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The Democratic Party sued Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump's son and son-in-law Friday, accusing them of an intricate conspiracy to undercut Democrats in the 2016 election by stealing tens of thousands of emails and documents. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court seeks unspecified damages and an order to prevent further interference with computer systems of the Democratic National Committee.
Tom Steyer is on a multimillion-dollar mission to impeach Donald Trump, but Democrats whose campaigns the California billionaire is helping bankroll aren't keen to follow his lead. Steyer, whose appeals you may have seen on TV, is spending $40 million on his "Need To Impeach" roadshow, with advertising and town halls around the country.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Donald Trump fired his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange. Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump's fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI's raid April 9 on the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen.
The Department of Justice's inspector general is reportedly investigating "classification matters" related to former FBI Director James Comey's memos. After he was fired, Comey gave four of the memos to his friend, Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman, to leak to the press last year.
European and U.S. airline regulators on Friday ordered mandatory inspections within 20 days of aircraft engines similar to one involved in a fatal Southwest Airlines , also recommended inspections by the end of August for fan blades with 20,000 cycles, and inspections of all other fan blades when they reach 20,000 cycles.
Cuomo: I'm an Italian-American, I came from poor Italian-Americans who came here. You know what they called Italian-Americans back in the day? They called them wops.
St. Louis prosecutors on Friday charged Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens with a felony for using a charity donor list for his 2016 political campaign, adding to the first-term governor's legal woes. The charge of tampering with computer data is in addition to an earlier charge alleging Greitens took and transmitted a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an extramarital affair in 2015.
Voters should get a chance to decide whether they want to approve Initiative 940, which puts new rules on the use of deadly force by police, a Thurston County judge said Friday. But they shouldn't get a chance to vote on the alternative approved by the Legislature in an effort to improve the initiative.
General Electric Co's quarterly profit from continuing operations more than tripled on Friday, helped by strength in its aviation and healthcare businesses. FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian walks past a General Electric facility in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., April 20, 2017.
As we wait for 3:00 PM EDT to roll around and begin the Friday afternoon news breakening, we could use a new thread. And since commenter Lizzie's question deserves some broader exposure than the few folks who've seen it buried in the comments to the previous thread , here it is: Since it's an open threada .sorry in advance for the long post, especially by a lurker who rarely posts! But there are a lot of knowledgeable animal lovers here and I'd love some advice about whether to pursue adopting two dogs.
The Democratic Party sued the Russian government, U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they carried out a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The party alleges in the federal lawsuit in Manhattan that top Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and tilt the election to Trump by hacking Democratic Party computers.
A new book by reporter Amy Chozick claims former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was stunned when her infamous "deplorables" line about Trump supporters bombed outside posh fundraising venues. The author of "Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling" has covered Mrs. Clinton 's career for a decade, but her new book promises to supply "inside details" on the candidate's failed 2016 campaign.
Amber Rudd privately pledged to give the Home Office "teeth" in efforts to remove illegal migrants from the UK, according to a leaked memo. The Home Secretary set out her vision to "radically reshape" the department's immigration enforcement activities in a letter to Theresa May last January.
NEW YORK: At the New York City convenience store where he works the overnight shift, Radad Alborati takes a sip of coffee and surveys his life. His wife is stuck in war-torn Yemen after his yearslong effort to bring her to the U.S. ended last month with a few phrases on a letter from an embassy.
Gizmodo finds it unimaginable that the Federal Bureau of Investigation could do a search of "Roger Ailes" in its files and fail to turn up anything related to the federal government's investigation of Fox News. On Thursday, Gizmodo asked a New York judge to rule that the FBI hasn't done an adequate search.
Students from Florida to Chicago started streaming out of their schools Friday in the latest round of gun-control activism following the February shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The protests were chosen to line up with the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, which left 13 people dead in Littleton, Colorado.
Bono 's one of those rare rock stars who's known nearly as much for his humanitarian work as he is for his music. Now the U2 frontman's been honored again for the former, this time by the George W. Bush Institute .
On April 22, 1970, a trio of radical dreamers established the first Earth Day, an annual event designed to assault capitalism, free-markets and mankind. The initial concept was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson .
As we've noted , you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a lawmaker more cozy with AT&T and Comcast than Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn played a starring role in helping industry giants kill net neutrality and broadband privacy protections , and has also supported letting ISPs write terrible state legislation banning them from owning or operating their own broadband networks.