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US Authorities May Drop Cases Involving Gautam Adani

Quick Summary: US Authorities May Drop Cases Involving Gautam Adani The U.S. SEC has settled a civil case with Gautam Adani, involving a payment between $15 million to $20...

Louisiana Pushes the Story Into Uncharted Territory

Quick Summary: Louisiana Pushes the Story Into Uncharted Territory Louisiana Senate voted 27-10 for a...

U.S. Trump Insists China Relations Are Good

Quick Summary: U.S. Trump Insists China Relations Are Good Trade deals announced, specifics unclear. Xi Jinping...

Iraqs Cabinet Forces a Reckoning as Pressure Builds

Quick Summary: Iraqs Cabinet Forces a Reckoning as Pressure Builds After months of political deadlock,...

Trump and Xi Hold High-Stakes China Summit on Trade and Iran

Quick Summary: Trump and Xi Hold High-Stakes China Summit on Trade and Iran Beijing...

New York City ‘Terrorist Attack’: Several People Killed After Truck Plows Through People

On Tuesday afternoon in New York City, NBC News reported at least 8 people were killed after shots rang out in the city’s lower Manhattan. Details surrounding the violence indicated that it was not a normal shooting, as multiple news outlets reported that multiple cyclists were hit by a...

Several Former Trump Campaign Officials Charged in Russian Investigation

The first charges to come from the ongoing investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump and Russia have come to light on Monday morning. According to the New York Times, Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, former Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, and Rick Gates,...

Two Navy Seals are Under Investigation For the Strangling Death of a Green Beret

The ambush in Niger that killed 4 U.S. soldiers, two of which being Green Berets, is still under investigation. But, according to a New York Times report, officials have been investigating the death of another Green Beret in Mali this June, which has been ruled a homicide. The circumstances of...

Barack Obama Has Jury Duty in Chicago

After leaving the White House in January, Barack Obama has been making his slow transition into public life. He has voiced his opinion about the Trump administration’s attempts at repealing and replacing Obamacare and started campaigning for Democrat candidates across the country. Now he may have to slow down...

Mark Halperin Issues a Public Apology To The Women He ‘Mistreated’

On Friday, political journalist Mark Halperin issued a statement of apology to his accusers via Twitter. The NBC News political analyst, who frequently appears on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, is accused of sexually harassing several women while working at ABC News. His initial accusers were five, but CNN report...

Robert Mueller Files First Charges in the Trump/Russia Investigation

A federal grand jury has approved the first set of charges filed by special investigator Robert Mueller and his team, and those charged could be in custody as soon as this Monday. CNN reports that the charges are still sealed, and it is currently unknown what the charges are...

Talking Points Brought to Trump Jr. Meeting Were Shared with Kremlin

Donald Trump Jr.’s infamous June 2016 meeting is undergoing further scrutiny. According to The New York Times, the Kremlin was made aware of the scheduled meeting between Donald Trump’s son and the Russian government connected attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya. The New York Times reports Veselnitskaya shared her talking points with...

Fourth Woman Accuses of George H.W. Bush of Sexual Assault

For the last four days this week, a woman has come forward and accused President George H.W. Bush of sexually harassing them during photo opportunities over the last few years. The first three women all told similar allegations of meeting the elder President Bush backstage at events or productions...

Report: Clinton Campaign Funded Research That Led to Russia-Trump Dossier

The general counsel for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Marc Elias, is accused of helping organize funding from the campaign to fund the research firm Fusion GPS that helped pay for the anti-Trump dossier. The same dossier that launched allegations about the president ranging from Russian collusion to "golden showers." The claims came...

Man Kidnapped By The Taliban Couldn’t Believe Trump Was President

The Taliban had kidnaped Joshua Boyle and his pregnant wife on a trip to Afghanistan in 2012. The captors would later kill his infant daughter, he said, and rape his wife, according to Joshua who described the entire experience as a “Kafka-esque nightmare.” Late last year, the couple were...

Model in ‘Racist’ Dove Ad Says She is “Not a Victim”

Loa Ogunyemi, the Nigerian model who starred in a Dove ad that has been called racist, has come to the defense of the commercial, claiming that the image that has gone viral misrepresents the ad. “There is a lack of trust here, and I feel the public was justified...

Sen. Bob Corker: Trump Is Leading The US “On the Path to World War III”

Republican Senator Bob Corker called out President Trump on Sunday evening, saying the president is running the country like a "reality show." Then, Sen. Corker added that Trump could set the United States on "the path to World War III." The comments appeared in an interview with The New York Times. In...

Facebook’s Chief of Security Defends the Company’s Algorithms

Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, defended the social networking company against recent coverage of the platform on Twitter. Stamos was responding to an article by Quinta Jurecic of Lawfare who criticized Facebook’s decision to have human editors oversee more ads as an excuse saying it should fix their algorithms...

Las Vegas Shooter’s Note Revealed in a New Interview

60 Minutes reports the Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock took notes and calculated the distance from his window to the victims below and the trajectory of his bullets from the height of his room to “know where to shoot” and kill his victims below. The calculations were on a...

Pence Leaves 49ers NFL Game After Players Protest

Vice President Mike Pence left an NFL football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday after several players knelt during the National Anthem. The VP of the United States said that he did not want to “dignify” the event. On Twitter, the Vice President of...

Report: Ivanka, Trump Jr. Were Nearly Charged for Fraud

Donald Trump Jr. and White House adviser Ivanka Trump, two of President Trump’s children, were nearly indicted in 2012 on accusations they misled potential buyers about units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was seeking buyers. According to a ProPublica investigation, attorneys in the Manhattan District...

Rex Tillerson Reportedly Called Donald Trump a “Moron”

NBC News reported on Wednesday that Vice President Mike Pence and other top US officials stepped in to persuade Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to resign during the summer to ease growing discord between President Donald Trump and the Secretary of State. According to reports, Pence met with Tillerson...

Las Vegas Shooting: Shooter Sent $100,000 to the Philippines

On Sunday evening, a gunman opened fire at a country music festival killing at least 58 people, not including the gunman, and injuring over 500 more near the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino. According to reports, Marilou Danley is the girlfriend of Stephen Paddock, the man who killed nearly 60 people at...

Las Vegas Shooting: Stephen Paddock Reportedly Gambled More Than $10,000/Day

As the investigation continues on the Las Vegas attack, journalists covering the incident are uncovering details surrounding the mass shooting. This includes a breaking news discovery that police were able to discover Paddock’s exact location on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay thanks in part to the hotel’s...

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