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Aug 14 2019
News
Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Sues Financier's Estate, Ex-Associate Maxwell, Others
A New York woman who said she was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14 sued the disgraced financier's estate and a former associate on Wednesday, in the start of an expected wave of lawsuits.
Jennifer Araoz, 32, said in her complaint that she was starting out in high school when an Epstein associate brought her to the financier's massive mansion on Manhattan's Upper
Newsmax (News)Oct 24 2017
News
Congressional IT Aide Wiped His Phone Before Being Arrested -- Here's How The FBI Found Out
Imran Awan, the IT professional Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) kept on her congressional payroll long after it became known he was under investigation by the Capitol Police, wiped his phone hours before he was arrested last July.
On August 17, 2017 a federal grand jury indicted Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, on four counts, including conspiracy and conspiring to obtain home equity
ForbesNov 30 2014
News
Why Egypt just freed former dictator Hosni Mubarak
All remaining charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak have been dismissed by the court hearing his case. He is free. Mubarak ruled from 1981 until the 2011 Egyptian revolution, when he was deposed and jailed for corruption as well as responsibility for Egyptian security forces who killed hundreds of protesters during the revolution. Mubarak's
VoxJul 01 2015
Opinion
A More Perfect Union?
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision Friday finding a constitutional right to same-sex marriage comes as no surprise given Justice Anthony Kennedy’s judicial history and the swift change in public opinion. It is a triumph for the gay rights movement, but it would have been better for American politics and self-government had it been achieved by democratic means rather than judicial fiat.
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Apr 12 2019
News
Comey scoffs at Barr testimony, claims ‘surveillance’ is not ‘spying’
Former FBI Director James Comey joined the chorus of Democratic critics complaining about Attorney General Bill Barr’s testimony this week that “spying did occur” against the 2016 Trump campaign, claiming he has no idea what the Justice Department leader is talking about -- and saying he “never thought of” electronic surveillance as “spying.”
Comey sought to draw a distinction between
Fox News (Online News)Aug 12 2019
News
Psychology professor breaks down 4 common misconceptions about mass shootings
When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12 hours later, responses to the tragedy included many of the same myths and stereotypes Americans have grown used to hearing in the wake of a mass shooting.
As part of my work as a psychology researcher, I study mass homicides, as well as society’s reaction to them. A lot of bad information
AlterNetFeb 08 2013
News
Obama Team To Make Important, If Symbolic, Choice On Gay Marriage
By the end of this month, the federal government is expected to file briefs in a pair of same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. One case poses questions so difficult that the president himself is expected to make the final decision on what arguments the Justice Department will make.
NPR (Online News)Dec 16 2019
News
Trump’s ‘America First’ Trade Vision Comes Into Focus on Three Fronts
President’s tactics break with predecessors’ to extract concessions, but issues with China remain unresolved
President Trump claimed a multi-front victory last week in his bid to reshape U.S. trade policy, extracting fresh commercial concessions from Mexico and China while stripping the World Trade Organization of its powers to restrain the tactics he used to secure them.
Wall Street Journal (News)Sep 27 2019
News
Trump, impeachment, and US voters’ alternate realities
With impeachment, the division between conservative media and the legacy news media promises to be so wide it is already as if viewers were living in alternate worlds. Is there a way to bridge that divide?
Paula Blasik is reading a tablet in the food court of the Mall of New Hampshire when a reporter asks her about Washington’s sudden plunge toward an impeachment inquiry into President
Christian Science MonitorJul 10 2012
News
Brawling Over Health Care Moves to Rules on Exchanges
Critics of the new health care law, having lost one battle in the Supreme Court, are mounting a challenge to President Obamas interpretation of another important provision, under which the federal government will subsidize health insurance for millions of low- and middle-income people.
New York Times (News)