Trump's Team Just Took
Out One Of The Most Dangerous Terrorists Since Bin Laden
Amid all the controversies and scandals from Washington dominating
our news cycle, a major counterterrorism success by the United States reported
last week did not get the attention it deserved: mid all the controversies
and scandals from Washington dominating our news cycle, a major counterterrorism
success by the United States last week did not get the attention it deserved:
Government officials are confident that Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, al-Qaida's
chief bomb maker, was killed during a U.S. drone strike late last year.
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DOJ's
Bruce Ohr Kept Mueller Deputy 'In The Loop' About Anti Trump Dossier
Embattled Justice Department official Bruce Ohr had contact in 2016
with then-colleague Andrew Weissmann, who is now a top Robert Mueller deputy,
as well as other senior FBI officials about the controversial anti-Trump
dossier and the individuals behind it, two sources close to the matter
told Fox News. The sources said Ohr's outreach about the dossier as well
as its author, ex-British spy Christopher Steele; the opposition research
firm behind it, Glenn Simpsons Fusion GPS; and his wife Nellie Ohr's work
for Fusion occurred before and after the FBI fired Steele as a source
over his media contacts. Ohr's network of contacts on the dossier included:
former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI lawyer Lisa Page; former deputy
director Andrew McCabe; Weissmann and at least one other DOJ official;
and a current FBI agent who worked with Strzok on the Russia case. Fox
VOA VIEW: The biggest conspirators are
Mueller, Weissmann and others working for Mueller.
President
Trump Says Attorney Jeff Sessions' Job Is Safe At Least Until Midterms
President Donald Trump said Attorney General Jeff Sessionss job is
safe at least until the midterm elections in November. I just would love
to have him do a great job, Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview
with Bloomberg News. Asked if hed keep Sessions beyond November, he declined
to comment. Trump has repeatedly attacked Sessions in private and in public
for recusing himself in March 2017 from the investigation of Russian interference
in the 2016 presidential election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
then appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to conduct whats become
a wide-ranging probe, including whether people around Trump conspired with
the Russians and whether the president sought to obstruct justice. Time
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doing.
DOJ's
Bruce Ohr Kept Mueller Deputy 'In The Loop' About Anti Trump Dossier
Embattled Justice Department official Bruce Ohr had contact in 2016
with then-colleague Andrew Weissmann, who is now a top Robert Mueller deputy,
as well as other senior FBI officials about the controversial anti-Trump
dossier and the individuals behind it, two sources close to the matter
told Fox News. The sources said Ohr's outreach about the dossier as well
as its author, ex-British spy Christopher Steele; the opposition research
firm behind it, Glenn Simpsons Fusion GPS; and his wife Nellie Ohr's work
for Fusion occurred before and after the FBI fired Steele as a source
over his media contacts. Ohr's network of contacts on the dossier included:
former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI lawyer Lisa Page; former deputy
director Andrew McCabe; Weissmann and at least one other DOJ official;
and a current FBI agent who worked with Strzok on the Russia case. Fox
VOA VIEW: The biggest conspirators are
Mueller, Weissmann and others working for Mueller.
Trump
Cancels Pay Raises For Federal Employees
President Donald Trump told lawmakers on Thursday he was scrapping
a planned pay raise for civilian federal workers, saying the nation's budget
couldn't support it. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Trump described
the pay increase as "inappropriate." "We must maintain efforts to put our
Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot
sustain such increases," the President wrote. An across-the-board 2.1%
pay increase for federal workers was slated to take effect in January.
In addition, a yearly adjustment of paychecks based on the region of the
country where a worker is posted -- the "locality pay increase" -- was
due to take effect. CNN
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Trump
Administration Backs Asian-Americans In Harvard Case
In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the
Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of "engaging
in outright racial balancing" and sided with Asian-American students who
allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard denied
the bias claim and said it would defend the right to consider race as a
factor in admissions. The Justice Department weighed in on a lawsuit filed
in 2014 by Students For Fair Admission, which argues that one of the world's
most prestigious universities discriminates against academically strong
Asian-American applicants in favor of others who may be less qualified.
Yahoo
VOA VIEW: The court will tell the facts
and truth - Harvard will lose.
Colorful
Texas Lawmaker Takes On FBI Over China-Hillary Hack Claim
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert doubled down after the FBI dismissed
claims that a Chinese state-owned company hacked former Secretary of State
Hillary Clintons private email server. '[P]artisan politics, sadly, are
very much at play within some of the leadership at the FBI," the Texas
congressman said in a statement late Wednesday. The Daily Caller first
reported that the FBI was notified of the purported hack in 2015, when
the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) warned the bureau of
the intrusion. The hack reportedly implanted code that generated a courtesy
copy for almost all Clinton's emails -- which was then forwarded to the
Chinese company. Fox
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Obscure
Case Could Determine Whether Russia Report Sees Light Of Day
An obscure federal case being heard in Washington next month could
determine whether Special Counsel Robert Muellers pending full report
on Russian interference in the 2016 election gathers dust in a secret file
or sees the light of day. The case involves one man's quest for records
related to the 1956 disappearance of Columbia University professor Jesus
de Galindez and has nothing to do with President Trump, Russian collusion
or Mueller. But it deals with secrecy surrounding grand jury testimony,
and that makes it relevant to the ongoing Russia probe. Fox
VOA VIEW: The truth may come out.
Republicans
Privately Pleading With Trump: Don't Fire Sessions Yet
Members of Congress have continued to strongly advise, in public and
private, this week that President Donald Trump shouldn't fire Attorney
General Jeff Sessions especially ahead of the midterm elections because
of the political fallout he -- and the party -- could face. Trump has been
very public about his frustration with Sessions and has been venting to
Republican members of the Senate and House for months now, according to
several Senate Republican sources with direct knowledge of the conversations.
CNN
Vice
President Gives His Take On Trump's Warning Of Violence
Weighing in on President Donald Trump's warning that there will be
violence by his opponents if Democrats win control of Congress this fall,
Vice President Mike Pence said he took the president to mean that Democrats
want to undo everything Trump has done. "But the presidents point as I
took it, from where I was seated, was that the Democrat party in Congress
is absolutely committed to reversing everything that weve been able to
for the American people," Pence told the Christian Broadcasting Network
in an interview excerpt that aired Thursday. USA
Today
VOA VIEW: The truth hurts.
Trump
Promises 'More Good News Is Coming' For Those Who Have 'Made A Fortune'
In Markets
President Donald Trump is fired up about the recent stock market gains
and is promising that more good times are ahead. Stocks have been on fire
as of late, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining nearly 4 percent
during a rally that began in mid-August. Though some investors think the
jump could be the calm before an autumn storm, Trump took the opportunity
for a victory lap in a Thursday morning tweet. CNBC
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Trump's
Supreme Court Pick Needs Senate Approval
Trump officially tapped Kavanaugh on July 9 less than two weeks after
Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench. From how the Senate
Judiciary Committees hearing works to the actual vote, read on for a look
at the confirmation process Kavanaugh will go through. Once the president
announces his nomination to the Court, the Senate Judiciary Committee will
hold a hearing for the nominee to provide testimony and answer questions.
This hearing can take multiple days. Fox
Trump
Aide Says President Weighing Regulations On Google Search Engine
President Donald Trump is considering new regulations on Google's search
engine to address his concern that it turns up too many stories that are
critical of him, his top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said Tuesday.
Kudlow, the director of Trumps National Economic Council, told reporters
that the administration is taking a look at federal regulations for Google.
He spoke after Trump, in a tweet, accused Google's search engine of being
"rigged." The president also expressed frustration on Twitter that when
Americans type Trump News into the search engine, it generates mostly
negative news about him while conservative media is "shut out." USA
Today
VOA VIEW: Google, Facebook and other social
media must be regulated ASAP.
Trump's
NAFTA Rewrite Holds Promise For Labor Unions
Labor unions, a traditional adversary of the Republican Party, could
be a winner in President Trumps planned rewrite of the North American
Free Trade Agreement. Last summer, the AFL-CIO, the largest union group
in the U.S., promoted a long list of changes it wanted to see in a new
Nafta. The handshake agreement with Mexico that President Trump announced
this week contains some of them. WSJ
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Trump
Has Changed How Teens View The News
Since President Trump took office, he has relentlessly attacked the
media. Hes shunned individual reporters, referred to the press as the
enemy of the American people, and popularized the term fake news to
denigrate credible articles. Meanwhile, public trust in the press is at
an all-time low. According to a recent Knight-Gallup report, only a third
of Americans view the press positively. There is increasing evidence that
this skepticism, exacerbated by the presidents relentless attacks, is
trickling down to the next generation of voters. Atlantic
VOA VIEW: The news are the biggest enemy
of this nation.
Trump:
'When You Get Good Ratings You Can Say Anything'
President Trump leaned into his attacks against the news media Thursday
night at a rally in Indiana, blasting news outlets for what he said was
unfair coverage driven by ratings. After mocking a protester who was escorted
out at the beginning of his rally, the president predicted that "terrible"
people in the press would report that the venue suffered major problems
with protesters. "One person. 'Major protest.' But are they going to talk
about the thousands and thousands of people inside of this arena, and outside
the arena where we put screens? No," Trump told the crowd. MSN
Trump
Volunteer Blocks Phtographer's Rally Shot
A volunteer member of the advance team for President Donald Trump has
blocked a photojournalist's camera as he tried to take a photo of a protester
during a campaign rally in Indiana. A photo taken by Associated Press photographer
Evan Vucci on Thursday night in Evansville shows the volunteer stretching
out his right hand over the lens of a news photographer's camera after
a protester disrupted Trump's campaign event. Trump paced on stage at the
Ford Center during the moments it took for the protester to be led out.
US
News
Trump:
I Don't Think Democrats Can Impeach Me Since I'm Doing A Great Job
President Trump knocked Democrats' threats of impeachment on Thursday,
saying his job performance makes it impossible to impeach him. In an interview
with Bloomberg News, the president suggested that his work on trade and
other issues had boosted his popularity too high for Democrats to be able
to consider impeachment. "I dont think they can impeach somebody thats
doing a great job," Trump told the news outlet. You look at the economy,
you look at jobs, you look at foreign, whats going on with other countries.
You look at trade deals. Im doing a great job. Hill
VOA VIEW: The truth is the truth.
US
Top Court Rebuffs Catholic Agency Over Same Sex Foster Care
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to force the city of Philadelphia
to resume the placement of children in need of foster care with a Catholic
agency that refuses to accept gay couples as foster parents. In a decision
that Catholic Social Services had said would force its foster care program
to close, the justices refused the religious agencys request for an injunction
compelling the city to allow it to place children in foster homes while
litigation over the dispute continues in lower courts. In the brief order
that did not give any reasons for the decision, three conservative members
of the court, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch,
said they would have granted the agencys request. Reuters
Beijing
Rejects Trump's Claims That China Is Behind Fentanyl Crisis
China's top drug control body has hit back at recent claims by US President
Donald Trump that Chinese suppliers are fueling America's opioid crisis.
Yu Haibin, a senior official with China's National Narcotics Control Commission,
said in a press briefing Wednesday that Trump's comments were "unacceptable"
and "irresponsible." Trump tweeted last week that it was "outrageous" that
China-produced fentanyl, a cheap and deadly synthetic opioid at least 50
times stronger than heroin, continued to "pour into the US" through international
mail. Yu said the Chinese government found Trump's tweet "completely unacceptable."
CNN
VOA VIEW: China is a major threat to the
US.
Trump
Allows Targeted Relief On Steel, Aluminum Quotas
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed proclamations permitting targeted
relief from steel and aluminum quotas from some countries, the U.S. Commerce
Department said on Wednesday. Trump, who put in place tariffs on steel
and aluminum imports in March, signed proclamations allowing relief from
the quotas on steel from South Korea, Brazil and Argentina and on aluminum
from Argentina, the department said in a statement. Companies can apply
for product exclusions based on insufficient quantity or quality available
from U.S. steel or aluminum producers, the statement said. Reuters
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Trump
Jr. Says He'd Back A New Conservative Version Of Facebook
Donald Trump Jr. said in a new interview that he would back a conservative
version of Facebook. Id love to do it. But what I prefer is, take one
of the two Silicon Valley conservatives and let them start it, Trump Jr.
told Axios when asked if President Trumps 2020 campaign might create such
a platform. And then I'd help promote the platform and be all over that.
Trump Jr.s comments come on the heels of a report from The New York Times
that more than 100 Facebook employees are forming a group to challenge
what the groups founder, senior Facebook engineer Brian Amerige, terms
the companys political monoculture. Hill
Politics
Aside, Media Companies Are Also Frustrated At Google's Lack Of Transparency
President Donald Trump's accusation this week that Google's search
results are "rigged" against him and against conservative media outlets
inadvertently raised an issue that's been simmering among media companies
for some time. It's not about an alleged political bias at Google. For
media executives, it's about Google's lack of transparency and its apparently
arbitrary shifts in its algorithms. Forbes
VOA VIEW: There must be competition -
Google needs to be split like "Ma Bell" was.
Nearly
1,400 NYCHA Kids Tested Positive For Lead
The figure provides the first holistic count of the number children
living in New York City Housing Authoring apartments who tested positive
for lead exposure and nearly doubles previous estimates. Earlier this
summer, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene quietly disclosed data
that showed as many as 820 children under the age of six tested positive
for lead levels the federal Centers for Disease Control consider dangerous.
However, those figures did not include a count of children who tested positive
for lead poisoning in excess of the citys standard, which is less stringent
than CDC standard. Federal prosecutors charged in their lawsuit against
NYCHA that as many as 200 children may have tested positive at the city
levels. Fox
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NCAA
Tells Michigan State No Rules Violated In Larry Nassar Scandal
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has cleared Michigan
State University of any violations stemming from how it has handled sexual
assault allegations including those against disgraced former sports doctor
Larry Nassar, who was sentenced to at least 40 years in prison for sexually
assaulting his patients. The inquiry began in January. At the time, the
NCAA asked MSU if it thought any violations of NCAA legislation had occurred
in how it handled allegations against Nassar. The school responded in March
and said it did not think it had violated any NCAA rules. The NCAA then
broadened its inquiry to include the football and men's basketball programs.
NPR
Man
Charged With Making Death Threats To Boston Globe Journalists Over Trump
Editorials
A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globes coordinated editorial
response to President Donald Trumps attacks on the news media was arrested
Thursday for threatening to kill the newspapers journalists, whom he called
the enemy of the people, federal prosecutors said. Robert Chains threatening
phone calls to the Globes newsroom started immediately after the Globe
appealed to newspapers across the country to condemn what it called a dirty
war against the free press, prosecutors said. Boston.com
VOA VIEW: Dumb, but so was the Boston
Globe.
Colin
Kaepernick's Collusion Case Against NFL Heading To Trial
An arbitrator is sending Colin Kaepernick's grievance with the NFL
to trial, denying the league's request to throw out the quarterback's claims
that owners conspired to keep him out of the league because of his protests
of social injustice. Kaepernick's lawyer Mark Geragos tweeted a picture
of the ruling by arbitrator Stephen B. Burbank. The former 49ers quarterback
argues that owners have colluded to keep him off any NFL roster since he
hit free agency in 2017.CBS
Trump
Rallies For Senate Candidate Mike Braun In Indiana As It Happened
President Trump appeared at a rally in Evansville, Indiana, Thursday
to support Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun. Braun is facing Sen.
Joe Donnelly, one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the Senate, in November.
Mr. Trump rallied in Indiana the day after Braun won the Republican primary
for Senate in May, calling Donnelly "Sleepin' Joe" and a "swamp person."
The president tweeted his support of Braun Thursday morning. Mr. Trump
wrote: "Will be going to Evansville, Indiana, tonight for a big crowd rally
with Mike Braun, a very successful businessman who is campaigning to be
Indiana's next U.S. Senator. CBS
Texas
Woman Facing 5 Years In Prison For Voter Fraud Speaks Out
A woman in Texas was sentenced to return to prison Thursday, because
she voted in the 2016 election. She used her real name and identification,
but her criminal past made voting a crime. Crystal Mason still remembers
the day she was arrested for voting in the last presidential election.
"My mom kept nagging, 'Go vote, go vote, go vote, go vote' and I was just
like OK, I did what she said," Mason said. The 43-year-old was on supervised
release for tax fraud when she cast her ballot. In Texas, that's against
the law. CBS News asked if she feels like she should be able to cast a
ballot, since she already served her time. CBS
VOA VIEW: The law is the law - right or
wrong.
Trump
Threatens DOJ, FBI To 'Start Doing Their Job' Or 'He'll Get Involved'
The presidents pointed remarks came as he took the stage at a rally
in Indiana in support of GOP Senate candidate Mike Braun, who is seeking
to unseat Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. All I can say is, our Justice
Department and our FBI, at the top of each because inside they have incredible
people, but our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their
job and doing it right and doing it now because people are angry, Trump
said. Whats happening is a disgrace. And at some point, I wanted to stay
out, but at some point if it doesnt straighten out properly, I want them
to do their job, I will get involved and Ill get in there if I have to.
Fox
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Giuliani:
Trump's Lawyers Haven't Heard From Mueller In Weeks
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's attorney, said the President's
lawyers have not heard back from special counsel Robert Mueller's office
in nearly three weeks. "I figured we wouldn't hear until after the Manafort
trial, but we (still) haven't," Giuliani said. He said Mueller's office
has told them it is "still studying" the latest letter from Trump's team,
which Giuliani said was only five to six pages. "I have to figure they're
planning something," Giuliani said. CNN
Trump's
Farmer Bailout Begins. USDA Spends $1.2 Billion To Buy Surplus Food
The government is starting to pay farmers that have been hurt by the
fallout of President Donald Trump's widening trade feuds. The USDA announced
Monday that it would release an initial $4.7 billion payment, and buy $1.2
billion of surplus food. The move is part of a larger, $12 billion aid
program that was announced in July. Since then, American farmers have been
waiting for details about how the money would be disbursed. Many countries
have slapped tariffs on American commodities in retaliation to the Trump
administration's move to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum
from much of the world, as well as on many goods from China. CNN
Trump
Aid Cuts Hitting Palestinians Hard
Sweeping new US cuts in humanitarian aid to Palestinians are already
hitting hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people, amid accusations
that the Trump administration is using the issue to blackmail Palestinians
into accepting a peace deal that critics say will favour Israel. Fears
of a wholesale withdrawal of US development assistance from Palestinians
were fuelled by an opaque announcement on Friday suggesting that the US
intended to redirect Palestinian aid to other higher priorities. Guardian
Melania
Trump's Marriage To Donald Defended By Stormy Daniels
Melania Trump, 48, has had her fair share of media attention recently,
after claims made in a book about her marriage to Donald Trump. Released
earlier this month, tell-all book Unhinged was written by former White
House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman. In the memoir, Omarosa states that
Melania is counting every minute until she can divorce Donald Trump,
and implies she is deeply unhappy in their marriage. Now an unlikely figure
has jumped to Melanias defence, her husbands reported former mistress
Stormy Daniels. Express UK
David
Hogg, Bill De Blasio Introduce Voter Registration Initiative
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor David Hogg and
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an initiative to promote voter
registration Thursday. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Hogg and de Blasio
introduced Mayors For Our Lives, a bipartisan effort including more than
50 mayors throughout the country to register people between the ages 18
and 29 to vote. UPI
Anticipation
Builds Around Mueller As 60 Day Election Window Nears
The window closes next week for special counsel Robert Mueller to take
any more bombshell actions before midterm season officially kicks off,
and people in the presidents orbit and across Washington are watching
with heightened anticipation that a final pre-election surprise could come
soon. Longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone emailed supporters Monday
and asked for donations to his legal defense fund, saying he believes his
indictment is imminent. The presidents personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
has publicly called on Mueller to wrap up his investigation into Trump
by the end of next week, when the midterms will be two months away. Politico
John
Dean Of Watergate Fame To Testify At Kavanaugh Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee has added former Solicitor General Theodore
Olson and former White House counsel John Dean to the list of witnesses
who will testify next week in the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh
to serve on the Supreme Court. Olson served as solicitor general in the
George W. Bush administration. He's one of the country's best-known lawyers,
having argued the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that stopped Al Gore's
recount in the 2000 presidential election. He'll offer backing to a former
colleague in the Bush White House. Kavanaugh served as legal counsel and
later as staff secretary for Bush. Bing
Trump
Says Weisselberg 'Wonderful Guy' Who Didn't Betray Him
President Donald Trump said Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial
officer of the Trump Organization, didnt betray him when he agreed to
cooperate with prosecutors in their investigation into Michael Cohen. 100
percent he didnt, Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview with
Bloomberg News, when asked whether Weisselberg had turned on him or put
him in legal jeopardy. Hes a wonderful guy, adding that the cooperation
was related to a very limited period of time. Bloomberg
Mississippi
Governor Has September Deadline On Lottery Bill
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has a mid-September deadline to sign a
bill creating a state lottery to help pay for roads and bridges, and he
has promised to do so. Bryant said getting a lottery up and running will
take at least six months. Some lawmakers said it could take a year. The
governor will appoint five people to serve on a lottery corporation. "We're
going to take our time. ... It's going to be a very careful and deliberate
process of picking just the right people," Bryant told reporters Wednesday
as lawmakers finished a five-day special session. Creating a lottery was
one part of a transportation funding plan approved during the session.
Legislators agreed to give cities and counties a portion of the sales tax
revenue that the state collects from people who shop online. Miami
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