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In December 2008, Barack Obama summarily fired every ambassador appointed by George W Bush. The media did not care for four reasons. First, it was Barack Obama. Second, they recognized that the president controls the executive branch. Third, it was a parting shiv to Bush. Finally, it was Barack Obama. Whether any of the ousted diplomats cried is unknown. But now in the Trump era, as Obama-era somnambulists awake every day to a new outrage that heretofore had been considered standard operating procedure inside the Beltway, a dismissed ambassador is given hours to vent her thoughts and feelz in front...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday decried that the “greed of a few” wealthy people is compounding the plight of the poor before sharing a meal with the jobless and the homeless that has become a tradition of his papacy. Celebrating a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica dedicated to heightening awareness about poor people worldwide, Francis lamented the lack of concern about growing income gaps between the haves and have-nots. “We go our way in haste, without worrying that gaps are increasing, that the greed of a few is adding to the poverty of many others,” Francis said in...

The former CIA officer who may have devastated US intelligence collection in China by giving up its network of informants to Beijing agents was sentenced on Friday to 19 years in prison.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois officials have granted parole to an 80-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for the 1960 killings of three suburban Chicago women, whose brutalized bodies were found in a cave at a state park. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 9-4 Thursday to approve Chester Weger's 24th request for release.

Sub-Headline: “To just put them all in a really shoddy hotel a few hundred feet from where we live … is just going to make the problem so much worse.” AUSTIN — Amid a citywide homeless crisis, city hall has a new plan: spend $8 million to put up 81 people in a homeless hotel. Last week, the Austin City Council unanimously agreed to buy the southeast Rodeway Inn and convert it to a hotel for homeless people. According to officials, the place will be a “low-to-no barrier” shelter, meaning individuals can enter without any background check, stay as long...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday delivered a speech at Clark Atlanta University, and declared that it is time to adopt Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation on reparations. Warren delivered a speech at the historically black university Thursday evening and stressed the need to pass Lee’s reparations legislation, which “establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans.” “Let’s be clear: It’s time for our government to have a full-blown national conversation about reparations,” Warren wrote in a tweet containing a video of her remarks: “America was founded on principles of liberty and built on the backs...

Swiss bishop describes struggle between John Paul II and Saint Gallen Group November 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Ivo Fürer, the retired bishop of Sankt Gallen – who, from 1996 until 2006, hosted the “Sankt Gallen Group” for their yearly meetings in the Swiss town Sankt Gallen – has now written an extensive history of the Council of the European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), whose key organizers were also closely connected with the Sankt Gallen Group.  Fürer had been the CCEE's general secretary for twenty years, from 1975 until 1995, when he then became the bishop of Sankt Gallen. (Pope John...

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The FBI lawyer who is under criminal investigation for allegedly falsifying a document related to the surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser expressed negative opinions of President Trump in messages to colleagues. Kevin Clinesmith, who once was part of special counsel Robert Mueller's team, has been identified as the attorney who could face a criminal charge as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's expansive criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia inquiry, according to the New York Times. As part of the Justice Department watchdog's now-completed investigation into alleged surveillance abuses, Clinesmith was found to have altered an email...

FULL TITLE: WATCH: 5 Arrested After Leftist Mob Harasses and Terrorizes Conservatives Outside of Ann Coulter Event Right-wing author Ann Coulter appeared at the University of California-Berkeley on Wednesday night to give her “Adios, America!” speech against mass immigration, where several of her fans were accosted by a leftist mob hoping to shut down the proceedings. Some of the tumultuous scenes were captured on video and later posted on social media:

A group of armed men broke into the Epoch Times in Hong Kong, which has been publishing unbiased news about the protests, and set fire to the printing presses. Those guys are more than likely Chinese state agents or police. They’re well built adults, not scrawny teenagers. And they were all armed with retractable batons, which are illegal in Hong Kong. Off-duty cops only recently got the green light to possess them in September.

Foreign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined China’s payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found. Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated. China’s Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) aims to get foreign governments to finance the communist power’s military and economy by buying off researchers who are doing work abroad. The experts apply to the program,...

I honor and applaud Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s service to his country. He’s a hero. I also respect his decision to testify at the impeachment proceedings. I suspect neither his service nor his testimony was easy. But I also know the liberties that Lt. Col. Vindman fought on the battlefield to preserve permit for a free and honest debate in America, one that can’t be muted by the color of uniform or the crushing power of the state. So I want to exercise my right to debate Lt. Col. Vindman about the testimony he gave about me. You see,...

Robert Hunter Biden, son of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, is evading a new Motion to Enforce Settlement Agreement from his ex-wife Kathleen, who claims that Hunter Biden has violated terms of their agreement. National File obtained all of the Bidens’ divorce documents ahead of the next hearing in the case on December 18 in Washington. D.C. Will Hunter Biden appear? Here are some of the recent documents, showing numerous failed attempts to reach Hunter Biden to serve him. Kathleen Biden’s lawyer Wendy Schwartz submitted a recent filing stating, “Please accept for filing the attached Affidavit of Service of Marshall...

Lawsuit Alleges McDonald’s Puts Employees in Physical Danger FOOD & BEVERAGE NOV 22, 2019 SHARE Don Babwin In the lawsuit, 17 workers say McDonald’s has failed to protect them from what they say is a “citywide and nationwide” pattern of violence in Chicago.

South Korea’s decision, days after the Trump administration broke off talks over the cost of American troops there, suggested it wanted to halt worsening of relations with Japan and the United States.

Former Republican strategist and MSNBC contributor Steve Schmidt said Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was "just awful" and had a "spectacularly bad" night at the Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night moderated by MSNBC. Later, when Gabbard was interviewed by MSNBC host Chris Matthews, Schmidt, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain in 2008, chimed in that her positions are "extreme." STEVE SCHMIDT, FMR. REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I thought that Mayor Pete had an exceptional night. He really demonstrated tonight in a performance that was pretty flawless yes has risen into the top tier of candidates. ...

The former FBI lawyer who is reportedly under investigation for altering documents in the Russia probe took part in a 2017 interview with Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, and also wrote anti-Trump text messages that were revealed in a Justice Department report released last year.

Strzok-Page Emails Show Special Treatment of Clinton Email Witnesses Judicial Watch Sues For the ‘Missing’ Strzok-Page Texts Mueller’s Office Deleted 100,000 DACA Applicants Have Been Arrested—Murder, Rape, DUI Strzok-Page Emails Show Special Treatment of Clinton Email Witnesses Do you remember all the cloak and dagger meetings in a parking garage in the movie about Watergate, “All the President’s Men?” Guess what. Barack Obama’s FBI was still looking for secret places to carry out their efforts to protect Hillary Clinton. Here’s a quote that would work on the big screen: “Is there an offsite somewhere in the DC area that...

Look, the case has been made. Almost everything in the impeachment hearings this week fleshed out and backed up the charge that President Trump muscled Ukraine for political gain. The pending question is what precisely the House and its Democratic majority will decide to include in the articles of impeachment, what statutes or standards they will assert the president violated.