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Ana Navarro told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump “should be in a padded room.” Navarro said, “Look, you know, if they’re saying that this was all strategic, then he is a sadist because what kind of government leader puts his people through this kind of distress and sadness and anxiety for a week just for giggles? His supporters always say that he plays fourth-dimensional chess. I think he should be in a padded room playing with his own drool.” She continued, “The things he does are just simply lunacy, and we’re not out of...

President Donald Trump offered prayers for the journalists in the White House briefing room on Thursday, as he addressed the media about Wednesday’s deadly midair collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter. Trump began his remarks by asking for a moment of silence, then spoke for several minutes. At the end of his prepared remarks, he concluded: “God bless everyone in this room,” referring to the members of the press corps. It was a far cry from Trump’s usual jabs at the “fake news,” and a sign of the seriousness with which the president and the new administration...

Far-left NBC News is signaling nothing will change by announcing anti-Trump activist Yamiche Alcindor will return to the White House briefing room. “I’m heading back to the White House beat for @NBCNews to cover the second Trump administration,” Alcindor wrote on Xwitter. “It’s a true honor to be a journalist and I welcome all news tips and story ideas.” One must admit, the lack of typos in that xweet is impressive considering the size of her fingers. On top of taking up room for two in the White House briefing room, Alcindor regularly made headlines during Donald Trump’s first term...

Gen Xers are edging closer to retirement age and realizing that their 401(K) won't go the distance, an alarming report shows. A survey reveals that 55-year-old Americans have typically saved less than $50,000 for their pension — far below the $446,565 that's recommended at this stage. Nearly a quarter of them expect to be cash-strapped and plan to turn to their children for support. More than a fifth said they'd likely need to move in to their kids' spare room or basement as a 'silver squatter.' Prudential, a finance group, surveyed the oldest members of Generation X, or people born...

Staffers for President Biden provide him instructions with large print and photos of venue interiors and his planned path of entry ahead of events the 81-year-old commander-in-chief attends, according to a report. Documents obtained by Axios on Sunday show how staff help guide Biden – including his specific path to a podium – when he appears at functions. The report comes as the Democrat faces relentless questions about whether he is fit for the Oval Office after an awful debate performance last month against presumptive GOP opponent, former President Donald Trump. “It surprised me that a seasoned political pro like...

Donald Trump Jr. revealed the private area where he and his dad were taking a break as jurors began deciding the former president’s fate Wednesday. In a TikTok video, Don Jr. showed the echoing, white room where he and Trump awaited a verdict, sitting at a wooden table holding junk food including, a bottle of Diet Coke, a bag of Lays potato chips and a box of Milk Dud candies. “We are here with your favorite president,” the Trump son said in a 17-second video clip. “We are cranking out a couple mean tweets at the courthouse.” “Why don’t you...

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell acknowledged Thursday that contrary to the idea that a random tourist left cocaine in the White House in what officials have described as a “heavily trafficked” area, the cocaine was actually found in a “limited access place” near the Situation Room. “It was found, by my observation, in a much more secure place — limited access place than that West Wing reception area there,” Mitchell said. “It is still a publicly-trafficked, frequently-trafficked place, but it’s down near the Situation Room right off West Executive [Drive] down below. And normal people — just average people just can’t get...

The greatest scandal in American political history has its roots in room 214 of The Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The famed room still exists and can be booked for overnight stays for an average nightly rate of about $1,600. That's right: You, too, can sleep in the room where, in 1972, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy stationed themselves while orchestrating the break-in at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) headquarters. The fallout from the break-in led to President Richard Nixon resigning in disgrace. To date, Nixon remains the only U.S. president to ever resign from office. The DNC's...

This will help with the everyday stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health aspects that students and adults deal with on a daily basis. There is a room for students and a room for staff members. Each of them have different style of comfortable chairs, puzzles, drawing stations, yoga mats and more. “It’s really relaxing,” 8th grade student Veronica Touchette said. “All the lights and you can come in here and read a book or do a puzzle. That’s what I’m doing. Or color or really anything.”

Divers hunting for lost artwork from the legendary Amber Room looted by the Nazis are to begin searching a WWII shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea after photos revealed unidentified paintings and possible artefacts. The 12-man team from the Baltictech diving group will spend 10 days off the coast of Gdansk, Poland, at the end of May at the site where the German steamer Karlsruhe was sank by a Royal Navy submarine in 1945. Tomasz Stachura from Baltictech told MailOnline that initial observations of the wreck had revealed several 'non-military crates' as well as what appears to be...

The record-breaking room is used by the tech giant to do everything from tuning its headphones to making your mouse clicks sound perfect. However, the firm has found is it too quiet for most people - and nobody has been able to spend more than 45 minutes inside. The few outsiders who have entered it have complained of everything from becoming disturbed by the loudness of their own breathing to ringing in the ears and deafening stomach gurgles. ‘Some people come in for a minute and want out immediately,’ Hundraj Gopal, Microsoft’s principal human factors engineer, and the man who...

The second part of an exclusive interview with a high ranking former Google engineer who wishes to remain anonymous reveals the Google experience for conservative employees, and a surprising approach to gender in company restrooms. The former Google engineer (alias “Arthur”), worked at Google for several years in a relatively prominent position within the company. Breitbart News questioned Arthur about the treatment of conservatives at Google and the companies internal culture, described as an “ideological echo-chamber” by recently-fired employee James Damore. Read part one of the interview here. When asked if he worked alongside many conservatives Arthur stated that there...

Visitors to a new exhibition in Paris can check out Julian Assange's room at the Ecuadorean Embassy. © AFP 2016/ THOMAS COEXAssange to Agree to US Extradition If Obama Grants Manning Clemency - WikiLeaksJulian Assange is unable to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but visitors to a Paris museum are now able to see where he is living in London thanks to a new exhibition called "Whistleblower" in the Gaité Lyrique, from January 11 to 29. The artwork was produced by a Swiss art collective called!Mediengruppe Bitnik, who reproduced Assange's room at the Ecuadorian Embassy down to the finest...

This morning was not a good start to New Years week. I decided to go horseback riding, something I haven't done in many years, and which Mrs. Chandler warned me was not a good idea, but I refused to let her hold me back. It turned out to be a big mistake! I got on the horse and started out slowly, but then we went a little faster; and before I knew it, we were going as fast as the horse could go. I couldn't take the pace and fell off, but caught my foot in the stirrup with the...

The Baptist National Convention in Kansas City shrunk the room down by a third after nobody turned out to see Hillary Clinton today.

It was a rough day for Hillary Clinton. Intelligence officials deemed several Hillary Clinton emails "too damaging" to national security to release under any circumstances. Her campaign manager admitted in writing that Trump will win the election if nominated by the GOP. Then there's this... Hillary stumped to a half-empty room in Dubuque, Iowa. Only a couple hundred people showed up. Of course, the mainstream media made it look like a respectable crowd with their camera tricks. It was a rough day for Hillary Clinton. Intelligence officials deemed several Hillary Clinton emails "too damaging" to national security to release under...

Muslim students at the University of Colorado are calling on school leaders to create a room inside the Engineering Center that they can use for their obligatory, five-times daily prayers while they're on campus.

Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth Yesterday, news broke that Google has been stealth downloading audio listeners onto every computer that runs Chrome, and transmits audio data back to Google. Effectively, this means that Google had taken itself the right to listen to every conversation in every room that runs Chrome somewhere, without any kind of consent from the people eavesdropped on. In official statements, Google shrugged off the practice with what amounts to “we can do that”.It looked like just another bug report. "When I start Chromium, it downloads something."...

From a Maryland war room, a team of HealthCare.gov fixers hosts two troubleshooting calls a day, monitors the site in real time from 15 large screens and demands that the operation work at “private sector speeds.” The remarkable part: None of this was in place when the website launched the first time. **SNIP** Tech officials this week briefly raised the veil of secrecy surrounding the administration’s two-month scramble to rescue the centerpiece of Obama’s chief domestic policy, meeting with reporters to detail the site’s progress.

Washington - Officials expressed concern that the next shoe to drop in the evolving story about the Affordable Care Act would be disappointment from consumers once they are able to get on the troubled HealthCare.gov website – disappointment because of sticker shock and limited choice, according to a new document obtained by CNN. “Mike described a general concern of PM (plan management team): getting to the point where the website is functioning properly and individuals begin to select plans; the media attention will follow individuals to plan selection and their ultimate choices; and, in some cases, there will be fewer