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NYT: Kushner Hands-on Broker of $110B Saudi Arms Deal
President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner personally intervened in a $100-billion-plus arms deal with Saudi Arabia making a call to press for a price cut on a radar system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles, The New York Times reported. According to the Times, at a May 1 meeting with a high-level delegation of Saudis, Kushner called Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, which makes the radar system, and asked if she could cut the price.
Fire Rescue called last week to fall at Roger Ailes’ Florida mansion
APRIL 11: Roger Ailes, President of Fox News Channel attends the Hollywood Reporter celebration of "The 35 Most Powerful People in Media" at the Four Season Grill Room on April 11, 2012 in New York City. More details are emerging about the death of former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes , whose death was confirmed in a statement from family members this morning.
Fox News: Federal investigator source for Seth Rich WikiLeaks claims
As the American Thinker reported yesterday , the issue of Seth Rich and his connection to WikiLeaks has caught media attention again. However, the new bombshell information, reported by Fox News , that a federal investigator has spoken with Fox News anonymously and confirmed that Seth Rich sent 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments to WikiLeaks, has been overshadowed in the same article by the headline that the "Family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich blasts detective over report of WikiLeaks link."
O’Reilly Just Got a Brand New Gig – and You Won’t Believe Where
After Bill O'Reilly was fired from Fox News, people have been wondering where the embattled television personality would end up landing. For a while, nothing seemed to be in the pipeline.
Comey firing haunts Trump
On Tuesday, an associate revealed that Comey had written a memo in which he described Trump asking him to shut down an FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey, who was known to keep a paper trail of sensitive meetings, chronicled the president's request soon after the February Oval Office meeting with the president, an associate who has seen the memo told The Associated Press.
Dwayne a The Rocka Johnson has a 5-point lead over Trump in 2020 presidential poll
Dwayne Johnson, a cast member in the upcoming film "Baywatch," addresses the audience during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2017 at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Las Vegas. Dwayne Johnson, a cast member in the upcoming film "Baywatch," addresses the audience during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2017 at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Las Vegas.
In-Depth: Bill O’Reilly speaks out
During an interview Friday with Glenn Beck, another former Fox News Channel personality who was the subject of an advertiser boycott, Bill O'Reilly complained of a liberal "hit job" that did him in. "In the weeks to come we're going to be able to explain all of it," O'Reilly said in his first interview since he was fired on April 19. "It has to do with destroying voices that the far left and the organized left-wing cabal doesn't like."
Outside money floods House special elections in Georgia and Montana
The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections. Outside money floods House special elections in Georgia and Montana The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super pac tied to House Speaker Paul Ryan, tops spending in special elections and tests get-out-the-vote strategy for the 2018 midterm elections.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein says he’s ‘not quitting’
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein denies he threatened to quit his post amid the firing of FBI Director James Comey and does not plan to resign. After a meeting with Senate intelligence committee leaders on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rosenstein was asked by a Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter whether he threatened to quit.
More Cities Are Using Taxpayer Funds To Provide Legal Defense For Illegal Aliens
It's not like cities and counties and states have an issue with the "crumbling infrastructure" or anything. Remember this ? Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and County Supervisor Hilda Solis in December announced the creation of a $10-million legal aid fund to "hire lawyers to defend local immigrants without legal status."
The N.E.A. Really Isn’t “Welfare for Rich, Liberal Elites”
Last autumn, I had a mischievous fantasy that I would fudge my address as Bartley, Nebraska, or Piedmont, South Dakota, on some grant applications in the hope of boosting my odds for success. If every other writer applying to the Guggenheim or the National Endowment for the Arts lives in Brooklyn, or Silver Lake, wouldn't a rural Zip Code give my application a glimmer of geographic diversity? I offer this small confession because many writers, painters, musicians, and art teachers, suffering the proverbial Stockholm syndrome, have internalized the Republican dogma that established artists in coastal cities are hoarding public and private art funds, in a self-serving parochial loop.
Japan sends biggest warship Izumo to aid US in North Korea crisis
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The Art and Activism of Grace Paley
There's a case to be made that Grace Paley was first and foremost an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who managed, in her spare time, to become one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century. Just glance at the "chronology" section of "A Grace Paley Reader" , a welcome new collection of her short stories, nonfiction, and poems, edited by Kevin Bowen and Paley's daughter, Nora.
NYC mayor announces plan for free preschool for 3-year-olds
In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, in the Brooklyn borough of New York on the first day of the mayor's expansion of early childhood education.
Reince Priebus says Trump wants power to sue news outlets
Reince Priebus insists Trump still wants the power to sue news outlets -and says changing libel laws 'is something that we've looked at' White House chief of staff says a looser libel lawsuit standard is something that has been discussed inside the administration Trump first raised the idea of taking the NY Times and The Washington Post to court in a February 2016 campaign rally, pledging to 'sue them and win money' The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a free press, and a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling sets a very high bar for proving news libel At Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner, comic Hasan Minhaj said Trump had boycotted the event because he 'doesn't care about free speech' White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said on Sunday that loosening America's libel laws to allow the president to sue news outlets over unflattering coverage 'is something that ... (more)
Westlake Village man fights to end illegal immigration after sona s death
WESTLAKE VILLAGE>>Don Rosenberg is a lifelong liberal who may have only one thing in common politically with President Donald Trump: his battle against illegal immigration. Rosenberg became an activist on the issue after his 25-year-old son, Drew, was killed in a 2010 collision in San Francisco with a Honduran immigrant who had entered the country illegally, but been granted temporary immigration status.
Ex-Chicago Public Schools CEO gets prison time for kickbacks
In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd- Bennett speaks before leaving federal court in Chicago, after she pleaded guilty to helping steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes while working for CPS. A federal judge in Chicago is scheduled to sentence Byrd-Bennett Friday, April 28, 2017.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Is Latest Female Reporter to Accuse Roger Ailes of Harassment
Former FOX News reporter Alisyn Camerota is the latest female reporter to claim Roger Ailes harassed her. Camerota accused Ailes of asking her to meet him in a hotel room.
Erin Moran, Joanie Cunningham in “Happy Days,” dies at 56.
Erin Moran, the former child star who starred as Joanie Cunningham in the sitcoms "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi," has died. A passenger on an American Airlines flight says a flight attendant who has since been grounded nearly hit a baby when he jerked a stroller away from a woman holding the child.