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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide who was also a close associate of former Mueller campaign director Paul Manafort, is set to plead guilty and become a cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the election and possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, making him the third former Trump campaign associate to plead guilty in an investigation has yet to reach its first anniversary: A former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days - and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul Manafort, the lawyer-lobbyist who once managed the campaign.
Hungary's prime minister says that "Christianity is Europe's last hope" and that politicians in Brussels, Berlin and Paris favoring migration have "opened the way to the decline of Christian culture and the advance of Islam." Viktor Orban said Sunday during his 20th annual state of the nation speech that his government will oppose efforts by the United Nations or the European Union to make migration acceptable to the world.
Liberals increasingly are coming out of the closet, admitting that what they have wanted all along is to ban, or limit to an extreme degree, private ownership of firearms. This would require, as a starting point, repeal of the Second Amendment, which more and more liberals now admit they favor.
Nearly 10 years ago, after gay activists launched hateful attacks on supporters of California's Proposition 8, I explained that the LGBT movement's "vitriolic rage highlighted how the progressive rhetoric of 'rights' undermines and destabilizes political consensus" : Seizing on the triumphant narrative of the black civil-rights movement, liberals adopted the habit of framing political debates in terms of minority "rights" versus majority "discrimination." That this tactic involves a species of moral and emotional blackmail should be obvious.
Wolf Blitzer probably didn't think his Sunday would start with President Donald Trump retweeting a cartoon mocking his coverage of the Russia probe, but that's exactly what happened. Trump retweeted a response to his Sunday assertion that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the rest of the Kremlin are "laughing their asses off" in response to the hysteria surrounding the three investigations into potential election meddling.
A speech at Portland State University by James Damore, author of the infamous Google memo, was interrupted on Saturday night when activists reportedly smashed the sound system. The event was organized by student and journalist Andy Ngo, and his student group the Freethinkers.
Russia Warned FBI Several Times about Boston Bomber - Threat was Ignored, It Took FBI 3 Days to Find Terrorist Brothers Chechen Islamist brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two backpack bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013. Tamerlan was killed in a gun fight with police and ran over by his brother on April 19, 2013.
Since the dawn of smartphones, the selfie game has just gone up and up. We've got more color filters, hash tags, and animal faces than we can think of.
The Women's March is planning a nationwide walkout next month to protest Congress's inaction on cracking down on school shootings in light of Florida's recent mass shooting, the group announced. The group is calling on all students, teachers, parents, school officials and anyone else who supports the cause to "walkout" of classrooms for exactly 17 minutes on Mar. 14. The walkout's goal is to thwart Congress's tweets about "thoughts and prayers" and to pass legislation that would actually stop gun violence, the event description reads.
Camille Kostek and Allie Ayers wasted no time trying to get their fans to put them in the 2019 Sports Illustrated swimsuit magazine. Kostek and Ayers both posted on Instagram Thursday, which is less than 24 hours after the launch party, asking their fans to vote for them to be in the next issue.
Twenty-seven-year-old Olympic gold medalist Jamie Anderson continues to prove herself as one of the best female snowboarders in the world. The snowboarder rode effortlessly into the 2018 Winter Olympics and won another gold medal in the slopestyle competition, becoming the first woman to win two Olympic gold medals in snowboarding.
The year 2018 will be a momentous one for federal and state education efforts. Legislatures across the country have convened and leaders will have an unprecedented opportunity to shape K-12 education policy.
Shaun White said he "regrets" his past behavior in response to sexual harassment claims from 2016, The New York Times reported Wednesday. "I regret my behavior of many years ago and am sorry that I made anyone-particularly someone I considered a friend- uncomfortable," the 31-year-old three-time Olympic gold medalist shared in a statement to the outlet.
CNN's Don Lemon on Wednesday told Americans who don't want to talk about gun control in the wake of the mass shooting in Florida to "shut up." "The rest of the world is here, and we are here off the charts when it comes to this type of violence," Lemon said.
I'm a very humble person, and really hate shining a light on myself or my people. However, I'll make a minor exception in this case because it's the one time of the year when we get to remind the rest of the country that we're the best.
Federal regulations may be hampering innovation in the Department of Energy's national laboratories, through which the government invests in energy, science and weapons research, according to a new report from American Action Forum. The national laboratories grew out of U.S. funded research into the atomic bomb.
There is no other way to put it: Cuba's Castro dictatorship does not pay its debts. And here we have just another example of the exorbitant costs associated with doing business with the apartheid Castro dictatorship.
White House Was Warned of Aide's Background Months Earlier Than Acknowledged - WASHINGTON - Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, contradicted on Tuesday the White House timeline about the domestic abuse scandal involving Rob Porter, the president's former staff secretary. White House official: "Kelly cover-up is unraveling" - Chief of Staff John Kelly's White House enemies are ready to use FBI Director Chris Wray's testimony as a weapon: "Wray's FBI timeline makes one thing clear: the Kelly coverup is unraveling right before our eyes," a White House official says.
The Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens will kick off the 2018 preseason in the Hall of Fame game, ProFootball Talk reports. Quarterback Mitchell Trubisky #10 of the Chicago Bears throws in the fourth quarter against the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on October 15, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dozens of Russians Are Believed Killed in U.S.-Led Syria Attack - MOSCOW - Four Russian nationals, and perhaps dozens more, were killed in fighting between pro-government forces in eastern Syria and members of the United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State, according to Russian and Syrian officials. Rising star in Michigan Republican Party blasts Trump and resigns - BAY CITY, MI - Expressing disappointment over President Donald Trump and vowing to no longer be affiliated with any political party, the chairman of the Bay County Republican Party has stepped down from his post.