On Tax Day, demonstrators across the country and abroad have set their own filing deadline for President Trump: Provide your tax returns now. Demonstrators took to the streets in more than 150 cities around the world to demand transparency and insist that lawmakers put their needs ahead of corporations and the wealthy. Organizers had hoped […]
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U.S. May Launch Preemptive Attack On North Korea
The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. North Korea has warned that a “big event” is near, and U.S. officials say signs […]
CIA Says WikiLeaks Is A Hostile Intelligence Service
CIA Director Mike Pompeo blistered WikiLeaks in a speech Thursday, calling WikiLeaks a “hostile intelligence service” aided by Russia and accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of making “common cause with dictators.” The former Kansas congressman was speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., his first public address since becoming director. […]
California Elementary School Shooting Ends In Murder-Suicide
A lovers’ quarrel turned deadly when a man opened fire in a San Bernardino, Calif., classroom, killing the female instructor and injuring two students before turning the gun on himself, police and school officials said. The gunman, who checked into North Park Elementary School as a visitor just before 10:30 a.m. PST, fired multiple rounds […]
President Trump Defends Bill O’Reilly Amid Sexual Harassment Settlements
President Donald Trump defended Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly amid revelations that O’Reilly and the network paid out millions to settle sexual harassment claims by five women. “I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled,” Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday. “Because you should have taken it all […]
Columbia Devastated, Over 400 Dead Or Missing
BOGOTA, Colombia — An avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers tore through a small city in Colombia while people slept, destroying homes, sweeping away cars and killing at least 193 unsuspecting residents. The incident triggered by a sudden, heavy rainstorm happened around midnight in Mocoa, a provincial capital of about 40,000 tucked between mountains […]
Democrats Introduce ‘MAR-A-LAGO’ Act
Democrats are giving Donald Trump a transparency gut check in the form of a new bill with a mouthful of a name — and an acronym that takes an unsubtle dig at the president. The “Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act” — or MAR-A-LAGO Act — would require the Trump administration […]
ISIS Claims Responsibility For London Attack
LONDON — ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in London this week, likely hoping to project the image of a powerful extremist organization capable of hitting the heart of Western cities. In reality, ISIS is suffering big losses at home and hemorrhaging territory in Iraq and Syria in the face of a U.S.-backed assault. In […]
4 Dead In London Terrorist Attack
Four people have been killed in the Westminster terror attack that brought carnage to the heart of London, including the armed police officer who was stabbed and his assailant. Mark Rowley, Scotland Yard’s top anti-terror officer, confirmed that 20 people were injured after the attacker – armed with two large knives – mowed down pedestrians with his car on Westminster […]
Trump’s ISIS Plan Looks Very Similar To Obama’s
Donald Trump promised during the campaign to implement a “secret plan” to defeat ISIS, including a pledge to “bomb the hell out of” the terror group in Iraq and Syria. Now, the Pentagon has given him a secret plan, but it turns out to be a little more than an “intensification” of the same slow […]
Washington Judge That Blocked First Won’t Block Second Travel Ban
A federal judge in Washington state whose order blocked President Donald Trump’s first so-called “travel ban” last month on Thursday refused to apply that hold to a second, revised order. The second order remains blocked by a different judge’s ruling. U.S. District Court Judge James Robart in Seattle ruled that the second order temporarily restricting […]
14 Million Americans To Health Coverage Under New GOP Plan
WASHINGTON — With Washington blanketed in a rare March snow, congressional GOP leaders and top aides to President Donald Trump got to work trying to salvage the legislation, which they hope to push through the House next week and the Senate the week after that. Trump has promised to sign the bill, fulfilling seven years […]