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Ex-Penn State Officials Sentenced in Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Ex-vice president Gary Schultz , 67, who supervised the campus police force, was ordered to serve six to 23 months behind bars and two years probation. Then, in 2001, former assistant football coach Mike McQueary testified that he told Curley and Schultz that he'd witnessed Sandusky molesting a boy in the team shower facilities late one night. [Full Article...]
Trump '100 per cent' willing to testify on Comey
Trump said Comey's testimony also vindicated him from allegations that he colluded with Russian meddling in the 2016 United States presidential election. Trump made the remarks while responding to questions on Comey's explosive testimony in which he accused the president of trying to stop a probe into the alleged Russian interference in the USA elections previous year. [Full Article...]
Comey Testimony Hysterics Perfectly Summed Up in 5 Hilarious Cartoons
In written and oral testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey provided an explosive account of an attempted cover-up by the president. Comey told lawmakers he documented all of his conversations with Trump, which had not been his practice with former President Barack Obama . What he seems to be doing most of all is to lump in Comey with all the other "leakers" that the White H... [Full Article...]
Iran sends five planes of food to Qatar amid Gulf crisis
Kuwait's ruling emir has shuttled between countries trying to mediate an end to the crisis. Saudi Arabia and the UAE are bent on avoiding a repeat of 2014 when Qatar failed to respond to the withdrawal of the Saudi, Emirati and Bahraini ambassadors from Doha by caving in to their demands that it halts its support for Islamists and militants. [Full Article...]
Trump's tweets draw scorn from some, support from others
Over the entire sample, 69% said they think he uses Twitter too much, and 59% say that is a bad thing. NBC News reports, ( http://nbcnews.to/2r1qc3w ) President Trump's tweets have played a major role in his presidency by "offering a window into his thinking, sometimes at the expense of his administration's own messaging". [Full Article...]
Kathy Griffin Finally Said Something That Made Me Laugh
Those photos, Bloom said, were meant to be a parody of Trump's infamous "blood-blood-coming-out-of-her-whatever" comments about then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly . Tomorrow it could be you". "The death threats that I'm getting are constant", she added. "That was never what she intended". Griffin's hands shook and her voice occasionally became choked as she discussed the emotional impact of t... [Full Article...]
White House defends Trump's scathing tweets
Trump's tweets have become the target of mockery for his opponents, as in the case when he recently sent out a mysterious "covfefe", and the source of concern for his allies, who fear that the politician may tarnish his self image by misspeaking. [Full Article...]
Nadal reclaims French Open crown
Nadal also won Roland Garros in 2006, 2007 and 2008, then after a fourth-round loss on bad knees in 2009, he grabbed a record five in a row from 2010-14. Nadal didn't drop a single set during the course of the title. Even Wawrinka applauded that one. "But today there is not much to say about the match". [Full Article...]