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Posted at 11:08 pm on May 26, 2017 by Andrea Ruth MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host, Mika Brzezinski, announced on Friday via Instagram that her father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has passed away. My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life. I just knew his as the most inspiring, loving and devoted father any girl could ever have.

Posted at 1:18 am on May 27, 2017 by Andrea Ruth World War II veteran Bill Lee Eblen, 92, recovered from a bout of pneumonia just in time to be his niece’s “something blue” at her wedding this month. According to his niece, Alison Ferrell, Eblen was a sergeant in the Marine Corps during WWII, and was later a sergeant in the Air Force Korean War. Eblen dressed in his Marin Corps blues on the wedding day and carried a sign down the aisle saying, “I’m her something blue.”

Posted at 4:00 am on May 27, 2017 by Jay Caruso I remember when Rocky IV debuted in November 1985. Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and most people had no idea how close we were to the conclusion of the Cold War. Rocky Balboa, after watching his friend Apollo Creed get killed in the ring against a juiced up Russian boxer, made the trip to Russia to fight Ivan Drago. Not for money and not for a championship, but instead for a personal debt. The main story for the audience, however, revolved around the blatant pandering to a Cold War era audience.

The State Department quietly lifted its restriction this week on how many refugees are allowed to enter the U.S. despite efforts by the Trump administration to scale back refugee resettlements, The New York Times reported Friday. Jennifer Smith, a department official, reportedly notified refugee groups of the decision Thursday in an email stating that they could begin bringing refugees to the U.S.

Three owners of a Russian bank filed a defamation lawsuit Friday against BuzzFeed News for publishing a dossier with unproven allegations about them that include attempts at bribery and conspiring to influence the 2016 U.S.

Democratic Rep. reports emerged that he didn't disclose at least three contacts with Russia's envoy to the U.S. during and after the 2016 campaign. "Certification for my SF86 security clearance form," Lieu tweeted alongside a picture of the form. "Which says false statement punishable by imprisonment. Jared Kushner lied on his form." "If this is true, #Kushner needs to resign.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to former President Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis in the late 1970s, died Friday at the age of 89. Brzezinski's death was announced by his daughter Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," in a post on Instagram. "My father passed away peacefully tonight.

Sen. MORE's (D-Va.) son Linwood “Woody” Kaine was charged Friday with a misdemeanor in Minnesota after participating in a counter-protest against a pro-President Trump rally at the state Capitol in March. Prosecutors are charging the Kaine for "fleeing on foot, concealing identity in a public place, and obstructing legal process." Protestors got out of hand when they interrupted the March 4 rally in St.

BANGKOK — An eruption of violence in the southern Indonesia this week highlight the growing threat posed by militant backers of the Islamic State in Southeast Asia. While the timing of the Jakarta bombings and the fighting on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao a

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