June 25th, 2019

The civil action alleges that Manigault Newman is in violation of the Ethics in Government Act “for knowingly and willfully failing to file the required public financial disclosure report after her employment terminated with the Executive Office of the President.”...

Unfortunately, Google sends unrelated departments to answer questions those people wouldn’t technically know anything about. Google comes out looking clean while Sen Cruz looks like he’s chasing butterflies. They structured their company into all of these independent cells. They can just cut them loose and deny they knew anything about it. They are structured like a criminal enterprise.

On another note, this woman was clearly coached to thank Cruz before every answer and to turn off the mic every time. She’s an NPC of the highest order.

According to MLCI’s admissions, beginning by at least 2008 and continuing through 2014, precious metals traders employed by MLCI schemed to deceive other market participants by injecting materially false and misleading information into the precious metals futures market. They did so by placing fraudulent orders for precious metals futures contracts that, at the time the traders placed the orders, they intended to cancel before execution. In doing so, the traders intended to “spoof” or manipulate the market by creating the false impression of increased supply or demand and, in turn, to fraudulently induce other market participants to buy and to sell futures contracts at quantities, prices and times that they otherwise likely would not have done so. Over the relevant period, the traders placed thousands of fraudulent orders...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, and state and local partners participating in HSI’s Border Enforcement Security Task Force (BEST) examined a container of beach chairs that arrived from China through Panama. In addition to beach chairs, authorities discovered four black bags inside the container. The bags contained a combined 125 bricks of a white-powdery substance that field-tested positive for cocaine. The cocaine weighed about 151 kilograms, or about 333 pounds, and has a street value of about $10 million.

John Sanders had been acting as head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection since its commissioner, Kevin McAleenan, was tapped to take over as acting Homeland Security secretary in April. He had been its chief operating officer and a longtime ally of Mr. McAleenan’s...
Mr. Sanders told employees of CBP Tuesday that he had offered Mr. McAleenan his resignation on Monday and that it would take effect July 5. He didn’t explain the reasons for his departure in the email and instead focused primarily on employees, telling them to “take care of each other.”

Hogg, 19, told The Washington Post in an article published on Tuesday that the attempts to end his life came from people who are "misguided and misinformed of what we’re actually here to talk about." He said that if someone were to kill him because of his efforts to curb gun violence, it would most likely be "the stupidest thing they could do to try to end the movement. Because that would make it even more successful in the end. Because it would invigorate us and create f---ing change."

The undercover investigation started Jan. 1 and was called “Operation Trade Secrets.” The sting focused on hotels, motels, spas, massage parlors, strip clubs, adult bookstores and sex trade activities in Hillsborough County, Chronister said. The Sheriff’s Office targeted “johns,” Chronister said, with undercover deputies soliciting for sex. But about half of the people arrested were women on charges of offering to commit prostitution.

Stars such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mark Hamill, John Lithgow and Alyssa Milano performed Monday night in a play based on the special counsel's report into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. "The Investigation: A Search For the Truth in Ten Acts," was live streamed by Law Works, which hosted the event.

“Pursuant to subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence tonight, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has agreed to testify before both Committees on July 17 in open session,” the chairmen said in a statement... The chairmen suggested in a letter to Mueller Tuesday accompanying the subpoena that they understand that Mueller may limit what he plans to share with lawmakers, with Schiff and Nadler writing that they know “there are certain sensitivities associated with your open testimony.”

Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez tried to cross Rio Grande with daughter Sunday. Family had spent two months waiting in Mexico for U.S. immigration interview... Bodies were found on Mexico side of the border near Brownsville, Texas

A "loose knit crew of rivals" are eager to help the government with its anti-trust probe of Alphabet, Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal. Competitors of Google are doing everything they can to try and help the Justice Department in their probe, including readying documents and data in anticipation of meetings with regulators.

...rival companies are stepping up their lobbying in the United States, where antitrust investigations have been divided among the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Lawyers that specialize in antitrust law say that any probe could take years to complete. Google is preparing its case as well, while at the same time overhauling its lobbying effort in Washington...

The competitors that have aligned themselves with regulators (and against Alphabet) include companies like TripAdvisor, Yelp and Oracle.

Grisham, who developed a reputation as a fierce defender of the first lady during her tenure as spokeswoman, will also become the White House communications director.

I am pleased to announce @StephGrisham45 will be the next @PressSec & Comms Director! She has been with us since 2015 - @potus & I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse. #BeBest

— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 25, 2019

More than 67% of the aliens arrested (35) by ICE deportation officers during this enforcement surge had prior criminal histories that included convictions and or pending charges for the following crimes: assault, battery, domestic violence, traffic offenses, driving under the influence, drug possession, drug trafficking, larceny, illegal re-entry after deportation, illegal entry, resisting officers, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Eighteen of those arrested were immigration fugitives with a final order of removal; 21 others illegally re-entered the United States after having been previously deported, which is a felony.

American Airlines joins more than 200 companies and organizations across the country that have signed the Pledge, contributing to over 10 million new education and training opportunities for American students and workers over the next five years.

The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #36 posted a letter to its Facebook page on Monday. The letter says Buttigieg has doted on the victims of one shooting while ignoring several others in his community, ostracizing the other victims. Buttigieg has further divided, not united, South Bend... "Mayor Buttigieg's comments have already and will continue to have a detrimental effect on local law enforcement officers and law enforcement officers nationwide," the letter continues. "Mayor Buttigieg's comments and actions are driving a wedge between law enforcement officers and the community they took an oath to serve."

Chicago-based AbbVie, which makes the world’s best-selling drug Humira, for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, said it would pay $120.30 in cash and a portion of AbbVie stock for each Allergan share. This amounts to $188.24 per share. AbbVie said the purchase would give it a more diversified product portfolio. Its bestseller Humira will lose patent protection in 2023, which means other drugmakers can make cheaper generic versions.