The Raw Story
- Is the FBI’s latest probe of the Clinton Foundation a ‘witch hunt’ – or something more?
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:20 PMWith few exceptions, most presidents fade from public life once they step down. Bill Clinton, however, has shunned leisure time since his administration ended in January 2001. Instead, he has whiled away the hours toiling for an eponymous foundation he established with his wife Hillary Clinton.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump is more popular than polls suggest: Anthony Scaramucci
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:44 PMAnthony Scaramucci, who lasted as White House spokesman for just 11 days, has argued that Donald Trump has enjoyed a historically productive year and that people are very happy with what he has accomplished, despite the president’s exceptionally low approval ratings....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Black man says Tulsa cops arrested him for ‘over-obeying’ during traffic stop: ‘No matter what I did, I was going to lose’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:49 PMAddressing a 2017 arrest for a DUI, a black Tulsa real estate investor said that he was innocent — as his blood test later proved — and that he was taken into custody for being too compliant with the arresting deputies.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Bystanders tackle knife-carrying Tucson man after he assaults Muslim women outside of Starbucks
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:08 PMA Tucson man has been taken into custody after he yelled racist slurs and attacked a group of Muslim women sitting outside of a Starbucks — only to be tackled by bystanders as he attempted to flee.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Poll: Trump losing Republicans one year in office
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:32 PMPresident Donald Trump lost much of his political base and dragged the Republican Party down with him throughout his first year in office, according to new poll results released Friday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis: Government shutdown would affect military operations
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:45 PMU.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that a government shutdown would impact military operations including some training, maintenance, and intelligence operations. “Our maintenance activities will probably pretty much shut down… over 50 percent, altogether of my civilian work...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Terrible witness’ Trump eager to talk to Mueller — but his history shows he could doom his presidency: prosecutor
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 10:27 AMPresident Donald Trump is eager to speak to special counsel Robert Mueller, but his allies and legal team are concerned that Trump will be “a terrible witness” who will say things that could land him in even deeper trouble, said Vanity Fair‘s Chris Smith.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Vice co-founder attacks Cory Booker as a ‘Sambo shucking and jiving for the white man’ during Nielsen hearings
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 11:13 AMOne of the co-founders of Vice Media attacked New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D) for his impassioned questioning of Homeland Security Secretary Nielson on Tuesday, calling the lawmaker “Sambo,” and saying he was performing for white people.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘This is huge — but I can’t tell you why’: Cuomo ridicules House intel member over GOP’s latest attack on the FBI
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 09:40 AMTaking up the latest attempt by House Republicans to derail the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in Russian collusion by attacking FISA warrants that picked up evidence before the election, CNN host Chris Cuomo mocked a House intel member for trying to bring down ex-President Ba...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump believes he will ‘lose his power’ if anyone cuts his hair: report
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 07:48 AMPresident Donald Trump’s hairstyle has been widely mocked and parodied for years — and porn star Stormy Daniels claims that he has a very good reason for keeping it the same, no matter what people say about it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump decries ‘permissive’ US abortion laws at rally
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:34 PMPresident Donald Trump criticized U.S. abortion laws as among the most permissive in the world in a speech to anti-abortion activists at the annual March for Life on Friday, and pledged his administration would always defend “the right to life.” The Republican president’s speech, r...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two boys charged with killing half a million bees
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:46 PMTwo young boys have been charged with criminal mischief, agricultural animal facilities offenses and burglary after they knocked over beehives and killed half a million bees in Sioux City, Iowa.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Despotism is all around us
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:02 PMIt is commonplace for citizens of liberal, democratic nations to believe that despotism is foreign to their own experiences. Their political constitutions display in some form or other a separation of powers, which is specifically intended to prevent the amassing of arbitrary and irresponsible power...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Texas state employees get Friday off to celebrate ‘Confederate heroes’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:21 PMMartin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday isn’t the only holiday this week for state employees in Texas. They can also take off Friday for a state holiday that has been a source of controversy: Confederate Heroes Day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Chicago pastor faces potential firing from university for overseeing a same-sex marriage
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:43 PMA pastor based in Chicago has been suspended — and may soon be fired — for overseeing a marriage between two men. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Rev. Judy Peterson was suspended from her job as campus pastor at North Park University after she officiated the wedding of Marcus and Ro...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Court smacks down Oregon man’s argument that he was convicted for calling black cop the ‘N-word’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:57 PMAn Oregon court of appeals dismissed a 37-year-old Portland man’s argument that he was convicted of resisting arrest because he hurled the “N-word” at the black police officer who took him into custody.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump is ‘terrified’ of sharks and hopes they all ‘die,’ Stormy Daniels claims
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 10:55 AMPresident Donald Trump is ‘terrified’ of sharks and hopes they all die, according to adult film actress, Stormy Daniels. Daniels discussed Trump’s odd fascination with sharks in an InTouch interview conducted in 2011 and released in full on Friday....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WATCH LIVE: Donald Trump to address anti-abortion March for Life
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 11:20 AMDonald Trump will become the third sitting U.S. president to address anti-abortion activists at the annual March for Life on Friday, highlighting his shift in recent years from a supporter of women’s access to abortion to a powerful opponent.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- WATCH LIVE: White House holds press briefing as government shutdown looms
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 10:05 AMThe White House is holding a press briefing with reporters at 10:30 a.m. (ET) as a potential government shutdown looms. The briefing will feature Marc Short, the Director of Legislative Affairs and Mick Mulvaney, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kellyanne Conway: ‘Otherwise responsible’ Dems are threatening shutdown to appease Bernie bros
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 08:05 AMKellyanne Conway told Fox News that Democratic senators were willing to shut down the federal government to please their “left-wing base.” “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that a great majority of Americans wanted Congress to keep Deferred Action for Child...
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- ‘The money is what’s important’: Ex-GOP official explains the real scandal in the Stormy Daniels story
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:33 PMFormer ethics attorney to President George W. Bush Richard Painter said that the salacious details about President Donald Trump’s affair with adult performer Stormy Daniels aren’t the important issue, but rather the money that was paid to keep her silent.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Bernie Sanders calls Trump a ‘pathological liar’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 01:48 PMSenator Bernie Sanders continued his harsh criticism of President Donald Trump on Friday and called him a pathological liar. During an interview with MSNBC on Friday, Sanders was asked to weigh in on Trump’s first year in office just hours before the government shutdown deadline....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s view of America as a white nation is sadly not that unusual — but it’s wrong
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:00 PMAt a meeting discussing possible immigration reform policies, it is reported that President Donald Trump asked why they allowed so many people from “shithole countries,” including Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sean Hannity says FISA memo ‘worse than Watergate’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:30 PMFox News host Sean Hannity opened his program Thursday night by detailing purported abuses of power “far worse than Watergate” and calling on FBI special counsel Robert Mueller to immediately end his “witch hunt” investigations....
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California pastor used church to ‘satisfy his fetish’ for explicit photos — and his wife helped: lawsuit
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 12:38 PMA former parishioner sued a California church and its former pastors — who she accused of sexual assault, battery and harassment. The woman, a mother of two in her 30s, sued former Church for Life pastors Robert Litzinger and Cindy Litzinger seeking compensatory and punitive damages, reported ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stormy Daniels regretted Trump affair, felt sorry for Melania
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 10:12 AMStormy Daniels regretted her alleged affair with President Donald Trump and felt sorry for his wife Melania Trump, according to a transcript of an interview with In Touch in 2011.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Nobody really believes he’s president’: Historian Douglas Brinkley says Trump’s first year deserves ‘an asterisk’
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 10:35 AMCNN invited Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley on to assess the president’s first year — and his initial conclusion is that Trump’s first year in office deserves “an asterisk.” “It’s an asterisk president — nobody really believed he is ...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Omarosa secretly taped confidential White House conversations — and now could be a source for Mueller: report
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 09:07 AMFormer reality TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was fired late last year from her job as a Trump aide, reportedly recorded conversations about sensitive issues during her tenure in the White House.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Straight reality TV’: Stephanie Ruhle breaks down how Trump will try to take credit for averting shutdown
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 09:59 AMMSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle said President Donald Trump was milking the looming government shutdown like a reality TV cliffhanger. The House has already passed a one-month continuing resolution, but the Senate’s Republican majority does not appear to have enough votes to pass their own by Fr...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deutsche Bank investigating Jared Kushner and his companies for suspicious money transfers
Friday - 01/19/2018 - 08:06 AMAccording to an article in Manager Magazin — a German monthly business magazine — the Deutsche Bank could have evidence about suspicious money transfers by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his companies or the people working for him....
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