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CNN anchor Jake Tapper said former President Trump continues to pose a major challenge to media organizations covering him. “I think that every news organization in America was disrupted by Donald Trump,” Tapper said during an appearance on journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast published Monday. “Especially by his attacking the media.” Tapper, CNN’s chief Washington correspondent, noted Trump has “picked on us a lot, but that’s OK,” adding “he knocked everybody in the news media off.” Trump attacked Tapper last month after the anchor directed CNN’s control room during coverage of the former president’s arraignment in Florida to stop showing video...

Police are circulating this footage after an unsuspecting 52 year-old Navy veteran was knocked to the ground by a street thug and then beaten unconscious. The Navy veteran NEVER saw it coming. The suspect is described as a black teenager with braided hair, wearing blue jeans, a white sweat shirt, red tennis shoes and a black baseball cap. The victim had just exited a trolley on June 13th. Don’t expect this to make many headlines. It doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.

This chart was created Monday evening so anything could change between now and the opening on Tuesday, yet at this time tonight, some key support is giving way in the U.S. Dollar! CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE As the U.S. Dollar is breaking support the Australian $ is looking like a buying opportunity is at hand below-

Tuscany's Etruscan claim knockedModern Tuscans not descendants of ancient people, DNA says (ANSA) - Rome, May 16 - The Tuscans' proud claim to be the descendants of the ancient Etruscans has taken a knock . A DNA comparison of Etruscan skeletons and a sample of living Tuscans has thrown up only "tenuous genetic similarities", said lead researcher Guido Barbujani of Ferrara University . "If the Tuscans were the direct descendants of the Etruscans the DNA should be the same," said Barbujani, a genetecist who coordinated the study with Stanford University in the United States . The study, which appears in...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new joke about his motorcycle crash and veering back to the political center may not be so funny to him — or California — by the end of the year. "A car pulled out in front of me and I just couldn't make a decision which way to go," he says. "I knew if I turned left that the Republicans would get mad, and I knew if I turned right my wife (a Democrat) would get mad." "So I crashed right into the car. That was the safer thing to do." His comment came during...

One of the wisest pieces of advice I can ever offer is to always deal in reality. Sometimes reality stinks, and it's easier to craft an elaborate fantasy world that soothes our inner turmoil. But, ultimately, it's a dangerous game to avoid The Truth. For those of us who follow California politics and who have invested countless hours in championing ideas and policies that would make this a freer, more prosperous and better state, it's tempting to assuage ourselves by thinking that the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis still matters. It's easy to lie to ourselves and suggest that...