An international feel-good story of cross-border and cross-government cooperation has turned into a public relations nightmare for the Russian government, as questions swirl around a large cocaine shipment that found its way into the Russian Embassy in Argentina.
Six suspects …
Continue ReadingThe Georgia State Senate Rules Committee voted to strip a provision out of a broader bill that provided a tax exemption to Delta Airlines, the state’s largest employer. The move came two days after Georgia Lt. Governor Casey Cagle promised …
Continue ReadingWhite House Communications Director Hope Hicks announced her resignation today, it was learned. According to people familiar with the matter, Hicks had been considering leaving the White House for months. She told colleagues that she had accomplished what she …
Continue ReadingAttorney General Jeff Sessions has hit back at President Trump for criticism regarding his lack of investigation into alleged abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice in obtaining FISA warrants to spy on member of the Trump campaign.…
Continue ReadingOfficials from four different countries have discussed ways they could possibly manipulate President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, it was reported yesterday. The discussions centered on taking advantage of complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience the …
Continue ReadingA U.S. District Court Judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration, allowing them to begin construction of a wall along the southern border of the U.S., bypassing environmental statues for its construction. The lawsuit had been brought …
Continue ReadingFederal Express, the worldwide package delivery service, has announced that it will not be severing ties with the National Rifle Association, despite public demands for it to do so. In the wake of the deadly Parkland, FL, school shooting, many …
Continue ReadingLong-time Trump confidant and adviser Roger Stone communicated directly with the cyber-activist website WikiLeaks according to obtained direct messages from the social media platform Twitter. Both Stone and WikiLeaks had denied communicating directly with each other in the past.
As …
Continue ReadingPresidential son-in-law Jared Kushner has had his security clearance level downgraded to Secret level, from Top Secret/SCI-level, the nation’s highest. The downgrade is in accordance with new White House policies regarding personnel who have had their security clearances pending since …
Continue ReadingRepresentative Luis Gutierrez called on the House of Representatives to take up legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought here as young children from deportation, so-called DACA recipients.
“The President still plans to kill …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump has announced his bid for reelection for the Presidency of the United States and has announced that the campaign manager for the bid will be his head of the 2016 campaign’s data operations, Brad Parscale.
The President’s reelection …
Continue ReadingSix suspects were arrested after 860 pounds of cocaine were found in the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. Among those detained were a former Russian diplomatic official and an Argentine police officer. The drugs are said …
Continue ReadingWhite House Communications Director Hope Hicks is scheduled to meet with the House Intelligence Committee today in a closed-door session. The meeting is part of the Committee’s ongoing probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Hicks is a …
Continue ReadingTwo Democratic members of the House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would ban not just the sale of assault weapons, but the “import, manufacture, transfer or possession” of them. The bill, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018, was …
Continue ReadingBrian Entin, a reporter for WSVN News in Miami, Florida, spoke with a seasoned medical first responder who was among the first to arrive on the scene of the Parkland school shooting that took place on February 14.
The responder …
Continue ReadingThe effects of the efforts of Russian operatives sitting at computer terminals half a world away on the 2016 presidential election are still being discovered nearly sixteen months after Election Day. What’s receiving much less attention though are the legal …
Continue ReadingThe NRA has made it clear that they do not back any specific plan to raise the age for individuals wishing to purchase assault rifles from 18 to 21. “The NRA doesn’t back any plan,” spokeswoman Dana Loesch said during …
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