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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should be investigated by the Department of Justice. Psaki said, “There were new revelations this week, about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his financial relationship with a billionaire Harlan Crow. Just this morning there’s even new reporting about some inaccuracies on his financial disclosure forms. Your colleague Sheldon Whitehouse is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate on Clarence Thomas for potential ethic violation. Do you back Senator Whitehouse’s call?”

Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the “rot” that led to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, was not just from former President Donald Trump but other leaders who should be investigated by the Department of Justice. Guest-host anchor Jason Johnson said, “We’re starting to see more incriminating evidence leak out. We’re seeing just how deep the plan to steal the election of 2020 was. Newly revealed text messages obtained by CNN show Senator Mike Lee and Congressman Chip Roy going right to Mark Meadows in full support of the claims of...

The small-town family doctor angling to become Minnesota’s next governor smiled, leaned into the camera and told his Facebook viewers that Sweden had just paused the Moderna vaccine for people under age 30 over “significant concern” about heart inflammation. Dr. Scott Jensen, clad in a white lab coat, quickly pivoted: “So what happens to military people who are threatened with a dishonorable discharge if they are unwilling to potentially put their heart health at risk?” The post swiftly racked up thousands of views and favorable comments — evidence of Jensen’s early success in tapping conservative anger at the Democratic strategy...

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump should be investigated after he leaves office. Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Mika, you know, President-elect Biden is already facing calls from some in the Democratic Party to investigate and prosecute President Trump. One of the senior prosecutors in the Mueller investigation just also came forward and said that the next attorney general should hold Trump accountable for any criminal behavior in office despite how divisive that could be for the country. What’s the best move for the sake of the country, in your opinion?

Hillary Clinton claims she is the 'the most investigated innocent person in America' in a new Hulu documentary about her life. The former Democratic Presidential candidate even went so far as to say she felt like she's been persecuted in an offhand remark while cameras were rolling. ... Others who were interviewed for the project provide more insight, like the New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, who says that Hillary is blinded by her belief that she is a 'righteous' person. ... The series also features a number of revealing anecdotes about the 2016 campaign. During a...

Donald Trump has launched another attack on Hillary Clinton - questioning why she and Bill Clinton are not under investigation from the House Intelligence Committee.   'Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech...,' the president tweeted on Monday night, before finishing his thought with a second post.   '...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax.'   Trump seemed to be referring to a falsehood he often uttered on...

DULUTH, Minn. - Authorities are looking into an incident at an interstate rest stop in Duluth that involves a state representative. State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says a witness approached a trooper at Thompson Hill rest area off Interstate 35 about 11 p.m. on July 22 and told the officer about some "suspicious activity." Roeske says the trooper had contact with Rep. Kerry Gauthier and turned the matter over to Duluth police because it was a "non-traffic" incident. Duluth police said in a statement the incident is still being actively investigated and released no further details. Gauthier, a Democrat, did...

U.S. officials have briefed President Obama about an alleged shooting of civilians by a U.S. service member in Afghanistan as worries grow the incident could trigger more violence and fuel a push to abandon the war-worn country. "We are deeply concerned by the initial reports of this incident, and are monitoring the situation closely," White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Sunday, after one service member was detained by his unit following an alleged shooting of as many as 16 Afghan civilians in two neighboring villages. According to a government representative for southern Afghanistan and a member of the...

Authorities in Portland, Ore., investigated in late 2006 and early 2007 a masseuse's claim that she was sexually assaulted by former vice president and Nobel laureate Al Gore during his visit to that city, but the matter was eventually dropped for lack of evidence, officials said Wednesday. The woman who alleged the assault through her lawyer declined initially to be interviewed by police and did not want officers to pursue the matter, the Multnomah County district attorney's office said Wednesday. She later reconsidered and met with Portland police detectives in January 2009, telling them she "was repeatedly subjected to unwanted...

In the midst of two wars and an intensifying economic meltdown, Barack Obama had to take time off last week to answer questions from federal prosecutors investigating charges that the governor of Illinois had put the president-elect's former Senate seat up for sale. With his own lawyer by his side, Obama sat down Thursday with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's staff to tell what, if anything, he knew about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's efforts to cash in on appointing Obama's Senate successor

Members of Congress recently under scrutiny by federal authorities: ___ Senate Republicans: _Ted Stevens of Alaska, sixth term. Stevens is under a federal investigation for his relationship with Bill Allen, an oil field services contractor who was convicted this year of bribing state lawmakers. Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service searched the senator's Alaska home on Monday. ___ House Republicans: _Don Young of Alaska, 18th term. Young is under federal investigation as part of an ongoing corruption probe, according to a federal law enforcement official. Part of the Young investigation involves his campaign finance practices. _John Doolittle of...

MEXICO CITY - Six federal police officers involved in President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug operation were being investigated for extortion on Friday after they were videotaped taking money from a driver in the border city of Tijuana, officials said. The men, part of a force of more than 3,300 police and soldiers sent to Tijuana to clamp down on drug gangs and corruption, will be punished if found guilty, the Public Safety Department said in a statement. A videotape recorded by the Tijuana city police department shows the officers at a checkpoint stopping a motorist and searching his vehicle. After a...

A former top budget official in the Reagan White House is a target of a criminal investigation into possible financial fraud at an auto parts company he headed before it collapsed into bankruptcy, a federal official told The Associated Press. David Stockman, who rose to prominence as budget director under President Reagan, is the former chairman and CEO of Michigan-based Collins & Aikman Corp. Federal investigators and prosecutors are preparing a case against Stockman and other corporate officers from Collins & Aikman and expect to soon present the findings to a grand jury in New York City, the official said....

The state attorney general has joined the many agencies investigating San Diego's financial practices, drawn in by questions about the city's handling of special departments that raise revenue through fees charged to residents. State officials met with City Attorney Michael Aguirre yesterday, three days after Aguirre acknowledged that employees in the office, when under the supervision of former City Attorney Casey Gwinn, falsified timecards to charge expenses to different departments. The state will handle the investigation, said Gary Schons, a senior assistant attorney general, to avoid a conflict of interest because Gwinn now works for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis. Gwinn...

A civil rights lawyer on Wednesday demanded authorities investigate a roundup of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in what he called a desert dragnet based on racial profiling. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, attorney Luis Carrillo claimed U.S. Border Patrol agents only pulled over people with brown skin in the five-day operation known as "Operation Desert Denial." More than 600 undocumented immigrants were detained from May 19 to May 24 along Interstate 40 near Barstow. No light-skinned people were detained, Carrillo said. "They gave people with blue eyes and light skin a free pass," he said. Carrillo...

MOSCOW - Prosecutors are investigating a journalist for publishing an article mocking President Vladimir Putin over his call to pay Russian women to have more children, an official said Wednesday. The article was published by Vladimir Rakhmankov, editor of the online newspaper Kursiv in the central city of Ivanovo, said Andrei Galchenko of the regional prosecutor's office. The piece poked fun at Putin's recent state of the nation address that called for economic incentives to boost the country's plummeting birth rate. Russian media reported that the publication suggested that animals at a local zoo increased their mating, heeding Putin's call....

N.Y. Community Center Loan Investigated By DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writer New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer speaks at a news conference in New York, July 25, 2005. A New York radio station has agreed to pay $240,000 after sponsoring 'smackfest' contests in which young women took turns slapping each other for a chance to win concert tickets and cash, Spitzer and State Athletic Commission Chairman Ron Scott Stevens said on Monday. REUTERS/Mike Segar NEW YORK — State and city officials are investigating how $875,000 from a community center funded largely by government grants and contracts wound up in...

The United Nations With World War II still being fought, delegates from the United States and twenty-five other nations met and issued a "Declarations of the United Nations," the first official use of the term "United Nations." In 1943 representatives of the USSR, Great Britain, Nationalist China, and the United States met in Cairo, Egypt where plans were laid for the creation of a world organization. Another high level conference was held in Tehran, where Joseph Stalin was brought into the planning. In 1944 the initial drafts of the UN Charter was drafted at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. Finally,...

SACRAMENTO - The chairman of the U.S. commission overseeing post-Florida election reforms said Wednesday that he will launch an investigation into reports that consultants hired with federal money by California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley spent part of their time attending political events. In his first public comments on the unfolding controversy, Election Assistance Commission Chairman DeForest Blake Soaries Jr. said he has concerns about reports in the Mercury News and other newspapers that consultants hired to do voter outreach work went to fund-raisers for Democrats, including presidential candidate John Kerry. ``I cannot imagine any circumstances under which partisan political...

In a hotly worded letter to Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, a top Republican lawmaker is urging the creation of a bipartisan committee to investigate whether Kevin Shelley knowingly funneled taxpayer money into his successful 2002 campaign for California secretary of state. Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy urged Nuñez, of Los Angeles, to immediately set up a committee "to take swift and effective action to determine the facts in this issue." He compared the need to probe the unfolding debacle with the Legislature's investigation of former Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, which led to his resignation in 2000. The FBI is already...