Month: November 2019

Project Veritas, the right-wing activist group that has tried to conduct previous sting operations to expose journalistic bias, released a video Tuesday of ABC News anchor Amy Robach saying she was “disappointed” that her 2015 story on Jeffrey Epstein didn’t run. Project Veritas’ founder James O’Keefe tweeted the clip, captioning it, “BREAKING: @abcnews anchor @arobach caught on ‘hot mic’…

On July 6, 2019, financier Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and convicted pedophile, was arrested yet again, this time on new charges of sex trafficking minors in Florida and New York. The immediate speculation after Epstein’s latest arrest was whether or not others long-rumored to be associated with him would finally be exposed for committing potentially…

In a leaked video released Tuesday, ABC News anchor Amy Robach said the network killed her story on wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein under pressure from the British royal family. Robach, sitting at the ABC anchor desk but apparently speaking to colleagues off-air, was expressing frustration that the network did not air her 2015 interview with Virginia…

Washington (AFP) – The first open impeachment hearings into US President Donald Trump will begin next week, the congressman leading the probe said Wednesday, as the investigation heads into a highly anticipated public phase. William Taylor, Washington’s top diplomat to Ukraine, and deputy assistant secretary of state George Kent are scheduled to testify next Wednesday.…

For weeks, President Trump and his supporters have demanded that the identity of the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry be exposed. On Wednesday, Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., revealed the name of the alleged whistleblower in a tweet. Trump Jr. presented no evidence that the person identified is the whistleblower, though the name…

Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race with one key takeaway every weekday and a wrap-up each weekend. Reminder: There are 89 days until the Iowa caucuses and 363 days until the 2020 election. After Tuesday’s elections in Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia and Pennsylvania, President Trump took to Twitter to spin…

WASHINGTON – The Democrats swept Virginia. The Republicans swept Mississippi. And Kentucky is still too close to call. Tuesday’s election might have looked like a draw, but Democrats emerged feeling victorious as they head into the 2020 elections because most of Tuesday’s marquee matchups were being played on Republican turf. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who was chairman of the Democratic…

WASHINGTON — On the evening of Oct. 2, Mark Zaid, one of the attorneys representing the anonymous official whose whistleblower complaint sparked the impeachment probe into President Trump, received an email with the subject line: “a bullet in your head.”  Zaid reported the email to the FBI, which investigated and determined the threat wasn’t credible,…

SAN FRANCISCO – Two Twitter employees have been charged with acting as unregistered agents for Saudi Arabia after its government recruited them to spy on the kingdom’s critics. In a complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, federal prosecutors allege the Saudis paid the employees tens of thousands of dollars through secret…

Authorities suspect criminal group La Linea in massacre of American family in Mexico originally appeared on abcnews.go.com Mexican authorities say they are homing in on a criminal group known as “La Linea” as those responsible for the massacre of an American family. The family was traveling in a small convoy of three vehicles between the…