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Posted at 8:18 pm on June 2, 2017 by streiff Periodically, you see headlines like this in the media: Cummings demands Coats, Rogers memos on Trump conversations First on CNN: Senators asked Comey to investigate AG Jeff Sessions for possible perjury This all gives the illusion that the Democrats are kicking ass and taking names but that’s all it is, an illusion.

Posted at 1:46 am on June 3, 2017 by Andrea Ruth One might think the headline might be facetious or click bait it’s so implausible, but it’s absolutely for real. Sen. Ben Sasse (R – Neb.) has been making the book tour rounds following the drop of his book, “The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance,’ a book I’ve been listening to via Audible for the past week.

Posted at 4:00 am on June 3, 2017 by Jay Caruso I’ve grown up as a Yankees fan. My first big league game was in 1977 at Yankee Stadium. I sat in the right field stands with my Dad, behind Reggie Jackson. I have faint memories of the game as well as vague memories of the Yankees World Series wins in 77 and 78. My first real memories of the Yankees at the World Series was 1981. And they lost.

Democratic lawmakers on Friday warned President Trump about any attempt to block former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress next week. In a letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn, top Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee pushed back on Trump potentially invoking executive privilege in an attempt to block Comey's testimony. Democrats wrote that "any such assertion of privilege is almost certainly baseless, particularly given that

The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to increase sanctions on North Korea on Friday after weeks of negotiations between the U.S. and China, citing the regime’s repeated missile tests. China’s support comes after the Trump administration has repeatedly pressured China to rein in its aggressive southern neighbor. "The security council is sending a clear message to North Korea today - stop firing ballistic missiles or face the consequences," U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said after the vote. The U.N.

The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is reportedly set to release copies of roughly two dozen ethics waivers for federal officials next week, showing which officials are focusing on issues that they worked on in their private sector jobs. The waivers are in addition to the ones the Trump administration released this week, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Susan Rice, former President New York Times op-ed. “That’s a whole lot of winning — for Russia and China,” she added. Rice, who previously served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, noted Trump's foreign policy moves in his first four months in office, including withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) to this week announcing his decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. The U.S. decision to withdraw from TPP was widely viewed as opening the door for China to assert its own views on trade in the region.

Former Trump campaign official Jason Miller on Friday evening dodged questions on whether President Trump believes that climate change is a hoax. “He’s passionate about the environment. He’s built a number of these resorts and golf courses, and he loves the outdoors,” Miller told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “But I think, Anderson, you’re asking the wrong question here.

SAN FRANCISCO — As iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue: Many of its existing features are already too complicated for many users to figure out. At last year’s conference, for example, Apple’s top software executive, Craig Federighi, demonstrated how users could order food, scribble doodles and send funny image

SAN FRANCISCO — As iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue: Many of its existing features are already too complicated for many users to figure out. At last year’s conference, for example, Apple’s top software executive, Craig Federighi, demonstrated how users could order food, scribble doodles and send funny image