Douse the Fire (tune: Light My Fire) By Laurie Baron You know that this probe had to stop. You know you should have been more loyal. I’ll claim I saved the FBI. Comey, you’ve become my foil. Comey, baby, you are fired. Comey, baby, you are fired. Long before your term’s expired. The time to […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAArthur Koll US President Donald Trump is breaking with past norms by choosing the Middle East as his first destination for international visits — a development that likely holds important significance for Israel. Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia and then Israel during his visit this month. Choosing Saudi Arabia as the first stop stands
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump is determined to help Israel and the Palestinian Authority reach a peace agreement, special White House envoy Jason Greenblatt told a recent gathering held in Brazil of representatives of donor states to the Palestinian Authority. According to a report carried by the Haaretz daily, Greenblatt said at the gathering that President Trump is
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Middle East, USAWhile President Donald Trump has expressed his “personal commitment” to help reach a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, senior advisors are less than optimistic such a deal can be brokered, and have made their skepticism clear to the president. President Trump is scheduled to arrive in Israel in 10 days, a
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Middle East, USAThe Trump administration is raising alarms about the Islamic State committing genocide against Christians, a conclusion that President Obama’s team reached reluctantly only last year. In a speech Thursday that didn’t receive much press attention in Washington, Vice President Mike Pence told the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians that atrocities are being committed
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Middle East, USACHICAGO — Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Thursday was booed by Chicago State University students and their families during a commencement ceremony at the school, an outburst the governor called “negative feedback” while adding he’d “love to boo our system as well.” The university has been among those hit hardest by the ongoing state
University of California regents took the first steps Thursday to investigate allegations that central administrators improperly interfered with a state audit on the financial operations of the UC office of the president. In a unanimous vote at a hastily arranged special meeting, the Board of Regents authorized the hiring of an independent investigator to assist
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USALEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday sided with Hands On Originals, a Lexington business that refused to print T-shirts in 2012 for Lexington’s Gay and Lesbian Services Organization because the company’s owner said he had religious objections to “pride in being gay.” In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel of appeals judges
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USAPresident Trump tweeted a veiled threat Friday toward former FBI Director James B. Comey over possible tapes of their conversations. “James Comey better hope there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter. James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations
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USALOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has been sentenced to three years in prison, marking an end to a corruption scandal that has roiled the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for several years. In going after Baca, federal prosecutors meticulously worked their way up the department’s ranks, charging lower-level figures and
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USAWASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday signed off on President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the nation’s chief trade representative, ending more than four months of delays that the administration blamed for slowing its initiatives on trade, including efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. There was never much doubt that Robert Lighthizer,
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International, USARussia has ridiculed the U.S. media after a bitter row about the exclusive access to the Oval Office given to a photographer with a Russian state news outlet. Alexander Scherbak, a photographer with Russia’s Itar-Tass, was the only media representative at the first ever meeting between Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and U.S.
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International, USAAttorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia are calling for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election. Those officials made the request in a letter on Thursday to Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The request came in the wake of President Donald Trump’s
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USAWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump planned to fire FBI Director James B. Comey even if his attorney general had not recommended his dismissal, Trump said in an interview Thursday, contradicting his previous written statement and the accounts White House officials have provided over the past two days. “I was going to fire Comey — my
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