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The Iraqi government's next big problem is coming into view: The group of powerful Shiite Muslim militias loyal to Iran seem to want to keep the country enmeshed in regional turmoil. As the extremist group known as the Islamic State is driven out of the country, the Iraqi government is facing up to a new threat to its authority - this comes from the Shiite Muslim militias, once volunteers who came together to defend their towns against the Islamic State but who have since turned into a formidable, quasi-official fighting force.
The three previous presidential impeachment inquiries rested on less evidence of obstruction of justice than is already publicly known about Trump. The real reason Democratic leaders don't want to seek an impeachment now is they know there's zero chance that Republicans, who now control both houses of Congress, would support such a move.
Reports have identified James T. Hodgkinson, as the suspected shooter at the congressional Republicans' baseball practice early Wednesday morning in Virginia that injured five, including Rep. Steve Scalise. It appears he was from Belleville, Illinois and was a Bernie supporter, who didn't like Hillary Clinton either and had posted several anti-Trump passages on his alleged FB page.
Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor today after learning that James T. Hodgkinson, the alleged shooter at the Republican baseball practice had volunteered for his presidential campaign. Sanders said, "I have just been informed that the alleged shooter at the Republican baseball practice is someone who apparently volunteered on my presidential campaign.
During Jeff Sessions Senate testimony, Senator jack Reed destroyed the Trump administration's narrative that James Comey was fired because of how he handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The Trump administration and his surrogates said many times that the FBI director's July press conference and his late October letter which hurt Clinton's chances of winning the presidency as the primary reasons to fire Comey.
The nation's top legal officer is set to go before Congress on Tuesday to try to defuse a bomb that the former FBI director dropped into his lap. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told it he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions' recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.
Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that... Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.
Mike Allen, Politico: Friends and lawyers were aghast after President Trump brashly declared yesterday that he was willing to testify under oath for special counsel Bob Mueller, to give his own version of events fired FBI director Jim Comey described. One well-wired Republican said: "The White House says they have the investigation under control.
At least two Afghan policemen have been killed and at least two wounded by US forces in a so-called friendly fire incident, American officials say. The deaths are said to have occurred when a US aircraft returned fire during a joint operation in the restive province of Helmand.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday called on Saudi Arabia and its allies to halt their blockade of Qatar. In addition, he worried that the dispute would undermine the struggle against ISIL : "The blockade is also impairing U.S. and other international business activities in the region and has created a hardship on the people of Qatar and the peoples whose livelihoods depend on commerce with Qatar.
Republicans have been slow to come out against President Donald Trump but conservative strategist Karl Rove is done. In a blistering op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Rove said, "Trump lacks the focus or self-discipline to do the basic work required of a president."
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is "looking into" a charitable foundation founded by Eric Trump, a spokesman for Schneiderman said, after Forbes magazine raised questions about whether President Donald Trump's son had made misleading statements about how the foundation spent its money. ... The main impetus for this inquiry was the Forbes story, published earlier this week.
But how striking those echoes sounded at first. Kellyanne Conway, the president's spirit animal, seemed to borrow phrases directly from Big Brother when she posited the existence of "alternative facts."
The Republican National Committee pushed a false talking point that originated from the "alt-right"/fake news ecosystem to try to discredit former FBI Director James Comey's June 8 testimony to the Senate intelligence committee. During his testimony, Comey said that he believed President Donald Trump fired him due to the FBI's Russia probe, saying, "I know I was fired because of something about the way I was conducting the Russia investigation was in some way putting pressure on him, in some way irritating him, and he decided to fire me because of that."
The other day, Michelle Goldberg, writing in Slate , made this excellent point: In response to the argument that ridding the country of President* Donald Trump only would worsen the political polarization in the country, perhaps to the point of actual widespread violence, Goldberg argued that, if we're making decisions of national policy based on that criterion, then we're already very far down a long, dark road that leads, inevitably, to a beer hall in Munich. I've spent five months dodging the notion that the Trump presidency* is something with which the Republic should dispense itself.
"At one time, the purpose of American government was seen to be a commitment to the common good, nobody excluded. Then, it became a commitment to party principles, all other principles in doubt."
Activists have been calling for the restoration of Glass-Steagall since the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. Donald, listen, whatever you've done so far, whatever you've messed up, there's one thing you could do that would make up for a lot.
The House is expected to vote Thursday on a Wall Street deregulation plan that would roll back several Obama-era CEO pay reforms, including a ban on banker bonuses that encourage excessive risk, and a new regulation that requires publicly held corporations to report the ratio between their CEO and median worker pay. But instead of rolling back modest pay reforms already on the books, lawmakers should be pushing for bolder solutions, such as using tax and government contracting policies that reward firms with reasonable CEO pay levels.
Despite a growing consensus that corporate CEOs are overpaid, Washington's CEO Pay Apologists Club mobilizes to strike down executive pay reforms. t's not easy defending America's overpaid CEOs, but somebody's gotta do it.