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Brent Bozell: Jeff Flake Is 'Imposter' Posing as Conservative
For a conservative, that's an awfully bitter pill to swallow. "Chaos is not a good principle", said Flake. The White House has been racked by infighting and staff turnover in recent weeks. Sounds like a whiff to me. Whose jobs went away because of globalization? Flake's book is packed with devastating lines aimed at Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and even Flake himself. [Full Article...]
Metiria Turei won't quit as co-leader
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That situation occurred in three different flats, she said, and came after she realised she would not otherwise have enough money to "live, study and keep my baby well". Tava says they're unclear about whether a short-term political gain in publicity was worth the long term damage to Turei and the party. After being asked a third time, she was at pains to point out voters would find out "all in ... [Full Article...]
Trump Lied About Getting Phone Calls from the Boy Scouts and Mexico
That's a pretty bold accusation", she told reporters. The noncalls weren't earth- shattering news. The admission that those phone calls did not happen tarnishes the president's credibility, which is already in question after shifting statements on several matters in the past, including Trump's involvement in his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer before the election a year ago. [Full Article...]
Trump plans to sue colleges over affirmative action
Affirmative action , as it exists in United States colleges and universities , aims to eliminate discrimination in the higher education admissions process by recruiting and incentivizing traditionally excluded groups like minority students or women. [Full Article...]
Quotes From Jeff Flake's Essay Criticizing Trump Are So Blistering They Hurt
While it might be easy to avoid addressing every tweet, Flake wrote, "it was also a monumental dodge". It would be like Noah saying, "If I spent all my time obsessing about the coming flood, there would be little time for anything else". Where does he think Trump came from, anyway? You don't have to abandon the general principle of free trade to recognize that the system we have now has left milli... [Full Article...]
U.S. correspondent Bob Tarlau tells of the latest Trump/Turnbull phone call leak
Mr Turnbull , with plenty of political stock invested in getting the deal done, pushed Mr Trump . The financing for Trump's "big attractive wall" "will work out in the formula in somehow" reportedly according to the president. I do not want to have more San Bernardino's or World Trade Centers. "And now I am agreeing to take 2,000 people and I agree I can vet them, but that puts me in a bad... [Full Article...]
Tillerson says USA is willing to talk to North Korea
Professional reporters or journalists, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross or the American Red Cross traveling on official missions, those traveling to North Korea for "compelling humanitarian considerations" and those whose requests are "in the national interest" may ask for a special validation of their passports in order to travel to the country, the State Department... [Full Article...]
Trump Praised Turnbull For Being Even Shittier To Refugees Than He Is
Trump did not want to honor the deal because, he said, doing so "sends such a bad signal". I do not want to have more San Bernardino's or World Trade Centers. "The press is going to go with that, and I can not live with that", Trump apparently implored the Mexican president. Malcolm at one point corrected Trump's figure to less than 2,000 people, to which Trump replied "I have also heard, lik... [Full Article...]
Australia: Two men charged over plot to bring down plane
A 49-year-old Lakemba man and a 32-year-old Punchbowl man were both charged by the NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team on crimes relating to the preparation of, or planning of, a terrorist act, according to a statement . "This advice was coming from a senior member of the Islamic State", Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said, referring to him as a "commander" based ov... [Full Article...]
Asian forum to express "concern" over North Korea
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a statement amid muddled White House policy on North Korea on Tuesday that seems at odds with other voices in the Trump administration. Chinese companies also have a virtual monopoly on investment in North Korea's economy, particularly natural resources. China says it shouldn't be held responsible for resolving the North Korean nuclear standoff alone and has... [Full Article...]
Bizarre! Lucknow Congress launches 'State Bank of Tomato' as prices skyrocket
Unlike typical banks, the SBT deals only with tomatoes and operate from 10 am to 5 pm every day. The bank is providing attractive interest rate and 80 percent loan and even lockers on the tomatoes. A 130-year-old customer Srikrishna Verma has invested his tomatoes on the bank and now will get 1 kg in return after sixth months. The sellers now to safe guard the expensive vegetable, have deploye... [Full Article...]
Lynching of deranged woman linked to braid choppings, claim villagers
Instead of going to her own village, she started moving towards Baghail village. Her sleep broke and on finding the woman in front of her, she started shouting. The police said when the villagers were questioned, they said the accused had physically assaulted the woman, calling her a witch involved in the mysterious braid-chopping incidents. [Full Article...]
Court Appearance Could Add Details To Girl's Murder
He's due back in court on Tuesday. According to KTLA 5 News , the man identified as 36-year-old James R. Brower, is being held responsible for the death of 11-year-old Jacelyn O'Connor, a resident of Morris, New York. The family of O'Connor and Brower declined comment Thursday. While the District Attorney, Joseph McBride could not give details into the case, he did explain that Jacelyn and Brow... [Full Article...]
Karnataka Minister Managing Gujarat Congress Lawmakers Raided, Taxmen Find Rs 11 Crore
The team also raided Kumar's brother Dr K Suresh's residence. "After using state machinery and every other agency, these IT raids show ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) utter desperation and frustration", said senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel. [Full Article...]
Trump Tower kicked out the Secret Service over a lease dispute
A contract dispute with the Trump Organization resulted in the U.S. Secret Service moving its Trump Tower command post from one floor below President Donald Trump's apartment to the sidewalk. Officials say that for now, on the odd occasion they do return to their NY home, agents can make up for the lack of command post by stationing agents throughout the building. [Full Article...]
Secret Service to test drone surveillance at Trump golf club
The drone has electro-optical and infrared cameras to look for potential threats and is on a microfilament tether that provides power to the craft. The Secret Service said that nearby residents will be told that a drone will be flying over the Bedminster facility and that there could be unintentional privacy violations Reuters reported . [Full Article...]
Mexico Names Chief NAFTA Negotiator
Kirsten Hillman, who was named Canada's new deputy ambassador in Washington, was Canada's chief negotiator at talks on the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership pact. lawmakers and state governors to discuss the importance of trade between the two countries. "The important thing that we are not going to do is hurt the region's competitivity, and much less the region's consumers", Videgara... [Full Article...]
'Ridiculous humidity,' strong storms and flooding possible Thursday
Temperatures in Boston are expected to rise from the high 60s Thursday morning into the mid 80s by the afternoon. Any flooding will most likely be in low lying and coastal areas according to James Carpenter, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston. [Full Article...]
Scaramucci out after 11 days in White House job
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Kelly "has the full authority to carry out business as he sees fit" and that all White House staffers will report to him, including powerful aides such as Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump , her husband, Jared Kushner , and chief strategist Steve Bannon . [Full Article...]
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. (OCUL) Trading Down 3.8% After Analyst Downgrade
The stock increased 0.52% or $0.36 during the last trading session, reaching $69.33. LSB Industries, Inc. (NYSE:LXU) has declined 34.80% since August 1, 2016 and is downtrending. Ocular Therapeutix Inc's Wall Street analysts see 10.34 % negative EPS growth, taking into account the $-0.58 EPS reproted in the previous quarter, About 416,455 shares traded. [Full Article...]