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But shortly after the Ionov indictment was announced, the FBI in Tampa confirmed to local media it had raided headquarters of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, in connection with the alleged conspiracy. "The Uhuru Movement is a worldwide organization, under the leadership of African People’s Socialist Party, uniting African people as one people for liberation, social justice, self-reliance and economic development," the group said on its website...Four of the “unindicted co-conspirators” listed but not named in the indictment are U.S. citizens living in St. Petersburg, while the others live in Atlanta and California.

John Pence is a senior adviser on President Trump’s campaign and the nephew of Pence. Giovanna Coia is a White House communications aide whose father is Conway’s first cousin, the Washington Post reported.

There are dating sites for everyone these days — there's Christian Mingle, Senior People Meet, Fitness Singles, JDate, Millionaire Match, and even a site exclusively for white people. Now there's Bernie Singles, a new hyper-specific dating site for Bernie Sanders supporters. Since it launched Thursday, the site has racked up more than 4,930 members in search of Democratic Socialist baes.

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What do Presidents Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr. all have in common? None of them cut Social Security to reduce the deficit – but President Obama's new budget proposal will do just that. His plan would especially slash benefits for future retirees, and the cuts just keep getting worse year over year. President Obama included these cuts, known as the chained CPI, in his "grand bargain." He released his budget today, and he needs to hear that these cuts are completely unacceptable.

As members of opposing political parties, we disagree on a number of important issues. But we must not allow honest disagreement over some issues interfere with our ability to work together when we do agree. By far the single most important of these is our current initiative to include substantial reductions in the projected level of American military spending as part of future deficit reduction efforts. For decades, the subject of military expenditures has been glaringly absent from public debate. Yet the Pentagon budget for 2010 is $693 billion — more than all other discretionary spending programs combined. Even subtracting...

In yesterday’s thread discussing the Republican debate on Tuesday, several people, including me, commented on the seemingly tacit acceptance of support from Neo-Nazis and white supremacists by Dr. Ron Paul. First, let me say this: we are NOT claiming that Ron Paul is a racist or a Neo-Nazi. We do think it is very strange that so many of these groups are rallying around Dr. Paul. That said, the simple fact is that the white nationalist website Stormfront.org features Ron Paul’s campaign banner prominently on their front page–thus providing a direct link from the leading White Supremacist site on the...

It was a bizarre sight: a cadre of Orthodox Jews, with their distinctive hats, beards and sidelocks, standing alongside President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran last month at a conference in Tehran debating the Holocaust. Among them was Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman and assistant director of a small anti-Zionist group with a foothold in this town in Rockland County, home to one of the nation’s largest communities of Hasidic Jews. Unlike Mr. Ahmadinejad and most of the others present, including the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Rabbi Weiss does not deny or question the Holocaust; his grandparents died...

Liberals upset by Hillary’s hedgingBy Holly Yeager Published: May 12 2006 15:26 | Last updated: May 12 2006 15:26 This week’s revelation that Rupert Murdoch will host a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s Senate re-election campaign put the punditocracy in a tailspin. But it should not have come as much of a surprise. Yes, the former first lady used to complain that her husband was under attack from a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that surely included the conservative media mogul’s News Corp. And yes, when she ran for the Senate in 2000 his New York Post did all it could to derail...

WASHINGTON (AP) - When California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger nabbed an endorsement from Common Cause for his plan to redraw political district lines, some Democrats and open-government activists were dismayed. How could the respected good government group sign on with a governor who's been criticized for his supercharged fund-raising? Why was Common Cause embracing a plan that's picked up little or no backing from other nonprofit groups? "Common Cause is star-struck and so they're lending the governor their brand," said Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, a Santa Monica-based consumer group that's among Schwarzenegger's chief critics....

What Happens When Science and Feminism Become Bedfellows One curious thing about scientific pronouncements is that they often seem to accord more with the spirit of the age than fact and reason. Thus, a Nazi researcher in 1930's Germany would analyze data from only one angle and state, “You see, this vindicates our assertion that the Aryans are the master race.” Now, lest you think that such provincial thinking doesn’t plague our enlightened age, I can assure you, it’s alive and well – only the ends have changed.

US delegation visits Svalbard US Senator Hillary Clinton arrived on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard Sunday night, part of a US Congressional delegation studying climate and environmental issues. She seized the opportunity to bash current policies under US President George W Bush. US Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain are visiting Svalbard to see the ill effects of global warming first-hand. PHOTO: JAN- MORTEN BJØRNBAKK Clinton, with Republican US Senator John McCain standing by, claimed that the battle against global warming had lost ground under the Bush Administration. But "we're working now" to secure broad political agreement on climate issues,...

N.Y. -- In an alliance of strange bedfellows, staunch smoking opponents stood side-by-side this week with merchants who want to sell more cigarettes. The businessmen say their operations are being undercut, sometimes fatally, by Indian vendors who are selling cigarettes to non-Indians in person, over the phone and over the Internet. The Indian retailers are not charging New York's $1.50-a-pack tax on cigarettes, giving their wares a significant price advantage over those sold by non-Indians. The health advocates say they see the eradication of low- or no-tax Indian cigarette sales as a way to cut off the availability of cheap...