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The 20-year-old nursing-home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican who packed explosives in the vehicle he drove to the campaign rally an hour from his home.(Snip)Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school. (Snip)Crooks used an AR-style rifle, which authorities said they believe was purchased by his father. Kevin Rojek, FBI special agent in charge in Pittsburgh, said that investigators do...

Chris Cuomo implored viewers not to get caught up in the "intrigue" of who Epstein was friends with and instead focus on how it was handled. "When we're talking about Epstein, you got to stick to what is common sense on these things, all right?" Cuomo said Wednesday night. "Don't get buried in legalese, don't follow the finger-pointing, and please don't get up on the intrigue of who was better friends with this guy. Who cares? …"

FULL TITLE: Trump is 'on his hero's journey' and I'm 'a crazy motherf***er': Kanye's 10-minute Oval Office rant as he pounds the Resolute Desk, says his MAGA hat is 'a Superman cape' and jokes about 2024 run - with president responding: 'Wow, that was impressive' *********************************************** The rapper lunched with Donald Trump, the president's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and Ivanka Also present at the lunch: Jim Brown, the NFL Hall of Fame running back White House called Kanye 'award-winning Rapper, Producer, and Fashion Designer' and published the lunch menu of caprese salad and roast chicken Agenda was said to...

President Barack Obama has offered to meet Texas Governor Rick Perry to discuss the border crisis during a visit to Texas after the governor declined a brief meeting when the president arrives in Austin, the White House confirmed on Tuesday. "The president would welcome a meeting with you while he is in Texas," White House aide Valerie Jarrett wrote to Perry. Jarrett also invited Perry to participate in a session to discuss the border situation with local faith leaders and elected officials in Dallas on Wednesday that has been added to president's schedule. Jarrett's letter, dated Monday, was first reported...

Wilson Sonsini's Larry Sonsini Asked to Probe US Ambassador John Roos, Mark Parnes

Texas governor Perry telling a news anchor "adios mofo" -- set to my own little techno arrangement.

Michigan police say a 35-year-old mother used the Internet to track down the son she gave up for adoption a decade ago, seducing and raping the teenage boy when she found him after an online search.But Sword herself has spoken since she first was arrested, writing on her MySpace page that she was inspired by rapper and former jailbird Lil' Kim because "she rises during the worst of obstacles." "Reminded me of myself," Sword wrote on the Web page, where she uses the name Aimee Pope.

You're Maureen Dowd, and you're scared. The self-doubt, the "Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas," the whole Robert Frost thing --you know, "The Road Not Taken" -- relentlessly nibbles at the edge of your consciousness. You're Maureen Dowd and you're scared -- Sarah Palin scared. Others -- like columnists Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker -- are jealous. But you are scared. You're celebrated, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, famed and feared, known as the "Queen of Snots" for eviscerating prose largely directed at conservatives and middle America, which begins at the Hudson River and ends just east of zip code 90210...

Editorial Analysis: Beside figuring out how he’ll weasel out of his recent arrest – and probable conviction – for trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder, I wonder if the disgraced governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is contemplating the fates of Lee Harvey Oswald, Alexander Litvinenko, Vince Foster, Jim McDougal and Ron Brown – all of whom were summarily disposed of to keep them from talking. Oswald, we know, was shot by Jack Ruby, a smalltime Dallas nightclub owner with suspected ties to the Mafia. The death effectively cemented the government’s case against the odd...

Barack Obama had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days after the vote to contact aides of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to begin talking up Mr. Obama's preferred candidates, associates of Mr. Emanuel said this weekend. Mr. Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago, had been approached about being Mr. Obama's White House chief of staff the week before the election, though he hadn't yet officially decided to take the post. Nonetheless, the issue of Mr. Obama's Senate replacement was sensitive enough that senior Obama aides wanted to keep the matter within the...

Perry taped using vulgar slang By John Moritz Star-Telegram Austin Bureau AUSTIN - When California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recites his signature movie line, "Hasta la vista, baby," crowds cheer. But Texas Gov. Rick Perry was cringing Tuesday after he was captured on a news video a day earlier using street slang for a common vulgarity at the end of an interview with a Houston TV reporter. "Adios, mofo," the governor said into a live microphone and video camera after being interviewed at an Austin studio via satellite by Ted Oberg of KTRK-TV. The station aired the clip, which was taped...

I have looked. I have researched. I am driven. So to speak. I scour my favorite car blogs like jalopnik.com and I read insider sites like autospies.com and regularly peruse all the mainstream online car mags from roadandtrack.com to motortrend.com to caranddriver.com to autoweek.com and I even read obscure ultra-car fanatic sites like autoextremist.com, and I have only come to one unerring and irrevocable conclusion: new cars suck. I am in the market. I have pored over pics of the new models coming out from almost every European automaker and have appropriately salivated over sexy small overpriced ridiculously impractical German...

Boy, 15, raped his mother By David Harding, Metro 21 January 2004 A boy of 15 made legal history yesterday by becoming the first teenager to appear in court charged with raping his mother. The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted the attack on his 36-year-old parent. She sat weeping feet from her son when he was brought into court. The assault took place when the boy returned home to Swansea for a weekend visit from local authority care in Cornwall. Judge Jonathan Durham Hall said he could find no record of such a crime in legal...

Do devastating hurricanes need help from affirmative action? A member of Congress apparently thinks so, and is demanding the storms be given names that sound "black." The congressional newspaper the Hill reported this week that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) feels that the current names are too "lily white," and is seeking to have better representation for names reflecting African-Americans and other ethnic groups. "All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names." A sampling of popular names that could be used include Keisha,...

<p>SF Gate's lead columnist, Mark Morford, has won first place in the online columnists division of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists contest.</p> <p>In addition, Chronicle television columnist Tim Goodman won the society's Herb Caen Memorial Award for notes/item columns.</p>