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WASHINGTON – Rod Rosenstein's tenure as deputy attorney general and the top Justice Department official overseeing the Russia investigation appears to be in peril after President Donald Trump refused to say Friday whether he had confidence in him. After Trump authorized release of a controversial memo on FBI surveillance practices by House Intelligence Committee Republicans, he was asked by a reporter whether he was more likely to fire Rosenstein and whether he had confidence in the 27-year-veteran of the Justice Department who oversees its day-to-day operations and special counsel Robert Mueller III's investigation.
A GOP memo declassified on Friday accused senior law enforcement officials of misleading a court in order to conduct surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser, fueling a growing distrust between the White House and Republicans on one side and the Justice Department and FBI on the other. The four-page document, which the FBI said is inaccurate, had been the focus of weeks of partisan fights leading up to its release by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, and that acrimony intensified after its publication.
The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first ju-ped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.
President Donald Trump and his supporters are using a congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse to raise questions about the origins of a federal investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. But the four-page document includes revelations that might complicate the effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe.
Now, the Trump administration, in which they both serve, has allowed the state to implement even more changes in the safety net program -- most notably by requiring some Medicaid recipients to work. The state, which has served as a Medicaid expansion model for Republicans, announced Friday that it will require certain Medicaid recipients to get jobs or participate in other community activities starting in 2019.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee countered claims made in a highly disputed memo alleging political bias within the highest ranks of the FBI. The document, assembled by Rep. Devin Nunes , asserts abuses by top officials in obtaining surveillance warrants and anti-Trump bias.
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon state Gov. Kate Brown at Crosscut Festival 2018 in Seattle. Credit: David Ryder for Crosscut Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pulled no punches Friday night in how much disgust they feel about the Trump Administration's desire to allow off-shore oil drilling along the U.S. coastline - that is, to allow it everywhere except Florida .
The Pentagon is asking for new nuclear weapons to keep up with other world powers who it says are advancing capabilities The president says the U.S. defense must also include a nuclear weapons arsenal so strong and powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression. A new report released by the Defense Department Friday calls for new additional nuclear weapons to keep other world powers at bay.
Protest group 'Fridays with Frelinghuysen' celebrated the congressman's announcement that he will retire at the end of the year and not run again. Members of NJ 11th for Change continue "Fridays with Frelinghuysen" rallies after the congressman announced he will not run for reelection in 2018.
Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson is attacking rival Leah Vukmir for taking some pay raises, calling her a hypocrite for not always returning them over her 15 years in the Legislature. Vukmir, a state senator, has been in the Legislature since 2003, first in the Assembly and now in the Senate.
The memo's release sent shock waves across Washington, calling into question the future of Trump's hand-picked FBI director Christopher Wray Donald Trump and his Republican allies unleashed a controversial memo accusing the FBI of bias and abuse of power on Friday, intensifying a high-stakes fight between the White House and prosecutors investigating the president's campaign team. Trump defied his own FBI director and the Justice Department to declassify the four-page Republican document, which implies malfeasance and partisanship at the very top of American law enforcement.
Efforts to rein in abuse of a drug discount program for hospitals that serve a high number of low-income patients could cost St. Charles Health System an estimated $3 million in revenue in 2018. The 340B program, created by Congress in 1992, requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to give deep discounts to safety-net hospitals and health clinics.
Chuck Todd may have had a temporary lapse where he behaved like an actual journalist for once and quit with his typical "both siderist" nonsense we typically hear from him in regard to this dud of a "Nunes memo" that was released this Friday. Sadly, that didn't stop him from allowing two of the so-called "Freedom Caucus" members to come on his show later that same day and lie and spew conspiracy theories about what the memo supposedly said and about who paid for the Steele dossier that Republicans have been desperate to use to discredit the entire Mueller investigation.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., suggested that more memos, in addition to the one released Friday that outlines alleged surveillance violations by the U.S. government, may soon be released, with the next one targeting the State Department. "Yes, this completes just the FISA abuse portion of our investigation," Nunes told Fox News host Bret Baier on Friday, referencing abuses related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Senators voted 37-0 on Friday in ... - Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who recently was attacked by a neighbor while working on his lawn, said he believes the anger and polarization around the country fueled the assault. "With the whole idea of the country being angry, over your yard or even the guy that shot us in the ball field There's just some people so angry," said the senator, who was on a baseball field over the summer when a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise, R-LA, and three others.
The last several days have been packed with fake drama and intrigue about the "secret memo" released publicly Friday over the objections of the FBI, Democrats and many others who say releasing this kind of document simply isn't done. Let's cut the stagecraft and hype around this frankly boring memo.
A representative with Toys R Us has confirmed to The Daily News that the retailer's Memphis location, at 7676 Polo Ground Blvd ., won't close after all. The news comes a week after New Jersey-based Toys R Us announced it would close 182 stores across the United States as a part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization efforts.
Sure, many outlets are going to say "even Joe Walsh!?" but here's the deal: Joe Walsh is taking a page out of Newt takes whatever Fox is currently outraged about and blames liberals/Democrats for it. That's his "one weird trick" to getting endless bookings on cable news.