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Politics has always featured cheap tricks and sloppy expressions of principle, but the sheer scale and promotion of these techniques in the coverage of the Kavanaugh case signal a dangerous trend. My point here is not to argue for his innocence or for his guilt, but to correct some misconceptions - the truth of which our political classes have seen fit to blatantly ignore.
AML for all The Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into the money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank. The Danish bank said it is cooperating with the probe.
President Donald Trump's older sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, has kept a very low profile since he ran for office. But it appears as though she inadvertently had a central role in The New York Times blockbuster report on her brother's alleged tax schemes.
Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford just informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that they won't be turning over evidence concerning her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh tried to rape her in high school. They will, they say, give the FBI copies of her therapist's notes and recordings of her polygraph test.
President Trump delivers remarks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement during a news conference, in the White House Rose Garden on Oct. 1. US markets - and the world - may want to breathe a sigh of relief when it comes to Trump trade policy. He's nudging the United States toward more protectionism, but a deal this week suggests he's no wrecking ball.
Dozens of prisoners serving no-parole sentences for killings they committed as juveniles are expected to get a chance for release, including the Oklahoma teenager convicted of shooting a college baseball player from Australia as he jogged down the street.
Chelsea Manning has compared life in the US to her time in prison because of surveillance systems, cameras and the presence of police. In her first public appearance in the UK, the whistle-blower said her idea of freedom outside jail had not transpired.
Eight years after its informant uncovered criminal wrongdoing inside Russia's nuclear industry, the FBI has identified 37 pages of documents that might reveal what agents told the Obama administration, then-Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Ex-Trump aide: If FBI can investigate Clinton emails in days, it can investigate Kavanaugh in a week Comey defends FBI's ability to investigate Kavanaugh Hirono: Democrats did not expect limited Kavanaugh investigation MORE Their excuses for the veil of nondisclosure range from protecting national security and law enforcement techniques to guarding the privacy of individual Americans and the ability of agencies to communicate with each other.
JANUARY 22: Immigrants prepare to become American citizens at a naturalization service on January 22, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey. Although much of the federal government was shut down Monday morning, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services , offices remained open nationwide.
Hong Kong court orders asset management firm SSG Capital to answer questions about missing funds relating to a multi-million dollar fraud A court in Hong Kong has ordered Shyam Maheshwari, Andreas Vourloumis, and Edwin Wong, principals of the hedge fund SSG Capital, a Hong Kong-based asset management firm, to answer under oath questions about missing funds relating to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme perpetrated in the United States. The principals of SSG Capital are former Lehman Brothers executives based in Hong Kong and Singapore.
In this June 30, 2018, file photo, aw enforcement officers stand guard in front of the Trump Hotel in Washington. A federal district judge in Washington says a group of nearly 200 Democratic senators and representatives has legal standing to sue President Donald Trump to prove he violated the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision.
Rosalynn Carter, former first lady of the United States, is an advocate for mental-health care through the Carter Center. Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. representative from 1995 to 2011, is the founder of the Kennedy Forum and author of "A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction."
A North Dakota man was acquitted Friday of helping to kill a pregnant neighbor by tightening a rope around the woman's neck after his girlfriend cut the baby from her womb. William Hoehn, 33, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind of Fargo.
A Texas inmate scheduled to be executed Thursday evening has insisted he didn't fatally run over his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago. Daniel Acker was condemned for the March 2000 slaying of Marquetta George of Sulphur Springs.
Someone recently posted this comment on the Ford-Kavanaugh controversy on mediaite.com : "PLAYING WITH FIRE. Do we really want to live in a world were [sic] ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO CONVICT IS AN ACCUSATION!" [emphasis in the original] Of course, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominated to be a justice on the Supreme Court, has been accused by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford of a drunken sexual assault that allegedly occurred when they were both of high school age.
A Texas inmate who taunted a jury to sentence him to death is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening for torturing and drowning an East Texas woman in his bathtub and then stuffing her body into a barrel. Troy Clark was condemned for the May 1998 slaying of a former roommate, Christina Muse of Tyler.
The group states : "Amnesty International believes that the vetting of Brett Kavanaugh's record on human rights has been insufficient and calls for the vote on his nomination for Supreme Court of the United States to be further postponed unless and until any information relevant to Kavanaugh's possible involvement in human rights violations - including in relation to the U.S. government's use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, such as during the CIA detention program - is declassified and made public."
Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway, center, announced the results of her audit of the Callaway County Collector's Office on Monday. The audit discovered more than $300,000 in missing funds, she said.
Happen to miss The Larry O'Connor Show today? Recap today's program by checking out topics from the program below: Bill Cosby sentenced to three to 10 years in prison Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in state prison by a Pennsylvania judge for conviction of sexual assault in 2004, according to news reports. "No one is above the law.