 10 percent the black girl.</p> <p>In other words, the black boy in this study received far more scrutiny from teachers than his behavior warranted. This brings to mind the “driving while black” phenomenon, in which police officers stop African-American motorists without cause, or stop-and-frisk practices that predominantly single out blacks.</p> <p>The Yale study is consistent with previous research suggesting that teachers tend to see “acting out” by black children as more threatening than similar behavior in white children, and thus deserving of disproportionately harsher punishments.</p> <p>This is counterproductive on a number of counts, but what’s really at stake here is the future of these children, whose early disciplinary problems put them at greater risk later on of falling behind, dropping out and eventually getting caught up in the juvenile justice system.</p>	Racial Profiling in Preschool	false	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/opinion/racial-profiling-in-preschool.html	2016-10-08
<p>Donald Trump has virtually stopped trying to win this election by any conventional metric and is instead stacking logs of grievance on the funeral pyre with the great anticipation of setting it ablaze if current polls turn out to be predictive.</p> <p>There is something calamitous in the air that surrounds the campaign, a hostile fatalism that bespeaks a man convinced that the end is near and aiming his anger at all within reach.</p> <p>As his path to victory grows narrower, his desperation grows more pronounced.</p> <p>Last week a steady stream of women stepped forward to accuse Trump of some form of sexual assault, abuse or inappropriate behavior. Trump’s response has been marked by a stunning lack of grace and dignity, let alone contrition or empathy, a response much like the man himself.</p> <p>Instead, he is doubling down on sexism.</p> <p>On Thursday, Trump said of the People magazine reporter who accused him of forcibly kissing her: “Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don’t think so.”</p> <p>He said on Friday of the woman accusing him of groping her on an airplane: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.”</p> <p>He also said of Clinton, “When she walked in front of me, believe me, I wasn’t impressed.”</p> <p>His response to these charges has been surprisingly — and perhaps, revealingly — callow. He has mocked, whined, chided, bemoaned and belittled. It’s as if the man is on a mission to demonstrate to voters the staggering magnitude of his social vulgarity and emotional ineptitude. He has dispensed with all semblances of wanting to appear presidential and embraced what seems to be most natural to him: acting like a pig.</p> <p>Furthermore, everything is rigged against him, from the media to the election itself. He’s threatening to sue The New York Times. He says he and Clinton should take a drug test before the next debate.</p> <p>These are the ravings of a lunatic.</p> <p>Trump is back to carelessly shooting off his mouth and recklessly shooting himself in the foot.</p> <p>It is sad, really, but for him I have no sympathy. He has spent this entire election attacking anyone and everyone whom he felt it would be politically advantageous to attack. Trump, now that you’re under attack, you want to cry woe-is-me and have people commiserate. Slim chance, big guy.</p> <p>The coarseness of your character has been put on full display, and now the electorate has come to cash the check you wrote.</p> <p>Trump now looks like a madman from Mad Men, a throwback to when his particular privileges had more perks and were considered less repugnant. He looks pathetic.</p> <p>He is a ball of contradictions that together form a bully, a man who has built a menacing wall around the hollow of his self. He is brash to mask his fragility.</p> <p>But in a way, Trump was authentically made in America.</p> <p>America has a habit of romanticizing the playboy as much as the cowboy, but there is often something untoward about the playboy, unseemly, predatory and broken.</p> <p>For years, Trump built a reputation on shuffling through women, treating his exploits with jocularity and having too much of America smiling in amusement at the bad boy antics.</p> <p>But he’s not a kid; he’s a cad.</p> <p>And he seems constitutionally incapable of processing the idea that wealth is not completely immunizing, that some rules are universally applicable, that common decency is required of more than just “common” folks. He seems genuinely offended that he should be held to the same standards of truth, decorum and even law as those less well off.</p> <p>Trump is in fact the logical extension of toxic masculinity and ambient misogyny. He is the logical extension of rampant racism. He is the logical extension of wealth worship. He is the logical extension of pervasive anti-intellectualism.</p> <p>Trump is the logical extension of the worst of America.</p> <p>With him you get a man who believes himself superior in every way: through the gift of fortune and the happenstance of chromosomes. He believes the rules simply don’t apply. Not rules that govern the sovereignty of another’s body, not rules that dictate decorousness.</p> <p>And the Republican Party was just the right place for him to park himself.</p> <p>When you have a political party that takes as its mission to prevent government from working instead of to make government work, a party that conflates the ill effects of a changing economy with the changing complexion of the country and is still struck by fever over the election of President Obama, Trump is a natural, predictable endpoint.</p> <p>Furthermore, Trump is what happens when you wear your Christian conservative values like a cardigan to conveniently slip off when the heat rises.</p> <p>Trump is fundamentally altering American politics — coarsening them, corrupting them, cratering them. And America, particularly conservative America, has only itself to blame.</p> <p>Republicans sowed intolerance and in its shadow, Trump sprang up like toxic fungi.</p>	Donald Trump, the Worst of America	true	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/donald-trump-the-worst-of-america.html	2016-10-17
<p>“Bigger than Watergate!” Donald Trump exulted about the discovery of new emails from Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state. Sure, they could be. They could also be pleas from Clinton that Huma Abedin fetch her a skinny latte from Starbucks. We don’t know. And the horrifying thing is that the F.B.I. director, James Comey, didn’t seem to know, either, even as he disclosed their existence to the world.</p> <p>How strange but how fitting. This entire election is being conducted in the key of hysteria, and Comey just found a way to amplify that ugly music.</p> <p>Listen, Clinton made an awful decision in setting up a private email server, then compounded that error by dragging her feet through defensive non-apologies that gave the story such legs. Now she limps to the finish line when she should be hitting full stride.</p> <p>But Trump is as much of a part and player in this latest chapter of the email saga, because of the one-syllable grenade that he keeps lobbing at the body politic, his furious mantra over these final weeks.</p> <p>“Rigged,” “rigged,” “rigged.” Many Americans have come to believe that. Many others are rightly determined to prove to that group how wrong they are, or at least not to add accelerant to the wildfire.</p> <p>And so all of us, including Comey, operate in a befouled atmosphere, tailoring our actions to it.</p> <p>Comey obviously felt that he was in a bind and clearly believed that by disclosing the emails as soon as possible — and not, say, delaying until he had some sense of what the F.B.I. was dealing with — he had the best chance of avoiding any possible charges of a cover-up later, and was acting with the cleanest conscience.</p> <p>But his desire to be a Boy Scout may have eclipsed sound judgment here, and rectitude is a quaint, shortsighted notion in an election this rife with accusations of bias, this primed for scandal, this frenzied.</p> <p>Were the emails in question sent to or from Clinton? Comey didn’t and perhaps couldn’t say. What about them warranted inspection? Again, he had nothing to offer.</p> <p>He told F.B.I. employees in a memo that he was hoping, with his announcement, not “to create a misleading impression” of some hugely significant discovery. But that’s exactly and predictably what he did.</p> <p>Most Democrats were outraged. “Mr. Comey said he was duty bound to inform Congress,” Bob Kerrey, the former senator and governor, told me. “Quite the opposite is the case. He was duty bound to make an announcement after he completes his examination of the emails.“</p> <p>Indeed, he broke with the longstanding F.B.I. policy of not commenting on ongoing investigations. He also defied the wishes of senior officials in the Department of Justice, according to various news reports early Saturday afternoon. And he frustrated everyone — conservatives, liberals, Trump, Clinton — because his disclosure was all questions, no answers.</p> <p>Regardless, the media went nuts, declaring that the development could bend the shape of the race and assuming damage to Clinton without any polling or other evidence to back that up.</p> <p>“We don’t know what this means yet except that it’s a real bombshell,” the journalist Carl Bernstein said in a phone interview on CNN on Friday, adding: “It is unthinkable that the director of the F.B.I. would take this action lightly, that he would put this letter forth to the Congress of the United States saying there is more information out there about classified emails and call it to the attention of Congress unless it was something requiring serious investigation.” A viewer couldn’t see him licking his chops but could hear it.</p> <p>Even the many news organizations that stressed the possible innocuousness of the emails and emphasized how very little we knew contradicted that caution with the length, number and front-and-center placement of their stories about this development.</p> <p>Why? The Politico writer Glenn Thrush had a thought, expressed in this tweet:</p> <p>How is this supposed to play out? If, a few days from now, the F.B.I. determines and announces that none of the emails contain classified information or anything else of concern, will Trump and Clinton’s other enemies conceivably believe that? Hah! They’ll be shouting “rigged” all over again. They’ll be shouting it louder than ever.</p> <p>It wouldn’t be normal practice for the F.B.I., in an effort to buttress its determination, to release the emails, many of which are presumably private communications of Abedin’s. And those might be too intimate for her to make public herself. But now that Comey has flagged the whole batch of them, suspicion will never die.</p> <p>And if the emails are fresh cause for concern, will that be knowable, and digestible, before Nov. 8? On this point, too, we’re all in the dark.</p> <p>What a steaming mess, and that’s a comment partly on this specific situation but also on this election, which has devolved into a junkyard of innuendo, lies and conspiracy theories. Trump doesn’t bear all the blame for that, but he bears an ample share of it.</p> <p>On the subject of conspiracy theories, I can offer some comic relief, noting that he and Rush Limbaugh couldn’t get on the same page about the new emails on Friday.</p> <p>Even as Trump was praising Comey and saying that the election might not be quite as rigged as he’d feared, Limbaugh was telling his listeners that Comey was “just doing this to take everybody’s attention off of the WikiLeaks email dump” that was embarrassing Clinton and her aides.</p> <p>“The cynical view,” he said, “is that Comey is still carrying water for Clinton and is trying to get everybody to stop paying attention on the WikiLeaks dump because it’s starting to have an impact.”</p> <p>Let me get this straight: The crooked F.B.I. and the corrupt media throw just enough dirt at Clinton so that she’s sure to track it into the Oval Office? Thank God for Limbaugh. God help the rest of us.</p>	Comey, Clinton and This Steaming Mess	true	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/opinion/comey-clinton-and-this-steaming-mess.html	2016-10-29
<p>This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can <a href="http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACIRluBsZfcDaRjyYJL3A/v4Olsbjewu/um/F4M0Mu6GIYeyKvnoK8cRrHmbozfsmoSiBA42dOMf3kaZjaWII+sp5jfgmpV7jnipGgXzYMh64&user_id=d95126ca4f92c44ecb942ecae7e52168&email_type=20160927%20Opinion%20Today&task_id=1474979014859490&regi_id=0" type="external">sign up here</a> to receive more briefings and a guide to the section daily in your inbox.</p> <p>Republicans are starting to talk openly about refusing to fill Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat not only through the end of President Obama’s term but indefinitely. Ted Cruz, Charles Grassley and John McCain have all sent such signals, as have some other prominent conservatives.</p> <p>It’s worth taking this talk seriously.</p> <p>Too many top Republicans have made clear in recent years that they care more about winning than about adhering to political norms or doing what’s best for the country. You can see this attitude in the willingness to shut down the government, the threats to default on the national debt and the <a type="internal">stated desire</a> to make Obama a failed president.</p> <p>The political scientists Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein call it “ <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/yes-polarization-is-asymmetric-and-conservatives-are-worse/373044/" type="external">asymmetric polarization</a>”: the two political parties have come to behave quite differently.</p> <p>Refusing to seat a ninth justice, simply for ideological reasons, would be a clear and worrisome break with democratic tradition. It would send the message that Republicans believe a president should be able to exercise the Constitutional power to name justices only if that president were Republican. It would represent a new level of partisan cynicism.</p> <p>I hope that the wiser heads within the Republican Party prevail after the election. But Democrats should be prepared for the alternative.</p> <p>The alternative would mean that Senate control — which remains <a href="http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-congress-senate" type="external">up in the air</a>, given the tightness of recent polls — will be crucial. If Republicans hold the Senate, a President Hillary Clinton would be at their mercy with any nominee.</p> <p>If Democrats take the Senate, they would have an obvious fallback plan: eliminating the 60-vote threshold of the filibuster — as a Senate majority can always do — and confirming a justice with 51 votes. As long as Republicans keep talking about permanent obstructionism, Democrats should not hesitate to use that option.</p> <p>What I’m reading: Jeff Shesol, at The New Yorker, has <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/will-republicans-fight-to-shrink-the-supreme-court" type="external">an excellent breakdown</a> of the growing signs of the Republicans’ Supreme Court obstructionism.</p>	The G.O.P.’s Radical Supreme Court Talk	true	http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/opinion/campaign-stops/the-gops-radical-supreme-court-talk.html	2016-11-02
<a type="internal" /> Justin Kaneps for The New York Times <p>Microsoft busted Kremlin-linked hackers who broadened their targets in the United States. And Facebook, YouTube and others found new influence campaigns originating from Russia and Iran.</p>	What the Wells Fargo Crackdown Signals to Corporate America	false	http://www.nytimes.com/dealbook/	2018-08-24
<p>By ALICIA PARLAPIANO and ADAM PEARCE</p> <p>While Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton will represent the entire country, the Americans who selected them are a small part of it.</p> <p>The United States is home to 324 million people. Each square here represents 1 million people.</p> <p>103 million of them are children, noncitizens or ineligible felons, and they do not have the right to vote.</p> <p>Estimates for ineligible felons are from 2010.</p> <p>88 million eligible adults do not vote at all, even in general elections.</p> <p>Based on the share of eligible adults who voted in the 2012 general election.</p> <p>An additional 73 million did not vote in the primaries this year, but will most likely vote in the general election.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The remaining 60 million people voted in the primaries: about 30 million each for Republicans and Democrats.</p> <p>But half of the primary voters chose other candidates. Just 14 percent of eligible adults — 9 percent of the whole nation — voted for either Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton.</p> <p>The overall shares were about the same in 2008, the last cycle without an incumbent president running.</p> <p>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.</p>	Only 9% of America Chose Trump and Clinton as the Nominees	false	http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/01/us/elections/nine-percent-of-america-selected-trump-and-clinton.html	2016-08-01
<p>Mr. Trump says Mrs. Clinton wants “amnesty for everybody, come on in, come on over.”</p> Hillary Clinton <p>Mrs. Clinton said that she had helped eight million children obtain health coverage, Sept. 11 responders receive medical care and children get safer medicines.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said Mrs. Clinton ignored 600 requests for increased security from J. Christopher Stevens, the ambassador to Libya, and communicated only with Sidney Blumenthal.</p> <p>Mr. Trump accused Mrs. Clinton of being there for President Obama’s “line in the sand” in Syria. She said she wasn’t.</p> <p>Mr. Trump, referring to the effect of Nafta and other free-trade agreements, said, “We lost our jobs.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that the United States signed a “peace treaty” to bring an end to the civil war in Syria.</p> <p>Mr. Trump admitted that he used a $916 million loss declared on his 1995 tax returns to avoid paying federal income taxes. But he refused to say how many years he paid no income tax and simultaneously claimed to have paid a “tremendous” amount of taxes.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said we have hundreds of thousands of people pouring into the United States from places like Syria, and we have no idea who they are.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that growth is “down to 1 percent” and that taxes in the United States are the “highest in the world.”</p> <p>“Since the Great Recession the gains have all gone to the top.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump said “maybe there is no hacking,” in response to Mrs. Clinton’s claim that Russians are engaged in an unprecedented effort to influence the election — on Mr. Trump’s behalf.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that Mrs. Clinton “wants to go to a single-payer plan” like the health care system in Canada.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said “many people saw” bombs all over the apartment of a couple who committed the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton deleted 33,000 emails from her private server even after she got a subpoena from Congress.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that a Clinton associate pushed the “birther” notion against Obama in 2008.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said there was no evidence her email has been hacked by a foreign power.</p> <p>Former President Bill Clinton was impeached, lost his law license and paid an $850,000 fine to Paula Jones.</p> <p>Mr. Trump accused Mrs. Clinton of laughing about getting a man acquitted of raping a 12-year-old girl.</p> <p>When Mr. Trump was asked whether he has kissed women or groped women without consent, as he claimed on a recently released video, Mr. Trump said no, he had not.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that Obamacare is leading to insurance rate increases that are “astronomical.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that last year, the United States had a trade deficit of $800 billion.</p>	Fact Checks of the Second Presidential Debate	false	http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/us/elections/fact-check-debate.html	2016-10-09
<p>Mr. Trump said that health insurance premiums were “going up 60, 70, 80 percent,” and “next year, they’re going to go up over 100 percent.”</p> <p>Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees “who are definitely ISIS-aligned — we now have them in our country.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump said a cease-fire agreement between the United States and Russia allowed Russia to control more territory in Syria, because the Russians outplayed the United States.</p> <p>On projections that Mr. Trump’s proposals would raise the national debt, he said that “they’re wrong because I’m going to create tremendous jobs.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration’s support of publicizing in advance the Iraqi-led attack on Mosul, which just began.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said the nuclear deal with Iran will “absolutely” let it obtain nuclear weapons.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said Mr. Trump tweeted that the Emmy’s were “rigged” when he did not win for “The Apprentice.”</p> <p>Regarding Mrs. Clinton’s private email server, Mr. Trump said that “she’s guilty of a very, very serious crime.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump asserted that $6 billion went missing from the State Department while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said that when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president, the fiscal position of the federal government improved: A $300 billion budget deficit turned into a $200 billion surplus, she said. And, she added, “we were actually on the path to eliminating the national debt.”</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said Mr. Trump didn’t even raise the issue of the border wall with the Mexican president, since he choked.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said Mrs. Clinton deleted 33,000 of her private emails after she got a subpoena.</p> <p>When asked about the many women who have come forward to allege they were kissed or groped by Mr. Trump without their consent, Mr. Trump said the stories were largely debunked.</p> Hillary Clinton <p>“We’ve lost our jobs. We’ve lost our businesses. We’re not making things anymore.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump suggested that South Korea and Japan do not pay any of the costs of maintaining American military bases on their territory.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said her fiscal plan “doesn’t add a penny to the debt.”</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said that Mr. Trump’s economic plan “might lose 3.5 million jobs” while giving tax cuts to people at the very top.</p> <p>“People are going to pour in from Syria — she wants 550 percent more than Barack Obama.”</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said that Mr. Trump is willing to “spout the Putin line” and “get help from him” in the election. Mr. Trump said “our country has no idea” if the Russians are responsible for the emails published by WikiLeaks.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said that Mrs. Clinton’s support for abortion rights would allow a fetus to be ripped from a woman’s womb in the ninth month of pregnancy, in some cases just a few days before a baby is born.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was forced to apologize for negative comments about him.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court allowed “dark money” to stream into politics.</p>	Fact Checks of the Third Presidential Debate	false	http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/19/us/elections/fact-check-debate.html	2016-10-19
<p>Mrs. Clinton said Senator Bernie Sanders has been a “largely very reliable supporter” of the National Rifle Association.</p> <p>Hillary Clinton said “of course” she would sign legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said more guns brought into New York and used in crimes come from Vermont, on a per capita basis, than any other state.</p> <p>Senator Bernie Sanders said Hillary Clinton has received significant contributions from the fossil fuel industry.</p> <p>"If you look back to Iowa, Ted did change his view and his stance on ethanol quite a bit."</p> <p>Gov. John Kasich said he would pressure China to use its influence on its neighbor North Korea, resist its aggression in the South China Sea and strengthen United States capabilities to fight Chinese cyberhacking.</p> <p>Marco Rubio said that the political and human-rights situation in Cuba had worsened since President Obama made his diplomatic opening to the island.</p> <p>Donald J. Trump said he would "listen to the generals" in deciding how many troops to commit to the battle against ISIS -- and the numbers he is hearing are 20,000 to 30,000.</p> <p>Ted Cruz said Hillary Clinton, like Donald Trump, expresses a desire to be neutral between the Israelis and Palestinians.</p> <p>Trump: "G.D.P. was zero, essentially, for the last two quarters."</p> <p>Marco Rubio says that most green cards are granted on the basis of family relationships.</p> <p>"We're going to have to make changes in Social Security."</p> <p>Mr. Kasich said he held 200 town hall-style meetings in New Hampshire.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said the families of some Sept. 11 hijackers were allowed to leave the U.S. days before the attacks.</p> <p>Mr. Cruz claimed Donald J. Trump repeatedly donated to Mrs. Clinton, writing several checks to her presidential campaign eight years ago.</p> <p>"Every other country we do business with, we are getting absolutely crushed on trade."</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said two-thirds of the votes cast in the Republican primaries and caucuses to date have gone against Donald J. Trump.</p> <p>Mr. Trump says he has beaten Hillary Clinton in many general election polls.</p> <p>Mr. Kasich said he was the only candidate to mention jobs at last week’s Republican debate.</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said Donald J. Trump received draft deferments because he had injuries from playing squash.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said the Canadian border is about four times as long as the Mexican border.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said he never advocated for the United States to topple Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi.</p> <p>Democratic-appointed Supreme Court justices always stay Democratic; not so for Republicans.</p> <p>Mr. Rubio says Obamacare "is not just a bad health care law. It is a job-killing law."</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said Donald J. Trump criticized Mitt Romney’s use of the term “self-deportation.”</p> <p>Donald J. Trump funded the "Gang of Eight" senators who forged immigration legislation.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said Ted Cruz does not have the endorsement of a single Republican senator.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said he used foreign workers at his Palm Beach club because Americans don't want temporary jobs in Florida.</p> <p>Mr. Trump says we are "losing $500 billion a year" to China.</p> <p>Donald J. Trump suggested he was not soliciting campaign contributions.</p> <p>Mr. Cruz says Donald J. Trump has contributed to John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid.</p> <p>Mr. Cruz said Marco Rubio told Univision that "he would not rescind President Obama's illegal executive amnesty on his first day in office."</p> <p>"We have in Social Security right now thousands and thousands of people that are over 106 years old. Now, you know they don't exist."</p> <p>"It's been over 80 years since a lame-duck president has appointed a Supreme Court justice."</p> <p>"The Constitution actually doesn't address that particular situation."</p> <p>Mr. Sanders said that none of the Republican presidential candidates believe that climate change is real.</p> <p>Waterboarding “does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture.”</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said Mr. Sanders voted in 1998 for a resolution favoring regime change in Iraq.</p> <p>Mr. Sanders suggested that Mrs. Clinton was not welcoming to child immigrants from Central America.</p> <p>“Marco Rubio has gone on Univision and said in Spanish, ‘No, no, no, I wouldn’t rescind amnesty.’”</p> <p>Mr. Christie said a nurse quarantined during the Ebola outbreak had symptoms.</p> <p>North Korea's new missile launch "is the direct result of the failures of the first Clinton administration."</p> <p>"Right now, we're the highest-taxed country in the world."</p> <p>Mr. Trump tried to use eminent domain to take an older woman's home.</p> <p>Mr. Christie said President Obama was in favor of paying ransom for hostages.</p> <p>Mr. Cruz said his campaign mistakenly spread the word that Ben Carson was quitting the race because of a CNN report.</p> <p>Mr. Christie said Marco Rubio did not vote for his own Hezbollah sanctions act.</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said New Jersey's credit rating had been downgraded nine times during Gov. Chris Christie's tenure.</p> <p>"When you ran against Senator Obama, you thought him naïve because he thought it was a good idea to talk to our enemies."</p> <p>"Almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said Bernie Sanders's vote against "Ted Kennedy's immigration reform" in 2007 was not progressive.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton says that experts agree that her Wall Street reforms are the toughest.</p> <p>“Millions of Americans have lost their jobs” because of President Obama’s health care law.</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said Hillary Clinton “wants to put Barack Obama on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.”</p> <p>Chris Christie said New Jersey’s job growth in 2015 was the best in the past 15 years.</p> <p>Marco Rubio said that other countries would go along when he ripped up the Iran deal.</p> <p>Chris Christie said neighbors of the San Bernardino attackers knew of their plans.</p> <p>Cap-and-trade emissions regulations would "destroy our economy."</p> <p>The average worker "has lost $4,000 in the last seven years of his income because of this administration."</p> <p>Ted Cruz says he would carpet bomb the Islamic State, which Obama has failed to do because he has weakened the military.</p> <p>"My voting record in the Senate, during my years, is almost 90 percent, which is significantly higher than Barack Obama's or Hillary Clinton's was when they were running for president."</p> <p>"The leader of Goldman Sachs is a billionaire who comes to Congress and tells us we should cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid."</p> <p>Senator Bernie Sanders said that the United States must transform its energy system away from fossil fuels and toward energy-efficiency and sustainable energy. "I've got the most comprehensive legislation in the Senate to do that," he said.</p> <p>Hillary Clinton said Senator Bernie Sanders called President Obama “weak” and “disappointing,” and, in 2011, “publicly sought someone to run in a primary” against him.</p> <p>Hillary Clinton said that, because of the Affordable Care Act, "We now have driven costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 years."</p> <p>Senator Bernie Sanders said the United States spends almost three times more than the British on health care.</p> <p>Senator Bernie Sanders said 29 million people in the United States do not have health insurance.</p> <p>Donald J. Trump said he never suggested imposing a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods.</p> <p>Donald J. Trump asserted that China, by manipulating its currency, has cost the United States "millions and millions of jobs."</p> <p>Senator Marco Rubio said President Obama had played down the threat of the Islamic State, which practices "genocide against Christians and Yazidis and others in the region."</p> <p>Gov. Chris Christie said President Obama and Hillary Clinton failed to enforce a red line in threatening to use military force if President Bashar al-Assad of Syria used chemical weapons against his own people. And he said Mrs. Clinton called Mr. Assad a reformer.</p> <p>Jeb Bush said he would move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a signal to Iran.</p> <p>Gov. Chris Christie said he did not support President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court.</p> <p>Mr. Kasich said wages have not climbed “because the Federal Reserve kept interest rates so low.”</p> <p>Discussing his eligibility to be president, Mr. Cruz recalled that in September, Donald J. Trump "said that he had had his lawyers look at this from every which way, and there was no issue there."</p> <p>Mr. Cruz said he disclosed bank loans that he obtained for his 2012 Senate campaign with the Senate, but his failure to disclose them to federal elections officials was just a paperwork error.</p> <p>"We have the lowest percentage of Americans working today of any year since 1977."</p> <p>“I never believed Edward Snowden was a good public servant the way that Ted Cruz once said, that he had done a public service for America.”</p> <p>Asked about his proposal for a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods, Mr. Trump said, "I don't even know where the 45 percent came from."</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said legislation that Bernie Sanders supported in 2005 forbids all lawsuits against gun makers and sellers.</p> <p>Mr. Rubio accused Chris Christie of having a record similar to President Obama's on issues like education, gun control and abortion.</p> <p>Mr. Christie said the murder rate had increased by 18 percent in Chicago and 11 percent in New York.</p> <p>Mr. Trump raised questions about whether Ted Cruz was eligible to be president because he was born in Canada.</p> <p>“I'm one of the few of the candidates that actually shows up to vote. Both Cruz and Rubio are missing the vast majority of their votes.”</p> <p>“Vladimir Putin is a person who has killed. He’s jailed and murdered journalists, political opponents. He bombed an apartment building as a pretext to attack the Chechens. He is responsible for the downing of that Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, because he provided the antiaircraft weaponry that was used for that.”</p> <p>“Our country is falling apart, frankly. Our infrastructure is a disaster. Our bridges are falling down. Sixty-one percent of our bridges are in danger.”</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said Donald J. Trump “is becoming ISIS’ best recruiter. They are going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”</p> <p>“Senator Sanders voted against the Brady Bill. Senator Sanders voted to give immunity to gun dealers. And Senator Sanders voted against even research dollars to look into this public health issue.”</p> <p>Mr. Sanders said he voted against the Iraq war because of his opposition to unilateral action.</p> <p>“I have never supported legalization” for undocumented immigrants.</p> <p>“There were numerous people, including the mother, that knew what was going on. They saw pipe bombs sitting all over the floor. They saw ammunition all over the place.”</p> <p>“On September 10th, 2001, I was named chief federal prosecutor in New Jersey.”</p> <p>Mr. Cruz’s characterizations of his vote on the USA Freedom Act, which expanded N.S.A. surveillance “so we now have cellphones” and other data.</p> <p>"Do you know how many illegal aliens George W. Bush deported? 10 million."</p> <p>"When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan, I say to him, 'You have a friend again, sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight,' he'll change his mind."</p> <p>Mrs. Fiorina said Stanley A. McChrystal and David H. Petraeus were "retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."</p> <p>Mr. Rubio said the Islamic State took root because of Bashar al-Assad's decision to bomb his own people, and because of President Obama's unwillingness to arm the rebel groups.</p> <p>Mrs. Fiorina said Silicon Valley companies “do not need to be forced, they need to be asked” to help law enforcement get access to encrypted data.</p> <p>Rand Paul on Marco Rubio: “He is the one for an open border that is leaving us defenseless.”</p> <p>At Hewlett-Packard, Mrs. Fiorina said she provided equipment to assist the National Security Agency.</p> <p>Mr. Trump said he “certainly would never have made that horrible, disgusting, absolutely incompetent deal with Iran, where they get $150 billion. They're a terrorist nation.”</p> <p>“One of the first things I do in terms of executive order if I win will be to sign a strong, strong statement” that “anybody killing a police officer — death penalty.”</p> <p>“I am self-funding my own campaign. I have no people giving me money.”</p> <p>A poll asserting that 25 percent of Muslim Americans condone acts of violence against other Americans was from a “very highly respected group of people.”</p> <p>“I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”</p> <p>Ted Cruz was “part of that coalition that worked with the Democrats like Chuck Schumer and the A.C.L.U. to harm our intelligence programs.”</p> <p>“I said Osama bin Laden is going to come and do damage to us. And nobody believed it.”</p> <p>Mr. O'Malley said parents and students were being charged 7% to 8% interest on government-backed college loans.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said she introduced legislation to rein in executive compensation on Wall Street.</p> <p>Mrs. Clinton said that wages, when adjusted for inflation, have been stagnant since the end of the Clinton administration.</p> <p>Mr. Sanders said the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain 5,000 nuclear weapons.</p> <p>“I got to know him very well because we were both on ‘60 Minutes,’” Mr. Trump said, referring to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia</p> <p>Mrs. Fiorina said she met President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia “not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting.”</p> <p>Mr. Paul says that if you want to live in a city with lower inequality, you live in a city with a Republican mayor.</p> <p>Dwight D. Eisenhower “moved a million and a half illegal immigrants out of this country.”</p> <p>“If we were serious about it, we would raise the capital requirements.”</p> <p>Mr. Trump said the United States was better off letting Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin, confront the Islamic State.</p> <p>Mr. Trump complained that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal did nothing about currency manipulation, which is a key problem with China.</p>	Fact Checks of the 2016 Election	false	http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/fact-check.html	2016-09-26
<p>John Vizcaino/Reuters</p> <p>Five days after his nation voted down his effort to end a 52-year conflict with leftist rebels, President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia was <a type="internal">awarded</a> the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty. President Barack Obama <a type="internal">won the prize</a> only nine months into his presidency.</p> <p>Should the Nobel Prize be awarded for concrete achievements, or is it important to recognize those who aspire to peace? What is lost or gained when awards are given for aspirations?</p> <p>Without moral clarity with respect to the recipient, only the greatest achievement can overcome the taint of a compromised past.</p> <p>The prize sends a message about how societies should work, instead of how they actually do. It rewards service in the quest of a peaceful world.</p>	What the Nobel Peace Prize Prizes	false	http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/10/11/what-the-nobel-peace-prize-prizes	2016-10-11
<p>Following another dump of his personal emails, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, is claiming that <a type="internal">Russian hackers targeted his account</a> to try and influence the presidential election -- and he suggested that those hackers tipped off a Trump advisor.</p> <p>CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes reports that Podesta on Tuesday went step-by-step through all the contact Donald Trump and his campaign aides have had with Russian actors or with Wikileaks. He argued that it’s all circumstantial evidence pointing so some kind of secret understanding between Trump and the highest reaches of the Russian government.</p> <p>Podesta said the theft of 10 years worth of emails from his gmail account is now being investigated as part of the FBI’s larger probe into hacks at the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The U.S. intelligence community said on Friday that it is <a type="internal">“confident” those hacks were directed</a> by the “Russian government.”</p> <p>“Russian interference in this election and their apparent attempt to influence it on behalf of Mr. Trump is, I think, of -- should be of utmost concern to all Americans,” Podesta told reporters from the Clinton campaign plane.</p> <p>Podesta noted that long-time Trump confidant Roger Stone appeared to have advance notice of the hack, when Stone tweeted back in August: “Trust me, it will soon be the Podesta’s time in the barrel.”</p> <p>Stone also recently told Florida Republicans that he was in touch with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.</p> <p>The emails are a revealing and sometimes embarrassing window into the workings of a major campaign.</p> <p>In one, now-interim DNC chair Donna Brazile (who was working for CNN) appears to slip the campaign a “question” Clinton was to be asked at a CNN town hall during her primary contest against Bernie Sanders.</p> <p>In another, Starbucks CEO and major Clinton donor Howard Schultz called the campaign “stale” and lacking the “transparency that the American people...will need to trust and ultimately elect” Clinton.</p> <p>Trump, for his part, has brushed off accusations that his words and his proposals seem to favor Putin.</p> <p>“She doesn’t know if it’s the Russians doing the hacking,” Trump said during <a type="internal">Sunday’s presidential debate town hall</a>.</p> <p>He also claimed “I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia.”</p> <p>In North Carolina, President Obama said Trump sounded much like a Russian dictator when he threatened to jail Clinton if he won.</p> <p>“I frankly never thought I’d see the day when we had a major party candidate who would be promoting those kinds of notions,” the president said at a Clinton campaign event.</p> <p>Podesta said he doesn’t know why Trump would be sympathetic to Russia, but he suggested that it might be his business dealings or his fascination with Vladimir Putin. He added that he expects the leaks to soon follow the pattern of other Russian-led hacks, where they begin by releasing real documents at first -- and then start releasing fake ones.</p>	Clinton campaign does damage control after email hack	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-campaign-does-damage-control-after-email-hack/	2016-10-12
<p>President Barack Obama is set to speak at <a type="internal">the Democratic National Convention</a> Wednesday night. Obama will take the stage 12 years after he first came to national attention as a freshman senator from Illinois at his party's 2004 convention.</p> <p>Ostensibly, Obama was there to endorse Massachusetts senator John Kerry for his White House bid. But it's best remembered as the launching-point of Obama's own run four years later.</p> <p>John Kerry believes in America. And he knows that it's not enough for just some of us to prosper, for alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we're all connected as one people. If there is a child on the South Side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me even if it's not my child. If there is a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs and are having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent.</p> <p>If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief -- it is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper -- that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, and yet still come together as one American family. "E pluribus unum;" "out of many, one."</p> <p>Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us; the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight there is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America. There's the United States of America.</p> <p>The pundits -- the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states, red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too: we worship an awesome God in the blue states and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red states. We coach little league in the blue states and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the red states. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.</p> <p>In the end -- in the end -- in the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope? John Kerry calls on us to hope.</p> <p>John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or a health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. The hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. The hope of a young Naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta. The hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds. The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him too. (</p> <p>Hope -- hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope. In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation, a belief in things not seen; a belief that there are better days ahead. I believe that we can give our middle class relief, and provide working families with a road to opportunity. I believe we can provide jobs to the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair. I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs, and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.</p> <p>America, tonight, if you feel the same energy that I do, if you feel the same urgency that I do, if you feel the same passion that I do, if you feel the same hopefulness that I do, if we do what we must do, then I have no doubt that all across the country, from Florida to Oregon, from Washington to Maine, the people will rise up in November, and John Kerry will be sworn in as president, and John Edwards will be sworn in as vice president, and this country will reclaim its promise, and out of this long political darkness, a brighter day will come.</p> <p>Thank you very much, everybody. God bless you.</p>	A Look Back: Barack Obama addresses delegates at the 2004 DNC	false	http://www.cbsnews.com/news/barack-obama-takes-the-stage-at-the-2004-dnc/	2016-07-26
<p>A substitute teacher in a Texas elementary school called police on a six-year-old Muslim boy with Down syndrome, fearing he was a terrorist.</p> <p>Mohammad Suleiman's father, Maher, felt discrimination was in play after the teacher claimed the boy kept repeating 'Allah' and 'boom' in his Pearland, Texas, classroom.</p> <p>'Mohammad was born with Down Syndrome chromosome 21, the father said to F <a href="http://www.fox26houston.com/news/muslim-special-needs-students-father-says-teacher-called-police-on-boy" type="external">ox 26</a> about his son's intellectual difficulties and his inability to speak, something the school claimed he could do.</p> <p>'It's not true, he doesn't speak at all.'</p> <p>Teacher calls police on special needs student</p> <p>CONNECTING...</p> A substitute teacher at CJ Harris Elementary school in Pearland, Texas, allegedly called the police on Mohammad Suleiman, six, (pictured) and claimed he was a terrorist <p>A substitute teacher at CJ Harris Elementary school in Pearland, Texas, allegedly called the police on Mohammad Suleiman, six, (pictured) and claimed he was a terrorist</p> <p>Maher can't help but be disgusted by the allegations against his son being a terrorist that the substitute teacher at CJ Harris Elementary School made.</p> <p>'She claimed he was a terrorist,' added Maher.</p> <p>'This is so stupid, it's discrimination. Actually, it's not implied discrimination, it's actual discrimination.'</p> <p>The phone call placed by the teacher prompted both the police and Child Protective Services to launch investigations into the Suleiman family.</p> The teacher said that Mohammad kept saying 'Allah' and 'boom' but his father, Maher, asserts that the boy has down syndrome and does not speak <p>The teacher said that Mohammad kept saying 'Allah' and 'boom' but his father, Maher, asserts that the boy has down syndrome and does not speak</p> 'This is so stupid, it's discrimination. Actually, it's not implied discrimination, it's actual discrimination,' the father (pictured) said <p>'This is so stupid, it's discrimination. Actually, it's not implied discrimination, it's actual discrimination,' the father (pictured) said</p> <p>'The last three to four weeks have been the hardest of my life,' said Maher.</p> <p>'My wife and kids were crying a few days ago and I told them everything is fine.'</p> <p>The Pearland Police Department did tell FOX26 that an investigation took place but found that there was no need for police involvement.</p> <p>Child Protective Services is still conducting their investigation.</p> <p>Due to privacy laws, the Pearland Independent School District has not released any information pertinent to either the student or the personnel, according to a spokesperson.</p> The phone call placed by the teacher prompted both the police and Child Protective Services to launch investigations into the Suleiman family <p>The phone call placed by the teacher prompted both the police and Child Protective Services to launch investigations into the Suleiman family</p>	Substitute teacher calls police on Muslim boy with Down syndrome, 6, claiming he's a TERRORIST who keeps saying 'Allah' and 'Boom' - even though his father insists he can't speak	false	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5138635/Teacher-calls-police-Muslim-boy-6-syndrome.html	2017-12-02
<p>Trump better with press than Obama, mainstream reporter says</p> <p>Kit Daniels <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/ny-times-reporter-admits-trump-more-open-to-press-than-obama.html" type="external">Prison Planet.com</a></p> <p><a type="internal">President Trump</a> is more accessible to the media than his predecessor, a <a type="internal">New York Times</a> reporter admitted.</p> <a href="https://hw.prisonplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/042517trumppress-e1493141547530.jpg" type="external" /> Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images <p>Compared to former President Obama, Trump is better at giving news conferences and reaching out to individual reporters, the Times Glenn Thrush said.</p> <p>I do want to give Trump credit on things, Thrush <a href="http://the1a.org/shows/2017-04-24/a-front-row-seat-to-spin" type="external">stated</a> during a media panel discussion on Monday. I think one of the things that I think hes doing better than <a type="internal">Barack Obama</a> are these press conferences and his outreach to individual reporters, even for organizations, like my own, that he criticizes.</p> <p>When Obama had press conferences, he had a single piece of white paper and he had six or seven organizations that he had preselected to call upon, and a lot of them were pretty favorable to him, too.</p> <p>Thrust added that Trump was more democratic in comparison by taking questions from a variety of reporters without pre-selecting them, including those from outlets who routinely attack him.</p> <p>As <a href="https://www.infowars.com/secret-service-forces-press-off-street-while-allowing-pro-amnesty-activists-to-stay/" type="external">I reported in 2014</a>, journalists routinely criticized the Obama administration for what they characterized as the worst press access theyve experiences in decades.</p> <p>Once we lose access, well never get it back, the Associated Presss chief <a type="internal">White House</a> photographer, Charles Dharapak, warned colleagues during a <a href="http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/243894/aps-white-house-staff-press-losing-presidential-access-as-obama-officials-close-doors/" type="external">2014 Newspaper Association of America conference</a>.</p> <p>And the Poynter Institutes Kenny Irby said Obamas chief photographer Pete Souza was <a href="http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/videos-with-visionaries-who-visit-poynter/233137/poyntervision-white-house-photo-practices-break-promise-of-open-government/" type="external">more of a propagandist than a real photojournalist</a> because his job was to make Obama look good, make the president look presidential.</p> <p>And Souza enjoyed access to the president mainstream photojournalists didnt have until Trump took office.</p> <p>To sum it up, <a type="internal">the mainstream media</a> is like a beaten lover who keeps coming back to an abusive relationship: they fawn over Obama despite his war against press freedom while simultaneously attacking Trump despite his clear generosity to the press.</p> <p>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RealKitDaniels" type="external">https://www.facebook.com/RealKitDaniels</a></p> <p>View the original article at <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/ny-times-reporter-admits-trump-more-open-to-press-than-obama.html" type="external">www.prisonplanet.com</a></p>	NY Times Reporter Admits Trump More Open to Press Than Obama	false	http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2017/04/ny-times-reporter-admits-trump-more-open-to-press-than-obama/	2017-04-25
<p>Barack Obama has shortened the sentence of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, She will be released on May 17, instead of remaining in military custody until 2045 as originally sentenced.</p>	Obama Commutes Sentence Of Chelsea Manning	true	http://www.disclose.tv/news/obama_commutes_sentence_of_chelsea_manning/137468	2017-01-18
<p>WASHINGTON — Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can’t use it.</p> <p>Wilson <a href="http://Ex-CIA agent wants Trump off Twitter" type="external">launched the fundraiser last week</a>, tweeting: “If @Twitter executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. #BuyTwitter #BanTrump.” The <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/buytwitter" type="external">GoFundMe page for the fundraiser</a> says Trump’s tweets “damage the country and put people in harm’s way.”</p> <p>As of Wednesday morning, she had raised less than $6,000 of the billion-dollar goal.</p> <p>White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calls the fundraiser a “ridiculous attempt” to shut down the president’s First Amendment rights.</p> <p>Wilson’s identity as a CIA operative was leaked by an official in former President George W. Bush’s administration in 2003. She left the agency in 2005.</p> <q> <p>If <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter" type="external">@Twitter</a> executives won’t shut down Trump’s violence and hate, then it’s up to us. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BuyTwitter?src=hash" type="external">#BuyTwitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BanTrump?src=hash" type="external">#BanTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/HhbaHSluTx" type="external">https://t.co/HhbaHSluTx</a></p>— Valerie Plame Wilson (@ValeriePlame) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValeriePlame/status/898610808527011840" type="external">August 18, 2017</a> </q>	Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Donald Trump off	false	http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/2017/08/23/former-cia-agent-wants-to-buy-twitter-to-kick-donald-trump-off	2017-08-23
<p>Gov. Pat McCrory Sunday called the weekend firebombing of a North Carolina Republican headquarters “an attack on our democracy,” while one GOP official called it an act of “political terrorism.”</p> <p>In a tweet, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blamed “Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina.”</p> <p>Hillsborough police said somebody threw a bottle of flammable liquid through the window of Orange County’s GOP headquarters, setting campaign signs, supplies and furniture ablaze before burning itself out.</p> <p>A swastika and “Nazi Republicans get out of town or else” were spray painted on the side of an adjacent building. No damage estimates were available.</p> Latest news by email <p>The afternoon's latest local news</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p>“The firebombing of a local political headquarters in Orange County is clearly an attack on our democracy,” McCrory said in a statement. “Violence has no place in our society – but especially in our elections. … I will use every resource as governor to assist local authorities in this investigation.”</p> <p>Hillsborough <a href="https://www.hillsboroughnc.gov/news-releases/2016/10/16/10039/orange-county-republican-party-headquarters-vandalized/" type="external">Mayor Tom Stevens said</a>, “This highly disturbing act goes far beyond vandalizing property; it willfully threatens our community’s safety … and its hateful message undermines decency, respect and integrity in civic participation.”</p> <p>Hillsborough police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were continuing to investigate. The incident took place in Orange County, home of the University of North Carolina in nearby Chapel Hill.</p> <p>The county is overwhelmingly Democratic. Democrats and independents outnumber Republicans 5-1.</p> <q> <p>ALL SAFE IN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. With you all the way, will never forget. Now we have to win. Proud of you all! <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP" type="external">@NCGOP</a></p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/787783828358258688" type="external">October 16, 2016</a> </q> <q> <p>Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP" type="external">@NCGOP</a></p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/787782613633208320" type="external">October 16, 2016</a> </q> <q> <p>Thank you Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" type="external">@realDonaldTrump</a>. We will not be silenced nor suppressed by this evil act. We will pray for those who seek to harm us.</p>— NCGOP (@NCGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP/status/787787573192171520" type="external">October 16, 2016</a> </q> <p>While Democrats condemned the bombing, Trump tweeted: “Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP.”</p> <p>But Clinton’s campaign tweeted, “The attack on the Orange County HQ @NCGOP office is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe.”</p> <p>The North Carolina Republican Party responded, “Thank you for your thoughts &amp; prayers, Sec. @HillaryClinton.” Later, the party responded to Trump, “Thank you Mr. @realDonaldTrump. We will not be silenced nor suppressed by this evil act. We will pray for those who seek to harm us.”</p> <q> <p>The attack on the Orange County HQ <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP" type="external">@NCGOP</a> office is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe.</p>— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/787763497308418052" type="external">October 16, 2016</a> </q> <q> <p>Thank you for your thoughts &amp; prayers, Sec. <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton" type="external">@HillaryClinton</a>.</p>— NCGOP (@NCGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP/status/787765546909569024" type="external">October 16, 2016</a> </q> <p>North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Patsy Keever called the bombing “outrageous.”</p> <p>“The North Carolina Democratic Party strongly condemns this attack,” she said. “Violence has no place in our political system. … Our deepest sympathies are with everyone at the North Carolina Republican Party.”</p> <p>Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper tweeted, “Violence has no place in our democracy and can not be tolerated. The culprits must be caught and brought to justice.”</p> <p>Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the state GOP, called the bombing “political terrorism.”</p> <p>“The office itself is a total loss,” he said. “The only thing important to us is that nobody was killed, and they very well could have been.”</p> <p>Later, Woodhouse said, “Whether you are Republican, Democrat or Independent, all Americans should be outraged by this hate-filled and violent attack against our democracy. … Everyone in this country should be free to express their political viewpoints without fear for their own safety.”</p> <p>The flaming bottle, which Woodhouse described as a significant Molotov cocktail, and bomb, was thrown through a window that bore the words “Freedom spoken here.”</p> <p>“This is a horrific, horrific act of political terrorism, one that we will not succumb to and one that we will answer,” he said. “When people try to stifle freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, you must come back with more speech and aggressively defend your rights.”</p> <p>Woodhouse also mentioned the graffiti that said “Nazi Republicans leave town or else.”</p> <p>“Or else what? That is what we all wonder, or else what,” he said. “Because we’re not going anywhere.”</p> <p>Woodhouse said a van had already been brought in from Durham, and campaigners would go back to work in the heavily Democratic county.</p> <p>Volunteer Bob Randall was there to clean up Sunday. He said he believes that the bombing was an act of political terrorism and that it would get people angry and motivated to vote Republican.</p> <p>“The idea is to intimidate us, to make us crawl back in the shadows,” he said. “But I think it’s going to backfire on them.”</p> <p>The incident comes barely three weeks before an election marked by heightened tensions and passion on both sides.</p> <p>On Sunday the Bangor Daily News reported that about 20 cars were vandalized with spray paint outside a Saturday rally for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.</p> <p>Earlier this year violence broke out with protesters at a Trump rally in Chicago. And one protester was sucker-punched at a Trump rally in Fayetteville.</p> <p>“You hope (the firebombing) is an isolated incident,” said Ferrel Guillory, a political analyst at UNC Chapel Hill. “It always happens that toward the end of the campaign, emotions get both frayed and intensified.”</p> <p>The Rev. William J. Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, condemned the act. Barber told the Associated Press, “While vigorous debate on issues is acceptable, we in the NAACP denounce any kind of violence that is perpetrated toward our citizens or any political party.”</p> <p>Woodhouse said he’s sending an advisory to county Republican offices across the state warning them to take extra caution.</p> <p>Anyone with information is asked to call the police department’s tip line at 919-732-3975.</p> <p>The (Raleigh) News &amp; Observer’s Chris Cioffi and The Associated Press contributed.</p> <p>Jim Morrill: <a href="" type="external">704-358-5059</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmorrill" type="external">@jimmorrill</a></p>	Republican headquarters in North Carolina firebombed	false	http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/article108633657.html	2016-10-16
<p>Regarding Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, Oct. 7: The Washington Post has the audacity to call out Fox News and the GOP while writing its liberal garbage defending Hillary Clinton and Democrats, who have led this country down a dangerous path of socialist leaning. I know this paper is being led by an ex-Post employee, but please give your readers a break.</p> <p>The Statesman must have an editorial department; why not use them instead of importing this junk.</p> <p>Karl Betar, Meridian</p> Breaking News <p>Be the first to know when big news breaks</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p>	Betar letter: Washington Post	true	http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article108439652.html	2016-10-14
<p>What if Idaho sends a message to the rest of the country that we value and respect everyone, especially women, minorities, veterans and the disabled — those denigrated and disrespected by the Republican candidate for president. Idahoans stand for fairness, civility, kindness and compassion. Let go of your ties to the Republican Party for this election and vote for Hillary Clinton and for all the other Democratic nominees.</p> <p>It’s time to stand for fairness. Voting along party lines just to vote for the party does not make sense in this election. Vote Democratic.</p> <p>Barbara A. Elliott, Boise</p> Breaking News <p>Be the first to know when big news breaks</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p>	Elliott letter: Vote Democrats	true	http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article111942027.html	2016-11-01
<p>Many of you have probably heard Donald Trump’s ignorant comments about NFL players protesting injustices against African Americans by now. But in case you haven’t, we’ll get right to it.</p> <p>On Friday, Trump held a rally in Alabama and gave his true thoughts about the mostly African American NFL players, who take a knee in protest of the mass murders and injustices of Black people by police. Trump then called the players ‘sons of bitches’ while urging the NFL team owners to fire them:</p> <q> <p>Trump wishes NFL owners would tell anthem protesters "get that son of a bitch off the field right now" <a href="https://t.co/gq4EH3lNoY" type="external">pic.twitter.com/gq4EH3lNoY</a></p> <p>— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/911391761070731264" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out, he’s fired. He’s fired!’,” Trump said. “You know, some owner is gonna do that. He’s gonna say, ‘That guy disrespects our flag, he’s fired.’ And that owner, they don’t know it. They don’t know it. They’re friends of mine, many of them. They don’t know it. They’ll be the most popular person, for a week. They’ll be the most popular person in this country.”</p> </q> Diddy’s Response &amp; Call To Action <p>Well, now Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs has taken to social media and declared a virtual war against the racially motivated antics by the president of the United States. Here are the messages Diddy posted in response:</p> <q> <p>@diddy:THE LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED!!!! Time to show them #blackexcellence LETS GO! #teamlove REPRESENT REPRESENT! Repost this to the world</p> </q> <p>Not only did Combs make a plea to the world to spread the message about Trump, he also extended a word of advice for ALL NFL players to take a stand on Sunday:</p> Public Reacts To Trump’s NFL Comments &amp; Calls For NFL Players To #TakeAKnee <p>Many people have taken to social media to call out Trump after his NFL comments and to urge NFL players to ALL take a knee come Sunday:</p> <q> <p>Racism. Police brutality. This is what the NFL protests were about from the start. Not about disrespecting the flag or anthem. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a> <a href="https://t.co/P1KfJJw24S" type="external">pic.twitter.com/P1KfJJw24S</a></p> <p>— The Undefeated (@TheUndefeated) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheUndefeated/status/911682699819208704" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p></p> <q> <p>Remember they tried to take their medals away… <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a> <a href="https://t.co/LJElYVHGSB" type="external">pic.twitter.com/LJElYVHGSB</a></p> <p>— me (@destro1979) <a href="https://twitter.com/destro1979/status/911684016134410241" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p></p> <q> <p>I'M a vet taking a knee. I didn't fight for your right to be a racist who equates white supremacy with military service. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a></p> <p>— R. J. Clark (@Soph_Clydesdale) <a href="https://twitter.com/Soph_Clydesdale/status/911667753341407232" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <q> <p>Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/NFL" type="external">@NFL</a> players,</p> <p>Please <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a> on Sunday.</p> <p>We support your FIRST Amendment right to protest.</p> <p>Sincerely,America</p> <p>— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/911597077821403136" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p></p> <q> <p>If peaceful protests did nothing, the powerful wouldn't try so hard to silence them. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a> <a href="https://t.co/0aONI66gJF" type="external">pic.twitter.com/0aONI66gJF</a></p> <p>— NYCLU (@NYCLU) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCLU/status/911610703525634048" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p></p> <q> <p>Why's it OK for our President to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a> to Vladimir Putin, but not for a Football player to do so in peaceful protest?</p> <p>— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/911666732988743681" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>**</p> <q> <p>If you are still on the fence, remember this: Trump attacked Colin Kaepernick with more conviction than he has NAZIS <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a></p> <p>— The NFL Boycott (@TheNFLBoycott) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNFLBoycott/status/911663033327300609" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> Trump’s Contradictions <p>As is usually the case, Trump has yet again contradicted himself. He’s gone on record defending white supremacists in the media. In 2011 he also tweeted that when citizens burn the American flag its is a “respectful way” to “voice their displeasure.”</p> <q> <p>Well that's interesting, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotard?src=hash" type="external">#dotard</a> is fine burning the flag but not <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeAKnee?src=hash" type="external">#TakeAKnee</a>? Where are the squeals from the 'patriots'? <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" type="external">@realdonaldtrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/4MYRIFqEMK" type="external">pic.twitter.com/4MYRIFqEMK</a></p> <p>— Deep State USMC (@johnpmcneil02) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnpmcneil02/status/911686560382377985" type="external">September 23, 2017</a></p> </q> <p>I wish I could say I was surprised by Trump’s latest racially/culturally/socially biased antics, but unfortunately folks, I am not.</p>	Diddy Makes Urgent Plea To Public After Trump’s Ignorant NFL Protest Speech	true	http://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/diddy-makes-urgent-plea-to-public-after-trumps-ignorant-nfl-protest-speech/	2017-09-23
<p>A lady identified as Monisola (@Monaayy), has taken to the social networking platform to talk down on women who are in the habit of broke-shaming men.</p> <p>There is a mentality in this part of the world which has led to a lot of unrealistic expectations from women who believe it is their entitlement to be taken care of and to be with a wealthy men and as a result of this, they tend to look down on struggling men.</p> <p>The lady who appears to be fed up with this mentality, took to the online platform to share her opinion concerning the issue.</p> <p>She wrote:“I’m sick of broke shaming. It is obnoxious and cruel. To expect a man to be financially buoyant simply because he’s a man is just as offensive as expecting a woman to cook and clean simply because she’s a woman. Not every man has deep pockets .”</p> <p>“If we’re kicking against patriarchal norms then we can’t expect men to be rich because they’re men, especially if you as a woman don’t even have your own money! That’s a disgraceful double standard. If you don’t want the validity of your womanhood to be evaluated based on your domestic prowess, then stop devaluing men for being “broke”.</p> <p>“Everyone is on their personal journey. He’ll get there when he gets there. If you don’t want to date a man without money, fine, you have every right to make that choice. But don’t shame him for his financial status.</p> <p>“That is cruel. Money does not grow on trees. I even see women shaming men for being in the exact same financial position as them and honestly I’m embarrassed. Don’t be hungry please.”</p> <p>The post which went viral on social media, received several reactions from people who seemed to be in agreement with her post.</p> <p>Read the thread in full below;</p> <p>Stay updated with the latest Nigerian news from Information Nigeria</p> Trending Today	Are All Men Supposed To Be Financially Buoyant? Lady Warns Women Who Broke-Shame Men	false	http://www.informationng.com/2018/03/are-all-men-supposed-to-be-financially-buoyant-lady-warns-women-who-broke-shame-men.html	2018-03-07
<p>From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of <a type="internal">Iraq Business News</a>.</p> <p>Iraqi special forces are facing “fierce” resistance as they battle the Islamic State group in southwest Mosul, a commander says.</p>	Video: Iraq Forces meet ‘fierce’ Resistance in SW Mosul	false	http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2017/03/03/video-iraq-forces-meet-fierce-resistance-in-sw-mosul/	2017-03-03
<p>Muslim Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has called on Trump to clarify whether to not Brits travelling to the US will be subject to ideological tests in order to gain entry.</p> <p>Back in August, Trump spoke about introducing “extreme vetting”, which would involve would-be immigrants being questioned on subjects such as their religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights.</p> <p>But his campaign team were not clear on whether this process would apply to the millions of tourists who visit the country each year.</p> <p>Trump did state that if he was elected, those excluded from visiting the country would include people who didn’t believe in the U.S Constitution, support bigotry and hatred, believe Shariah law is more important than US law, or would not “flourish in the country”.</p> Trump spoke about bringing in the vetting process back in August <p>Tulip, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, told the Telegraph: “With the stark reality of the American election now beginning to settle in, Mr Trump needs to clarify immediately whether or not British tourists will have to take these so-called ‘ideological tests’ before being able to continue on their holidays in the US.</p> <p>“Millions of British Muslims will feel feel despair at the possibility of being singled out for this sort of prejudiced scapegoating, which will only encourage division and hatred in society.”</p> <p>Jack Dromey, a shadow Labour business minister, added: “Is Donald Trump really saying that a proud British Muslim mum and dad travelling to America to their daughter’s wedding will have to undergo extreme vetting first?</p> <p>“He needs to clarify whether or not he will treat a million Muslims in Britain as second class citizens, potentially a risk to American security?</p> <p>Tue, October 18, 2016</p> The smartest travel hacks that everyone should know. The best hacks for smart travellers Muslim Labour MP Tulip Saddiq is now calling on Trump to clarify whether the screenings will happen <p>“It is foolish and irresponsible behaviour which can only feed fundamentalism.”</p> <p>Those planning to travel to the US soon may find <a type="internal">immigration changes will have passengers speeding through customs</a>.</p> <p>Anyone who has travelled to the US will know the queues in the airport for their passports to be inspected are long.</p> <p>It is the last thing people want to be doing after a long-haul flight and a dose of jet lag.</p> If it does come into force, immigrants would have to believe in US law, not Shariah law <p>But now, travellers will find this process has just got a lot faster.</p> <p>The Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to expands pre-clearance programme.</p> <p>The pre-clearance programme will see passengers going through the immigration and customs inspection before they board the flight to the US.</p> <p>This in turn will mean that once they arrive, they can move swiftly on to collect their baggage.</p>	ESTA warning: Brits to undergo ‘extreme vetting’ in the US following Trump election	false	http://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/731602/vetting-process-travelling-to-america-donald-trump-president-election	2016-11-14
<p>E-mail comments, 40 words or fewer, to opline@wichitaeagle.com</p> <p>Closing off most of the downtown roads because of a marathon has got to stop. Run elsewhere and do not bother the people going to work on Saturday or Sunday morning.</p> <p>Central and Oliver has plenty of space available. We need a Dollar Tree in this area, please.</p> Today's top news by email <p>The local news you need to start your day</p> <p>Recaptcha requires verification.</p> <p>protected by reCAPTCHA</p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" type="external">Privacy</a> - <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" type="external">Terms</a></p> <p>Stop playing the national anthem at all sporting events. This whole thing is nothing more than government mandated horse-hockey.</p> <p>Nancy Pelosi willing to shut down the entire government over illegal aliens is selfish and idiotic.</p> <p>Every time President Trump does not have his hand over his heart and paying attention to the flag when the national anthem is played, I expect the media to make that picture front page. This also applies to VP Pence.</p> <p>(School funding) isn’t about performance and test scores. It’s about poor schools having the same access to resources as the rich schools.</p> <p>Regarding Kansas school funding, the Kansas Supreme Court should stay in its own lane.</p> <p>Fifty-nine murders in Las Vegas is a tragedy, but 530 murders in Chicago so far this year and the liberals never talk about that. I wonder why.</p> <p>New theory suggests that the Las Vegas gunman didn’t act along but was assisted by 52 U.S. senators, 298 U.S. representatives and the NRA.</p> <p>While Trump prayed for the victims of the Las Vegas shooter, Hillary Clinton, with her call for reasonable gun control, also prayed for the protection of possible future victims of mass shooters. Both prayers are necessary.</p> <p>If in fact law enforcement is confident that Paddock acted alone, why continue to spend hundreds of millions to investigate his motive and ultimately arrive at a purely speculative conclusion? Move on.</p> <p>Of course the guy in western Kansas can’t find Americans to work in his area.. Why would they when they can sit on their butts and draw welfare? Take that away and see how fast they go to work.</p> <p>To politicians, corruption is indeed a profitable enterprise.</p> <p>Join the conversation</p> <p>E-mail comments, 40 words or fewer, to opline@wichitaeagle.com.</p>	Opinion Line (Oct. 12)	false	http://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/opinion-line/article178296721.html#storylink=rss	2017-10-12
<p>Geopolitical tensions are mounting after state-run North Korean news media released footage of what appears to be the successful test of a devastating missile dropkick.</p> <p>In newly released footage, North Korean President Kim Jong-Un is seen celebrating as missile dropkick collides feet-first with an ocean target, causing a huge “bump.”</p> <p>The missile dropkick was reportedly launched from the country’s Technical Operations Pad for Thermonuclear and Underwater Reconnaissance Networks of Ballistics Used for Catastrophic Kinetic Launching Exercises, or T.O.P. T.U.R.N.B.U.C.K.L.E.</p> <p>International weaponry experts have long known that North Korea is capable of launching a Powerbomb — perhaps even an Exploder Suplex — but the possibility that the country now has a missile dropkick in its arsenal has caused alarm worldwide and throughout the WWE Universe.</p> <p>U.S. President and WWE Hall of Famer Donald Trump has insisted he has “zero tolerance” for North Korea’s missile dropkick tests and will, if necessary, send Bobby Lashley over to “take care of them” before Trump himself shaves Kim Jong-Un’s head.</p>	Can North Korea Strike U.S. With a Missile Dropkick?	false	http://www.kayfabenews.com/can-north-korea-strike-u-s-missile-dropkick/	2017-07-06
<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —</p> <p>The U.S. government improperly spent $84 million to help plan for a massive project to ship Northern California water to Southern California, a new federal audit said.</p> <p>Federal officials gave $84 million to help finance the water districts' planning, backed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, to build two giant water tunnels to re-engineer the state's water system, according to the audit by the inspector general's office of the U.S. Interior Department obtained by The Associated Press.</p> <p>By California law and by an agreement by the water districts, California water districts and not federal taxpayers are supposed to bear the costs of the $16 billion project, the audit said.</p> <p>The proposed tunnels are part of Brown's decadeslong push for a project that would more readily carry water from green Northern California south, mainly for use by cities and farms in central and Southern California. Voters rejected an early version of the proposal in a statewide vote in the 1980s.</p> <p>California water districts are making final decisions on whether to go ahead with the controversial project.</p> <p>The inspector general says federal authorities did not fully disclose to Congress or others that it was covering much of the cost of the project's planning.</p> <p>The actions by the Bureau of Reclamation, which is part of the Interior Department, mean that federal taxpayers paid a third of the cost of the project's planning up to 2016, the audit said.</p> <p>Central Valley water districts that were supposed to pay 50 percent of the tunnels' planning costs contributed only 18 percent, the audit found.</p> <p>California officials, meanwhile, have consistently said no taxpayer money was being spent on the project.</p> <p>Asked if auditors wanted contractors to repay the money, Interior spokeswoman Nancy DiPaolo said, "We certainly hope so." That decision was up to California, she said.</p> <p>Thomas Birmingham, general manager of the sprawling Central Valley rural water district Westlands, which received one of the largest shares from the government, said he knew of nothing about the arrangement that was "inconsistent with either state or federal law."</p> <p>"The state was aware of it," Birmingham said of the federal payments. "No one indicated this was somehow a violation of the letter or spirit of the agreement" guiding the costs of the project.</p> <p>Birmingham said water districts would be responsible for reimbursing the federal money if the project went forward and benefited those districts.</p> <p>Spokespeople for the Bureau of Reclamation, Brown's office and the state Department of Water Resources either had no immediate comment Friday or did not respond to requests for comment.</p> <p>The audit's findings were "appalling," said Doug Obegi of the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group, which has opposed the project on the grounds that it would speed up the extinction of several endangered native species.</p> <p>"The public is paying for what a private party is supposed to pay for," Obegi said. "That is taking the public's money, and that's not OK."</p> <p>A former lobbyist for Westlands, David Bernhardt, has been a top official in the Interior Department under the George W. Bush administration and again under Trump. Critics long have said Westlands has benefited from its ties to the federal agency, which the water district and Interior deny.</p> <p>"I wish I were surprised to learn that the Westlands Water District colluded with the Interior Department to hide millions of dollars in unauthorized payments from Congress, but this is typical of the longstanding and incestuous relationship between the largest irrigation district in the country and its federal patrons," said U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, a California Democrat.</p>	Audit: $84M in taxpayer funds improperly used for Delta tunnels	false	http://www.kcra.com/article/audit-dollar84m-in-taxpayer-funds-improperly-used-for-delta-tunnels/12199312	2017-09-08
<p>JOHNSTON, Iowa —</p> <p>An Iowa woman faces multiple charges after police said she left her four children home alone while taking a trip to Europe.</p> <p>Erin Lee Macke, 30, of Johnston, is charged with four counts of child endangerment – substantial risk, and one count of transfer of pistol or revolver to a person under 21.</p> <p>Johnston police Lt. Tyler Tompkins told KCCI that Macke left her children ages 12, 12, 7 and 6 alone at home Sept. 20 while she traveled to Germany.</p> <p>Tompkins said the children were left alone for 24 hours before the police department and Iowa Department of Human Services received a tip and visited the children.</p> <p>The children told police, “Mom left them and left the country,” police said.</p> <p>Tompkins told KCCI that police contacted Macke Sept. 21 and that Macke told officers she planned to be in Germany until Oct. 1.</p> <p>"All of her sitter options fell through, and she left the kids in the care of the two 12-year-olds," Tompkins said.</p> <p>He admitted that the case is well out of the ordinary.</p> <p>“I’ve never heard of anything like this before,” Tompkins said. “We have situations where parents go next door or parents may go out for the night, and while that’s not advisable either depending on the age of the children, obviously leaving the country is a totally different situation. This, where a parent has left the country and left the kids home alone, I’ve never heard of it before.”</p> <p>Authorities said they convinced Macke to return to the United States before Oct. 1. She arrived Wednesday evening and was arrested Thursday morning.</p> <p>Police said the 12-year-old children are staying with family and the seven- and six-year-old children are with their father.</p> <p>Macke is charged with one count of transfer of pistol or revolver to a person under 21 because there was a firearm within reach of the children in the home, according to police.</p>	Police: Mom leaves 4 young kids home alone, goes on European vacation	false	http://www.kcra.com/article/mother-accused-of-leaving-children-home-alone-during-european-trip/12504688	2017-09-29
<p>BERKELEY, Calif. (KCRA) —</p> <p>Several fights broke out during largely-peaceful protests in Berkeley Sunday afternoon when about 4,000 people converged on the city, police said.</p> <p>Thirteen people who ranged in ages from 20 to 47 years old, were arrested for "various violations” including assault with a deadly weapon and felony assault during the events, <a href="https://local.nixle.com/alert/6128931/" type="external">Berkeley police said.</a></p> <p>Of the people arrested during the protests, several were wearing masks while others were connected to assaults. Two men were arrested after exchanging blows. The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Berkeley-prepares-for-demonstrations-12003490.php" type="external">SFGate reported they</a> were quickly swept up by officers inside Civic Center Park.</p> <p>Police detained Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson at the protests. The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Berkeley-prepares-for-demonstrations-12003490.php" type="external">SFGate reported</a> he was handcuffed after being chased by a mob of demonstrators who took swings at him and pepper sprayed him. Police said Gibson was actually "rescued" and was not arrested or charged.</p> <p>The crowd began to diminish around 3:30 p.m., six hours after a march led to the protests. The event was one of several rallies that had been called for Sunday in Berkeley, <a type="internal">a day after a controversial freedom rally planned by Gibson in San Francisco fizzled</a> amid throngs of counterprotesters.</p> <p>Hundreds of people gathered on the UC Berkeley campus around 10 a.m. Sunday. They then marched to Civic Center Park, where police had set up barricades and secured the area with bomb sniffing dogs.</p> <p>The march was part of the Bay Area Rally Against Hate Rally.</p> <p>In a statement early Sunday, the group said "we fully intend to move forward with (the Rally Against Hate)" on the campus despite calls by the university police department for people to stay away for safety reasons.</p> <p>The rally was held in response to the planned right-wing protest "No To Marxism in America." However, organizer Amber Cummings canceled the protest on Friday, saying Berkeley officials and left-wing extremists made it impossible to hold the event and she would be the sole attendee.</p> <p>Despite the cancellation, hundreds of ring-wing protesters showed up to the park.</p> <p>Around 1 p.m., police reported the crowd had grown to several thousand.</p> <p>A skirmish broke out between several dozen left-wing demonstrators and a handful of right-wing supporters.</p> <p>The skirmish was tense but ended quickly.</p> <p>The left-wing protesters surrounded the small number of right-wing supporters, then shouted at them and pushed them. The right-wing protesters sought protection from police and were escorted away.</p> <p>Before the unpermitted events, Berkeley police put into place several rules in response the protests, stating, "To ensure the peaceful expression of free speech, the City of Berkeley will be prohibiting sticks, pipes, poles and anything else that can be used for a 'riot' at Civic Center Park."</p> <p>Other banned items include explosives, pepper spray, axes, dogs (except for service animals), eggs, torches and more.</p> <p>Police also said anything that "covers or partially covers the face and shields the wearer's face from view, or partially from view, is prohibited."</p> <p>However, protesters with an anarchist group arrived at the park wearing masks and hoods that covered their faces.</p> <p>The group of more than 100 hooded protesters, with shields emblazoned with the words "no hate" and waving a flag identifying themselves as anarchist, broke through police lines, avoiding security checks by officers to take away possible weapons. Then the group blended in with the rest of the crowd.</p> <p>The group pushed their way past police barricades and into Civic Center Park. They assaulted at least five people by punching and kicking them. Gibson was one of the people assaulted by the group.</p> <p>Police broke up the fights, using what appeared to be a smoke grenade to stop one scuffle. The three people who were attacked ran behind police lines to escape.</p> <p>Then around 2:30 p.m., more than 1,000 people left the park and began marching north Martin Luther King Way.</p> <p>An hour later, the crowd had diminished and many roads reopened.</p> <p>----</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this story.</p>	10 arrested as clashes break out during Berkeley protests	false	http://www.kcra.com/article/officers-make-arrests-as-clashes-break-out-during-berkeley-protests/12102667	2017-08-28
<p>BERKELEY, Calif. (KCRA) —</p> <p>Several fights broke out during largely-peaceful protests in Berkeley Sunday afternoon when about 4,000 people converged on the city, police said.</p> <p>Thirteen people who ranged in ages from 20 to 47 years old, were arrested for "various violations” including assault with a deadly weapon and felony assault during the events, <a href="https://local.nixle.com/alert/6128931/" type="external">Berkeley police said.</a></p> <p>Of the people arrested during the protests, several were wearing masks while others were connected to assaults. Two men were arrested after exchanging blows. The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Berkeley-prepares-for-demonstrations-12003490.php" type="external">SFGate reported they</a> were quickly swept up by officers inside Civic Center Park.</p> <p>Police detained Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson at the protests. The <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Berkeley-prepares-for-demonstrations-12003490.php" type="external">SFGate reported</a> he was handcuffed after being chased by a mob of demonstrators who took swings at him and pepper sprayed him. Police said Gibson was actually "rescued" and was not arrested or charged.</p> <p>The crowd began to diminish around 3:30 p.m., six hours after a march led to the protests. The event was one of several rallies that had been called for Sunday in Berkeley, <a type="internal">a day after a controversial freedom rally planned by Gibson in San Francisco fizzled</a> amid throngs of counterprotesters.</p> <p>Hundreds of people gathered on the UC Berkeley campus around 10 a.m. Sunday. They then marched to Civic Center Park, where police had set up barricades and secured the area with bomb sniffing dogs.</p> <p>The march was part of the Bay Area Rally Against Hate Rally.</p> <p>In a statement early Sunday, the group said "we fully intend to move forward with (the Rally Against Hate)" on the campus despite calls by the university police department for people to stay away for safety reasons.</p> <p>The rally was held in response to the planned right-wing protest "No To Marxism in America." However, organizer Amber Cummings canceled the protest on Friday, saying Berkeley officials and left-wing extremists made it impossible to hold the event and she would be the sole attendee.</p> <p>Despite the cancellation, hundreds of ring-wing protesters showed up to the park.</p> <p>Around 1 p.m., police reported the crowd had grown to several thousand.</p> <p>A skirmish broke out between several dozen left-wing demonstrators and a handful of right-wing supporters.</p> <p>The skirmish was tense but ended quickly.</p> <p>The left-wing protesters surrounded the small number of right-wing supporters, then shouted at them and pushed them. The right-wing protesters sought protection from police and were escorted away.</p> <p>Before the unpermitted events, Berkeley police put into place several rules in response the protests, stating, "To ensure the peaceful expression of free speech, the City of Berkeley will be prohibiting sticks, pipes, poles and anything else that can be used for a 'riot' at Civic Center Park."</p> <p>Other banned items include explosives, pepper spray, axes, dogs (except for service animals), eggs, torches and more.</p> <p>Police also said anything that "covers or partially covers the face and shields the wearer's face from view, or partially from view, is prohibited."</p> <p>However, protesters with an anarchist group arrived at the park wearing masks and hoods that covered their faces.</p> <p>The group of more than 100 hooded protesters, with shields emblazoned with the words "no hate" and waving a flag identifying themselves as anarchist, broke through police lines, avoiding security checks by officers to take away possible weapons. Then the group blended in with the rest of the crowd.</p> <p>The group pushed their way past police barricades and into Civic Center Park. They assaulted at least five people by punching and kicking them. Gibson was one of the people assaulted by the group.</p> <p>Police broke up the fights, using what appeared to be a smoke grenade to stop one scuffle. The three people who were attacked ran behind police lines to escape.</p> <p>Then around 2:30 p.m., more than 1,000 people left the park and began marching north Martin Luther King Way.</p> <p>An hour later, the crowd had diminished and many roads reopened.</p> <p>----</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this story.</p>	At least 10 arrested as clashes break out during Berkeley protests	false	http://www.kcra.com/article/police-arrest-protesters-as-clashes-break-out-during-berkeley-protests/12102667	2017-08-28
<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —</p> <p>California is now one step closer to becoming sanctuary state.</p> <p>The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 54 on Wednesday along party lines -- with eight Democrats voting in favor and three Republicans opposed.</p> <p>Under the proposed bill, ICE agents would be prohibited from entering county jails unless they have a warrant.</p> <p>Get the full story in the video above.</p>	Why California is closer to becoming a sanctuary state	false	http://www.kcra.com/article/why-california-is-closer-to-becoming-a-sanctuary-state/10265324	2017-07-06
<p>The FBI is advising people to hang up if they receive a call from a woman screaming for help.</p> <p>A decades-old <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/virtual-kidnapping" type="external">virtual kidnapping scam is placing more U.S. residents at risk of becoming potential victims</a>, the FBI warned on its website.</p> <p>The scheme takes many forms, but basically callers trick victims into paying ransoms to free family or friends who have been “kidnapped.” The virtual abductors coerce victims to pay a ransom before victims can find out that no one has been kidnapped.</p> <p>The FBI had been tracking virtual kidnapping calls primarily from prisons in Mexico between 2013 and 2015. The callers targeted individuals who spoke Spanish, the FBI said. Most of the victims were from the Los Angeles and Houston areas.</p> <p>The FBI issued the warning because kidnappers have widened their pool of potential victims by no longer targeting only specific individuals and Spanish speakers. The callers also are cold-calling numbers in various cities.</p> <p>In a recent investigation, the FBI found that more than 80 people have fallen victim to the new tactics in California, Minnesota, Idaho and Texas. Those victims paid more than $87,000 in ransom.</p> <p>An FBI spokeswoman for the Kansas City offices said she was not aware of any instances that have occurred in Kansas or Missouri where the FBI was involved.</p> <p>The scam works this way: The potential victim answers a call and hears a woman screaming, “Help me!” The victim might blurt out a name, like Mary, asking her if she’s OK. At that point, the caller will tell the victim that Mary has been kidnapped and she will be harmed if ransom isn’t paid quickly.</p> <p>The scam is successful when victims don’t know the whereabouts of their loved ones.</p> <p>The scammers typically demand that the ransoms are wired to Mexico. The amount is typically less than $2,000 because of legal restrictions for wiring larger amounts across the border, the FBI said.</p> <p>However, two victims in Houston were coerced to pay larger ransoms by making money drops.</p> <p>A federal grand jury charged a 34-year-old Houston woman in July with 10 counts, including wire fraud and money laundering, for her involvement in the scam. The charges are the first federal indictment in a virtual kidnapping case, the FBI said.</p> <p>Robert A. Cronkleton: <a href="" type="external">816-234-4261</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cronkb" type="external">@cronkb</a></p> <p>How to avoid falling victim</p> <p>If you receive a call from someone demanding ransom for an alleged kidnap victim, the FBI suggests:</p> Hang up the phone. Don’t call out your loved one’s name if you do respond to call. Request to speak with the alleged victim. Ask questions only the alleged victim would know. Listen to the voice of the alleged victim if they do speak. Try to contact the alleged victim on the phone, text or social media. Don’t agree to pay a ransom. <p>If you believe a real kidnapping has taken place, call 911.</p> <p>Source: FBI</p>	If you get a call from a woman screaming for help, hang up, FBI says	false	http://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article179335511.html#storylink=rss	2017-10-17
<p>President Donald Trump is calling on NFL players once again to stand during the national anthem.</p> <p>He tweeted Saturday that players should stand on Sunday, saying they should respect the U.S. flag and country.</p> <p>More than 200 players either knelt or used other means as expressions of unity last weekend. NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said such actions are not a protest against the anthem or the flag.</p> <p>The players knelt last weekend in response to social injustice. Full teams, along with some team owners, linked arms either before or during the anthem. Three teams — Pittsburgh, Seattle and Tennessee — did not take the field until after the anthem.</p> <q> <p>Very important that NFL players STAND tomorrow, and always, for the playing of our National Anthem. Respect our Flag and our Country!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/914255264282480640?ref_src=twsrc^tfw" type="external">September 30, 2017</a> </q> <p>Trump had earlier called on NFL owners to fire players who didn't stand for the anthem.</p> <p>Previously, Trump also said National Football League team owners are "afraid of their players." Earlier this week, he called for action against those who kneel during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.</p> <p>Trump said he began criticizing the players because he has "so many friends that are owners." He added: "I think they are afraid of their players, if you want to know the truth, and I think it's disgraceful."</p> <p>The president spoke in an interview that aired Thursday on "Fox and Friends." He says "most people agree" with him.</p> <p>NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart called the president's statements "inaccurate."</p> <p>"I believe there was a statement our owners are afraid of our players and owners requested intervention by political leaders to kick this off," Lockhart said. "Those statements are not accurate."</p> <p>Trump has spent days attacking players who kneel during the anthem. He insists the NFL should require players to stand. Responding to Trump, hundreds more players have been sitting, kneeling, locking arms or remaining in locker rooms.</p> <q> <p>If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect....</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911654184918880260?ref_src=twsrc^tfw" type="external">September 23, 2017</a> </q> <q> <p>...our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/911655987857281024?ref_src=twsrc^tfw" type="external">September 23, 2017</a> </q> <p>"The owners are clearly united in a sense that the attacks on the game, on the NFL, on the players were unfair and unfounded, and that there was unity among the group," Lockhart said, noting that about two-thirds of the 32 team owners were at league headquarters this week for committee meetings.</p> <p>"I think there was also a sentiment ... that the issues are being obscured and distorted by people with political agendas," Lockhart said. "I think they made it clear they support our players, but also support our country, the national anthem, the flag—all of the things some have suggested we don't."</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>	Ahead of NFL games, Trump again calls on players to stand during anthem	false	http://www.ketv.com/article/ahead-of-nfl-games-for-2nd-weekend-trump-calls-on-players-to-stand-during-anthem/12666178	2017-10-01
<p>SANTA MARIA, Calif. - California is now officially a "sanctuary state" after Governor Brown signed controversial State Senate Bill 54 which limits local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities.</p> <p>SB 54, called the California Values Act, was hard fought in the state legislature on its way to the Governor's desk over the issue of public safety versus protecting people living in California illegally.</p> <p>SB 54 protects jail inmates from being held in custody until immigration agents can come and pick them up regardless of their immigration status.</p> <p>The California State Sheriff's Association strongly opposed SB 54 saying, among other things, it protects so-called non-violent offenders including gang members, drug dealers and sex offenders from deportation.</p> <p>SB 54 also protects illegal immigrants from deportation while at public schools, hospitals and courts.</p> <p>"Today I am very pleased to announce the governor of the great State of California, Governor Jerry Brown, signed Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act", said Democrat Senator Kevin De Leon of Los Angeles who introduced SB 54 earlier this year in response to the Trump Administration's immigration policies, "our President is pursuing biased law enforcement policies based on the principles of white supremacy."</p> <p>In a written statement after signing SB 54 into law Thursday, Governor Brown said the California Values Act "does not prevent or prohibit ICE or the Department of Homeland Security from doing their own work in any way. This protects public safety and ensures that hard working people who contribute to the state are respected."</p> <p>The Trump Administration has been threatening to withhold federal funds from states that declare themselves as sanctuaries.</p> <p>The California Values Act takes effect January 1, 2018.</p>	California becomes sanctuary state	false	http://www.keyt.com/news/california/california-becomes-sanctuary-state/632595863	2017-10-06
<p>NEW YORK (KGUN9-TV) - Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva has been released from police custody following his arrest in New York Tuesday.</p> <p>The Tucson area legislator was part of a group sitting in the street in front of Trump Tower. He was involved in a demonstration protesting President Donald Trump's plans to end DACA; the order from then-President Obama protecting from deportation undocumented people who were brought to the U.S. when they were too young to have decided on their own to come to this country.</p> <p>Grijalva was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct---one for disrupting traffic, one for refusing to disperse. A public information officer for New York Police says the Congressman was fingerprinted and given paperwork instructing him to appear before a judge at a future date.</p> <p>Police arrested ten people in all.</p> <p>Grijalva has been a vocal critic of President Trump and his policies, and a strong advocate for protecting DACA recipients from deportation.</p>	Rep. Grijalva arrested in front of Trump Tower	false	http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/rep-grijalva-arrested-in-front-of-trump-tower	2017-09-19
<p>Donald Trump has been hiding in plain sight. Or not hiding. Seldom, if ever, has an American politician so aggressively acted out and imposed his unfiltered personality on the public, consequences be damned. And yet, the final weeks of the presidential campaign now are wholly centered on the media's shocking revelations about who he really is.</p> <p>"Well, where have you been?" is one glaring question for the media. The other is about how complicit the media has been in covering for him until now.</p> <p>Trump is a thrice-married beauty pageant owner, a compulsive attention seeker and a sexual braggart. The possibility of him not engaging in lewd, loutish, outre and, for a presidential candidate, scandalous behavior is nil. Was no one in the media looking? Did nobody care about the details? Or was it just not possible to believe what was as clear as the noses on our faces? A journalist's job can't be so easy as that. Or, perhaps, it was just a case of not wanting to belabor the obvious: It would hardly seem to advance the discussion to insist that Trump is an oaf, brute, philistine and cad, which is, of course, exactly the shocked — shocked! — point that now repeatedly is being made in the campaign's final days.</p> <p>Or, as the candidate uniquely created and promoted by the media, has he been gamely protected and tolerated through stages of amusement, gratefulness ("It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS," said CBS Corp. chief Leslie Moonves earlier in the cycle, no doubt now regretfully), incredulity and alarm, until we reached the horror stage in September with a sudden leveling of the polls, prompting the media to act in righteous concert?</p> <p>The unavoidable awkwardness, of course, is that so many of the details about Trump's particular sort of sleaziness, so many smoking guns, actually have been in the hands of the media all along.</p> <p>The more or less fatal bullet came from the NBC-owned infotainment show Access Hollywood. Billy Bush, who would become a Today show regular this summer — that is, an employee of the NBC News division of NBCUniversal — was the other party to the tape. He knew! Reports indicate that inside NBC he was talking openly about what he knew since this past August. Still, perhaps this wasn't seen so much as news but as Trump being Trump, as hilarity. Really, does the video reveal anything about Trump that was not previously known? Bush, now losing his Today role, becomes something of a tragic figure in this. In the business of stroking celebrities, he now is reviled for stroking one. Likewise, NBC, ever on the job of the care and maintenance of NBC stars, was no doubt instinctively reluctant to shoot one — one, as it happens, running for president.</p> Billy Bush <p>Part of the rationale about the video's news value, and for why the media should be so righteous about stomping on Trump now, is the seeming singularity of the vulgarity in Trump's own voice. (For those without television or internet, he told Bush, among other things, he "moved" on Bush's Access Hollywood co-anchor Nancy O'Dell "like a bitch" and noted "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. … Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.") To have imagined it, to have intellectually appreciated what it must be, is nothing like actually hearing it.</p> <p>And yet, it turns out his real voice, offering a detailed and nuanced account of his sexual views and habits, was not at all unique. What he said theoretically in private to Bush he has said publicly over and over again with many variations — including agreeing with the description of himself as a sexual predator — to Howard Stern, for 30 years a leading champion of sexual harassment practices.</p> <p>Trump himself — recalling Gary Hart's fatal invitation to reporters to follow him if they didn't believe his claims of virtue — assured Anderson Cooper during the second debate that, in fact, he really didn't do the things he said he did. Voila! Among the accounts to swiftly contradict him was one from a former People reporter, Natasha Stoynoff, assigned to cover Trump and Melania at Mar-a-Lago in 2005 on the occasion of their first wedding anniversary. During the interview, in Stoynoff's telling, Trump sexually assaults her with a sudden kiss and grope. It is pretty much only Trump himself who now points out that the article she wrote based on this interview is a celebratory one. Nobody else, least of all anyone in the media, is saying People published a fraudulent story. It lied: People had firsthand proof the marriage was something other than what it said it was but drooled sycophantically over the couple anyway. The influence of People contributed to creating the celebrity stature of Trump. Now, with no more information than it had then, it wants to take that stature back. Who's responsible for what? Who's less trustworthy here?</p> From left: Trump with actress Arianne Zucker and Bush, who was fired Oct. 17 by NBC. <p>Another aspect of the media rationale for why now and not before involves the recently enshrined journalistic principle that the testimony of one victim brings out supporting testimony of others — and now there's a growing list of Trump grope victims — quite putting aside the fact that when witnesses have the opportunity to compare accounts, that necessarily lessens reliability. While it is wholly believable that Trump systematically mashed a lot of women, it also is as reasonable that the rudeness and grossness he has made no secret of, only now, in the tailoring of a chorus of accounts (lawyers shaping the language of decade-old memories) inflates to a media consensus of sociopathic if not criminal behavior. Indeed, The New York Times, when it previously pursued the issue of Trump's behavior toward women for an article in May, relying on independent accounts, came up with an entirely different tenor of story — "a complex, at times contradictory portrait of a wealthy, well-known and provocative man and the women around him, one that defies simple categorization."</p> <p>Trump, not surprisingly, now that he has been simply categorized as a sex abuser, makes matters worse for himself. By attacking the media — with toothless threats of lawsuits — he fortifies its unity and its certainty. But you can see why he's hurt and confused. For so long the media encouraged him to be Donald Trump. Thirty years of enabling him and encouraging him. And through more than 18 months of campaigning for president, it really seemed like he was going to get away with being who he was. But let no one forget: The media, if it makes you — in this instance with great civic resolve — can break you, too.</p> <p>This story first appeared in the Nov. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, <a href="https://subscribe.hollywoodreporter.com/sub/?p=THR&f=saleb&s=IH1402HR20" type="external">click here to subscribe</a>.</p>	Michael Wolff on Billy Bush and How the Media Wrung Trump Dry Before Toppling Him	true	http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-donald-trump-being-toppled-939176	2016-10-19
<p>TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Attackers have mounted simultaneous gun and suicide bomb assaults on Iran's parliament building and the tomb of the republic's revolutionary founder in Tehran.</p> <p>At least seven people were killed and 35 others injured in the twin assaults, the semi-official Fars agency reported. The attacks were the most audacious</p> <p>State media reported that gunmen stormed the parliament building in Tehran and went on a shooting spree. At least one attacker detonated a suicide bomb. Five people died and at least 25 were injured there, Fars reported.</p> <p>At the same time, a gun and suicide bomb attack targeted the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum on the southern outskirts of the Iranian capital. Two people died and 10 were injured at the shrine, Fars said.</p> <p>A woman was arrested after the attack at the tomb, Fars reported, adding that another attacker has been surrounded by security officers.</p> <p>CNN has not independently verified the number of victims and it was not immediately clear whether the number of dead included the suicide bombers.</p> <p>The attackers were holding a number of hostages inside the highly-fortified parliament building, Press TV reported, as Iranian officials scrambled to establish who was behind the attacks or whether they were coordinated.</p> <p>A picture from semi-official Fars news agency shows a man lowering a young boy from a window of the parliament building onto the street as another man holding a gun watches over them from another window. The man with the gun is reportedly a policeman helping with the evacuation.</p> <p>Attacks of this nature are extremely rare in Iran, particularly in the highly-controlled capital where tourist and government sites are tightly policed.</p> <p>Gun ownership is heavily controlled in Iran, raising speculation that the attackers' guns were smuggled into the country.</p> <p>Symbolic attack</p> <p>Iran's parliament, also called the Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majlis, has 290 members. It has female members and has representatives for religious minorities including Christians, Zoroastrians and Jews.</p> <p>It is currently unclear how the attacker or attackers entered the parliament building, which has multiple security checkpoints.</p> <p>The location of the mausoleum attack is symbolic, targeting the tomb of the Islamic Republic's founder and first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He led the revolution that overthrew the Shah in 1979 and was Iran's leader for 10 years.</p> <p>The mausoleum is located around 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the parliament.</p> <p>Attacks rare</p> <p>Such attacks in Iran are rare, but the country -- with its largely Shiite population -- has been involved in military actions against Sunni terrorist groups such as ISIS, who regard Shiites as apostates.</p> <p>Last year, Iran's government said it thwarted "one of the biggest plots" by terror groups targeting Tehran and other major cities during the month of Ramadan. This year's holy month started almost two weeks ago on May 26.</p> <p>The last major attack in Iran was in 2010 when a Sunni extremist group carried out a suicide attack against a mosque in Sistan-Baluchistan killing 39 people. Kurdish groups have carried out small scale attacks against Iranian security forces in the north-west of the country.</p> <p><a href="javascript:print()" type="external">Print this article</a> <a type="internal">Back to Top</a></p>	Twin assaults on Iran's parliament and shrine rock Tehran	false	http://www.kgun9.com/news/national/twin-assaults-on-irans-parliament-and-shrine-rock-tehran	2017-06-07
<p>Donald Trump is our next president, which means Keith's not going anywhere. Catch every episode of his new GQ show, The Resistance, and then come join the fight.</p> <p>Don't miss Keith Olbermann's new book, Trump Is F-cking Crazy (This Is Not a Joke) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trump-cking-Crazy-This-Joke/dp/0525533869" type="external">Available now on Amazon</a></p> EP. 147 Trump Is Finished EP. 146 The Trump Voters Who’ve Had Enough EP. 145 Guess Who Celebrated Election Night With Trump EP. 144 Trump is Lying About Russia EP. 143 Is This the End… of Trump’s Sanity? EP. 142 Did Trump Spot the Indictment’s Most Damning Phrase? EP. 141 We Have Indictments! Has Christmas Come Early? <p>Keith Olbermann's suits, starting with episode 100, provided by <a href="http://www.talliaorange.com/" type="external">Tallia Orange</a></p>	Watch The Resistance with Keith Olbermann	false	http://www.gq.com/story/watch-the-closer-keith-olbermann	2017-10-30
<p>I disagree with Scott Walker on everything, except this.</p> <p>Scott Walker and I <a type="internal">are rarely on the same side</a> of political issues. He's the Republican union-busting governor of Wisconsin and I'm a bleeding-heart coastal liberal, and yet here we are coming together on one of the most important issues of the day. In some ways, it's almost inspiring for its bipartisanship.</p> <q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/793450901092438017" type="external">https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/793450901092438017</a></p> </q> <p>Scott Walker is absolutely right. If you loved the last eight years with the president who currently has a <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html" type="external">52 percent approval rating</a>, then you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you're happy that gay marriage is legal and that the White House has prioritized protecting the civil rights of marginalized groups, you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you're glad that there are <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2016/10/obamas-numbers-october-2016-update/" type="external">16.5 million fewer uninsured Americans</a> than there were eight years ago, then you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you like that the economy has added over 10 million jobs since Barack Obama took office, you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you like that the unemployment rate is well below historical norms, then you should vote for Hillary Clinton. If you like that Barack Obama is not a xenophobic orange goblin, you should vote for Hillary Clinton.</p> WATCH <a href="https://video.gq.com/watch/upgrade-your-style-this-is-the-decade-you-should-be-looking-to-for-style-inspiration#intcid=recommendations_cne-interlude-gq-popular_fb71474d-ae23-4f41-ad94-2ee0ae6c881a_cral-top1-1" type="external">This is The Decade You Should Be Looking to for Style Inspiration</a> <p>To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href="http://videojs.com/html5-video-support/" type="external">supports HTML5 video</a></p> WATCH This is The Decade You Should Be Looking to for Style Inspiration Share Tweet Email More... EMBED URL&lt;script async src="//player-backend.cnevids.com/script/video/5b7aff716257107e59000004.js?iu=/3379/conde.gq/partner"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; VIDEO URLhttp://video.gq.com/watch/upgrade-your-style-this-is-the-decade-you-should-be-looking-to-for-style-inspiration Our bad! It looks like we're experiencing playback issues. This live video has ended. It will be available to watch shortly. <a href="" type="external">See what else is new</a> Loaded: 0%Progress: 0% MuteVolume 0% Back Caption Options Close Settings Language English Font Size Small Medium Large Position Auto Bottom Top Sample Caption Text0:000:000:00 <p>So, yeah. Again, Scott Walker makes a great point here.</p>	Scott Walker Tweeted a Really Great Point About Hillary Clinton and Obama	true	http://www.gq.com/story/scott-walker-tweeted-a-great-thing-about-hillary-clinton	2016-11-01
<p><a type="internal">Print</a> <a type="internal">Close</a></p> <p>Top Hillary Clinton aides were upset a Muslim man was publicly named as the shooter in a 2015 massacre that left 14 people dead, and a longtime Clinton confidant even expressed regret that the terrorist wasn’t a white man, according to purported emails released by WikiLeaks on Sunday.</p> <p>The emails were part of a trove of messages stolen from the gmail account of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who has had a long association with the Democratic presidential nominee and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The email chain began on Dec. 2, when digital operative Matt Ortega forwarded a tweet from MSNBC host Christopher Hayes that named one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., attack as Sayeed Farook. Consultant Karen Finney forwarded the email to Podesta, commenting, “Damn.”</p> <p>Podesta responded: “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk [sic] was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”</p> <p>Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, gunned down 14 people and injured 22 in a terror attack during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2. The attackers pledged their allegiance to ISIS before dying in a shootout with police later in the day.</p> <p>But Podesta’s written lament of the shooter’s ethnicity underscores a long-running aversion in the Clinton campaign – and many in the Democratic party at large – to associating terrorist acts with any aspect of the Islamic religion.</p> <p>In a 154-page debate prep book that was developed two months after the San Bernardino attacks, and also unearthed in the WikiLeaks document dump, topic 47 is devoted to “Should we call this Islamic terrorism?” Nowhere in the suggested seven-point answer does “Islamic terrorism” make an appearance. Instead, it’s suggested that Clinton call the enemy “radical jihadists.”</p> <p>“Now, of course there are those who twist Islam to justify mass murder,” point three begins. “But we can’t buy into the same narrative that these barbaric, radical jihadists use to recruit new followers. Declaring war on Islam or demonizing the Muslim-American community is not only counter to our values – it plays right into the terrorists’ hands.”</p> <p>Point seven states: “Radical jihadists underestimate us. We won’t turn on each other or turn on our principles. We will keep our country safe and strong, free and tolerant. And we will defeat those who threaten us.”</p> <p>Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made a concerted effort to note that Clinton and President Obama don’t use Trump’s preferred descriptive term, “Radical Islamic terrorism.” Obama held a lengthy press conference earlier this year to specifically address why he refused to link Islam and terrorism. But in the wake of the Orlando nightclub terror attack in June, and amid more Trump prodding, Clinton relented somewhat.</p> <p>“Whether you call it radical jihadism or radical Islamism, I’m happy to say either,” she said at the time. “I think they mean the same thing.”</p> <p>The latest email release was the ninth day this month that emails from Podesta's account were revealed on WikiLeaks. So far, about 12,000 of 50,000 alleged emails have been released.</p> <p>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/16/wikileaks-podesta-lamented-that-muslim-not-white-man-named-as-killer-in-2015-massacre.html</p>	WikiLeaks: Podesta lamented that a Muslim, not a white man, named as killer in 2015 massacre	false	http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/16/wikileaks-podesta-lamented-that-muslim-not-white-man-named-as-killer-in-2015-massacre.print.html	2016-10-16
<p>A Hillary Clinton campaign staffer responded to an interview with a Black Lives Matter activist with one word: “yuck.”</p> <p>Clinton staffers circulated a radio interview in January with one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza. Clinton herself flagged the interview, according to a new batch of hacked emails released by Wikileaks.</p> <p>In an <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5750" type="external">email</a>, Clinton’s research director Tony Carrk asked his team to find the interview because “HRC said there was a segment with a woman from BLM who said HRC/WJC ruined black lives.”</p> <p>Another staffer then sent a transcript of an <a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/alicia-garza-says-no-hillary/" type="external">interview</a> on the New Yorker radio hour with Garza, who said Hillary “shunned and lectured” Black Lives Matter during a “ <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-video" type="external">tense</a>” meeting with the group in August 2015.</p> <p>At the end of the interview Garza said she would not vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election.</p> <p>Sara Solow, a domestic policy adviser to Clinton, responded to the transcript saying, “yuck.”</p>	Clinton staffer on Black Lives Matter founder: 'Yuck'	false	http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/17/clinton-staffer-on-black-lives-matter-founder-yuck.html	2016-10-17
<p>U.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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>She said they were all arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally.</p> <p>The National Immigration Law Center said it believes this was the largest single-workplace raid since George W. Bush was president, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/ice-raids-meatpacking-plant-in-rural-tennessee-more-than-95-immigrants-arrested/2018/04/06/4955a79a-39a6-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html?utm_term=.11cf76bcaeeb" type="external">the Washington Post reported.</a></p> <p>Federal immigration officials did not confirm if it was the largest.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A total of 21 people were arrested after immigration agents raided 7-11 stores nationwide in January.</p> <p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</p>	ICE arrests 97 suspected illegal immigrants at Tennessee meat processing plant	false	http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/06/ice-arrests-97-suspected-illegal-immigrants-at-tennessee-meat-processing-plant.html	2018-04-07
<p>On 'Hannity,' Republican lawmaker from South Carolina says he wants to give John McCain the send-off he deserves.</p>	Hannity: How far will the deep state go to damage Trump?	true	http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/
<p>HUNTINGTON BEACH (FOX 11 / CNS) - New video has emerged showing what happened before the shooting took place that left a man dead in Huntington Beach on Friday.</p> <p>A Huntington Beach police officer fatally shot a suspect outside a 7-Eleven store Friday in a confrontation that was caught on video and posted online.</p> <p>WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES AND CONTENT</p> <p>The shooting occurred about 9:30 a.m. outside the store at 6012 Edinger Ave., where the suspect got into a scuffle with the officer just before the shooting, according to a Huntington Beach Police Department spokeswoman. The suspect later died at a hospital, police said.</p> <p>It happened fast, and like most everything these days, was captured on cell phone video by a bystander. A Huntington Beach Police Officer, in a violent struggle with a man outside a 7-11.</p> <p>The man appears to be a transient, and what spurred their initial interaction is still not clear. After a few seconds of fighting...the two pull away, the man appears to have something in his hand. What it is is not clear.</p> <p>The officer, a few feet away, takes aim with his handgun and fires, once...twice...7 times. The suspect at first takes the shots standing up, then crumbles to the ground.</p> <p>It's quite graphic, quite real, and quite dramatic. In fact, we don't even want to show it on TV it's that violent.</p> <p>The suspect would later die at a hospital and per protocol, the Orange County Sheriff is taking over the investigation.</p> <p>What made this all the more scary was that diagonally across the street is Marina High School. Police ordered it ''locked down'' and immediately cell phones lit up with texts and emails between parents, students, and administrators.</p> <p>There was confusion and near panic among some over reports that there was an active shooter on campus, which there was not. Why? Well, it appears that the shooting happened adjacent to a shopping center called 'Marina Village'.</p> <p>On campus there's an area referred to as ''The Village", so reports of a shooting in ''The Village" or at "The Village'' led to understandable confusion.</p> <p>Yet one of the benefits of social media and that fact that every student has a cell phone, is that the accurate story got out there quickly and students and parents worst fears were calmed within minutes.</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Cali_Funk1/status/911268573170999296" type="external">Cell phone video of the shooting was posted on Twitter</a>, showing the officer firing five shots at the suspect, who stumbles, collapses against a wall of the convenience store, then crumples to the ground.</p>	New video shows struggle in Huntington Beacch officer-involved shooting	false	http://www.foxla.com/news/local-news/hunting-beach-officer-involved-shooting-captured-on-video	2017-09-25
<p>Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on the outrage over the Clinton email investigation.</p> <p>With FBI Director James Comey announcing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal would be reopened, Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft weighs in on the backlash as well as the political fallout as Election Day quickly approaches.</p> <p>“Well, first of all, I’m deeply saddened by what’s happened by the Justice Department,” Ashcroft told the FOX Business Network’s Neil Cavuto.</p> <p>Ashcroft then brought up claims that the Department of Justice blocked the FBI from using many of the investigative tools available to it in its investigation of the Clinton Foundation.</p> <p>“There’s been a pervasive perversion of the Justice Department process over and over again and recent reports like in The Wall Street Journal that suggest that, not only suggest, allege that the Justice Department has denied investigative tools to be used in investigations related to the Clinton Foundation and frankly, the absence of the use of tools that should have been used in the initial investigation of Hillary Clinton.”</p> <p>As a result, Ashcroft explained, “The Justice Department sent the FBI in to investigate the Clinton Foundation with its hands tied behind its back.”</p> <p>The fact that the investigation is being reopened now, so close to the election, was not a surprise to Ashcroft, but the result of stonewalling by Hillary Clinton and her staffers.</p> <p>“This isn’t an October surprise in my judgment, this is the continuity of an issue which had been stonewalled, for which information had been requested which was not fully given and there was an erroneous statement earlier, much to the acclaim of the people who did the stonewalling, that the investigation was over.”</p> <p>According to Ashcroft, it is unfair for the Clinton campaign to blame the FBI for the timing of the announcement when the campaign’s stonewalling is ultimately at fault due to its lack of transparency and delays in providing information requested.</p> <p>“There’s a sense in which it’s a little disingenuous to be complaining about information coming out late when you are the cause of the information coming out late because of a significant stonewalling effort that’s been unfortunately facilitated by the way in which the Attorney General and others have allowed this particular investigation to be conducted.”</p> <p>Ashcroft viewed this investigation as damaging the credibility of the Justice Department he once knew.</p> <p>“This is not the Justice Department that I knew, in which I trusted, which I admired.”</p>	John Ashcroft: This is Not The Justice Department That I Knew	false	http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2016/10/31/john-ashcroft-this-is-not-justice-department-that-knew.html	2016-11-01