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It was announced this morning that President Trump has accepted the resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley. While this comes as a surprise to the public, Haley apparently discussed her departure with the president last week during a visit to the White House.
Turkish authorities say a missing Saudi journalist was murdered in a Saudi consulate in Turkey by a 15 member "team." Jamal Khashoggi, who was a contributor to The Washington Post's Global Opinions section, reportedly went missing Tuesday after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain papers declaring an official divorce from his ex-wife so he could marry his new fiancee, BBC News reported Saudi Arabia has denied that Khashoggi was detained or held up in the consulate, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Khashoggi left the consulate shortly after he arrived on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post .
The lawyer representing Karen Monahan, the ex-girlfriend of Congressman Keith Ellison who is accusing him of domestic violence, said there is substantial evidence to support her allegations in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Friday night. "The investigator who was hired by the Minnesota Democratic Party after the Democratic National Committee kicked this issue investigating its deputy chair down to the state party for some reason.
The Democrats demanded an FBI investigation into the allegations levied by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick against Brett Kavanaugh and then called it a sham when they couldn't find corroborating evidence. Arizona Senator Jeff Flake made Democrats' dream come true at the last minute.
On the eve of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation vote, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy told Chris Matthews on MSNBC a year from now, "Brett Kavanaugh will be the deciding vote to criminalize abortion." While discussing Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins' decision to vote yes on Judge Kavanaugh, Murphy said, "I have a great amount of respect for Senator Collins, but I just think she is going to be sorely disappointed when a year from now Brett Kavanaugh writes the decision overturning Roe v.
Democratic Socialist Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Republican Senators for being upset at the protests that are taking place and blamed them for it during an interview on "All In With Chris Hayes" on Friday night. Hayes began the segment by airing a clip of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley condemning Democratic Congress members calling for people to confront their representatives when seen out in public.
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced she will not be voting for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while speaking on the Senate floor Friday night. "Mr. President, I think we saw from the vote earlier today, we've seen from statements from several of our colleagues that it does appear that Judge Kavanaugh will be seated on the Supreme Court without my vote," Murkowski stated.
Man threatened to kill members of Congress over Kavanaugh votes, deputies say - WINTER HAVEN - A Polk County man is behind bars after he allegedly threatened to shoot members of Congress and their families, along with law enforcement and "liberals," depending on how the Supreme Court confirmation 'Grow up': Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him - Sen. Orrin G. Hatch raised the ire of protesters on Thursday after telling a group of mostly women who confronted him in one of the Senate buildings that he would talk to them when they "grow up." Bloomberg Terminal Demo Request - The headlines alone are dizzying.
The average cost of employer health coverage offered to workers rose to nearly $20,000 for a family plan this year, according to a new survey, capping years of increases that experts said are chiefly tied to rising prices paid for health services. Annual premiums rose 5% to $19,616 for an employer-provided family plan in 2018, according to the yearly poll of employers by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.
The successful rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement lifts a cloud hanging over a significant portion of the U.S. consumer economy by eliminating a Trump administration threat of 25% tariffs on auto imports from Mexico and Canada, two of the biggest sources of cars sold in the U.S. During the final stages of the Nafta negotiations, which culminated over the weekend in the new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, President Trump repeatedly threatened to impose the stiff auto tariffs if the countries couldn't... The U.S. and Canada reached a last-minute deal late on Sept. 30 to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism - Ignoring the dictum that if one is not of the left as a young person, one has no heart, and not of the right in middle age, one has no head, I have always been a conservative. I voted Republican most of the time, affiliated with the GOP Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret - Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump's biggest defenders.
I'm deep into the weeds of Edmund Burke these days, in part for a recent lecture at Yale and a series of seminars I'll be doing soon on Burke , but even reading this great judicious man from more than 200 years ago can't draw me away from our current catastrophic political scene. One of Burke's famous essays was "Thoughts on Our Present Discontents," and we could use a Burkean restatement on that theme just now.
NRATV host Dan Bongino issued a dire warning to Republican Senators on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's behalf on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Friday. "Tucker, if they let this guy go down, Brett Kavanaugh, if they let this character assassination of a father, a basketball coach, a son, and a dedicated public servant go down in flames," Bongino stated.
The college roommate of the second woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct said she never saw him do anything sexually aggressive - but did say he was a heavy drinker - during an appearance on CNN's "Cuomo Primetime" on Friday night. Deborah Ramirez was in Kavanaugh's class at Yale and earlier this week, she accused him of thrusting his penis in her face at a dorm party.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sparked some confusion during the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday when he snapped at a staffer interrupting him -- only to have Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. briefly think he was aiming his barbs at her.
During Kavanaugh hearing, prosecutor addresses Ford feeling 'terrified' to testify: 'That's not right' Outside Republican counsel Rachel Mitchell outlines her questioning to Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing addressing her sexual misconduct allegations against the Supreme Court nominee. Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell , hired by the Senate Judiciary Committee to handle some of Thursday's questioning, opened with some words of encouragement for Christine Blasey Ford , the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
Christine Blasey Ford, appearing in public for the first time Thursday to testify on her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, told lawmakers in no uncertain terms that the Supreme Court nominee "sexually assaulted me" and insisted she is not mistaking him for another person. The dramatic hearing was convened by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which plans to call back the nominee to address the accusations ahead of a potential vote in the coming days.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Castro dictatorship's sock-puppet president, told Cuban state media upon his arrival in New York on Sunday that Cuba wants a "civilized" relationship with the U.S. In other words, the Cuban dictatorship that assassinates and imprisons the opposition, violently beats and tortures dissidents, and is a state sponsor of terrorism wants the U.S. to be "civilized." Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said Sunday his government wants a "civilized" relationship with the United States - despite the embargo imposed on the island by the US since 1962.
If only someone could have warned Brazil of the Castro dictatorship's decades-long history of being a deadbeat regime. Dyogo Oliveira, president of Brazil's state-owned National Bank of Economic and Social Development said on Tuesday his organization, which is also known as a development bank, should not have extended credit to the governments of Cuba and Venezuela.