Anthony L. Fisher
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The House just voted down articles of impeachment for President Trump
A rogue Texas congressman forced a vote on impeachment for President Trump, but the privileged resolution failed without enough Democratic support.
Anthony L. Fisher
There will be no impeachment today.
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Bill Moyers' Journal - Rosedale: The Way It Is
Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. A human study of the fear...
Bernie Sanders’ Trip To The Soviet Union Exposes Socialism’s Blind Spots
Bernie Sanders went all the way to the USSR but didn’t meet with the world-famous Soviet dissident living in his state — the history too many people are forgetting.
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Anthony L. Fisher
"When Sanders returned from the Soviet Union, he talked of how impressed he was with what he felt to be people’s openness to criticize their own society, but Solzhenitsyn remained blacklisted, his work banned, his exile in force."
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Trump's approval with Republican voters rose by 5 points in a poll taken after his racist tweets
President Donald Trump, who is running for reelection in 2020, also saw his approval drop with Democratic voters and independents after his tweets.
'I abandon the chair': A congressman presiding over the House got sick of partisan fighting and literally dropped the gavel and left
Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri dropped his gavel and abandoned his post to express disgust over vicious partisan fighting.
NBC News @NBCNews
LIVE: House voting on whether to strike Speaker Pelosi's words, which included calling President Trump's tweets "racist," from the record
Jeffrey Epstein Taught at Dalton. His Behavior Was Noticed.
Some students at the esteemed Manhattan prep school recall that Mr. Epstein, now charged with sex trafficking, was willing to violate norms in his encounters with girls.
Anthony L. Fisher
Left unanswered: How did Jeffrey Epstein, then a nobody college dropout from Coney Island, get a job teaching at one of the most elite private schools in Manhattan?
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POLITICO Playbook: NEW: W.H. says cartoonist is no longer attending social media summit
And Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in search of a deal on budget caps and the debt limit.
Exclusive: The true origins of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory. A Yahoo News investigation.
In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious...
Venezuela Forces Killed Thousands, Then Covered It Up, U.N. Says
Special forces members engaged in extrajudicial killings and then altered crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resisting arrest, United Nations investigators said.
Military chiefs concerned about Trump's July Fourth celebration
An insider claimed that many of members of the military's top brass have been hesitant about accepting Trump's invitation to the event at the National Mall on Thursday.
Jon Stewart and Advocates Testify on 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund Hearing
The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing to consider the reauthorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Among the witnesses are comedian Jon Stewart, an advocate for September…
Luis Alvarez dies of 9/11-linked cancer at 53
In Luis Alvarez’s final weeks before dying of cancer linked to his work at Ground Zero, the retired NYPD detective from Oceanside became a hero to heroes. Alvarez, 53, was cast into the national spotl
145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"
145 - "Dem Debates, Plan B for Iran, History for Nincompoops"
We tallied up all the votes the 2020 Democratic contenders have ever won on their own, and Joe Biden is near the bottom
INSIDER calculated how many votes each Democratic presidential candidate has won on their own in past elections. Joe Biden didn't far too well.
Manitoba's has closed
EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.
Anthony L. Fisher
Manitoba's was one of my absolute favorite dive bars, a staple of my post-college years with its punk rock jukebox and Handsome Dick Manitoba talking trash during Yankee games on the TV. I'll miss it terribly.
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The heat wave in Europe is so intense that a weather map of France looks like a screaming heat skull of death
France, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Spain have experienced record-breaking temperatures this week, with officials taking steps to avoid deaths.
Anthony L. Fisher
The heat wave in Europe is so intense that a weather map of France looks like a screaming heat skull of death businessinsider.com/europe-heatwav… via @businessinsider
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Here's who will be on the stage for this week's Democratic debates, what time they'll start, and how to watch
The debates will be broadcast on NBC and MSNBC from 9PM to 11PM ET on June 26 and 27, and they'll be live streamed for free online.
Anthony L. Fisher
Admit it, you're still not sure which of the 20 Democratic candidates are debating on which night. It's gonna be ok. We got you.
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Stop and Fix? How the 'High-Crime Area' Defense Has Licensed Bad Policing
Almost 20 years after a Supreme Court ruling that police are justified stopping and frisking individuals in areas considered “high crime,” a new study shows the designation is both subjective and biased. TCR’s legal columnist says it's time to scrap...
Anthony L. Fisher
"It turns out that the cops call almost every block in the city 'a high-crime area,' and their assessments are nearly uncorrelated with actual crime data."
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