'It's the End of Small Talk in Washington'
During the 1968 riots, Washington, D.C., was ablaze with arson and looting when an aide burst in to tell President Lyndon B. Johnson of a rumor that the carnage was headed toward the exclusive precincts of Georgetown. Johnson replied with acid humor: “I’ve waited 35 years for this day.” LBJ was not talking so much about Georgetown as a physical place. He was talking about Georgetown as a state of mind, that web of journalists and socialites and former government officials—united by overlapping..>> view originalEU fines Google a record $2.7 billion in antitrust case over search ...
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s antitrust chief hit Google with a record $2.7 billion fine Tuesday, saying the powerful web-search leader illegally steered users toward its comparison shopping site and warning that other parts of Google’s business were in the crosshairs. The fine is the largest the European Union has levied against a company for abusing its dominant position, and marked the latest confrontation over business practices between E.U. regulators and American tech giants. Google co..>> view originalSenate GOP health-care bill appears in deeper trouble following ...
Senate Republicans’ bill to erase major parts of the Affordable Care Act would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the end of the coming decade, while reducing federal spending by $321 billion during that time, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The forecast issued Monday by Congress’s nonpartisan budget scorekeepers appeared to rapidly erode Republicans’ confidence in the bill, with at least four GOP lawmakers saying by the evening that they would vote a..>> view originalTrump takes another swipe at CNN following resignations
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, Anthony Scaramucci, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, talks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. CNN isn’t commenting Monday, June 26, as to what led it to retract a story about a supposed investigation into a pre-inaugural meeting between an associate of Trump and the head of a Russian investment fund. The story posted Thursday on CNN’s website said Senate investigators are looking into the meeting between Scaramucci ..>> view originalPoll shows US tumbling in world's regard under Trump
President Trump walks to a joint statement in the Rose Garden with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington on June 26, 2017. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) BERLIN — President Trump has alarmed citizens of the nation’s closest allies and others worldwide, diminishing the standing of the United States in their eyes, according to a wide-ranging international study released Monday. But in the survey of 37 countries, Russia is a bright spot for Trump. As belea..>> view originalFBI has questioned Trump campaign adviser Carter Page at length ...
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, speaks at a news conference in Moscow on Dec. 12, 2016. (Pavel Golovkin/AP) FBI agents have repeatedly questioned former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page about his contacts with Russians and his interactions with the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the investigation. Over a series of five meetings in March, totaling about 10 hours of questioning, Page repeatedly denied wrongdoing when ask..>> view originalWhite House says Syria's Assad preparing another chemical attack ...
A man carries one of the symbolic coffins with pictures of Syrian victims and inscriptions which translates as “killer Assad” and “killer Putin” set up during a protest against Russia for its alleged role in a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, on April 7 in Ankara. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images) The White House issued an ominous warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday night, pledging that his regime would pay a “heavy price” if it carried out another chemical atta..>> view originalA ridiculous YouTube video claiming we found aliens kept making ...
In this video posted online, a YouTuber claiming to represent the hackers collective Anonymous said NASA will soon announce the discovery of "extraterrestrial life." (Anonymous/YouTube) The headlines sound thrilling. One might say they bait a click. “ANONYMOUS SAYS NASA HAS EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE. DOES IT?” — Newsweek “The world's biggest hacking group thinks NASA is about to announce alien life.” — the Independent Maybe you know of Anonymous as a band of socially enlightened hackers: lib..>> view originalPolice near Washington DC seek ATV riders who created chaos
By Associated Press By Associated Press June 27 at 2:41 AM WASHINGTON — A group of all-terrain vehicle and dirt bike riders have been accused of “reckless behavior” by county authorities in Washington, D.C.’s suburbs. WTOP-FM reports that videos posted on social media showed the riders Sunday night passing between cars on crowded highways, some popping wheelies, as they went through downtown Washington. They’re also seen revving engines, weaving around cars and hurrying evading pedestrian..>> view originalModi meets Trump with his usual greeting — bear hugs
NEW DELHI — President Donald Trump should have been ready as he met with India’s prime minister, an unabashed hugger. Smiling widely at a news conference Monday during a visit to Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the president’s outstretched arm not as an invitation for a handshake, but as a pull toward an embrace. Then he did it again in the White House Rose Garden. Then once more before leaving. Trump appeared stiff and uncomfortable with the first hug, smiling thinly and patting M..>> view original
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
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