8/06/2018
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Category Archives: US News
ACLU appeals over New Orleans public defender wait lists
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans scheduled arguments Monday in the ACLU's challenge of the system New Orleans uses to legally represent poor defendants. The group sued in 2016 on behalf of three defendants who couldn't afford a lawyer.
Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to…
Sen. Rand Paul, one of President Donald Trump's more eager defenders on Russia, jetted into Moscow on Monday in a bid to increase engagement with the country. Paul, R-Ky., met with several Russian senators including Sergey Kislyak, Russia's former envoy to Washington and a key player at the heart of the election meddling scandal that continues to rock relations between the United States and Russia.
U.S. Senator Invites Russian Lawmakers to Washington for Talks
U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he invited Russian lawmakers to Washington, after talks in Moscow that his hosts called a signal to President Donald Trump of a desire to build ties. Paul told reporters Monday that he issued the invitation at a meeting with members of the international relations committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, including the chairman, Konstantin Kosachyov, and Sergey Kislyak, the former Russian ambassador to the U.S. The Republican lawmaker, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "has access" to Trump and top U.S. officials "and we expect that we will be able to convey through him our signals" of a desire to establish dialogue, Kosachyov said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news service.
Senators Want To Question Google About Their Plans To Relaunch In China
For almost a decade, Google has been conspicuously absent from China. This includes all of Google's products and services such as search, Gmail, and so on, and to a certain extent even Android where Android devices in China are essentially forked versions of Android with Google's services stripped from it.
The Kavanaugh nomination is Trump’s best decision as president
Passions on the left against Brett Kavanaugh are running high. But the main lines of argument against his confirmation to the Supreme Court have pretty much crumbled.
Sri Lankan Navy arrests 21 illegal immigrants
Colombo, Aug 6 - The Sri Lankan Navy on Monday said it has arrested 21 illegal immigrants in a fishing trawler bound for another country. The naval personnel intercepted the trawler during their patrol in the territorial waters off the island nation, Xinhua quoted Navy spokesman Dinesh Bandara as saying.
GOP senators rave about Kavanaugh; Dems prepare to grill him
By LISA MASCARO, AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON - Now that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has met privately with almost every Republican senator, it's becoming increasingly clear President Donald Trump's pick for the bench is running into little GOP resistance to confirmation this fall.
Morning Bits: Trump is a prosecutor’s dream
Vladimir Putin would not dream of a system in which the president isn't in charge. "The issue, I think, for us in the midterms is, what message is Putin hearing? Is he hearing the message that we heard from [Director of National Intelligence Daniel] Coats and [FBI Director Christopher A.] Wray and others in that press conference at the White House, or is hearing the message of the president of the United States? And I fear that the message that the Kremlin cares most about is what they hear from Donald Trump, and that is still one of denial and cover for the Russians."
Should Republican Billionaires Be Picking Democratic Candidates?
Let's start with some news: Last week, Fox News' James Rupert Murdoch, a British billionaire, put half a million dollars into one of Nancy Jacobson's shady No Labels SuperPACs that aims to fill Congress with candidates from the Republican Wing of the Democratic Party. Most recently, Jacobson pulled off the same filth against Marie Newman in Illinois' 3rd District House primary, spending $931,600 to spread absolute lies against Newman while bolstering anti-Choice Blue Dog Dan Lipinski.
Donald Trump is Bruce Rauner’s useful idiot-and vice versa
If you want to know why Bruce Rauner doesn't know what to say about Donald Trump , consider the fallout from the president's latest Twitter war juxtaposed with POTUS's proposed capital gains tax cut. One of which got a ton of publicity, the other almost none at all.
Nurse advocates for Patient Safety Act support
I support the Patient Safety Act, a November 2018 ballot measure establishing safe maximum limits on the number of patients assigned to a nurse at one time. As a registered nurse for 27 years at the bedside, currently at HealthAlliance in Leominster for the past 11 years, I have had experience trying to care for too many patients at one time.
Plaintiffs Walk Out in Shame After Attorneys’ Fees Award Affirmed
Addressing the proper analysis for awarding attorneys' fees and costs under the Copyright Act in the wake of the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons , the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a fee award to the defendants where the copyright claim was objectively unreasonable.
ALJs Could Get Political With New Executive Order
The new executive order granting agency chiefs the power to hire administrative law judges according to their own standards - and eliminating the exam and competitive hiring process formerly in place - could turn the position of ALJ into a politicized one, critics of the move argue. The "Executive Order Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service," signed by President Donald Trump on July 10, attempts to solve the problems raised by the Supreme Court's decision this year in Lucia v.
‘Modern Day Debtors’ Prisons’
Despite releasing a comprehensive and remarkably radical criminal justice reform agenda in 2015, Senator Bernie Sanders was accused throughout his presidential campaign of being insufficiently concerned with the topic, and of habitually changing the subject to economics . The reality is that Mr. Sanders has the clearest insight into the connections between criminal justice issues and economic inequality of any major politician today.
Republicans seeking to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren to debate on Herald Radio
The three Republican contenders vying to challenge U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren will face off for the first time tomorrow in a potentially pivotal debate on Boston Herald Radio. The hourlong debate live on the "Battenfeld" show, set for noon in the Herald Radio studio, will be the first time all three GOP candidates sit down together and tangle over the issues - ranging from taxes to President Trump to foreign policy.
Here s what the left doesn tget about America
I was once a proud member of the Democratic party. Better yet, I was a proud supporter of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Never Trumper Attends Trump Rally,Changes His Mind Instantly
A man who said he had reservations with President Trump in the 2016 election because he thought the president would not be "a good Republican" said he might just vote for the president in 2020. The man who attended Trump's rally in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday said he changed his mind about the president because of Trump's work on tax reform and his two Supreme Court picks to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia and retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Trump Admits His Son Met With Russian Lawyer To Get Dirt On Clinton
President Donald Trump is seen boarding Air Force One on Saturday in New Jersey, the day before he reiterated his stance that the focus of Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 Trump Tower meeting was to collect incriminating information on presidential opponent Hillary Clinton. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption President Donald Trump is seen boarding Air Force One on Saturday in New Jersey, the day before he reiterated his stance that the focus of Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 Trump Tower meeting was to collect incriminating information on presidential opponent Hillary Clinton.
Plane crashes in store lot; 5 people die
Authorities said five people on board a small plane were killed but that nobody on the ground was hurt when the twin-engine Cessna 414 crashed in a Southern California parking lot. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Arlene Salac said the pilot of the plane declared an emergency Sunday before crashing about a mile from Orange County's John Wayne Airport.