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Sheryl Sandberg reportedly asked Facebook employees to research George Soros
Soros had shorted Facebook's stock". The company's outgoing head of communications and policy, Elliot Schrage, took the blame for hiring Definers . Months later, Facebook hired Definers Public Affairs, a firm founded by Republican operatives, to help manage two scandals: Russian efforts to use Facebook to disseminate misinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the explosive allega... [Full Article...]
Knickers, the Massive Bovine in Australia, Is Too Big for the Slaughterhouse
Last month, he was put up for auction and meat processors said they did not have the equipment to handle him. "When I first saw him, I was giddy", Schoenrock said. Not only is he believed to be the tallest bovine in Australia, but he also reportedly weighs around 1.5 tons, or as much as a small sedan. They saw Knickers making waves on the internet, and chose to see how their Dozer measured up. [Full Article...]
White House Reportedly Will Announce Bump Stock Ban
Soon after, President Trump said he would stamp out bump stocks , but was soon met with opposition from the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates, including Congresspeople. The Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco, and Firearms under the Obama administration ruled that bump stocks were accessories and therefore the agency did not have jurisdiction to ban them by agency rules. [Full Article...]
El Chapo may be secretly communicating with his wife
Prosecutors are accusing the wife of Joaquin " El Chapo " Guzman of getting a cell phone and making phone calls from within the Brooklyn courthouse where the accused Mexican drug lord is on trial, a move that could put people in danger on the outside. [Full Article...]
Ex-FBI director James Comey files action to quash Republican congressional subpoena
The GOP-run House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees are demanding he appear as part of their probe into decisions not to prosecute Clinton, as well as FBI conduct during the Russian Federation investigation. The Watkins case held that congressional investigations don't have unlimited authority to expose people's private lives. The unusual filing in the U.S. [Full Article...]
Office of Trump tax lawyer Edward Burke raided
Representatives for his law firm said they didn't know anything about what was happening at Burke's aldermanic offices. However, Burke stopped representing Trump earlier this year, citing "irreconcilable differences", according to published reports . [Full Article...]
Scott Morrison not told Julia Banks would quit
When asked by The Daily Telegraph whether she would rule out becoming leader in the future, Ms Bishop said: "I'm on the back bench; I'm preselected to run as the member for Curtin at the next election". Mr Morrison, who wanted the focus of the last Parliamentary sittings on the year to be on the economy and national security, was forced to convince Australians there was no chaos in Canberra. [Full Article...]
Pope laughs as young mute boy tugs on guard sleeve
Pope Francis was addressing the packed hall as the boy freely walked up the marble stairs towards him. The Prefect of the Pontifical Household, Georg Gaenswein, who was sitting next to the pope , turned to him and joked that the boy "is Argentinian, he's unruly". [Full Article...]