WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In the weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration last month that he would forge ahead with designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Cabinet members and top aides from across the government recommended against it,…
Embattled union honchos’ lavish spending exposed: Villas, four-figure dinners, $60,000 cigar bill
Work hard, play hard — and on the union’s dime. That might as well have been the motto for some former top officials at the United Automobile Workers, whose lavish spending on luxuries including high-end cigars, four-figure dining and California villas…
Pete Buttigieg faces criticism for calling Jesus a refugee
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg faced a flurry of criticism on Christmas day after he suggested that Jesus Christ entered into the world as a refugee. “Today I join millions around the world in celebrating the arrival of divinity on…
RUDY AND THE MIDNIGHT MASS…
Rudy Giuliani attended midnight mass at the Catholic St. Patrick’s Cathedral for Christmas after an interview revealed how he slammed liberal financier George Soros by questioning his Judaism – even though the Hungarian-born billionaire is a Holocaust survivor. The former…
Trial Finds Scant Precedent in History…
(Bloomberg) — Bill Clinton’s impeachment two decades ago set the modern template for President Donald Trump’s upcoming trial in the Senate. But the process may be even more contentious this time given sharper tribal divisions in Washington. Clinton’s four-week proceeding…
Republican Senator Bucks McConnell On Impeachment…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, sounded a rare note of dissent in a party that has been largely unified behind the president. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Bloomberg News By Sadie Gurman Dec. 25, 2019 7:10 pm ET Republican Sen. Lisa…
STUDY: Less joy in Tweets…
WASHINGTON – On a quiet Saturday morning at Camp David this fall, President Donald Trump picked up an iPhone and composed a series of tweets that cut through the tranquility of the wooded retreat like a digital chainsaw. In nearly a dozen Twitter…
UPDATE: LARGE, NON-GOVT DRONES FLYING GRID PATTERN OVER COLORADO…
Several of large, non-government drones have been flying in what the Denver Post describes as a ‘nighttime search pattern’ over northeast Colorado. With estimated wingspans of six-feet, the aircraft have been covering 25-square-mile plots of Phillips and Yuma counties every…
Los Angeles DA considers charging Harvey Weinstein as investigation expands…
LOS ANGELES — More than two years after the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments launched sexual assault investigations into Harvey Weinstein, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has escalated its review into the disgraced filmmaker and is…
DEMS: IT COULD BE BERNIE
“It may have been inevitable that eventually you would have two candidates representing each side of the ideological divide in the party. A lot of smart people I’ve talked to lately think there’s a very good chance those two end…