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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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.
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[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] 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
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[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.
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[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
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