Politics
Detailed allegations surfaced months ago that officials from the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) were sexually assaulting members of the women’s football team. Now the players, many of whom were victims, are holding the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the International Federation of Association Football — better known as FIFA, the sport’s highest governing body — accountable for […]
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) made the stunning allegation Friday that President Donald Trump’s lawyers gave “false statements” to government ethics officials regarding hush-money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, lodged the charge in separate letters to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and to the Trump Organization. “It […]
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In an unprecedented decision this week, Pope Francis defrocked former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, D.C Theodore McCarrick, after decades of sex abuse allegations involving minors and adults. The Vatican’s decision, which was announced on Saturday, is believed to be the first time a cardinal or bishop from the United States has been expelled from the […]
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Two women who were detained by a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent for speaking Spanish at a grocery store in Montana are suing the agency. Mimi Hernandez and Ana Suda filed the lawsuit on Thursday with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after May’s incident, which was recorded and went viral. […]
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Legal experts predicted that if President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern U.S. border in order to build his long-promised wall, he would face a tough battle in court. That prediction came to pass on Friday, and then some. Almost immediately after Trump declared a national emergency, his administration was hit with […]
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A new conspiracy theory emerged in the conservative echo chamber last month. Republicans have made many baseless claims about voter fraud in recent years, even though instances of a person impersonating another voter to cast a fraudulent ballot are less common than shark attacks. But this latest attempt wasn’t from some random corner of the […]
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Late Friday afternoon, a flurry of activity by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office pulled back the curtain on their case against Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone, who last month was arrested in his Florida home and charged with lying to federal prosecutors, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. In documents submitted to the U.S. district […]
Read moreFollowing this week’s ruling that former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort lied repeatedly to investigators, special counsel Robert Mueller filed a sentencing memo on Friday requesting that Manafort spend 19.5 years to 24.5 years in prison for his financial crimes. The sentencing memo pertains only to Manafort’s court battle in Virginia, where he was convicted of […]
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A gunman opened fire at a factory in Aurora, Illinois on Friday injuring several people including four police officers, just a day after Americans marked the grim one-year anniversary of a deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Agents from the FBI and ATF were on at the Henry Pratt plant, scene […]
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On Friday afternoon, the NFL and the lawyers for Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid released a brief joint statement, announcing that the two parties have reached a settlement in Kaepernick and Reid’s collusion lawsuit against the league. “In the past several months, counsel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongoing dialogue […]
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