During a press conference about US President Donald Trump's recent trip to the Middle East, AFP journalist Dave Clark asked a department official why the US criticizes the Iranian elections and its record on democracy, but not Saudi Arabia.

At 12:06 a.m. Wednesday, President Trump tweeted a strange sentence fragment. "Despite the constant negative press covfefe," the tweet read.

A Swiss man who 'liked' several Facebook posts that included accusations that a man was racist and anti-Semitic has been convicted of defamation. In the landmark ruling, the unnamed 45-year-old Zurich man was found guilty after he 'liked' a series of posts in a discussion about a vegan street festival called Veganmania Schweiz in 2015.

At last week's debate, Robert Lee Ahn described himself as the anti-establishment alternative to progressive Democrat Jimmy Gomez in the race to replace Xavier Becerra. In his Republican style, Robert Lee Ahn interrupted Jimmy numerous times to explain his phony pledge to be funded solely by the people -- granted, he doesn't understand that much of Gomez's funding comes from liberal/progressive individuals and organizations.

Well, I'm sure that his reasons are well-thought out, backed up with thorough studies, and potential improvements to combat climate change will be clearly stated. The good news is that, once DJT has destroyed our local economy and our foreign trade, our production of greenhouses gases will decline.

"From the start of life until its end, from one end of the country to another," writes Eskow, "Republicans don't give a damn." There's a sickness on the land.

Theresa May demonstrated a trademark lack of consideration in the timing of the snap election, as it's corresponded with the busiest time of the academic year. I've also somehow rather accidentally found myself as a ward leader for this election.

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump consistently frames NATO members' financial obligations as money that is owed to the United States or American taxpayers. But even if all NATO members suddenly met the guideline, no additional money would end up in the U.S. Treasury.

Is it a nice comfy blanket that you put at the bottom of your bed in case things get cold in the night? Maybe a covfefe is that stuff that gathers in the corners of your eyes before you go to sleep at night, making it difficult to see even the crisp clean lines of the keyboard on the Twitter app on your private cell phone , the number of which you appear to have been giving out to foreign leaders, potentially sending classified information through unsecured lines. It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye.

The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela is facing its most challenging times. The right-wing opposition, backed by the United States, is engaged in a full-blown "regime change" campaign, with violent protests occurring daily for over 2 months and resulting in over 50 casualties.

Sometimes I get plumb discouraged, regardless that I appear to be gaining readership in this publishing platform I stand on and for which I am most grateful, OpEdNews. Justice never seems to move fast enough, while the time in which events occur is steadily decreasing.

But the juxtaposition between his biggest hurdle arriving on the heels of his first measurable success in the White House isn't new to Kushner. In his former office at 666 Fifth Avenue, the headquarters of his family real estate company, Kushner kept a framed photograph of the first page of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," according to a 2008 profile of Kushner published in the now-defunct Portfolio Magazine.

ISIL lashed out at the civilian population in Iraq on Tuesday with three bombings and over 60 casualties. With its signature warped sadism, the organization sent a suicide bomber with a truck into a crowded square in the upscale, largely Shiite shopping district of Karrada.

"Everywhere you look, if there is trouble in the region," Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters on a mid-April visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, "you find Iran." East Baghdad, January 25, 2007: my patrol had missed a turn and so we swung onto the next grimy avenue instead.

I could never verify this, of course, and the precise details in the email have been lost to time, so just take this as fiction, but many many years ago someone emailed me with a story which went something like this: Hey, I was walking around Manhattan and I bumped into Tom Friedman. I was a bit drunk so I said "hey, Paul Krugman!" He said, "No, I'm the other guy."

There were parts of Morning Joe that were more bearable than usual today, one of those parts being the legacy of Mika's recently deceased father, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Mika and Joe spoke of a time where presidents weren't man-baby-spoiled, ignorant men with below average intellect and unmanageable egos, the time when her father served in the Carter Administration.

When a lot of bands that are bit long in the tooth embark on any sort of reunion, many will view as a cash in and/or a reason to pad a diminished retirement account. It's fun for old time sake but don't expect anything outside of a fun nostalgic trip from a band resting on the laurels.

Fox News' Shepard Smith called into question the validity of Fox News' own reporting on Jared Kushner's secret Russian meeting story when he quizzed Fox News' Catherine Herridge about the authenticity of the Washington Post report. After Shep Smith outlined the day's events, he brought on Fox News' Chief Intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge and asked her for her take on everything.

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a multimillion-dollar award against two Los Angeles County officers who shot a couple after bursting into their shack while looking for someone else. The justices were unanimous in saying lower courts had erred in upholding a $4 million award to Angel Mendez and his pregnant girlfriend, Jennifer Garcia, who is now his wife.

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