Florida soldier says agency is blocking path to citizenship
ORLANDO, Fla. – Haeder Al Anbki was all set to become a U.S. citizen last year. The former interpreter for U.S. forces in Iraq, who had been shot and stabbed during his service, was at a June 2017 naturalization ceremony in Fort Benning, Georgia, for 20 immigrant recruits when he was stopped and told he…
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Trump says he dreams about Biden running again, Obama ‘took him out of the garbage heap’
President Trump says running against former VP Joe Biden in 2020 would be a ‘dream.’ (AP/Reuters) President Trump ripped Joe Biden in newly aired interview comments, saying running against the ex-vice president in 2020 would be a “dream” and claiming former President Barack Obama “took him out of the garbage heap” in 2008. “Well, I…
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Two rare shark attacks on Fire Island beaches…
By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two youngsters frolicking in the surf miles apart along the Fire Island National Seashore in New York suffered puncture wounds to their legs on Wednesday in apparent shark attacks that would mark the state’s first such incidents in 70 years, authorities said. The victims – a 12-year-old girl…
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Trump’s Trump-iest Tweets Aren’t Popular
Last week I wrote an analysis of the polling data on YouGov has compiled Donald Trump’s individual tweets. Since then, thing kept nagging at me is this: Trump’s most popular tweets (most of which were uncontroversial, ceremonial messages) don’t sound like the kind of thing we most associate with the way Trump uses his Twitter…
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$63G found in ceiling at home of priest charged with embezzling millions, police say
The Rev. Jonathan Wehrle, 67, was accused of embezzling millions of dollars from a Michigan parish he presided over to build his luxury home, where police said they found more than $63,000 stashed in the ceiling on Tuesday. (Michigan State Police) If a Michigan priest had taken a vow of poverty, his million-dollar home –…
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Donald Trump: No Confidence in Intelligence Led by Brennan, Clapper, Comey
President Donald Trump said that he respected the intelligence agencies but not the former prominent figures who made their careers into criticizing his presidency. “It’s been terrible,” Trump told CBS anchor Jeff Glor, citing the names of former CIA director John Brennan, former director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, Former Director of the National Security…
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Trump was briefed about Putin’s meddling role 2 weeks before taking office: report
President-elect Donald Trump, two weeks before taking the oath of office in January 2017, was shown highly classified intelligence claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered Russian interference efforts into the 2016 presidential election, according to a report. The data was backed up by emails and texts from Russian military officers and a top-secret source…
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Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion Starting Next Year…
Updated July 18, 2018 6:18 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—The Trump administration expects annual budget deficits to rise nearly $100 billion more than previously forecast in each of the next three years, pushing the federal deficit above $1 trillion starting next year. The revisions, which went largely unnoticed when the White House submitted its annual update to…
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Stormy Daniels’ Ohio arrest video released
Police in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday released footage of adult film star Stormy Daniels’ arrest at a strip club last week. Daniels was taken into custody outside of the Sirens Gentlemen’s Club early Thursday morning after police claimed she touched a customer inappropriately. Stormy Daniels was arrested Thursday and charged with a misdemeanor for touching a patron…
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An Interview With Senator Lankford
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-OK) joins host Charlie Sykes from his Senate office to discuss President Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin, his newly introduced bill, the Secure Elections Act, tax reform, the deficit and the debt, NATO, and the Mueller Investigation. The Daily Standard Podcast is sponsored by LendingClub.com…
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