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Rudy Giuliani’s claim that “truth isn’t truth” was roundly ridiculed on Twitter after his appearance Sunday on NBC with many suggesting President Trump’s lawyer took a page out of George Orwell’s science fiction novel “1984.” Presidential historian Michael Beschloss highlighted Giuliani’s comment with party slogans in George Orwell’s 1949 novel depicting life under the cult of personality of “Big Brother.” […]
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Rudy Giuliani declared “truth isn’t truth” on Sunday while expressing his concerns over having President Trump sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Giuliani, who’s representing Trump in the investigation, said the president’s legal team has been negotiating with Mueller’s investigators for months about the […]
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PHOENIX — The sales and marketing director of Backpage.com pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to facilitate prostitution, acknowledging that he participated in a scheme to give free ads to prostitutes in a bid to draw them away from competitors and win over their future business. Dan Hyer is the second Backpage.com employee to plead guilty in cases in Arizona in […]
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He’s a former cop-turned-hitman whose paramilitary-style cartel once shot down an army helicopter and brought Mexico to an armed standstill. Now Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — known as El Mencho — has replaced El Chapo as the most wanted drug lord on the planet. “He’s public enemy number one,” said Paul Craine, a Houston-based security consultant who headed the federal Drug […]
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I had a classmate in college who trained seeing eye dogs. Sometimes the pooches made it to the next step to ultimately help out a human in need, but other times, they didn’t pass the test. Some of the pups just weren’t super interested in going through the training. Although these "drop-outs" didn’t become seeing eye dogs, they are still […]
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GENEVA — Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was 80. His foundation announced his death in a tweet on Saturday, saying that he died after a short unspecified illness. Annan spent virtually his entire […]
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WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended in a court filing on Friday that a judge sentence former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos to up to six months in prison for lying to federal agents investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents and is scheduled to be […]
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MIAMI — An Alaska man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the January 2017 Florida airport shooting that left five people dead and six wounded, a federal judge ordered Friday. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom accepted a plea deal in which Esteban Santiago, 28, agreed to admit to the shooting if prosecutors would not seek the […]
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A large Satanic statue featuring the goat-headed deity Baphomet was unveiled during a protest at the Arkansas State Capitol. The Satanic Temple placed the bronze statue at the capitol during a First Amendment protest on Thursday, while calling for the removal of a Ten Commandments monument permanently mounted on Capitol grounds. “If you’re going to have one religious monument up […]
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A 2-year-old Kentucky boy has died after shooting himself in the head. In an email, Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Rita Taylor says Montreal Dunn died at a hospital after having been shot Wednesday morning. Police are calling the shooting accidental. Louisville police spokesman Dwight Mitchell says no charges in the case are expected at this time. It […]
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