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Bernie Kerik, the Trump-aligned former New York City police commissioner, could deliver the goods for prosecutors on indicted MAGA lawyer and accused election equipment tamperer Sidney Powell, argued former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore on CNN Monday, who now represents Kerik — provided he gets an immunity deal."You say that Bernie Kerik should be...
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Gen. John Kelly, who previously served as former President Donald Trump's chief of staff and Secretary of Homeland Security, came forward to CNN's Jake Tapper this week to confirm many of the ugly things the former president was previously reported to have said about U.S. servicemembers."What can I add that has not already been said?” said Kelly....
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Last year, a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at Central High School in Pueblo, Colo. When Jessica Foster, the school district's lead nurse, heard the girl's distraught friends mention drugs, she knew she had to act fast. Emergency responders were just four minutes away. "But still four minutes — if they are completely not...
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) tenure as leader of the House of Representatives appears to be on very thin ice.Punchbowl News reports that McCarthy is in "immediate danger" of being ousted by his own party after rebellious Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a motion to vacate the chair.Even though McCarthy had a call on Monday with House...
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The notion was once unthinkable.More recently, purely theoretical.Now, there's a legitimate chance Donald Trump could be running for president, or even serving as commander in chief, from behind bars.Two overriding factors contribute to this bizarre reality.Firstly, there's very little — legally speaking — preventing Trump from doing so.POLL:...
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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for experiments that gave humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons in atoms and molecules, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday. They were selected "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for...
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Donald Trump ranted and raged outside the courtroom against the New York judge overseeing his fraud trial, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough didn't see that strategy ending well for him -- or anyone else.The former president excoriated Supreme Court justice Arthur Engoron during a break as a "disgrace" who should be disbarred and criminally charged, and...
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Former WA Mental Health Commissioner Tim Marney was let go after being contracted to implement a new model of care for juvenile detainees — and the Inspector of Custodial Services Eamon Ryan says he was just getting started.
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As Congress works to fund the government long-term, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy continues to face pressure from his own party. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has even said he will try to strip McCarthy of his leadership role. Scott MacFarlane reports.
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After declaring Donald Trump "missing in action" at last week's Republican presidential primary debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed up by taking shot after shot at the former president. He challenged Trump to a one-on-one debate, asserted the GOP front-runner's political shortcomings "turned Georgia and Arizona blue" and accused him of...
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson confronted top White House officials late Sunday, demanding they take fast and concrete steps to address a migrant crisis they believe is about to reach a breaking point in the Windy City, according to two people on the call.
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India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by Oct. 10, the Financial Times reported. Ties between India and Canada have become strained over Canadian suspicion that Indian government agents had a role in the June murder in Canada of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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A trial is underway for Cameron Ortis, who faces four counts under the Security of Information Act. The legislation is reserved for some of Canada's most delicate national security matters: espionage, terrorism and insider threats. Here's a closer look at the rarely-used act.
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Stephen Colbert returned to late-night along with other comedians who were part of the writer's strike. In a 10-minute joke-a-thon, the CBS host walked through the top stories he missed during the 154 days that they were away from television. "It was a crazy summer to be off," he began. "It was just packed with events. obviously, it would be stupid...
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Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned on Monday after the writer's strike ended. He told his audience that the crew knew that they were back to work when their parents began sending text messages with notes for the show. "Please don't make the whole monologue about Trump," Kimmel read from Josh's mom."That is a no-can-do. I am backed up like you...
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PBS Newshour reporter Laura Barrón-López revealed a Congressman was the victim of a crime in Washington, D.C. near his apartment."Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked at gunpoint tonight outside his apartment building in DC, multiple sources confirm to me. And Cuellar is safe, they say," she tweeted late Monday evening. Washington D.C. has...
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New York Times reporter Susanne Craig revealed many of the colorful details about Donald Trump and his lawyers in the first day of court on Monday. Among them was the speech that Alina Habba made before the court in which she outright lied and misconstrued facts to the judge. "She wasn't getting [facts] wrong because they were honest mistakes,"...
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Raw Story reported on Donald Trump's former lawyer speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday, appearing to test a new legal argument that blamed Sidney Powell. Speaking to Tapper, lawyer Tim Parlatore revealed that "Trump co-conspirators" like Bernie Kerik are "turning on Trump alleged co-conspirators," as Just Security's Ryan Goodman tweeted....
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Former President Donald Trump is probably not going to make good on his vow to testify in his own defense at the civil fraud trial, argued former SDNY prosecutor Preet Bharara on MSNBC. The case, which was brought by the New York State Attorney General Letitia James, had the first trial Monday, despite Judge Arthur Engoron having already found him...
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Rachel Maddow began her weekly show by comparing Democrats and Republicans and crushing what she said is an all too frequent narrative that both parties are the same. All politicians are the same. She began with a story about former President Jimmy Carter trying to cure guinea worm before he died. As of today, the Carter Center says, there are just...
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Rep. Matt Gaetz speaks with reporters on his move to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the top House leadership post, offering a motion to vacate the chair on the House floor -- a rare procedural move that can be used to force a vote to remove the speaker.
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Economics reporter and Donald Trump biographer Tim O'Brien thinks that the former president already knows that he's lost the New York case. According to O'Brien, the image of Trump as a business tycoon has been swapped for a more lucrative persona and that's as a cult leader. Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Monday after the day's proceedings,...
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has filed a motion in the House of Representatives to "vacate the chair," setting up a vote to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).It's the first time in over 100 years that such a challenge has been filed against a Speaker. The last Speaker to be challenged in this way was Joseph Gurney Cannon, near the turn of the...
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Donald Trump's identity is wrapped up in his money, said one of his former biographers David Cay Johnston. Speaking to MSNBC on Monday after Trump's first day of trial in his New York case, Johnston explained that no case matters more than this one because it is about the persona the self-described billionaire has built up around himself. "Donald...
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) laid into far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on CNN Monday, as the latter ramps up his threats to call a vote to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) following his bipartisan deal to temporarily keep the government open.Far from McCarthy breaking the caucus rules like Gaetz claims, Lawler told CNN's Jake Tapper, it's Gaetz...
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Details are starting to come out about the first full day of court for Donald Trump in New York. According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, Trump's previous cases have been "noticeably different" than what unfolded Monday. She called the classified documents case "solemn" and "sober" with a "silent" proceeding. "You could hear a pin drop before...
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Former National Security Adviser John Bolton warned CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday that former President Donald Trump may actually want one of his followers to take matters into their own hands and mete out vigilante justice against former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, whom he recently accused of treason and suggested should be executed.This...
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Raw Story reported weeks ago that Donald Trump's lawyers were making a huge mistake by electing not to have a jury trial. On Monday, however, Trump pretended it was something he was being denied. Trump had a two-week period in which he could have changed the bench trial to a jury trial, but never did it. Speaking about the legal flub on MSNBC,...
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