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Free Chat Friday, Week 4
Happy Friday, News Viewers — what a week! Let’s talk about anything and everything, major and minor, funny and serious, angry, happy and sad . . . because it ALL happened this week in the MORE
Articles by Rachel Kennedy
Education
Betsy DeVos compares abortion rights debate to slavery
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos compared the abortion rights debate to the battle to eliminate slavery during remarks at a Colorado Christian University event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night. DeVos, a Christian conservative, discussed the MORE
Economy
Mnuchin says Greta Thunberg can tell us what to do ‘after she goes and studies economics in college’
Key Points: Speaking at a press briefing at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mnuchin was asked whether the world’s largest economy needed to completely and immediately divest from fossil fuels. “Is she the MORE
Impeachment
Senator Marsha Blackburn Criticized for giving Mid-Trial Interview
Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has been accused of breaking Senate rules by giving a live television interview while proceedings for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial were still ongoing. Blackburn spoke to Fox News‘ Laura Ingraham Tuesday MORE
Impeachment
OMB releases trove of Ukraine aid documents to American Oversight
“The documents were released just before midnight, two minutes before the deadline, after American Oversight made a “request for directives and communications that may relate to any effort to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate one of MORE
Impeachment
Lev Parnas asks Attorney General Barr to recuse himself from his case
Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, has sent a letter requesting that Attorney General William Barr recuse himself from the investigation of Parnas and appoint a special prosecutor, MORE
Sports
Another racehorse dies at Santa Anita bringing total to three horses in three days
Santa Anita suffered its third horse death in three days when a freak accident occurred during morning training on Sunday. Tikkun Olam, a 4-year-old gelding, collided with an unidentified other horse while training. The second MORE
Editorials
Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Like Joe Biden, I Once Stuttered, Too. I Dare You to Mock Me.
The retired pilot responds to recent comments from the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on the way the former vice president talks. “As a small boy in Denison, Texas, I remember vividly the anguish of being MORE
Editorials
A Partisan Impeachment, a Profile in Courage, by Mike Pence
Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not necessarily represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. As the U.S. Senate takes up a purely MORE
Editorials
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump
A National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage is raising controversy. A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 3
Word of the Day: Wollemi—an Australian aboriginal word meaning “watch out, look around you”. Why Wollemi, you may ask? Because by some miracle, the Wollemi Pines, the oldest tree species (it’s been around 65 million years) was MORE
Environment
Aussie Firefighters Save World’s Only Groves Of Prehistoric Wollemi Pines
It was a lifesaving mission as dramatic as any in the months-long battle against the wildfires that have torn through the Australian bush. But instead of a race to save humans or animals, a specialized MORE
Politics
Where is Pompeo? “He’s on FOX News. He’s in California. He is Everywhere but Doing His Job.”
AS THE UKRAINE PLOT THICKENS, MIKE POMPEO IS MISSING IN ACTION. When it was revealed that Donald Trump had characterized Masha (Marie) Yovanovitch as “bad news” and, in what felt like a thinly veiled threat, that the former U.S. MORE
Opinion
Mitch McConnell should recuse himself
This afternoon, if all goes according to schedule, all 100 members of the United States Senate will take an oath to “do impartial justice” as jurors in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senate Majority MORE
Impeachment
Robert Hyde surfaces in Parnas Documents as Another Loose Cannon
According to an “incident/investigation” report filed by the Doral, Florida, police department, on May 16, 2019, an officer was dispatched to the Trump National Doral Miami to deal with a “male in distress fearing for MORE
News
CALIFORNIA Elementary school kids doused as jet dumps fuel before LAX emergency landing
An airplane returning to Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday morning dropped jet fuel onto a school playground, dousing several students at Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, officials said. Delta Flight 89 — a MORE
Politics
Trump Says U.S. Troops Stayed In Syria ‘Because I Kept The Oil’
At a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday, President Donald Trump lauded his decision to retain troops in eastern Syria to control oil fields there, despite warnings that such a move could constitute a war crime.The president MORE
Impeachment
Top Senate Republican Tells Trump To Keep Jordan, Nunes Away From Impeachment Trial
The White House is debating whether to include some of Trump’s closest allies in the House to the President’s defense team, including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, J Ratcliffe of Texas and Doug Collins of Georgia, who MORE
Environment
As Philippine Volcano Belches Ash And Lava, Authorities Warn Of New Eruption
The Philippines remained on alert Tuesday as authorities declared a “calamity zone” around Taal Volcano, which began spewing ash and lava over the weekend. They warned of indications that it could be on the cusp MORE
Entertainment
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Oscar Snub Speaks to Hollywood’s Problem with Women
Despite the blowback that the Golden Globes received for its all-male directing nominees, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences followed suit with the Oscar nominations on Monday morning. And five men were nominated for Best MORE
Updates
Trump authorized Soleimani’s killing 7 months ago, with conditions
President Donald Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani seven months ago if Iran’s increased aggression resulted in the death of an American, according to five current and former senior administration officials. The presidential MORE
Politics
Here’s what press secretary Stephanie Grisham says about press briefings
Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has rebuffed a recent CNN opinion piece from 13 former White House press secretaries, foreign service and military officials arguing for the return of daily press briefings. “This is groupthink at MORE
Technology
CES 2020: The big takeaways from tech’s weirdest trade show
Every year, CES takes over Las Vegas, creating a wonderland packed with new tech gadgets and ideas that range from useful to dystopian to bizarre. This year did not disappoint. While there were the usual MORE
Technology
Iranian hackers have been “password spraying” the US grid
In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric MORE
Sports
Serena Williams wins ASB Classic in Auckland; Donates Prize to Australian Fire Relief
Serena Williams has won her first title since becoming a mom. The 38-year-old, who gave birth to daughter Alexis Olympia on September 1, 2017, lifted the trophy at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, MORE