When he was in Honduras working as a Pentagon contractor – years before he was sent to prison for stealing classified government secrets – Christopher Rennie Glenn recruited young girls from poor villages to work as his housekeepers, promising to give significant sums of money to their families. He made the girls believe that their families had given him permission to marry them, and fake marriage ceremonies were performed, court records say.
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Sean Spicer, Mike Pence
Vice President Mike Pence is set to rally support in Kentucky for a White House-backed health care overhaul, traveling to a state that has often been front-and-center in the battle over former President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care law. In Louisville, Pence is scheduled to tour an energy services company with Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, part of an effort to reassure conservative Republicans who have raised objections to the House GOP health care proposal that would scrap the “Obamacare” health care law.
United front needed on ESL funding
During his State of the City address at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday, Mayor Rick Chrest offered listeners in the business-friendly room an enlightened statement. While “nameless” countries are not being so friendly to immigrants right now, he said, the city of Brandon was a welcoming place, that would take those fleeing these locales with “open arms.”
Russia probe credibility in question
As congressional investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election are ramping up, so is the political division, raising questions about whether lawmakers’ work will be viewed as credible. The House this week scheduled its first public hearing, which some swiftly dismissed as political theater.
No more love for WikiLeaks from Trump after CIA hacked
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Republicans Love Individual Mandates – As Long As They’re From Corporations
House Republicans are proposing legislation aimed at making it easier for companies to gather genetic data from workers and their families, including their children, when they collect it as part of a voluntary wellness program. The bill, the Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act, introduced by Representative Virginia Foxx, a Republican from North Carolina and the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, would also significantly increase the financial costs faced by someone who does not join a company wellness program.
USDA clears Pitt research labs after animal complaint
The care and treatment of animals in research laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh is in full compliance with the Animal Welfare Act and U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, the university said this week. Pitt issued a news release Thursday on the results of an unannounced USDA inspection from Feb. 28 through March 3 that was in response to a 17-page complaint from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
U.S. attorney for La. western district retiring
Stephanie A. Finley, United States Attorney for the western district of Louisiana, announced Friday that she is retiring after 25 years of federal service. Finley began her career with the Department of Justice as an assistant United States attorney in October of 1995.
4 takeaways from demonstration
The anti-Trump protest on Feb. 23 in front of Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s office in Ottawa brought about 100 protesters, most of them progressives but a few tea party and pro-life folks as well. – There’s no evidence of outside money.
Program to provide legal aid to undocumented immigrants
Julie Gonzalez is a U.S. citizen who lives in Gainesville, but her husband Jose Manuel, an undocumented immigrant, is now back in his native Mexico. “I miss my husband,” Gonzalez said.
Top Trump confidante admits to speaking privately with…
OCTOBER 08: Political consultant Roger Stone speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 – ‘President Trump: Life As We May Know It,’ featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City.
People are calling for some undocumented immigrants to be…
On Friday afternoon, twenty-two-year-old Daniela Vargas was released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana after her case made headlines across the nation. “I urge you … to ensure the Department of Homeland Security exercises available discretion and looks upon her case favorably,” Thompson wrote.
Trump stumping for AHCA? Democrats arena t worried.
The three-phase Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act is intended to end with massive political pressure on Senate Democrats, who’ll face a choice: Vote with them on individual replacement bills, or be blamed for the American Health Care Act’s implementation going awry. The crux of the theory is that 10 Democrats face reelection next year in states won by Trump.
Budget blunder: Proposed cuts would imperil Great Lakes restoration efforts
And, just like all his predecessors did, he needs money to carry out his plans. So begins the process of finding what can be cut and what must be salvaged.
Trumpcare: Different Plan, Same Problems
With his widely followed, and positively reviewed, address to Congress last week, President Trump showed how easy it could be to unite Washington around a big-budget centrist agenda on health care, immigration, taxes, infrastructure and the military. But the continued accusations surrounding his campaign’s alleged Russian connections, and the President’s conspiratorial responses, have insured that the battle lines have only hardened.
Marines set hearing on charges related to Muslim recruit’s death
The family of a Muslim Marine recruit from Michigan who died in a fall at boot camp said Friday they don’t believe the charges announced so far in their son’s death are severe enough for the hazing and abuse he endured. “The charges appear to be insufficient and do not address the magnitude of the torture, assault, abuse, hazing, neglect and maltreatment” to which Raheel Siddiqui, a 20-year-old former high school valedictorian from Taylor, was subjected, his family said through their lawyer, Shiraz Khan, Friday evening.
Number of military suicides still high, but help is on the rise
As the mental health flight commander at Maxwell Air Force Base, she believes in erasing the stigma of mental illness and providing the help needed for people in an Air Force community who fall into depression and who attempt or consider suicide. A 10-day Intensive Outpatient Program she implemented, and which started Monday, is working to do just that, as it is designed for those at a higher risk of suicide or who need more intensive care.
DOD to increase drug testing for military recruits
The Department of Defense will increase its drug testing for new recruits, checking them for the same 26 drugs that are prohibited for active military members. As of April 3, new recruits will be tested for substances such as heroin, codeine, morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, hydromorphone and oxymorphone along with synthetic cannabinoids and benzodiazepine sedatives.
Editorial: Headless policy on driverless cars
Interpret that to mean a field day for Republicans determined to gut everything from environmental protection to rules that might keep banks and telemarketers from ripping you off. The coming slash-and-burn is one reason the GOP puts up with Trump, who party leaders gleefully hope will carry out their crusade against regulations, which they castigate as “job-killers” and impediments to business.
Trump’s most trusted adviser, Steve Bannon, is an Al-Qaeda ally
Donald Trump’s chief strategist and former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon shares the same opinion as the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, in that both believe the West is locked in an existential war with Islam. A recent edition of al-Qaeda’s Al Masra newspaper featured Bannon on the cover, with the story about the White House advisor’s perspective on Islam.
Latta: GOP can’t afford to wait on repeal
U.S. Rep. Bob Latta said in an interview with The Blade on Friday he supports the partial Affordable Care Act repeal bill backed by House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump. “We gotta get this thing started,” Mr. Latta said.
House intel leaders ask Justice Department for alleged wiretapping evidence
The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee have formally asked the Justice Department to turn over any documentary evidence – applications, orders or warrants – related to alleged wiretaps of President Donald Trump and his associates during the campaign, two congressional aides confirm to ABC News. They have asked DOJ officials to provide information – if it exists – by March 13, one aide said.
a No questiona some government employees are working against Trump, Spicer says
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday “there’s no question” that there are people who have “burrowed into” the federal government from the previous administration and are working to oppose the president’s agenda. “There’s no question, when you have eight years of one party in office, that there are people who stay in government, are affiliated with, you know, joined and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration,” Spicer told reporters Friday at the White House briefing.
Esty opposes effort to loosen gun rules
U.S. Rep Elizabeth Esty used her new power as the ranking Democrat on the House Veterans Affairs Committee to take on the committee chairman this week in a losing fight over a bill about veterans, mental health and guns. The bill in question would end the practice of classifying a veteran as mentally incompetent if the FBI’s gun background check system showed that he had been assigned a trustee to help manage his personal affairs.
Trump picks former FDA official to head food and drug agency
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017, during a meeting on healthcare. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced Friday that has chosen a conservative doctor-turned-pundit with deep ties to Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry to lead the powerful Food and Drug Administration.
Strict standards needed for contaminants in drinking water
Two U.S. senators from New York have introduced legislation that would require federal environmental regulators to clamp down on potentially harmful chemicals in drinking water. The bill, cosponsored by democrats Kristin Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, would require the Environmental Protection Agency to set “strong and enforceable safety standards” for chemicals like PFOA in public water systems.
US attorneys appointed pre-Trump ‘asked to leave’ by Jeff Sessions
US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during previous administrations, the Justice Department says. Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by former US president Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly 48 who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration have been asked to leave “in order to ensure a uniform transition”, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said.
Muhammad Ali’s son says he was detained again at airport
Muhammad Ali Jr., son of the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, and his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, who was Ali’s second wife, attend a forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a leading advocate in the House for comprehensive immigration reform.
ACLU files complaint against Jeff Sessions over false testimony
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But… At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the… Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that… You might recall that when Attorney General Jeff Sessions ” corrected the record ” about his lie under oath that he hadn’t communicated with Russian officials during Trump’s campaign, he admitted no wrongdoing.
Suspected rebel-planted mine hits Yemeni ship, kills 2
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family trying to reach Wisconsin. A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family trying to reach Wisconsin.
This Day in Trump, Day 50: Jobs report ‘may have been phony in the past’ but ‘very real now’
Halfway to the fabled 100-day mark that can define the early stages of a presidency, the White House touted with gusto the news that employers added 235,000 new workers to the payrolls in February . And never mind that Trump has previously called that data “totally fiction” and more.
Continue reading CNN host blasted for eating human brain while filming show on global religions
A Harvard-educated religion scholar and author is under fire for eating human brain while filming a new CNN show about spiritual sects around the globe. Reza Aslan, who came to the U.S. in 1979 while fleeing Iran’s 1979 revolution, was working on a TV segment about a fringe element of Hinduism when he participated in some of the Aghori peoples’ rituals, including tasting cooked brain tissue, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported .
Ny Us attorney among those told to submit resignation letter
In this Dec. 21, 2016, file photo, United States District Attorney Preet Bharara announces charges in New York against Navnoor Kang, Deborah Kelley and Gregg Schonhorn. Bharara was not commenting Friday, March 10, 2017, after he was included on a list of prosecutors asked to submit resignation letters as Attorney General Jeff Sessions clears space for prosecutors that can be appointed by President Donald Trump.
Trump administration purges Obama-era attorneys
All 46 remaining U.S. attorneys were asked to resign immediately . Many others had already left, but now, the rest are being forced out.
After plug from Trump adviser Conway, Ivanka’s fashion sales take off
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4 unscathed after plane’s landing gear collapses on Woods Cross runway
The landing gear of the group’s Piper PA-32 collapsed when it reached the runway at the airport, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed. The South Davis Metro Fire Agency characterized the incident as an “emergency landing” and said there were no resulting injuries and no fire.
The Berkeley City Council should really get stuff done now
With the election of Kate Harrison to fill new Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s City Council seat, Berkeley has entered firmly into a new era. She’s smart, energetic and independent.
GOP plan less generous than Obamacare for older Americans
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, spoke with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. during a Tuesday news conference on health care, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
U.S. extends leniency program for companies that disclose bribery
The U.S. Justice Department will extend a program that offers companies leniency if they voluntarily tell authorities when employees may have paid bribes, a senior official said on Friday. The program was set to expire on April 5, after a one-year pilot period but will now be continued indefinitely while officials evaluate its effectiveness, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco said at the American Bar Association’s conference on white collar crime in Miami.
156 Civil and Human Rights Groups Call for Stronger Response to Hate Incidents
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 155 civil and human rights groups today called upon the Executive Branch to respond more quickly and forcefully to hate-based incidents, which have been occurring at an alarming rate in recent months. The statement follows: “Our diversity is part of what makes America great, and incidents motivated by hate are an affront to the values we share.