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Analysis: Donald Trump is ’99, 100 percent’ likely to run for president in 2024 By Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large CNN September 7, 2021 (CNN)The 2024 election is still 1,155 days away — I counted — but, according to one senior aide to Donald Trump, the former president is all-but-certain to run again. “I would say somewhere between 99 and 100 percent,” Jason Miller told Cheddar earlier this month when asked about the chances that Trump runs again. “I think he is definitely running in 2024.” Which sounds, well, sort of definitive — ahem — right? Continue…
Pope Francis is preparing a radical reform of the church’s power structures National Catholic Reporter September 7, 2021 In 2001, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was a rapporteur for the summit of bishops at the Vatican — and he did not like what he saw. The Catholic Church had adopted a top-to-bottom approach that stripped local churches of any decision-making power, and the synod of bishops was reduced to nothing more than a stamp of approval for prepackaged conclusions made in Rome. When Bergoglio emerged as Pope Francis in the 2013 conclave, the synodal process was high on his list…
Pete Buttigieg and Chasten announce the birth of their adopted children By Veronica Stracqualursi CNN September 6, 2021 (CNN)Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten announced the birth of their son and daughter on Saturday. “Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents,” the Biden Cabinet secretary posted on social media. “We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family.” Buttigieg shared last month that he and Chasten, an author and former teacher, had become first-time parents. Continue Reading…..
It’s not a labor shortage — it’s a wage and workers rights shortage By Lane Windham, opinion contributor TheHill September 5, 2021 As we approach Labor Day, America’s working people are deep into a protracted general strike. Millions are refusing to go back into low-wage, no-benefits jobs that require they abandon dignity and rights at the workplace door. Their struggle has brewed for 40 years as wages stagnated, benefits vanished and public policy offered working families little reprieve. Employers complain that too few people are returning to work, but America’s “labor shortage” is really a shortage of good…
Top Republican says Taliban holding Americans By Associated Press KATV September 5, 2021 The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee says some Americans who have been trying to get out of Afghanistan since the U.S. military left are sitting in airplanes at an airport ready to leave but the Taliban are not letting them take off. Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas says there are six airplanes at the Mazar-e-Sharif airport with American citizens on board, along with their Afghan interpreters, and the Taliban are “holding them hostage” right now. Continue Reading…..
Afghanistan drawdown leaves Biden at a crisis point with veterans By Natasha Korecki POLITICO September 5, 2021 The day Kabul fell, veterans’ mental health crisis hotlines lit up. As Taliban militia members streamed into Afghanistan’s capital, Veterans Affairs chief of staff Tanya Bradsher blasted out an email to the department’s senior staff. “My veteran network is reeling and I am sure yours are as well,” Bradsher wrote in the Aug. 15 email, which was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and shared with POLITICO. “Can we highlight in our comms channels that VA has resources available?…
Biden’s Tree of Life synagogue claim not true, White House admits Fox News September 4, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Biden did not visit the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the murder of 11 congregants — despite saying so, the White House admitted Friday. Biden on Thursday told Jewish leaders that he remembered “spending time at” and “going to” the Tree of Life, but the synagogue told The Post he never visited. Nearly 24 hours after being asked about the discrepancy, a White House official said in a statement that Biden “was referring to a call he…
Biden warns corporations like Apple, Disney, and Exxon Mobil that are trying to squash his tax hikes: ‘I’m going to take them on’ By Ayelet Sheffey Business Insider September 4, 2021 “It’s time for working families, the folks who built this country, to have their taxes cut,” Biden said in remarks after the jobs report was released. “And those corporate interests doing everything they can to find allies in Congress to keep that from happening … I’m going to take them on.” When Biden first unveiled his infrastructure plan, he proposed funding it with a corporate-tax hike to…
Trump National Doral To Host Conference Featuring Five Recipients Of Trump Pardons By Zach Everson Forbes September 4, 2021 Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos have been added as special guests to AmpFest, an annual conference at Trump National Doral that already had announced that Michael Flynn and Dinesh D’Souza would be headlining. All four men received pardons from former President Donald Trump and are now drawing customers to one of his businesses. Stone, Papadopoulous and D’Souza have all appeared�������at AmpFest in previous years. Another beneficiary of a Trump pardon, Steve Bannon, will appear remotely. Continue Reading…..
By Marshall Cohen CNN September 3, 2021 (CNN)The so-called “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6. The defendant, Jacob Chansley of Arizona, is a well-known figure in the QAnon movement. He went viral after the January 6 attack because of the bizarre outfit he wore while rummaging through the Capitol. He made his way to the Senate dais that was hastily vacated earlier by Vice President Mike Pence — someone Chansley falsely claimed was a “child-trafficking traitor.” Continue Reading…..