Donald Trump told visiting Russians that firing ‘nut job’ Comey eased pressure from investigation (The New York Times).
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Donald Trump told visiting Russians that firing ‘nut job’ Comey eased pressure from investigation (The New York Times).
LaunchAn exclusive from The Washington Post: “The president’s disclosures to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in their Oval Office meeting last week jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State — an information-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, current and former U.S. officials said. “
LaunchI have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s
LaunchA strong earthquake has caused serious damage in the central Oklahoma oil town of Cushing, which is home to the United States’ largest commercial oil
LaunchHorror has come to another city: A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice Thursday, leaving at least 60 dead and
LaunchOn this Fourth of July, while American violence continues to rain down on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, as we continue to support violent
LaunchThe City of Orlando has finished identifying the individuals slaughtered in the massacre at the Pulse nightclub early Sunday morning. Here are their names and
LaunchThe elite aerial performing teams of the United States Navy and United States Air Force each suffered losses today when jets piloted by members of the team crashed in separate incidents. Tragically, the Navy’s Blue Angels lost one its members as well as the aircraft he was in, while the Air Force’s Thunderbirds lost only the aircraft due to the pilot’s safe ejection.
Launch“Authorities prepared to airlift thousands of people stranded in camps north of Fort McMurray as officials warned that the fire engulfing the region will continue to grow amid strong winds,” The Globe and Mail reported Thursday.
LaunchThis striking image depicts the evacuation of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a community of more than 80,000 people. The entire municipality was ordered to empty as one of the worst fires in Canadian history threatened to consume the city and its environs. Fleeing residents passed very close to the fire on their way out of danger on Highway 63.
LaunchThe United States should reduce its nuclear force by a third to maintain an effective deterrent while making the world safer, writes NPI’s Gael Tarleton in a Seattle Times op-ed. “With that number, we could still keep 1,000 warheads at sea, more than enough for any conceivable military mission. Kitsap would continue to have a mission and the thousands of jobs that come with it.”
LaunchA Car2Go vehicle lies ruined underneath the remains of a fallen tree (Photo: Soggydan Benenovitch, reproduced under a Creative Commons license)
LaunchThe Republican presidential candidates probably won’t talk about it or give Barack Obama credit for it, but a U.S. airstrike has just resulted in the deaths of more than a hundred terrorists at a camp in lawless Somalia, the Pentagon says.
LaunchNot only did he call the Iraq war a failure, but when Jeb Bush insisted his brother kept the country safe, Trump pointed out that
LaunchThe idiotic, dangerous right wing insurrection against the people and government of the United States in rural Oregon appears to be almost over. The Oregonian
LaunchNorth Carolina Republican and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr says he is looking into the possibility that Ted Cruz may have inappropriately released classified mass surveillance information during last night’s Republican presidential debate spectacle.
LaunchNow is not the time to shun our fellow citizens. America also needs its Muslim citizens to serve in the military. As with African-Americans in
LaunchThose who think that they can terrorize the people of France or the values that they stand for are wrong. The American people draw strength
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