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Posted at 8:40 pm on June 25, 2017 by streiff Yesterday, I posted on CNN running with a thinly sourced and, as it turned out, flagrantly false story linking a Trump adviser, Anthony Scaramucci, with a Russian investment fund CEO and claiming they discussed easing US sanctions on Russia.

Posted at 9:00 pm on June 25, 2017 by streiff The man at ground zero of the rapidly deflating Trump-colluded-with-Russia conspiracy theory is the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. Kislyak has been the Russian ambassador to the United States for nearly a decade. During the past year, though, he’s become famous as the man everyone has met but no one remembers meeting. That era is coming to an end. Kislyak has been recalled to Moscow.

Posted at 10:00 pm on June 25, 2017 by streiff As I just posted, long time Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak has been recalled to Moscow. Who has Russia selected to replace him? The fact that Russia is sending a “hard liner” to replace Kislyak should calm down the “Russia is not our friend” crowd, but it won’t because those same people nev

Posted at 4:00 am on June 26, 2017 by Jay Caruso Anti-war protests were all the rage in 2002 and 2003. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, protests in New York and Washington D.C. attracted hundreds of thousands of people. They had signs, burned President Bush in effigy, and walked around with small gasoline containers to emphasize the “war for oil” narrative. Fast-forward to 2011 and the left engaged in Occupy Wall Street protests, aimed at curbing the supposed excess of the financial markets.

The House Appropriations Committee released a draft of the fiscal 2018 Defense Appropriations bill on Sunday. The legislation would provide $658.1 billion for the Department of Defense, $18.4 billion more than President Trump laid out in his non-binding budget blueprint. The Appropriations draft was released ahead of any Budget Committee text, though that committee is supposed to set the DOD funding level. The Appropriations Subcommittee draft will be considered in a subcommittee meeting on Monday. It also provides $73.9 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism fundi

National Football League Hall of Famer Deion Sanders defended his new partnership with the Republican billionaires David and Charles Koch Saturday, saying he’s “all in” with the pair despite their conservative political affiliations. Sanders announced a new program with the Koch’s anti-poverty group Stand Together to help at-risk families in the Dallas area, where he played football for the Dallas Cowboys for four years, The Washington Examiner reported. Sanders

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Jared Kushner’s real estate company received a $285 million loan a month before Election Day from a German bank that has lent millions to President Trump in the past, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Kushner was acting as both an adviser to the Trump campaign and working at his real estate company when his firm received the loan from Deutsche Bank. The White House told The Post that

The Obama administration on Sunday unveiled a tougher climate change rule for power plants, demanding that generators cut their carbon dioxide output 32 percent in the first-ever limits on the pollutant. Obama will hold an event Monday afternoon at the White House to announce the regulation, the White House said. The EPA is asking states to formulate plans to reach specific carbon reduction goals assigned to them by 2030, from a 2005 starting point, adding up to a 32 percent reduction nationwide.

The same-sex marriage a nationwide right on June 26, 2015. The next day, The New York Times highlighted 12 same-sex couples, many of whom were the first in their cities to wed on that day. Ten of those couples recently reflected about what marriage meant to them, and what they had learned. The interviews have been edited and condensed.