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ORLANDO, Fla. – A civil rights group plans to sue the FBI for $30 million on behalf of the family of a Chechen man who was fatally shot while being questioned about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect. The Council of American-Islamic Relations Florida on Monday filed a notice of claim stating its intention to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI over the death of Ibragim Todashev.

Old witch Pelosi on her way to Taiwan after she disappeared from the radars🤣🤣 wait for it..

PHILADELPHIA DEBATE (I presume from this website it can be watched) Get out the popcorn, and let's have fun. May there be blood on the floor.

(2007-04-19) — Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling in Gonzales v. Carhart upholding the right of Congress and state legislatures to regulate abortion and, in particular, to ban partial-birth abortion, is “a blade to the back of the head of every woman in America,” according to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY. “I know I speak for my sisters across the nation,” said Sen. Clinton, “when I say that I feel like someone grabbed me by the ankles, and jammed a pair of scissors into the base of my skull and then just sucked my brains out. This is devastating to our freedoms and...

Clintons take her campaign to the fair SYRACUSE, N.Y. Former President Bill Clinton says he's not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former president made comments at the State Fair yesterday, where Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was capping a three-day swing through New York farm country. The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008. Former President Bill Clinton said he quote -- "didn't have a...

Hillary Rodham’s first brush with fame came about in 1963, when she was elected Vice-President of her Junior Class at Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. The following year, she was the first girl to ever run for the office of President of Student Council. She did not even make it through the Primary vote to the general election, which was ultimately won by the captain of the football team. To this day, she looks at her failure as a learning experience: “I was just ahead of my time. I was a militant feminist when the political climate...

SOURCES: TIME turns this week's cover into a ballot on Hillary Clinton, inviting readers to vote whether they 'love her' or 'hate her.' Readers can check their preference on the cover and mail it in...

New York Senator Blasts Republicans, Oil Company In Speech To Union Delegates (CBS) CHICAGO A fiery address by Hillary Clinton has people saying that she seems ready to run for president. U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) seemed to bask in the cheers from some 6,000 delegates to a national government workers union convention at McCormick Place. It was a Democratic working-class crowd, and Clinton played to their anger. “How many of you get so upset and frustrated you find yourself yelling at your TV set?” she asked. “Now that Bill and I have TiVo, sometimes we rewind it and...

Dems cant stomach Hillary either!http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=151737

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she said was a “failed policy” in Iraq. “I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late,” the New York Democrat told the Associated Press. “I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.” Clinton confronted Rumsfeld directly on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier in the day, and said his answers left her convinced he should go. “The...

Apr. 12--Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Tuesday for a new national economic strategy that combines fiscal discipline with broad health-care reforms, a rebuilding of the nation's public works and innovation in such fields as energy research to foster success for the middle class. Clinton (D-N.Y.), widely regarded as the early front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, appeared before more than 3,000 people attending the 78th annual dinner meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago. She clearly questioned the Bush administration's tax and budget priorities, although she did not mention the president by name. "I suggest that we agree on...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she called "failed policy" in Iraq. "I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat and potential 2008 presidential contender said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation." "The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people," she said. "It's...

"Food and Drug Administration Commissioner-nominee Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach is greeted by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006 prior to testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his nomination."

The bold sculptor who made a splash a few months ago with a life-size nude of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug has a new muse: Hillary Clinton. Artist Daniel Edwards has followed his piece "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," with a buxom bust of the former first lady titled "The Presidential Bust of Hillary Rodham Clinton," which is slated to show at New York's Museum of Sex on August 9. Edwards says the bust captures the senator, ""with her head held high, a youthful spirit and a face matured by wisdom. Presented in a...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has put together an army of 50 staffers and more than 20 consultants as she prepares to do battle for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. Included in those ranks is acclaimed Washington, D.C., hairstylist Isabelle Goetz, who has collected $3,000 in recent months to clip the former first lady’s locks. Federal fund-raising records reveal that Clinton paid $1,500 to Goetz in April and another $1,000 in May. She passed off both sessions as "media production” expenses, according to the New York Post. Goetz, the favored stylist of John Kerry, also got $405 from Hillary’s campaign in...

DURHAM - The father of the accuser in the rape case involving Duke University lacrosse players said his daughter was raped with a broomstick during a party last month, and that explains defense lawyers' claims that no DNA from players was found on her. The woman's father, appearing on MSNBC's "Rita Cosby Live & Direct" Tuesday night, said his daughter told him that when three team members raped and sodomized her, they also used a broom.

Hillary’s Nemesis - Peter Paul The Fraudulent Senator: Part 2 of a 7 Part Series Politics/Joan SwirskyMarch 14, 2006 Peter Paul is a lot like Paula Jones, the young Arkansas housewife whose sexual-harassment lawsuit resulted in President Clinton’s impeachment, disbarment, a mountain of “go away” money, and eternal ignominy.But while Mrs. Jones was the arch female version of little David successfully vanquishing the Goliath of a sitting president, Mr. Paul – a successful international lawyer, businessman, power player and Goliath in his own right – is now taking on the former president and his wife Hillary in what is being...

Under the Dome Published: Mar 13, 2006 12:30 AM Modified: Mar 13, 2006 03:11 AM Clinton makes fundraising stop in Charlotte Rob Christensen and Barbara Barrett, Staff Writers New York Sen. Hillary Clinton recently held an under-the-radar fundraiser in Charlotte, making her first foray into John Edwards country. About 60 people showed up at the home of Johnny Taylor, a Charlotte vice president for an Internet company based in New York. Among the co-hosts were two ambassadors appointed by Bill Clinton: Mark Erwin of Charlotte and Jeanette Hyde of Raleigh. Also co-hosting was Crandall Bowles, chief executive officer of Springs...

We asked the question almost a month ago, now TIME magazine is on the story. TIME ran a story last week on the "Clinton Connection" to the new hit ABC TV show "Commander in Chief," which features Geena Davis playing the first women President. At the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, Clinton told us she doesn't watch the program. Over 16 million people do watch the show each Tuesday night. According to TIME, Capricia Marshall is a consultant to the show. She was Clinton's social secretary, and one of the writers is Steven Cohen. He was once...

Two men have been arrested over a brawl in a Park Slope grocery store during an argument over ice, authorities said yesterday. Majdi Mahmood, 19, and Juan Medina, 21, were busted Tuesday after the incident in the store at 70 Fourth Ave. about 3 p.m. on last Saturday, sources said. Mahmood told authorities that during the fracas, Medina tried to drag him across the counter and he responded by smashing a soda bottle into Medina's face. Medina then grabbed a knife and waved it at Mahmood, according to Mahmood's account. Mahmood admitted to brandishing a broomstick and smashing Medina in...