Category: Politics
Will Donald Trump throw ceremonial first pitch for World Series Game 5?
After the Astros won Friday, there were no Twitter messages from the president – at least as of early Saturday – saying one way or another if he still intended to show up to Sunday’s Game 5.
Mariia Butina released from U.S. federal prison and deported to Russia
She was arrested in 2018 after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent in the U.S. She was facing up to 15 years in prison.
Betsy DeVos held in Contempt for failing to correct fraudulent federal student loan repayment practices
US Dept. of ED demanded incorrect loan payment from 16,034 students. Of those, 3,289 student borrowers made loan payments which they were not actually supposed to pay.
Arizona State Official charged in human smuggling, baby adoption scheme
The Maricopa Co. Assessor would pay pregnant women from the Marshall Islands $10K to deliver their babies in the U.S. and then charge U.S. families $40K to adopt the babies, with their health care paid for by State Medicare Services
Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam pleads guilty to defrauding contributors to a youth basketball team
$87,215 that Gilliam told contributors was going toward school supplies and a basketball team for underprivileged kids instead lined his own pockets
Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office evacuated after receiving suspicious package
This is the second suspicious package sent to Bernie Sanders this month
Rachel Maddow sued by ‘One America News’ for $10 million
“Their (OAN) on-air U.S. politics reporter is paid by the Russian government to produce propaganda for that government.” ~ Maddow
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shrugs off Trump’s ‘fuming’ tweet
but she did reply to the president’s tweet with a single laughing emoji
Attack over anthem: Montana boy assaulted for not removing hat during National Anthem
The boy had to be airlifted from the county fair to the hospital. His attacker said that the boy was disrespecting the national anthem – so he had every right to lift him up by his throat and slam his head to the ground.
Cesar Sayoc gets 20 years in prison for mailing pipe-bombs to Democrats critical of Donald Trump
Sayoc sent pipe-bombs to Obama, Biden, Clinton, Maxine Waters, De Niro, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and more . . .
