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The FAA said the pilot deployed the Cirrus' emergency parachute with the plane coming to rest about a mile and a half south of the airport. The pilot of a single-engine plane made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Addison Municipal Airport Sunday morning.
Jeff Flake and Chris Coons described on '60 Minutes' Sunday how they agreed on a limited, week-long FBI probe. GOP Sen. Jeff Flake had a message for his friend Democratic Sen. Chris Coons on Friday when they left a meeting on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's nomination together, just before the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote.
Sen. Jeff Flake explains why he insisted on a week-long FBI investigation into the allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh. 60 Minutes spoke with Flake and other members of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the drama on Capitol Hill last week .
An unusual legal phrase has emerged during the Supreme Court confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh: "under penalty of felony." A recent letter from Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge to the Senate Judiciary Committee said he was signing it "under penalty of felony."
The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism - Ignoring the dictum that if one is not of the left as a young person, one has no heart, and not of the right in middle age, one has no head, I have always been a conservative. I voted Republican most of the time, affiliated with the GOP Devin Nunes's Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret - Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump's biggest defenders.
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh have achieved an exalted status in the American cultural consciousness shared by few other events. When traders reportedly fell silent and followed the Senate Judiciary Committee proceedings on television rather than do business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and when passengers watching seat-back sets on airplanes spontaneously broke into tears, there is no question that Americans knew they were witnessing a seminal "Where were you?" moment in their nation's history.
On Thursday, American eyes were fixated on a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Christine Blasey Ford gave a heartfelt accounting of what she recalled as an attempted sexual assault in the summer of 1982.
The F.B.I. Can Do This - Despite limitations and partisan attacks, the bureau can find out a lot about the Kavanaugh accusations in a week. - Mr. Comey is the former F.B.I. director.
The F.B.I. Can Do This - Despite limitations and partisan attacks, the bureau can find out a lot about the Kavanaugh accusations in a week. - Mr. Comey is the former F.B.I. director.
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The FBI investigation meant to defuse the explosive conflict over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sparked a new round of partisan combat Sunday, as the White House appeared to retain sharp limits on the probe even as President Donald Trump and Republican officials publicly suggested otherwise. Two Trump administration officials said Sunday that White House had not placed any limits on the FBI investigation into claims of sexual assault leveled against Kavanaugh but was also opposed to a "fishing expedition" that could take a broader look at Kavanaugh's credibility and behavior.
Three people were killed after a car exploded Saturday night in downtown Allentown, Pennsylvania, including the likely perpetrator, authorities said Sunday. Authorities released no information about the cause of Saturday's blast, including whether it was a bomb.
Here's the Republican strategy in a nutshell re: Kavanaugh #1 Put Blasey Ford in quarantine - Never talk directly to her, only through a " female assistant ." Say she's compelling, pleasing, and attractive.
The Allentown Police Department confirmed one person died in the blast that took place at about 9:30 p.m. There is no word on any further injuries. "FBI personnel have responded to the scene of an explosion in Allentown," the agency said in a statement on Twitter.
I'm deep into the weeds of Edmund Burke these days, in part for a recent lecture at Yale and a series of seminars I'll be doing soon on Burke , but even reading this great judicious man from more than 200 years ago can't draw me away from our current catastrophic political scene. One of Burke's famous essays was "Thoughts on Our Present Discontents," and we could use a Burkean restatement on that theme just now.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said she was once a victim of sexual assault, but said women's shared outrage over such misconduct should not affect Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination. "I feel very empathetic, frankly, for victims of sexual assault, sexual harassment and rape.
A car exploded on a downtown street, killing at least one person and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, and federal authorities are helping local officials in the investigation. "We can confirm that there is at least one fatality," she said in a statement.