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Ex-Trump aide Manafort goes on trial in Russian Federation probe
Responding to allegations that Manafort took the campaign job with Trump in 2016 to pay off debts he owed to a Russian oligarch, the defense fund website asserts that he was "motivated exclusively by his appreciation and ardor for our country". [Full Article...]
Mamata Banerjee says NRC will lead to bloodbath, civil war in country
Soldiers stood guard at government offices, where thousands of people queued to check their names on the so-called National Register of Citizens (NRC), Reuters witnesses said. Elsewhere in the country's northern heartland, lynchings of Muslim cattle traders have risen under Modi in the country where many Hindus consider cows sacred, further deepening social divides. [Full Article...]
John Kelly Hits 1 Year As Chief Of Staff
The news breaks just after Kelly reaches his one-year anniversary in the job, prompting wide media speculation that he would finally leave the administration. Congratulations to General John Kelly . He moved quickly to impose order - most notably by restricting access to the Oval Office for subordinates as well as the president's many friends, unofficial advisers and confidants. [Full Article...]
'A crisis in our democracy'
Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president of policy, said in a statement to the Wall Street Journal that the committee has "raised some important issues ", adding that the company was "pleased to be able to contribute to their work". According to the draft version of the report leaked last night by Former Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings , MPs are set to demand for these firms to be made l... [Full Article...]
Pilots last few radios to control before plane crashes in Greenville
Pomerleau said his department received a phone call from the Federal Aviation Administration around 10:45 a.m. Monday warning of a plane in distress and possibly headed to the Greenville airport. All three people on board were killed. The National Transportation Safety Agency is looking into the accident and will investigate its probable cause. [Full Article...]
Mendocino-Lake County Wildfires Force Lakeport Evacuations
Napa County Sheriff's have issued a mandatory evacuation for the area. Lake County officials ordered the evacuation of Lakeport and the areas around the town of 4,772 residents Sunday afternoon as the flames from the Mendocino Complex Fire rapidly approached the city. [Full Article...]
Trump turns against 'total joke' Koch brothers after North Dakota snub
The Koch network is now only supporting for Republican candidates for Senate heading into midterm elections: the GOP candidates in Wisconsin, Tennessee, Missouri and Florida. The lack of an endorsement in a key race comes as the network is trying to put forward a more bipartisan face. "If Cramer doesn't step up to lead, that makes it hard to support him". [Full Article...]
Poll suggests growing support for second Brexit referendum
Remarking that since the Chequers deal, May had come to embrace a very different approach to negotiations which Brexiteers have found increasingly unacceptable, Mandelson told Sky anchor Adam Boulton that "she has deserted her previous approach, she wants to find a new approach to the Brexit negotiations, and she has crossed the Rubicon but leaving a very large number of Tory MPs on the other ba... [Full Article...]