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A Las Vegas woman is facing multiple murder charges Saturday in the shooting deaths of her three roommates, who lived in what authorities described as a "problem house." Christine Sanchez, 47, is currently being held in a county jail on three counts of open murder with a deadly weapon. According to Las Vegas police, she had been in an ongoing dispute with her roommates. When the victims returned to the home Friday afternoon, all four got into an altercation. It was at that point Sanchez pulled out a handgun and shot the trio multiple times, police said. Responding officers found...

Baker possesses 47 hard disks containing data on a massive surveillance operation overseen by John Brennan and James Clapper which allegedly spied on Trump Tower and now-President Donald Trump, according to a whistleblower. “I provided to the FBI seventeen businesses of Donald Trump, including the Trump Tower, the Trump leasing programs, all of these different programs, and including Trump himself and the various family members that had been wiretapped under these programs,” (Dennis) Montgomery said in the interview. “There has been a wiretap on Trump for years.” Montgomery provided the proof of the surveillance program to Judge Royce Lamberth in...

TUCSON — NASA has chosen a planetary mission involving a team from the University of Arizona as one of two finalists to be the next robotic solar system explorer. The proposed mission, named CAESAR, for Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return, seeks to return a sample from a comet to determine its origin and history. UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory professor Dante Lauretta is CAESAR's mission sample scientist, responsible for leading the analysis of the returned comet sample. He also is tasked with advising on all aspects of the mission's design that influence the scientific value and integrity of the sample....

MARINE BARRACKS WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cpl. Chesty XIV, also known as Chesty The Bulldog, has been removed from his primary duties as the official Marine Corps mascot following multiple charges of sexual misconduct, sources confirmed today. There were several cases involving accusations of leg humping, unsolicited face licking, and one claim of lewd sexting. “I always suspected Chesty was letting his fame go to his head,” said Pfc. David Trimbull, a member of the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon. “We all heard rumors, but the command made it perfectly clear they wanted us to keep quiet.” In 2016, a story...

It is a Fact of Life that black-and-white movies are superior to movies in color, and that’s true of Christmas movies in particular, too. It’s true even if you exclude the obvious and over-watched It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, and it’s especially true if you look at the hideous fare that usually makes lists of best Christmas movies, from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Bad Santa to Die Hard. So here are five black-and-white classics that embody the real Christmas themes of spiritual transformation and rebirth, and demonstrate once again why the best outdoor Christmas scenes...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!! 3:30 PM - Dec 23, 2017 ________

The coin — which is traditionally given to service members to commemorate achievements and milestones, according to The New York Times — appears to have bucked tradition in photographs first published by The Washington Post. The U.S. motto, “E pluribus unum,” —”Out of many, one” in Latin — has been replaced with Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” An eagle facing right with Trump’s signature below appears in lieu of the presidential seal.  His name appears three times on the token, which is gold instead of silver and copper, the Washington Post reported. The coin also features a gold-plated banner...

The eyes of soldiers, notables and frontiersmen, posing with their sleek, efficient Henry repeating rifles in century-and-a-half-old photographs, typically reflect pride and confidence, and imply that the rifle’s users know they’re holding something special. Such feelings are understandable. The 16-shot Henry lever-action set the owner above the norm. It was truly one of the mechanical wonders of its era. During a time when most military and sporting arms were single-shots or cumbersome percussion repeaters, a gun that effortlessly spat out a rapid stream of bullets with only one charging of handy, self-contained cartridges was something to be admired and coveted....

Every year, from Thanksgiving Eve until New Years Day, there is a feeling in the air of Christmas…and Hanukkah, multiple Shabbatot, many simchas and professional parties. Christmas is basically a traditional Jewish way of life. We know Jesus was Jewish, and that for centuries our people have been the targets of anti-Semitism because of it. However, this practicing Jew looks at Christmas and all the joy it brings as a sign of Jewish values and many, many successes. Look at the time spent on family gatherings. Waiting on crowded highways, sitting in airport lounges and spending hundreds of dollars to...

One final aloha Sunday night for President Obama as he and his family leave Hawaii, wrapping up their last holiday vacation here while he’s in office. The First Family departed Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Air Force One around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night. Prior to taking off, as the president got out of his motorcade vehicle he was greeted with a round of cheers from a nearby crowd. Hawaii’s dignitaries were also there to bid the family farewell.

The parallels to the political situation are beautiful, regardless of whether Catalonians are exactly the culture we love. Messi - small and humble, always smiling or concentrating, at one with life. Ronaldo - always whiny, petulant, feminine-metrosexual, narcissistic, rigid. If I ever have kids, may they be like Messi and not Ronaldo. Barcelona won this morning 3 - 0. Sweet!

The case for American exceptionalism is often overstated. It is true that our Constitution, at least when it was written, was a revolutionary document, in both senses of the word: it represented a huge shift in the way that the state was conceived, but also an attempt to free a citizenry from perceived oppression. Because of the unique historical circumstances in which it was written, the Constitution put in place laws that appear to be similarly unique. However, when looked at in a historical perspective, many of these (such as the right to free speech) are unique in extent rather...

WASHINGTON — Since the change was made to use “District of Columbia” on D.C. licenses and ID cards, there have been reports of people having their ID’s authenticity questioned in airport security screening lines. A recent instance of this occurred after Thanksgiving, as a D.C. resident tried to catch a flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, according to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Her office said the traveler almost missed their flight after officers discussed whether or not the license was valid before eventually letting them through. Norton sent a letter Wednesday to David Pekoske, administrator...

“For too long has Pakistan provided safe haven to the Taliban and many terrorist organisations, but those days are over. President Trump has put Pakistan on notice. As the President said, so I say now: Pakistan has much to gain from partnering with the United States, and Pakistan has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists.” Bravo. We can only hope that these don’t prove to be empty words. Pakistan for years has collected billions from the U.S. in order to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and has given much of it to al-Qaeda and the Taliban....

Full title - My card is bigger than yours: Trump ridiculed for handing out YUGE Christmas greetings to congressional lawmakers. *The White House recently handed out massive Christmas Cards to lawmakers *Members of congress shared images of the massive placard on social media Friday, colored in dark crimson and featuring a stylized eagle seal in shiny gold *The White House gift, the first since Trump took office in January, is reportedly three to four times bigger than the usual yuletide missive *The lavish gift appears to follow a pattern the White House is setting for this year's holiday season

So, last month, there were rumors that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was looking into whether a special counsel would be necessary to look into Clinton-Uranium One transaction. In his testimony to Congress in November, he threw cold water on it, saying there wasn’t enough evidence to appoint one. Now, NBC News is reporting that Sessions has instructed prosecutors at the Justice Department to interview the FBI agents who were involved in the Uranium One probe and explain the evidence they obtained [emphasis mine]: On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to...

Federal prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records tied to senior White House adviser Jared Kushner’s family business, The New York Times reported Friday. Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York subpoenaed the records from the German financial institution over the past few weeks. It's unclear what records the prosecutors are pursuing, or how closely tied they are to Kushner himself. Kushner Companies has taken out hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from Deutsche Bank over the years. Kushner, who is President Trump's son-in-law, stepped down from his position leading...

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The course, which will launch in the fall of 2018 through Swarthmore’s religion department, will examine the Bible through a queer lens. It will examine issues of sex, gender, and identity as they present themselves in one of human history’s most influential texts. “This course surveys queer and trans* readings of biblical texts. It introduces students to the complexity of constructions of sex, gender, and identity in one of the most influential literary works produced in ancient times,” the course description reads. “By reading the Bible with the methods of queer and trans* theoretical approaches, this class destabilizes long held...

The reason why the Republicans in the House and Senate have warmed up to Donald Trump, the reason they now appear to be happily and eagerly on his team is because they now think that the Trump-Russia collusion charge is bogus... The Republicans in Washington, the Republicans on Capitol Hill, were tiptoeing around this because they thought there could be something to it, because they just couldn’t believe that all of these people could be so complicit in a totally made-up lie. CIA directors, FBI directors, deputy attorney generals, deputy FBI directors, they just… I gotta tell you: When I...