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Oct 13 2022
News
A Trump employee told the FBI that the former president ordered staff to move boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago
One of Donald Trump's employees told FBI agents the former president ordered boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago to be moved before federal agents searched the property, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The source also told NBC News that the FBI obtained security video showing people moving boxes out of a storage room at Trump's Florida estate.
The Washington Post
NBC News Digital
Dec 12 2022
Fact Check
Did the Trump Admin Agree to Free 5,000 Taliban Prisoners?
In early December 2022, we received inquiries from readers who asked if it was true that former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had previously agreed to an exchange that released 5,000 Taliban prisoners. They also wanted to know if Trump had at one time planned to invite Taliban leaders to Camp David.
We soon found that all of this was true.
Both of these old news
Snopes
Oct 30 2022
News
Ukraine Says Russia Grain Move Requires Strong International Response
Russia pulled out of a key United Nations-brokered grain deal, provoking international outrage and dealing a blow to attempts to ease a global food crisis triggered by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
On Saturday Moscow said it was suspending participation in the Black Sea deal, which has sought to avert famine and tame inflation, in response to what it called a major Ukrainian drone
Newsmax (News)
Oct 05 2022
News
Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from U.S. COVID unemployment insurance program
Fraudsters likely stole $45.6 billion from the United States' unemployment insurance program during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying tactics like using Social Security numbers of deceased individuals, a federal watchdog said on Thursday.
About a year ago, nearly $16 billion in potential fraud had been identified. The report issued Thursday by the inspector general for the U.S. Labor
Reuters
Feb 06 2023
Opinion
Who’s Attacking Our Power Grid?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears someone is attacking the electrical power grid of the Seattle area, which comes after a series of similar incidents elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest as well as in Florida. And the FBI never caught the guy who attacked the electrical grid down in North Carolina earlier this month. Shooting up a power substation is apparently the latest fad
Jim Geraghty
Oct 14 2022
News
Robbie Coltrane, actor who played the beloved Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, dies at 72
Venerable Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane, best known as the dragon-loving half-giant Hagrid from the Harry Potter film franchise, died on Friday, his managers said.
He was 72.
A representative with the actor's agency, William Morris Endeavor, confirmed his passing to NBC News, saying Coltrane had been ill and wasn't active recently.
NBC News Digital
Jul 29 2022
News
73 Illegal Immigrants Found In Homes Operated By Human Smugglers In Affluent Part Of Washington, D.C.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents found 73 illegal immigrants in homes believed to be operated by human smugglers in an affluent area of Washington D.C.
Sixty adults and 13 children were found living across six residential homes in D.C.’s northwest area, where the median home price is $750,000, NBC News reported. The news outlet reviewed internal documents from ICE, which
The Daily Wire
Jan 09 2023
News
Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, presidential palace
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace in the capital on Sunday, a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Thousands of demonstrators bypassed security barricades, climbed on roofs, smashed windows and invaded all three
Washington Times
Jan 09 2023
News
Brazil police arrest 300 after Bolsonaro supporters storm Congress, other buildings
Supporters of Brazil's right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the National Congress and other government buildings in the capital Brasilia on Sunday in an attack that echoed the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
The latest: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took office less than a week ago and was in São Paulo at the time
Axios
Feb 06 2023
News
The State of the Union is Tuesday: Here's what you can expect from Joe Biden's speech
A divided Congress. An expected upcoming re-election announcement. Those are the twin forces that will shape President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday.
Delivering the second State of the Union of his presidency, Biden will amplify his message that Democrats and Republicans can work together.
But facing dim prospects for more major legislative wins, a looming
USA TODAY