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Trump Organization now subject to criminal investigation in New York, state attorney general’s office tells CNN By Charles Davis, Sarah Al-Arshani Business Insider May 19, 2021 “We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.” The news comes weeks after it was revealed that Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s onetime personal attorney, had been interviewed multiple times by Manhattan’s district attorney. The DA’s criminal inquiry has focused on whether the Trump Organization — an umbrella company for the former president’s business interests — engaged in tax and insurance fraud,…
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Graham: ‘I accept the results of the election’ By Jordain Carney TheHill May 17, 2021 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he accepts the results of the 2020 election, and urged Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to focus on the upcoming midterm where the party wants to win back control of Congress. “I accept the results of the election. … 2020 is over to me, I’m ready to march on and hopefully take back the House and the Senate in 2022,” Graham told reporters in South Carolina. Continue Reading…..
Several Duke alumni will take part in NBA Postseason Play-In Tournament By John Watson 247 Sports May 17, 2021 Over the last decade the Blue Devils have placed a number of players into the NBA and currently have 25 players on active rosters heading into the final day of the 2020-21 regular season. With the NBA adding a play-in tournament to the playoff structure this season, several of Duke’s former stars will have a novel experience with the 2020-21 playoffs, participating in the play-in format for the first time. The play-in games will begin on Tuesday, May 18th…
By Artemis Moshtaghian, Eric Levenson and Elizabeth Hartfield CNN May 17, 2021 (CNN)Organizers of New York City Pride banned the New York Police Department from participating in the annual June parade and related events and moved to reduce their presence on scene, saying their appearance threatened members of the community. “NYC Pride seeks to create safer spaces for the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities at a time when violence against marginalized groups, specifically BIPOC and trans communities, has continued to escalate,” Heritage of Pride, the nonprofit that plans NYC Pride events, said in a statement on Saturday. “The sense of…
Biden pressed to send clear message on economy as warning signs flash By Victoria Guida, Christopher Cadelago, Natasha Korecki POLITICO May 16, 2021 The Biden administration is taking pains to explain to Americans where the country is headed as the economy spits out anxiety-inducing data on prices and jobs. But it’s struggling to find a clear message. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spooked markets this month when she said interest rates could rise if the economy heated up too much — then clarified a few hours later that it wasn’t a prediction. President Joe Biden held a press conference…
Tensions Among Democrats Grow Over Israel as the Left Defends Palestinians By Lisa Lerer and Jennifer Medina New York Times May 16, 2021 In 1988, when James Zogby, the founder of the Arab American Institute, pushed Democrats to include a mention of Palestinian sovereignty in their platform, party leaders responded with a clear warning, he recalled: “If the P-word is even in the platform, all hell will break loose.” Eager to stave off an angry confrontation at the convention, the issue was shelved without a vote. Now, with violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories forcing the issue…
Bill Gates’s Meetings With Jeffrey Epstein Are Apparently a “Sore Spot” for Melinda By Emily Kirkpatrick Vanity Fair May 16, 2021 Bill Gates’s meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are apparently an issue that’s weighed heavily for a long time on his now estranged wife, Melinda Gates. “Epstein is definitely a sore spot” for Melinda, a source confided to People. “That’s a long time for issues to fester.” They added that anything involving Epstein was a “major trauma” for Melinda and that “she was totally opposed to what she considered shady dealings and some other issues he…
By Andrew Mark Miller Washington Examiner May 16, 2021 A CNN staffer can be seen in a newly released undercover video calling out his own network for “propaganda” and boasting that the cable news giant successfully removed former President Donald Trump from office. “Look at what we did, we got Trump out,” Charles Chester, a network technical director at CNN, said to an undercover journalist from the political action group Project Veritas in a tape released Tuesday. “I am 100% going to say it. And I 100% believe it that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that…
Opinion | Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government By Bernie Sanders New York Times May 15, 2021 “Israel has the right to defend itself.” These are the words we hear from both Democratic and Republican administrations whenever the government of Israel, with its enormous military power, responds to rocket attacks from Gaza. Let’s be clear. No one is arguing that Israel, or any government, does not have the right to self-defense or to protect its people. So why are these words repeated year after year, war after war? And why is…