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Cambridge, Massachusetts, City Council votes to impeach Donald Trump

The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of America’s hotspots for liberals-slash-progressives, just voted on a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Sigh. The City Council actually voted on this. Seven-to-one, with one abstention. The resolution asks the House of Representatives to “look into the president’s various business interests, and their potential violation

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USA

Trump Just Killed Internet Privacy Protections

President Donald Trump has signed a repeal of internet privacy rules despite criticism that it threatens to undermine online safety and enable unconstitutional mass surveillance. The overturning of the Obama-era privacy protections, which was supported by Congress in a March 28 vote, will allow internet providers to share personal information with advertisers and other third

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USA

St Petersburg metro bombing suspect ‘a Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen’

Kyrgyzstan’s security service says the likely suspect in Monday’s deadly blast in the Russian city of St Petersburg is a native of the former Soviet republic who obtained Russian citizenship. A spokesman for the GKNB security service identified the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, born in the city of Osh in 1995. He provided no other

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International

2 border guards charged for beating Arab man in Jerusalem

Officers allegedly hit the man repeatedly with their rifles and threatened to shoot him, believing he was behind stabbing attack By Times of Israel staff An Israeli Border Police officer frisks a Palestinian man in front of Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City on September 20, 2016 (Sebi Berens/Flash90) Two Border Police officers were indicted

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Middle East

Trump Adviser Carter Page Reportedly Passed Documents To Russian Spy

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed he passed documents to a Russian spy in 2013 but the information was not sensitive, BuzzFeed reported Monday. Page, an energy consultant, met with Russian intelligence agent Victor Podobnyy at a January 2013 energy conference in New York as the SVR agent tried to recruit Page. Podobnyy and

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International, USA

GOP suddenly nervous about special congressional races

Special congressional elections are notoriously quirky and often hazardous to ruling parties. So with Donald Trump struggling in Washington, it’s hardly surprising that Republicans are nervous about four contests this spring, especially one this month in Atlanta’s suburbs. The poster child for what could happen occurred in Mississippi in 1981, six months after Ronald Reagan

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USA

Ethics official says Mnuchin should not be disciplined for ‘Lego Batman’ pitch

WASHINGTON — A top government ethics official said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not be disciplined for plugging “The Lego Batman Movie” — as long as he keeps his promise not to do it again. Mnuchin handled the controversy better than White House adviser Kellyanne Conway did when she ran afoul of the same law

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Susan Rice insists she did not use intelligence for political gain

Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice said Tuesday the notion she used her powers to unmask members of the Trump campaign or transition for political purposes is “absolutely false.” Speaking to MSNBC, Ms. Rice also said she never kept a spreadsheet of instances in which intelligence community picked up conversations involving the Trump campaign

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International, USA

Bernie Appel, longtime executive known as Mr. RadioShack, dies

FORT WORTH, Texas — Bernie Appel was known as Mr. RadioShack. Over a 34-year career that started before Charles Tandy brought the company to Fort Worth, Appel was credited with transforming the consumer electronics retailer from transistor radios and telephone jacks to computers and camcorders. Appel died Sunday. He was 85. The Boston native joined

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Obituaries & memorials, USA

Gay men in Chechnya rounded up, tortured, and killed: report

More than 100 gay men in Chechnya have reportedly been arrested and tortured, and some were allegedly killed by police. The report was first publicized in the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, says Natalia Antelava, editor-in-chief of Cody Story. She says the abuses probably stem from LGBT activists’ request to have a gay parade in the

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International

Media providing cover for Susan Rice, Obama administration

On the heels of a bombshell report that Susan Rice – former President Barack Obama’s right hand woman – asked dozens of times for intelligence agencies to unmask the names of Trump associates, the mainstream media is predictably, providing her cover. Instead of investigating the report, which was first broken by Bloomberg News on Monday,

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International, USA

A birthday video call captures a telling moment in Trump’s Russia connections

WASHINGTON — Several businessmen and celebrities from the former Soviet Union gathered on the Turkish Riviera in June 2005 to celebrate the grand opening of what was billed then as the country’s most luxurious hotel. The owners were from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and it was the birthday of one of them, Tofik Arifov, a

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