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- Texas woman who mailed Obama explosive gets 10-year sentence
Tuesday - 11/19/2019 - 02:45 AMJust moments after her sobbing denial for her involvement in mailing explosives to former President Barack Obama, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and the acting director of the Social Security agency, a Brookshire, Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Monday, a report said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ron Johnson casts doubt on Vindman testimony, says NSC official fits 'profile' of Never-Trumper
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 07:38 PMSen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., sent a letter on Monday to the ranking Republicans on the House Intelligence and Oversight Committees in which he detailed his account of White House meetings with Senate lawmakers about releasing foreign aid to Ukraine -- and cast doubt on one of the inquiry’s key witnesses just a day before the official’s planned testimony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democrats' make-or-break week of impeachment hearings kicks off, as contradictions surface in testimony
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 09:51 PMThe Trump impeachment inquiry is charging into a crucial week as Americans hear from some of the most important witnesses closest to the White House in back-to-back-to-back live sessions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Impeachment probe draws in Trump’s answers to Mueller
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 01:29 PMDid the president lie?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What is Burisma Holdings? The story behind the scandal-tied Ukraine firm that hired Hunter Biden
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 03:21 PMBurisma Holdings has been thrust into the media limelight as the Democratic-controlled House presses forward with its impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s dealings in Ukraine. But lost in much of the coverage of the dramatic hearings is what this Ukrainian natural gas firm actually does and the controversy it's generated in the past.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Buttigieg websites on ‘Black America’ plans used stock photos of minorities
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 04:09 PMPete Buttigieg’s campaign has scrubbed a photo of a black woman and child from a section of his website devoted to the Democratic presidential candidate’s plan to battle racial inequality.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump says he’ll ‘strongly consider’ Pelosi invite to testify in impeachment hearings
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 09:25 AMPresident Trump said Monday he would “strongly consider” testifying or providing answers in writing as part of the House impeachment inquiry, after Democrats challenged him to appear as part of the probe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Official's testimony on Trump-Ukraine call conflicts with top diplomat's story
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 12:10 PMState Department official David Holmes’ testimony on a newly revealed phone call between President Trump and Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland seems to conflict with that of top diplomat Bill Taylor at last week's lead-off impeachment hearing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bannon says he wanted alleged whistleblower booted from NSC over leak concerns
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 05:19 PMFormer top White House adviser Steve Bannon confirmed in a recent interview that he once tried to have the alleged Ukraine whistleblower booted from the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House over concerns of information leaks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ratcliffe on IG report: Doesn't take 500 pages to say everything was done right
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 11:18 AMRep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said on Sunday that he believes the upcoming Inspector General report on the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign is going to be damning evidence of wrongdoing by FBI and Justice Department officials and could lead to a full-fledged criminal investigation.
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- Justice Department watchdog scheduled to testify on alleged FBI, DOJ surveillance abuses
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 06:46 PMJustice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 11, all but confirming the imminent release of his widely-anticipated report into potential FBI and DOJ surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - George Conway blasts Nikki Haley, says her 'shameless' Trump defense is 'trashy'
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 07:48 PMGeorge Conway ratcheted up his vicious rhetoric towards former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley after she criticized him towards his barrage of attacks towards Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indiana mayor Dennis Tyler arrested by FBI in City Hall corruption probe
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 01:09 PMMuncie Mayor Dennis Tyler--a Democrat in office more than seven years--was arrested Monday by the FBI as part of a sprawling public corruption probe that has snared several officials in his administration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Dems investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller, attorney reveals
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 01:37 PMHouse Democrats have opened an investigation into whether President Trump lied to the Special Counsel’s Office in sworn written answers he provided in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After Florida county becomes '2nd Amendment sanctuary,' others in state want to follow suit
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 03:58 PMA Florida county has become a "sanctuary" for gun owners, who no longer have to fear federal mandates restricting their right to keep and bear arms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden’s South Carolina firewall remains firm, poll suggests
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 04:39 PMA new public opinion survey in South Carolina – the first southern state to vote in the race for the White House - shows former Vice President Joe Biden holding a large lead over his rivals for the Democratic nomination.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Impeachment hearing witness Marie Yovanovitch receives standing ovation at DC jazz club
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 11:54 AMFormer ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, received a standing ovation at a Washington, D.C. jazz club on Sunday evening, following her testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry just two days prior.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AOC tweets in favor of legalizing pot -- day after skeptical Biden says he wants more data
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 05:14 AMFormer vice president and current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continued to separate himself from his fellow party hopefuls regarding legalizing marijuana nationwide, telling a town hall questioner Saturday night he still hasn’t seen enough evidence it is not a gateway drug which prevents him from supporting such legislation, a published report said Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP, Dem reps both wary of upcoming Sondland testimony
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 11:06 AMU.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who met with President Trump several times regarding Ukraine, is scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee this week as part of an ongoing impeachment inquiry, but congressmen from both parties Sunday were hesitant to put much stock behind what he will say.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pelosi warns Trump not to intimidate whistleblower: 'You're in my wheelhouse'
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 12:37 PMHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., gave strict orders to President Trump not to “intimidate” the whistleblower who sparked the House impeachment inquiry into the president – telling Trump that he was in her “wheelhouse” if he attempted to go after the person.
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- DOJ outlines slew of Strzok 'security violations,' says wife learned of affair through unsecured phone
Tuesday - 11/19/2019 - 03:47 AMThe Department of Justice on Monday filed a motion to dismiss Peter Strzok’s lawsuit claiming he was unfairly fired from the FBI due to pressure from President Trump and-- in the process-- was denied his First Amendment Rights and right to due process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No mention of Bidens, Burisma while Ukraine military aid was held up, State official testifies
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 09:23 PMDavid Hale, the State Department’s No. 3 official, testified in a Nov. 6 closed-door deposition that no one in the Trump administration or any "government channel" ever mentioned former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter as a reason for withholding aid from Ukraine, according to a transcript of his remarks released late Monday by House Democrats in their impeachment inquiry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DHS defends policy keeping asylum-seeking migrants at Mexico border
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 10:23 PMAlthough many migrants who made it to the United States to ask for asylum have been kept in limbo at the border of Mexico, the U.S. Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have remained “one of the most effective tools the United States has to address the crisis at the southwest border,” a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman told Fox News on Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Supreme Court temporarily blocks release of Trump tax returns
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 02:06 PMThe Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a subpoena for President Trump’s tax returns.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump administration eases US stance toward Israeli settlements in West Bank
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 03:37 PMSecretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. government will ease its stance on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, in the latest move by the Trump administration to bolster Israel's position and undermine Palestinian claims regarding land sought for a future state.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US Embassy in Israel issues travel warning to Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza after settlement shift
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 05:27 PMThe United States Embassy in Israel has issued a travel warning to Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, cautioning of Palestinian unrest following Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement on Monday that the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Left turns on Obama for challenging calls to ‘tear down the system’
Monday - 11/18/2019 - 10:13 AMFormer President Barack Obama is facing a new wave of criticism from the Democratic Party's left flank after cautioning Democrats about going too radical with their policy proposals -- in the latest sign of a growing rift between the popular 44th president and the party's activist base.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Michigan county seized retiree’s home over $8 debt – now he’s fighting back in state’s top court
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 02:10 PMWhile Uri Rafaeli’s case, which is currently being decided in Michigan’s Supreme Court, is extreme, it is hardly unique as more than 100,000 homeowners in the state have fallen victim to an aggressive property tax statute that legislators in Lansing passed two decades ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump praises Rep. Stefanik after Yovanovitch hearing: ‘A new Republican star is born'
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 10:36 AMPresident Trump praised Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., for her performance at an impeachment hearing Friday, where she asked effective questions of former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and battled with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Moving toward possible 2020 bid, Bloomberg apologizes to minority communities for past policy: ‘I got something important wrong’
Sunday - 11/17/2019 - 12:50 PMFormer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has yet to formally announce whether he will run for president in 2020, but during remarks where he looked to the future before a majority-black church in Brooklyn, he apologized for his controversial “stop and frisk” policy of his that sowed distrust of police in black and Latino communities during his administration.
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