“Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. “President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions”…
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‘7,000 Bodies Buried Beneath Mississippi University…
The bodies of the state’s first mental institution – called the Insane Asylum – stretch across 20 acres of campus where administrators want to build. Officials predict that it may cost up to $21m (£16m) to exhume and rebury each body – more than $3,000 for each. The campus medical centre, where the bodies have […]
Spicer: Trump Will Not Announce Paris Climate Decision Until After G7…
President Donald Trump will not announce whether the United States will pull out of the Paris climate agreement until after he returns from the G7 leaders’ summit in late May, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. “The president has been meeting with his team for quite a while on this matter,” Spicer told […]
Hanford Nuclear Reservation Tunnel Collapse Triggers Alert…
Hundreds of workers were warned to take cover after a tunnel collapsed Tuesday in a shuttered Washington plutonium uranium extraction plant that was previously used in nuclear weapons production. The tunnel at the Hanford plant near Richland was full of contaminated particles, including radioactive trains that transported fuel rods, KING5 reported. The entire site is […]
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LETTER: After Receiving No Response from Senate Intel Comm for 63 Days, Witness Carter Page Goes Public…
I left the first such message in person on March 6, 2017 at SSCI’s blockade on the second floor of the Hart Senate Office Building when I hand delivered my response to your initial correspondence. I have many questions so subsequently followed up with several phone and email messages. In each instance, your offers appear […]
Ivanka Trump to Head Review of U.S. Role in Paris Climate Change Agreement…
The agreement requires countries to cut greenhouse emissions on a country-by-country basis, with Obama committing the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The U.S. is expected to have a representative at the United Nations’ climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, next week but Trump’s advisers — […]
Planet Earth Is On Course for a “Little Ice Age”…
Experts told Daily Star Online planet Earth is on course for a “Little Age Ice” within the next three years thanks to a cocktail of climate change and low solar activity. Research shows a natural cooling cycle that occurs every 230 years began in 2014 and will send temperatures plummeting even further by 2019. Scientists […]
Sally Yates Said She Told the White House She Feared the Russians Could Blackmail Flynn…
Yates testified that she shared her concerns with White House counsel Don McGahn in a phone call and two meetings. Yates told McGahn that the Russians were aware of Flynn’s actions — without further specifying what those actions were — and knew that Flynn had misled Vice President Pence. Yates testified that she shared this […]
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North Korea Detains Another U.S. Citizen, Bringing Total Held to Four…
On Sunday, North Korea announced that it had detained another U.S. citizen. Kim Hak-song, an employee of the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), was held on Saturday on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the North Korean state. Kim’s arrest makes him the fourth U.S. citizen to be detained by North Korea and the […]
Will Trump Release the Missing JFK Files?…
The nation’s conspiracy-theorist-in-chief is facing a momentous decision. Will President Donald Trump allow the public to see a trove of thousands of long-secret government files about the event that, more than any other in modern American history, has fueled conspiracy theories – the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy?…
51% of Murders in the U.S. Come from Just 2% of the Counties…
The United States can really be divided up into three types of places. Places where there are no murders, places where there are a few murders, and places where murders are very common. In 2014, the most recent year that a county level breakdown is available, 54% of counties (with 11% of the population) have […]
The Forgotten History of Cinco de Mayo: It’s Not About Beer, It’s about Rich Countries Strangling Poor Ones…
Today is Cinco de Mayo, May 5. To the degree most Americans think about it all, it’s as a day to drink lots of Mexican beer. But the forgotten history behind Cinco de Mayo is fascinating and remains extremely relevant today. In fact, it’s so relevant for small countries around the world that it’s hard […]
The Empire Expands. Not the American One, But Trump’s by Nomi Prins…
President Trump, his children and their spouses, aren’t just using the Oval Office to augment their political legacy or secure future riches. Okay, they certainly are doing that, but that’s not the most useful way to think about what’s happening at the moment. Everything will make more sense if you reimagine the White House as […]
Report: Jared Kushner Didn’t Disclose $1 Billion in Loans, Investment Ties to Goldman Sachs and George Soros…
The Journal notes that Kushner’s Cadre stake “means the senior White House official is currently a business partner of Goldman Sachs Group and billionaires including George Soros and Peter Thiel.” The Journal also reports that Kushner didn’t disclose a number of loans “totaling at least $1 billion, from more than 20 lenders,” on properties and […]
With Murders Skyrocketing in Baltimore, Feds Begin Sending Help…
Through the first four months of 2017, Baltimore has experienced its highest murder rate in recorded history — and now federal officials are sending in some help. Mayor Catherine Pugh last week asked for more federal resources to combat the city’s surge in shootings, robberies and carjackings. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms […]
No Civil Rights Charges for Baton Rouge Police in Alton Sterling Shooting Deaths…
The US Department of Justice has reportedly decided against filing civil rights charges over the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last summer. Viral video of the incident further intensified the nationwide issue of police shootings. The Washington Post first cited four people close to the matter as sources, then other […]
Meeting Trump, Abbas Looks to Calm Jitters Over U.S. Wildcards…
Four months after entering the White House, US President Donald Trump will today meet for the first time with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Despite the impression created by senior Palestinian figures, there are no great expectations at this stage among Abbas’s associates, and there is also a good deal of fear of all the […]
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Trump Wants September Shutdown to Kill Legislative Filibuster…
President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed ending filibusters of legislation in the Senate and allowing bills to pass via a simple majority — while calling for a government shutdown in September seemingly to force such a momentous change. Trump made the stunning call a day after his White House and congressional GOP leaders struggled to […]
Russian, U.S. Top Diplomats Plan to Meet in Alaska Next Week…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plan to meet in the United States next week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday. Lavrov and Tillerson discussed over phone the schedule of upcoming talks on the sidelines of an Arctic Council ministerial meeting in Alaska on May […]
Must Watch OMB’s Mulvaney Lay the Facts Out About 6-Month Omnibus Budget Bill…He’s On a Roll (VIDEO)…
Averting a government shutdown, a very animated Mick Mulvaney, OMB Director, lays out the facts in the 2017 Omnibus Budget Bill including new spending for the border wall/border security, defense, and school choice. He wrapped up the press conference declaring negotiations for the 2018 budget begins today.
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