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**SNIP** So, if it’s not going to be handled in D.C., where WILL it be handled? Robinson suggests that it’s moving from D.C. to Utah, under U.S. Attorney John Huber, who was selected by Attorney General Sessions to handle cases related to the IG report. Remarkably, Huber operates with a staff of 470 investigators, far exceeding the investigative power of a special counsel. One other possibility, if the cases relating to Awan include allegations of treason or other matters of national security, is that they will be tried in a military court, away from the media and the chance of...

**SNIP** The climb prompted a massive police response on a night when resources were needed to keep the city’s Fourth of July celebrations secure. “(Okoumou) staged a dangerous stunt that alarmed the public and endangered her own life and the lives of the (New York Police Department) officers who responded to the scene,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement. Thousands of visitors were escorted off Liberty Island during the drama. “Hopefully, they know that there are people, like Patricia, out there trying to protect their civil liberties,” Okoumou’s attorney Rhiya Trivedi said Thursday.

BEDFORD A 33-year-old school counselor is accused of having sex with a ninth-grade student nearly a dozen times and even told the student's sister that she would leave her husband for him, according to an arrest affidavit. The student ended the relationship after his mother caught them in bed in his room, the affidavit says. Shannon Hathaway, a former school counselor at Harwood Junior High School, surrendered to Bedford police on Thursday morning on a charge of improper relationship between an educator and a student. She said that Hathaway told her she was in love with her brother and would...

The archivist in charge of transferring former President Barack Obama’s records into the National Archives has run across a serious problem, according to a report published Sunday: A lot of the records are missing. “A first-rate librarian, (David) Ferriero has been driving a much-needed digital overhaul and expansion of the National Archives over the nine years of his appointment,” writer Thomas Lipscomb reported for RealClearPolitics. “This will greatly improve the ability of digital search locally and remotely, as well as accessing the files themselves.” However, that only works if you have the files you need in the first place. And...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (CBS Local) – An Oklahoma waitress did not make a good first impression after being arrested for allegedly skimming credit cards on her first day at work. Police in Oklahoma City say Rachael Tyler was caught on surveillance cameras taking several customer credit cards and swiping them without permission. The brand new waitress was reported by a manager at Twin Peaks restaurant, who caught the suspicious behavior. “She noticed one of the waitresses, she was actually a new waitress. Her first day on the job and had been taking credit cards, and appeared to be swiping...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Irish women shed their inhibitions and their clothes on a secluded beach fifty kilometers south of Dublin on Saturday for a world-record setting “skinny dip” to raise funds for a children’s cancer charity.Lucia Sinigagliesi, the Guinness World Records official that adjudicated the naked swim, said that 2505 women spent at least five minutes in the sea to set a new world record. The previous record was set in Western Australia in 2015 when 786 participants swam naked to promote a positive body image near the regional capital Perth, in waters that are usually around 23...

Former FBI Director James Comey came to the agency’s defense this morning as President Trump continues to attack it over the informant used during the election. This morning alone Trump has tweeted that the FBI may “end up getting caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before” and that “SPYGATE could be one of the biggest political scandals in history!” Republicans in Congress have expressed their agreement with the President on this issue, but now the man who led the FBI at the time is responding. Comey took to Twitter this...

A black porn star from the Bronx says he was duped into performing in a hardcore-racist adult film that depicts his white co-star calling him the N-word without his consent. Maurice McKnight, who goes by the stage name Moe the Monster, claims in a new lawsuit the hate speech was spewed during a shocking shoot in Tarzana, Calif., last July. McKnight says director James Joseph Camp tried - and failed - on two separate occasions during the production to get his pre-approval for use of the despicable dialogue. He claims Camp first approached him before filming began and said the...

PARADISE VALLEY, Arizona -- Can you imagine getting 65,000 text messages after just one date? An Arizona woman is accused of doing just that. And it didn't end there. Police arrested 31-year old Jacqueline Ades after finding her in the Paradise Valley man's bathtub. According to investigators, she had met the man online about a year prior, but she wouldn't leave him alone. Court documents say Ades sent the victim about 500 messages a day, which included disturbing ones like, "I want to wear your body parts" and "bathe in your blood." Officers say they found a butcher knife in...

<p>Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw has canceled his upcoming commencement speech at a Connecticut university amid controversy surrounding the recent sexual harassment allegations made against him, reports said Friday.</p> <p>Sacred Heart University president John Petillo told the Hartford Courant that Brokaw did not want to distract from the event and will no longer be delivering the May 13 commencement speech for the school’s upcoming graduating class.</p>

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial (all times local): 1:25 p.m. The jury is heading back to the courtroom and Bill Cosby’s defense team is saying there’s a verdict in his sexual assault retrial. The panel of seven men and five women have been deliberating about 14 hours. The 80-year-old comedian is accused of drugging and violating a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004. He’s charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault. A conviction could put him in prison for up to 10 years on each count.

A former Minneapolis FBI agent caught leaking classified documents to The Intercept pleaded guilty in federal court in St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.

A counselor at a private school in South Carolina has been arrest after she allegedly told authorities that she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with an underage student. The relationship allegedly began in January, just five months after Prendergast started working at Spartanburg Day School, and ended several days before the relationship was reported to the police on March 25, investigators said. Spartanburg Day School is a private, co-ed independent school for students in pre-K to 12th grades where tuition can run up to $19,230 per year. The school “immediately” fired Prendergast after the police told them about the illicit...

FAYETTE, Iowa – Three more former employees at a northeast Iowa care facility are accused of having sex with patients, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. All five are charged with sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist, a felony, WHO-TV reports. The five are accused of having a sex with patients while working at Prairie View Residential Care Facility in Fayette between 2015 and 2016. The facility cares for patients with chronic mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or medical conditions. Officers arrested 23-year-old Paige Lynn Johanningmeier and 26-year-old Megan Marie Penney in early March. The investigation, which began in...

A sixth-grade teacher in Arizona accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student performed oral sex on him in a classroom — and told the teen she wanted him “every day with no time limit,” according to court records. Brittany Zamora, a 27-year-old teacher at Las Brisas Academy Elementary School in Goodyear, allegedly had sex with the 13-year-old student three times and also performed oral sex on him in her car during encounters from Feb. 1 through March 8, according to court records obtained by the Arizona Republic. Zamora and the teen also traded naked photos, he told police, saying...

SAN ANTONIO — The courtroom was silent and thick with anxiety Thursday morning as the judge’s deputy read the verdicts: “Guilty,” “guilty,” “guilty” — 11 times over, and on all felony counts. State Sen. Carlos Uresti sat stone-faced, his gaze directed at the deputy, as he heard the ruling that throws into question his two-decade career in the Texas Legislature and opens up the possibility of years in federal prison and millions in fines.

No Clinton Foundation funds—dedicated to Haiti or otherwise—were used to pay for Chelsea’s wedding. It’s not only untrue, it’s a personal insult to me, to Hillary, and to Chelsea and Marc................. https://mobile.twitter.com/BillClinton/status/952271892756553728

A former Virginia high school sign language interpreter and mother was sentenced to prison Thursday for having sex with a 15-year-old student in a van specially equipped with a bed, officials said. Amanda Nasser, 32, who worked at Louisa County High School, was sentenced to 90 years in prison, but had all of the time except for seven years suspended, FOX5DC reported. She was convicted of 18 felony charges of indecent liberties with a minor and computer solicitation of a minor. “Ms. Nasser abandoned her duties at the school to prey on a young boy whom she met when she...

President Donald Trump’s growing feud with Steve Bannon is threatening the former White House strategist’s leadership of the conservative Breitbart News website and upending Mr. Bannon’s plans to wage “war” on party incumbents he deemed insufficiently loyal to the White House agenda. Mr. Trump said Mr. Bannon has “lost his mind” and that he has “nothing to do with me or my presidency,” a response to Mr. Bannon’s numerous incendiary comments—including insults about the president’s family—in a new book about the first year of the Trump administration. Mr. Bannon’s longtime benefactors, billionaires Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer, are...

<p>An Oregon teacher has been accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.</p> <p>Andrea Baber, 29, was arrested at her Cottage Grove home on Friday just days after she and the teenager were reportedlt caught in bed by her husband on December 5, reported The News-Review.</p>