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After stepping down from her role as chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel will join NBC News as a political analyst. In addition to providing commentary for NBC, McDaniel will also appear on MSNBC for coverage during the 2024 election season.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper refused to air a Donald Trump speech, saying the former president's remarks are "potentially dangerous" just one month after CNN aired a town hall with Trump that garnered massive viewership. Tapper stated Tuesday that CNN would not air the speech in its entirety because the former president "says a lot of things that are not true and sometimes potentially dangerous," Mediaite reported. The speech began with Trump criticizing charges against him for mishandling classified documents, leading Tapper to call Trump's remarks "untrue and unfounded" and accuse him of trying to "undo an election." After being arraigned...

Pro-Kremlin media technologist Konstantin Dolgov said he was fired from the Cart ONLINE propaganda project after an interview with Wagner PMC owner Yevgeny Prigozhin. He wrote about this in his telegram channel. In that interview, the businessman criticized the Russian military leadership, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Prigozhin said that the Russian authorities, instead of the goal of demilitarizing Ukraine declared in February 2022, achieved the opposite effect, and the Ukrainian army became one of the strongest in the world. He also stated that during the entire war in Ukraine, 20,000 mercenaries of the Wagner PMC were killed, half of...

Based on a casual reading of the polls, Donald Trump looks to have smooth sailing to the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 and the chance to erase the stink of losing to Joe Biden that he so covets. But if that’s the case, why does Trump seem so panicky these days? Simple: Trump is in trouble, and — when you dig into the numbers — his grip on the GOP nomination is getting more tenuous. It is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) who has all the momentum.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Aaron Alexis was so unhappy with his life in America — where he was beset by money woes and felt slighted as a veteran — that he was "ready to move out of the country" last year, a friend said Tuesday. "He was tired of dealing with the government," said Kristi Suthamtewkal, whose husband owns the Thai Bowl Restaurant in Fort Worth, where Alexis worked in exchange for room and board. But instead of leaving the U.S., the former Navy reservist relocated from Texas to Virginia, where an IT company called The Experts put him on...

The mob has a new don - Don Juan. Bonanno crime boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano has persuaded the feds to bend the rules and let his ex-wife and his mistress visit him on alternate weeks in jail. The flamboyant gangster is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, serving life for racketeering while awaiting a death-penalty trial for a murder. He's caged 23 hours a day under conditions usually reserved for terrorists because he's suspected of plotting to kill a federal judge and prosecutor. Normally, only relatives would be allowed to visit him under prison policy. But...

My dictionary defines "moderator" as "the nonpartisan presiding officer of a town meeting." On Thursday, PBS anchor Gwen Ifill will serve as moderator for the first and only vice presidential debate. The stakes are high. The Commission on Presidential Debates, with the assent of the two campaigns, decided not to impose any guidelines on her duties or questions. But there is nothing "moderate" about where Ifill stands on Barack Obama. She's so far in the tank for the Democratic presidential candidate, her oxygen delivery line is running out. In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same...

With all the polls today I think the "Big Mo" is coming our way

<p>WBAL news team has announced at 5pm on The Ron Smith Show that MD4Bush has been identified as Ryan O'Dougherty, a former Maryland Democrat Party operative/official.</p>

< Who is Bill Burkett? Former Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett is the man who claims that Bush and the Texas National Guard cleaned out any damaging information in Bush's National Guard files in 1997. As Kevin Drum explains in an exhaustively researched post, Burkett has a major axe to grind - he blames Bush for the military denying him medical care during an illness in 1998. However, there is another reason to be skeptical about Burkett. Burkett has strongly held loony left political views. He has written numerous articles espousing his positions and clearly wishes to sway the electorate. This...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The quickening flight of high-tech and white-collar service jobs has always represented the ultimate betrayal of the American worker by globalization. For years, globalization cheerleaders described the hemorrhage of manufacturing jobs as acceptable and even welcome because American workers would be retrained for the higher-paying, knowledge-based “industries of the future” –- especially the research and development, design, and engineering needed to produce cutting edge goods and services. Starting during the tech boom, though, U.S. technology companies made clear that the “higher paying” part wasn´t on their agenda. By pumping up the...

<p>EVERLAST Worldwide Inc. announced last Friday that it will close its Bronx plant in December, eliminating 100 jobs. Production of boxing trunks, speed bags and other equipment will move to the company's plant in Missouri.</p> <p>Everlast expects the move to save $2.8 million a year. That's a huge savings for a relatively small concern, with sales of $66 million in 2002. Company managers would be ignoring their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders if they were to pass up the opportunity.</p>

11/10/2003 Motorola Inc., the world's second- largest maker of mobile telephones, will eliminate 2,400 jobs by the first quarter, on top of the 6,600 it has cut through the first nine months of this year. The additional cuts will cost about $131 million in severance pay, Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola said in a quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Motorola has already paid $328 million this year for the previous reductions. Motorola, which has a plant in Elma, has discontinued product lines, exited businesses and consolidated operations as it has lost market share to rivals, including Finland's Nokia...

How America Lost Its Industrial Edge -- comments by Eamonn Fingleton How America Lost Its Industrial Edge By Paula R. Kaufman Economic commentator Eamonn Fingleton speaks bluntly about what he sees as the frittering away of the United States' manufacturing base and what he regards as the consequent stagnation of the American standard of living. For those who believe in the superiority of the current U.S. postindustrial strategy, a reading of the OECD Economic Yearbook makes for a distinctly chastening study. As Fingleton puts it: "The United States trails no fewer than eight other nations, all of which devote a...

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie; Outsourcing is Tantamount to Slavery I’m just going to blurt it out; tell it like it is. In the words of the venerable, Walter Cronkite, “and that’s the way it is”; here it is folks; outsourcing is tantamount to legalized slave labor. Of course, it’s much more than that to the American worker. Ask anyone who is out of work, out of unemployment, on the verge of losing their home and all that they worked for and thought was their American dream come true. Their jobs by the multi-millions have left the shores of the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Dan River, county's largest manufacturer, closing textile plant Dan River Inc., the largest manufacturer in Sevier County, told state and local officials late Monday that it is closing its Middle Creek Road plant and eliminating 416 jobs early next year. Layoffs are expected to begin Jan. 9 and the textile plant is to be closed by March 1, according to a notice sent to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Weaving capacity at Sevierville will be transferred to a plant in the company's hometown of Danville, Va. The company...