California raids target ‘birth tourism’ operations…
March 6, 2020
On Tuesday, while much of the nation was preoccupied with the Super Tuesday presidential primaries, federal immigration agents swarmed three dozen sites in Southern California in a crackdown on alleged operators of so-called “birth tourism” businesses.
Vice President Pence and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing…
March 6, 2020
21 people on cruise ship off California tested positive for coronavirus. 19 crew members and 2 passengers.
Pro-Migrant NGOs Stop Activity on Greek Island After Attacks from Locals…
March 6, 2020
According to Herman, who told his six employees to leave Lesbos, the attacks on NGO workers have been from “fascist gangs” who he said had set up roadblocks across the island and threatened NGO workers and volunteers, Die Zeit reports.
A professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville has been arrested for allegedly concealing his ties to a Chinese university…
March 6, 2020
The professor, who has been suspended from UTK, received federal funds while concealing his foreign work.
Judiciary Committee says McGahn ruling leaves only extreme options — such as arrests — to get White House info…
March 6, 2020
"The House could direct its sergeant at arms to arrest current and former high-level executive branch officials for failing to respond to subpoenas, after which the legal issues dividing the branches would then be litigated through habeas actions," House lawyers wrote in a filing seeking a rehearing of the matter by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit...
🔴 WATCH: President Trump in Tennessee touring damage left by this week’s Tornadoes…
March 6, 2020
Two former executives of EarthWater Limited, a Dallas-based company, were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud and obstruction of justice…
March 6, 2020
Judge demands unredacted Mueller report, questions Barr’s ‘credibility’…
March 6, 2020
"The Court has grave concerns about the objectivity of the process that preceded the public release of the redacted version of the Mueller Report and its impacts on the Department’s subsequent justifications that its redactions of the Mueller Report are authorized by the FOIA," Walton wrote. He ordered the DOJ to hand over the unredacted report by March 30...
Mortgage Rates reaching an all-time low of 3.29%. That’s the lowest point on record…
March 6, 2020
One year ago, rates on 30-year mortgages were at 4.41%—more than a full point higher than today’s averages. Rates on other loan products are also dropping. On 15-year, fixed-rate loans, rates fell below 3% for the first time in three years, while 5/1 ARM rates hit 3.18%, another three-year low.
Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel flying empty ‘ghost’ planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak…
March 6, 2020
Saudi: MBS Arrests Top Royals On ‘Treason’…
March 6, 2020
The most senior royal detained was Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman... The former crown prince who was arrested, Mohammed bin Nayef, is also a former interior minister... His younger brother, Prince Nawaf bin Nayef, was also detained...
Trump names Rep. Mark Meadows his new chief of staff…
March 6, 2020
....I want to thank Acting Chief Mick Mulvaney for having served the Administration so well. He will become the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 7, 2020
Trump campaign sues CNN over ‘false and defamatory’ statements about seeking Russia’s help in the 2020 election. Seeks millions in damages…
March 6, 2020
"The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign while misleading its own readers in the process... the campaign filed this lawsuit against CNN and the preceding suits against The New York Times and The Washington Post to hold the publishers accountable for their reckless false reporting and also to establish the truth,” Senior Legal Adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Jenna Ellis told Fox News.
SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’…
March 6, 2020
Feds seize 100 electronic devices in R. Kelly probe, delaying upcoming sex abuse trial in Chicago…
March 6, 2020
Singer R. Kelly’s trial next month in Chicago’s federal court has been postponed until October after prosecutors revealed Thursday that investigators “very recently” executed a search warrant in the case and seized at least 100 electronic devices.
Vicious New York City mugging caught on camera – Teens beat up 15-year-old girl and steal her Air Jordans…
March 6, 2020
DOJ approves plan to collect DNA from arrested illegal immigrants…
March 6, 2020
It was supposed to be already happening, but in 2010 then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and then-Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano worked out a waiver. It was supposed to be temporary, to give Ms. Napolitano’s agencies time to figure out the collection, but it was renewed each year without any debate.
Alleged Russian hacker goes on trial Monday in US in 2012 LinkedIn, Dropbox breaches…
March 6, 2020
Nikulin allegedly stole millions of usernames and passwords by breaching systems at LinkedIn, DropBox and Formspring in 2012. He also attempted to sell hacked information on online black markets, prosecutors say, where buyers likely hoped they could use it to break into accounts with several services, because people often recycle passwords.
MSNBC’s Brian Williams & NYT Editor Fail Basic Math on Bloomberg Ad Spending…
March 6, 2020
MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: "Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million"
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
It's $1.53 per person pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2020
Loaded gun found in jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself…
March 6, 2020
The handgun was located by Bureau of Prisons officers inside a housing unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, prison officials said in a statement to the AP... Officials have not said where specifically the gun had been found, or how it had been smuggled inside the jail.