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Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source” that former President Donald Trump’s Christmas Truth Social post saying his opponents should “rot in hell” is “blasphemy.” Begala said, “He wants to be a dictator. He says just for a day, but let’s see. I think the way Democrats and Republicans running against him respond to this is important. I don’t think they should pearl clutch. they need to turn this against him.” He continued, “It’s like this comment about Christmas, telling people to rot in hell, you know I am a Christian, that’s blasphemy.”

Video has emerged showing the recent hit-and-run death of a retired police chief in Las Vegas in what police are calling an intentional attack by the teenage driver. Andreas Probst, 64, was fatally struck on August 14 while cycling in northwest Las Vegas, where he had retired after stepping down as the police chief of Bell, California, in 2009. The 17-year-old driver, whose name was not released by police due to his age, was arrested soon after the crash and taken to the Juvenile Detention Center. Late last month, police said charges against the driver would be upgraded to include...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a change to the United States Constitution. The state's legislature on Thursday approved a resolution in support of Newsom's call for a 28th Constitutional amendment, according to the Los Angeles Times. The amendment would enshrine a list of Democratic gun-control policy priorities into federal law. California is requesting a Constitutional convention to enshrine the amendment. For the amendment to be considered, two-thirds of state legislatures would have to vote in favor of a convention, according to the Times. The proposed "Right to Safety Amendment" would limit legal gun ownership to adults 21 and older,...

Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, 79, was pronounced dead at San Quentin State Prison around 4 p.m. Friday, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Marin County coroner will determine the exact cause of death. Bittaker and his crime partner, 71-year-old Roy Lewis Norris – known together as the “Tool Box Killers” – kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed five teens over a five-month period in 1979. The two were convicted in the brutal deaths of Lucinda Lynn Schaefer, 16; Andrea Joy Hall, 18; Jacqueline Doris Gilliam, 15; Jacqueline Leah Lamp, 13; and Shirley Lynette Ledford, 16....

Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.Senator Byrd was a man of surpassing eloquence and nobility. And I will remember him for many things, but most of all for a heartfelt comment he made to me in the dark days following the attack on our country on 9/11. My state of New York was reeling and we were scrambling to provide support and relief. “Think of me as the third senator from New York,” he said. And he meant it. Thanks to the leadership of Senator Byrd, who chaired the Appropriations...

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.

Bill Clinton found himself in an unusual and uncomfortable position - drawing intense fire from Democratic presidential candidates and a brushback from his wife's own campaign. Barack Obama and Chris Dodd took rare shots at the former president for claiming critics of Hillary's stance on giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants were unfairly trying to "swift boat" her. It's the first time any Democratic candidates have attacked Bill Clinton......he is enormously popular among party members

The Fleet has arrived today in Portland. We need to get a banner and take it down to the Concourse today that reads, "R.I.P Abu Z! One More Mission Accomplished!" Welcome Back, USS Cole!

The convicted quadruple murderer who founded the notorious Crips street gang has mobilized Hollywood celebrities in a bid to avert execution next month. This, despite admitting his crimes to others, the eyewitness accounts of accomplices, and jailhouse plots to escape by killing two sheriff's deputies and, later, one of those who testified against him. Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13 by lethal injection but is appealing to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency, with the help of celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, Russell Crowe, actor Mike Farrell, Academy Award-winner Jamie...

The June payroll jobs report did not receive much attention due to the July 4 holiday, but the depressing 21st century job performance of the U.S. economy continues unabated. Only 144,000 private sector jobs were created, each one of which was in domestic services. Fifty-six thousand jobs were created in professional and business services, about half of which are in administrative and waste services. Thirty-eight thousand jobs were created in education and health services, almost all of which are in health care and social assistance. Nineteen thousand jobs were created in leisure and hospitality, almost all of which are waitresses...

Jane Fonda now says she was bulimic for the past 35 years

COVINGTON, Ky. -- A 20-year-old man has admitted raping and killing his 3-year-old stepsister, News 5's Juliette Vara reported. Police said Jeff Bailer killed his stepsister, Cameron Stull, in their apartment at 9th and Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon. According to police reports, Bailer said he smothered the girl by covering her mouth and nose and admitted to sexually assaulting her. Bailer's 17-year-old sister said he admitted it to police. Cameron was face-down on the couch when the sister got home from school, she said. Family members thought the child was sleeping and left her alone. Later, someone flipped her over and...

July 18, 2004 LIVES When One Is Enough By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends...

The spy behind the burqa Iraqi-born mother's undercover work helps U.S. authorities weed out terrorists   Stewart Bell National Post Saturday, May 17, 2003 Sarah is a pseudonym for the author of a book that details her account as a spy infiltrating terrorist networks.   Sarah, her mother and brother walked for three weeks through the mountains to flee Iraq.   Later in Israel, she found a newspaper photograph of her father, who was hanged in Baghdad.   ADVERTISEMENT One of the enduring myths about the spy trade is that espionage agents are James Bond types, dashing men of worldly...

<p>SALT LAKE CITY — He says his name is Jacob; he's 3 years old, and someone left him in the toy department of a ShopKo store.</p> <p>Police are trying to find the boy's family, but haven't had any luck yet.</p>

Monaco Seeks Long Jail Term for Safra Nurse Mon Dec 2, 6:08 AM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! MONACO (Reuters) - Monaco's public prosecutor asked a court on Monday to sentence an American male nurse to 12 years in prison for starting a fire that killed billionaire banker Edmond Safra in the Mediterranean haven for the rich and famous. Defense attorneys for Ted Maher, a former U.S. soldier, were due to wrap up their case later on Monday. The verdict was expected in the evening. Lebanese-born Safra, a private banker who suffered from Parkinson's disease (news -...

KLAMATH FALLS - The man accused of raping two nuns and strangling one of them with her rosary beads in Klamath falls was arraigned today. Maximiliano Silerio Esparza appeared in Klamath County Circuit Court on 14 counts including aggravated murder for which the district attorney has said he will seek the death penalty

Ben-Eliezer: Killed Hamas leader was preparing 'mega attack' By Yossi Verter, Ha'aretz Correspondent and Agencies Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Thursday that Hamas military commander Salah Shehada, killed in the IAF's Gaza strike on Monday, was in the midst of preparing "a mega terror attack." Speaking at a meeting at the Labor Party's central headquarters in Beit Berl, Ben-Eliezer said that Shehada planned to infiltrate one ton of explosives into Israel "which could shock the whole nation or kill hundreds." Ben-Eliezer said that he postponed the assassination operation eight times during the past two months, including last Friday. "The plane...