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Trump's Intel moves spark Democratic fury BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 02/23/20 11:57 AM EST President Trump’s sudden decision to replace his top intelligence chief sparked criticism among congressional Democrats this past week after reports that the dismissal stemmed from a classified briefing on election security with a key House panel. Trump reportedly moved to oust acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire after a senior DNI official briefed the House Intelligence Committee about Russian efforts to aid his reelection. The president is said to have viewed the briefing as an act of disloyalty, in part because it involved sharing...

INVERNESS, Calif. (AP) — An academic couple who got lost during a Valentine's Day hike in the woods of Northern California was found Saturday by rescuers who spent almost a week looking for them and had given up hopes of finding them alive. Carol Kiparsky, 77, and Ian Irwin, 72, were found in a densely forested area near Tomales Bay, a narrow inlet about 30 miles north of San Francisco, and were airlifted to a hospital for treatment of hypothermia, Marin County Sheriff's Sgt. Brenton Schneider said at a news conference. “This is a miracle,” he said. They were unprepared...

President Donald Trump said former special counsel Robert Mueller should now investigate Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, the current frontrunner in the race to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee Trump on Sunday tweeted to ask if the Democratic National Congress (DNC) plans to investigate Sanders, who decisively won the Nevada caucus Saturday with a margin more than twice that of second placer, former vice president Joe Biden. CNN called Nevada for Sanders with half the votes counted and with Sanders taking 46.6% of the vote to Biden's 19.2%. Congressional lawmakers were told Russia might be out to assist Sanders clinch...

Who picked Amy!!! 1:19-cr-00018-ABJ Doc 27 02/08/19 Judge Amy B. Jackson found Stoners didn’t provide any "factual or legal support" to question her, her prosecutors, her jurors, her raw DC power. //snipp// 02/23/20 “Stone’s Motion for new trial, specifically includes the jury integrity issue” jurors misled the Court regarding ability to be unbiased and fair. Covering evidence to contradict l false claims . A real Rant, from a “presiding judge, Amy; "Sure, the defense is free to say, (but did’nt), So what? Who cares?' But I'll say this: Congress cared, The DoJ and the Attorney's Office for the DC Ckt,...

President Trump made history this week after appointing Richard Grenell to serve as acting Director of National Intelligence. The new job, a cabinet-level position, makes Grenell the highest serving openly gay man to hold federal office in United States history.

Live coverage of President Trump speech in India

I first met Qassem four years ago, at the height of the European refugee crisis. The BBC had sent me to capture the stories of Mideast migrants, thousands of whom would daily wash ashore on the Greek isles. He was around 15, malnourished and clearly traumatized. As we sat together in a cabin at a ­migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, his hunched body rocked backward and forward. His marginal life amounted to a speck of dust amid the geopolitical earthquakes that were remaking the region at the time. Yet the story he told opened a window onto the...

President Trump arrived in India Monday morning for his highly-anticipated two-day trip where he hopes to forge a new trade deal with the country. The president landed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, in Ahmedabad, at 11:35 a.m. local time. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stepped out of Air Force One and were greeted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Self-help guru Marianne Williamson on Sunday endorsed her former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders one day after the Vermont senator handily won the Nevada caucuses. Williamson, who suspended her own long-shot campaign for president last month, made the announcement at Sanders’ campaign rally in Austin, Texas.

Contrary to numerous recent media reports, there is no evidence to suggest that Russia is making a specific "play" to boost President Trump's reelection bid, a U.S. intelligence official told Fox News on Sunday. In addition, top U.S. election official Shelby Pierson, who briefed Congress on Russian election interference efforts, may have overstated intelligence regarding the issue when speaking to the House Intelligence Committee earlier this month, the source added. The Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing people familiar with her work, that Pierson "has a reputation for being injudicious with her words and not appreciating the delicate work...

Judge Army Berman Jackson, who presided over the case of former Trump adviser Roger Stone, denied Stone’s request that she be removed from deciding whether he can have a new trial, writing Sunday that his motion seemed to be "nothing more than an attempt to use the court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words 'judge' and 'biased' in it." Stone was sentenced to over three years in prison last Thursday following his conviction in November on charges of lying to Congress and intimidating a witness in connection with the Trump-Russia probe. Stone’s defense team...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would take military actions if China decided to strike Taiwan. Sanders offered a glimpse into his position on national defense during a wide-ranging interview on "60 Minutes." The Vermont senator cemented his status as the party's frontrunner after a decisive victory Saturday in the Nevada Caucuses. The Chinese consider Taiwan—a mountainous island with more than 23 million people—as a renegade province and lobbed ballistic missiles into the seas north and south of the island before its first fully democratic presidential election in 1996.

The “Donald Trump/Mike Pence Prayer Vigil” and “Pray for our American Heroes" Prayer Thread have Combined to Form the AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL Prayer Thread! Join with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for our PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind. Jeremiah 20:11,12 The Lord Stands Beside me like a Great Warrior, And Before Him,...

Thread #2. Richie still needs your prayers. Link to original (Huge) thread.

President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday he would sign a peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan if negotiators can work out the final details.

The Green party surged in Hamburg state election on Sunday to claim the second place while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) could lose all their seats.

February 24 2020 Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Jas 3:13-18 Beloved: Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show his works by a good life in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. Wisdom of this kind does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure,...

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s “massive literacy program” during a CBS “60 Minutes” clip that aired on Sunday. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper introduced the topic by playing a clip of an 1985 interview with government-access Vermont TV in which Sanders said the Castro regime “educated their kids, gave them healthcare” and “totally transformed the society.” In a 1989 statement as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Sanders praised the Cuban revolution as a “very profound and very deep revolution,” the Washington Examiner reported. “For better or for worse, the Cuban revolution is a very profound and very deep revolution,” he wrote. “Much deeper...

Philip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official during the Obama administration who blew the whistle on shortcomings within his own agency, was found dead in California on Friday with a “gunshot wound” to the chest, several news outlets report, citing a statement from the law enforcement. While testifying as a whistleblower before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2016, Haney asserted that DHS ordered him to delete hundreds of files of people with links to Islamist terrorist groups. “Phil Haney was a friend & patriot. He was a target because of all he knew of Islamic terrorist...

In the 2016 US presidential elections, most polls declared that 70% of American Jews voted for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. In my opinion, American Jewish support for Trump is far higher than commonly thought. Before you recommend sending me to a mental health clinic, please read my reasoning in the article below. The first question is, of course, who is a Jew? In the United States, voter registration does not indicate voter religion. Polls are conducted by companies that specialize in the Jewish population. The problem is that these companies are actually surveying a partial and unrepresentative group of the...