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When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May, the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office, David Gelios, wrote an email to his staff: I just saw CNN reporting that Director Comey has been fired by President Trump. I have no notification from HQ of any such thing. If I…
The Atomwaffen Division has emerged as one of the most disturbing and volatile hate groups in America. An 18-year-old in Florida allegedly shoots and kills two of his roommates. A 21-year-old, also in Florida, plots to bomb synagogues and a nuclear power plant. A 17-year-old in Virginia allegedly shoots and kills his girlfriend’s parents. And…
Photo: Getty On Sunday, conservative commentator Josh Hammer announced he was leaving Online Politics and would be starting a job clerking for Judge James C. Ho of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hammer is not exactly a prominent conservative writer, but he isn’t entirely obscure, either, having written for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and…
AP Representative Pat Meehan, Republican from Pennsylvania, has reached peak “thanks, Obama”-ism by attributing his mistreatment of a younger female aide to stress stemming from the Affordable Care Act. Meehan has been under fire since The New York Times reported this weekend that he used thousands of dollars in public funds to settle a sexual harassment…
Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer for Trump who is named in the dossier, says BuzzFeed and several of its staffers defamed him when it published the 35-page document and an accompanying article last January. He also says that Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, its founder, similarly defamed him after it hired an ex-British spy to…
Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, The Daily Beast has learned. An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar with the thinking at the Justice Department’s Washington headquarters described it as an effort to gather new details on…
close story-meta Police recruits being sworn in at Madison Square Garden in October. Crime in New York City has declined for 27 straight years, even as police officers use less deadly force and make fewer arrests. Credit Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images It would have seemed unbelievable in 1990, when there were 2,245…
Inside the booming market for food in pouches, Inside the booming market for food in pouches, clear electronics, pocket-less clothing and other corrections-approved goods. To stop drugs and weapons from entering jails and prisons, many corrections agencies bar family members from mailing packages or bringing them during visits. Those who want to send food, clothing…
Screenshot: NBC Local NBC affiliate WOOD reported on Monday that the Grand Rapids Police Department had formally begun an internal investigation stemming from an incident earlier this month when 11-year-old Honestie Hodges was held at gunpoint by cops, handcuffed, and shoved into the back of a police cruiser. On December 6, Hodges, who is black,…
The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and the White House with a global, private spy network that would circumvent official U.S. intelligence agencies,…