This is Wilson.* His mother, Aline, took the picture to mark a happy and hopeful moment following a traumatic period when Wilson participated in a University of Illinois at Chicago clinical trial that tested whether lithium was effective in treating children with bipolar disorder. ProPublica Illinois reported in April that the UIC psychiatrist who oversaw […]
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Hurricane Michael Infrastructure Damage in Pictures…
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Panama City, Florida with 155 mph winds the afternoon of October 10, 2018. Tropical storm force winds extended through the Panhandle to Pensacola. Here is a collection of our storm team’…
Papadopoulos to Tell Congress About Series of Suspicious Interactions Ahead of 2016 Election…
When former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos testifies Thursday before Congress he hopes to speak with lawmakers about his interactions with nine individuals he believes may have been sent to surveil him during and after the 2016 election. A lawyer for Papadopoulos listed the nine people in a letter sent Monday to the House Oversight […]
Secret Service Intercepts Suspicious Packages Sent to Obama and Clinton…
The U.S. Secret Service has intercepted two suspicious packages addressed to Secret Service protectees. Late on October 23, 2018, the Secret Service recovered a single package addressed to Former First Lady Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, New York. Early this morning, October 24, 2018, a second package addressed to the residence of Former President Barack […]
Suspicious Package Also Sent to CNN Offices in New York…
NYPD bomb squad officers were seen outside the Time Warner Center a few moments ago, with one wearing a blast suit and another driving a truck with a bomb containment chamber on its back into the building…
Rosenstein Backs Out of Classified Questioning – Goodlatte and Gowdy Cancel Hearing…
Oh how the Rosenstein worm turns. In late breaking developments tonight, on the eve of Rosenstein’s agreement to testify in a closed-door, heavily controlled, classified setting… Everything gets cancelled: “The Committees are unable to ask all questions of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein within the time allotted for tomorrow’s transcribed interview, therefore, the interview will […]
A Convenient Omission? Trump Campaign Adviser Denied Collusion to FBI Source Early On…
Just weeks after the FBI opened a dramatic counterintelligence probe into President Trump and Russia, one of his presidential campaign advisers emphatically told an undercover bureau source there was no election collusion occurring because such activity would be treasonous. George Papadopoulos says his spontaneous admission to London-based professor Stefan Halper occurred in mid-September 2016 — […]
Supreme Court Blocks Deposition of Commerce Secretary on Census…
Extending a stay, the Supreme Court shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday night from having to testify about why he is adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Though the order is unsigned, a concurring opinion from Justice Neil Gorsuch calls it “highly unusual, to say the least,” that the government is expected […]
Judge Slashes Punitive Damages in Roundup Cancer Case…
Although she refused to overturn a jury verdict against Monsanto finding its weed killer Roundup caused a San Francisco Bay Area man’s terminal cancer, a California judge on Monday left open the possibility of a new trial if the man refuses a $211 million reduction in his punitive damages award. In a written ruling, San […]
Paid Protest Firm “Crowds on Demand” Sued in $23 Million Extortion Plot…
“Paid protesters are real,” writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything in between. According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager Pavol Krupa hired […]
Trump Says Saudis Engaged in ‘Worst Coverup Ever’ as U.S. Imposes Penalties…
President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi officials had engaged in the “worst coverup ever” after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi earlier this month, as the administration took its first concrete step to penalize Saudi Arabia, revoking visas for its agents implicated in the killing. That initial penalty was modest, since 18 of the 21 […]
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Since President Trump threatened to close the Southern border due to Honduras’ unwillingness to comply with his requests for assistance in stopping a migrant caravan marching toward the US, the migrants have successfully crossed into Mexico and on Sunday regrouped after being temporarily delayed at the Mexican border by border guards who failed to force […]
CIA Director Gina Haspel Heads to Turkey on Eve of Recep Erdogan’s ‘naked truth’ speech on Khashoggi’s Death…
CIA Director Gina Haspel is headed to Turkey, days after it was revealed that Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month. The Washington Post reports Haspel departed Monday, the same day President Trump said he was dissatisfied with information Saudi Arabia has provided about Khashoggi’s death. “We […]
Saudi Arabia’s Saud al-Qahtani ‘ran Khashoggi Killing via Skype’…
Reuters news agency has reported that Saud al-Qahtani, a former royal court media adviser and top aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, orchestrated Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after being beamed into a room of the building via Skype. Al-Qahtani was fired on Saturday during Riyadh’s efforts to contain the […]
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MUST READ: MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf with No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice by Glenn Greenwald…
On Thursday, the Daily Beast published an article about the Saudi/US relationship by David Rothkopf, a long-time member in good standing of the U.S. Foreign Policy elite. Until last year, he was the editor-in-chief of the establishment journal Foreign Policy, named to that position in 2012 when it was owned by the Washington Post. He’s […]
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A 90-Minute Flight, 45 Presidents, and an 8-Year-Old American Boy…
Sometimes, you meet special people, people who have an impact not just on your day, but on your outlook in life. People who provide you a priceless gift by letting you see the world through their eyes, and thus showing you that everything is a little better than you thought it was before you met […]
“Rank and File” – A Conspicuous Absence of Visible Indignation…
Against a rather enlightening week of activity from within the DOJ and FBI, last night I posited the question: “If the FBI and DOJ were not institutionally corrupt wouldn’t we have seen multiple whistle-blowers this year?” The purpose of the question is to draw attention to an empirical reality. By now we understand many of […]
Rosenstein Defends the Mueller Probe…
Well, did you think Rod Rosenstein was going to say, “You got me. The Mueller probe was inappropriate and politicized?” No, you didn’t. And the deputy attorney general did not disappoint. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Rosenstein defended the investigation as “appropriate and independent.” The Journal’s Sadie Gurman observes that […]
Why Are the DOJ and FBI Hiding Potentially Exculpatory Info on Papadopoulos?…
Republican lawmakers have hinted for months that the FBI had exculpatory information on Papadopoulos at the time that the Bureau applied for its first a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Fox News first reported that Republicans are interested in less than a dozen pages of documents related […]
FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple Informants in Investigation of Trump Campaign Aide…
The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. “The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to […]
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