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President Joe Biden is being slammed for his “disgraceful response” — being termed his “Katrina moment” — after appearing unconcerned by the rising death toll in Hawaii when he offered “no comment” when asked about the current catastrophe after reclining at a Delaware beach. On Sunday evening, the president reportedly said he had “no comment” when asked about the rising death toll from the devastating Hawaii fires that have ravaged Maui since Tuesday. “After a couple hours on the Rehoboth beach, @potus was asked about the rising death toll in Hawaii. ‘No comment,’ he said before heading home,” tweeted Bloomberg...

Vice President Kamala Harris was slammed by critics Thursday over a poorly timed tweet calling for Congress to pass the Equality Act amid the breakout of war and a possible nuclear disaster in Europe. "Let’s send the Equality Act to President Biden’s desk. We must increase protections for LGBTQ+ Americans across the country. The onslaught of state bills targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong," Harris wrote, focusing on a separate issue than the then-ongoing attack of the largest nuclear facility in Europe by Russian forces.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing backlash after he insisted that it was “too soon” to tell whether the COVID-19 pandemic would disrupt this year’s Christmas holiday gatherings. In an interview Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” the White House chief medical adviser was asked whether groups could get together to celebrate the holiday. “It is just too soon to tell. We have to concentrate on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time,” Fauci said. But his response was slammed by...

The clash developed when Camerota asked Sununu about the Post’s report that the president declined to honor McCain. “That was printed in the Washington Post. And I have to be honest with you, I don’t give much credence to what I read,” Sununu said. Camerota interrupted: “We also have that reporting.” “Yeah, well, same thing applies, Alisyn,” Sununu said. Camerota appeared stunned, evidenced by the long silence on air. “I don’t appreciate you denigrating our reporting,” she said. “You asked me to come on to talk about John McCain,” he said. “I’m here to talk about John McCain as I...

NORTH LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – It began as a warning about loud music and ended with a 68-year-old woman being thrown to the ground and thrown into a pool. The entire thing was captured on video that quickly went viral on Twitter, and the incident sent a 16-year-old Margate teen to juvenile detention.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hammered John Kerry in 1985 for interfering in diplomatic negotiations with Nicaragua’s Marxist government as a Massachusetts senator. Thirty years later, Kerry is skewering Senate Republicans for their open letter to the Iranian leadership warning that any nuclear deal with the United States without the advice and consent of the U.S. Congress would not last beyond President Obama’s term. Kerry and then-Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin visited Nicaragua in 1985 to cut a deal with the Sandinista government, which was close to the former Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan, however, was already set on overthrowing...

Louisiana Republican state senator Elbert Guillory released a hard-hitting ad against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.) on Tuesday, saying that the Democrat has done nothing for the black community in her 18 years in the senate. “Mary Landrieu first ran for Senate in 1996 promising to be a champion for the black community. Eighteen years later, little has changed,” Guillory says, standing on a street corner in Opelousas, La. “Our communities are poorer than they were in 1996. Our schools continue to fail our children. Our jails are filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers....

(IsraelNN.com) Student politicians from the University of California at Berkeley voted Thursday to divest from Israel. The Student Senate voted 16-4 to call on the university to divest its funds from General Electric and from United Technologies, because both companies produce weapons purchased by the Israeli army. The bill calling for divestment was co-sponsored by students Emiliano Huet-Vaughn and Tom Pessah, the latter an anti-Zionist Israeli citizen. The bill noted the “complexity” of the Israel-Arab conflict, but went on to accuse Israel of violating international law with a “prolonged siege” on Gaza and “attacks on Palestinian and Lebanese civilians,” accusations...

Former president George W. Bush had a flair for insulting the people fighting to be his successor, former speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals in the October issue of GQ. The piece, an excerpt from Latimer's forthcoming book, "Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor," gives a candid look at the final days of the Bush presidency. In several passages, Bush comments on the candidates then vying for the White House: The president, like me, didn't seem to be in love with any of the available options. He always believed Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee. "Wait till her fat...

Kuala Lumpur - A popular rock singer has apologised for sparking an uproar in Muslim-majority Malaysia by baring his chest during a live TV concert and will do community service to atone for the stunt, his record company said on Wednesday. Faizal Tahir - one of Malaysia's most exuberant stage performers - stripped off his jacket, undershirt and belt and flung them into the audience at a Kuala Lumpur concert on Sunday. The moves revealed a bright red Superman logo painted on his chest. Television network 8TV said in a statement it was "utterly shocked and caught by surprise" by...

A school in western Sweden has been reprimanded by authorities after it used biblical quotations in pupils' reports. The Borås Christian School was also slammed by the Swedish National Agency for Education for not employing a high enough proportion of qualified teachers, and for leaving out central parts of the curriculum in certain subjects.

SACRAMENTO – Three years after bashing Indian gaming tribes on the way to the governor's office, Arnold Schwarzenegger is quietly reaching out to California's most powerful tribal leaders as he prepares for what could be a difficult re-election campaign. The overtures, similar to those the Republican governor has made in recent months to other special interests he has battled, could lead to another round of gambling expansion while chilling possible tribal opposition to his bid for a second term. “Schwarzenegger may never convince these tribes to be his biggest backers, but if he can talk them down to neutral, that...

U.S. Regulators, Saudis Slammed for Riggs Thursday June 17, 2004 12:16 AM By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers on Wednesday criticized federal regulators and Saudi Arabia for their roles in the Riggs Bank affair as the government tried to balance diplomats' right to U.S. banking services with the need to block terrorism financing. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a Treasury Department agency, came under renewed criticism at a House subcommittee hearing over its handling of the Riggs situation. The comptroller, John Hawke, has accepted blame for failed oversight by his office that allowed...

Ashleigh Bumfield did not have any finger slamed in a car door this evening while reporting other accounts of shamed women suffering the same fate. Many were punished for being caught showing the Western "finger" to the Prayer Towers, which Ashleigh taught to many of the women... Sahib Looney Banfield thought his wife got a "bad rap" even though her digits were in good hands. Her silly little glasses are intact, unlike her reports from Afghan "Bars-R-Mined" report, and all 12 of her training bras were stolen and unaccounted for, Sahib Banfield whined to ClintoonNN.