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Rupert Murdoch didn’t want Donald Trump to win the presidential election. According to a longtime friend of the former Fox News CEO, Roger Ailes, Murdoch wanted to tilt the election to any other candidate than Trump, even if it was Hillary! Ailes passed away in May at the age of 76. Via The Washington Examiner: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch wanted to tilt the U.S. presidential election to any candidate but President Trump, according to a longtime friend of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. “Murdoch instructed Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump, Ailes confided to me before he was...

MEDINA, Ohio — A 42-year-old father of five and adopted son of an American serviceman sits in a jail cell awaiting deportation to Panama, where he was born and abandoned. The possible deportation stems from a mistake long ago on Pattrick Henderson's adoption form that prevented the Buckeye High School graduate from becoming a U.S. citizen. Now some Buckeye alumni and friends have launched an effort to try and prevent the deportation from happening. Henderson was 18 months old in 1973, when he was adopted by Army Special Forces member Edgar Henderson and his wife. They were stationed in Panama...

From: Nick Machiavelli, Senior Partner, Machiavelli, O’Blarney, Iago, Alcibiades and Morris, Political Consultants. To: Karl Rove, The Smoke-Filled Room, Lower Basement, The White House, Washington DC. Dear Karl, I’m flattered — and pleasantly surprised. Of course, I saw the fine mess you had got yourself (and Junior) into over immigration and the Hispanic vote. But I thought that you would never admit it to yourself, let alone to an old and dear competitor. When my confidential secretary told me you were on the line, I said: “Lilith, learn from this. A really great man is always prepared to humiliate himself...

Although Ukraine's December 2004 Orange Revolution sparked speculation about the country's potential to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), mainstream security analysts have missed the potential for co-operation with Kiev on missile defence. But US President George W Bush and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko have said that this is a promising area for co-operation. During their 4 April 2005 meeting in Washington, the two presidents agreed "to work together on missile defence, including beginning negotiations on a framework to facilitate such co-operation and closer industry-to-industry collaboration". These few words may lift US-Ukrainian security co-operation to new heights.

Woman charged with trying to smuggle Chinese immigrants 8/19/2005, 7:25 a.m. ET The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne County woman faces federal charges after investigators said she attempted to smuggle Chinese immigrants into the United States from Canada. Delecia Carter, 21, was released on a $10,000 bond in U.S. District Court in Detroit. She's the third person charged in the court with such a crime this week. Carter was arrested early Thursday after customs agents found four Chinese women hiding in the back of her Cadillac Escalade as she drove into Detroit from Windsor, Ontario. Court documents say...