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Former FBI Director James Comey said on Sunday that he did not believe President Trump was aware of the explosive allegations made against him in the "Steele dossier." Comey briefed Trump on the unverified document, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, last year. "When you told him the contents of the Steele dossier, did you get the impression it was the first time he'd ever heard those allegations?" NBC's Chuck Todd asked Comey on "Meet the Press." "Yes," Comey said, "And I didn't give him the briefing on the whole Steele dossier. My assignment was to brief him...

ADELAIDE, Australia – ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — A high school teacher who assigned her class to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent Australians as possible had no intent to promote terrorism, education officials said Wednesday. The Year 10 students at Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School in the state of Western Australia were given the assignment last week in a class on contemporary conflict and terrorism. Principal Terry Martino said he withdrew the assignment as soon as he heard of it. But after news of the assignment was published in Wednesday's West Australian newspaper, talk radio and online...

Students in Pueblo, Colorado have been given a homework assignment to come up with a terrorist attack for history class. Naturally, the school is saying that the kids misinterpreted the assignment, and that any kid who plots an attack on the school will be punished. They are destroying the assignments as we speak. Is an assignment like this appropriate for school? Take the poll at the link.

For a final college English assignment, we have to publish one of our writings on a website; I thought of no better place than my favorite website. Please comment as you will - disagree or agree. Be blunt and know that visitors from my class will be visiting to verify and read. With that said, here it is: Brandon Kerr Mr. Raetz English 121 17 April 2009 Capitalism’s Logic over Socialist Ideology By Brandon Kerr In the world of politics, as it relates to economics, there are two main systems. Whether intermixed, or taken to their extremes, as the political...

Some parents are not ROFL -- Rolling On the Floor Laughing -- about a Grand Prairie math teacher's assignment asking his sixth-grade class to decode popular, and sometimes lewd, text-messaging abbreviations. The teacher at Jackson Middle School was disciplined this week after a mother called to complain about a Web site the teacher told her daughter and other students to use for the assignment, district spokesman Sam Buchmeyer said. The site, www.netlingo.com, includes the abbreviations POS (Parents Over Shoulder), TDTM (Talk Dirty To Me) and GYPO (Get Your Pants Off). "It was just an activity that he thought would be...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Tim Johnson won a coveted chairmanship of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Thursday, even though he is still in critical condition after emergency brain surgery last month. The South Dakota Democrat remains in intensive care after suffering a brain hemorrhage Dec. 13 and missed the opening day of the Senate. Johnson's office announced that he has been named chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. The senator "will lose none of his rights during his absence" and his office remains open for business, said spokeswoman Julianne Fisher.

WASHINGTON - House Democrats, determined to make an election-year point about ethics, voted to strip Rep. William Jefferson (news, bio, voting record) of his committee assignment Thursday night while a federal bribery investigation runs its course. Members of the rank and file approved the move after Jefferson refused for weeks to step aside on his own, and despite claims by some members of the Congressional Black Caucus that he was being treated unfairly. Officials said the vote was 99-58. The action must be ratified by the full House, and Jefferson left open the possibility that he might at long last...

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash., April 3, 2006 – Foreign exchange pilots from Australia assigned here are helping their U.S. counterparts carry out global air refueling, airlift and humanitarian assignments. The exchange program selects the best pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force with a minimum of 1,500 flying hours. Although instructional experience is not essential, it is a highly desirable factor to be selected for the three-year program, officials said. "They are sending us their best qualified pilots," said Air Force Maj. Dennis Bernier, 93rd Air Refueling Squadron assistant director of operations. "They are all outstanding pilots and huge...

<p>A political science instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College is being investigated by the Secret Service for telling his students to compose an e- mail to an elected official that included the words "kill the president, kill the president," a school administrator said Wednesday.</p>