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Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Hillary Clinton's running mate in her failed bid against Trump, suggested that mental issues are behind Trump's "clown" comment. . . . "At the end of the day, the office of the president gets respect based on the performance of the person in the office – and I'm talking about from the public — I don't think this is going to play with the public," Kaine said.

MOUNT HOPE, WV - A man who was responsible for supervising juveniles at the Gene Spadaro Detention Center in Mount Hope is now facing felony charges. Stephen Basham, 37, of Scarbro was arrested on charges of Use of a Minor Child to Produce Obscene Matter, Criminal Invasion of Privacy and Possession of Child Erotica. Basham is a correctional officer at the Gene Spadaro Center. Deputies in Raleigh County began investigating the case on Dec. 31, 2016 when they received a tip about child pornography on a cell phone at home in Scarbro. Detectives said they found video of a minor...

Aric Babbitt was not just a teacher to some of his former students; he was also a mentor. To at least one of them, he was a father figure. But authorities believe Babbitt used his position of authority to not only gain his students’ trust but also to exploit it. Newly released police documents state that Babbitt, a 40-year-old elementary school teacher from Minnesota, and his 36-year-old husband, Matthew Deyo, sexually abused eight underage boys over the course several years, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. The South St. Paul residents did not live to see any criminal charges against...

Hillary Clinton and top aide Huma Abedin were pictured together on Thursday for the first time since losing the presidential election. The pair chatted and Abedin smiled as they walked out of Clinton's office in the Midtown neighborhood of New York City. They had spent five hours inside the office before Abedin and an unidentified woman walked Clinton to a waiting vehicle and sent her on her way with a box of documents.

FAIRMONT, WV - A Fairmont man was arrested Tuesday on sexual abuse charges after police said he told them a 7-year-old girl wanted to have sex with him. Brandon Coe, 20, sexually assaulted a 7-year-old, female relative, according to the West Virginia State Police Crimes Against Children Unit. Police said the girl told family members in November that she was assaulted by Coe in October.

An Elvis impersonator from Looe recorded three women doing private acts and stored the footage in a shrine dedicated to his rock and roll hero, a court has heard. Derrel Weaver, 62, went on trial at Truro Crown Court on Monday accused of sexually abusing two young girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons. Weaver is accused of 19 counts of indecent assault, three of committing an act of gross indecency, two of attempted rape and a further count of taking an indecent photo of a child. All 25 counts relate to the two complaints in the case. One...

Perverted Bill Cosby is tying to pull the wool over the eyes of the legal system by claiming he’s blind, but his “I can’t see” routine is nothing but bad acting! That’s the opinion of a renowned body language expert commissioned by Radar Online to analyze the behavior of the 79-year-old creep, who’s desperate to avoid prison on sexual assault charges. “Bill Cosby may say he’s blind. However, his body language says he’s not a very good actor!” Dr. Lillian Glass, the nationally recognized forensic expert, told Radar. “He’s doing several things wrong that make you question whether he truly...

Pope Francis, who in the past has not shied away from offering his opinion on U.S. politics, said in an interview published Wednesday that “spreading disinformation” is probably “the greatest damage that the media can do” and called it sinful. Pope Francis compared the spreading of fake news to the desire to eat excrement.

PLANO, TEXAS A Plano high school teacher was arrested last week and accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her students. The student, a 16-year-old boy, told police he had a relationship with his algebra teacher, Alaina Ferguson, in which they had sex on a park bench in Lewisville, in the back of his pickup after a football game and in her apartment several times, WFAA reported. The relationship began when the boy wrote his Snapchat username at the top of his algebra test at Plano Senior High School and Ferguson contacted him through the social media app,...

Anthony Weiner is apparently so broke that he had to cut short his rehabilitation for sexting addiction at a Tennessee ranch. “His family wanted him to stay 90 days, but he had to leave because he ran out of money,” one source told me. It is believed Weiner — known as Carlos Danger by some crotch-shot recipients — was billed $25,000 for the 35-day program at the Recovery Ranch. “His parents took out a mortgage on their house to pay for his rehab,” my source said. The former congressman is unemployable and potentially in debt. The Post reported Friday he’s...

BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) -- An illegal immigrant from Honduras is under arrest in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl. Police say 33-year-old Jorge Luis Ramirez sexually assaulted the girl more than a dozen times, and they are asking any other alleged victims to come forward. Investigators say Ramirez met the girl at Redemption Episcopal Church on 2nd Street Pike in Southampton, New Jersey.

Tinder, the popular dating app, has updated its options to allow users to choose transgender or gender-nonconforming identities. ... The company previously allowed users to pick from one of two genders — either man or woman — but will now let them choose from almost 40 options, including Transgender Woman, Transgender Man, Transmasculine, Two-Spirit, Neutrois, Non-Binary and Other. If none of those fit, users can write in their own. The update, which was released on Tuesday, was designed in consultation with transgender community leaders and other prominent transgender people, including the activists Andrea James and Nick Adams and several entertainers...

In one of her secret speeches, Hillary Clinton said, “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders…” Before this comment was revealed, Adam Taylor of The Washington Post tried to assure everyone that the idea of a North American Union, like the meddlesome and bureaucratic European Union, was dead. Such talk, he said, emanated from “fringe websites” and “conspiracy theorists.” The Hillary speech was made to a Brazilian bank known as Itaú BBA, which describes itself as “Latin America’s largest Corporate & Investment Bank” and part of the Itaú Unibanco group, “one of the world’s...

EXCLUSIVE: No cell phone, sweat-lodge group therapy and plenty of horseback riding: Inside the $30,000-a-month sex-addiction rehab center where Anthony Weiner will try to cure himself of his serial sexting Anthony Weiner is in the middle of a weeks-long sex-addiction rehab stint at The Ranch, a 2,000-acre facility an hour west of Nashville. The former politician, 52, checked himself into The Ranch in early October. Fishing, long hikes, and horseback riding along trails in the leafy woods are among the activities offered at the Tennessee center. The disgraced politician cannot access to his phone during treatment. Weiner sought refuge at...

Looks like this could be smoking gun...

If you are a patriotic Conservative, Rick Steves is NOT your tour. Recently, a friend of mine took a tour to Sicily sponsored by Mr. Steves. The Tour went fine until the last day when they visited a war museum in Catania. The Tour Guide, a creature called "Alfeo" went on a long anti-American tirade, attacking us for our effort in Europe, blaming Black Lives Matter on the police, stating American troops raped Sicilian women, American flag waving Sicilians were forced to do so under armed force, 9-11 was our own fault, etc. My friend spoke out and told the...

Paul Banfield was given an 18-week prison sentence which was suspended for two years in 2015. It came after he admitted inappropriately touching and kissing a 17-year-old girl in Shrewsbury town centre. He had pleaded guilty to sexual assault at Shrewsbury Crown Court. The court was told last year that it was the third young girl that Banfield had approached and behaved with in a similar manner. It was told that the police had growing concerns for the risk he posed to the community.

What’s that horrible smell? It is Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign bursting into flames. We all have known for decades that former president Bill Clinton is an infamous sleazebag who has cheated on Hillary dozens of times. He seems to have an uncontrollable urge to be a philanderer, and yet the Democrat party treat him as their elder spokesman. But that’s about to change — as a former “sex slave” is showing that Bill is even more disgusting than you might have thought… this is criminal and SICK! Former President Bill Clinton took a romantic jaunt in 2002 to convicted pedophile...

Bill Clinton was getting a foot massage. “We were on the terrace of his apartment,” recalled the 20-something intern at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum who was massaging Bill’s feet. “We had a meal served from 42 [the restaurant in the Little Rock library] — ­vegan stuff like kale salad. “He often invites girls like me who work at the library to his apartment for a glass of red wine and a massage,” the intern said in an interview for this book. “He likes his neck and shoulders massaged because he gets knots in his muscles. But...

Complete Headline: 'Foot rubs and massages from female interns and the desire for JFK-style naked pool parties': Clinton critic claims insider access to Bill Clinton's presidential library penthouse romps Excerpts from a new book set to be released on Tuesday by one of the Clintons' fiercest critics claims to reveal Bill Clinton's 'shenanigans' inside the penthouse of the The William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. The book, 'Guilty As Sin' by journalist Edward Klein, 79, asserts that the former president kept a 'cozy' relationship with interns while discussing naked pool parties and his wife's emails with advisers....