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- Mueller’s focus on WikiLeaks shows he’s ‘laid the foundation’ for Trump collusion case: Ex-White House lawyer
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 11:11 AMSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s emerging focus on Donald Trump’s knowledge of hacked Democratic National Committee emails shows he’s “laid the foundation” for a collusion case against Donald Trump, a former White House lawyer said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ex-Philly mayor takes Jack Kingston to the woodshed over claim Trump White House chaos is perfectly normal
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 11:51 AMDuring a panel discussion on the chaos that has enveloped the White House over the past few days, CNN contributor Jack Kingston tried to make the case that the turmoil President Donald Trump has brought to the Oval Office is nothing out of the ordinary.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Meghan McCain tries to corner House intel Dem about Trump-Russia ‘overhype’ — and it backfires spectacularly
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 12:54 PM“The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Thursday tried to corner House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on what she described as Russia “overhype.” Instead, she got a lesson on the “damning” evidence of Trump campaign collusion—and Congress’ duty to inform the public about R...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - French festival rejects pressure to pull killer rocker from line-up
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:11 PMThe organisers of a music festival in northern France have defied pressure to pull a once-idolised French rocker, who beat his actress girlfriend to death, from their summer line-up. Over 60,000 people have signed a petition demanding that Bertrand Cantat, former frontman of Noir Desir, be removed f...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US man arrested over Donald Trump Jr. white powder threat
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:56 PMA 24-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested and charged on Thursday with sending a threatening message and suspicious white powder to President Donald Trump’s eldest son last month, officials said. The letter was opened at Donald Trump Jr’s New York apartment on February 12.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WATCH LIVE: Sarah Sanders holds White House press briefing after resignation of Hope Hicks
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:04 PMWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is holding a news briefing with reporters on Thursday. The briefing comes one day after Hope Hicks, a close aide of President Donald Trump, announced she was resigning from the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here is what is really happening on NRA TV
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:43 PMAs the National Rifle Association, the most influential gun rights advocacy group in the U.S., comes under pressure from victims’ groups and gun control advocates, internet companies like Amazon, Apple and YouTube are finding themselves uncomfortably close to the center of the controversy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Watch this Fox contributor freak out as Trump sends the Dow plunging with steep new tariffs
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:03 PMPresident Donald Trump unilaterally on Thursday announced extraordinarily steep tariffs on aluminum and steel, causing the markets to tumble. The DOW is currently down about 500 points, the German Steel Association is angered, saying the move violates World Trade Organization rules, and one Fox Busi...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-US attorney rips Trump’s ‘abject humiliation’ of Sessions: He sees the attorney general as ‘his personal lapdog’
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:14 PMHarry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, slammed Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on Jeff Sessions, calling it “despicable” that the president views the attorney general of the United States as “his personal lapdog.” “How sad is it the president uses him as a punc...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Far-right French politician Le Pen charged over grim ISIL photos
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:51 PMFrench authorities filed preliminary charges against far-right politician Marine Le Pen on Thursday for the “distribution of violent images” on social media website Twitter. If convicted, Le Pen …...
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- Anthony Scaramucci goes on all-out media blitz to convince Trump to fire ‘General Jackass’ John Kelly
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 11:28 AMAnthony Scaramucci, who was employed as Trump White House communications director for only eleven days before being fired by current White House chief of staff John Kelly, is once again ramping up his war to get Kelly fired.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- REVEALED: Devin Nunes’ GOP intel members leaked text messages meant to discredit Russia probe
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 12:19 PMSenate Intelligence Committee leaders have accused Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee—led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA)—of leaking private text messages from Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the New York Times reports.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WATCH: South Carolina man buys homeless person a meal at McDonald’s — and the restaurant kicks them both out
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:07 PMA McDonald’s in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is coming under heavy criticism after a viral video showed that it called police to remove a homeless man who was given a free meal by one of its patrons.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In a stunning move, the NRA takes a dig at President Trump
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:14 PMIn a shocking development, the National Rifle Association recently threw a bit of sass President Trump’s way. The president sat in a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers to discuss gun ownership laws following the fatal shooting of 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Park...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Massachusetts cop who opened fire on black ATV driver caught making shocking racist comments online
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:03 PMA Massachusetts State Police trooper who fired his weapon at an off-road vehicle driver during a wild confrontation has a history of posting racist content on an online forum for law enforcement officers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WATCH: Dem lawmaker torches ‘grifter’ Jared Kushner for getting loans after meeting CEOs in the White House
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:11 PMRep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) raked the Trump White House over the coals during a CNN interview on Thursday in which he said the entire administration lacks fundamental ethics. Responding to a question from Wolf Blitzer about the loans that Kushner’s family’s business received from banks short...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 other outrageous spenders in Trump’s cabinet besides Ben Carson
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:48 PMThere are especially bad times for a government agency to spend $31,561 on a table and chairs, the Department of Housing and Urban Development learned after The New York Times reported on Tuesday that it spent as much on a dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson‘s office in late 2017.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sarah Sanders struggles at briefing amid turmoil: Trump has no plans to fire Jeff Sessions ‘that I know of’
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:08 PMWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday struggled to assure Americans that the White House was operating normally after several days of chaotic news stories, including the resignation of Communications Director Hope Hicks and scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump says executing drug dealers could help solve the opioid crisis during rant at White House summit
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:28 PMPresident Donald Trump on Thursday noted that some countries have harsh penalties for dealing illegal drugs during remarks he made at a White House summit on the opioid crisis. He suggested that punishing drug dealers with the death penalty reduced crime.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fearful White House is already prepping for H.R. McMaster’s exit as early as next month
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 04:17 PMPresident Donald Trump has been miffed at Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster as of late and the presumption is that the national security advisor is on his way out. The White House is already preparing for his replacement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- CPAC chief doubles down on racial comments about Michael Steele in combative MSNBC interview
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 11:20 AMThe head of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday doubled down on his criticism of former RNC chief Michael Steele, accusing him of having a lack of grace. MSNBC host Hallie Jackson asked American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp whether CPAC communications director Ian Wa...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Creepy’ and ‘reclusive’ Ohio man burrowed into strangers’ computers and spied on them for years, police say
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 12:39 PMAn Ohio man spent half his life infecting computers with voyeuristic malware that allowed him to spy on strangers online. Federal prosecutors say Phillip Durachinsky, of North Royalton, spread malware cybersecurity analysts called “FruitFly” that gave him control over other unwitting com...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH: Body-cam video shows North Carolina cop restraining black man as his partner beats him for jaywalking
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 12:57 PMIn video obtained by the Citizen Times, a North Carolina black man is seen being held by a police officer while his partner beats him for jaywalking at night. In the video Officer Chris Hickman is shown beating Johnnie Jermaine Rush with punches to the head while Rush was being restrained, and then ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No sign US economy ‘overheating’: Fed Chair Powell
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 01:55 PMThe US economy is showing no signs of overheating, so the job market can continue to tighten without generating troubling inflation, US central bank chief Jerome Powell said Thursday. After his comments highlighting the strengthening economy roiled financial markets on Tuesday amid concerns the Fede...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump to hit China, Europe with steep steel, aluminum ‘tariffs’
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:02 PMDespite fierce opposition from inside the White House, US President Donald Trump announced punishing steel and aluminum tariffs Thursday, teeing up a possible trade war with China and Europe. Trump ended rumor and counter-rumor about his administration’s intent by saying that “next week”...More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Both sides have been getting the gun debate wrong
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:16 PMWe have a gun culture not because of the sanctity of the 2nd Amendment, but because killing, looting, burning, raping, and terrorizing Indians were an American tradition and militias helped carry out these horrors.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Lawmaker who wants to put God in schools is thankful for slavery and believes ‘Jews own everything’
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 02:45 PMDemocratic Florida State Rep. Kimberly Daniels, who is pushing a bill that would put the words “In God We Trust” in Florida public schools, has in the past made a series of controversial statements about slavery and Jews.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Republican controlled Virginia assembly rejects raft of bills to prevent rallies
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:14 PMThe Republican-controlled Virginia General Assembly has rejected every bill brought before it to prevent a recurrence of the white nationalist rally that turned deadly last summer, the Associated Press reported Wednesday....More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- White House staffers are scrambling to find ‘a way out’ of the Trump admin — but nobody wants to hire them
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 03:27 PMThe atmosphere inside President Donald Trump’s White House is darker than ever — and many staffers are trying to finagle exit plans amid a job market that doesn’t want them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US Marine Corps features prominent ‘resistance’ motto in honor of Women’s History Month
Thursday - 03/01/2018 - 04:28 PMIn honor of Women’s History Month, the United States Marine Corps on Thursday featured a prominent feminist phrase on its website—one frequently used in tandem with the anti-Trump “Resistance.” The phrase appears in a video celebrating 100 years of women in the Marine Corps.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share