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DEBANKING: Chase Bank Says “moral character” a Reason Why They Don’t Do Business with “those types of people”…Chase Bank Responds...
April 18, 2019
Trump 2020 Campaign statement from Brad Parscale on the MuellerReport…
April 18, 2019
Here are the 10 ‘episodes’ Mueller probed for potential obstruction by Trump…
April 18, 2019
Conduct involving former FBI Director Comey and former national security adviser Michael Flynn
Trump’s reaction to continuing Russia investigation
The president's termination of Comey as FBI chief
The appointment of a special counsel and efforts to remove him
Attempts to curtail the special counsel’s investigation
Efforts to prevent disclosure of evidence related to events like the Trump Tower meeting
Further efforts to have the attorney general take control of the investigation
Efforts to have former White House counsel Don McGahn deny the president had ordered him to have the special counsel removed
Conduct toward Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an unnamed individual
The president’s conduct involving his former personal attorney Michael Cohen
President Trump Delivers Remarks at the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride…
April 18, 2019
Nadler Calls for Mueller’s Testimony Before May 23…
April 18, 2019

It is clear Congress and the American people must hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in person to better understand his findings. We are now requesting Mueller to appear before @HouseJudiciary as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/Mmo6PA4KPt

— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) April 18, 2019
Hair on fire, media declare William Barr’s press conference a disgrace…
April 18, 2019
“[T]his is straight-up PR,”...“Attorney General or President's personal lawyer?"... "This ‘press conference’ would make the editors of Pravda proud.”... "the AG who took one for the team."...

Honestly, though, was there ever a version of reality where the attorney general re-explaining that there was no collusion between Trump and Russia was not going to inspire a hair-on-fire response from the news media? Given that reporters at national newsrooms were attacking Barr's press conference even before it happened, my best guess to that question is: No.
Conservatives demand answers from Twitter after it reportedly cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center…
April 18, 2019
“Two weeks ago, we issued open letters to the CEO’s of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon urging them to cut ties with the corrupt, anti-conservative, anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC),” Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and other conservative leaders wrote to Twitter’s chief executive officer Jack Dorsey. “Since then, it’s been reported that Twitter has severed ties with the organization. It’s time they publicly confirm or deny this. If true, we commend them for taking action.”
German spies dismiss US warnings about Huawei threat to 5G network…
April 18, 2019
...a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday said that German authorities were not convinced by Grenell’s argument. Citing “four people with knowledge on the matter”, the news agency said that Germany’s intelligence community saw Washington’s warnings as “political grandstanding”. The US and Germany “need each other’s resources to tackle global conflicts” and “rely on each other too much to risk jeopardizing crucial data sharing”, said the report. The anonymous officials told Bloomberg that Germany does benefit from America’s “vast array” of intelligence...
Facebook says it uploaded email contacts of up to 1.5 million users…
April 18, 2019
“We estimate that up to 1.5 million people’s email contacts may have been uploaded. These contacts were not shared with anyone and we are deleting them,” Facebook told Reuters, adding that users whose contacts were imported will be notified.

The underlying glitch has been fixed, according to the company statement.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol Encounters Drone utilized as a ‘look-out’ in order to aid in illegal entries….
April 18, 2019
As one agent was monitoring the border at night utilizing an infrared camera, he observed a small airborne object traveling northbound across the U.S. International boundary. The object traveled approximately 100 yards over U.S. soil and then return back to Mexico. The object repeated this pattern three times. Approximately two minutes after the object returned back to Mexico for the third time, a group of 10 subjects made an illegal entry into the U.S. in the same area in which the object had been traveling. All 10 subjects were subsequently taken into custody by Border Patrol Agents...
Project Veritas Wins Defamation Lawsuit Suit In Florida, Judge Says Videos Accurate and Not Deceptively Edited…
April 18, 2019
The judge determined Project Veritas’ undercover video was neither defamatory in nature nor edited to make it defamatory.
Fossilised Bacteria in Meteorite From Mars is Proof of Life, Study Claims…
April 18, 2019
Similar claims have been made before, with NASA announcing in 1996 that it had found signs of life on Mars in another space rock, known as ALH 84001, also citing the appearance of the strands and filaments.

A second Martian meteorite which shows 'signs of microbial life' has been found, Hungarian researchers say in their report on the latest study, published in Open Astronomy, reigniting 'bacterial' fossils claims made 20 years ago by NASA.
NASA plans to send humans to an icy part of the moon for the first time…
April 18, 2019
No astronaut has set foot on the lunar South Pole, but NASA hopes to change that by 2024.
Who owns aloha? Hawaii eyes protections for native culture…
April 18, 2019
Last year, much of Hawaii was shocked to learn a Chicago restaurant chain owner had trademarked the name “Aloha Poke” and wrote to cubed fish shops around the country demanding that they stop using the Hawaiian language moniker for their own eateries. The cease-and-desist letters targeted a downtown Honolulu restaurant and a Native Hawaiian-operated restaurant in Anchorage, among others.

Now, Hawaii lawmakers are considering adopting a resolution calling for the creation of legal protections for Native Hawaiian cultural intellectual property. The effort predates Aloha Poke, but that episode is lending a sense of urgency to a long-festering concern not unfamiliar to native cultures in other parts of the world.
Fox News Poll: Approval of President Trump steady since Mueller probe ended…
April 18, 2019
President Trump’s job approval stands at 45 percent, while 51 percent of voters disapprove, according to a new Fox News Poll. And that is almost exactly where it was last month, 46-51 percent, before Special Counsel Robert Mueller completed his Russia probe March 22.
That makes sense given two-thirds of voters (65 percent) say Mueller’s investigation has not changed how they feel about Trump. One in ten (10 percent) say they feel better about the president, while nearly two in ten (17 percent) feel worse.

Kyrsten Sinema Bucks Party, Calls On Lawmakers To Better Secure The Border…
April 18, 2019
“Arizonans bear the brunt of Washington’s failure to address our broken immigration system. We must secure the border with a comprehensive, smart, bipartisan approach – we’re calling on [the Department of Homeland Security] to send additional resources and staff to AZ ports,” the first-term senator tweeted Wednesday.

Sinema’s calls for better border security was a far cry from what many of her colleagues in the Senate are demanding. Nineteen Senate Democrats, including every Democratic presidential candidate in the upper chamber of Congress, sent a letter to appropriation leaders demanding a reduction in funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
The National Enquirer is being sold for $100 million to James Cohen, CEO of Hudson News…
April 18, 2019
The National Enquirer is being sold for $100 million to James Cohen, CEO of Hudson News
By Washington Post Staff April 18 at 1:16 PM
The supermarket tabloid, along with two sister publications, will be purchased by the head of the travel retailer known for its airport newsstands, according to people familiar with the agreement.

The decision to sell came after the hedge fund manager whose firm controls the tabloid’s parent company, American Media, became disillusioned with the reporting tactics it practiced. American Media has been under intense pressure because of the Enquirer’s efforts to tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, who is a longtime friend of American Media’s CEO, David Pecker.....
The Latest: Colorado schools reopen a day after threat…
April 18, 2019
Colorado schools that were shuttered just ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting have reopened, a day after authorities found the body of a young Florida woman who was obsessed with the shooting. Many schools imposed increased security measures when they reopened on Thursday.

The FBI said the body of Sol Pais was discovered Wednesday in mountains outside Denver with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Heroin, crack seized in Vermont drug trafficking organization takedown…
April 18, 2019
Fourteen individuals were arrested as part of the operation, with two other suspects charged but still at large. The nearly 1,000 bags of heroin and 70 grams of cocaine base were seized by law enforcement after searches conducted on three residences and one hotel room in the area. Of the 14 arrested , 12 people were charged in federal court with participation in drug trafficking crimes and two were charged in state court with drug possession crimes. Two other individuals remain at large but were charged in federal court with participation in drug trafficking crimes.
Student used ‘USB Killer’ device to destroy $58,000 worth of college computers…
April 18, 2019
A former student of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, has pled guilty to charges that he destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of campus computers using a USB device designed to instantly overwhelm and fry their circuitry. The plea was announced Tuesday by the Department of Justice, FBI, and Albany Police Department.

Vishwanath Akuthota, the former student, now faces up to 10 years in prison (with up to three years of supervision after release) and a fine totaling up to $250,000. He was arrested and taken into custody in North Carolina on February 22nd, just over a week after he went on a spree of inserting the “USB Killer” device into 66 of Saint Rose’s computers around various locations on campus. Such devices can be easily and freely purchased online and can overload the surge protection in many PCs.
Doctors Use HIV, Gene Therapy To Cure Bubble Boy Disease…
April 18, 2019
Doctors used gene therapy to cure babies who were born with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), a rare and life-threatening disease marked by little or no immune system. The disease is also known as boy in the bubble syndrome. It more often affects boys. The public became more aware of SCID because of David Vetter, who became known as the bubble boy...
Research shows Great white sharks are terrified of orcas…
April 18, 2019
“When confronted by orcas, great white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year,” lead author Salvador Jorgensen, a senior research scientist at Monterey Bay Aquarium, said. Scientists analysed four encounters between great white sharks, killer whales and elephant seals at Southeast Farallon Island, an island marine sanctuary and shared foraging site off San Francisco in the US...
Military academies begin to follow Trump administration’s military transgender ban…
April 18, 2019
The U.S. Naval Academy will ban people who are transgender from attending the school, beginning with the 2020 school year. The Defense Department confirmed that change to the Capital Gazette newspaper on Monday. The school in Annapolis, Maryland, currently accepts transgender students and retains midshipmen who transition to another gender.
Illegal immigrant arrested after abducting, raping New Jersey teen…
April 18, 2019
An illegal immigrant from Mexico got pulled over this week in Ohio with a 15-year-old girl — who turned out to be a child sex slave from New Jersey, according to cops.

Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, 33, is accused of abducting the teen in Paterson, NJ, and sexually assaulting her. He was on his way to Chicago when a state trooper stopped him Tuesday on the Ohio Turnpike for a failure to move over violation, cops said.

Two more rounds of talks set for May amid hope the US-China trade war is ending…China Economic Growth Steady Amid Tariff Fight With US...
April 18, 2019
- US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plan to travel to Beijing the week of April 29
- Officials hope to announce a deal when Chinese Vice Premier Liu He visits Washington the following week
China and Japan inch closer for insurance against Hurricane Trump…
April 18, 2019
Asia's two biggest economies accelerate diplomacy but produce few results...
Christopher Steele Refusing To Meet With Doj Inspector General, Which Is Scrutinizing Ex-Spy’s Dossier…
April 18, 2019
Steele declined the inspector general’s request on the grounds that it would be improper for him to take part “in an internal Justice Department investigation as a foreign national and former British intelligence agent,” Politico reported Wednesday.

The explanation is somewhat ironic given that Steele, a former MI6 officer, provided his anti-Trump research to the FBI as well as to Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official.
Ann Coulter says she’d consider vote for Bernie Sanders…
April 18, 2019
In a preview clip of PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” released Wednesday, host Margaret Hoover asked Coulter how she viewed the progressive senator. She asked whether she would support him if he campaign on “getting rid of low-skilled workers” to ensure higher wages.

“If he went back to his original position, which is the pro-blue-collar position. I mean, it totally makes sense with him," she said. “If he went back to that position, I’d vote for him. I might work for him. I don’t care about the rest of the socialist stuff. Just-- can we do something for ordinary Americans?”
Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators…
April 18, 2019
Man caught with cans of gas outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York…
April 18, 2019
A man has been taken into custody after he was caught trying to bring gas cans, lighter fluid, and lighters into the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Wednesday.

The man, who police have yet to name, was arrested by the New York Police Department after being stopped by security at the cathedral Wednesday night about 8 p.m., NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said at a Wednesday night press conference.