[ad_1] Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky attends a photocall for the film “Citizen K” on August 31, 2019 presented out of competition during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) Since 2016, the specter of “Russian interference” has been an idée fixe of the Washington political establishment and its media
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[ad_1] An attorney for the police officer who shot Jacob Blake says that the officer believed he was kidnapping a child after hearing the mother’s cries during the altercation. The revelation comes from a CNN interview with the officer’s attorney published on Friday. The controversial police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked protests and riots from
[ad_1] Charles Michel, president of the European Council, in Brussels, Belgium, August 19, 2020 (Olivier Hoslet/Reuters) The president of the European Council does not usually make news when addressing the UN General Assembly. In fact, the current occupant of the post, Charles Michel might be used to giving UN addresses that attract minimal attention. He
[ad_1] The City of Portland has denied a protest permit requested by the Proud Boys, saying their demonstration slated for Saturday would likely draw a crowd too large to comply with social distancing measures required under coronavirus restrictions. While COVID-19 risk was cited as the reason for rejecting the permit, officials in the Oregon city
[ad_1] Singer-songwriter John Legend has repeatedly made it clear that he is not a fan of President Donald Trump. In an interview with Cosmopolitan UK posted Friday, Legend revealed that he and his wife, model Chrissy Teigen, have considered leaving the country over embarrassment that Trump is president. He went on to say that leaving
[ad_1] Nothing says hypocrite like the governor of Oregon sounding the alarm about conservative protesters on the streets of her state’s largest city after letting leftists run amok for months.
Gov. Kate Brown (D) is not concerned about the resumed nightly riots by antifa and Marxist Black Lives Matter militants
[ad_1] A lucky break for Chuck Schumer, since he’s not going to have the votes in the Senate to pack the Court even if he ends up with a majority come January. That’s not to say progressives won’t make his life hell if he refuses. They will. It might even earn him a credible primary
[ad_1] Charles Barkley made some news during his appearance on Inside the NBA last night. There are two clips here, the first of which is Barkley talking about the slogan “defund police.” Charles Barkley: “You know, I hear these fools on TV talking about ‘defund the police’ and things like that. So that notion they
[ad_1] (iStock/Getty Images) Daphne du Maurier’s brilliant novel Rebecca, first made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock (who ruined the ending), has inspired a remake. Netflix is set to release the movie on October 21, 2020. Even though I don’t expect to enjoy the film half as much as the book, it is a fantastic
[ad_1] Every time you look at your television there is a new Black Lives Matter protest in another city and it invariably involves violence and looting. And after months of the nation being under siege from these thugs, the citizens have had enough of their antics, The Daily Mail reports.
[ad_1] (SARINYAPINNGAM/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Two years ago, I wrote about Congress’ efforts to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the interagency body that vets acquisitions of sensitive U.S. assets. The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), which Congress passed in August of 2018, expanded the powers CFIUS has to
[ad_1] Singer/songwriter John Legend is sending out his hot takes on the possibility of President Trump’s re-election. He is so traumatized over the mere thoughts of Trump winning four more years in the White House that he is advising Americans to leave the country. In years past, celebrities and public officials that opposed whichever Republican
[ad_1] The least suspenseful Supreme Court nomination of my lifetime, and almost certainly of yours too. Who’s ever been more of a sure thing for a seat on the Court than Barrett was for Ginsburg’s seat, assuming that it was vacated while Trump was president? In fact, the only suspense to this “process” is whether
[ad_1] As Ramesh Ponnuru noted on the Corner earlier this week, some media coverage of Judge Amy Coney Barrett — the leading candidate to replace late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — has zeroed in on Barrett’s purported membership in a mostly Catholic group called People of Praise. Ramesh’s post chronicles how one such
[ad_1] The U.S. Navy will commission the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Port Canaveral, Florida. USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) Due to public health and safety concerns related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the commissioning is a
[ad_1] Portland rioters set fire to a police union building and over a dozen people found themselves behind bars after another night of unrest in the embattled city Thursday. A large mob of demonstrators used vehicles to block street traffic and vandalized local property with insignia supporting their group’s message, according to a blog post
[ad_1] Yesterday the Washington Post published a story titled “Since 2015: 48 Black Women Killed by the Police. And Only 1 Charge.” The story itself connect the lack of charges in the Breonna Taylor case to the wider argument that police are not held accountable when they kill, in this case, black women. The story
[ad_1] A Brown University researcher demanded a refund from Airbnb over “Trump yard signs and other white nationalist symbols” she and her husband saw when they reached their rented house in Maine, according to Twitter posts. Carycruz M. Bueno, a research associate at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute, said she was “scared for my life and
[ad_1] Billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, recently announced that he has paid off the court fines and fees for 32,000 Black and Latino ex-felons in Florida, thereby allowing them to register for the November elections. This was done in response to a recent ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, the effect of which prevented ex-felons
[ad_1] And You Thought Jeb Bush was “low-energy” Everyone knows Joe Biden is not fit to be president. We’ve all seen him mumble in confusion during public appearances. He’s a gaffe machine. He’s a corrupt, career politician with dementia. Yet the Democrats and their lying mass media continue to pretend he’s perfectly fine—good ol’ Joe.
[ad_1] A government memo released Thursday shows that the FBI special agent who oversaw the investigation of Michael Flynn harbored doubts about the basis for the probe. William Barnett also criticized the special counsel’s investigation, which he said was set up to “get Trump.” Barnett was interviewed last week by a U.S. attorney who is
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[ad_1] If President Donald Trump says he will enforce law and order, that’s abusive behavior. But if Twitter users call to burn down the city of Louisville, that’s fine. Twitter saw no rule violation in the calls to burn down the city of Louisville, KY after the grand jury indictment came down in the Breonna
[ad_1] Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, has been named in a college admissions scandal. This scandal is different than the one that has dominated headlines for months. Unlike the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues, this isn’t a story of wealthy parents paying handsomely to get their unqualified children accepted into a college or university. This
[ad_1] No matter how much content Facebook censors, the left always seems to want the platform to censor more. Facebook is preparing to launch its new Facebook Oversight Board, which CEO Mark Zuckerburg described as a “Supreme Court” for the platform, according to NBC News. Leftist critics, however, appear to have some problems with Facebook’s
[ad_1] At Wednesday’s press conference a sleazy anti-Trump reporter from the sexist magazine, Playboy, asked President Trump if he was going to have a peaceful transition. That almost sounded like a threat because he didn’t ask if he lost was he going to have a peaceful transition. He stated it as a fact as if
[ad_1] TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers at the Port of Nogales seized over 103 pounds of heroin and fentanyl pills yesterday. The narcotics were concealed in a floor compartment of a sedan and have an estimated value of $1 million. Wednesday morning, a 21-year-old United States Citizen attempted to make
[ad_1] Documents released in Michael Flynn’s ongoing court case on Thursday show that FBI employees expressed reservations about the bureau’s probe of the retired general. One investigator called the probe a “nightmare,” according to internal FBI messages. Another message shows an investigator saying they were “glad” the FBI planned to close the probe on Nov.
[ad_1] New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is forming a state task force to review a coronavirus vaccine before recommending it to the public, saying Thursday he does not trust the federal government to determine when a vaccine is safe and effective. “New York state will have its own review when the federal government is finished
[ad_1] A former iron workers union president was sentenced to 42 months in prison Wednesday for ordering and participating in the violent extortion of non-union workers at a construction site. Jeffrey Veach, 57, the former president of an Indiana chapter of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers (BSOIW) was charged