First lady’s office calls for firing of White House staffer…
November 13, 2018
Melania Trump has ensured the departure of one White House official, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel, after she had a series of run-ins with the first lady’s office.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s communications director, issued a pointed statement on Tuesday saying as much. “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” Grisham said.
FYROM to seek arrest in Hungary of former prime minister…
November 13, 2018
The 48-year-old Gruevski who ignored a summons on Monday to appear at a Skopje prison to serve a two-year sentence after being convicted influencing officials to purchase a luxury car for government use. He also faces trial in four other cases that emerged from a wiretapping scandal which erupted in 2015 and plunged the country into a deep political crisis. He has been charged with abuse of office, electoral fraud, criminal association and incitement to violence.
Crazy-Eyes-Cortez rallys youth protesters to storm Pelosi office to push for climate plan…
November 13, 2018
More than 200 youth activists, flanked by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, flooded House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office this morning urging Democrats to act more decisively on climate change.
Capitol Police said they arrested 51 protesters for unlawfully demonstrating outside Pelosi's office in the Cannon House Office Building...
She-Guevara conveniently left before the arrests began.
Lindsey Graham: There’s Nothing Democrats Won’t Do to Win…
November 13, 2018
Former Charity CEO Pleads Guilty To Multi-Million-Dollar Political Corruption Scheme…
November 13, 2018
Marilyn Luann Nolan, 68, of Springfield, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David P. Rush on Friday, Nov. 9, to one count of conspiracy to embezzle and misapply the funds of a charitable organization that received federal funds.
By pleading guilty, Nolan admitted that she conspired with others from 2008 to June 30, 2017, to misapply millions of dollars of the charity’s funds for substantial, undisclosed payments to lobbying firms and political advocates, monetary and in-kind contributions to the campaigns of candidates for public office, and to bribe public officials. Nolan also admitted that she knew her co-conspirators defrauded the charity in order to enrich themselves, and her.
Todays Mix
November 13, 2018
Disney World blocks man who displayed Trump signs…
November 13, 2018
Don Cini returned to Disney World last week after he was reminded he had violated park rules by displaying a Trump banner in the Magic Kingdom in September. The rules prohibit the use of any signs, flags or banners.
Joseph Mifsud’s alive and “working” to testify before the Senate…
November 13, 2018
A lawyer closely associated with Joseph Mifsud claims that the Maltese professor, who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails to Donald Trump's campaign, is willing to testify to the US Senate.
Mifsud disappeared after he was identified as the unnamed professor alleged by FBI investigators in court documents unsealed in October 2017 to have told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, months before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer system had been hacked.
Obesity and Cancer Link: ‘Fat-clogged’ Immune Cells Fail to Fight Tumors…
November 13, 2018
TL;DR:
Obseity induces lipid accumulation in natural killer-cells. This hinders their metabolism; mimicking the effect in vivo yielded lower antitumor response and failed to reduce tumor growth.
Study finds most of Earth’s water is asteroidal in origin, but some, perhaps as much as 2%, came from the solar nebula…
November 13, 2018
ELI5: Some water came from hydrogen gas, which got trapped on Earth. It then combined with Oxygen to make water. The rest of it basically came from ice cubes in space. While this was all happening, the Earth was a growing ball of hot magma that would have obliterated any life that crashed into it.
It would be like dropping ice cubes into an active volcano.
NJ Supreme Court rules more than 20,000 DWI convictions could be tossed…
November 13, 2018
The justices unanimously found that criminal charges pending against Dennis — who oversaw the calibration of the devices as a coordinator with the State Police Alcohol Drug Testing Unit — made breath-testing device test results from five counties inadmissible as evidence.
Merkel calls for creation of ‘European army,’ backing Macron in spat with Trump…
November 13, 2018
Merkel told lawmakers in the E.U. Parliament in Strasbourg that “we have to work on the vision of one day creating a real European army.” She clarified the such a force would not mean the end of NATO, and also called for the creation of a European security council.
The remarks were met with a mix of boos and cheers from lawmakers, with some British representatives crying “Rubbish! Rubbish!”
Monsanto owner Bayer hit by new wave of lawsuits 9,300 plaintiffs…
November 13, 2018
German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer disclosed that lawsuits from 9,300 plaintiffs were pending at the end of October. The lawsuits allege that the company’s recently acquired weed-killing product causes cancer.
Plaintiffs claim that Roundup weed killers, which Bayer acquired in its takeover of US agrochemical firm Monsanto, made them ill and that the company knew or should have known of the risks but failed to warn adequately.
DOJ Busts Six Broadcast Television Co.’s re: antitrust civil case…
November 13, 2018
The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with six broadcast television companies — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.; Raycom Media Inc.; Tribune Media Company; Meredith Corporation; Griffin Communications; and Dreamcatcher Broadcasting LLC — to resolve a Department lawsuit alleging that the companies engaged in unlawful agreements to share non-public competitively sensitive information with their broadcast television competitors.
BACKWOODS MASSACRE SOLVED? Four family members charged in shocking, 2016 murders of rural neighboring clan…
November 13, 2018
Two years after the brutal, execution-style slaying of eight family members in Ohio shocked the nation, authorities announced Tuesday that four members of a different family had been arrested and accused of carrying out the murders.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said the suspects -- a husband, wife, and their two adult sons -- were arrested in connection with the Rhoden family murders.
President Trump Participates in the Diwali Ceremonial Lighting of the Diya…
November 13, 2018
Almost 50% of Americans Believe Trump will win in 2020…
November 13, 2018
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey conducted the day after Election Day finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it’s likely Trump will be reelected in 2020, up eight points from August. Twenty-nine percent (29%) think it’s more likely that the president will be defeated by the Democratic nominee in 2020, while another 16% feel Trump will be impeached before finishing a full term in the White House.
It’s time to pay up… We’re here to collect…
November 13, 2018
Frozen Out of China, American Farmers Refuse to Sell Their Soy…
November 13, 2018
Caught smack in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war, America’s soybean farmers are taking a huge gamble.
Rather than selling the crop right away as they pull it out of the ground -- as they do almost every harvest season to pay the bills -- they are instead stashing it in silos, containers, bins, bags, whatever they can get their hands on to keep it safe and dry.
Federal Judge Orders Georgia to Wait Until Friday to Certify Election Results…
November 13, 2018
A federal judge has ordered Georgia take steps to protect provisional ballots and to wait until Friday to certify the results of the midterm elections that include an unsettled race for governor.
In a ruling late Monday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ordered the secretary of state’s office to establish and publicize a hotline or website where voters can check whether their provisional ballots were counted and, if not, the reason why. And, for counties with 100 or more provisional ballots, she ordered the secretary of state’s office to review, or have county election officials review, the eligibility of voters who had to cast a provisional ballot because of registration issues.