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Eight people were killed [and 11 were injured] when a man drove 20 blocks down a bike path beside the Hudson River in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon before he crashed his pickup truck, jumped out with fake guns and was shot by police officer, the authorities said. Federal authorities were treating the incident as… Read more.
A federal grand jury in Washington has approved the first criminal charges in the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election interference, two sources told NBC News, marking a significant milestone in an inquiry that has roiled Donald Trump’s presidency. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office will make public an indictment on Monday, a US official with firsthand… Read more.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is investigating a controversial $300 million contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid, a no-bid award that has spotlighted the agency’s poor record of policing similar grants and drawn scrutiny from its watchdog. Whitefish Energy Holdings LLC, a Montana-based company that had just two full-time employees prior to beginning its work… Read more.
The federal government just released thousands of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. After a chaotic last-minute review in which intelligence agencies lobbied against full disclosure, the White House said it would take more time to process and release thousands more documents that were also supposed to be made… Read more.
And plans to build a $500m city as restitution. Arguably, successive kings of Saudi Arabia have had the blood of Americans on their hands. Most notable of course is the blood of those who perished on 9/11. This is why it’s so perplexing that successive presidents of the United States have been so willing to… Read more.
One of the perverse features of Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism is the shameless way he engages in projection. As I observed during the campaign: The psychopathology afoot here is called projection. It is defined by people attributing to others traits, faults, and blame that inhere in themselves. And it explains almost every insult Trump has… Read more.
Lewis Hamilton passed title rival Sebastian Vettel to take a dominant victory in the United States Grand Prix but will have to wait at least one more race to win his fourth world championship. The Mercedes driver is 66 points clear of Vettel, who finished second, with only 75 still available in the remaining three… Read more.
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And, with all due respect to Kelly, I was stunned. To White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the conversation between the president of the United States and the spouse of a fallen soldier is ‘sacred’ … President Trump has been on the receiving end of significant criticism after Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) said he told… Read more.
