Turkey, one of the most heavily surveilled countries in the world, reportedly has an audio recording of the torture and murder ofWashington Postcolumnist Jamal Khashoggi.According to an unnamed senior Turkish official who claims to have heard the recording, the 15-man hit squad beat Khashoggi, cut off his fingers, chopped off …
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Nothing seemed amiss when two men walked into the campaign office of Democratic Rep. Tom O’Halleran (AZ) — at least not at first. The two identified themselves asJose Rosales and Ahmahd Sadia. They had a jar of money containing $39.68 that they said they wanted to donate to O’Halleran’s campaign, …
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Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires are among the artists scheduled to perform at a concert and voter turnout rally in Nashville. Set for Saturday, October 20th, the event dubbed “Party at the Polls” will culminate with a half-mile march to a downtown Nashville polling location, where those registered …
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On Wednesday, the New York Times published a letter that has now been signed by over 2,400 law professors who oppose Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation to the Supreme Court. The letter does not reference the sexual assault allegations made against the nominee, nor does it mention the possibility that he has …
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If you live in the United States and own a cell phone, there’s a pretty good chance that on Wednesday at around 2:18 p.m. EST, you’re going to receive a text from President Trump. Well, kind of. The “Presidential Alert” that will pop up on the screens of anyone with …
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WASHINGTON —Not 24 hours after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss graphic allegations of sexual assault, a hearing that was every bit as gripping and infuriating and historic as Anita Hill’s testimony 27 years earlier, senators returned to Capitol Hill …
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It is a well-established fact that as a high schooler in El Paso, Texas, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) was in a band, Foss —::pauses to take giant bong rip:: It’s Icelandic for ‘waterfall’ —with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who would go on to considerable fame fronting the Mars Volta and At the …
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Last month, the White House threatened to remove the security clearances of a number of former intelligence officials. The most notable of the bunch was John Brennan, the former CIA director who has been fiercely critical of President Trump. The threat — which Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at …
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Though Michael Cohen once said that he’d take a bullet for Donald Trump, the president’s former attorney and fixer might flip on his former employer following the FBI’s April raid of his apartment, office and hotel room. For months, the mere possibility of Cohen turning on Trump remained hypothetical, but …
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It does not appear as though President Trump will be reconciling with his jilted former lawyer-fixer, Michael Cohen, anytime soon. Four days after the New York Times reported that Cohen secretly recorded a conversation he had with Trump regarding payment to bury a story about Trump’s alleged affair with former …
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