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Shep Smith Resigns at Fox

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A Man Who Can Remember Everything

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From August: There is a man in California named Bob Petrella who can remember and recall everything from any day in his life. It’s what is called highly superior autobiographical memory, and there are about MORE

Giuliani’s Mysterious Trip to Vienna

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The day before the arrest of two Ukrainian men, a reporter attempted to schedule an interview with America’s Mayor. A lunchtime date the next day was suggested by Giuliani, noting that he was flying to MORE

Impeachment Updates: 10-11-19

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● At least four national security officials raised alarms about Ukraine policybefore and after Trump call with Ukrainian president. ● White House political appointees overrode career staffers before freezing Ukraine aid. ● Two business associates of Trump personal MORE

Trump Children Take In Millions, Yet Trump Focuses on Bidens

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While Donald Trump laments a $50,000 monthly earning from VP Biden’s son, Hunter, the lines his own children cross while heading the Trump Organization are fudged with ethical questions about their business dealings across the MORE

CNN LBGTQ Town Hall: Senator Warren’s perfect answer to SSM question.

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During the CNN forum on LGBT issues on Thursday, Morgan Cox, the chair of the Human Rights Campaign board of directors, asked Warren how she would react to a supporter who said: “I’m old-fashioned and my faith MORE

The worst movies of the century so far, ranked

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We’re talking hilariously bad. Some movies are so bad, they’re good. These are not those films. These are the lowest-rated flicks — with at least 10 critic reviews — since 2000, according to the movie review MORE

Free Chat Friday, Week 41

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Happy Friday, News Viewers. . . .What a week! (she said, again…..) It’s nearly over, and I just found out it’s been National Newspaper Week all week. While we have a President who’s tried his MORE

‘I don’t know those gentlemen!’ and musings from Trump’s bigly rally

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Just like the original ‘coffee boy ‘George Papadopoulos, Trump doesn’t know coffee boys, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, either; although he’s taken pictures with the thugs ‘gentlemen’ and his son has dined with them. But MORE

NM Rep. Xochitl Torres Small announced support for impeachment inquiry

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Representative Xochitl Torres Small in an op-ed announced her support for formal impeachment inquiry Until today, U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-NM, belonged to a small group of Democrats in the House of Representatives who did MORE

Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians

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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has in the last year become something of a congressional point man for President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Turkey, leading discussions on everything from Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system over the MORE

Not so clean water or air in Pence’s home state

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Two environmental groups say they’ll sue northwest Indiana steel company ArcelorMittal if the government doesn’t make it pay for environmental violations. In August, the company’s Burns Harbor facility discharged excess cyanide and ammonia into the MORE

Stonewalling Congress may be no more effective for Trump than it was for Nixon

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One of Richard Nixon’s lasting gifts to the language was to popularize the American use of “stonewall” as a verb. Discussing whether to allow White House aides to testify before the Senate Watergate committee, Nixon MORE

Economy

Houston Rockets Nike merchandise disappears from China stores

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Houston Rockets sneakers and other merchandise were pulled from several Nike (NKE.N) stores in major Chinese cities amid the furor surrounding a tweet from the team’s general manager in support of anti-government protests in Hong MORE

Giuliani’s goons arrested for violating campaign finance rules

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Two Soviet-born donors to a pro- Trump fundraising committee who helped Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Democrat Joe Biden were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges of violating campaign finance rules and are expected to MORE

Turkish assault on Syria continues

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Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault Thursday, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on towns and villages the length of MORE

Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 10-10-19

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Even Foxbots understand that Trump needs to go: “51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether.” “Overall, by an MORE

Majority Now Want Donald Trump Impeached and Removed From Office: Poll

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An inreasing number of Americans are in favor of seeing President Donald Trump both impeached and removed from office, with five polls in recent days showing a majority of people supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry. MORE

Seth Meyers: “Trump will be so shocked if he reads the Constitution.”

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Seth takes a closer look at the White House threatening to obstruct the impeachment inquiry and refusing to cooperate with subpoenas.

Trump: ‘Why should we help the Kurds? They didn’t help us in Normandy.’

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Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt room, Trump defended his decision to pull US troops out of Syria enabling Turkey to slaughter the Kurds. Quoting some wing nut article that Trump ‘read’ in Towhnhall, he MORE

Trump pressed Rex Tillerson to help Giuliani’s client facing DoJ charges

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Not only has Trump allegedly used the power of the presidency to pressure a foreign country to dig up dirt on a few of his political opponents, Bloomberg reports that Trump also pressured Secretary of MORE

Facebook Ads are Cool with Misinformation from Political Pocketbooks

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Facebook will not remove a Trump ad from its pages, given its new politician “Fake News” green-light policy: Facebook’s updated advertising rules could allow politicians to post ads that contain falsehoods without violating any of MORE

Sometimes, we in the Jewish community have the tendency to see antisemitism where it does not exist

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Source: Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Rees-Mogg pointed to the investor’s record as a financial contributor to anti-Brexit movements – which was seized upon as an echo of antisemitic tropes of the Jewish MORE

Joe Biden calls for Trump’s impeachment

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For the first time, former VP Joe Biden has called for impeaching Trump. “With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself. By obstructing justice, refusing to reply with a congressional inquiry, he’s MORE

Trump asks SCOTUS to end DACA; lies about Obama

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In a series of tweets, Trump asked the Supreme Court to strike down DACA even before the court has heard arguments on “the legality of Trump’s termination of the Obama-era program.” Trump believes that if MORE