Posts on Wednesday, November 6, 2019
ABC News chiefs have discovered a former employee could be behind the leak of the damning footage of Amy Robach slamming the network for shelving her interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s “sex slave” Virginia Roberts Giuffre. Sources told Page Six that a former staffer had access to the footage of Robach as she aired her frustrations over a hot mike. The employee is now believed to be working at CBS. ABC sources confirmed to us they’ve informed counterparts at rival CBS about the staffer “as a courtesy.”
It was January 1975, and San Diego was making big news in the New York Times, as violence from a notorious polygamous cult spilled into the county from Baja California.... "Mexican authorities said that since the colony's establishment 11 years ago 90 miles south of Ensenada, five persons had been killed, including the sect's founder and president, Joel LeBaron, 47 years old, who was beaten and fatally shot on August 20, 1972."
A former Florida middle school assistant principal who molested at least one teenager—without revealing he was HIV-positive—has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison. Kyle Dale Ritsema, 36, was charged with producing, distributing and possessing child pornography for enticing a 14-year-old boy into unprotected sex five times, and is believed to have targeted other teens “and on several occasions sexually abused them,” federal prosecutors in Florida said.(Snip) He came under scrutiny last year when federal agents probing another Pasco County school official, school bus manager William Napolitano, discovered that the two chatted regularly on the gay dating
The senior ministers of the Israeli government met twice last week to discuss the possibility of open war with Iran. They were mindful of the Iranian plan for a drone attack from Syria in August, aborted at the last minute by an Israeli air strike, as well as Iran’s need to deflect attention from the mass protests against Hezbollah’s rule in Lebanon. The ministers also reviewed the recent attack by Iranian drones and cruise missiles on two Saudi oil installations, reportedly concluding that a similar assault could be mounted against Israel from Iraq.
A deadly night of "revenge" by organized crime, filled with shootings and burned bodies and buses, struck Juárez on Tuesday. The chaos was the latest wave in increased violence in the Mexican border city, where daily drug-related murders are routine and more than 1,200 people have been killed this year. Juárez Mayor Armando Cabada said the attacks were retaliation by criminals for an impending prison search. The attacks were intended as a distraction by the Mexicles gang from a search planned to begin at midnight Wednesday at the Cereso No. 3 prison in Juárez, Chihuahua law enforcement authorities said at
Actor Rob Schneider one-upped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the mentality of Democratic voters. And added an obscenity. The former “Saturday Night Live” comic disparaged deep-blue California’s electorate in the context of commenting on an article about “the Left’s ignorance of Stalin’s tyranny.”
“Unfortunately, people in California would vote for a bowl of s—t if it had ‘D’ next to it,” he tweeted. Mr. Schneider himself spelled out the obscene term. Last spring, Mrs. Pelosi disparaged the victory of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a New York congressional district, saying a “glass of water with a D next to its
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., introduced legislation on Wednesday that would incentivize school districts to extend school days as a way of accommodating parents' work schedules.The program would offer five-year, $5 million grants for schools to "develop high-quality, culturally relevant, linguistically accessible, developmentally appropriate academic, athletic or enrichment opportunities for students."“My mother raised my sister and me while working demanding, long hours,” said Harris, who is running for president. “So, I know firsthand that, for many working parents, juggling between school schedules and work schedules is a common cause of stress and financial hardship. ... My bill provides an innovative solution
The campaign for Democrat presidential hopeful and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro took aim at “the four white frontrunners” in the race for president.The comments, which were made by campaign spokesperson Sawyer Hackett, were shared in an official Castro campaign email sent to reporters on Tuesday. Hackett said: While the media is focused on the four white frontrunners for president, the ground continues to shift in the 2020 race–and with candidates dropping out, and others unable to appeal to African American and Latino voters, candidates like Secretary Castro are poised for a breakthrough.
Jean Alexandra "Sandy" Morgan, the sister of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, died Wednesday morning at 85.John McCain's widow, Cindy, announced the death of her sister-in-law via Twitter, sharing that Morgan and her brother John "are together again." She also shared a photo of Sandy, John, and younger brother Joe as children with their parents and grandfather.,(Tweet/Photo) Morgan's younger brother, John S. McCain III, died August 2018 from brain cancer while representing Arizona in the U.S. Senate. He had launched two bids for the presidency, in 2000 and 2008, and was a member of Congress for 35 years.
Scientists are imploring members of the public to eat less meat as they warn that the world is facing a climate emergency. In a paper published today in journal BioScience, a global team of scientists have declared a climate emergency, detailing six areas of action they say must be addressed that can help slow down the impact of climate change. The paper, which features more than 11,000 scientist signatories from 153 countries, was authored by scientists from the University of Sydney, Oregon State University, the University of Cape Town and Tufts University. The team of researchers conducted a scientific analysis
Mark S. Zaid, the attorney representing the so-called “whistleblower” in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, tweeted in 2017 that the “coup has started,” adding that “impeachment will follow ultimately.” (Tweet)Zaid was referring to the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to defend President Trump’s executive order barring travel to the U.S. from terror-prone countries that had been identified as such under the Obama administration. Yates later claimed that there was no constitutional basis for defending the order in court, but the order (later amended twice) was upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court due to the president’s wide prerogatives over immigration.
As the impeachment inquiry engulfs the Trump White House, border wall construction is slow, and the president's party struggles to pass any significant legislation, President Trump is celebrating one thing his administration has undeniably accomplished: confirming scores of conservative judges to lifetime appointments on federal courts across the country.On Wednesday, in the middle of deposition transcript releases and administration officials defying congressional subpoenas, Mr. Trump commemorated that agenda accomplishment with an East Room event on federal judicial confirmations.
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According to several media reports AG Bill Barr is scheduled to have a meeting today with Senator Lindsey Graham for an update on the Horowitz and Durham investigations:
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U.S. Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr are spending time on a narrowed focus looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. (Snip)To understand the risk that Julian Assange represented to CIA interests, it is important to understand just how extensive the operations of the CIA were in 2016. It is within this network of foreign and domestic operations where FBI Agent Peter Strzok is clearly working as a bridge between the CIA and FBI operations.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has announced the first set of cast members for his public pantomime to assist the impeachment effort. According to Schiff the cast will appear in order of narrative construction:Wednesday, November 13, 2019, Schiff will present William Taylor and George Kent; and then on Friday November 15, 2019, Schiff will present Marie Yovanovitch.
Accordingly, today Director Schiff has presented the script of William Taylor.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, (Snip)released the transcript from the joint deposition of Ambassador William Taylor, Chargé d’Affaires Ad Interim For U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Oh boy, have the wounds healed? According to multiple media reports former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is poised to run for his longtime Senate seat in Alabama. He would be challenging Senator Doug Jones who is considered the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate.
Mr. Sessions was generally disappointing during his tenure as AG; driven primarily by his recusal from all issues around the 2016 campaign, including the Mueller investigation. President Trump requested his resignation the day after the mid-terms, and President Trump stated giving Jeff Sessions the AG job was the biggest mistake of his presidency.
On the upside, Sessions was a good Senator and dependably strong on immigration and
Eric Ciaramella Attorney, January 2017:
“Coup Has Started” – July 2017:
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“Coup Has Started” – July 2017:
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A few people have started looking at the connections behind Mark Zaid, the attorney for CIA “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella. What is starting to emerge is evidence of what CTH outlined yesterday; the current impeachment process is part of a coup continuum, and everything around the whistleblower is part of a long-ago planned and pre-constructed operation.
(Snip)This 2017 tweet by the whistleblowers’ attorney is evidence of what we were sharing yesterday. A point that almost everyone is missing…. What is happening now with Adam Schiff and his Lawfare-contracted legal aide, Daniel Goldman, was designed last year. The current HPSCI legislative impeachment process, (Snip) is the execution of a plan
In August 1995, organizers for the annual Veterans Day Parade in New York City looked at how much money they had three months before the big day. $1.21. [Snip] The Times reported, "Then Donald Trump, a non-veteran, agreed to throw in $200,000 as well as raise money from his friends . . ." [Snip] "'This donation is the single most important thing I've ever done,' said a beaming Trump. [Snip] This is my way of saying thank you to all the men an women in the armed services who have made it possible for me to become a success. . .
James Younger, the 7-year-old at the center of the transgender custody battle, has decided to attend school as a boy.
Younger’s father, Jeffrey Younger, was blocked by a Texas judge after refusing to cooperate with the child’s mother, Anne Georgulas, as she allowed the child to transition from male to female.
Georgulas claimed James Younger identified as a woman and wanted to be called Luna, something Jeffery Younger refused to do.
Judge Kim Cooks placed both parents under a gag order
Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin’s refusal to concede Tuesday’s razor-thin gubernatorial election to Democratic challenger Andy Beshear could result in a weekslong process ultimately decided by the Republican-controlled state legislature and a bitter partisan political fight. Beshear, currently Kentucky’s attorney general, received nearly 5,200 more votes than Bevin Tuesday, amounting to a 0.36% lead. Bevin asserted that he would not concede to Beshear in part because of “irregularities” in the election,
Rep. Mark Meadows walked past an MSNBC reporter during a live segment before coming back and chastising the reporter after she said that Republicans were finding it difficult to defend President Trump over impeachment proceedings.NBC News correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell attempted to get the North Carolina Republican to do a hallway interview with her, but he blew by with some aides."Hold on, we have Mark Meadows right here," Caldwell said as Meadows ignored her."So he, he’s walking by right now," the reporter continued. "But Republicans are really struggling to defend the president."
David Marcus, The Federalist’s New York correspondent, recently tweeted that he can’t make up his mind about whether he fears “the socialists or the libertarians more.” Robert Tracinski, an author and the editor of The Tracinski Letter, responded, “LOL. God forbid we should…leave you alone.” This was a good Twitter burn, but I suspect that for many people, that is precisely what they fear about libertarianism: that they will be left alone.
They have a point, insofar as libertarianism has become less about a commitment to limited government and more a philosophy of autonomous individualism.
President Donald Trump will lead New York City’s 100th annual Veterans Day Parade next week, becoming the first sitting president to accept the honor, the event’s organizers announced Wednesday.But while Trump will be making history Monday as he attends the parade, an offer the United Veterans War Council has made to every president since 1985, his involvement as a citizen with the annual Veterans Day event dates back to 1995 when he saved the event from dire financial straits.Less than three months before the 1995 Veterans Day parade, in mid-August,
'Aliens have seized his brain': Hillary
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WASHINGTON – The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Tuesday night that she did not understand the change she has seen in former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in recent years, joking that it seemed as if "aliens had seized his brain." She made the comment after "Late Late Show" host James Corden asked Clinton if she had been surprised by Giuliani's behavior. "Totally," she said, laughing. "He was mayor during 9/11. I was a senator, I worked with him, and I don't know what happened. It's almost like aliens have seized his brain."
Huge honor! Trump to be first president
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“Fox & Friends” hosted a discussion on military veterans ahead of November 11, and it included a massive surprise that is sure to make the pro-Trump audience cheer. Watch (Video) At the top of the segment, the crew teased a “big announcement” regarding the Veterans Day Parade, and boy was it big.
Marine Corps veteran and chairman of the United War Veterans Council Doug McGowan could hardly contain the smile on his face as he spilled the secret. “On behalf of the NYC veteran community and the United War Veterans Council, I am proud to announce- honored to announce that the Commander in Chief as accepted our invitation
Kentucky's Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear claimed victory Tuesday night in the gubernatorial race against incumbent Matt Bevin as several outlets projected his win. But Bevin isn't conceding. In fact, he just formally requested a recanvass, considering Beshear reportedly won by just 5,000 votes. (Tweet) "The people of Kentucky deserve a fair and honest election," Bevin campaign manager Davis Paine said in a statement on Wednesday. "With reports of irregularities, we are exercising the right to ensure that every lawful vote was counted." In a speech to supporters last night,
What is it that lefty pundits can see that Democratic presidential candidates -- with all their highly-paid teams of election experts -- can't?
How to win an election, apparently.
Over on the far left, New York magazine's Jonathan Chait writes that the latest battleground states poll shows that Democrats are living "in a fantasy world." Chait starts off praising the Democratic 2018 House contenders for wading "into hostile territory" to flip 40 House districts, using a "formula centered on narrowing their target profile by avoiding controversial positions, and focusing obsessively on Republican weaknesses." Party affiliation aside, Chait is right -- that's how you flip seats,
The notion that the Ukraine “whistleblower” is somehow entitled to anonymity was probably first peddled by the Flat Earth Society. It is a myth and demonstrably so.
It is understandable why unscrupulous Democrats like Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., have perpetuated the canard. As chairman of the House Intelligence Committee – which is presiding over the current impeachment “witch hunt” – Schiff is determined to conceal his own involvement with the faux “whistleblower” and his subsequent deceit about those machinations.
But it is incomprehensible why most of the media have failed to expose the hoax. Likely driven by their abiding liberal bias and pervasive laziness, they have simply accepted as scripture
Kentucky’s Libertarian Party appears to be relishing its role as a potential spoiler in the state’s gubernatorial contest – as incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin trails the state's Democratic attorney general in the results of the closely watched contest Tuesday. "We are always happy to split the vote in a way that causes delicious tears. Tonight there are plenty of delicious tears from Bevin supporters," the party said in a Facebook post Tuesday night.
Killing America in anonymity
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The media tells us there is a "heroic" whistle blower who claims President Donald John Trump broke a law -- never specified -- in a phone call to the newly elected president of Ukraine. President Trump released the transcript of the call, which shows nothing of the sort. Nevertheless, the media is pushing for an impeachment top(sic) boost cable news ratings, and to divert attention from the best economy in 50 years, Disney's ABC covering up Clinton's involvement with pedophile Jeff Epstein, and peace breaking out in Syria after 8 years of war.
In a constitutional republic, we elect our leaders.
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A federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration’s rule allowing healthcare workers to refuse to provide abortions—and other procedures—that violate their religious beliefs. The administration’s rule was set to take effect this July but the Health and Human Services Department delayed the effective date to Nov. 22 after the “conscience” rule, which is aimed at protecting religious or moral objections to various medical procedures, was challenged in court by more than a dozen states. Judge Paul Engelmayer, an Obama appointee, sided against the Trump administration. “Contrary to HHS’s depiction of it as mere housekeeping, the rule relocates the metes and bounds
Sea level rise is set to challenge human civilization for centuries to come, even if internationally agreed climate goals are met and planet-warming emissions are then immediately eliminated, researchers have found.
The lag time between rising global temperatures and the knock-on impact of coastal inundation means that the world will be dealing with ever-rising sea levels into the 2300s, regardless of prompt action to address the climate crisis, according to the new study.
Even if governments meet their commitments from the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement, the first 15-year period of the deal will still result in enough emissions
A majority of registered voters believe President Trump will win again in 2020.
A new Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 56 percent of all voters said Trump will be re-elected next year. The president obviously has an edge with Republicans, with 85 percent saying a Trump 2.0 is happening.
But a majority of independents - 51 percent - agreed. Even a third of Democrats, 35 percent, said they believed there would be four more years of President Trump.
Support for President Trump's impeachment slipped 4 percentage points since mid-October, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The Morning Consult survey found that 47 percent of respondents now back impeachment. In mid-October, a record-high majority — 51 percent — supported it.
Those opposed to impeachment held steady at 43 percent, where it has stood since House Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry over the president's dealings with Ukraine in September.
Responses on how House Democrats have managed the inquiry are also virtually unchanged in the new survey, with more than 4 in 5 Democrats backing their representatives in the House and a similar number of Republicans disagreeing with the House
Oh, deer. A Maine lobster boat netted a bizarre catch about 5 miles offshore Monday—a deer, according to a Facebook post by the vessel’s captain. The frightened brown and white creature, which had about 2-inch antlers, was spotted off the coast of the town of Harrington drifting even further out to sea when the boat’s stunned crew rescued it, Capt. Ren Dorr wrote. “Found this little guy 5 miles offshore today drifting farther away from land. Couldn’t let the poor guy suffer and drown so we brought him aboard and sailed him half hour to land and dropped him off
As the hours of transcripts of witnesses in the Ukraine impeachment inquiry rack up and continue to underwhelm, Democrats and their allies in the media have seized on a new tactic. The old, archaic term “quid pro quo,” is about to go the way of the Dodo. In its place the terms “extortion” and “bribery” will fly about like hot air balloons in California wine country.
Here we see the new terms in action from Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., yesterday on CNN. The supposed justification for this ramping up of the rhetoric is an amendment that Ambassador Gordon Sondland made to his testimony before the impeachment inquiry in which he said
Who Can Stop Trump Now?
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In one of my previous articles, written a year after the 2016 election, I suggested that Trump was headed for a full-blown bankruptcy of his political opponents. This was referring not only to the financial, but also to the political, legal, and moral bankruptcy of the Democratic Socialist Party and its organs of mass disinformation.But who could have foreseen that the route the Democrats would take would be in the form of self-destruction?On Halloween, the full House of Representatives finally voted to legalize the impeachment investigation, which was unlawfully conducted by the Schiff-Nadler-Pelosi trio. By a majority vote, the House approved the rules for an impeachment inquiry.
Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and Pol Pot were among the villains mentioned at a recent meeting of the Hood County Commissioners’ Court, but no menace loomed as large as someone Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds would describe only as “a person who’s running for president.”
Not even a man who claimed to have campaigned for Beto O’Rourke in 2018 would defend the Democratic presidential candidate’s recent promise to confiscate assault-style weapons if elected to the White House. Daniel Peters told the commissioners that he’s gay and liberal and worries that some gun extremists “want to kill people like me.”
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, a group that has often infiltrated news organizations to uncover liberal bias, has released an explosive “hot mic” video of Good Morning America co-host Amy Robach venting about ABC’s decision to spike a story about Jeffrey Epstein’s nefarious activities three years ago.(Snip)Robach now claims, through a network statement, that she was caught “in a private moment” of frustration over the lack of progress on a story. “I was upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because I could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations.”
A Clinton Democrat took aim at Sen. Elizabeth Warren's healthcare plan, comparing her "Medicare for all" proposal to the ceremonial suicides of samurais in Japan.
In a Tuesday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal titled "Elizabeth Warren’s Health-Care Hara-Kiri," former President Clinton's deputy assistant for domestic policy William Galston questioned whether or not America is ready for the "big structural change" Warren has promised. He also wondered if Democrats would "be wise to bet that it is" ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
"Now that Ms. Warren has released her long-awaited "Medicare for all" plan, there is no longer any need to discuss this issue in the abstract,"
China and France signed contracts totalling $15 billion during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron, a Chinese government official said at a news briefing on Wednesday, as the country’s two leaders reaffirmed their support for the Paris Agreement on climate change.
French President Emmanuel Macron gave a news conference at the end of his three-day visit in China. Follow our live coverage by clicking on the player above.
Deals were struck in the fields of aeronautics, energy and agriculture, including approval for 20 French companies to export poultry, beef and pork to China, the official said on the third day of Macron's visit to China.
Despite Colorado handing Democrats control of both houses of the state Legislature, the governor's mansion, and three other statewide offices, its voters don't want the state to keep more of their money. A ballot measure to increase state revenue, Proposition CC, went down to strong defeat. A final count is not yet available, but Colorado Public Radio reports, "The measure was trailing by more than 100,000 votes when the AP called it shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday."
After an operation to locate and kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi ended with the so-called “caliph” blowing himself up in his heavily fortified safe house on October 26, the United States is faced with another elusive task of unmasking the terror group’s new leader.
Shortly after ISIS confirmed Baghdadi’s death and announced his successor last Thursday, US President Donald Trump tweeted: “ISIS has a new leader. We know exactly who he is!” That, however, does not seem to be the case. Recent reports indicate that Iraqi, Kurdish and American officials say they don’t have much to go on.
A crucial element of Israel’s defence system is at risk of becoming compromised after its advanced surface-to-air interceptor missile known as “David’s Sling” was found intact by Syrian forces and handed to the Russians to reverse engineer the technology.
Israeli sources reported that missiles fired in 2018 during what is believed to be its first known operational use, landed intact inside Syrian territory. One of the interceptor missiles failed to strike its target and another fell inside Syria. The interceptor landed intact in Syria and is believed to have been swiftly recovered by Syrian military forces and handed over to the Russians.
Former President Bill Clinton’s accusers still want justice, they told the Daily Caller News Foundation after reporter Ronan Farrow said on Nov. 1 that the former president was “credibly accused of rape.”
Farrow wrote the book “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” which is about NBC News’s alleged attempts to silence his reporting surrounding sexual assault allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. He spoke on CBS’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Nov. 1 and said Clinton’s alleged victim Juanita Broaddrick “credibly” accused the former president of rape and that the accusation was “overdue for revisiting.”
This column about the latest slam-Trump-fest-funeral was written 10.29.2019. I have waited until now to post it, out of semi-respect for the dead. Rev. Hillary went all lapsed-Methodist on us about Elijah Cummings. She eulogized the civil rights hero thus: “Like the prophet, our Elijah could call down fire from heaven…and like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.” The assembled mourners understood her not-so-subtle insult to President and Mrs. Trump and erupted with cheers and applause. Everyone, that is, Please split wide headlines.
It’s been two decades, but I still remember the excitement of helping to pass California’s Proposition 227, which I thought would rescue Spanish-speaking kids from an education ghetto of frustration and failure. It was an uphill battle. We fought an education bureaucracy including California’s powerful teachers’ unions, book publishers who received lucrative government contracts, and even Jerry Perenchio, the late Republican billionaire CEO of Univision, who donated $1.5 million to the efforts to maintain California’s “bilingual” education system.
We won. Sixty-one percent of Californians were ready for a change.
Voters in Tucson, Arizona had to make a decision yesterday about Prop 205. The measure would have designated their municipality as the only sanctuary city in the state, placing significant restrictions on police in terms of when they can check on the immigration status of suspects. Supporters of the measure also said it would make the city a more “welcoming” place to (presumably illegal) immigrants. Tucson’s progressives that had pushed for the referendum described it as something that would “send a strong message to Donald Trump.”
Preliminary results are in for the Seattle City Council election, and it appears far-left candidates who were expected to be hostile to business interests have faltered after Amazon dumped more than a million dollars into the race in October.
Self-proclaimed socialist Kshama Sawant, an incumbent from the city's 3rd District, trailed her more moderate challenger Egan Orion by about eight points as of Wednesday morning.
Orion celebrated his lead with supporters Tuesday night and said he was "90% confident" that he'd hold onto it, The Seattle Times reported.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King’s name from one of the city’s most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon.
Unofficial results vote showed the proposal to remove King’s name received nearly 70% of the vote, with just over 30% voting to retain King’s name.
The debate over the name of the 10-mile (16.1 kilometer) boulevard on the city’s mostly black east side began shortly after the council’s decision in January
If you were on social media last night, you probably saw a lot of folks on the left celebrating that Kentucky, a deep red state, “had turned blue” because of the razor-thin victory of Democrat Andy Beshear over incumbent Republican Matt Bevin.
Let me just get it out of the way right now and tell you that Kentucky isn’t turning blue. The state hasn’t been “flipped” or whatever else they’re saying.
We’ve seen this narrative before. When Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeated Republican Roy Moore in the special election for Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat in 2017, many on the left seemed to interpret that election as a sign of Trump’s weakness,
The nine women and children slaughtered in Mexico on Monday were part of a Mormon community with ties to the alleged sex-cult Nxivm.
The outpost Mormon community in Mexico is where underlings of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere recruited young women to work as nannies in an upstate New York compound run by the accused cult — suggesting at least in part that the jobs would get the girls away from their home region’s drug violence, according a man hired by Raniere to produce a documentary about the group.
The three moms and six kids killed in Monday’s violence in the northern town of Sonora are believed to
AUGUSTA, WIS.
Corey Bauch is eager to explain why he regrets not voting for Donald Trump.
The 44-year old-agreed to meet with me last week in this rural Wisconsin town (population of 1,500), where he has lived most of his life. As we talked, horse-drawn buggies from the local Amish community rolled past a small outpost of stores, on their way to nearby farms.
The libertarian Bauch was one of the few in rural Wisconsin who didn’t support Trump in 2016, saying he reminded him of an arrogant boss. But after the election, he began to see the president’s outspoken style as an antidote to Washington’s pervasive corruption.
A suspect was arrested near the Arizona border with Mexico in connection with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens - six children and three women – Monday who were living in a Mormon community about 70 miles south of Douglas, Ariz., investigators said early Wednesday.
The victims’ convoy came under fire during the day in an ambush by gunmen believed to be affiliated with a drug cartel in Mexico(Snip) the suspect was found in the town of Agua Prieta, right across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The suspect was holding two hostages who were bound and gagged inside a vehicle.
Investigators found four assault rifles and a bulletproof SUV.
Senate Republicans are privately debating whether they should use an impeachment trial of President Trump to scrutinize former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter as some Trump allies push to call them as witnesses while others dismiss the suggestion as a risky political ploy.
The ongoing discussions are a revealing glimpse into the fault lines in the GOP ahead of a possible trial of Trump in the Senate, where there are varying appetites among Republicans for the type of political combat relished by the president and his most ardent defenders.
Among a group of Trump’s allies inside and outside Congress, there is intense and growing interest in countering the
Mike Bloomberg’s gun-control group just
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A gun-control lobbying group funded largely by billionaire Michael Bloomberg just helped Democrats take over the state government in Virginia – right in the National Rifle Association’s backyard.
In Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats tipped the Virginia House and Senate in their favor, giving them full control of the state government for the first time since 1994. The election had stronger-than-usual turnout in the suburbs, according to media reports.
While the results could be a good omen for Democrats’ chances in 2020, it may also be a tipping point in the money battle over gun rights.
Is Elizabeth Warren Set to Fall?
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This has been an awful week for the purported new 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. For months, Warren has received nearly unmitigated praise from the media for her bevy of "plans." She's been praised as "wonkish" and "brainy" and "focused." Her growth in the polls has been the dual result of a strong organizational effort by her campaign in early primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and endless gobs of drool from reporters.
But now the bloom is coming off the rose.