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LAS VEGAS — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh got what he deserved when he was accused in his confirmation hearing of sexual assault — because of his role in investigating the Clintons in the 1990s, former President Bill Clinton suggested. "He didn't have any problem making us put up with three years of Vince Foster nonsense that was a total charade," Clinton, 72, said Sunday during a joint appearance with his wife Hillary at the Park Theater in Las Vegas during the last stop in the 10-event "An Evening With the Clintons” speaking tour. A childhood friend of Bill Clinton,...

Fair Play: Given all of the times Republicans have been confronted by angry demonstrators in public, it was only a matter of time before a Democrat was confronted by angry pro-POTUS Trump supporters. And it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving Democrat: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Joseph Kennedy had befriended McCarthy because he found him to be a likable fellow Irish-Catholic who had all the right ideas on the domestic communist menace. These warm feelings were quickly transferred to the entire Kennedy family. JFK liked the fact that McCarthy went after the "elites" in the State Department whom JFK regarded with contempt. (13) Even before McCarthy made accusations against the State Department of subversion, JFK had already aligned himself with the militant anti-communists who blamed the Truman State Department for the "loss" of China. So JFK declared on the House floor in January 1949. "The responsibility...

Moscow, October 6, Interfax - President Vladimir Putin met with the daughter and grandson of Russian General Anton Denikin, Marina and Mikhail, who are visiting Moscow, on Wednesday at the Novo-Ogarevo residence, presidential press service secretary told Interfax. On Monday the remains of General Anton Denikin and philosopher Ivan Ilyin and their wives were buried at the Donskoy Monastery. The day before yesterday when their remains were brought to Moscow, Marina Denikina said to journalists: "The last words General Denikin said dying at an American hospital were: 'Now I will never see the saved Russia'. That is why my son,...

KAZIMIERZ Marcinkiewicz, poised to become Poland's next prime minister after being nominated by his conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party today, is a mathematician and economics expert. Born in the southern town of Chorzow, Mr Marcinkiewicz began his working life as a teacher after studying mathematics and physics at the University of Wroclaw in south-western Poland. He went on from there to work as a school administrator, and was eventually named deputy education minister, a post he held from 1992-1993. A member of the Solidarity trade union in the 1980s, his links with Poland's Catholic conservatives has been a hallmark...

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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Pushing an anti-communist crusade that riveted America a half century ago, Joseph McCarthy manipulated his Senate hearings by calling witnesses he could intimidate and ignoring those likely to oppose him, newly released transcripts show.</p> <p>Among the roughly 400 witnesses covered in transcripts of closed door meetings, made public Monday by the Senate, are composer Aaron Copland, New York Times journalist James Reston and Eslanda Goode Robeson, the wife of blacklisted singer-actor Paul Robeson. Some 4,000 pages of newly released documents also show that McCarthy was convinced that many writers, government officials and secretaries had access to classified information.</p>