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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Delivers Address at Party Conference [630am ET/330am PT]

10/02/2019 Community 0

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers the closing address at his party’s conference in Manchester, England. MORE

Oil and Gas Officials Privately Slam Trump Administration Incompetence

10/01/2019 Community 12

At a closed-door meeting this summer, oil and gas industry lawyers criticized the Trump administration’s failure to recruit enough qualified people to secure policy victories that would outlast this presidency, according to a recording of MORE

Trump wanted to shoot immigrants in the legs, a moat with snakes and alligators

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This is not who we are but it was a joke during the Obama administration: Sickeningly enough, Trump wanted to do just that. According to The New York Times, back in March, Trump ‘fumed’ about MORE

Former Fox News Contributor “Clueless” Stacy Dash Arrested for Domestic Abuse!

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According to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Dash, 52, and a man became involved in an argument just before 8 p.m. Deputies said Dash pushed the man and slapped him in the face. Officials said MORE

The Beatles’ Abbey Road Turns 50 Years Old

10/01/2019 Rachel Kennedy 16

The existence of Abbey Road is practically a miracle — when the Beatles emerged from the Let It Be sessions, the group was fraught with tension and on the verge of breaking up. They were arguing not only over music MORE

Runner killed while finishing 50K race in southeast Kansas

10/01/2019 Rachel Kennedy 11

Thomas Stanley, 33, of Andover, was less than a quarter mile (0.4 kilometer) from finishing the FlatRock trail race at the Elk City State Park when he was struck around 2:15 Saturday, said race director MORE

Pompeo: State Dept. officials won’t show up for impeachment depositions

10/01/2019 Community 32

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired a broadside at House Democrats on Tuesday, saying State Department officials scheduled to appear this week before committees conducting the impeachment inquiry would not be made available until “we MORE

Jury convicts ex-police officer Amber Guyger who fatally shot neighbor Botham Jean

10/01/2019 Community 21

Jury convicts ex-police officer Amber Guyger who fatally shot her directly upstairs neighbor Botham Jean, when she mistakenly entered his apartment and fired her firearm, instead of following standard police procedure for her department. Source: MORE

Book Review: THE ECONOMISTS’ HOUR: FALSE PROPHETS, FREE MARKETS, AND THE FRACTURE OF SOCIETY

10/01/2019 Community 3

The title of the book refers to a period that Appelbaum defines as being between 1969 and 2008. For him, this was a time when the policies that economists almost universally endorsed—tax breaks, austerity, deregulation, MORE

US manufacturing survey shows worst reading in a decade

10/01/2019 CrazyEyes 11

A gauge of U.S. manufacturing showed the lowest reading in more than 10 years in September as exports dived amid the escalated trade war. The U.S. manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index from the Institute for Supply MORE

Oldest living president, Jimmy Carter, turns 95

10/01/2019 Ms. G 14

America’s oldest living ex-president in history marked another milestone Tuesday as Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday at his southwest Georgia hometown. If you want to wish Jimmy Carter a Happy Birthday, you can do MORE

New York City bans the term, ‘illegal alien,’ fines up to $250K

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NYC has banned the term, “illegal alien,” when used “with intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person” and could fine a person up to $250,000 for doing so. NYC has also banned discrimination or “harassment MORE

Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Is Six Points Lower Than Support for His Impeachment: Poll

10/01/2019 CrazyEyes 35

President Donald Trump’s approval rating is six points lower than support for his impeachment, according to a new poll, following a sudden shift in opinion among voters about removing him from office. The Quinnipiac University MORE

Barr and Pompeo Involved With Contacts in Four Countries

10/01/2019 Community 12

A new report shows William Barr and Mike Pompeo have been involved with contacts in no less than four different countries in Trump’s attempt to discredit Joe Biden and the investigation of the Mueller investigation MORE

Liveblog - Impeachment Updates: 10-1-19

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on the July phone call where Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Joe Biden and his son. Here he is below LYING! pretending he has no clue pretty much MORE

Fact checking Trump’s latest tinfoil hat conspiracy

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Short answer: NO ONE! A few days ago, Wing Nut Rag, The Federalist, made an erroneous claim that somewhere “between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide MORE

Trump asks Australian PM to help Billy Barr with investigating Mueller ‘Oranges’

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Remember when Trump wanted to know about the Mueller investigation’s ‘oranges’ instead of origins? It appears he may have asked the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to give Billy Barr a helping hand in finding MORE

Opera Singer Jessye Norman Dies At 74

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Opera singer Jessye Norman died Monday morning at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. The official cause of death was septic shock and multi-organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury MORE

Kevin McCarthy Caught Off Guard On 60 Minutes

09/30/2019 Community 66

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared on 60 Minutes last night and was caught rather unprepared by interviewer Scott Pelley. PELLEY: What do you make of this exchange? President Zelensky says, “We are almost ready MORE

Three House agencies subpoena Rudy Giuliani

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House Democrats have subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for documents related to his interactions with Ukrainian officials. The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Reform panels announced the subpoena Monday as MORE