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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday defended the objectivity of Attorney General William Barr's probe into the origins of the two-year special counsel's investigation of Russian election interference. She claimed that President Donald Trump will let Barr do his job, in spite of statements appearing to indicate that the president had already reached some conclusions on the matter. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Sanders was asked by host Chuck Todd about what, exactly, Trump hopes to see as an end result of Barr's investigation into a number of FBI officials and members of the intelligence...

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CHESAPEAKE Ten people were shot late Saturday night at a block party in the Holly Cove neighborhood near the Portsmouth border, and one man has died from his injuries, police said this morning. No suspects have been identified yet and police still do not know what sparked one of the city's most violent incidents in the past several years. None of the nine other gunshot victims faced life-threatening injuries, though the situation was fluid, police spokesman Leo Kosinski said he heard in a 9 a.m. update. It is still unknown whether those victims are in stable or critical condition, according...

The FBI tried to destroy the reputation of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr as controversial unearthed files reveal. Shocking details of the FBI’s smear campaign against MLK Jr have been found on secret tapes, it is claimed. Its is alleged the agency accused the celebrated civil-rights campaigner of having up to 40 affairs. ~[snip} J Edgar Hoover, who believed he had Communist Party ties. Details of the covert tapes have been revealed by biographer David Garrow, ... MLks secret heartache and the white woman he could never marry.... Hoover feared [King's] popular movement could destabilise the country. Agents...

The Trump administration's Middle East peace plan is demonstrating a great deal of uncertainty because the plan is unfinished and raw. That explains why the White House always finds an opportunity to postpone its release. Although the administration could have made the plan's main ideas known a long time ago, it is not worth speculating on rumors about its content. So what should we pay attention to when the project eventually comes to life? We have to pay attention to the compliance of the proposed peace plan with established international law. The inability to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict for almost...

MOSCOW -- Konstantin Vyatkin has never acknowledged the Soviet collapse. "For the past 28 years I've tried to live in this country called Russia," he says. "But in my heart I still live there, in the Soviet Union." The words may sound banal in a country where two-thirds of the population professes nostalgia for the former empire, motivated by economic concerns and the absence of a welfare state. But Vyatkin does not simply miss the Soviet Union -- he actively denies its breakup, and claims to obey only its laws. And now a vibrant cottage industry is helping legitimize his...

On Monday, the popular German newspaper Bild will print a kippa on its pages that can be cut and worn on the head. The newspaper's unusual action is to protest against the remarks made by Felix Klein, the government official responsible for combating anti-Semitism in Germany, who warned Jews throughout the country, "Unfortunately, I can not recommend that Jews wear a skullcap anywhere in Germany." Bild's chief editor said on Twitter, "If there is even one Jew in Germany who does not feel he can wear a skullcap without risk, our only answer should be that we all have to...

2020 Democrat Joe Biden was reportedly involved in the early stages of the Russia Probe during his time as vice president in Obama's administration, a newly reemerged report suggests.Biden was allegedly one of the few Obama White House officials to participate in secret meetings during the Obama-era intelligence community’s initial investigations into suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.The information was revealed deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017.

It seems to me the SCOTUS could take the case--then decide whether they will keep or overturn Roe V Wade OR The option I think they will choose-- They could refuse the case --Which will allow Alabama and other the states to determine their own abortion laws -- Effectively the same result as overturning Roe. What do you think?

More than 88,000 people so far have signed a petition to stop a doctor from getting fired after he reportedly asked a Muslim patient to remove her veil. Dr. Keith Wolverson told the Daily Mail that he has been “rather fearful of the consequences” after he was reported to the General Medical Council (GMC) and would be subjected to a discrimination inquiry. In May 2018, Wolverson was working his shift at the Royal Stoke University Hospital’s walk-in clinic when he was approached by a woman wearing a full-face veil.

Witness Allison Keller tells Hawaii News Now that the man appeared unconscious as rescuers brought him to shore Saturday. Keller says the victim was missing his left leg from the knee down and skin was torn from his wrist. Hawaii’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement confirmed the man’s age but did not release his name. Officials didn’t say where in California he was from.

‘Miracles do happen,” said Julia Eller, mother of Amanda Eller, the 35-year-old yoga instructor and physical therapist who was found alive Friday after surviving 17 days in the rugged forest above Makawao. During an emotional news conference at Maui Memorial Medical Center, where the younger woman was being treated for a broken lower leg and infection due to severe sunburn on her lower extremities, Eller’s mother recounted how her daughter survived by eating strawberry guava fruit and drinking stream water. Eller got lost May 8 while hiking within the Makawao Forest Reserve, an expansive wilderness area with areas of dense...

Rep. Rashida Tlaib said more Democrats are 'moving toward' a consensus that President Donald Trump should be impeached She was one of the first Democrats to call for Trump to be impeached 'We can't be able to do our jobs if we don't hold him accountable,' she said Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been trying to hold back the impeachment tide

Standing in front of a group of potential donors in a well-appointed home, Chesa Boudin began a stump speech that would perhaps only fly in what was once the epicenter of the counterculture.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Around half of eligible voters cast their ballot in European elections, a bloc-wide estimate showed on Sunday, the first time turnout has risen in four decades of continent-wide voting. The increased enthusiasm was seen by some commentators as a response to challenges ranging from climate change to the rise of eurosceptic parties. For 27 of the 28 EU states - all except the United Kingdom - the estimate came at 51%, a European Parliament official said.

The Second Vatican Council: A Story Now Being Written Dr. Roberto de Mattei Editor’s Note: The following is the full transcript of a speech given by Professor Roberto de Mattei, founder and president of the Lepanto Foundation, in Seville, Spain (Mar. 2, 2019). It first appeared in the print edition of Catholic Family News in two parts (April and May 2019 issues). Professor de Mattei was in Seville to address a conference organized by Adelante la Fe, a Spanish-language Catholic news media apostolate. ***** Exactly sixty years ago, on 25 January 1959, Pope John XXIII announced to the world the...

Sen. Lindsey Graham said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would be committing “political suicide” if she tries to impeach President Trump. “Her job is very much at risk,” the South Carolina Republican told “Fox News Sunday.” “Nancy Pelosi is riding a bucking, wild bronco called the Democratic caucus.” He noted that 70 percent of the Democratic base backs beginning impeachment hearings against Trump. “She knows that impeachment would be political suicide because there’s no reason to impeach the president. So she’s trying to keep the party intact. If she goes down the impeachment road, Republicans take back the House, we keep...

Iran's Options and the Destructive Defiance by Amir Taheri May 26, 2019 at 4:00 am To start with, we must realize that the crisis in question isn't caused by any of the traditional causes of conflict between nation-states.... In other words, the conflict isn't a classical international one. The reason is that Iran no longer behaves as a nation-state but as a vehicle for an ideology. The madness that is Khomeinism has always had its method, which includes abject surrender when pressed too hard and brazen aggression when pressure is eased. Contrary to claims by the pro-mullah lobby in Washington,...

Iran's Plans to Kidnap and Kill More Americans by Majid Rafizadeh May 23, 2019 at 4:00 am A leading Republican lawmaker, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), also the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has pointed out that recent intelligence obtained about Iran's threat was extremely detailed. These are simply preemptive measures that any rational state would take in the face of those clear threats. They were being taken to save the lives of American citizens and prevent the world's official leading state sponsor of terrorism from destabilizing the region. What do critics of the Trump administration expect the...

FULL TITLE: An NSA cyber weapon is reportedly being used against American cities by the very adversaries it was meant to target In less than three years after the National Security Agency found itself subject to an unprecedentedly catastrophic hacking episode, one of the agency's most powerful cyber weapons is reportedly being turned against American cities with alarming frequency by the very foreign hackers it was once intended to counter. An explosive New York Times story published Saturday detailing how the NSA's Tailored Access Operations lost control of its so-called 'EternalBlue' malware tool to a cadre of hackers known as...