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  • Russian analyst set to face trial on charges of lying to FBI

    10/09/2022 8:26:25 PM PDT · by familyop · 22 replies
    Associated Press ^ | October 9, 2022 | MATTHEW BARAKAT and ERIC TUCKER
    Danchenko, a Russian analyst, was a source of information for Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was paid by Democrats to research ties between Russia and presidential candidate Donald Trump. The compilation of research files, which included salacious rumors and unproven assertions, came to be familiarly known as the “Steele dossier.”
  • Judge: New admissions policies at elite school discriminate

    02/25/2022 3:48:31 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 10 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 25, 2022 | By MATTHEW BARAKAT
    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Friday that a Virginia school system illegally discriminated against Asian Americans when it overhauled the admissions policies at an elite public school. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton found that impermissible “racial balancing” was at the core of the plan to overhaul admissions to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, known as “TJ.” The school routinely ranks as the best or one of the best public schools in the country, and slots at the school are highly competitive. In 2020, the Fairfax County School Board significantly revamped the...
  • Audacity of Nope: US prison tells inmate that Obama's books harmful to national security

    07/09/2009 5:21:44 PM PDT · by rickmichaels · 10 replies · 506+ views
    Associated Press ^ | July, 9, 2009 | Matthew Barakat
    <p>MCLEAN, Virginia - The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.</p> <p>Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope."</p>