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Shortened title. Full title: Brilliant – Justice Department Appoints Robert Mueller To Investigate 2016 Russian Election Interference Tremors tonight in the Deep Swamp. The deep cleaning machine just got fired up. Watch how quiet and tenuously supportive the Democrats and their Left-Wing media cohorts are with this announcement. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at the Justice Department has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to justice to oversee the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The appointment of a special counsel is excellent because it means Mueller has wide latitude to look into all...

For pickets, a growing sentiment of pessimism Reduction in benefits takes mounting toll By Jenifer Goodwin and Mark Sauer STAFF WRITERSDecember 20, 2003 Job-hunt front has been grim for many pickets Maria Vazquez's electric bill is two weeks past due. She scraped together enough to pay her phone bill a month late. She's not sure when the cable bill is due because she stopped opening her mail. "It's too overwhelming," said Vazquez, one of 70,000 area grocery workers who've been on strike or locked out since Oct. 11. Strikers are trying to put on a brave face, but they're feeling...

The union representing some 70,000 Southern California grocery workers called a strike against Safeway Inc.'s SWY.N Vons and two rival supermarket chains responded on Sunday by locking out union workers. Picket lines organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union formed at stores from Los Angeles to San Diego, the first grocery strike in 25 years in the area, one of the nation's most populous and a key market for the chains. In response to the Vons strike, Albertsons Inc. ABS.N and Kroger Co.'s KR.N Ralphs, which are covered by the same master contract, locked out union workers from...