Republican presidential candidate Perry to drop out of race: AP
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, will drop out of the 2016 race, the Associated Press said on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Dutch police have arrested a man who threatened in a social media post to blow himself up over plans to sideline "Black Pete", a Christmas-time character provoking accusations of racist stereotyping.
The arrest is the latest controversy over the country's traditional Saint Nicholas side kick, portrayed in winter parades and by many Dutch children with a black face, thick red lips, woolly hair and a golden earring.
"A 49-year-old man from The Hague was arrested Monday afternoon after he threatened to blow himself up in support of the Saint Nicholas tradition," police said in a statement.
According to a new report from The Daily Beast, after the Pentagon's June announcement that it would give Ukraine $250 million in aid, Defense Department officials received a list of questions, seemingly originating from President Trump, seeking information about the aid.
“We got a question from my chain of command forwarded down from the chief of staff, I believe, from the Department of Defense, asking for a follow-up on a meeting with the President,” top Pentagon official Laura Cooper testified on Capitol Hill last month. “The way the email was phrased, it said follow-up from POTUS meeting, so follow-up from a meeting with the President. So, you know, I'm thinking that the questions were probably questions from the President. That's how I interpreted that subject line.”
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The greatest scam in history: Why science failed to to stop climate change
It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time.
Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and political leaders have been discussing it for nearly as long. In 1961, Alvin Weinberg, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, called carbon dioxide one of the “big problems” of the world “on whose solution the entire future of the human race depends.” Fast-forward nearly 30 years and, in 1992, President George H.W. Bush signed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising “concrete action to protect the planet.”
‘Traitor’: Trump faces ‘lock him up’ chants as he speaks at Veterans Day event in New York City
Trump officials knife Nikki Haley after she paints herself as one of the president’s staunchest defenders
Cops caught on video handcuffing black man for ‘illegally’ eating a sandwich at train station
Trump press secretary uncorks legally illiterate rant about impeachment being ‘against the Constitution’
‘It’s not a game show’: Soledad O’Brien reams CNN host for fretting over impeachment TV ratings
Dutch man arrested for ‘Black Pete’ suicide bomb threat
Trump’s claim on halting Ukraine aid contradicted by Pentagon official Laura Cooper
The greatest scam in history: Why science failed to to stop climate change
Kellyanne Conway snaps after Fox News host mentions Adam Schiff
House Republicans have a plan to defend Trump during impeachment hearings – it’s all about his ‘state of mind’
Kellyanne Conway snaps after Fox News host mentions Adam Schiff
‘You can smell the corruption’: MSNBC’s Morning Joe burns Nikki Haley for selling her soul to take Pence’s job
CNN’s John Berman tears apart leaked GOP anti-impeachment talking points piece by piece
‘Stop lying!’ MSNBC’s Steve Schmidt rains hell on GOP for defending Trump’s ‘dime-store Mussolini’ schemes
