Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was arrested last Thursday after allegedly personally profiting from fundraising for the proposed Mexico border wall, which he initiated following his leave from the White House in 2017. Former FBI director James Comey has described Steve Bannon as being “in a world of trouble” on Sunday after the former Trump campaign organiser and White House adviser was arrested and charged with taking donations from southern border wall fundraising. “It’s another reminder of the kind of people this president surrounds himself with”, Comey said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “At this point they […]
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John Brennan claims he’s not the subject of a criminal investigation and John Durham told him so. However, it’s more likely Brennan committed perjury numerous times in their eight hour get-together on Friday. As we reported yesterday, John Brennan is the king of corrupt spin. It looks like all things related to the Trump – Russia collusion fairy tale go back to Brennan. The interactions between the US and foreign entities most likely involved the CIA and lead back to Brennan. It’s all Brennan. This is why it’s puzzling when you hear the word on the street that Brennan is not […]
Previous Chancellor Philip Hammond slapped a two per cent tax on top digital companies, which are largely American, with concerns having since mounted that the companies could pass on the costs to customers. The move is also understood to have angered Washington, which believes the tax stands in the way of effective trade talks. The Digital Services Tax (DST), dubbed the “Facebook tax” on big tech companies, which was introduced last April, could be ditched after Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak came to believe that the £500 million a year it is expected to raise is a drop in the […]
It’s not often that an English teacher can get quality bulletin board fodder from the local prosecutor’s office. But don’t be surprised if you see this document tacked up as motivational material in some classrooms next year. It’s a death certificate — at least, Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas says it was supposed to pass as a death certificate from New Jersey. The Long Island prosecutor alleges that Robert Berger, 25, tried to forge a legal document last October in a bid to fake his own death and dodge a likely jail sentence. And the alleged ruse might well have […]
Like many of my fellow Texans, I was shocked when Senator Ted Cruz was recently spotted not wearing a mask on a flight from Dallas to Houston as COVID-19 cases were spiking across the state. Pandemic petulance is pretty on brand for the junior senator, but his latest fit of obstinacy comes at a particularly dangerous time: hurricane season. This is a personal issue for me. Up until my recent retirement from the Army, I served as a COVID-19 crisis planner at NORTHCOM in Colorado Springs. I was part of the team managing this crisis since January, when we first started […]
In the aftermath of the Twitter hack, lawmakers are targeting lax cybersecurity, not Bitcoin. Binance is looking to consolidate bitcoin mining in Russia, ConsenSys is being accused of stealing intellectual property and a celebrated comic book artist will be hawking his wares on the Ethereum blockchain. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Mining ConsolidationBinance is looking to consolidate more bitcoin mining hashrate to its pool in Russia and the Central Asia region. The world’s largest crypto exchange […]
Costs have gone up for addiction treatment centers in recent months, as they have had to invest in teletherapy and personal protective gear. “We are at risk for not having the funding that we need to keep our doors open,” says one medical director. Maskot/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images Costs have gone up for addiction treatment centers in recent months, as they have had to invest in teletherapy and personal protective gear. “We are at risk for not having the funding that we need to keep our doors open,” says one medical director. Maskot/Getty Images Fewer patients in […]
Whether or not police officers should ‘take the knee’ has become the subject of widespread debate throughout the UK and US. However, one police force in Britain may have now taken things to a new, and potentially troubling, level. A UK police force has called upon its officers to “take the knee” as a gesture of solidarity with Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors, or risk facing potential consequences, according to The Daily Mail. Hertfordshire Constabulary told officers in a recent operational briefing that those who don’t kneel at rallies “may become the focus of the protestors’ attention.” “Officers are to be […]
As states decide how and when to reopen churches amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, a new federal report analyzing a cluster in Arkansas shows how easily the virus can spread in faith communities—even when they take precautions. The analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) details how one couple—a pastor at a local church and his wife—contracted the virus and unwittingly may have helped spread it to 26 others, which ballooned into a cluster of 61, of which four people died. The analysis mirrors past reports detailing—with painful precision—how just one case of COVID-19 can quickly spread within […]
MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin is suddenly seen to be weaker than he has been in years, and economic pain from COVID-19 is one big reason, but not the only one. “Putin’s approval rating began to decline even before the coronavirus crisis, with oil prices collapsing and the economy deteriorating—and I don’t see what can stop this perfect storm this year,” says Denis Volkov, deputy director of the Levada Center, which does independent polling. “We see the public mood is changing the way we saw it during the crisis of 2008. (About 25 percent of our respondents say their salaries have been […]
India 07:23 GMT 15.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107931/03/1079310323_37:0:1279:699_1200x675_80_0_0_e70fa52646b9844dbf3fa916248427f8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005151079310159-prayers-to-get-rid-of-covid-19-in-indian-village-land-people-in-trouble—video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the globe like a huge wave, prompting countries to take stringent measures to contain its spread. The government of India responded as well, declaring a national lockdown on 25 March. Hundreds of people in a village in the Indian state of Karnataka congregated to pray to God to help them get rid of the infectious COVID-19. The gathering was held despite the country being under lockdown and orders to maintain social distancing being in place. A video of the […]
A US police officer has urged fellow cops to stop enforcing coronavirus lockdown measures, slamming them as “unconstitutional.” While his call to action landed him in trouble, other officers have started to speak out as well. Port of Seattle Officer Greg Anderson was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation after he appeared in a viral video last weekend arguing the lockdown measures are violating the US Constitution and “trampling on people’s liberties,” questioning the restrictions and whether enforcing them is “the right thing” to do. I want to remind you that regardless of where you stand on the coronavirus, we don’t […]