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Embattled former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says the Trump 2020 campaign and the Republican National Committee still owe him $2 million in legal fees for challenging the former president’s election loss. Giuliani, 79, said during a bankruptcy court hearing Wednesday that the former president asked him to spearhead legal matters for the campaign in November 2020 — the same month Trump lost to President Biden. “Once I took over, it was my understanding that I would be paid by the campaign for my legal work and my expenses to be paid,” he told the Manhattan federal bankruptcy trustee...

The Journal calls it Trump’s attempt to make peace with the GOP after two days of heavy breathing over the McCain comments. It’s not an apology, but Mediaite is right that it’s probably as close as he gets to an apology. Which is good, because only RINOs apologize. He insists here that he didn’t really say what everyone heard him say this past weekend about McCain, which is interesting given that Trump fans have spent the last three days claiming that what he said was correct. Trump keeps pointing in interviews to this “fact check” by Sharyl Attkisson, who took...

(IsraelNN.com) A plane headed from LaGuardia Airport to Louisville made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport Thursday morning because a 17 year old man on a plane was praying with tefillin, or phylacteries. According to Fox News, the man was questioned by airline personnel, who “didn't get answers to satisfy them” and diverted the plane to Philadelphia.

President Barack Obama today tried to clarify the letter he sent to Russia concerning a proposed U.S. Missle Defense Shield in Eastern Europe that it seemed he was offering to pull in exchange for Russia's help in pressuring Iran not to develop nuclear weapons. Essentially, Obama claims the letter never offered such a deal, but was rather a result of the "progress" being made on lessening the nuclear tensions with Iran. What progress? What evidence is there that Iran has done anything to step back their desire to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, or to abandon their...

Eastbound traffic on Interstate 20 was shut down for a short time Thursday morning by what turned out to be a misunderstanding. Tactical units from Parker County law enforcement agencies responded to a report of a man with a gun to his head at about 9:30 a.m. near mile marker 420, close to the I-20 merge with Interstate 30.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The adult sons of an Idaho state senator are in hot water with authorities in Idaho's capital city after two American flags dedicated to soldiers killed in Iraq were vandalized. Twenty-four-year-old Michael Burkett was arrested and 22-year-old Thomas Burkett was cited for allegedly damaging flags and flagpoles on the grounds of the Idaho Capitol building this morning. Police say Michael Burkett also resisted and obstructed officers. Boise Police say one flag pole had been bent so the flag was lying on the ground, the other had been pulled from the ground. Their father is Boise Senator...

Iran's gulf of misunderstanding with US By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News Anti-American protests in Tehran are a regular event The US and Iran almost never speak to each other. "It's the most unusual relationship we have with any country in the world," explains US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. "It's been 27 years since we've had a normal diplomatic, social and political relationship. And so for instance I am one of the people responsible for Iran in our government and yet I have never met an Iranian government official in my 25-year career." The fiery...

A nephew of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. set fire to his own apartment in an apparent suicide attempt. Derek King, 46, sought mental health counseling after Tuesday's blaze, said Bob Bowser, deputy chief of the Lawrence Police Department. Bowser said Derek King endangered the lives of himself and others when he allegedly set the fire in his apartment, and then refused to leave when rescuers arrived. "It could have been a tragedy," Arson investigators determined that the fire was intentionally set, and Bowser said King could face charges. Rev. Thomas L. Brown, pastor at Ebenezer Missionary,...

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Famous for zipping around New Mexico’s open roadways at high speeds, Governor Richardson was at it again this month. Albuquerque police spokesman John Walsh says an officer spotted a sport utility vehicle speeding southbound on Interstate 25 the morning of June 2nd. In an audio tape, the officer is heard describing the vehicle and trying to signal it to pull over. The vehicle exited the interstate and stopped at a traffic light. That’s when the officer approached it and determined it was the governor. The state Department of Public Safety says it was a simple misunderstanding. The...

"I Gave It Up for Lent"Harry R. OsborneA few years ago about this time of year, a story appeared in the newspaper about a strange occurrence in France. It seems that a thief cornered a man in a dark place. He threatened to slash the man's throat with his knife unless he handed over his money. As the Victim reached for his wallet, the light caught him in such a way that the thief saw his victim was a priest. The robber quickly apologized for his behavior explaining that he was unaware of the fact that he had preyed upon...

George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday that the "writings" that got him arrested are being taken out of context. Winchester police say William Poole, 18, was taken into custody Tuesday morning. Investigators say they discovered materials at Poole's home that outline possible acts of violence aimed at students, teachers, and police. Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding. He claims that what his grandparents found in his journal and turned into police was a short story he wrote for English class. "My story is...

Scientists Find 75 Percent Of Red Snapper Sold In Stores Is Really Some Other Species CHAPEL HILL ? While learning in a course how to extract, amplify and sequence the genetic material known as DNA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate students got a big surprise. So did their marine science professors. In violation of federal law, more than 75 percent of fish tested and sold as tasty red snapper in stores in eight states were other species. How much of the mislabeling was unintentional or fraud is unknown, said Dr. Peter B. Marko, assistant professor of marine...

<p>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Wednesday dismissed a U.N. report accusing it of failing to disclose a radioactive material needed to trigger a nuclear explosion, saying the report was based on a "misunderstanding."</p> <p>Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran had done research in the past on polonium but stopped 13 years ago. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency was nothing new, he said.</p>

Did Johnny Hart -- the beloved creator of "B.C." and one of the most widely read cartoonists on Earth -- sneak a vulgar defamation of Islam into the comics pages last week? The question was raised yesterday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based civil rights group, in an e-mail to its membership. Hart and his syndicate say no -- that a simple, straightforward joke is being misconstrued. That may well be true, but the 73-year-old cartoonist's history of evangelizing his Christian beliefs through his comic cavemen have left many people doubtful. The cartoon, which appeared Nov. 10...

Mon Feb 17 13:32:03 2003 Pacific Time Misunderstanding the Prehistoric Southwest: What Happened at Chaco? BOULDER, Feb. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- Two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have developed intriguing theories on the mysterious demise of the Chaco Canyon Pueblo people and the larger Chaco region that governed an area in the Southwest about the size of Ohio before it collapsed about 1125. Steve Lekson, curator of anthropology at the CU Museum, believes a powerful political system centered at Chaco Canyon in northern New Mexico may have kept other Pueblo peoples under its thumb from about 1000 to 1125....

Ronald Bailey, reason.com On September 5 the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World," sat down at a Borders bookstore in Oxford, England, to promote his controversial book. A pie was thrown in his direction. "I wanted to put a Baked Alaska in his smug face," said the perpetrator, "in solidarity with the native Indian and Eskimo people in Alaska." It was one of the more honest attacks on Lomborg and his book. Filled with scores of charts and graphs, backed by some 2,900 endnotes and 70 pages of references, "The...

Dear Readers, I just couldn't keep this one from you. As any liberal publication might, The American Prospect has had its bumpy times with the right's radio megastar Rush Limbaugh. In case you don't recall, Limbaugh got his dander up last summer when I implicated him in a campaign to demonize Tom Daschle. There are numerous other examples. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that on a recent show, Rush read aloud from TAP executive editor Harold Meyerson's latest column about the political genius of Karl Rove -- and did so approvingly. Sometimes the links on Rush's Web site...