Trump says he would have "every right to go after" political enemies if elected Former President Trump said during an interview with Fox News on Wednesday that he'd have "every right to go after" his political opponents if he's elected in November. Why it matters: It's the second time in as many days that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee has publicly suggested he would seek retribution against his political enemies. The former president and his allies have ramped up their retribution rhetoric since Trump was convicted of 34 felony charges in his New York criminal trial last week. Driving the news: "When this election is over, based on what they've done, I would have every right to go after them," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity, when asked if he would use the justice system to go after his enemies. ... Read more
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"Buying off witnesses constitutes alleged obstruction": Experts alarmed over Trump witness payouts Before he broke down in tears on the witness stand in the civil fraud case brought against the Trump Organization, corporate controller Jeffrey McConney, overcome by how "very proud" he was of his work at the company, signed an agreement that netted him a $500,000 severance payment. His colleague Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's former chief financial officer, did a lot better. Before he checked into Rikers Island, where he was sentenced to a five-month stint for lying under oath, the loyal accountant got a severance payout of $2 million; in exchange, the 76-year-old explicitly promised that he would never criticize the company and its owner, Donald Trump, or voluntarily "provide information to, or otherwise cooperate in any way with" law enforcement. ... Read more  If Biden Wins | Trump's Relationship With God | Kid Trolls His Congressman Father On C-SPAN | The Late Show | 06/05/24 | 10:21Corporations are people by Robert Reich  Corporations are people by Robert Reich |
 Top U.S. & World Headlines - July 06, 2024 | 06/06/24 | 9:30 "Apocalyptic": 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on U.N. School Sheltering Palestinians in Gaza | DM | 06/06/24 | 10:21
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 Trump gets hit with SURPRISE blow as he awaits sentencing in NY | btc | 06/06/24 | 9:49
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Behind the Curtain: MAGA's jail plan If former President Trump wins in November, top supporters will push him to investigate, prosecute - and even try to imprison — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who won Trump's conviction in the hush-money case. "Of course [Bragg] should be - and will be - jailed," Steve Bannon, one of the top voices of the MAGA movement, told us - saying for the record what many Trump supporters are privately plotting. Why it matters: This column has reported extensively about all the norms Trump plans to shatter if returned to the White House. Nowhere would that be truer than at the Justice Department, which Trump wants to make his fief and retribution arm. Bannon told us Bragg could be targeted using the 14th Amendment (equal protection) and Fourth Amendment (outlawing unreasonable searches and seizures by the government) "plus scores of other" laws. ... Read more Scorching heat wave set to smash records across U.S. Southwest The hottest temperatures to hit the U.S. West this year were building across California and the Southwest Tuesday into Wednesday - and they're expected to bring record temperatures to much of the region before expanding eastwards this week. The big picture: Excessive heat warnings and watches extended from the central valley down through southern California's deserts, southern Nevada and southern and western Arizona, affecting over 27 million people on Wednesday morning. New temperature records have already been set in Texas, per preliminary National Weather Service data. This shows Abilene reached a high of 106°F and San Angelo hit 111°F on Tuesday. "For San Angelo, this does tie the 5th hottest temperatures recorded here," the local NWS office noted. "The 4 hotter days all occurred in June of last year." ... Read more Democracy on Trial | FRONTLINE Democracy on Trial (full documentary) | FRONTLINE | 2024 | 2:27:23 Why Trump may lose 2024: He’s a convicted felon along with his CFO, 2016 chair, WH aides & lawyers | MSNBC/TheBeat w/Ari Melber | 06/04/24 | 16:45
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - July 05, 2024 | 06/05/24 | 11:12 "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept": Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard | DM | 06/05/24 | 14:18
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SURPRISE new indictment spells disaster for Trump | btc | 06/05/24 | 13:56
 Is Trumpism a Movement or a Cult? | Thom Hartmann | 06/03/24 | 6:12
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Biden warns China's economy is on the brink President Biden sounded off on what he characterized as the declining might and global influence of China's economy in a new interview with Time magazine published Tuesday. Why it matters: China is one of the main U.S. rivals on the world stage. The two countries' relationship is fraught with geopolitical and economic tensions that could impact the global economy. Driving the news: Biden said that "everybody talks about ... how strong China is and how powerful they are," but the president offered a bleaker assessment of China's economic future. "You've got a population that's considerably older than the vast majority of the youth in Europe, that is too old to work," Biden told Time. "Where is it going to grow? You've got an economy that's on the brink there. The idea that their economy is booming? Give me a break," he added. ... Read more Fauci's raucous Hill return adds to scrutiny on NIH Anthony Fauci's return to Capitol Hill on Monday combined the attention-grabbing partisan infighting of the COVID era with recent, more intense bipartisan scrutiny of the National Institutes of Health, where he presided for a half-century. Why it matters: Fauci faced sharp questioning about the disclosure that one of his top aides used a personal email address to avoid government oversight and renewed questions about whether NIH-funded research somehow gave rise to the virus. Driving the news: Fauci denied using private emails to discuss government business during the pandemic and didn't reveal any communications with former aide David Morens, who wrote in an email exchange with a research nonprofit that Fauci's personal account could be used to skirt federal disclosure rules. ... Read more Trump Is A Convicted Felon | I Didn't Say "Lock Her Up" Trump Is A Convicted Felon | I Didn't Say "Lock Her Up" | Rupert Murdoch Marries At 93 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 06/04/24 | 11:45
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Top U.S. & World Headlines - July 04, 2024 | 06/04/24 | 9:33 "The Trauma Is Unimaginable": Save the Children CEO Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza, More Focus on Congo | DM | 06/04/24 | 8:27
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 Trump dealt NIGHTMARE new blow after guilty verdict | btc | 06/04/24 | 14:13
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Looming over Trump's conviction: Reversal by the '13th juror' The former president has made no secret that he plans to challenge the verdict against him in the hush money case - and attorneys say he has an extensive menu of legal avenues to pursue. Some think he has a decent chance of a reversal. "There is an appeal that could have legs," said Arlo Devlin-Brown, a former federal prosecutor who was chief of the public corruption unit in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office. Trump's first chance to challenge the verdict will come within 30 days of his sentencing on July 11, at which point he can turn to New York's First Judicial Department appellate court, not far from where he just stood trial. That court has such broad discretion to review jury findings that it's sometimes called "the 13th juror." Their attack is expected to focus on a few key issues, including the legal theory that enabled prosecutors to transform 34 misdemeanor counts of falsifying business records into a felony case against the former president. ... Read more Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump?  Read more
What to know about Hunter Biden's federal gun trial that starts Monday Hunter Biden will face three felony gun charges in a trial starting Monday that carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison if he's convicted. Why it matters: Some Republicans will likely try to focus on the case, the first of two trials President Biden's son faces this year, in an attempt to draw attention from former President Trump's recent felony conviction in New York. It is likely to exact a personal toll on President Biden and reveal the fractures within the president's family as he's locked in a tight 2024 race with Trump. State of play: Special Counsel David Weiss charged Hunter Biden with crimes related to making false statements on a form when he purchased a firearm in 2018 that prosecutors allege he possessed while using a narcotic. ... Read more The Air Force's new B-21 stealth bomber in flight The images, shared by the U.S. Air Force and manufacturer Northrop Grumman, provide a peek at a highly secretive aircraft considered critical to future long-haul missions and nuclear weapons use. ... Read more |
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BREAKING: Trump gets the news he's been DREADING amid guilty verdict | btc | 06/03/24 | 9:40
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Lindsey GrahamSen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he’s still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
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Daniel EllsbergDaniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".
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Rana ForooharMs. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.
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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick | 2014 | 10 EpisodesOliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.
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Kuznick InterviewsHistorian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay
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China Valley of TunnelsA report written by a Georgetown University team led by Phillip Karber conducted a three-year study to map out China’s complex tunnel system, which stretches 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The report determined that the stated Chinese nuclear arsenal is understated and as many as 3,000 nuclear warheads may be stored in the underground tunnel network.
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911On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists attacked the Unites States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact caused the buildings to catch fire and collapse. Another plane destroyed part of the Pentagon (the U.S. military headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Officials believe that the terrorists on that plane intended to destroy either the White House or the U.S. Capitol. Passengers on the plane fought the terrorists and prevented them from reaching their goal. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks.
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The Vietnam WarKen Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
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Trump's MashupsDonald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? VICE News' "Trump Talk" mashup series tries to answer that. And, we're happy to say, it was just nominated for two Webby Awards. Now you can watch all the nominated videos.
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Trump's Sexcapades.Jessica Leeds (1980s)
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Trump's Speeches | RallysDonald Trump talks a lot, but what is he actually saying? Watch Trump at some of his rallys and see what you think.
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